Junior Contracts in England

Junior
UK > England

The median Junior daily rate in England is £325 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 350 383 461
Rank change year-on-year +33 +78 -20
Contract jobs requiring a Junior 183 272 337
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.50% 0.56% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.60% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 187 207
10th Percentile £123 £136 £150
25th Percentile £209 £187 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £270 £300
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -10.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £400 £382 £388
90th Percentile £500 £460 £473
UK median daily rate £325 £270 £300
% change year-on-year +20.37% -10.00% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 21 23
10th Percentile - £11.00 £12.49
25th Percentile - £12.13 £15.38
Median hourly rate £10.42 £13.15 £19.46
Median % change year-on-year -20.76% -32.43% +5.19%
75th Percentile £13.16 £18.75 £21.70
90th Percentile £40.00 £30.54 £26.82
UK median hourly rate £10.42 £13.58 £19.73
% change year-on-year -23.24% -31.20% +6.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,787 45,579 67,163
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.59% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,417 32,381 47,891
10th Percentile £284 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.36%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,334 1,845
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +6.38%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Junior
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior in England

Junior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Junior in England.

Daily rate trend for Junior in England

Junior
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Junior in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Junior in England

Junior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Junior in England.

Hourly rate trend for Junior in England

Junior
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Junior in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Junior in England

Junior
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Junior within the England region over the 6 months to 18 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
London +65 90 £305 +11.93% 139
South East +27 32 £371 +95.26% 95
North of England +21 23 £365 +21.67% 65
Midlands +13 13 £208 -40.71% 82
South West +3 13 £388 +93.75% 58
North East +22 10 £321 -14.33% 7
West Midlands +15 9 £208 -30.83% 49
Yorkshire +13 7 £370 +64.44% 21
North West +1 6 £363 +19.34% 37
East of England -21 5 £290 +7.41% 37
East Midlands +12 4 £241 -31.07% 33
Junior
UK

Junior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Junior 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 England region featuring Junior in the job title.

1 50 (27.32%) Security Cleared
2 42 (22.95%) SC Cleared
3 34 (18.58%) Social Skills
4 28 (15.30%) Project Management
5 24 (13.11%) Python
5 24 (13.11%) Azure
6 23 (12.57%) Agile
7 21 (11.48%) Windows
8 20 (10.93%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (9.29%) SQL
9 17 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
10 16 (8.74%) DevOps
10 16 (8.74%) PMO
10 16 (8.74%) Microsoft
10 16 (8.74%) Degree
10 16 (8.74%) Public Sector
11 15 (8.20%) Finance
11 15 (8.20%) AWS
12 14 (7.65%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (7.10%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (7.10%) Data Protection
14 12 (6.56%) Analytics
15 11 (6.01%) DV Cleared
15 11 (6.01%) Banking
15 11 (6.01%) Scrum
15 11 (6.01%) Java
15 11 (6.01%) Microsoft Excel
16 10 (5.46%) Linux
16 10 (5.46%) Git
16 10 (5.46%) TypeScript

