Developer Contracts

Developer
UK

The median Developer daily rate in the UK is £540 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 December 2023.

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
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 6 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 0
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 6,293 14,602 18,248
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 13.97% 18.78% 20.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.95% 19.73% 21.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,523 10,806 13,656
10th Percentile £358 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £672 £700 £638
90th Percentile £800 £800 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £513 £450
% change year-on-year -7.32% +13.89% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 109 138
10th Percentile £28.25 £31.55 £23.33
25th Percentile £50.00 £45.00 £35.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +31.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £67.80
90th Percentile £81.25 £75.05 £77.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +14.29% +16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 42,101 73,991 85,535
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 95.16% 95.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,377 51,591 59,848
10th Percentile £293 £313 £301
25th Percentile £413 £428 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% +7.37%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £613
90th Percentile £743 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,500 1,747 2,223
10th Percentile £15.24 £13.25 £12.00
25th Percentile £19.11 £17.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £44.50 £30.00 £20.19
Median % change year-on-year +48.33% +48.63% -12.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.00 £45.89
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.50 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.00 £17.98
% change year-on-year +78.00% +39.04% -10.10%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the UK

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer.

Daily rate trend for Developer in the UK

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer over the 6 months to 2 December 2023.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the UK

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the UK

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer over the 6 months to 2 December 2023.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in the UK

Developer
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 2 December 2023. 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
England -2 5,275 £550 -6.78% 3,192
London -2 3,196 £600 -4.00% 1,233
Work from Home -3 2,893 £513 -6.82% 1,981
UK excluding London 0 2,249 £475 -7.32% 2,218
North of England 0 637 £500 -4.76% 693
South East -11 407 £500 -9.09% 607
South West 0 391 £500 -9.09% 242
North West -1 371 £475 -5.00% 400
Scotland 0 337 £475 - 118
Midlands +3 319 £450 -5.26% 320
Yorkshire +4 248 £525 -4.55% 227
West Midlands +5 199 £450 -10.00% 209
East Midlands +3 123 £455 +1.20% 110
East of England -15 112 £477 -13.27% 176
Wales -1 66 £400 -20.00% 70
North East +3 48 £607 +10.32% 76
Northern Ireland -10 16 £444 -11.25% 38

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 December 2023, 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 featuring Developer in the job title.

1 1,757 (27.92%) Agile
2 1,497 (23.79%) JavaScript
3 1,449 (23.03%) SQL
4 1,263 (20.07%) Finance
5 1,261 (20.04%) AWS
6 1,216 (19.32%) .NET
7 1,196 (19.01%) Azure
8 1,153 (18.32%) Java
9 1,151 (18.29%) C#
10 1,138 (18.08%) Python
11 960 (15.26%) Social Skills
12 941 (14.95%) React
13 835 (13.27%) TypeScript
14 771 (12.25%) Security Cleared
15 765 (12.16%) Banking
16 763 (12.12%) CI/CD
17 750 (11.92%) HTML
18 748 (11.89%) Full Stack Development
19 720 (11.44%) DevOps
20 682 (10.84%) CSS
21 645 (10.25%) SC Cleared
22 602 (9.57%) SQL Server
23 599 (9.52%) Git
24 591 (9.39%) Microservices
24 591 (9.39%) Problem-Solving
25 590 (9.38%) Microsoft
26 576 (9.15%) Software Engineering
27 575 (9.14%) AngularJS
28 558 (8.87%) Node.js
29 514 (8.17%) Public Sector

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 134 (2.13%) Confluence
2 112 (1.78%) SharePoint
3 105 (1.67%) Apache
4 81 (1.29%) CMS
5 74 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
6 66 (1.05%) Apache Spark
7 49 (0.78%) WordPress
8 32 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
8 32 (0.51%) Umbraco
9 27 (0.43%) IIS
10 24 (0.38%) Tomcat
11 22 (0.35%) SAS
12 20 (0.32%) nginx
13 15 (0.24%) JBoss
14 12 (0.19%) Drupal
14 12 (0.19%) Jupyter
14 12 (0.19%) NServiceBus
15 10 (0.16%) Mendix
16 9 (0.14%) Joomla!
17 8 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 128 (2.03%) Chatbot
2 100 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (0.13%) Photoshop
6 6 (0.095%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.064%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.048%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (0.048%) Sketch
8 3 (0.048%) Trello
8 3 (0.048%) Windchill
9 2 (0.032%) Avocode
9 2 (0.032%) Camtasia
9 2 (0.032%) CATIA
9 2 (0.032%) InVision
9 2 (0.032%) Lectora
9 2 (0.032%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.016%) Fireworks
10 1 (0.016%) Maya
Business Applications
1 68 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 44 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 32 (0.51%) ION MarketView
4 26 (0.41%) Shopify
5 23 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
6 21 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
7 18 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
8 17 (0.27%) Exstream
9 16 (0.25%) Magento
10 14 (0.22%) Endur
10 14 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
11 13 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
12 10 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
13 8 (0.13%) IntelliMatch
13 8 (0.13%) Temenos T24
14 7 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
14 7 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
15 6 (0.095%) SAP CRM
15 6 (0.095%) Summit
16 5 (0.079%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,261 (20.04%) AWS
2 1,196 (19.01%) Azure
3 389 (6.18%) Power Platform
4 336 (5.34%) GCP
5 321 (5.10%) Serverless
6 248 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
7 200 (3.18%) GitHub
8 173 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
9 134 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
10 130 (2.07%) Azure Functions
11 121 (1.92%) PowerApps
12 113 (1.80%) Amazon S3
13 107 (1.70%) Power Automate
14 94 (1.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 78 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
16 73 (1.16%) Azure Logic Apps
17 72 (1.14%) SaaS
18 68 (1.08%) OpenShift
19 66 (1.05%) Azure Service Bus
20 64 (1.02%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 49 (0.78%) HTTP
2 32 (0.51%) TCP/IP
3 26 (0.41%) DNS
4 18 (0.29%) FTP
4 18 (0.29%) Intranet
4 18 (0.29%) SSL
5 13 (0.21%) Wireless
6 12 (0.19%) Internet
6 12 (0.19%) SAN
7 11 (0.17%) HTTPS
7 11 (0.17%) Tactical Data Link
8 10 (0.16%) Broadband
8 10 (0.16%) Fibre Channel
8 10 (0.16%) iSCSI
9 9 (0.14%) VPN
10 7 (0.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 7 (0.11%) Firewall
10 7 (0.11%) NetScaler
10 7 (0.11%) SMTP
10 7 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 602 (9.57%) SQL Server
2 330 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
3 311 (4.94%) Power BI
4 224 (3.56%) MySQL
5 211 (3.35%) Relational Database
6 194 (3.08%) NoSQL
7 173 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
8 167 (2.65%) MongoDB
9 153 (2.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 133 (2.11%) Oracle Database
11 97 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
12 96 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 86 (1.37%) DynamoDB
14 75 (1.19%) Redis
15 74 (1.18%) Data Lake
16 68 (1.08%) Big Data
17 67 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
18 61 (0.97%) Tableau
19 55 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
20 48 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 599 (9.52%) Git
2 326 (5.18%) Jenkins
3 295 (4.69%) JIRA
4 108 (1.72%) Cypress.io
5 102 (1.62%) GitLab
6 97 (1.54%) Cucumber
7 91 (1.45%) Bitbucket
8 78 (1.24%) Visual Studio
9 74 (1.18%) TeamCity
10 73 (1.16%) JUnit
11 72 (1.14%) webpack
12 71 (1.13%) Maven
13 59 (0.94%) Postman
14 58 (0.92%) Selenium
15 57 (0.91%) NUnit
16 49 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
17 39 (0.62%) Oracle APEX
18 38 (0.60%) Gradle
19 36 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
20 34 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 1,263 (20.07%) Finance
2 960 (15.26%) Social Skills
3 765 (12.16%) Banking
4 514 (8.17%) Public Sector
5 408 (6.48%) Front Office
6 380 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
7 348 (5.53%) Investment Banking
8 113 (1.80%) Marketing
9 95 (1.51%) Telecoms
10 76 (1.21%) Manufacturing
11 73 (1.16%) Retail
12 70 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 62 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
14 61 (0.97%) Law
15 54 (0.86%) Back Office
16 53 (0.84%) Financial Institution
17 48 (0.76%) Electronics
18 44 (0.70%) Military
19 37 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
20 32 (0.51%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,216 (19.32%) .NET
2 941 (14.95%) React
3 750 (11.92%) HTML
4 682 (10.84%) CSS
5 575 (9.14%) AngularJS
6 558 (8.87%) Node.js
7 512 (8.14%) REST
8 318 (5.05%) Spring
9 310 (4.93%) .NET Core
10 285 (4.53%) .NET Framework
11 279 (4.43%) RESTful
12 259 (4.12%) ASP.NET
13 257 (4.08%) Web Services
14 250 (3.97%) Spring Boot
15 223 (3.54%) Kafka
16 202 (3.21%) Redux
17 196 (3.11%) XML
18 188 (2.99%) GraphQL
19 183 (2.91%) JSON
19 183 (2.91%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 221 (3.51%) Fixed Income
2 185 (2.94%) Derivative
3 173 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
4 170 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 126 (2.00%) Mobile App
6 123 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
7 120 (1.91%) Equities
8 118 (1.88%) Algorithms
9 117 (1.86%) Onboarding
10 114 (1.81%) Data Structures
11 113 (1.80%) Product Ownership
12 111 (1.76%) Hedge funds
13 96 (1.53%) Cloud Native
14 83 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
15 64 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
15 64 (1.02%) Management Information System
16 63 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
17 50 (0.79%) Virtual Team
18 44 (0.70%) CMDB
19 43 (0.68%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 426 (6.77%) Linux
2 277 (4.40%) Windows
3 193 (3.07%) Unix
4 103 (1.64%) Android
5 85 (1.35%) Apple iOS
6 35 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 25 (0.40%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 17 (0.27%) Debian
10 16 (0.25%) Mac OS
11 12 (0.19%) OpenVMS
12 10 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
13 7 (0.11%) VMS
14 5 (0.079%) Mac OS X
14 5 (0.079%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.048%) Oracle Linux
16 2 (0.032%) AIX
16 2 (0.032%) CentOS
16 2 (0.032%) Data ONTAP
16 2 (0.032%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,757 (27.92%) Agile
2 763 (12.12%) CI/CD
3 748 (11.89%) Full Stack Development
4 720 (11.44%) DevOps
5 591 (9.39%) Microservices
5 591 (9.39%) Problem-Solving
6 576 (9.15%) Software Engineering
7 511 (8.12%) TDD
8 504 (8.01%) Front End Development
9 415 (6.59%) Business Intelligence
10 380 (6.04%) Scrum
11 363 (5.77%) SDLC
12 361 (5.74%) Analytics
13 357 (5.67%) Test Automation
14 335 (5.32%) User Experience
15 327 (5.20%) Data Modelling
16 321 (5.10%) OO
17 310 (4.93%) Continuous Integration
17 310 (4.93%) Unit Testing
18 286 (4.54%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 1,497 (23.79%) JavaScript
2 1,449 (23.03%) SQL
3 1,153 (18.32%) Java
4 1,151 (18.29%) C#
5 1,138 (18.08%) Python
6 835 (13.27%) TypeScript
7 361 (5.74%) C++
8 239 (3.80%) PL/SQL
9 204 (3.24%) PHP
10 190 (3.02%) T-SQL
11 174 (2.76%) Scala
12 152 (2.42%) PowerShell
13 123 (1.95%) C
14 122 (1.94%) Kotlin
15 117 (1.86%) Go
16 96 (1.53%) Apex Code
17 84 (1.33%) ABAP
18 81 (1.29%) Ruby
19 80 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 78 (1.24%) Bash
Qualifications
1 771 (12.25%) Security Cleared
2 645 (10.25%) SC Cleared
3 439 (6.98%) Degree
4 141 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 139 (2.21%) DV Cleared
6 54 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 54 (0.86%) Master's Degree
7 45 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
8 28 (0.44%) Azure Certification
9 18 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
10 12 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (0.14%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.079%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.079%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.079%) PhD
13 4 (0.064%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.064%) CTC Cleared
14 3 (0.048%) CAPM
14 3 (0.048%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.048%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (3.32%) QA
2 160 (2.54%) Accessibility
3 73 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 37 (0.59%) WCAG
5 27 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
6 25 (0.40%) EMIR
7 23 (0.37%) PMO
8 17 (0.27%) MiFID
9 15 (0.24%) HL7
10 10 (0.16%) SLA
11 9 (0.14%) GDPR
12 4 (0.064%) GxP
13 3 (0.048%) Def Stans
13 3 (0.048%) DO-178B
13 3 (0.048%) IFRS
13 3 (0.048%) ISO 26262
13 3 (0.048%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 2 (0.032%) MISRA
14 2 (0.032%) PCI DSS
15 1 (0.016%) JSP 440
System Software
1 508 (8.07%) Docker
2 57 (0.91%) Active Directory
3 40 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.22%) RACF
6 10 (0.16%) Firmware
7 9 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.11%) NFS
9 4 (0.064%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.064%) IAG
10 3 (0.048%) Cronacle
10 3 (0.048%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.048%) Platform Symphony
10 3 (0.048%) zsh
11 2 (0.032%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.032%) etcd
11 2 (0.032%) GPFS
11 2 (0.032%) HDFS
11 2 (0.032%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.016%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 458 (7.28%) Kubernetes
2 219 (3.48%) Terraform
3 107 (1.70%) Ansible
4 72 (1.14%) Grafana
5 37 (0.59%) Prometheus
6 26 (0.41%) Kibana
6 26 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (0.29%) Puppet
8 16 (0.25%) Control-M
9 12 (0.19%) Zipkin
10 11 (0.17%) Istio
11 10 (0.16%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.16%) Rundeck
12 9 (0.14%) PowerCLI
13 7 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
13 7 (0.11%) Packer
14 6 (0.095%) HP ALM
15 4 (0.064%) Dollar Universe
15 4 (0.064%) SCCM
16 3 (0.048%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 590 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 499 (7.93%) Oracle
3 226 (3.59%) ServiceNow
4 202 (3.21%) SAP
5 183 (2.91%) Salesforce
6 123 (1.95%) Google
7 120 (1.91%) PayPal
8 99 (1.57%) Databricks
9 85 (1.35%) IBM
10 63 (1.00%) MuleSoft
11 55 (0.87%) VMware
12 54 (0.86%) Adobe
13 43 (0.68%) ION Trading
14 42 (0.67%) Red Hat
15 41 (0.65%) Informatica
16 40 (0.64%) Atlassian
17 33 (0.52%) Splunk
17 33 (0.52%) Virgin Media
18 32 (0.51%) Sitecore
18 32 (0.51%) TIBCO