Non-Blocking Code Contracts

Non-Blocking Code
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Non-Blocking Code skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Non-Blocking Code over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 683 832
Rank change year-on-year +124 +149 -128
Contract jobs citing Non-Blocking Code 8 11 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.020% 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.022% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 15
10th Percentile £606 £516 £428
25th Percentile £607 £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £585 £650
Median % change year-on-year +5.13% -9.93% +10.79%
75th Percentile £623 £653 £675
90th Percentile £627 £711 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £600 £419
% change year-on-year - +43.28% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Non-Blocking Code is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,764 50,288 79,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.53% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,622 34,810 55,795
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,524 1,667 1,882
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%

Non-Blocking Code
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Non-Blocking Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Non-Blocking Code in the UK

Non-Blocking Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Non-Blocking Code.

Daily rate trend for Non-Blocking Code in the UK

Non-Blocking Code
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Non-Blocking Code within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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
England +95 8 £615 +3.80% 2
Work from Home +119 6 £615 +5.13% 1
London +88 6 £615 -0.61% 1

Non-Blocking Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (62.50%) CMS
1 5 (62.50%) Headless CMS
2 4 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Apigee
1 3 (37.50%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) HTTP
2 2 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Multimedia
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Developer
2 2 (25.00%) GCP Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Angular Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (12.50%) React Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) CSS
1 5 (62.50%) HTML
1 5 (62.50%) HTML5
1 5 (62.50%) Next.js
1 5 (62.50%) REST
1 5 (62.50%) Web Services
2 4 (50.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (37.50%) JSON
3 3 (37.50%) Node.js
3 3 (37.50%) OAuth
3 3 (37.50%) OAuth2
3 3 (37.50%) OpenAPI
3 3 (37.50%) OpenID
3 3 (37.50%) React
3 3 (37.50%) SOAP
3 3 (37.50%) Swagger
3 3 (37.50%) YAML
4 2 (25.00%) GraphQL
4 2 (25.00%) Jest
4 2 (25.00%) Nuxt
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 5 (62.50%) Multithreading
2 5 (62.50%) SEO
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Analytics
3 4 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 4 (50.00%) Refactoring
3 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) API Design
4 3 (37.50%) API Management
4 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) Functional Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Microservices
4 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Visual Effects
5 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
5 2 (25.00%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
5 2 (25.00%) E-Commerce
5 2 (25.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft