Digital Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Digital Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Digital Developer daily rate in Work from Home is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 439 597
Rank change year-on-year +99 +158 -146
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Developer 6 32 23
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.039% 0.13% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.13% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 20 16
10th Percentile - £481 £463
25th Percentile - £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £639 £538
Median % change year-on-year +17.42% +18.84% +10.26%
75th Percentile - £680 £628
90th Percentile - £750 £663
UK median daily rate £750 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +36.36% - +10.00%

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 14,245 24,407 42,723
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.35% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,541 17,249 30,859
10th Percentile £325 £357 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 558 605
10th Percentile £14.33 £18.50 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.95 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%

Digital Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Digital Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Digital 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 Digital Developer.

Digital Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Digital 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 Digital Developer.

Digital Developer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Digital 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 Digital Developer in the job title.

1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) FastAPI
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design
2 2 (33.33%) React
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Confluence
3 1 (16.67%) Mockito
3 1 (16.67%) Mocha
3 1 (16.67%) BDD
3 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
3 1 (16.67%) SLA
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Mac OS X
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) Unix
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Web Design

Digital 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 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Mocha
1 1 (16.67%) Mockito
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) FastAPI
1 2 (33.33%) React
2 1 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) JAX-RS
2 1 (16.67%) Jest
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) Redux
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Blockchain
1 1 (16.67%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Mac OS X
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design
1 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) BDD
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (16.67%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
2 1 (16.67%) Cryptocurrency
2 1 (16.67%) DeFi
2 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Fintech
2 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
2 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (16.67%) Microservices
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Product Backlog
2 1 (16.67%) User Experience
2 1 (16.67%) Web Design
2 1 (16.67%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Atlassian
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft