Technical Developer Contracts

Technical Developer
UK

The median Technical Developer daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 686 814
Rank change year-on-year +124 +128 -155
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Developer 20 26 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.043% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.046% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 29
10th Percentile £505 £363 £404
25th Percentile £550 £545 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +17.39% +9.11%
75th Percentile £712 £713 £675
90th Percentile - - £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £640 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +42.22% -7.69% -35.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,476 56,906 85,219
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,420 39,710 59,771
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,641 1,614 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.92 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Technical Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Technical Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Developer in the UK

Technical Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Developer.

Daily rate trend for Technical Developer in the UK

Technical Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Developer over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Developer in the UK

Technical Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Developer in the UK

Technical Developer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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
England +120 17 £600 -11.11% 11
UK excluding London +62 12 £640 +42.22% 4
Work from Home +127 11 £680 -0.55% 7
London +95 6 £500 -25.93% 7
South East +17 6 £712 +26.58% 3
East of England +19 5 £600 -
Scotland +31 1 £575 +5.50%

Technical Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Technical Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Technical Developer in the job title.

1 6 (30.00%) Workday
2 4 (20.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Agile
2 4 (20.00%) Java
2 4 (20.00%) ERP
2 4 (20.00%) IFS
3 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (15.00%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 3 (15.00%) OO
3 3 (15.00%) PeopleCode
3 3 (15.00%) PeopleSoft
3 3 (15.00%) HTML
4 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (10.00%) Retail
4 2 (10.00%) Migration
4 2 (10.00%) CSS
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (5.00%) Storyboarding
5 1 (5.00%) OCI
5 1 (5.00%) Blog
5 1 (5.00%) Symfony
5 1 (5.00%) Unit Testing
5 1 (5.00%) Data Migration
5 1 (5.00%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (5.00%) Data Validation
5 1 (5.00%) FMCG
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle EBS R12

Technical Developer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Camtasia
1 1 (5.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (5.00%) SAP MDG
2 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Eclipse
General
1 4 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Retail
3 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) HTML
2 2 (10.00%) CSS
3 1 (5.00%) BAPI
3 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (5.00%) Nuxt
3 1 (5.00%) SAP ALE
3 1 (5.00%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Blockchain
1 1 (5.00%) Blog
1 1 (5.00%) FMCG
1 1 (5.00%) Replication
1 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (20.00%) Agile
1 4 (20.00%) ERP
2 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (15.00%) OO
3 2 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
3 2 (10.00%) Migration
3 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (5.00%) Content Development
4 1 (5.00%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (5.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (5.00%) Infographics
4 1 (5.00%) Information Security
4 1 (5.00%) SDLC
4 1 (5.00%) SOA
4 1 (5.00%) Storyboarding
4 1 (5.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (5.00%) Validation
4 1 (5.00%) Wireframes
4 1 (5.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Java
2 3 (15.00%) PeopleCode
3 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Workday
2 4 (20.00%) IFS
3 3 (15.00%) PeopleSoft
4 1 (5.00%) Adobe
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) SAP