Developer Contracts in the Thames Valley

Developer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Developer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £511, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 18 18
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 272 264 314
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.14% 9.18% 8.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.93% 9.73% 9.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 210 242
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £498
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +5.53% +10.56%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £551
90th Percentile £688 £675 £612
South East median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile £41.75 - £61.41
25th Percentile £46.25 - £62.40
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £64.43
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -22.40% +11.57%
75th Percentile £51.88 £60.00 £66.08
90th Percentile £60.50 £66.00 £66.85
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £70.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year -15.85% +35.92% -8.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,488 2,714 3,418
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.33% 96.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,389 1,845 2,343
10th Percentile £213 £300 £211
25th Percentile £375 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 79 97
10th Percentile £15.85 £17.11 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.33 £13.00
Median hourly rate £48.18 £50.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +185.71% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.80 £23.75
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £64.29
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% +150.00% -13.93%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the Thames Valley

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Developer in the Thames Valley

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the Thames Valley

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the Thames Valley

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in the Thames Valley

Developer
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Berkshire +1 175 £525 +5.00% 49
Buckinghamshire +14 71 £500 -9.09% 20
Oxfordshire +1 26 £500 +7.53% 41
Developer
South East

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 Thames Valley region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 83 (30.51%) DevOps
2 73 (26.84%) Python
2 73 (26.84%) Agile
3 66 (24.26%) Azure
4 59 (21.69%) SQL
5 57 (20.96%) Security Cleared
6 55 (20.22%) SC Cleared
7 46 (16.91%) Git
8 42 (15.44%) Full Stack Development
9 40 (14.71%) React
9 40 (14.71%) Java
10 36 (13.24%) Unit Testing
10 36 (13.24%) AWS
10 36 (13.24%) Microservices
11 35 (12.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 32 (11.76%) CI/CD
12 32 (11.76%) JavaScript
12 32 (11.76%) C#
13 30 (11.03%) Azure Monitor
13 30 (11.03%) Analytical Skills
14 29 (10.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 29 (10.66%) Power Platform
14 29 (10.66%) Microsoft
14 29 (10.66%) Software Engineering
15 27 (9.93%) Oracle
15 27 (9.93%) Azure Data Factory
15 27 (9.93%) Serverless
16 26 (9.56%) PostgreSQL
17 24 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
18 23 (8.46%) Kubernetes

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 9 (3.31%) SAS
1 9 (3.31%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.47%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.47%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.10%) CMS
3 3 (1.10%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.10%) WordPress
4 2 (0.74%) Apache
4 2 (0.74%) Drupal
4 2 (0.74%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.74%) Kentico
5 1 (0.37%) Jadu
5 1 (0.37%) JBoss
5 1 (0.37%) Moodle
5 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (2.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.47%) Sketch
4 1 (0.37%) 3ds Max
4 1 (0.37%) Blender
4 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.84%) Aareon QL
2 4 (1.47%) LabWindows
2 4 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.47%) Oracle EBS R12
2 4 (1.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (1.10%) Remedy AR System
4 1 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.37%) Epicor Tropos
4 1 (0.37%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 66 (24.26%) Azure
2 36 (13.24%) AWS
3 30 (11.03%) Azure Monitor
4 29 (10.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 29 (10.66%) Power Platform
5 27 (9.93%) Azure Data Factory
5 27 (9.93%) Serverless
6 24 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (8.46%) Azure Functions
8 20 (7.35%) Entra ID
9 13 (4.78%) Power Automate
10 10 (3.68%) GitHub
11 7 (2.57%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (2.57%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (2.21%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.21%) GCP
13 5 (1.84%) Azure AKS
13 5 (1.84%) SaaS
14 4 (1.47%) OCI
14 4 (1.47%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.62%) TCP/IP
2 10 (3.68%) SAN
3 4 (1.47%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.56%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (8.46%) NoSQL
3 15 (5.51%) Power BI
3 15 (5.51%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.41%) Oracle Database
5 11 (4.04%) Oracle Database 11g
6 10 (3.68%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.57%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (2.57%) Crystal Reports
8 6 (2.21%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.84%) Impala
9 5 (1.84%) MySQL
9 5 (1.84%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (1.84%) Tableau
10 4 (1.47%) Big Data
10 4 (1.47%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 4 (1.47%) Oracle Discoverer
10 4 (1.47%) Redis
10 4 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 46 (16.91%) Git
2 16 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 15 (5.51%) JIRA
4 14 (5.15%) Selenium
5 12 (4.41%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.84%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.84%) REST Assured
6 5 (1.84%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.84%) Subversion
7 4 (1.47%) GitLab
7 4 (1.47%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (1.10%) Maven
8 3 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.74%) JUnit
10 1 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.37%) JMeter
10 1 (0.37%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.37%) Mockito
10 1 (0.37%) Postman
General
1 30 (11.03%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (8.09%) Finance
3 19 (6.99%) Social Skills
3 19 (6.99%) Telecoms
4 9 (3.31%) Pharmaceutical
5 7 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.21%) Local Government
6 6 (2.21%) Marketing
6 6 (2.21%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.84%) Retail
8 4 (1.47%) Law
8 4 (1.47%) Police
9 3 (1.10%) Banking
10 2 (0.74%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.37%) Automotive
11 1 (0.37%) Back Office
11 1 (0.37%) Electronics
11 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (14.71%) React
2 23 (8.46%) HTML
3 22 (8.09%) .NET
4 20 (7.35%) CSS
5 19 (6.99%) REST
6 17 (6.25%) AngularJS
6 17 (6.25%) Spring Boot
7 16 (5.88%) Kafka
8 14 (5.15%) Spring
9 13 (4.78%) Node.js
10 11 (4.04%) ASP.NET
11 10 (3.68%) Django
11 10 (3.68%) XML
12 8 (2.94%) GraphQL
13 6 (2.21%) ARM Templates
13 6 (2.21%) Celery
13 6 (2.21%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (2.21%) Web Services
14 5 (1.84%) Java EE
14 5 (1.84%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.62%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.41%) Robotics
3 5 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (1.84%) Housing Association
4 4 (1.47%) Biopharmaceutical
4 4 (1.47%) Data Structures
5 2 (0.74%) Algorithms
5 2 (0.74%) Animation
5 2 (0.74%) Credit Risk
5 2 (0.74%) Graphic Design
5 2 (0.74%) IoT
5 2 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (0.74%) Mobile App
5 2 (0.74%) NHS
5 2 (0.74%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.37%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.37%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.37%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.37%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.09%) Linux
2 12 (4.41%) Debian
2 12 (4.41%) Ubuntu
3 4 (1.47%) Windows
3 4 (1.47%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.10%) Unix
5 2 (0.74%) Android
5 2 (0.74%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (30.51%) DevOps
2 73 (26.84%) Agile
3 42 (15.44%) Full Stack Development
4 36 (13.24%) Microservices
4 36 (13.24%) Unit Testing
5 35 (12.87%) Continuous Improvement
6 32 (11.76%) CI/CD
7 29 (10.66%) Software Engineering
8 21 (7.72%) Data Modelling
8 21 (7.72%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (7.72%) Test Automation
9 20 (7.35%) Business Intelligence
9 20 (7.35%) SDLC
10 19 (6.99%) Analytics
10 19 (6.99%) User Experience
11 18 (6.62%) Data Engineering
11 18 (6.62%) Scrum
12 16 (5.88%) Architectural Design
12 16 (5.88%) TDD
13 15 (5.51%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 73 (26.84%) Python
2 59 (21.69%) SQL
3 40 (14.71%) Java
4 32 (11.76%) C#
4 32 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 21 (7.72%) PL/SQL
6 10 (3.68%) Scala
7 9 (3.31%) C
8 8 (2.94%) PHP
9 7 (2.57%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.84%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.47%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.47%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (1.10%) Ruby
13 2 (0.74%) C++
14 1 (0.37%) ABAP
14 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.37%) VBA
14 1 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 57 (20.96%) Security Cleared
2 55 (20.22%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.41%) Degree
4 6 (2.21%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.31%) QA
2 4 (1.47%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.74%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.74%) IFRS
3 2 (0.74%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.37%) GDPR
4 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.37%) PMO
4 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (7.35%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (8.46%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.04%) Ansible
3 6 (2.21%) Terraform
4 4 (1.47%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (1.47%) Podman
5 2 (0.74%) Control-M
6 1 (0.37%) Kibana
6 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (10.66%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.93%) Oracle
3 17 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 16 (5.88%) VMware
5 14 (5.15%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.57%) Google
6 7 (2.57%) IFS
7 6 (2.21%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.84%) Aareon
9 4 (1.47%) Informatica
9 4 (1.47%) Remedy
9 4 (1.47%) SAP
9 4 (1.47%) Virgin Media
10 3 (1.10%) Adobe
11 2 (0.74%) Atmel
12 1 (0.37%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.37%) Facebook
12 1 (0.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 1 (0.37%) Splunk
12 1 (0.37%) Twitter