Programmer Contracts in London

Programmer
England > London

The median Programmer daily rate in London is £524 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 370 453 559
Rank change year-on-year +83 +106 -105
Contract jobs requiring a Programmer 16 34 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.092% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.098% 0.14% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 18
10th Percentile £455 £355 £56
25th Percentile £466 £447 £148
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £505 £465
Median % change year-on-year +3.71% +8.60% -3.13%
75th Percentile £574 £541 £619
90th Percentile £593 £568 £652
England median daily rate £525 £475 £465
% change year-on-year +10.53% +2.15% +14.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £50.58
25th Percentile - - £52.56
Median hourly rate - - £59.25
75th Percentile - - £69.06
90th Percentile - - £70.00
England median hourly rate £19.00 £65.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year -70.77% +16.07% +30.23%

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%

Programmer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Programmer in London

Programmer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Programmer in London

Programmer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Programmer in London

Programmer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Programmer in London

Programmer
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 Programmer 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 +41 3 £550 +7.84% 6
Programmer
England

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

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 London region featuring Programmer in the job title.

1 8 (50.00%) zOS
2 4 (25.00%) Java
3 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
3 3 (18.75%) Linux
3 3 (18.75%) Agile
3 3 (18.75%) Unit Testing
3 3 (18.75%) Kafka
4 2 (12.50%) HDFS
4 2 (12.50%) Apache Spark
4 2 (12.50%) Hadoop YARN
4 2 (12.50%) Algorithms
4 2 (12.50%) Apache Hive
4 2 (12.50%) MapReduce
4 2 (12.50%) HBase
4 2 (12.50%) Machine Learning
4 2 (12.50%) Scala
4 2 (12.50%) Hadoop
4 2 (12.50%) Maven
4 2 (12.50%) Big Data
4 2 (12.50%) JIRA
4 2 (12.50%) Korn
4 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (12.50%) TeamCity
4 2 (12.50%) Git
4 2 (12.50%) Global One
4 2 (12.50%) Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Subversion
4 2 (12.50%) Python
4 2 (12.50%) Perl

Programmer 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 2 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Global One
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
1 1 (6.25%) dbt
1 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) HTTP
1 1 (6.25%) RTSP
1 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Apache Hive
1 2 (12.50%) Big Data
1 2 (12.50%) Hadoop
1 2 (12.50%) HBase
2 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
1 2 (12.50%) Maven
1 2 (12.50%) Subversion
1 2 (12.50%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Electronics
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) GStreamer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Algorithms
1 2 (12.50%) Mainframe
2 1 (6.25%) Device Driver
2 1 (6.25%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Hedge funds
2 1 (6.25%) Home Automation
2 1 (6.25%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) zOS
2 3 (18.75%) Linux
3 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (12.50%) Unix
4 1 (6.25%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (18.75%) Agile
1 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
1 3 (18.75%) Unit Testing
2 2 (12.50%) Design Patterns
2 2 (12.50%) Machine Learning
2 2 (12.50%) MapReduce
2 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (6.25%) Coaching
3 1 (6.25%) Device Driver Development
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (6.25%) ETL
3 1 (6.25%) Kanban
3 1 (6.25%) Linux Kernel Development
3 1 (6.25%) Mentoring
3 1 (6.25%) Microservices
3 1 (6.25%) Scrum
3 1 (6.25%) TDD
3 1 (6.25%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (6.25%) Validation
3 1 (6.25%) Video Processing
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (12.50%) Assembly Language
2 2 (12.50%) Korn
2 2 (12.50%) Perl
2 2 (12.50%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) Scala
2 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.25%) C
3 1 (6.25%) C#
3 1 (6.25%) C++
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) HDFS
2 1 (6.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Control-M
1 2 (12.50%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
1 2 (12.50%) Sybase
2 1 (6.25%) Google