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 have cited Low-Code over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 529 608 748
Rank change year-on-year +79 +140 -102
Contract jobs citing Low-Code 53 95 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.16% 0.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.41% 0.49% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 67 73
10th Percentile £400 £369 £365
25th Percentile £458 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £645 £588
90th Percentile £585 £753 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £583 £525
% change year-on-year -10.30% +10.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £79.19 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £79.19 -

All Generic Skills
UK

Low-Code is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,029 19,287 28,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.30% 33.32% 33.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,387 13,249 20,174
10th Percentile £268 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 901 634 712
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.25 £22.45 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.21% -18.37% +4.47%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.13 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +29.55% +4.76% -12.50%

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 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Low-Code in the UK

Low-Code
Top 14 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 10 May 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
England +59 42 £525 -8.70% 57
Work from Home +122 34 £511 -14.79% 34
London +69 23 £525 -9.29% 22
UK excluding London +50 19 £523 -10.30% 40
North of England +38 6 £550 -4.35% 11
East of England - 6 £498 - 4
North West +26 4 £550 - 7
South East +17 3 £538 +7.50% 2
Scotland - 2 £480 - 4
Midlands +21 1 £189 -51.32% 6
Yorkshire +19 1 - - 4
Wales +17 1 £500 +16.28% 4
East Midlands - 1 £189 - 2
North East - 1 £650 -

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 16 (30.19%) SharePoint
2 6 (11.32%) Appian
3 5 (9.43%) Alfresco
3 5 (9.43%) Camunda
3 5 (9.43%) IBM Notes
4 3 (5.66%) IIS
5 1 (1.89%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.89%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Maximo
2 2 (3.77%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (43.40%) Power Platform
2 16 (30.19%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (28.30%) Azure
4 14 (26.42%) Power Automate
5 12 (22.64%) PowerApps
6 7 (13.21%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (5.66%) Serverless
8 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.77%) Azure Functions
8 2 (3.77%) GitHub
8 2 (3.77%) IaaS
8 2 (3.77%) PaaS
8 2 (3.77%) SaaS
9 1 (1.89%) AWS
9 1 (1.89%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.89%) Figma
9 1 (1.89%) GCP
9 1 (1.89%) Miro
9 1 (1.89%) Tricentis Tosca
9 1 (1.89%) Unqork
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.75%) Power BI
2 5 (9.43%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.89%) DataStage
3 1 (1.89%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Git
1 3 (5.66%) JIRA
2 2 (3.77%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.89%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.89%) Selenium
General
1 21 (39.62%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.98%) Public Sector
3 6 (11.32%) Finance
4 4 (7.55%) Banking
4 4 (7.55%) Marketing
5 3 (5.66%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Games
6 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.89%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.89%) Local Government
6 1 (1.89%) Police
6 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (35.85%) Developer
2 14 (26.42%) Architect
3 10 (18.87%) Power Platform Developer
4 8 (15.09%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (13.21%) Applications Developer
6 6 (11.32%) Analyst
6 6 (11.32%) Business Analyst
7 5 (9.43%) Microsoft 365 Architect
7 5 (9.43%) Platform Architect
7 5 (9.43%) Power Platform Architect
8 4 (7.55%) Lead
9 3 (5.66%) Pega Developer
9 3 (5.66%) Salesforce Architect
10 2 (3.77%) Consultant
10 2 (3.77%) Designer
10 2 (3.77%) Power Apps Developer
10 2 (3.77%) Technical Leader
11 1 (1.89%) Administrator
11 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Architect
11 1 (1.89%) Project Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.98%) JSON
2 6 (11.32%) HTML
2 6 (11.32%) HTML5 Canvas
3 5 (9.43%) .NET
3 5 (9.43%) CSS
3 5 (9.43%) Drools
3 5 (9.43%) jBPM
4 4 (7.55%) .NET Framework
4 4 (7.55%) REST
5 3 (5.66%) SOAP
5 3 (5.66%) XHTML
6 2 (3.77%) GraphQL
6 2 (3.77%) Middleware
6 2 (3.77%) Swagger
7 1 (1.89%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (1.89%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (1.89%) MACH
7 1 (1.89%) Playwright
7 1 (1.89%) PySpark
7 1 (1.89%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.87%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (9.43%) Algorithms
2 5 (9.43%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.43%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.77%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.77%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.89%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.89%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (24.53%) Workflow
2 12 (22.64%) Agile
3 11 (20.75%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (15.09%) DevOps
4 8 (15.09%) Microservices
5 7 (13.21%) Data Modelling
6 6 (11.32%) BPMN
6 6 (11.32%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (9.43%) API Design
7 5 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (9.43%) Test Automation
8 4 (7.55%) Business Analysis
8 4 (7.55%) OOD
8 4 (7.55%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (7.55%) Roadmaps
9 3 (5.66%) API Development
9 3 (5.66%) API Management
9 3 (5.66%) Architectural Patterns
9 3 (5.66%) Product Vision
9 3 (5.66%) Sprint Backlog
Programming Languages
1 13 (24.53%) C#
2 12 (22.64%) JavaScript
3 9 (16.98%) Java
4 5 (9.43%) Python
4 5 (9.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (28.30%) Security Cleared
2 12 (22.64%) SC Cleared
3 7 (13.21%) Degree
4 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (5.66%) Grafana
Vendors
1 27 (50.94%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.09%) Pega
3 5 (9.43%) Lotus
3 5 (9.43%) New Relic
3 5 (9.43%) Splunk
4 4 (7.55%) IBM
4 4 (7.55%) Salesforce
5 3 (5.66%) Nintex
5 3 (5.66%) SAP
6 2 (3.77%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 2 (3.77%) UiPath
7 1 (1.89%) Adobe
7 1 (1.89%) Blue Prism
7 1 (1.89%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.89%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.89%) Optimizely
7 1 (1.89%) Pardot
7 1 (1.89%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.89%) TIBCO