Non-Blocking Code Contracts

Non-Blocking Code
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Non-Blocking Code skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Non-Blocking Code over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 680 838
Rank change year-on-year +105 +158 -172
Contract jobs citing Non-Blocking Code 4 20 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.033% 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.037% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 18
10th Percentile - - £429
25th Percentile £606 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £614 £485 £650
Median % change year-on-year +26.55% -25.33% +10.79%
75th Percentile £623 £550 £675
90th Percentile £624 £585 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £600 £419
% change year-on-year - +43.28% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Non-Blocking Code is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,600 53,916 80,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,240 37,368 56,382
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,775 1,932
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%

Non-Blocking Code
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Non-Blocking Code in the UK

Non-Blocking Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Non-Blocking Code in the UK

Non-Blocking Code
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Non-Blocking Code within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Work from Home +109 4 £614 +26.55% 1
England +104 4 £614 +26.55% 2
London +109 3 £613 +11.36% 1

Non-Blocking 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 1 (25.00%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
1 1 (25.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Apigee
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) HTTP
2 2 (50.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Developer
2 2 (50.00%) GCP Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) REST
2 3 (75.00%) JSON
2 3 (75.00%) Node.js
2 3 (75.00%) OAuth
2 3 (75.00%) OAuth2
2 3 (75.00%) OpenAPI
2 3 (75.00%) OpenID
2 3 (75.00%) SOAP
2 3 (75.00%) Swagger
2 3 (75.00%) YAML
3 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) Jest
3 1 (25.00%) Next.js
3 1 (25.00%) Nuxt
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (75.00%) API Design
2 3 (75.00%) API Management
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Functional Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
4 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
4 1 (25.00%) Refactoring
4 1 (25.00%) SEO
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google