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 in the 6 months leading up to 10 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
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 11 9
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 2,318 2,715 3,965
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.91% 11.95% 13.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.80% 12.69% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,674 2,104 2,907
10th Percentile £306 £350 £358
25th Percentile £375 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £485
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -1.03% +14.12%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £570
90th Percentile £625 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 54 80
10th Percentile £35.00 £50.00 £32.15
25th Percentile £46.25 £52.41 £44.74
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.77% +15.00% +37.50%
75th Percentile £80.00 £70.88 £66.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £75.00 £77.03
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% +22.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 19,645 21,400 29,059
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 94.21% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,729 14,864 20,433
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £575
90th Percentile £682 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £539 £525
% change year-on-year -2.64% +2.71% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,508 1,094 1,379
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.91 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.99%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £46.88
90th Percentile £74.11 £75.50 £61.77
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 10 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
North of England +3 652 £450 -10.45% 544
South East -1 532 £475 -5.00% 350
North West +3 352 £450 -10.00% 333
Midlands +1 319 £425 -5.56% 333
South West -3 297 £450 -7.22% 187
Scotland -1 294 £440 -7.37% 110
Yorkshire +2 266 £475 -9.52% 152
West Midlands +4 222 £425 -10.53% 202
East of England +8 144 £420 -11.58% 147
East Midlands -4 97 £413 -8.33% 130
Wales +6 73 £450 -12.20% 39
North East -1 34 £450 -10.00% 64
Northern Ireland +1 20 £575 +43.75% 28
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 UK excluding London region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 544 (23.47%) SQL
2 498 (21.48%) Agile
3 458 (19.76%) JavaScript
4 420 (18.12%) Java
5 406 (17.52%) Python
6 364 (15.70%) C#
7 354 (15.27%) AWS
8 340 (14.67%) Azure
9 324 (13.98%) HTML
10 299 (12.90%) Security Cleared
11 294 (12.68%) React
12 283 (12.21%) .NET
13 282 (12.17%) Software Engineering
14 278 (11.99%) DevOps
15 272 (11.73%) Full Stack Development
16 257 (11.09%) Social Skills
17 240 (10.35%) SC Cleared
18 231 (9.97%) Problem-Solving
19 226 (9.75%) TypeScript
20 221 (9.53%) CI/CD
21 217 (9.36%) CSS
22 213 (9.19%) Power Platform
23 204 (8.80%) Microsoft
24 202 (8.71%) Finance
25 199 (8.58%) Spring
26 195 (8.41%) Microservices
27 193 (8.33%) Public Sector
28 183 (7.89%) Degree
29 181 (7.81%) Git
30 178 (7.68%) REST

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 69 (2.98%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.47%) Confluence
3 29 (1.25%) CMS
4 27 (1.16%) SAS
5 25 (1.08%) Umbraco
6 24 (1.04%) Apache Spark
7 20 (0.86%) WordPress
8 19 (0.82%) Apache
8 19 (0.82%) Drupal
9 12 (0.52%) CICS
10 9 (0.39%) ColdFusion
11 7 (0.30%) Headless CMS
12 6 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.26%) GeoServer
12 6 (0.26%) OpenEdge
13 5 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
13 5 (0.22%) IIS
14 4 (0.17%) JBoss
14 4 (0.17%) Mule
14 4 (0.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 113 (4.87%) Chatbot
2 14 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.30%) Sketch
5 4 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.13%) InVision
6 3 (0.13%) Trello
7 2 (0.086%) EngageOne
7 2 (0.086%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.086%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.043%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.043%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.043%) Blender
8 1 (0.043%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.043%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.043%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.043%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 19 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.60%) NetSuite
3 9 (0.39%) Shopify
4 8 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
5 7 (0.30%) Teamcenter
6 6 (0.26%) SAP CO
6 6 (0.26%) SAP FI
6 6 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
6 6 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
7 5 (0.22%) Aareon QL
7 5 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
7 5 (0.22%) Maximo
8 4 (0.17%) Exstream
8 4 (0.17%) LabWindows
8 4 (0.17%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.13%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 3 (0.13%) Remedy AR System
9 3 (0.13%) SAP FI-AP
10 2 (0.086%) Odoo
10 2 (0.086%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 354 (15.27%) AWS
2 340 (14.67%) Azure
3 213 (9.19%) Power Platform
4 121 (5.22%) Serverless
5 105 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
6 87 (3.75%) Power Automate
7 74 (3.19%) GitHub
8 69 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
8 69 (2.98%) PowerApps
9 64 (2.76%) Amazon S3
10 49 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
10 49 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
10 49 (2.11%) GCP
11 45 (1.94%) Azure Functions
12 43 (1.86%) SaaS
13 33 (1.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 32 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
16 27 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
17 24 (1.04%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.08%) TCP/IP
2 13 (0.56%) SAN
3 12 (0.52%) Intranet
4 11 (0.47%) HTTP
5 8 (0.35%) 5G
5 8 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
6 6 (0.26%) Kerberos
6 6 (0.26%) Tactical Data Link
6 6 (0.26%) VPN
7 5 (0.22%) Firewall
7 5 (0.22%) NAS
7 5 (0.22%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (0.17%) Link 16
8 4 (0.17%) RS-232
8 4 (0.17%) SSL
8 4 (0.17%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.13%) Wireless
10 2 (0.086%) 4G
10 2 (0.086%) MQTT
10 2 (0.086%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (6.00%) Power BI
2 123 (5.31%) SQL Server
3 118 (5.09%) PostgreSQL
4 68 (2.93%) MySQL
5 66 (2.85%) Relational Database
6 55 (2.37%) Oracle Database
7 52 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
8 50 (2.16%) NoSQL
9 44 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 42 (1.81%) MongoDB
11 29 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
11 29 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 24 (1.04%) Big Data
13 22 (0.95%) GIS
14 18 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
14 18 (0.78%) Power Query
15 17 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
16 16 (0.69%) Data Lake
16 16 (0.69%) Tableau
17 15 (0.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 181 (7.81%) Git
2 115 (4.96%) JIRA
3 109 (4.70%) Jenkins
4 41 (1.77%) JUnit
5 37 (1.60%) Visual Studio
6 33 (1.42%) Bitbucket
7 32 (1.38%) Cypress.io
8 29 (1.25%) Maven
9 26 (1.12%) GitLab
9 26 (1.12%) Mockito
10 24 (1.04%) Selenium
11 21 (0.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 18 (0.78%) Cucumber
12 18 (0.78%) Oracle APEX
13 16 (0.69%) Android Studio
14 15 (0.65%) Rational Rhapsody
14 15 (0.65%) Subversion
15 14 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
16 13 (0.56%) Postman
17 12 (0.52%) webpack
General
1 257 (11.09%) Social Skills
2 202 (8.71%) Finance
3 193 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 135 (5.82%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (2.50%) Banking
6 37 (1.60%) Retail
7 33 (1.42%) Telecoms
8 22 (0.95%) Marketing
9 21 (0.91%) Manufacturing
10 20 (0.86%) Aerospace
11 19 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 18 (0.78%) Billing
13 15 (0.65%) Local Government
14 14 (0.60%) Law
15 11 (0.47%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (0.39%) Investment Banking
18 8 (0.35%) Automotive
19 7 (0.30%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 324 (13.98%) HTML
2 294 (12.68%) React
3 283 (12.21%) .NET
4 217 (9.36%) CSS
5 199 (8.58%) Spring
6 178 (7.68%) REST
7 172 (7.42%) AngularJS
8 153 (6.60%) Spring Boot
9 129 (5.57%) Node.js
10 123 (5.31%) RESTful
11 80 (3.45%) Web Services
12 77 (3.32%) Kafka
13 69 (2.98%) .NET Core
14 61 (2.63%) Vue
15 60 (2.59%) .NET Framework
16 57 (2.46%) ASP.NET
17 52 (2.24%) GraphQL
18 49 (2.11%) XML
19 36 (1.55%) Next.js
20 35 (1.51%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 58 (2.50%) Product Ownership
2 56 (2.42%) Mobile App
3 41 (1.77%) Data Structures
4 39 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
5 33 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
6 31 (1.34%) Algorithms
7 30 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
