Backend Developer Contracts in Central London

Backend Developer
London > Central London

The median Backend Developer daily rate in Central London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 147 177
Rank change year-on-year +20 +30 -44
Contract jobs requiring a Backend Developer 10 30 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.41% 0.82% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.86% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 22 16
10th Percentile £446 £501 £513
25th Percentile £463 £514 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £688
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -5.45% +52.78%
75th Percentile - £706 £736
90th Percentile £523 £725 £788
London median daily rate £500 £630 £625
% change year-on-year -20.63% +0.80% +38.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,308 3,483 4,215
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.41% 94.93% 94.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,608 2,364 3,175
10th Percentile £350 £325 £353
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £555
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +8.11% +3.26%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £677
90th Percentile £788 £813 £775
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 23 51
10th Percentile £20.10 £15.50 £15.75
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% -13.58% +113.30%
75th Percentile £28.59 £61.25 £54.50
90th Percentile £41.50 £87.64 £62.50
London median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in Central London

Backend Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Backend Developer in Central London

Backend Developer
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
City of London +17 7 £475 -26.92%
Backend Developer
London

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 Central London region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 8 (80.00%) Agile
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
1 8 (80.00%) .NET
1 8 (80.00%) SQL Server
1 8 (80.00%) DevOps
1 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (70.00%) .NET Core
2 7 (70.00%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (70.00%) Entra ID
2 7 (70.00%) C#
2 7 (70.00%) XML
2 7 (70.00%) B2C
2 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (70.00%) Scrum
2 7 (70.00%) Bicep
3 4 (40.00%) Product Ownership
3 4 (40.00%) HTML
3 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (40.00%) ASP.NET
3 4 (40.00%) React
3 4 (40.00%) Mobile App
3 4 (40.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (30.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (30.00%) Front End Development
4 3 (30.00%) CSS
4 3 (30.00%) Redis

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 7 (70.00%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) Entra ID
3 4 (40.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (30.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Pylint
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) .NET
2 7 (70.00%) .NET Core
2 7 (70.00%) XML
3 4 (40.00%) ASP.NET
3 4 (40.00%) HTML
3 4 (40.00%) React
4 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (30.00%) CSS
5 1 (10.00%) Kafka
5 1 (10.00%) Node.js
5 1 (10.00%) pytest
5 1 (10.00%) Spring
5 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (10.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Mobile App
1 4 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
1 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (80.00%) DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) B2C
2 7 (70.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) Front End Development
4 1 (10.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (10.00%) CQRS
4 1 (10.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (10.00%) OO
4 1 (10.00%) Open Source
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) SDLC
4 1 (10.00%) Software Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Software Deployment
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Bicep
1 7 (70.00%) C#
1 7 (70.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (30.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (20.00%) SQL
5 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft