Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London 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 9 11 10
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 2,325 2,873 3,967
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.46% 12.49% 13.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.39% 13.24% 13.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,655 2,216 2,935
10th Percentile £306 £356 £356
25th Percentile £375 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +2.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £560
90th Percentile £650 £656 £631
UK median daily rate £511 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.09% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 59 80
10th Percentile £35.00 £47.75 £30.75
25th Percentile £48.75 £51.81 £44.74
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +16.36% +37.50%
75th Percentile £80.00 £70.59 £65.11
90th Percentile £90.00 £75.00 £77.03
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.78% +17.27% +22.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,765 21,693 29,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,441 15,152 20,402
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,259 1,107 1,452
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +4 686 £463 -9.31% 520
South East -2 515 £495 -5.04% 317
North West +4 370 £453 -8.35% 313
Midlands +2 327 £425 -5.56% 357
South West -3 297 £450 -14.29% 228
Scotland -2 284 £450 -5.26% 126
Yorkshire +3 280 £475 -9.52% 149
West Midlands +6 229 £425 -10.53% 224
East of England +7 134 £430 -9.47% 135
East Midlands -1 96 £425 -2.86% 132
Wales +5 80 £450 -5.26% 53
North East +2 49 £488 -2.50% 63
Northern Ireland -1 16 £550 +37.50% 36
Developer
UK

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 542 (23.31%) SQL
2 499 (21.46%) Agile
3 461 (19.83%) JavaScript
4 409 (17.59%) Java
5 397 (17.08%) Python
6 364 (15.66%) C#
7 358 (15.40%) AWS
8 330 (14.19%) Azure
9 318 (13.68%) Security Cleared
10 312 (13.42%) HTML
11 292 (12.56%) React
12 286 (12.30%) Software Engineering
13 280 (12.04%) DevOps
14 278 (11.96%) .NET
15 264 (11.35%) Full Stack Development
16 263 (11.31%) Social Skills
17 256 (11.01%) Degree
18 255 (10.97%) SC Cleared
19 241 (10.37%) TypeScript
20 232 (9.98%) Artificial Intelligence
21 226 (9.72%) Code Quality
21 226 (9.72%) Problem-Solving
22 223 (9.59%) CI/CD
23 208 (8.95%) CSS
24 200 (8.60%) Public Sector
25 197 (8.47%) Microservices
26 194 (8.34%) Microsoft
26 194 (8.34%) Spring
27 190 (8.17%) Conversational UI
28 189 (8.13%) Chatbot

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 59 (2.54%) SharePoint
2 41 (1.76%) Confluence
3 33 (1.42%) CMS
4 25 (1.08%) Apache
5 24 (1.03%) SAS
6 22 (0.95%) Umbraco
7 20 (0.86%) Drupal
8 19 (0.82%) Apache Spark
9 18 (0.77%) WordPress
10 12 (0.52%) CICS
11 9 (0.39%) ColdFusion
12 7 (0.30%) Headless CMS
13 6 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 6 (0.26%) GeoServer
13 6 (0.26%) OpenEdge
14 5 (0.22%) IIS
15 4 (0.17%) JBoss
15 4 (0.17%) Moodle
15 4 (0.17%) Mule
15 4 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 189 (8.13%) Chatbot
2 14 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.13%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.086%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.086%) Sketch
5 2 (0.086%) Trello
6 1 (0.043%) 3ds Max
6 1 (0.043%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.043%) Blender
6 1 (0.043%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.043%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.043%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.043%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 16 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.60%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.30%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.26%) Shopify
5 5 (0.22%) Aareon QL
5 5 (0.22%) Maximo
5 5 (0.22%) Odoo
6 4 (0.17%) Exstream
6 4 (0.17%) LabWindows
6 4 (0.17%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.13%) Magento
7 3 (0.13%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 3 (0.13%) Remedy AR System
7 3 (0.13%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.13%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.13%) SAP FI-AP
Cloud Services
1 358 (15.40%) AWS
2 330 (14.19%) Azure
3 188 (8.09%) Power Platform
4 112 (4.82%) Serverless
5 107 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
6 79 (3.40%) Power Automate
7 69 (2.97%) GitHub
8 63 (2.71%) Amazon S3
9 57 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
10 54 (2.32%) PowerApps
11 52 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
12 51 (2.19%) GCP
13 50 (2.15%) Azure Data Factory
14 43 (1.85%) Azure Functions
14 43 (1.85%) SaaS
15 35 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
16 32 (1.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 30 (1.29%) Azure Monitor
18 24 (1.03%) Azure Logic Apps
19 23 (0.99%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.25%) TCP/IP
2 15 (0.65%) SAN
3 14 (0.60%) Intranet
4 10 (0.43%) 5G
5 9 (0.39%) HTTP
5 9 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
6 6 (0.26%) Kerberos
6 6 (0.26%) Tactical Data Link
7 5 (0.22%) Firewall
7 5 (0.22%) NAS
7 5 (0.22%) OpenLDAP
7 5 (0.22%) SSL
7 5 (0.22%) VPN
8 4 (0.17%) 4G
8 4 (0.17%) Link 16
8 4 (0.17%) RS-232
8 4 (0.17%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.086%) MQTT
9 2 (0.086%) SNMP
9 2 (0.086%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (5.63%) Power BI
2 121 (5.20%) PostgreSQL
3 118 (5.08%) SQL Server
4 71 (3.05%) Relational Database
5 68 (2.92%) MySQL
6 56 (2.41%) MongoDB
7 52 (2.24%) Oracle Database
8 51 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
9 49 (2.11%) NoSQL
10 47 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 32 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
12 29 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 21 (0.90%) GIS
14 19 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
14 19 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
15 18 (0.77%) Big Data
16 16 (0.69%) DB2
16 16 (0.69%) Oracle Database 11g
16 16 (0.69%) Power Query
17 15 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 187 (8.04%) Git
2 110 (4.73%) JIRA
3 109 (4.69%) Jenkins
4 44 (1.89%) JUnit
5 38 (1.63%) Visual Studio
6 36 (1.55%) GitLab
7 35 (1.51%) Bitbucket
8 31 (1.33%) Cypress.io
9 26 (1.12%) Mockito
10 22 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 21 (0.90%) Cucumber
12 20 (0.86%) Maven
13 19 (0.82%) Postman
14 18 (0.77%) Oracle APEX
14 18 (0.77%) Selenium
15 17 (0.73%) Android Studio
16 15 (0.65%) Rational Rhapsody
16 15 (0.65%) Subversion
17 14 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
17 14 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 263 (11.31%) Social Skills
2 200 (8.60%) Public Sector
3 181 (7.78%) Finance
4 122 (5.25%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (2.02%) Banking
6 32 (1.38%) Retail
7 26 (1.12%) Telecoms
8 25 (1.08%) Manufacturing
8 25 (1.08%) Marketing
9 22 (0.95%) Aerospace
10 19 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (0.77%) Billing
12 17 (0.73%) Law
13 14 (0.60%) Financial Institution
13 14 (0.60%) Local Government
14 9 (0.39%) Automotive
14 9 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.30%) Advertising
15 7 (0.30%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 312 (13.42%) HTML
2 292 (12.56%) React
3 278 (11.96%) .NET
4 208 (8.95%) CSS
5 194 (8.34%) Spring
6 168 (7.23%) AngularJS
7 166 (7.14%) REST
8 149 (6.41%) Spring Boot
9 131 (5.63%) Node.js
10 123 (5.29%) RESTful
11 82 (3.53%) Web Services
12 80 (3.44%) Kafka
13 70 (3.01%) .NET Core
14 59 (2.54%) Vue
15 56 (2.41%) ASP.NET
16 54 (2.32%) .NET Framework
17 52 (2.24%) GraphQL
18 50 (2.15%) XML
19 40 (1.72%) Next.js
20 38 (1.63%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 60 (2.58%) Product Ownership
2 47 (2.02%) Mobile App
3 39 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
4 36 (1.55%) Data Structures
5 34 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
6 33 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
7 29 (1.25%) Algorithms
7 29 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
8 18 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
9 15 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (0.65%) Onboarding
10 14 (0.60%) Cloud Native
10 14 (0.60%) Mainframe
10 14 (0.60%) NHS
11 13 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (0.52%) CMDB
12 12 (0.52%) IBM Mainframe
12 12 (0.52%) Robotics
13 10 (0.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 9 (0.39%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 135 (5.81%) Linux
2 70 (3.01%) Android
3 59 (2.54%) Unix
4 54 (2.32%) Apple iOS
5 25 (1.08%) Windows
6 19 (0.82%) Ubuntu
7 17 (0.73%) Debian
8 11 (0.47%) zOS
9 8 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.17%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.086%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.086%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.043%) AIX
12 1 (0.043%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.043%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.043%) VMS
12 1 (0.043%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 499 (21.46%) Agile
2 286 (12.30%) Software Engineering
3 280 (12.04%) DevOps
4 264 (11.35%) Full Stack Development
5 232 (9.98%) Artificial Intelligence
6 226 (9.72%) Code Quality
6 226 (9.72%) Problem-Solving
7 223 (9.59%) CI/CD
8 197 (8.47%) Microservices
9 190 (8.17%) Conversational UI
10 153 (6.58%) Business Intelligence
10 153 (6.58%) Scrum
11 142 (6.11%) Unit Testing
12 125 (5.38%) TDD
13 123 (5.29%) Front End Development
14 115 (4.95%) Test Automation
15 112 (4.82%) Data Modelling
16 102 (4.39%) Analytics
17 100 (4.30%) User Experience
18 97 (4.17%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 542 (23.31%) SQL
2 461 (19.83%) JavaScript
3 409 (17.59%) Java
4 397 (17.08%) Python
5 364 (15.66%) C#
6 241 (10.37%) TypeScript
7 91 (3.91%) PHP
8 90 (3.87%) PL/SQL
9 65 (2.80%) C
10 59 (2.54%) C++
11 52 (2.24%) Kotlin
12 49 (2.11%) PowerShell
13 48 (2.06%) Scala
14 36 (1.55%) T-SQL
15 32 (1.38%) Shell Script
16 30 (1.29%) Bash
17 28 (1.20%) ABAP
17 28 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 28 (1.20%) Go
18 27 (1.16%) Swift
Qualifications
1 318 (13.68%) Security Cleared
2 256 (11.01%) Degree
3 255 (10.97%) SC Cleared
4 47 (2.02%) DV Cleared
5 36 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 23 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
8 13 (0.56%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.30%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.086%) PMP
11 1 (0.043%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.043%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.043%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.043%) PhD
11 1 (0.043%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.043%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (3.05%) QA
2 46 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 21 (0.90%) Data Quality
3 21 (0.90%) HL7
4 12 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
4 12 (0.52%) GDPR
5 8 (0.34%) ISO 9001
5 8 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.34%) WCAG
6 4 (0.17%) MISRA
6 4 (0.17%) SLA
7 3 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 2 (0.086%) IFRS
8 2 (0.086%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.043%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.043%) GRC
9 1 (0.043%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.043%) MISRA C
9 1 (0.043%) NCSC
9 1 (0.043%) PMO
System Software
1 120 (5.16%) Docker
2 30 (1.29%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.47%) Firmware
4 4 (0.17%) zsh
5 3 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.043%) HDFS
6 1 (0.043%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.043%) IAG
6 1 (0.043%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 117 (5.03%) Kubernetes
2 46 (1.98%) Ansible
2 46 (1.98%) Terraform
3 28 (1.20%) Grafana
4 19 (0.82%) PowerCLI
5 18 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.39%) Kibana
6 9 (0.39%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.34%) Zipkin
8 4 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (0.17%) Podman
9 2 (0.086%) CA Endevor
9 2 (0.086%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.086%) Puppet
10 1 (0.043%) Control-M
10 1 (0.043%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.043%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.043%) OPNET
10 1 (0.043%) rkt
Vendors
1 194 (8.34%) Microsoft
2 189 (8.13%) PayPal
3 161 (6.92%) Oracle
4 92 (3.96%) ServiceNow
5 55 (2.37%) SAP
6 43 (1.85%) Salesforce
7 42 (1.81%) Google
8 29 (1.25%) IBM
9 27 (1.16%) VMware
10 25 (1.08%) Atlassian
11 21 (0.90%) Red Hat
12 19 (0.82%) Dell
13 18 (0.77%) HP
14 17 (0.73%) IFS
15 16 (0.69%) Adobe
15 16 (0.69%) Guidewire
16 11 (0.47%) Avaloq
16 11 (0.47%) Informatica
16 11 (0.47%) Syncsort
17 10 (0.43%) Splunk