Junior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (4.37%) Apache
2 5 (2.73%) CMS
3 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.19%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.64%) SAS
5 2 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.09%) Confluence
6 1 (0.55%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.55%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 11 (6.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (3.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.64%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.09%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.55%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 24 (13.11%) Azure
2 15 (8.20%) AWS
3 8 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (2.73%) Amazon Kinesis
5 5 (2.73%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.64%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (1.64%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.09%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.09%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.09%) Serverless
7 2 (1.09%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.55%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.55%) Google Pay
8 1 (0.55%) Route 53
8 1 (0.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.19%) Firewall
1 4 (2.19%) LAN
2 3 (1.64%) DNS
2 3 (1.64%) FTP
2 3 (1.64%) HTTP
2 3 (1.64%) Network Security
2 3 (1.64%) SMTP
2 3 (1.64%) SSL
2 3 (1.64%) WAN
2 3 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.09%) Intranet
3 2 (1.09%) VPN
3 2 (1.09%) Wireless
4 1 (0.55%) BGP
4 1 (0.55%) DSL
4 1 (0.55%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.55%) IGRP
4 1 (0.55%) OSPF
4 1 (0.55%) RIP
4 1 (0.55%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.83%) Relational Database
2 6 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.73%) Flink
3 5 (2.73%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.64%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.64%) Power BI
5 2 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.09%) MySQL
5 2 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.55%) Big Data
6 1 (0.55%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.55%) Power Query
6 1 (0.55%) Redis
6 1 (0.55%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (5.46%) Git
2 6 (3.28%) JUnit
3 5 (2.73%) GitLab
4 3 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.64%) JIRA
5 2 (1.09%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.09%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.09%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.09%) Selenium
6 1 (0.55%) Gatling
6 1 (0.55%) Postman
General
1 34 (18.58%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (8.74%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.20%) Finance
5 11 (6.01%) Banking
6 7 (3.83%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.28%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.28%) Marketing
7 6 (3.28%) Retail
8 5 (2.73%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.19%) Legal
9 4 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.64%) Automotive
10 3 (1.64%) Publishing
11 2 (1.09%) Dutch Language
11 2 (1.09%) Electronics
11 2 (1.09%) Front Office
11 2 (1.09%) German Language
11 2 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.46%) React
2 8 (4.37%) REST
3 7 (3.83%) Kafka
3 7 (3.83%) Spring Boot
4 6 (3.28%) .NET
4 6 (3.28%) Hibernate
4 6 (3.28%) JPA
4 6 (3.28%) Spring
5 4 (2.19%) CSS
5 4 (2.19%) HTML
6 3 (1.64%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.64%) LDAP
7 2 (1.09%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.09%) Entity Framework
7 2 (1.09%) Matplotlib
7 2 (1.09%) NumPy
7 2 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.09%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.09%) Vue
7 2 (1.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.10%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (3.83%) Driving Licence
3 6 (3.28%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.73%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.19%) iPhone
6 3 (1.64%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.64%) Cyberattack
6 3 (1.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (1.64%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.09%) Blackberry
7 2 (1.09%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.09%) Derivative
7 2 (1.09%) Equities
7 2 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.09%) IoT
7 2 (1.09%) NHS
7 2 (1.09%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.09%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.48%) Windows
2 10 (5.46%) Linux
3 9 (4.92%) Unix
4 6 (3.28%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.09%) Android
5 2 (1.09%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.09%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.09%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.55%) AIX
6 1 (0.55%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.55%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.55%) Windows 8
6 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (15.30%) Project Management
2 23 (12.57%) Agile
3 20 (10.93%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (8.74%) DevOps
5 14 (7.65%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (7.10%) Data Protection
7 12 (6.56%) Analytics
8 11 (6.01%) Scrum
9 9 (4.92%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (4.37%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (4.37%) Data Analysis
10 8 (4.37%) Front End Development
10 8 (4.37%) User Experience
11 7 (3.83%) Computer Science
11 7 (3.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (3.83%) Customer Value Proposition
11 7 (3.83%) PRINCE2
11 7 (3.83%) Unit Testing
11 7 (3.83%) Value Proposition
11 7 (3.83%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 24 (13.11%) Python
2 17 (9.29%) SQL
3 11 (6.01%) Java
4 10 (5.46%) TypeScript
5 9 (4.92%) C#
5 9 (4.92%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.83%) Shell Script
7 6 (3.28%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.64%) C
8 3 (1.64%) Go
9 2 (1.09%) VBA
10 1 (0.55%) ABAP
10 1 (0.55%) Bash
10 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (27.32%) Security Cleared
2 42 (22.95%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.74%) Degree
4 11 (6.01%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.64%) CCNA
6 3 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.64%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.64%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.64%) PMP
7 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.09%) CHECK Team Leader
7 2 (1.09%) CREST Certified
7 2 (1.09%) GIAC
7 2 (1.09%) MCSE
7 2 (1.09%) OSCP
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.74%) PMO
2 4 (2.19%) QA
3 3 (1.64%) NIST
4 2 (1.09%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.09%) SLA
5 1 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.55%) GDPR
5 1 (0.55%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (3.83%) Docker
2 5 (2.73%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.09%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (4.37%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.83%) Netcool
3 6 (3.28%) SCCM
4 4 (2.19%) Terraform
5 3 (1.64%) Ansible
5 3 (1.64%) Grafana
5 3 (1.64%) SCOM
6 2 (1.09%) Istio
6 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.09%) NetBackup
6 2 (1.09%) RSA Archer
6 2 (1.09%) SCSM
7 1 (0.55%) AppManager
7 1 (0.55%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (8.74%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.37%) Oracle
2 8 (4.37%) ServiceNow
3 7 (3.83%) IBM
4 5 (2.73%) Cisco
5 4 (2.19%) SAP
5 4 (2.19%) VMware
6 3 (1.64%) Apple
6 3 (1.64%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (1.64%) Darktrace
6 3 (1.64%) FireEye
6 3 (1.64%) IronPort
6 3 (1.64%) LogRhythm
6 3 (1.64%) Splunk
6 3 (1.64%) Symantec
7 2 (1.09%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.09%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.09%) Talend
7 2 (1.09%) Trend Micro
8 1 (0.55%) Qualys