Developer Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Developer
South East > Buckinghamshire

The median Developer daily rate in Buckinghamshire is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 21 30
Rank change year-on-year +14 +9 -24
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 69 73 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 14.23% 8.46% 6.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.23% 8.98% 6.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 67 42
10th Percentile £363 £400 £409
25th Percentile £469 £455 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% +38.67%
75th Percentile £544 £625 £569
90th Percentile £600 £675 £599
South East median daily rate £475 £503 £500
% change year-on-year -5.47% +0.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £67.36
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £60.70 £70.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year -13.28% +35.92% -11.75%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Buckinghamshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 453 813 913
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.40% 94.21% 97.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 649 698
10th Percentile £253 £246 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +1.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £560 £580 £574
90th Percentile £645 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 5 45
10th Percentile £15.85 £11.13 -
25th Percentile £17.64 £13.57 £10.77
Median hourly rate £23.22 £17.50 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.66% +40.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £28.75 £19.50 £18.76
90th Percentile £48.75 £34.05 £47.00
South East median hourly rate £48.00 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% +150.00% -20.00%

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 May 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 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
Milton Keynes +18 67 £506 -5.95% 25
Marlow - 1 - - 1
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 20 (28.99%) Python
2 18 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 18 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 16 (23.19%) TCP/IP
3 16 (23.19%) VMware
4 15 (21.74%) Data Modelling
4 15 (21.74%) Microsoft
5 14 (20.29%) SQL
5 14 (20.29%) Agile
6 13 (18.84%) Linux
7 12 (17.39%) Debian
7 12 (17.39%) Red Hat
7 12 (17.39%) Ubuntu
8 11 (15.94%) Data Engineering
9 10 (14.49%) Kafka
9 10 (14.49%) SAN
9 10 (14.49%) Java
10 9 (13.04%) C#
10 9 (13.04%) ITIL
10 9 (13.04%) Configuration Management
10 9 (13.04%) Scala
10 9 (13.04%) Prototyping
10 9 (13.04%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 8 (11.59%) Spring Boot
12 7 (10.14%) DevOps
12 7 (10.14%) GitHub
12 7 (10.14%) Matrix Organization
12 7 (10.14%) Social Skills
12 7 (10.14%) Azure
12 7 (10.14%) AWS

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 3 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.90%) CMS
2 2 (2.90%) Headless CMS
2 2 (2.90%) Kentico
2 2 (2.90%) SAS
Business Applications
1 4 (5.80%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.14%) AWS
1 7 (10.14%) Azure
1 7 (10.14%) GitHub
2 6 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (5.80%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (2.90%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (2.90%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.90%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (2.90%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.45%) Azure API Management
5 1 (1.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.45%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.45%) Cloudinary
5 1 (1.45%) PaaS
5 1 (1.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (23.19%) TCP/IP
2 10 (14.49%) SAN
3 4 (5.80%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.14%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.25%) Hadoop
3 4 (5.80%) Impala
3 4 (5.80%) Power BI
4 3 (4.35%) Big Data
4 3 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 3 (4.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (4.35%) Tableau
5 2 (2.90%) Apache Hive
5 2 (2.90%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.90%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.90%) OLTP
5 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.45%) Metadata
6 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.45%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 6 (8.70%) Git
2 5 (7.25%) Subversion
3 4 (5.80%) Visual Studio
4 3 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (2.90%) JIRA
5 2 (2.90%) Maven
6 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.45%) Postman
General
1 7 (10.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.70%) Telecoms
3 5 (7.25%) Finance
4 3 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.35%) Retail
5 2 (2.90%) Banking
6 1 (1.45%) Automotive
6 1 (1.45%) Back Office
6 1 (1.45%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.45%) Marketing
6 1 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.49%) Kafka
2 8 (11.59%) Spring Boot
3 7 (10.14%) HTML
4 6 (8.70%) CSS
5 4 (5.80%) .NET
5 4 (5.80%) Spring
6 3 (4.35%) DOM
6 3 (4.35%) GatsbyJS
6 3 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (4.35%) React
7 2 (2.90%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.90%) ASP.NET
7 2 (2.90%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.90%) REST
7 2 (2.90%) Web Services
7 2 (2.90%) XML
8 1 (1.45%) CSS3
8 1 (1.45%) HTML5
8 1 (1.45%) WCF
8 1 (1.45%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.90%) Credit Risk
2 1 (1.45%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.45%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.84%) Linux
2 12 (17.39%) Debian
2 12 (17.39%) Ubuntu
3 4 (5.80%) Windows
3 4 (5.80%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.90%) Unix
5 1 (1.45%) Android
5 1 (1.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (21.74%) Data Modelling
2 14 (20.29%) Agile
3 11 (15.94%) Data Engineering
4 9 (13.04%) Configuration Management
4 9 (13.04%) ITIL
4 9 (13.04%) Prototyping
4 9 (13.04%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 7 (10.14%) DevOps
5 7 (10.14%) Matrix Organization
6 6 (8.70%) Customer Service
6 6 (8.70%) Software Engineering
7 5 (7.25%) TDD
8 4 (5.80%) Analytics
8 4 (5.80%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (5.80%) Data Acquisition
8 4 (5.80%) Data Analysis
8 4 (5.80%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (4.35%) CI/CD
9 3 (4.35%) Kimball Methodology
9 3 (4.35%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 20 (28.99%) Python
2 14 (20.29%) SQL
3 10 (14.49%) Java
4 9 (13.04%) C#
4 9 (13.04%) Scala
5 6 (8.70%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.25%) PL/SQL
7 4 (5.80%) C
8 1 (1.45%) Bash
8 1 (1.45%) Bicep
8 1 (1.45%) C++
8 1 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 18 (26.09%) SC Cleared
1 18 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.25%) QA
2 2 (2.90%) IFRS
2 2 (2.90%) IFRS 9
3 1 (1.45%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.80%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.90%) Terraform
3 1 (1.45%) Control-M
Vendors
1 16 (23.19%) VMware
2 15 (21.74%) Microsoft
3 12 (17.39%) Red Hat
4 7 (10.14%) Oracle
5 6 (8.70%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.45%) Facebook
6 1 (1.45%) Remedy
6 1 (1.45%) Twitter