Backend Developer Contracts in London

Backend Developer
England > London

The median Backend Developer daily rate in London is £500 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 300 337 399
Rank change year-on-year +37 +62 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Backend Developer 86 153 221
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.49% 0.59% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.62% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 116 174
10th Percentile £415 £450 £429
25th Percentile £440 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +4.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile £556 £675 £725
90th Percentile £648 £800 £800
England median daily rate £500 £607 £550
% change year-on-year -17.56% +10.27% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £59.50 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £72.50 - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - -13.39%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,330 24,760 37,101
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 95.17% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,815 17,998 27,187
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 281 441
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.07 £22.50 £23.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +13.45%
75th Percentile £46.05 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.32 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in London

Backend Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Backend Developer in London

Backend Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backend Developer in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Backend Developer in London

Backend Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Backend Developer in London

Backend Developer
Contract Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London +22 11 £488 -25.00% 3
West London +19 4 £538 -2.27% 1
East London - 4 £435 - 9
South London - 3 £430 -
Backend Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 London region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 54 (62.79%) Agile
2 47 (54.65%) C#
3 45 (52.33%) Azure
3 45 (52.33%) DevOps
4 42 (48.84%) .NET
4 42 (48.84%) SQL Server
5 41 (47.67%) CI/CD
5 41 (47.67%) Azure DevOps
6 40 (46.51%) .NET Core
6 40 (46.51%) Microsoft
6 40 (46.51%) Active Directory
7 37 (43.02%) PowerShell
8 36 (41.86%) Bicep
9 34 (39.53%) XML
10 33 (38.37%) JavaScript
11 31 (36.05%) Entra ID
12 30 (34.88%) B2C
12 30 (34.88%) Scrum
13 29 (33.72%) Java
14 26 (30.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 23 (26.74%) Azure Service Bus
15 23 (26.74%) TypeScript
16 21 (24.42%) HTML
17 20 (23.26%) CSS
18 19 (22.09%) AWS
19 18 (20.93%) Public Sector
20 16 (18.60%) React
20 16 (18.60%) Git
20 16 (18.60%) ASP.NET
21 15 (17.44%) Redis

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

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.49%) CICS
2 2 (2.33%) nginx
2 2 (2.33%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.16%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 45 (52.33%) Azure
2 41 (47.67%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (36.05%) Entra ID
4 26 (30.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 23 (26.74%) Azure Service Bus
6 19 (22.09%) AWS
7 6 (6.98%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (6.98%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (5.81%) Serverless
9 2 (2.33%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 2 (2.33%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (2.33%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (2.33%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (2.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (2.33%) AWS KMS
9 2 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.33%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.33%) HTTP
1 2 (2.33%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (48.84%) SQL Server
2 15 (17.44%) Redis
3 8 (9.30%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.49%) DB2
5 3 (3.49%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.33%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.16%) MySQL
7 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.16%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (18.60%) Git
2 4 (4.65%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.49%) Karma Test Runner
3 3 (3.49%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.33%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.33%) EasyMock
4 2 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.33%) JUnit
4 2 (2.33%) Liquibase
4 2 (2.33%) Maven
4 2 (2.33%) Mocha
4 2 (2.33%) Mockito
4 2 (2.33%) Postman
4 2 (2.33%) Selenium
4 2 (2.33%) TestNG
5 1 (1.16%) Jasmine
5 1 (1.16%) Pylint
General
1 18 (20.93%) Public Sector
2 13 (15.12%) Social Skills
3 8 (9.30%) Back Office
4 5 (5.81%) Local Government
5 3 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.49%) Banking
5 3 (3.49%) Finance
5 3 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.16%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (48.84%) .NET
2 40 (46.51%) .NET Core
3 34 (39.53%) XML
4 21 (24.42%) HTML
5 20 (23.26%) CSS
6 16 (18.60%) ASP.NET
6 16 (18.60%) React
7 14 (16.28%) ASP.NET Core
8 11 (12.79%) Spring
9 10 (11.63%) Node.js
9 10 (11.63%) REST
9 10 (11.63%) Spring Boot
10 7 (8.14%) Kafka
11 5 (5.81%) OpenAPI
11 5 (5.81%) Swagger
12 4 (4.65%) Hibernate
12 4 (4.65%) JSON
13 3 (3.49%) ISPF
13 3 (3.49%) JPA
13 3 (3.49%) JSR 170
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.12%) Product Ownership
2 11 (12.79%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.14%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.65%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.65%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.65%) Mobile Payment
5 3 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.49%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.33%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.16%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.16%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.16%) IoT
7 1 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.49%) zOS
2 1 (1.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (62.79%) Agile
2 45 (52.33%) DevOps
3 41 (47.67%) CI/CD
4 30 (34.88%) B2C
4 30 (34.88%) Scrum
5 14 (16.28%) Front End Development
6 10 (11.63%) OO
6 10 (11.63%) TDD
7 9 (10.47%) API Management
7 9 (10.47%) Clean Code
7 9 (10.47%) OOD
7 9 (10.47%) SDLC
8 8 (9.30%) Microservices
9 7 (8.14%) Design Patterns
9 7 (8.14%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (8.14%) Software Engineering
10 6 (6.98%) Database Optimisation
10 6 (6.98%) Software Architecture
11 5 (5.81%) Computer Science
11 5 (5.81%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 47 (54.65%) C#
2 37 (43.02%) PowerShell
3 36 (41.86%) Bicep
4 33 (38.37%) JavaScript
5 29 (33.72%) Java
6 23 (26.74%) TypeScript
7 11 (12.79%) SQL
8 9 (10.47%) Python
9 5 (5.81%) C
9 5 (5.81%) C++
10 4 (4.65%) Kotlin
11 3 (3.49%) COBOL
12 1 (1.16%) Go
12 1 (1.16%) JCL
12 1 (1.16%) Scala
12 1 (1.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (9.30%) Degree
2 7 (8.14%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.81%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.81%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.33%) QA
3 1 (1.16%) Data Quality
System Software
1 40 (46.51%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (11.63%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.14%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (3.49%) CA Endevor
4 2 (2.33%) Ansible
4 2 (2.33%) Kustomize
4 2 (2.33%) Packer
4 2 (2.33%) Terraform
5 1 (1.16%) Argo
Vendors
1 40 (46.51%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.49%) IBM
3 2 (2.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.16%) Adobe
4 1 (1.16%) Checkmarx
4 1 (1.16%) Google
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle