KDB Developer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

KDB Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median KDB Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 366 -
Rank change year-on-year -14 - -
Contract jobs requiring a KDB Developer 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.006% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.006% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £583 - -
25th Percentile £594 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £756 - -
90th Percentile £828 - -
UK median daily rate £965 £998 £900
% change year-on-year -3.28% +10.86% +5.88%

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 14,203 16,097 19,950
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.54% 92.29% 94.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,730 9,157 13,299
10th Percentile £208 £219 £220
25th Percentile £363 £369 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £669 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,337 1,237 1,247
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.73 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.35 £19.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £42.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.18% -4.49% +97.78%
75th Percentile £50.00 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -39.40% -7.78% +73.08%

KDB Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'KDB Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

KDB Developer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

KDB Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for KDB Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for KDB Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

KDB Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing KDB Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for KDB Developer in the UK excluding London

KDB Developer
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 KDB Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 October 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
Northern Ireland - 3 £625 - 2
KDB Developer
UK

KDB Developer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 11 October 2025, KDB Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring KDB Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) KDB
1 3 (100.00%) Kdb+
2 2 (66.67%) Tableau
2 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Impala
2 2 (66.67%) Pandas
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Equities
2 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (33.33%) People Management
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Data Munging
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy

KDB Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) KDB
1 3 (100.00%) Kdb+
2 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (66.67%) Impala
2 2 (66.67%) Tableau
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
2 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Equities
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (33.33%) Data Munging
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) People Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality