Junior Contracts in the UK excluding London

Junior
UK > UK excluding London

The median Junior daily rate in the UK excluding London is £257, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
3 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 296 271
Rank change year-on-year +39 -25 +94
Contract jobs requiring a Junior 77 98 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.47% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.51% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 61 134
10th Percentile £143 £135 £135
25th Percentile £175 £200 £152
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £257 £300 £250
Median % change year-on-year -14.36% +20.00% -2.25%
75th Percentile £348 £375 £350
90th Percentile £425 £475 £420
UK median daily rate £270 £325 £270
% change year-on-year -16.92% +20.37% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 12 16
10th Percentile £16.61 - £10.93
25th Percentile £17.14 - £11.98
Median hourly rate £17.79 £10.42 £13.58
Median % change year-on-year +70.68% -23.24% -35.36%
75th Percentile £19.08 £12.30 £19.64
90th Percentile £20.78 £15.53 £34.65
UK median hourly rate £19.71 £10.42 £13.15
% change year-on-year +89.11% -20.76% -37.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 11,771 19,161 22,551
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 92.57% 94.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,545 11,699 15,818
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 836 2,248 1,160
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.22% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -19.07% +94.45%

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 3 May 2025.

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
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 3 May 2025. 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
Midlands +33 25 £209 +4.38% 43
West Midlands +25 20 £160 -25.58% 20
South East +22 16 £305 -11.08% 149
North of England +5 16 £213 -42.57% 107
North West +14 11 £363 - 68
East of England +38 5 £313 +7.76% 36
South West +18 5 £313 -15.25% 37
East Midlands +17 5 £311 +77.71% 22
Yorkshire +7 5 £145 -61.07% 22
Scotland +4 4 £270 +86.07% 17
Northern Ireland -4 4 £225 -27.71% 6
Wales +7 2 £257 +60.58% 7
Junior
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, 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 29 (37.66%) Social Skills
2 20 (25.97%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (19.48%) Microsoft
4 14 (18.18%) Security Cleared
5 11 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 11 (14.29%) Windows
5 11 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (12.99%) Public Sector
6 10 (12.99%) CI/CD
6 10 (12.99%) Java
6 10 (12.99%) Migration
6 10 (12.99%) Agile
6 10 (12.99%) Degree
7 9 (11.69%) AWS
7 9 (11.69%) DevOps
7 9 (11.69%) SQL
8 8 (10.39%) Computer Science
8 8 (10.39%) GCP
9 7 (9.09%) Google
9 7 (9.09%) Git
9 7 (9.09%) Analytics
9 7 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (9.09%) Data Governance
9 7 (9.09%) Azure
9 7 (9.09%) Project Management
9 7 (9.09%) ITSM
10 6 (7.79%) Finance
10 6 (7.79%) Data Quality
10 6 (7.79%) Data Analysis
10 6 (7.79%) Organisational Skills