8 26 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
10 16 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 14 (0.60%) Cloud Native
12 14 (0.60%) Mainframe
12 14 (0.60%) NHS
13 13 (0.56%) Low-Code
13 13 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (0.52%) IBM Mainframe
14 12 (0.52%) Robotics
15 11 (0.47%) CMDB
16 10 (0.43%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 134 (5.78%) Linux
2 75 (3.24%) Unix
3 72 (3.11%) Android
4 60 (2.59%) Apple iOS
5 26 (1.12%) Windows
6 16 (0.69%) Ubuntu
7 15 (0.65%) Debian
8 11 (0.47%) zOS
9 7 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.17%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.13%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.043%) AIX
12 1 (0.043%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.043%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.043%) VMS
12 1 (0.043%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 498 (21.48%) Agile
2 282 (12.17%) Software Engineering
3 278 (11.99%) DevOps
4 272 (11.73%) Full Stack Development
5 231 (9.97%) Problem-Solving
6 221 (9.53%) CI/CD
7 195 (8.41%) Microservices
8 166 (7.16%) Business Intelligence
9 152 (6.56%) Artificial Intelligence
10 148 (6.38%) Code Quality
11 145 (6.26%) Scrum
12 131 (5.65%) Unit Testing
13 130 (5.61%) TDD
14 120 (5.18%) Data Modelling
15 117 (5.05%) Test Automation
16 113 (4.87%) Conversational UI
17 110 (4.75%) Front End Development
18 107 (4.62%) Analytics
19 102 (4.40%) SDLC
20 100 (4.31%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 544 (23.47%) SQL
2 458 (19.76%) JavaScript
3 420 (18.12%) Java
4 406 (17.52%) Python
5 364 (15.70%) C#
6 226 (9.75%) TypeScript
7 95 (4.10%) PL/SQL
8 87 (3.75%) PHP
9 62 (2.67%) C
10 58 (2.50%) C++
11 51 (2.20%) Kotlin
12 50 (2.16%) PowerShell
13 46 (1.98%) Scala
14 37 (1.60%) Shell Script
15 33 (1.42%) T-SQL
16 32 (1.38%) ABAP
17 30 (1.29%) Bash
17 30 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 28 (1.21%) Swift
19 24 (1.04%) Go
Qualifications
1 299 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 240 (10.35%) SC Cleared
3 183 (7.89%) Degree
4 48 (2.07%) DV Cleared
5 37 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (0.60%) Master's Degree
7 13 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (0.35%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.13%) PMP
11 2 (0.086%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.086%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.043%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.043%) CEH
12 1 (0.043%) CISSP
12 1 (0.043%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.043%) OCP
12 1 (0.043%) PhD
12 1 (0.043%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (2.76%) QA
2 41 (1.77%) Accessibility
3 22 (0.95%) Data Quality
4 19 (0.82%) HL7
5 12 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
6 11 (0.47%) GDPR
7 8 (0.35%) ISO 9001
7 8 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.35%) WCAG
8 6 (0.26%) MISRA
9 4 (0.17%) SLA
10 3 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 2 (0.086%) IFRS
11 2 (0.086%) IFRS 9
12 1 (0.043%) GRC
12 1 (0.043%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.043%) IEC 61508
12 1 (0.043%) MISRA C
12 1 (0.043%) NCSC
12 1 (0.043%) PMO
System Software
1 116 (5.00%) Docker
2 31 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.35%) Firmware
4 3 (0.13%) zsh
5 1 (0.043%) HDFS
5 1 (0.043%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.043%) IAG
5 1 (0.043%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 116 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 46 (1.98%) Ansible
3 32 (1.38%) Terraform
4 27 (1.16%) Grafana
5 19 (0.82%) PowerCLI
6 18 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.39%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.35%) Zipkin
9 6 (0.26%) Kibana
10 4 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.17%) Podman
11 3 (0.13%) Control-M
12 1 (0.043%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.043%) Hadoop YARN
12 1 (0.043%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.043%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.043%) Puppet
12 1 (0.043%) rkt
Vendors
1 204 (8.80%) Microsoft
2 167 (7.20%) Oracle
3 108 (4.66%) PayPal
4 87 (3.75%) ServiceNow
5 61 (2.63%) SAP
6 45 (1.94%) Google
7 42 (1.81%) Salesforce
8 26 (1.12%) IBM
9 25 (1.08%) Atlassian
10 22 (0.95%) VMware
11 20 (0.86%) Splunk
12 19 (0.82%) Dell
13 18 (0.78%) HP
13 18 (0.78%) Red Hat
14 16 (0.69%) Guidewire
15 13 (0.56%) Adobe
15 13 (0.56%) IFS
16 11 (0.47%) Avaloq
16 11 (0.47%) Informatica
16 11 (0.47%) Syncsort