Developer Contracts in the South West

Developer
England > South West

The median Developer daily rate in the South West is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 12 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 -6 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 297 427 537
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 9.42% 12.30% 14.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.12% 13.31% 15.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 326 421
10th Percentile £308 £363 £362
25th Percentile £359 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £570 £600 £588
90th Percentile £700 £675 £630
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 17 12
10th Percentile £64.88 £48.19 £45.37
25th Percentile £75.00 £50.00 £49.50
Median hourly rate £90.00 £56.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% +2.27% +14.58%
75th Percentile - £64.00 £62.25
90th Percentile - £72.70 £63.47
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +10.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 2,934 3,207 3,469
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.08% 92.39% 95.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,860 2,398 2,482
10th Percentile £213 £275 £225
25th Percentile £400 £414 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £719 £666
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 412 254 207
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.09 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £50.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £64.57 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.82% +35.94% +11.76%
75th Percentile £71.25 £72.53 £64.38
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.40 £69.09
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
% change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the South West

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in the South West

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in the South West over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the South West

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the South West

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in the South West over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in the South West

Developer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Bristol 0 153 £411 -8.61% 103
Wiltshire -20 52 £600 +9.29% 13
Gloucestershire -2 41 £475 -20.83% 18
Devon -12 18 £650 +18.18% 44
Somerset -10 12 £450 -2.17% 28
Dorset -7 9 £419 -25.56% 16
Cornwall - 5 £388 - 3
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 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 West region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 78 (26.26%) JavaScript
2 67 (22.56%) Security Cleared
3 61 (20.54%) Python
4 53 (17.85%) TypeScript
5 52 (17.51%) React
5 52 (17.51%) Agile
5 52 (17.51%) SC Cleared
6 51 (17.17%) C#
7 49 (16.50%) .NET
8 47 (15.82%) AWS
9 45 (15.15%) Azure
10 44 (14.81%) Full Stack Development
11 43 (14.48%) SQL
12 40 (13.47%) Problem-Solving
12 40 (13.47%) Power Platform
13 38 (12.79%) DevOps
13 38 (12.79%) Java
14 37 (12.46%) HTML
15 36 (12.12%) OO
15 36 (12.12%) Social Skills
16 35 (11.78%) AngularJS
17 33 (11.11%) OOP
18 31 (10.44%) JIRA
19 30 (10.10%) CSS
20 28 (9.43%) Degree
20 28 (9.43%) CI/CD
21 27 (9.09%) Microsoft
22 26 (8.75%) REST
23 25 (8.42%) Business Intelligence
23 25 (8.42%) Linux