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 2 (2.60%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.30%) CMS
2 1 (1.30%) Confluence
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.30%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (1.30%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (11.69%) AWS
2 8 (10.39%) GCP
3 7 (9.09%) Azure
3 7 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (6.49%) Power Platform
5 4 (5.19%) Power Automate
5 4 (5.19%) PowerApps
6 3 (3.90%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.60%) Figma
7 2 (2.60%) Google Workspace
7 2 (2.60%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.60%) WhatsApp
8 1 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.30%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.30%) Matillion
8 1 (1.30%) SaaS
8 1 (1.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.90%) VPN
2 2 (2.60%) DNS
2 2 (2.60%) Firewall
2 2 (2.60%) Wireless
3 1 (1.30%) BGP
3 1 (1.30%) DHCP
3 1 (1.30%) EIGRP
3 1 (1.30%) FTP
3 1 (1.30%) HSRP
3 1 (1.30%) HTTP
3 1 (1.30%) LAN
3 1 (1.30%) MPLS
3 1 (1.30%) Skype
3 1 (1.30%) SMTP
3 1 (1.30%) SSL
3 1 (1.30%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.30%) VLAN
3 1 (1.30%) VoIP
3 1 (1.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.19%) Data Lake
2 3 (3.90%) BigQuery
2 3 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.90%) Looker
3 2 (2.60%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.60%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.60%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.60%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.30%) Aerospike
4 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.30%) DocumentDB
4 1 (1.30%) Metadata
4 1 (1.30%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (1.30%) MS Access
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.30%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (9.09%) Git
2 3 (3.90%) Cucumber
2 3 (3.90%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.90%) Selenium
3 2 (2.60%) GitLab
3 2 (2.60%) JIRA
3 2 (2.60%) Mercurial
3 2 (2.60%) Subversion
4 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.30%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.30%) Maven
General
1 29 (37.66%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.99%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.79%) Finance
4 6 (7.79%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (5.19%) Banking
5 4 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.90%) Retail
6 3 (3.90%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.60%) Front Office
8 1 (1.30%) Billing
8 1 (1.30%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.49%) Spring Boot
2 4 (5.19%) HTML
2 4 (5.19%) Middleware
2 4 (5.19%) Spring
2 4 (5.19%) Web Services
3 3 (3.90%) DOM
3 3 (3.90%) JSON
3 3 (3.90%) REST
3 3 (3.90%) RESTful
4 2 (2.60%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.60%) Apache Avro
4 2 (2.60%) CSS
4 2 (2.60%) JDBC
4 2 (2.60%) jQuery
4 2 (2.60%) Kafka
4 2 (2.60%) React
4 2 (2.60%) XML
5 1 (1.30%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.30%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (1.30%) NHibernate
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.90%) Data Centre
1 3 (3.90%) Driving Licence
1 3 (3.90%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (2.60%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (2.60%) Derivative
2 2 (2.60%) Equities
2 2 (2.60%) Equity Derivative
2 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.30%) Animation
3 1 (1.30%) Cyberattack
3 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.30%) iPad
3 1 (1.30%) iPhone
3 1 (1.30%) Motion Graphics
3 1 (1.30%) NHS
3 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.30%) Photography
3 1 (1.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (2.60%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.60%) Linux
2 2 (2.60%) Mac OS
2 2 (2.60%) Unix
3 1 (1.30%) AIX
3 1 (1.30%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.30%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (25.97%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (12.99%) Agile
2 10 (12.99%) CI/CD
2 10 (12.99%) Migration
3 9 (11.69%) DevOps
4 8 (10.39%) Computer Science
5 7 (9.09%) Analytics
5 7 (9.09%) Data Governance
5 7 (9.09%) ITSM
5 7 (9.09%) Project Management
6 6 (7.79%) Data Analysis
6 6 (7.79%) Project Delivery
7 5 (6.49%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (6.49%) Data Integration
7 5 (6.49%) Data Protection
7 5 (6.49%) Decision-Making
7 5 (6.49%) ETL
7 5 (6.49%) Software Engineering
8 4 (5.19%) ERP
8 4 (5.19%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.99%) Java
2 9 (11.69%) SQL
3 5 (6.49%) Python
4 2 (2.60%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.30%) C#
5 1 (1.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.99%) Degree
4 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (5.19%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (2.60%) A+ Certification
5 2 (2.60%) CISSP
5 2 (2.60%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (2.60%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.60%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.60%) GCIA
6 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.30%) CCNA
6 1 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.30%) MCP
6 1 (1.30%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.79%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.49%) PMO
3 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.30%) GDPR
3 1 (1.30%) GRC
3 1 (1.30%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.30%) QA
3 1 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (5.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.30%) BitLocker
2 1 (1.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.90%) Kubernetes
1 3 (3.90%) SCCM
1 3 (3.90%) Terraform
2 1 (1.30%) AirWatch
2 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 1 (1.30%) Nessus
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (1.30%) XenMobile
Vendors
1 15 (19.48%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.09%) Google
3 4 (5.19%) Oracle
4 3 (3.90%) Adobe
4 3 (3.90%) Citrix
4 3 (3.90%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.60%) Apple
5 2 (2.60%) Cisco
5 2 (2.60%) Databricks
5 2 (2.60%) MobileIron
5 2 (2.60%) Nexthink
6 1 (1.30%) Darktrace
6 1 (1.30%) FireEye
6 1 (1.30%) LogRhythm
6 1 (1.30%) OneTrust
6 1 (1.30%) Remedy
6 1 (1.30%) SOTI
6 1 (1.30%) Symantec
6 1 (1.30%) Tenable
6 1 (1.30%) Veracode
582 Junior jobs Nationwide