Backend Developer Contracts in West London

Backend Developer
London > West London

The median Backend Developer daily rate in West London is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 58 61
Rank change year-on-year +16 +3 -
Contract jobs requiring a Backend Developer 4 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 1.12% 0.88% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% 0.90% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile - £430 £464
25th Percentile £450 £475 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +15.79% -
75th Percentile £663 - £484
90th Percentile - - £486
London median daily rate £500 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% +33.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in West London. 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 West London with a recognized job title 339 554 575
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 97.19% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 404 402
10th Percentile £200 £297 £200
25th Percentile £275 £430 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £625
90th Percentile £648 £700 £675
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 54 40
10th Percentile £16.25 £25.38 £15.73
25th Percentile £18.13 £40.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £64.00 £21.36
Median % change year-on-year -52.88% +199.59% -20.88%
75th Percentile £55.00 £75.00 £37.17
90th Percentile £65.00 £88.50 £42.02
London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% +2.14% +8.63%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in West London

Backend Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backend Developer in West London.

Daily rate trend for Backend Developer in West London

Backend Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backend Developer in West London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Backend Developer in West London

Backend Developer
Contract Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backend Developer within the West London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Hillingdon - 2 £450 -
Backend Developer
London

Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West London

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Backend 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 across the West London region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (50.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 2 (50.00%) Karma Test Runner
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Swagger
2 2 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (50.00%) Lambda Expressions
2 2 (50.00%) Feasibility Study
2 2 (50.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
2 2 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (50.00%) Next.js
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon Cognito

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West London 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 2 (50.00%) Amazon Cognito
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (50.00%) Karma Test Runner
2 2 (50.00%) Mocha
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CDK
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) Lambda Expressions
2 2 (50.00%) Next.js
2 2 (50.00%) Node.js
2 2 (50.00%) OpenAPI
2 2 (50.00%) Playwright
2 2 (50.00%) Swagger
2 2 (50.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
2 2 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (50.00%) Feasibility Study
2 2 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) Product Management
2 2 (50.00%) SOA
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (50.00%) C
2 2 (50.00%) C++
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes