Low-Code Contracts

Low-Code
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Low-Code in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Low-Code over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 432 546 624
Rank change year-on-year +114 +78 +147
Contract jobs citing Low-Code 87 54 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.88% 0.41% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 42 64
10th Percentile £425 £400 £369
25th Percentile £475 £456 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £615 £575 £636
90th Percentile £716 £586 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £523 £590
% change year-on-year -5.74% -11.44% +19.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £63.13
25th Percentile - - £73.46
Median hourly rate - - £79.19
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £79.19

All Generic Skills
UK

Low-Code falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,915 13,252 19,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.91% 30.40% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,331 8,505 13,670
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.90% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 910 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.93 £27.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year +11.46% +26.14% +9.64%

Low-Code
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Low-Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Low-Code in the UK

Low-Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Low-Code in the UK

Low-Code
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Low-Code over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Low-Code in the UK

Low-Code
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 Low-Code within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +87 67 £550 +4.76% 102
London +62 52 £585 +11.43% 55
Work from Home +46 29 £513 +2.50% 78
UK excluding London +51 16 £493 -5.74% 54
South East +46 6 £538 - 8
North of England +28 6 £450 -18.18% 15
North West +11 4 £450 -18.18% 8
Scotland +11 4 £525 +9.38% 6
Yorkshire +16 2 £463 - 6

Low-Code
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 12 (13.79%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.30%) Appian
2 2 (2.30%) Mendix
2 2 (2.30%) SAS
3 1 (1.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.15%) InfoPath
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (6.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 42 (48.28%) Power Platform
2 31 (35.63%) Azure
3 21 (24.14%) Power Automate
4 17 (19.54%) PowerApps
5 16 (18.39%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (18.39%) SaaS
6 14 (16.09%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (11.49%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (10.34%) PaaS
9 8 (9.20%) AWS
9 8 (9.20%) Entra ID
10 6 (6.90%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (6.90%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (5.75%) Copilot Studio
12 4 (4.60%) GitHub
12 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (3.45%) GCP
13 3 (3.45%) IaaS
13 3 (3.45%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (18.39%) Power BI
2 3 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (3.45%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.45%) MySQL
2 3 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.30%) Data Hub
3 2 (2.30%) Data Mining
3 2 (2.30%) MariaDB
3 2 (2.30%) Power Query
3 2 (2.30%) Redis
3 2 (2.30%) ThoughtSpot
4 1 (1.15%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.15%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (4.60%) JIRA
2 1 (1.15%) RStudio
2 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 22 (25.29%) Social Skills
2 18 (20.69%) Finance
3 9 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.05%) Banking
5 6 (6.90%) Legal
6 2 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.30%) Billing
6 2 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.15%) Front Office
7 1 (1.15%) Marketing
7 1 (1.15%) Military
7 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (40.23%) Developer
2 17 (19.54%) Lead
3 9 (10.34%) Architect
4 8 (9.20%) Consultant
5 7 (8.05%) Power Platform Developer
6 5 (5.75%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (5.75%) Technical Leader
7 3 (3.45%) Lead Developer
7 3 (3.45%) Low-Code Developer
7 3 (3.45%) Microsoft 365 Manager
7 3 (3.45%) Security Architect
7 3 (3.45%) Senior
7 3 (3.45%) Test Manager
8 2 (2.30%) Appian Developer
8 2 (2.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (2.30%) Business Intelligence Consultant
8 2 (2.30%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (2.30%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.30%) Power Platform Consultant
8 2 (2.30%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (25.29%) HTML
2 21 (24.14%) CSS
3 15 (17.24%) .NET
4 11 (12.64%) jQuery
5 6 (6.90%) HTML5
6 4 (4.60%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (3.45%) JSON
8 2 (2.30%) ARM Templates
8 2 (2.30%) ASP.NET
8 2 (2.30%) OAuth
8 2 (2.30%) REST
8 2 (2.30%) SOAP
8 2 (2.30%) YAML
9 1 (1.15%) .NET Core
9 1 (1.15%) AngularJS
9 1 (1.15%) Kafka
9 1 (1.15%) Lightning Web Components
9 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (1.15%) OAuth2
9 1 (1.15%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.90%) Public Cloud
2 3 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (3.45%) Operational Technology
2 3 (3.45%) Replication
3 2 (2.30%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.30%) FMCG
3 2 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.30%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.15%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (28.74%) Agile
2 16 (18.39%) DevOps
3 15 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
5 12 (13.79%) User Experience
5 12 (13.79%) UX Design
6 11 (12.64%) Analytics
7 9 (10.34%) CRM
7 9 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (10.34%) TOGAF
8 8 (9.20%) Computer Science
8 8 (9.20%) Microservices
8 8 (9.20%) Root Cause Analysis
9 7 (8.05%) CI/CD
9 7 (8.05%) Workflow
10 6 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence
10 6 (6.90%) Mentoring
10 6 (6.90%) Project Delivery
10 6 (6.90%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 28 (32.18%) JavaScript
2 17 (19.54%) SQL
3 12 (13.79%) C#
4 5 (5.75%) Python
5 4 (4.60%) Java
6 3 (3.45%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.30%) Bash
7 2 (2.30%) Bicep
7 2 (2.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.30%) Formula Language
7 2 (2.30%) Ruby
7 2 (2.30%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.15%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 20 (22.99%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.49%) Degree
4 7 (8.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (8.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.45%) CISM
5 3 (3.45%) CISSP
6 2 (2.30%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.30%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.45%) NIST
2 2 (2.30%) GDPR
2 2 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (2.30%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.15%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.15%) QA
System Software
1 5 (5.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.30%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.15%) Docker
3 1 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (4.60%) Terraform
2 3 (3.45%) HP ALM
3 2 (2.30%) Ansible
3 2 (2.30%) Grafana
3 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.30%) Nagios
3 2 (2.30%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.30%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.30%) SCCM
4 1 (1.15%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 36 (41.38%) Microsoft
2 20 (22.99%) OutSystems
3 8 (9.20%) SAP
4 6 (6.90%) Salesforce
5 5 (5.75%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.60%) iManage
7 3 (3.45%) HP
7 3 (3.45%) Oracle
8 2 (2.30%) Google
8 2 (2.30%) Qualys
8 2 (2.30%) Snow
8 2 (2.30%) Splunk
9 1 (1.15%) Alteryx
9 1 (1.15%) Databricks
9 1 (1.15%) Murex
9 1 (1.15%) OneTrust
9 1 (1.15%) Optimizely
9 1 (1.15%) Pega