Developer Contracts in Merseyside

Developer
North West > Merseyside

The median Developer daily rate in Merseyside is £394, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 16 20
Rank change year-on-year +10 +4 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 34 15 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 15.38% 7.43% 6.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.67% 8.15% 7.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 20
10th Percentile £206 £350 £313
25th Percentile £222 £386 £349
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.35% -5.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £451 £450 £509
90th Percentile £534 £490 £589
North West median daily rate £438 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% - -
North West median hourly rate £65.00 £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +51.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Merseyside

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 204 184 294
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 91.09% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 110 195
10th Percentile £153 £219 £253
25th Percentile £200 £306 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -8.11% +3.06%
75th Percentile £501 £525 £550
90th Percentile £600 £589 £626
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 26
10th Percentile £15.22 £13.13 -
25th Percentile £17.11 £16.25 £10.09
Median hourly rate £18.10 £18.25 £13.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% +32.73% -14.06%
75th Percentile £23.40 £23.38 £17.56
90th Percentile £27.73 £40.00 £19.31
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.14% +55.56% +25.00%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Merseyside

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Merseyside

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Merseyside over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Merseyside

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Merseyside

Developer
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Liverpool +9 30 £376 -11.47% 12
Developer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, 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 Merseyside region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 12 (35.29%) SQL
2 10 (29.41%) Azure
3 9 (26.47%) Git
3 9 (26.47%) Agile
4 7 (20.59%) AWS
5 6 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (17.65%) e-Learning
5 6 (17.65%) Content Development
5 6 (17.65%) Power BI
5 6 (17.65%) Power Platform
5 6 (17.65%) CI/CD
6 5 (14.71%) DevOps
6 5 (14.71%) Scrum
6 5 (14.71%) C#
6 5 (14.71%) .NET
7 4 (11.76%) MVVM
7 4 (11.76%) Data Integration
7 4 (11.76%) Android
7 4 (11.76%) T-SQL
7 4 (11.76%) Web Services
7 4 (11.76%) XML
7 4 (11.76%) User Experience
7 4 (11.76%) Mobile App
7 4 (11.76%) Android Development
7 4 (11.76%) Kotlin
7 4 (11.76%) Android Studio
7 4 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (11.76%) Android Jetpack
7 4 (11.76%) Design Patterns

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

Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 10 (29.41%) Azure
2 7 (20.59%) AWS
3 6 (17.65%) Power Platform
4 4 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (8.82%) Snowflake
6 2 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.94%) Boomi
7 1 (2.94%) Firebase
7 1 (2.94%) GitHub
7 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) Power BI
2 3 (8.82%) Informix
3 2 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (5.88%) Tableau
4 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.94%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (26.47%) Git
2 4 (11.76%) Android Studio
3 3 (8.82%) JIRA
4 1 (2.94%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (8.82%) French Language
1 3 (8.82%) German Language
1 3 (8.82%) Social Skills
1 3 (8.82%) Spanish Language
2 2 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) .NET
2 4 (11.76%) Android Jetpack
2 4 (11.76%) Jetpack Compose
2 4 (11.76%) Web Services
2 4 (11.76%) XML
3 3 (8.82%) .NET Framework
3 3 (8.82%) Laravel
3 3 (8.82%) RESTful
3 3 (8.82%) WinForms
4 2 (5.88%) Next.js
5 1 (2.94%) Node.js
5 1 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.94%) React
5 1 (2.94%) React Native
5 1 (2.94%) Redux
5 1 (2.94%) REST
5 1 (2.94%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) e-Learning
2 4 (11.76%) Mobile App
2 4 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Android
2 3 (8.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (26.47%) Agile
2 6 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (17.65%) CI/CD
2 6 (17.65%) Content Development
3 5 (14.71%) DevOps
3 5 (14.71%) Scrum
4 4 (11.76%) Android Development
4 4 (11.76%) Data Integration
4 4 (11.76%) Design Patterns
4 4 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (11.76%) MVVM
4 4 (11.76%) User Experience
5 3 (8.82%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (8.82%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (8.82%) CQRS
5 3 (8.82%) Dashboard Development
5 3 (8.82%) Data Extraction
5 3 (8.82%) Data Modelling
5 3 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (8.82%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 12 (35.29%) SQL
2 5 (14.71%) C#
3 4 (11.76%) Kotlin
3 4 (11.76%) T-SQL
4 3 (8.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (8.82%) PHP
5 2 (5.88%) Python
6 1 (2.94%) Go
6 1 (2.94%) Java
6 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (8.82%) Telerik
2 2 (5.88%) Alteryx
2 2 (5.88%) Talend
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.94%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle
3 1 (2.94%) Pega
3 1 (2.94%) Salesforce