Junior Contracts in the UK excluding London

Junior
UK > UK excluding London

The median Junior daily rate in the UK excluding London is £308 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 293 275 361
Rank change year-on-year -18 +86 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Junior 98 169 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.73% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.77% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 117 99
10th Percentile £135 £135 £116
25th Percentile £200 £156 £169
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £308 £250 £270
Median % change year-on-year +23.00% -7.41% +24.14%
75th Percentile £375 £350 £364
90th Percentile £438 £400 £438
UK median daily rate £325 £270 £300
% change year-on-year +20.37% -10.00% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 20 10
10th Percentile - £10.99 £14.72
25th Percentile - £12.79 £18.24
Median hourly rate £10.42 £14.12 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.20% -32.76% +0.33%
75th Percentile £12.30 £19.31 -
90th Percentile £15.53 £31.36 £22.40
UK median hourly rate £10.42 £13.58 £19.73
% change year-on-year -23.24% -31.20% +6.65%

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 18,752 21,824 29,184
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.30% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,467 15,208 20,476
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £394 £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% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,268 1,112 1,441
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.74 £18.07 £14.51
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 £73.83 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Junior
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior in the UK excluding London

Junior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Junior in the UK excluding London

Junior
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Junior in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Junior in the UK excluding London

Junior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Junior in the UK excluding London

Junior
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Junior in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Junior in the UK excluding London

Junior
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 Junior within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
South East +16 32 £371 +95.26% 95
North of England +18 23 £365 +21.67% 69
Midlands +13 13 £208 -40.71% 86
South West +8 13 £388 +93.75% 58
Scotland +29 10 £148 +9.00% 21
North East +24 10 £321 -14.33% 7
West Midlands +16 9 £208 -30.83% 49
Yorkshire +16 7 £370 +64.44% 20
North West -6 6 £363 +19.34% 42
East of England -12 5 £290 +7.41% 38
East Midlands +16 4 £241 -31.07% 37
Wales +16 2 £160 -36.00% 9
Northern Ireland +1 1 £288 +16.99% 5
Junior
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, Junior 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 Junior in the job title.

1 31 (31.63%) Security Cleared
2 24 (24.49%) SC Cleared
3 18 (18.37%) Project Management
3 18 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (16.33%) Social Skills
5 14 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
6 13 (13.27%) Agile
7 11 (11.22%) Microsoft
7 11 (11.22%) Public Sector
7 11 (11.22%) Driving Licence
8 10 (10.20%) Windows
8 10 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (9.18%) Unix
10 8 (8.16%) Scrum
10 8 (8.16%) DV Cleared
10 8 (8.16%) Data Analysis
10 8 (8.16%) Degree
11 7 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (7.14%) Data Protection
11 7 (7.14%) DevOps
11 7 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (7.14%) Netcool
11 7 (7.14%) Shell Script
11 7 (7.14%) IBM
12 6 (6.12%) PMO
12 6 (6.12%) Value Proposition
12 6 (6.12%) Customer Value Proposition
12 6 (6.12%) Linux
12 6 (6.12%) Finance

