Developer Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Developer
South East > Buckinghamshire

The median Developer daily rate in Buckinghamshire is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 10 18
Rank change year-on-year -11 +8 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 35 74 133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 8.77% 11.37% 10.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.16% 11.95% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 58 116
10th Percentile £374 £343 £416
25th Percentile £406 £401 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £498 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.06% -9.55% +29.41%
75th Percentile £584 £575 £620
90th Percentile £596 £613 £681
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £539
% change year-on-year - -7.19% +19.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £24.74
25th Percentile - - £31.84
Median hourly rate - - £43.68
75th Percentile - - £55.52
90th Percentile - - £62.62
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £54.30 £65.00
% change year-on-year +19.72% -16.47% +4.84%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Buckinghamshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Buckinghamshire. 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 Buckinghamshire with a recognized job title 382 619 1,242
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.74% 95.08% 96.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 470 1,017
10th Percentile £250 £225 £324
25th Percentile £374 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £595
90th Percentile £638 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £507 £500
% change year-on-year +0.64% +1.35% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 20 30
10th Percentile £14.59 £13.16 £10.77
25th Percentile £15.04 £13.57 £12.25
Median hourly rate £18.70 £18.25 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% +17.74% +14.81%
75th Percentile £33.00 £22.06 £17.50
90th Percentile £37.50 £24.00 £21.98
South East median hourly rate £57.79 £50.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +15.59% +53.85% +30.00%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Buckinghamshire

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Buckinghamshire

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Buckinghamshire

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Buckinghamshire

Developer
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Milton Keynes -12 26 £419 -15.83% 27
Marlow -3 1 - -
Developer
South East

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, 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 Buckinghamshire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 12 (34.29%) SQL
2 9 (25.71%) Telecoms
3 8 (22.86%) ServiceNow
4 7 (20.00%) AWS
4 7 (20.00%) Finance
5 6 (17.14%) SAS
5 6 (17.14%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (17.14%) Azure
5 6 (17.14%) Power BI
5 6 (17.14%) Power Platform
5 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
6 5 (14.29%) Hadoop
6 5 (14.29%) Relational Database
6 5 (14.29%) Microservices
6 5 (14.29%) DevOps
6 5 (14.29%) Impala
6 5 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (14.29%) Banking
6 5 (14.29%) Corporate Banking
7 4 (11.43%) Symfony
7 4 (11.43%) WordPress
7 4 (11.43%) PHP
7 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (11.43%) Apache Spark
7 4 (11.43%) Kubernetes
7 4 (11.43%) Front End Development
7 4 (11.43%) Apache Hive
7 4 (11.43%) Big Data
7 4 (11.43%) Kafka
7 4 (11.43%) TypeScript

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 6 (17.14%) SAS
2 4 (11.43%) Apache Spark
2 4 (11.43%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.00%) AWS
2 6 (17.14%) Azure
2 6 (17.14%) Power Platform
3 3 (8.57%) Azure Functions
3 3 (8.57%) Serverless
4 2 (5.71%) Azure AKS
4 2 (5.71%) Figma
4 2 (5.71%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.86%) Azure API Management
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.86%) Cloudinary
5 1 (2.86%) PaaS
5 1 (2.86%) SaaS
5 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) Power BI
2 5 (14.29%) Hadoop
2 5 (14.29%) Impala
2 5 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 4 (11.43%) Apache Hive
3 4 (11.43%) Big Data
4 3 (8.57%) SAS EBI
5 2 (5.71%) Redis
5 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.86%) Metadata
6 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.86%) OLTP
6 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Git
1 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.71%) JIRA
1 2 (5.71%) Maven
1 2 (5.71%) Vite
2 1 (2.86%) Postman
General
1 9 (25.71%) Telecoms
2 7 (20.00%) Finance
3 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
4 5 (14.29%) Banking
4 5 (14.29%) Corporate Banking
5 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.71%) Retail
7 1 (2.86%) Automotive
7 1 (2.86%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) Kafka
1 4 (11.43%) Symfony
2 3 (8.57%) CSS
2 3 (8.57%) React
3 2 (5.71%) Express.js
3 2 (5.71%) Framer.js
3 2 (5.71%) GraphQL
3 2 (5.71%) Node.js
3 2 (5.71%) OAuth
3 2 (5.71%) OAuth2
3 2 (5.71%) OpenID
3 2 (5.71%) Prisma
3 2 (5.71%) REST
3 2 (5.71%) RESTful
3 2 (5.71%) SOAP
3 2 (5.71%) Spring
4 1 (2.86%) Flask
4 1 (2.86%) JSON
4 1 (2.86%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 1 (2.86%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.86%) Credit Risk
1 1 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
1 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
1 2 (5.71%) Unix
2 1 (2.86%) Android
2 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (17.14%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (14.29%) DevOps
2 5 (14.29%) Microservices
3 4 (11.43%) Front End Development
4 3 (8.57%) Analytics
4 3 (8.57%) CI/CD
4 3 (8.57%) Data Modelling
4 3 (8.57%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (8.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (8.57%) Migration
4 3 (8.57%) Portfolio Management
4 3 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (8.57%) Stress Testing
4 3 (8.57%) Validation
4 3 (8.57%) Visualisation
4 3 (8.57%) Web Development
5 2 (5.71%) Cost Management
5 2 (5.71%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (5.71%) Event-Driven
5 2 (5.71%) Project Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 12 (34.29%) SQL
2 4 (11.43%) PHP
2 4 (11.43%) TypeScript
3 3 (8.57%) Scala
4 2 (5.71%) C#
4 2 (5.71%) Java
4 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.86%) Apex Code
5 1 (2.86%) Bash
5 1 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.86%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) IFRS
1 3 (8.57%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.71%) Control-M
Vendors
1 8 (22.86%) ServiceNow
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.86%) MuleSoft
2 1 (2.86%) Salesforce