Structured Programming Contracts

Structured Programming
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Structured Programming skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Structured Programming over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 536 591 -
Rank change year-on-year +55 - -
Contract jobs citing Structured Programming 15 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.047% 0.009% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% 0.011% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £808 -
25th Percentile £613 £819 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £850 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% - -
75th Percentile £638 £875 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Structured Programming falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 28,676 37,017 50,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.74% 85.22% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,067 23,615 34,636
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,409 2,525 1,716
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.35 £16.06 £16.59
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +0.21% +43.92%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +64.71%

Structured Programming
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Structured Programming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Structured Programming in the UK

Structured Programming
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Structured Programming.

Daily rate trend for Structured Programming in the UK

Structured Programming
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Structured Programming.

Hourly rate trend for Structured Programming in the UK

Structured Programming
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Structured Programming within the UK over the 6 months to 4 July 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 +75 15 £625 -26.47% 11
London +45 15 £625 -26.47% 7

Structured Programming
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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (93.33%) AWS
Development Applications
1 14 (93.33%) Git
General
1 14 (93.33%) Banking
1 14 (93.33%) Finance
1 14 (93.33%) Investment Banking
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (93.33%) AWS Developer
1 14 (93.33%) Developer
1 14 (93.33%) JavaScript Developer
1 14 (93.33%) Python Developer
2 1 (6.67%) Senior
2 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (93.33%) AngularJS
1 14 (93.33%) FastAPI
1 14 (93.33%) Flask
1 14 (93.33%) NumPy
1 14 (93.33%) Pandas
1 14 (93.33%) Polars
1 14 (93.33%) React
1 14 (93.33%) SciPy
1 14 (93.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (93.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 14 (93.33%) Hedge funds
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 14 (93.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 14 (93.33%) CI/CD
2 14 (93.33%) Clean Code
2 14 (93.33%) Data Engineering
2 14 (93.33%) Mathematics
2 14 (93.33%) Systematic Trading
3 1 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (6.67%) Project Management
3 1 (6.67%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) C#
1 14 (93.33%) C++
1 14 (93.33%) Java
1 14 (93.33%) JavaScript
1 14 (93.33%) Python
1 14 (93.33%) Rust
System Software
1 14 (93.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (93.33%) Kubernetes