Junior Contracts in the UK excluding London

Junior
UK > UK excluding London

The median Junior daily rate in the UK excluding London is £306 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 289 274 361
Rank change year-on-year -15 +87 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Junior 101 173 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.74% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.79% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 120 96
10th Percentile £128 £135 £116
25th Percentile £200 £155 £172
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £306 £250 £273
Median % change year-on-year +22.50% -8.26% +26.74%
75th Percentile £375 £350 £362
90th Percentile £438 £400 £434
UK median daily rate £325 £270 £300
% change year-on-year +20.37% -10.00% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 20 11
10th Percentile - £10.99 £12.24
25th Percentile - £12.79 £16.50
Median hourly rate £10.42 £14.12 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.20% -32.76% +0.32%
75th Percentile £12.30 £19.31 -
90th Percentile £15.53 £31.36 £22.40
UK median hourly rate £10.42 £14.12 £20.50
% change year-on-year -26.20% -31.12% +10.81%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,948 22,031 29,122
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,552 15,391 20,383
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,261 1,134 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +112.16% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.16
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%

Junior
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Junior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Junior in the UK excluding London

Junior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Junior in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Junior in the UK excluding London

Junior
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Junior in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Junior in the UK excluding London

Junior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Junior in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Junior in the UK excluding London

Junior
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Junior in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Junior in the UK excluding London

Junior
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Junior within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +12 32 £371 +95.26% 75
North of England +22 24 £365 +21.67% 64
South West +9 15 £369 +84.38% 57
Scotland +36 11 £145 +6.70% 27
Midlands +15 11 £200 -33.33% 66
North East +25 10 £321 -14.33% 8
West Midlands +7 9 £208 -27.83% 42
Yorkshire +15 8 £370 +64.44% 21
North West -3 6 £363 +19.34% 35
East of England -12 5 £290 +7.41% 32
Wales +15 2 £160 -27.27% 6
East Midlands +15 2 £175 -50.00% 24
Northern Ireland +5 2 £311 +26.65% 4
Junior
UK

Junior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, Junior contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Junior in the job title.

1 30 (29.70%) Security Cleared
2 23 (22.77%) SC Cleared
3 20 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (17.82%) Social Skills
4 18 (17.82%) Project Management
5 14 (13.86%) Microsoft Excel
6 13 (12.87%) Agile
7 12 (11.88%) Public Sector
8 11 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (9.90%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (9.90%) Microsoft
9 10 (9.90%) Driving Licence
10 9 (8.91%) Unix
10 9 (8.91%) Windows
10 9 (8.91%) Data Analysis
10 9 (8.91%) Degree
11 8 (7.92%) DV Cleared
11 8 (7.92%) Scrum
12 7 (6.93%) Finance
12 7 (6.93%) Manufacturing
12 7 (6.93%) Data Protection
12 7 (6.93%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (6.93%) DevOps
12 7 (6.93%) Cybersecurity
12 7 (6.93%) PMO
13 6 (5.94%) Value Proposition
13 6 (5.94%) Customer Value Proposition
13 6 (5.94%) Requirements Gathering
13 6 (5.94%) TypeScript
13 6 (5.94%) IBM

Junior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.95%) CMS
2 1 (0.99%) Apache
2 1 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.99%) EPiServer
2 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.99%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (13.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.99%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 5 (4.95%) Azure
2 4 (3.96%) Power Platform
3 3 (2.97%) AWS
3 3 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (2.97%) OneDrive
4 2 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (1.98%) OpenShift
5 1 (0.99%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.99%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.99%) Snowflake
5 1 (0.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.97%) DNS
1 3 (2.97%) Firewall
1 3 (2.97%) FTP
1 3 (2.97%) HTTP
1 3 (2.97%) SMTP
1 3 (2.97%) SSL
2 2 (1.98%) VPN
2 2 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (3.96%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.98%) MySQL
2 2 (1.98%) Power BI
3 1 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.99%) Power Query
3 1 (0.99%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.99%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (4.95%) Git
2 4 (3.96%) JUnit
3 2 (1.98%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.98%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.99%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.99%) JIRA
4 1 (0.99%) Postman
General
1 18 (17.82%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.88%) Public Sector
3 11 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.93%) Finance
4 7 (6.93%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.95%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.96%) Automotive
6 4 (3.96%) Back Office
6 4 (3.96%) Banking
7 3 (2.97%) Marketing
7 3 (2.97%) Retail
8 2 (1.98%) Electronics
8 2 (1.98%) Legal
8 2 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.98%) Publishing
9 1 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.99%) Front Office
9 1 (0.99%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.95%) React
1 5 (4.95%) REST
2 4 (3.96%) Hibernate
2 4 (3.96%) JPA
2 4 (3.96%) Spring
2 4 (3.96%) Spring Boot
3 3 (2.97%) LDAP
4 2 (1.98%) CSS
4 2 (1.98%) HTML
4 2 (1.98%) YAML
5 1 (0.99%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.99%) JSON
5 1 (0.99%) PySpark
5 1 (0.99%) Swagger
5 1 (0.99%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.90%) Driving Licence
2 7 (6.93%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.96%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.97%) Cyberattack
4 3 (2.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (2.97%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.98%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.99%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.99%) Life Science
6 1 (0.99%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.99%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.99%) NHS
6 1 (0.99%) Robotics
6 1 (0.99%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.91%) Unix
1 9 (8.91%) Windows
2 4 (3.96%) Linux
3 3 (2.97%) Android
3 3 (2.97%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.98%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.99%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.99%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (17.82%) Project Management
3 13 (12.87%) Agile
4 10 (9.90%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (8.91%) Data Analysis
6 8 (7.92%) Scrum
7 7 (6.93%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (6.93%) Data Protection
7 7 (6.93%) DevOps
8 6 (5.94%) Customer Value Proposition
8 6 (5.94%) Requirements Gathering
8 6 (5.94%) Value Proposition
9 5 (4.95%) Front End Development
9 5 (4.95%) PRINCE2
10 4 (3.96%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 4 (3.96%) High Availability
10 4 (3.96%) Mentoring
10 4 (3.96%) Project Governance
10 4 (3.96%) Unit Testing
10 4 (3.96%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.94%) Shell Script
1 6 (5.94%) TypeScript
2 4 (3.96%) Java
2 4 (3.96%) Python
3 3 (2.97%) SQL
4 2 (1.98%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.98%) VBA
5 1 (0.99%) ABAP
5 1 (0.99%) Bash
5 1 (0.99%) Go
5 1 (0.99%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.99%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (29.70%) Security Cleared
2 23 (22.77%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.91%) Degree
4 8 (7.92%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.97%) MCP
7 2 (1.98%) MCSE
8 1 (0.99%) CCNA
8 1 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.99%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.99%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.93%) PMO
2 2 (1.98%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.98%) SLA
3 1 (0.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.99%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.99%) GDPR
3 1 (0.99%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.99%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (3.96%) Docker
2 3 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.99%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.94%) Netcool
2 4 (3.96%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.97%) SCCM
4 2 (1.98%) Grafana
4 2 (1.98%) Istio
4 2 (1.98%) NetBackup
4 2 (1.98%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.99%) AppManager
5 1 (0.99%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (9.90%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.94%) IBM
3 5 (4.95%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.96%) SAP
5 3 (2.97%) Cisco
5 3 (2.97%) Darktrace
5 3 (2.97%) FireEye
5 3 (2.97%) IronPort
5 3 (2.97%) LogRhythm
5 3 (2.97%) Splunk
5 3 (2.97%) Symantec
6 2 (1.98%) Apple
6 2 (1.98%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (1.98%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.98%) Talend
6 2 (1.98%) VMware
7 1 (0.99%) BT
7 1 (0.99%) Informatica
7 1 (0.99%) Optimizely