Backend Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Backend Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Backend Developer daily rate in Work from Home is £506 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 293 348 372
Rank change year-on-year +55 +24 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Backend Developer 51 127 258
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.33% 0.50% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.52% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 99 186
10th Percentile £325 £440 £385
25th Percentile £406 £506 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.12% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £556 £691 £725
90th Percentile £625 £800 £772
UK median daily rate £475 £625 £535
% change year-on-year -24.00% +16.82% +18.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £59.50 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £72.50 - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +2.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,235 24,337 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.50% 95.31% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,550 17,175 30,867
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 560 606
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.70 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.25 £25.71 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £54.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.10% +55.71% +42.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Backend Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Backend Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Backend Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Backend Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Backend Developer.

Backend Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Backend Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Backend Developer over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Backend Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Backend Developer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Backend Developer.

Backend Developer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 6 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 22 (43.14%) Agile
2 19 (37.25%) Azure
2 19 (37.25%) AWS
3 16 (31.37%) DevOps
3 16 (31.37%) Microsoft
3 16 (31.37%) CI/CD
4 15 (29.41%) C#
4 15 (29.41%) .NET
5 14 (27.45%) Java
5 14 (27.45%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (25.49%) .NET Core
6 13 (25.49%) Bicep
6 13 (25.49%) SQL Server
6 13 (25.49%) Active Directory
7 11 (21.57%) Scrum
7 11 (21.57%) PowerShell
8 10 (19.61%) B2C
8 10 (19.61%) XML
8 10 (19.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 10 (19.61%) Entra ID
9 9 (17.65%) Public Sector
10 8 (15.69%) JavaScript
10 8 (15.69%) Python
10 8 (15.69%) TypeScript
11 7 (13.73%) Software Engineering
12 6 (11.76%) SC Cleared
12 6 (11.76%) Security Cleared
12 6 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (11.76%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (11.76%) Kotlin

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (1.96%) Apache
1 1 (1.96%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.96%) CICS
1 1 (1.96%) CMS
1 1 (1.96%) nginx
1 1 (1.96%) Tomcat
1 1 (1.96%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 19 (37.25%) AWS
1 19 (37.25%) Azure
2 14 (27.45%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (19.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 10 (19.61%) Entra ID
4 6 (11.76%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (7.84%) Serverless
6 3 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (5.88%) GCP
7 2 (3.92%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (3.92%) GitHub
7 2 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.96%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 1 (1.96%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (1.96%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (1.96%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.96%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) SAN
1 4 (7.84%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (25.49%) SQL Server
2 6 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (7.84%) Redis
4 3 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (5.88%) DynamoDB
4 3 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.96%) Big Data
5 1 (1.96%) DB2
5 1 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Git
2 2 (3.92%) Maven
2 2 (3.92%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.96%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.96%) EasyMock
3 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.96%) JIRA
3 1 (1.96%) JUnit
3 1 (1.96%) Mockito
3 1 (1.96%) Postman
3 1 (1.96%) Selenium
3 1 (1.96%) TestNG
General
1 9 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 4 (7.84%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.92%) Back Office
4 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.96%) Banking
4 1 (1.96%) Games
4 1 (1.96%) Health Technology
4 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (29.41%) .NET
2 13 (25.49%) .NET Core
3 10 (19.61%) XML
4 6 (11.76%) Spring Boot
5 5 (9.80%) Kafka
5 5 (9.80%) RESTful
5 5 (9.80%) Spring
6 4 (7.84%) ASP.NET
6 4 (7.84%) AWS CDK
6 4 (7.84%) CSS
6 4 (7.84%) HTML
6 4 (7.84%) NestJS
6 4 (7.84%) Web Services
7 3 (5.88%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (5.88%) Node.js
7 3 (5.88%) React
7 3 (5.88%) REST
8 2 (3.92%) JAX-RS
8 2 (3.92%) OAuth2
8 2 (3.92%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (7.84%) Mobile App
1 4 (7.84%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.88%) Algorithms
2 3 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.92%) IoT
4 1 (1.96%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.96%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.96%) Mobile Payment
4 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.84%) Debian
1 4 (7.84%) Linux
1 4 (7.84%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.96%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (43.14%) Agile
2 16 (31.37%) CI/CD
2 16 (31.37%) DevOps
3 11 (21.57%) Scrum
4 10 (19.61%) B2C
5 7 (13.73%) Software Engineering
6 5 (9.80%) Customer Service
7 4 (7.84%) Clean Code
7 4 (7.84%) Configuration Management
7 4 (7.84%) Data Engineering
7 4 (7.84%) Data Modelling
7 4 (7.84%) Front End Development
7 4 (7.84%) ITIL
7 4 (7.84%) Matrix Organization
7 4 (7.84%) Microservices
7 4 (7.84%) Prototyping
7 4 (7.84%) Software Architecture
7 4 (7.84%) TDD
7 4 (7.84%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 3 (5.88%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (29.41%) C#
2 14 (27.45%) Java
3 13 (25.49%) Bicep
4 11 (21.57%) PowerShell
5 8 (15.69%) JavaScript
5 8 (15.69%) Python
5 8 (15.69%) TypeScript
6 6 (11.76%) Kotlin
7 4 (7.84%) SQL
8 3 (5.88%) C
8 3 (5.88%) C++
8 3 (5.88%) Scala
9 1 (1.96%) COBOL
9 1 (1.96%) Go
9 1 (1.96%) Rust
9 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 6 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.84%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 13 (25.49%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.84%) Docker
3 1 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.96%) Ansible
3 1 (1.96%) Argo
3 1 (1.96%) CA Endevor
3 1 (1.96%) Kustomize
3 1 (1.96%) Packer
3 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.96%) Terraform
3 1 (1.96%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 16 (31.37%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.80%) Red Hat
3 4 (7.84%) VMware
4 2 (3.92%) Google
5 1 (1.96%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.96%) IBM