Digital Developer Contracts

Digital Developer
UK

The median Digital Developer daily rate in the UK is £545, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

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

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 568 664
Rank change year-on-year +57 +96 +147
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Developer 9 14 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.032% 0.090%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.033% 0.035% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 40
10th Percentile £395 £395 -
25th Percentile £443 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £750 £550
Median % change year-on-year -27.33% +36.36% -
75th Percentile £659 - £680
90th Percentile £714 - £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 - £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £77.19 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.19 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Digital Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Developer in the UK

Digital Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Digital Developer in the UK

Digital Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Developer in the UK

Digital Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Digital Developer in the UK

Digital Developer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +53 8 £545 -27.33% 14
UK excluding London +67 5 £563 - 11
London +31 4 £545 -27.33% 6
Work from Home +38 3 £545 -27.33% 9
North of England +20 2 £750 - 2
North West +18 2 £750 -
Scotland - 1 - - 4
South East - 1 - - 1
South West - 1 £375 - 3

Digital Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Digital 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 Digital Developer in the job title.

1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Microservices
2 5 (55.56%) API Management
3 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
3 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 4 (44.44%) API Design
3 4 (44.44%) MongoDB
3 4 (44.44%) RESTful
3 4 (44.44%) Docker
4 3 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (33.33%) Gradle
4 3 (33.33%) Redis
4 3 (33.33%) Kafka
4 3 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
4 3 (33.33%) Mockito
4 3 (33.33%) Spring
4 3 (33.33%) Maven
4 3 (33.33%) OAuth
4 3 (33.33%) TestNG
4 3 (33.33%) MySQL
4 3 (33.33%) Python
4 3 (33.33%) Java
4 3 (33.33%) JUnit
4 3 (33.33%) Eclipse
4 3 (33.33%) IntelliJ
4 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (33.33%) Hibernate
4 3 (33.33%) Google
4 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared

Digital 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 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
3 3 (33.33%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (11.11%) Copilot Studio
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
4 1 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Serverless
4 1 (11.11%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) MongoDB
2 3 (33.33%) MySQL
2 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (33.33%) Redis
3 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 1 (11.11%) Power BI
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Eclipse
1 3 (33.33%) Gradle
1 3 (33.33%) IntelliJ
1 3 (33.33%) JUnit
1 3 (33.33%) Maven
1 3 (33.33%) Mockito
1 3 (33.33%) TestNG
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) RESTful
2 3 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 3 (33.33%) JWT
2 3 (33.33%) Kafka
2 3 (33.33%) OAuth
2 3 (33.33%) OpenAPI
2 3 (33.33%) Spring
2 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 3 (33.33%) Swagger
3 2 (22.22%) .NET
3 2 (22.22%) Node.js
4 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
4 1 (11.11%) cloud-init
4 1 (11.11%) JSON
4 1 (11.11%) XML
4 1 (11.11%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) CentOS
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) API Management
1 5 (55.56%) Microservices
2 4 (44.44%) API Design
2 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
3 3 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 3 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
3 3 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 3 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 3 (33.33%) SOLID
3 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) User Experience
4 2 (22.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 1 (11.11%) API Integration
5 1 (11.11%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) ActionScript
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Bicep
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) Go
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (11.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Grafana
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 3 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (11.11%) Packer
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Infor
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
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