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 24 (8.08%) SharePoint
2 21 (7.07%) Confluence
3 6 (2.02%) CMS
3 6 (2.02%) Umbraco
4 4 (1.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.67%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (7.07%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.34%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.01%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.67%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.67%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.34%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.34%) Magento
4 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.34%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 47 (15.82%) AWS
2 45 (15.15%) Azure
3 40 (13.47%) Power Platform
4 18 (6.06%) Power Automate
5 12 (4.04%) GCP
5 12 (4.04%) PowerApps
6 10 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.02%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (2.02%) Azure Storage
9 6 (2.02%) GitHub
10 5 (1.68%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 4 (1.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 4 (1.35%) Serverless
12 3 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.01%) Firebase
12 3 (1.01%) npm
12 3 (1.01%) SaaS
12 3 (1.01%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.37%) Intranet
2 2 (0.67%) Tactical Data Link
3 1 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.74%) Power BI
2 14 (4.71%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.69%) MySQL
4 6 (2.02%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.35%) Biml
6 4 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.67%) CockroachDB
7 2 (0.67%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.67%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.67%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.34%) ClickHouse
8 1 (0.34%) DataStage
8 1 (0.34%) Metadata
8 1 (0.34%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.34%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 31 (10.44%) JIRA
2 25 (8.42%) Jenkins
3 21 (7.07%) Bitbucket
4 20 (6.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (2.36%) Git
6 5 (1.68%) Visual Studio
7 4 (1.35%) Maven
8 3 (1.01%) GitLab
8 3 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (1.01%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.67%) Postman
9 2 (0.67%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.67%) webpack
10 1 (0.34%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.34%) ESLint
10 1 (0.34%) GoogleTest
10 1 (0.34%) PHPUnit
General
1 36 (12.12%) Social Skills
2 22 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (7.07%) Finance
4 18 (6.06%) Aerospace
5 12 (4.04%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.02%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.68%) Tech for Good
8 4 (1.35%) Banking
8 4 (1.35%) Marketing
8 4 (1.35%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.01%) Law
9 3 (1.01%) Military
10 2 (0.67%) Billing
10 2 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.34%) Automotive
11 1 (0.34%) Back Office
11 1 (0.34%) Electronics
11 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.34%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (17.51%) React
2 49 (16.50%) .NET
3 37 (12.46%) HTML
4 35 (11.78%) AngularJS
5 30 (10.10%) CSS
6 26 (8.75%) REST
7 24 (8.08%) .NET Core
7 24 (8.08%) Spring
8 16 (5.39%) Node.js
9 13 (4.38%) Next.js
10 11 (3.70%) SAML
11 10 (3.37%) ASP.NET
11 10 (3.37%) GraphQL
11 10 (3.37%) Spring Boot
12 8 (2.69%) React Native
13 7 (2.36%) GWT
13 7 (2.36%) JAX-RS
13 7 (2.36%) Laravel
13 7 (2.36%) Restlet
14 6 (2.02%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (3.03%) Mobile App
2 7 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (1.35%) Insider Threat
4 4 (1.35%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.01%) FPGA
5 3 (1.01%) VHDL
6 2 (0.67%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.67%) IoT
6 2 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.34%) Derivative
7 1 (0.34%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (0.34%) PKI
7 1 (0.34%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.34%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 25 (8.42%) Linux
2 11 (3.70%) Android
3 9 (3.03%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.35%) Unix
5 2 (0.67%) Windows
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (17.51%) Agile
2 44 (14.81%) Full Stack Development
3 40 (13.47%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (12.79%) DevOps
5 36 (12.12%) OO
6 33 (11.11%) OOP
7 28 (9.43%) CI/CD
8 25 (8.42%) Business Intelligence
9 23 (7.74%) Code Quality
9 23 (7.74%) Front End Development
9 23 (7.74%) Project Management
10 22 (7.41%) Artificial Intelligence
10 22 (7.41%) Configuration Management
10 22 (7.41%) Conversational UI
11 21 (7.07%) Deployment Automation
12 19 (6.40%) Continuous Integration
12 19 (6.40%) Software Engineering
12 19 (6.40%) Task Automation
13 18 (6.06%) Infrastructure Automation
14 15 (5.05%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 78 (26.26%) JavaScript
2 61 (20.54%) Python
3 53 (17.85%) TypeScript
4 51 (17.17%) C#
5 43 (14.48%) SQL
6 38 (12.79%) Java
7 22 (7.41%) PowerShell
8 14 (4.71%) C
9 9 (3.03%) PHP
10 6 (2.02%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.35%) C++
11 4 (1.35%) Objective-C
11 4 (1.35%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.35%) Swift
12 2 (0.67%) Dart
12 2 (0.67%) Go
12 2 (0.67%) PL/1
12 2 (0.67%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.67%) SOQL
13 1 (0.34%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 67 (22.56%) Security Cleared
2 52 (17.51%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.43%) Degree
4 12 (4.04%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.68%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.67%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.38%) QA
2 4 (1.35%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.01%) MISRA
4 2 (0.67%) WCAG
5 1 (0.34%) JSP 440
System Software
1 10 (3.37%) Docker
2 8 (2.69%) Firmware
3 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (6.40%) Ansible
1 19 (6.40%) PowerCLI
2 10 (3.37%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (2.69%) Terraform
5 1 (0.34%) OPNET
5 1 (0.34%) rkt
Vendors
1 27 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.07%) PayPal
3 20 (6.73%) Atlassian
4 18 (6.06%) Dell
4 18 (6.06%) HP
5 15 (5.05%) Google
6 12 (4.04%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.36%) Oracle
8 6 (2.02%) Adobe
9 4 (1.35%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.01%) OutSystems
10 3 (1.01%) Xamarin
10 3 (1.01%) Xilinx
11 2 (0.67%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.34%) IBM
12 1 (0.34%) Marketo
12 1 (0.34%) Pardot
12 1 (0.34%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 1 (0.34%) SAP
12 1 (0.34%) VMware