Developer Contracts in South London

Developer
London > South London

The median Developer daily rate in South London is £575, 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 4 13 14
Rank change year-on-year +9 +1 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 41 36 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 20.20% 12.77% 17.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 21.13% 13.28% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 21 51
10th Percentile £381 £231 £410
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £773 £650 £638
90th Percentile £838 £775 £800
London median daily rate £551 £600 £623
% change year-on-year -8.25% -3.61% +8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
London median hourly rate £41.50 £63.30 £65.00
% change year-on-year -34.44% -2.62% +1.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South 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 South London with a recognized job title 194 271 390
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.57% 96.10% 97.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 208 292
10th Percentile £204 £187 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +5.77%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £728 £672 £700
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 20 12
10th Percentile - £16.28 £16.70
25th Percentile £17.25 £21.13 £39.96
Median hourly rate £19.50 £46.86 £44.11
Median % change year-on-year -58.39% +6.23% +2.13%
75th Percentile £71.88 £55.20 £48.86
90th Percentile £75.79 £68.00 £51.30
London median hourly rate £39.00 £40.50 £32.25
% change year-on-year -3.70% +25.58% +7.50%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in South London

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in South London

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

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

Daily rate histogram for Developer in South London

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in South London

Developer
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the South London 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
Croydon +8 18 £400 -5.88% 5
Bromley +1 10 £700 - 5
Merton +6 5 £425 -
Developer
London

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

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 South London region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 19 (46.34%) Security Cleared
2 18 (43.90%) SC Cleared
3 15 (36.59%) Java
4 10 (24.39%) Agile
4 10 (24.39%) Finance
5 9 (21.95%) JavaScript
5 9 (21.95%) OO
5 9 (21.95%) Spring
5 9 (21.95%) Jenkins
5 9 (21.95%) React
5 9 (21.95%) Spring Boot
5 9 (21.95%) CI/CD
6 8 (19.51%) Power Platform
6 8 (19.51%) Power Automate
6 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
6 8 (19.51%) Scala
6 8 (19.51%) Scrum
6 8 (19.51%) Microsoft
7 7 (17.07%) CRM
7 7 (17.07%) TDD
7 7 (17.07%) Software Engineering
7 7 (17.07%) Dynamics CRM
7 7 (17.07%) Degree
7 7 (17.07%) Azure
7 7 (17.07%) DevOps
7 7 (17.07%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (17.07%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (17.07%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (14.63%) Python
8 6 (14.63%) CSS

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 (4.88%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.44%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 7 (17.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (4.88%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 8 (19.51%) Power Automate
1 8 (19.51%) Power Platform
2 7 (17.07%) Azure
2 7 (17.07%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (17.07%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (7.32%) AWS
3 3 (7.32%) OCI
4 2 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (4.88%) Oracle CX
4 2 (4.88%) Oracle Service Cloud
4 2 (4.88%) Serverless
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.44%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.44%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.88%) Oracle Database
1 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.44%) DB2
2 1 (2.44%) Power BI
2 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (21.95%) Jenkins
2 4 (9.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 4 (9.76%) Bitbucket
2 4 (9.76%) fastlane
3 3 (7.32%) Git
4 2 (4.88%) Cypress.io
4 2 (4.88%) JIRA
5 1 (2.44%) Gradle
General
1 10 (24.39%) Finance
2 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.20%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.32%) Banking
4 3 (7.32%) Front Office
5 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.95%) React
1 9 (21.95%) Spring
1 9 (21.95%) Spring Boot
2 6 (14.63%) CSS
2 6 (14.63%) HTML
3 5 (12.20%) REST
4 4 (9.76%) GraphQL
4 4 (9.76%) Spring MVC
4 4 (9.76%) Spring Security
5 3 (7.32%) J2EE
6 2 (4.88%) AngularJS
6 2 (4.88%) Hibernate
6 2 (4.88%) Kafka
6 2 (4.88%) Node.js
6 2 (4.88%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (4.88%) Web Services
7 1 (2.44%) .NET Framework
7 1 (2.44%) Guice
7 1 (2.44%) NHibernate
7 1 (2.44%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (7.32%) Spread Betting
3 2 (4.88%) Derivative
3 2 (4.88%) Equities
3 2 (4.88%) Market Risk
3 2 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (24.39%) Agile
2 9 (21.95%) CI/CD
2 9 (21.95%) OO
3 8 (19.51%) Scrum
4 7 (17.07%) CRM
4 7 (17.07%) DevOps
4 7 (17.07%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (17.07%) Software Engineering
4 7 (17.07%) TDD
5 5 (12.20%) Computer Science
5 5 (12.20%) Mentoring
5 5 (12.20%) MVC
5 5 (12.20%) OOP
6 4 (9.76%) Microservices
6 4 (9.76%) Multithreading
6 4 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (9.76%) Secure Coding
6 4 (9.76%) SOLID
6 4 (9.76%) Sprint Planning
6 4 (9.76%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (36.59%) Java
2 9 (21.95%) JavaScript
3 8 (19.51%) Scala
4 6 (14.63%) Python
5 5 (12.20%) Shell Script
6 3 (7.32%) PowerShell
6 3 (7.32%) SQL
7 2 (4.88%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.44%) BeanShell
8 1 (2.44%) C#
Qualifications
1 19 (46.34%) Security Cleared
2 18 (43.90%) SC Cleared
3 7 (17.07%) Degree
4 5 (12.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (9.76%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 2 (4.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.76%) Ansible
2 2 (4.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (19.51%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.20%) Oracle
3 2 (4.88%) Atlassian
3 2 (4.88%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.44%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.44%) Pega