Software Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2024.

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

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 201 215 244
Rank change year-on-year +14 +29 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 216 231 301
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.01% 1.02% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 1.08% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 160 178
10th Percentile £340 £338 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £494
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -3.85% +16.24%
75th Percentile £506 £588 £559
90th Percentile £635 £648 £623
UK median daily rate £515 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -0.96% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 18
10th Percentile - £51.25 £44.47
25th Percentile £46.25 £52.38 £46.87
Median hourly rate £58.91 £58.59 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% +7.50% +60.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.13 £57.19
90th Percentile £77.00 £73.47 £59.33
UK median hourly rate £61.43 £59.03 £48.74
% change year-on-year +4.07% +21.11% +98.94%

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 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in the UK excluding London

Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Developer in the UK excluding London

Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Developer in the UK excluding London

Software Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Developer in the UK excluding London

Software Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Developer in the UK excluding London

Software 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 Software Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 June 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
North of England +69 81 £450 -10.00% 85
North West +36 39 £450 -5.26% 34
South East -9 35 £400 -3.03% 74
South West 0 31 £525 -4.55% 33
Midlands +21 29 £375 -29.25% 49
Yorkshire +37 28 £450 -12.20% 35
Scotland +8 23 £450 -4.15% 19
East Midlands +7 15 £425 -28.08% 17
West Midlands +22 14 £360 -31.43% 32
North East +18 14 - - 18
East of England +5 10 £485 -3.00% 15
Northern Ireland - 4 £613 - 6
Wales +12 3 £425 -5.56% 8
Software Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 June 2024, Software Developer 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 147 (68.06%) C#
2 143 (66.20%) JavaScript
3 133 (61.57%) HTML
4 131 (60.65%) Software Engineering
5 124 (57.41%) SQL
6 122 (56.48%) Python
7 115 (53.24%) Degree
8 113 (52.31%) Artificial Intelligence
8 113 (52.31%) Code Quality
9 111 (51.39%) Chatbot
9 111 (51.39%) Conversational UI
10 108 (50.00%) PayPal
11 46 (21.30%) Agile
12 30 (13.89%) .NET
13 27 (12.50%) Azure
14 26 (12.04%) Java
15 25 (11.57%) Security Cleared
16 24 (11.11%) CSS
17 22 (10.19%) AWS
17 22 (10.19%) DevOps
18 19 (8.80%) Public Sector
19 17 (7.87%) CI/CD
19 17 (7.87%) React
20 15 (6.94%) Problem-Solving
21 14 (6.48%) Linux
21 14 (6.48%) TDD
21 14 (6.48%) Scrum
21 14 (6.48%) Software Testing
22 13 (6.02%) TypeScript
22 13 (6.02%) REST

Software Developer 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 (2.31%) Umbraco
2 3 (1.39%) CMS
3 1 (0.46%) Confluence
3 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.46%) WebLogic
Applications
1 111 (51.39%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.85%) LabWindows
2 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (12.50%) Azure
2 22 (10.19%) AWS
3 13 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (3.70%) Amazon S3
4 8 (3.70%) Serverless
5 7 (3.24%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (3.24%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (3.24%) GitHub
6 3 (1.39%) Amazon Bedrock
6 3 (1.39%) Anthropic Claude
6 3 (1.39%) Azure AI
6 3 (1.39%) GCP
6 3 (1.39%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.39%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.46%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.46%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.46%) PaaS
7 1 (0.46%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.46%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.85%) RS-232
2 3 (1.39%) VPN
3 2 (0.93%) Firewall
3 2 (0.93%) Tactical Data Link
3 2 (0.93%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.46%) 5G
4 1 (0.46%) DHCP
4 1 (0.46%) DNS
4 1 (0.46%) LTE
4 1 (0.46%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.09%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.31%) MySQL
4 4 (1.85%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.93%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (0.93%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.93%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.93%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.93%) Power BI
7 1 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.46%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.46%) MS Access
7 1 (0.46%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.46%) Redis
7 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (4.63%) Git
2 6 (2.78%) LabVIEW
2 6 (2.78%) Visual Studio
3 4 (1.85%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.85%) JIRA
3 4 (1.85%) Subversion
4 3 (1.39%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.39%) Selenium
5 2 (0.93%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.93%) Maven
5 2 (0.93%) Mockito
5 2 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.93%) Postman
5 2 (0.93%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.93%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.93%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.46%) Mocha
6 1 (0.46%) webpack
General
1 19 (8.80%) Public Sector
2 10 (4.63%) Finance
2 10 (4.63%) Social Skills
3 5 (2.31%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (1.85%) Manufacturing
4 4 (1.85%) Tech for Good
5 1 (0.46%) Aerospace
5 1 (0.46%) Law
5 1 (0.46%) Marketing
5 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (61.57%) HTML
2 30 (13.89%) .NET
3 24 (11.11%) CSS
4 17 (7.87%) React
5 13 (6.02%) REST
6 10 (4.63%) ASP.NET
7 9 (4.17%) Node.js
8 8 (3.70%) .NET Core
8 8 (3.70%) AWS CDK
9 7 (3.24%) ASP.NET MVC
9 7 (3.24%) Spring
10 6 (2.78%) .NET Framework
10 6 (2.78%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.78%) Blazor
10 6 (2.78%) RESTful
10 6 (2.78%) Spring Boot
11 5 (2.31%) Flask
12 4 (1.85%) Kafka
12 4 (1.85%) Web Services
13 3 (1.39%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 5 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (1.85%) Algorithms
2 4 (1.85%) CCTV
2 4 (1.85%) NHS
3 2 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (0.93%) Data Structures
3 2 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (0.93%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.46%) Educational Technology
4 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.46%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.46%) IoT
4 1 (0.46%) Legacy Code
4 1 (0.46%) Life Science
4 1 (0.46%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.48%) Linux
2 10 (4.63%) Windows
3 4 (1.85%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.39%) Unix
5 2 (0.93%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (60.65%) Software Engineering
2 113 (52.31%) Artificial Intelligence
2 113 (52.31%) Code Quality
3 111 (51.39%) Conversational UI
4 46 (21.30%) Agile
5 22 (10.19%) DevOps
6 17 (7.87%) CI/CD
7 15 (6.94%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (6.48%) Scrum
8 14 (6.48%) Software Testing
8 14 (6.48%) TDD
9 12 (5.56%) MVC
9 12 (5.56%) OO
9 12 (5.56%) Test Automation
10 10 (4.63%) Front End Development
10 10 (4.63%) Full Stack Development
10 10 (4.63%) Microservices
11 8 (3.70%) SOLID
12 7 (3.24%) Clean Code
12 7 (3.24%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 147 (68.06%) C#
2 143 (66.20%) JavaScript
3 124 (57.41%) SQL
4 122 (56.48%) Python
5 26 (12.04%) Java
6 13 (6.02%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.56%) C++
8 7 (3.24%) C
9 5 (2.31%) Bash
10 4 (1.85%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.93%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.46%) Go
12 1 (0.46%) Perl
12 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.46%) VB
Qualifications
1 115 (53.24%) Degree
2 25 (11.57%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.09%) DV Cleared
4 10 (4.63%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.93%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.70%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.78%) QA
3 4 (1.85%) HL7
4 3 (1.39%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 3 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (2.78%) Docker
2 2 (0.93%) zsh
3 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.46%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (3.24%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.85%) Grafana
3 2 (0.93%) Terraform
4 1 (0.46%) Ansible
4 1 (0.46%) Kibana
4 1 (0.46%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 108 (50.00%) PayPal
2 12 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.31%) Oracle
4 3 (1.39%) Google
4 3 (1.39%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.93%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.46%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.46%) Atmel
6 1 (0.46%) Denodo
6 1 (0.46%) RedGate
6 1 (0.46%) Talend
6 1 (0.46%) VMware