Junior 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 5 (5.10%) CMS
2 3 (3.06%) Apache
3 1 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.02%) EPiServer
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.02%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.02%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.02%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 5 (5.10%) Azure
2 4 (4.08%) Power Platform
3 3 (3.06%) AWS
3 3 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (3.06%) OneDrive
4 2 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.04%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.02%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.02%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.06%) DNS
1 3 (3.06%) Firewall
1 3 (3.06%) FTP
1 3 (3.06%) HTTP
1 3 (3.06%) SMTP
1 3 (3.06%) SSL
2 2 (2.04%) VPN
2 2 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (4.08%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.06%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.04%) MySQL
3 2 (2.04%) Power BI
4 1 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.02%) Power Query
4 1 (1.02%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (5.10%) Git
2 4 (4.08%) JUnit
3 2 (2.04%) Artifactory
3 2 (2.04%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.04%) GitLab
4 1 (1.02%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.02%) JIRA
4 1 (1.02%) Postman
General
1 16 (16.33%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.22%) Public Sector
3 10 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.12%) Finance
4 6 (6.12%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.10%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.08%) Back Office
7 3 (3.06%) Automotive
7 3 (3.06%) Banking
7 3 (3.06%) Marketing
7 3 (3.06%) Retail
8 2 (2.04%) Electronics
8 2 (2.04%) Legal
8 2 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.04%) Publishing
9 1 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Front Office
9 1 (1.02%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.10%) React
1 5 (5.10%) REST
2 4 (4.08%) Hibernate
2 4 (4.08%) JPA
2 4 (4.08%) Spring
2 4 (4.08%) Spring Boot
3 3 (3.06%) LDAP
4 2 (2.04%) CSS
4 2 (2.04%) HTML
4 2 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (2.04%) YAML
5 1 (1.02%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.02%) JSON
5 1 (1.02%) PySpark
5 1 (1.02%) Swagger
5 1 (1.02%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.22%) Driving Licence
2 7 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (4.08%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.06%) Cyberattack
4 3 (3.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.04%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.02%) Life Science
6 1 (1.02%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.02%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.02%) NHS
6 1 (1.02%) Robotics
6 1 (1.02%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.20%) Windows
2 9 (9.18%) Unix
3 6 (6.12%) Linux
4 3 (3.06%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.04%) Android
5 2 (2.04%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.04%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.02%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.02%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
1 18 (18.37%) Project Management
2 13 (13.27%) Agile
3 10 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (8.16%) Data Analysis
4 8 (8.16%) Scrum
5 7 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (7.14%) Data Protection
5 7 (7.14%) DevOps
6 6 (6.12%) Customer Value Proposition
6 6 (6.12%) Value Proposition
7 5 (5.10%) Front End Development
7 5 (5.10%) PRINCE2
7 5 (5.10%) Requirements Gathering
8 4 (4.08%) High Availability
8 4 (4.08%) Mentoring
8 4 (4.08%) Microservices
8 4 (4.08%) Project Governance
8 4 (4.08%) Unit Testing
8 4 (4.08%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.14%) Shell Script
2 6 (6.12%) TypeScript
3 4 (4.08%) Java
3 4 (4.08%) Python
4 3 (3.06%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.04%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.04%) SQL
5 2 (2.04%) VBA
6 1 (1.02%) ABAP
6 1 (1.02%) Bash
6 1 (1.02%) Go
6 1 (1.02%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (31.63%) Security Cleared
2 24 (24.49%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.16%) Degree
3 8 (8.16%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.06%) MCP
6 2 (2.04%) MCSE
7 1 (1.02%) CCNA
7 1 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.12%) PMO
2 2 (2.04%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (2.04%) SLA
3 1 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.02%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.02%) GDPR
3 1 (1.02%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.02%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (4.08%) Docker
2 3 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.04%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (1.02%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 7 (7.14%) Netcool
2 5 (5.10%) SCCM
3 4 (4.08%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.04%) Ansible
4 2 (2.04%) Grafana
4 2 (2.04%) Istio
4 2 (2.04%) NetBackup
4 2 (2.04%) RSA Archer
4 2 (2.04%) SCOM
4 2 (2.04%) SCSM
5 1 (1.02%) AppManager
5 1 (1.02%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.02%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (11.22%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.14%) IBM
3 5 (5.10%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.08%) SAP
5 3 (3.06%) Cisco
5 3 (3.06%) Darktrace
5 3 (3.06%) FireEye
5 3 (3.06%) IronPort
5 3 (3.06%) LogRhythm
5 3 (3.06%) Splunk
5 3 (3.06%) Symantec
6 2 (2.04%) Apple
6 2 (2.04%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (2.04%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.04%) Talend
6 2 (2.04%) VMware
7 1 (1.02%) BT
7 1 (1.02%) Informatica
7 1 (1.02%) Optimizely