Low-Code Contracts in the UK excluding London

Low-Code
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Low-Code in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Low-Code over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 374 411
Rank change year-on-year +61 +37 +73
Contract jobs citing Low-Code 22 23 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.11% 0.096%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.51% 0.38% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 18 15
10th Percentile £313 £355 £369
25th Percentile £425 £474 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.25% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £621
90th Percentile £575 £614 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £568
% change year-on-year - -7.49% +13.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £63.13
25th Percentile - - £73.46
Median hourly rate - - £79.19
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £79.19

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Low-Code falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,325 5,987 7,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.62% 29.05% 32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,625 3,601 4,948
10th Percentile £210 £210 £220
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.68%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £612
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 741 409
10th Percentile £15.26 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.49 £32.12 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +49.37% +1.18%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £63.00
90th Percentile £82.40 £70.00 £73.62
UK median hourly rate £31.91 £34.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -6.16% +54.55% -18.46%

Low-Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Low-Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Low-Code in the UK excluding London

Low-Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Low-Code in the UK excluding London

Low-Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Low-Code in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Low-Code in the UK excluding London

Low-Code
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 Low-Code within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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
North of England +12 10 £450 -18.18% 291
South East +46 6 £538 - 321
Yorkshire +14 5 £450 - 121
Scotland +13 5 £513 +6.77% 79
North West +5 5 £488 -11.36% 134
East of England +26 1 £525 +5.53% 190
Low-Code
UK

Low-Code
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 8 (36.36%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.55%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) InfoPath
Cloud Services
1 18 (81.82%) Power Platform
2 11 (50.00%) Power Automate
3 9 (40.91%) PowerApps
4 7 (31.82%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (18.18%) Azure
6 3 (13.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (13.64%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (13.64%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (9.09%) Snowflake
8 1 (4.55%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (4.55%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (4.55%) AWS
8 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
8 1 (4.55%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (40.91%) Power BI
2 3 (13.64%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (13.64%) MariaDB
2 3 (13.64%) MongoDB
2 3 (13.64%) MySQL
2 3 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (13.64%) Power Query
2 3 (13.64%) Redis
3 2 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 5 (22.73%) Public Sector
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Power Platform Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Consultant
4 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Data Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Applications Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Functional Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Microsoft BI Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Power Apps Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Power Platform Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Senior
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Business Intelligence Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) JSON
2 3 (13.64%) ARM Templates
2 3 (13.64%) HTML5 Canvas
2 3 (13.64%) YAML
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Amplify
3 1 (4.55%) Kafka
3 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (9.09%) FMCG
2 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.09%) Replication
2 2 (9.09%) Shadow IT
3 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Analytics
1 7 (31.82%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (27.27%) Agile
3 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
3 3 (13.64%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (13.64%) Customer-Centricity
3 3 (13.64%) Design Patterns
3 3 (13.64%) DevOps
3 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (13.64%) Kanban
3 3 (13.64%) Log Analytics
3 3 (13.64%) Mentoring
4 2 (9.09%) Backlog Management
4 2 (9.09%) Data Integration
4 2 (9.09%) Data Strategy
4 2 (9.09%) Decision-Making
4 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (9.09%) Storytelling
4 2 (9.09%) Visualisation
4 2 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) Python
1 5 (22.73%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) Bash
2 3 (13.64%) Bicep
2 3 (13.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 3 (13.64%) Java
2 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
2 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.55%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Ansible
1 3 (13.64%) Grafana
1 3 (13.64%) Progress Chef
1 3 (13.64%) Prometheus
1 3 (13.64%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Splunk
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) Pega