IFS Developer Contract Job Trends

IFS Developer
UK

The median IFS Developer daily rate in the UK is £565, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 596 559 -
Rank change year-on-year -37 - -
Contract jobs requiring an IFS Developer 7 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.020% 0.005% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.006% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £477 - -
25th Percentile £507 £558 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £565 -
75th Percentile £780 £573 -
90th Percentile £905 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £565 - -

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 32,551 33,872 43,069
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.95% 92.83% 93.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,631 20,441 29,172
10th Percentile £280 £300 £290
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £647
90th Percentile £725 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,916 1,254 1,535
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.56 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.63 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.40% -20.83% +55.17%
75th Percentile £55.58 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +85.74%

IFS Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'IFS Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

IFS Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

IFS Developer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IFS Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IFS Developer job vacancies in the UK

IFS Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IFS Developer over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IFS Developer in the UK

IFS Developer
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IFS Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 20 November 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 -20 7 £565 - 8
UK excluding London - 7 £565 - 10
East of England - 5 £565 -
Work from Home +4 2 £526 -6.86% 13
South West - 2 - - 1

IFS Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 November 2025, IFS Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring IFS Developer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) ERP
1 7 (100.00%) IFS
2 5 (71.43%) Migration
2 5 (71.43%) PL/SQL
2 5 (71.43%) SQL
3 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
4 3 (42.86%) Agile
4 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
5 2 (28.57%) Business Transformation
5 2 (28.57%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
5 2 (28.57%) Logistics
5 2 (28.57%) Scrum
6 1 (14.29%) Azure
6 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
6 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (14.29%) Business Case
6 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
6 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
6 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
6 1 (14.29%) Data Repair
6 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (14.29%) DevOps
6 1 (14.29%) ETL
6 1 (14.29%) Financial Modelling
6 1 (14.29%) Functional Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Hudson

IFS Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Hudson
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
1 4 (57.14%) Manufacturing
2 3 (42.86%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
1 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) ERP
2 5 (71.43%) Migration
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
4 2 (28.57%) Business Transformation
4 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Logistics
4 2 (28.57%) Scrum
5 1 (14.29%) Business Case
5 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
5 1 (14.29%) Data Repair
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) ETL
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Release Management
5 1 (14.29%) Remediation Plan
5 1 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
5 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PL/SQL
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) IFS
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Sybase