Programmer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Programmer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Programmer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £528 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 268 412 482
Rank change year-on-year +144 +70 -119
Contract jobs requiring a Programmer 124 49 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.20% 0.087%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.22% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 20 19
10th Percentile £389 £424 £290
25th Percentile £463 £463 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% +8.33% +28.57%
75th Percentile £538 £580 £513
90th Percentile £588 £688 £585
UK median daily rate £535 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +7.00% +11.11% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 1 2
10th Percentile £15.00 - £12.07
25th Percentile £16.25 £39.25 £14.18
Median hourly rate £19.00 £42.16 £18.08
Median % change year-on-year -54.93% +133.16% -18.74%
75th Percentile £20.00 £45.06 £22.35
90th Percentile £35.00 - £24.69
UK median hourly rate £19.00 £60.00 £54.25
% change year-on-year -68.33% +10.60% +8.50%

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 19,262 22,750 29,627
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 94.10% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,825 15,940 20,711
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £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 2,216 1,193 1,496
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £15.67 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

Programmer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Programmer in the UK excluding London

Programmer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Programmer in the UK excluding London

Programmer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programmer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Programmer in the UK excluding London

Programmer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Programmer in the UK excluding London

Programmer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Programmer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Programmer in the UK excluding London

Programmer
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 Programmer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Midlands +93 74 £535 +7.00% 43
West Midlands +91 66 £535 +7.00% 30
North of England +30 27 £475 -19.15% 41
Yorkshire +26 22 £473 -5.50% 10
East of England +21 12 £300 -45.45% 14
South East +13 11 £511 +8.49% 28
East Midlands +24 8 - - 13
North West +13 3 £600 -14.29% 28
North East +20 2 - - 3
Programmer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Programmer 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 Programmer in the job title.

1 53 (42.74%) C
1 53 (42.74%) Security Cleared
2 52 (41.94%) SC Cleared
3 44 (35.48%) PL/SQL
4 41 (33.06%) Visual Studio
4 41 (33.06%) PVCS
5 25 (20.16%) zOS
6 22 (17.74%) Mainframe
7 21 (16.94%) JCL
7 21 (16.94%) IBM
7 21 (16.94%) ISPF
7 21 (16.94%) Time Sharing Option
8 20 (16.13%) Social Skills
9 19 (15.32%) Performance Monitoring
9 19 (15.32%) SAS
9 19 (15.32%) REXX
10 18 (14.52%) Risk Management
10 18 (14.52%) Broadcom
10 18 (14.52%) OMEGAMON
11 17 (13.71%) Splunk
11 17 (13.71%) Public Sector
12 14 (11.29%) Assembly Language
13 13 (10.48%) RACF
13 13 (10.48%) C++
13 13 (10.48%) Manufacturing
13 13 (10.48%) ACF2
14 9 (7.26%) Problem-Solving
15 7 (5.65%) Automotive
16 6 (4.84%) Python
17 5 (4.03%) Linux

Programmer 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 19 (15.32%) SAS
2 3 (2.42%) OpenEdge
3 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) VisionPLUS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.42%) SAN
1 3 (2.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.81%) DB2
Development Applications
1 41 (33.06%) PVCS
1 41 (33.06%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.81%) VTune
General
1 20 (16.13%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.71%) Public Sector
3 13 (10.48%) Manufacturing
4 7 (5.65%) Automotive
5 5 (4.03%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.42%) Banking
7 2 (1.61%) Electronics
8 1 (0.81%) Games
8 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (16.94%) ISPF
2 1 (0.81%) DirectX
2 1 (0.81%) OpenGL
2 1 (0.81%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (0.81%) Unreal Engine
2 1 (0.81%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.74%) Mainframe
2 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (0.81%) Ray Tracing
Operating Systems
1 25 (20.16%) zOS
2 5 (4.03%) Debian
2 5 (4.03%) Linux
2 5 (4.03%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (15.32%) Performance Monitoring
2 18 (14.52%) Risk Management
3 9 (7.26%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (4.03%) Preventative Maintenance
4 5 (4.03%) Quality Management
5 3 (2.42%) Agile
5 3 (2.42%) CAD
5 3 (2.42%) Configuration Management
5 3 (2.42%) Data Engineering
5 3 (2.42%) Data Modelling
5 3 (2.42%) ITIL
5 3 (2.42%) Prototyping
5 3 (2.42%) SDLC
5 3 (2.42%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 2 (1.61%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (1.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (1.61%) Logistics
6 2 (1.61%) Software Engineering
7 1 (0.81%) Linear Algebra
7 1 (0.81%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 53 (42.74%) C
2 44 (35.48%) PL/SQL
3 21 (16.94%) JCL
4 19 (15.32%) REXX
5 14 (11.29%) Assembly Language
6 13 (10.48%) C++
7 6 (4.84%) Python
8 3 (2.42%) SQL
9 1 (0.81%) CLIST
9 1 (0.81%) GLSL
9 1 (0.81%) HLSL
9 1 (0.81%) ProC
9 1 (0.81%) R
Qualifications
1 53 (42.74%) Security Cleared
2 52 (41.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.61%) QA
2 1 (0.81%) CDISC
System Software
1 21 (16.94%) Time Sharing Option
2 13 (10.48%) ACF2
2 13 (10.48%) RACF
Systems Management
1 18 (14.52%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 21 (16.94%) IBM
2 18 (14.52%) Broadcom
3 17 (13.71%) Splunk
4 5 (4.03%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.23%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.42%) CA
6 3 (2.42%) Oracle
6 3 (2.42%) VMware