Digital Developer Contracts in London

Digital Developer
England > London

The median Digital Developer daily rate in London is £725 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 378 452 578
Rank change year-on-year +74 +126 -122
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Developer 12 25 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.069% 0.098% 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.10% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 12
10th Percentile £383 - £403
25th Percentile £540 £619 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £680 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% +23.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £750 - £688
90th Percentile - £750 £748
England median daily rate £725 £680 £550
% change year-on-year +6.62% +23.64% +15.79%

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 16,359 24,202 36,895
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.56% 95.18% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,819 17,639 27,124
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £678 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 276 418
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.74 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.60 £22.91
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +8.63%
75th Percentile £46.77 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.75 £82.38 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.63 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.39% +88.21% +11.21%

Digital Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Developer in London

Digital Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Digital Developer in London

Digital Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Developer in London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Developer in London

Digital Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Digital Developer in London

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Digital 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 Digital Developer in the job title.

1 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) TDD
2 6 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 6 (50.00%) Unix
2 6 (50.00%) Linux
2 6 (50.00%) Java
2 6 (50.00%) Mac OS X
2 6 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (50.00%) BDD
2 6 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 6 (50.00%) Microservices
3 5 (41.67%) JAX-RS
3 5 (41.67%) Continuous Deployment
3 5 (41.67%) Kafka
3 5 (41.67%) Mockito
3 5 (41.67%) MongoDB
3 5 (41.67%) Web Development
3 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
3 5 (41.67%) Web Design
3 5 (41.67%) ActiveMQ
4 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
5 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 2 (16.67%) DevOps
5 2 (16.67%) React
5 2 (16.67%) Git
5 2 (16.67%) UX Design
5 2 (16.67%) AWS
5 2 (16.67%) Finance
5 2 (16.67%) Migration
5 2 (16.67%) CSS

Digital 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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
1 1 (8.33%) govService
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Apigee
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Datadog
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Mockito
2 2 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Local Government
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) ActiveMQ
1 5 (41.67%) JAX-RS
1 5 (41.67%) Kafka
2 2 (16.67%) CSS
2 2 (16.67%) React
3 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (8.33%) AWS CDK
3 1 (8.33%) HTML
3 1 (8.33%) RESTful
3 1 (8.33%) RxJS
3 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Blockchain
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (8.33%) Digital Media
1 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (8.33%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
1 6 (50.00%) Mac OS X
1 6 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) BDD
2 6 (50.00%) Microservices
2 6 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 6 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 6 (50.00%) TDD
2 6 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (41.67%) Continuous Deployment
3 5 (41.67%) Web Design
3 5 (41.67%) Web Development
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) User Experience
4 2 (16.67%) UX Design
5 1 (8.33%) Cryptography
5 1 (8.33%) E-Commerce
5 1 (8.33%) Kanban
5 1 (8.33%) Remediation Plan
5 1 (8.33%) Scrum
5 1 (8.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
1 1 (8.33%) Granicus
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) Splunk