Programmer Contracts in England

Programmer
UK > England

The median Programmer daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 546 679
Rank change year-on-year +159 +133 -158
Contract jobs requiring a Programmer 144 100 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.40% 0.21% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.22% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 30 41
10th Percentile £394 £372 £62
25th Percentile £463 £416 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +2.15% +14.81%
75th Percentile £538 £534 £563
90th Percentile £588 £594 £650
UK median daily rate £533 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +12.21% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 5 9
10th Percentile £15.00 £48.05 £41.33
25th Percentile £16.25 £61.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £19.00 £65.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.77% +16.07% +30.23%
75th Percentile £20.05 - £68.75
90th Percentile £36.75 - £70.00
UK median hourly rate £19.00 £65.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year -70.77% +16.07% +30.23%

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 33,767 45,838 67,777
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.60% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,422 32,556 48,342
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,441 1,340 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.05 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Programmer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Programmer in England

Programmer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Programmer in England

Programmer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programmer in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Programmer in England

Programmer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Programmer in England

Programmer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Programmer in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Programmer in England

Programmer
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 Programmer within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
Midlands +84 74 £535 +7.00% 38
West Midlands +81 66 £535 +7.00% 27
North of England +21 27 £473 -0.53% 41
Yorkshire +10 22 £473 -0.53% 11
London +83 16 £524 +3.71% 42
East of England +20 12 £300 -45.45% 12
South East +17 11 £511 +11.45% 30
East Midlands +22 8 - - 11
North West +14 3 - - 22
North East - 2 - - 8
Programmer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Programmer 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 Programmer in the job title.

1 55 (38.19%) C
2 54 (37.50%) Security Cleared
3 53 (36.81%) SC Cleared
4 45 (31.25%) PL/SQL
5 42 (29.17%) Visual Studio
5 42 (29.17%) PVCS
6 32 (22.22%) zOS
7 23 (15.97%) Social Skills
7 23 (15.97%) Mainframe
8 22 (15.28%) SAS
9 21 (14.58%) IBM
9 21 (14.58%) JCL
9 21 (14.58%) ISPF
9 21 (14.58%) Time Sharing Option
10 19 (13.19%) Performance Monitoring
10 19 (13.19%) REXX
11 18 (12.50%) Risk Management
11 18 (12.50%) Broadcom
11 18 (12.50%) OMEGAMON
12 17 (11.81%) Splunk
12 17 (11.81%) Public Sector
13 16 (11.11%) Assembly Language
14 14 (9.72%) C++
15 13 (9.03%) RACF
15 13 (9.03%) Manufacturing
15 13 (9.03%) ACF2
16 11 (7.64%) Python
16 11 (7.64%) Problem-Solving
17 8 (5.56%) Linux
18 7 (4.86%) Red Hat

Programmer 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 22 (15.28%) SAS
2 4 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.08%) OpenEdge
4 2 (1.39%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (1.39%) Global One
2 1 (0.69%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 1 (0.69%) Azure
1 1 (0.69%) dbt
1 1 (0.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.78%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.08%) SAN
3 1 (0.69%) HTTP
3 1 (0.69%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.39%) Apache Hive
1 2 (1.39%) Big Data
1 2 (1.39%) Hadoop
1 2 (1.39%) HBase
2 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 42 (29.17%) PVCS
1 42 (29.17%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.39%) Git
2 2 (1.39%) JIRA
2 2 (1.39%) Maven
2 2 (1.39%) Subversion
2 2 (1.39%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.69%) VTune
General
1 23 (15.97%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.81%) Public Sector
3 13 (9.03%) Manufacturing
4 7 (4.86%) Automotive
5 5 (3.47%) Aerospace
5 5 (3.47%) Banking
6 3 (2.08%) Electronics
7 2 (1.39%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.69%) Finance
8 1 (0.69%) Games
8 1 (0.69%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (14.58%) ISPF
2 3 (2.08%) Kafka
3 1 (0.69%) DirectX
3 1 (0.69%) GStreamer
3 1 (0.69%) OpenGL
3 1 (0.69%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 1 (0.69%) Unreal Engine
3 1 (0.69%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.97%) Mainframe
2 2 (1.39%) Algorithms
3 1 (0.69%) Biopharmaceutical
3 1 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (0.69%) Device Driver
3 1 (0.69%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (0.69%) Hedge funds
3 1 (0.69%) Home Automation
3 1 (0.69%) Ray Tracing
3 1 (0.69%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 32 (22.22%) zOS
2 8 (5.56%) Linux
3 5 (3.47%) Debian
3 5 (3.47%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.39%) Unix
5 1 (0.69%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (13.19%) Performance Monitoring
2 18 (12.50%) Risk Management
3 11 (7.64%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (4.17%) Agile
5 5 (3.47%) Preventative Maintenance
5 5 (3.47%) Quality Management
6 3 (2.08%) CAD
6 3 (2.08%) CI/CD
6 3 (2.08%) Configuration Management
6 3 (2.08%) Data Engineering
6 3 (2.08%) Data Modelling
6 3 (2.08%) ITIL
6 3 (2.08%) Prototyping
6 3 (2.08%) SDLC
6 3 (2.08%) Unit Testing
6 3 (2.08%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 2 (1.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (1.39%) Logistics
7 2 (1.39%) Machine Learning
7 2 (1.39%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 55 (38.19%) C
2 45 (31.25%) PL/SQL
3 21 (14.58%) JCL
4 19 (13.19%) REXX
5 16 (11.11%) Assembly Language
6 14 (9.72%) C++
7 11 (7.64%) Python
8 4 (2.78%) Java
8 4 (2.78%) R
9 3 (2.08%) SQL
10 2 (1.39%) Korn
10 2 (1.39%) Perl
10 2 (1.39%) Scala
10 2 (1.39%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.69%) C#
11 1 (0.69%) CLIST
11 1 (0.69%) GLSL
11 1 (0.69%) HLSL
11 1 (0.69%) ProC
Qualifications
1 54 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 53 (36.81%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.39%) QA
2 1 (0.69%) CDISC
System Software
1 21 (14.58%) Time Sharing Option
2 13 (9.03%) ACF2
2 13 (9.03%) RACF
3 2 (1.39%) HDFS
4 1 (0.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (12.50%) OMEGAMON
2 2 (1.39%) Control-M
2 2 (1.39%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 21 (14.58%) IBM
2 18 (12.50%) Broadcom
3 17 (11.81%) Splunk
4 7 (4.86%) Red Hat
5 6 (4.17%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.08%) CA
6 3 (2.08%) Oracle
6 3 (2.08%) VMware
7 2 (1.39%) Sybase
8 1 (0.69%) Google