Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Developer daily rate in Work from Home is £505 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 3 4 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 0
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 2,637 4,662 8,981
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 17.82% 18.92% 20.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 19.04% 19.85% 21.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,906 3,517 6,819
10th Percentile £331 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £430 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £626
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £511 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.09% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 60 83
10th Percentile £23.34 £39.60 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £55.94 £40.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% +26.44%
75th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £83.00 £85.00 £76.64
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
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,848 23,488 42,066
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.30% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,603 30,429
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 558 537 595
10th Percentile £14.26 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.64 £25.71 £19.30
Median hourly rate £44.37 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.83% +54.29% +44.33%
75th Percentile £64.88 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £68.55
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Developer.

Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Developer over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Developer.

Developer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Developer over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Developer hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Developer in the job title.

1 630 (23.89%) JavaScript
2 614 (23.28%) SQL
3 584 (22.15%) C#
4 533 (20.21%) Agile
5 497 (18.85%) Finance
6 491 (18.62%) AWS
7 479 (18.16%) Azure
8 476 (18.05%) Java
9 472 (17.90%) Python
10 403 (15.28%) .NET
11 390 (14.79%) HTML
12 379 (14.37%) Software Engineering
13 372 (14.11%) React
14 367 (13.92%) Social Skills
15 326 (12.36%) TypeScript
16 320 (12.14%) DevOps
17 311 (11.79%) Degree
17 311 (11.79%) Full Stack Development
18 279 (10.58%) Code Quality
19 265 (10.05%) CSS
20 260 (9.86%) Artificial Intelligence
21 254 (9.63%) Microsoft
22 252 (9.56%) CI/CD
23 238 (9.03%) SQL Server
24 237 (8.99%) Security Cleared
25 222 (8.42%) Problem-Solving
26 217 (8.23%) Conversational UI
27 215 (8.15%) Chatbot
28 211 (8.00%) PayPal
28 211 (8.00%) Front Office

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 57 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
2 54 (2.05%) Apache
3 47 (1.78%) CMS
4 43 (1.63%) SharePoint
5 22 (0.83%) nginx
5 22 (0.83%) WordPress
6 19 (0.72%) SAS
6 19 (0.72%) Umbraco
7 15 (0.57%) Confluence
8 14 (0.53%) Apache Spark
9 13 (0.49%) Headless CMS
10 10 (0.38%) Anypoint
10 10 (0.38%) Drupal
11 9 (0.34%) CICS
12 8 (0.30%) Kentico
12 8 (0.30%) Mule
13 7 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
14 5 (0.19%) Mule ESB
14 5 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 215 (8.15%) Chatbot
2 26 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.076%) 3ds Max
6 2 (0.076%) Blender
7 1 (0.038%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.038%) Houdini
7 1 (0.038%) InDesign
7 1 (0.038%) InVision
7 1 (0.038%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.038%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.038%) Sketch
7 1 (0.038%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 26 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (0.72%) NetSuite
3 16 (0.61%) Endur
4 11 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
5 9 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
5 9 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
6 7 (0.27%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.27%) SAP FI-AP
6 7 (0.27%) Shopify
7 5 (0.19%) Aareon QL
7 5 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
8 4 (0.15%) Exstream
8 4 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.15%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
9 3 (0.11%) Magento
9 3 (0.11%) Orchestrade
9 3 (0.11%) RMDS
10 2 (0.076%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 491 (18.62%) AWS
2 479 (18.16%) Azure
3 164 (6.22%) Azure DevOps
4 161 (6.11%) Power Platform
5 157 (5.95%) GCP
6 96 (3.64%) Serverless
7 82 (3.11%) GitHub
8 73 (2.77%) PowerApps
9 66 (2.50%) Power Automate
10 62 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
11 54 (2.05%) Azure Service Bus
12 50 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
13 47 (1.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 45 (1.71%) Amazon S3
15 40 (1.52%) Azure Functions
15 40 (1.52%) dbt
16 38 (1.44%) SaaS
17 37 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
18 32 (1.21%) Azure Monitor
19 31 (1.18%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (0.72%) HTTP
2 16 (0.61%) TCP/IP
3 12 (0.46%) SAN
4 7 (0.27%) VPN
5 6 (0.23%) Intranet
6 4 (0.15%) DNS
6 4 (0.15%) Firewall
6 4 (0.15%) Internet
6 4 (0.15%) MQTT
7 3 (0.11%) Bluetooth
7 3 (0.11%) SSL
7 3 (0.11%) WAN
8 2 (0.076%) FTP
9 1 (0.038%) DHCP
9 1 (0.038%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.038%) Extranet
9 1 (0.038%) LAN
9 1 (0.038%) MPLS
9 1 (0.038%) RFID
9 1 (0.038%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 238 (9.03%) SQL Server
2 120 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 105 (3.98%) Power BI
4 77 (2.92%) MySQL
5 70 (2.65%) NoSQL
6 62 (2.35%) Oracle Database
7 60 (2.28%) MongoDB
8 55 (2.09%) Relational Database
9 46 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 43 (1.63%) Apache Ignite
10 43 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
11 37 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
12 36 (1.37%) Apache Arrow
12 36 (1.37%) Dremio
12 36 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 32 (1.21%) Data Lake
14 31 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
15 26 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
16 23 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
16 23 (0.87%) Redis
Development Applications
1 145 (5.50%) Git
2 67 (2.54%) Jenkins
3 66 (2.50%) JIRA
4 47 (1.78%) GitLab
5 35 (1.33%) Cypress.io
6 30 (1.14%) Mockito
6 30 (1.14%) Visual Studio
7 28 (1.06%) Cucumber
7 28 (1.06%) JUnit
8 24 (0.91%) Selenium
9 21 (0.80%) Maven
9 21 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
10 20 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
11 17 (0.64%) Oracle APEX
11 17 (0.64%) SpecFlow
12 15 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
13 14 (0.53%) webpack
14 13 (0.49%) Storybook
15 11 (0.42%) Android Studio
16 10 (0.38%) TeamCity
General
1 497 (18.85%) Finance
2 367 (13.92%) Social Skills
3 211 (8.00%) Front Office
4 203 (7.70%) Banking
5 169 (6.41%) Public Sector
6 128 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
7 101 (3.83%) Investment Banking
8 45 (1.71%) Retail
9 38 (1.44%) Financial Institution
10 35 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 34 (1.29%) Telecoms
12 27 (1.02%) Manufacturing
13 25 (0.95%) Marketing
14 20 (0.76%) Tech for Good
15 14 (0.53%) Back Office
15 14 (0.53%) Law
16 13 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
17 12 (0.46%) Billing
18 11 (0.42%) Retail Banking
19 10 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 403 (15.28%) .NET
2 390 (14.79%) HTML
3 372 (14.11%) React
4 265 (10.05%) CSS
5 207 (7.85%) AngularJS
6 175 (6.64%) Node.js
7 170 (6.45%) REST
8 114 (4.32%) Web Services
9 108 (4.10%) Spring Boot
10 104 (3.94%) Spring
11 100 (3.79%) RESTful
12 90 (3.41%) XML
13 85 (3.22%) .NET Framework
14 81 (3.07%) .NET Core
15 77 (2.92%) GraphQL
16 76 (2.88%) ASP.NET
17 73 (2.77%) Vue
18 69 (2.62%) Kafka
19 58 (2.20%) Next.js
20 53 (2.01%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 117 (4.44%) Derivative
2 114 (4.32%) Fixed Income
3 73 (2.77%) Hedge funds
4 68 (2.58%) Equities
5 65 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
5 65 (2.46%) Product Ownership
6 62 (2.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 55 (2.09%) Mobile App
8 52 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
9 44 (1.67%) Algorithms
10 36 (1.37%) Equity Derivative
11 30 (1.14%) Data Structures
11 30 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
12 24 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
13 21 (0.80%) Onboarding
14 19 (0.72%) Cloud Native
14 19 (0.72%) Credit Derivative
14 19 (0.72%) Management Information System
15 15 (0.57%) Blockchain
16 14 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 100 (3.79%) Linux
2 62 (2.35%) Unix
3 51 (1.93%) Android
4 40 (1.52%) Apple iOS
5 19 (0.72%) Windows
6 13 (0.49%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.46%) Debian
8 9 (0.34%) zOS
9 5 (0.19%) VMS
10 3 (0.11%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.076%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.076%) CentOS
11 2 (0.076%) OpenVMS
11 2 (0.076%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.038%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.038%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.038%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 533 (20.21%) Agile
2 379 (14.37%) Software Engineering
3 320 (12.14%) DevOps
4 311 (11.79%) Full Stack Development
5 279 (10.58%) Code Quality
6 260 (9.86%) Artificial Intelligence
7 252 (9.56%) CI/CD
8 222 (8.42%) Problem-Solving
9 217 (8.23%) Conversational UI
10 196 (7.43%) Microservices
11 187 (7.09%) Front End Development
12 140 (5.31%) Business Intelligence
12 140 (5.31%) TDD
13 136 (5.16%) Test Automation
14 133 (5.04%) User Experience
15 128 (4.85%) Unit Testing
16 126 (4.78%) Analytics
16 126 (4.78%) Scrum
17 124 (4.70%) Data Modelling
18 109 (4.13%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 630 (23.89%) JavaScript
2 614 (23.28%) SQL
3 584 (22.15%) C#
4 476 (18.05%) Java
5 472 (17.90%) Python
6 326 (12.36%) TypeScript
7 86 (3.26%) PHP
8 79 (3.00%) PL/SQL
9 75 (2.84%) C++
10 68 (2.58%) PowerShell
11 50 (1.90%) Go
12 49 (1.86%) Kotlin
13 42 (1.59%) Scala
14 40 (1.52%) Ruby
15 38 (1.44%) Bicep
16 37 (1.40%) ABAP
17 25 (0.95%) Bash
18 24 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 24 (0.91%) T-SQL
19 23 (0.87%) Perl
Qualifications
1 311 (11.79%) Degree
2 237 (8.99%) Security Cleared
3 201 (7.62%) SC Cleared
4 39 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 25 (0.95%) DV Cleared
7 22 (0.83%) Master's Degree
8 13 (0.49%) PhD
9 7 (0.27%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.23%) CCNA
10 6 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.15%) CTC Cleared
12 3 (0.11%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.038%) CAPM
13 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.038%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.038%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (2.92%) Accessibility
2 64 (2.43%) QA
3 23 (0.87%) Data Quality
4 21 (0.80%) WCAG
5 9 (0.34%) MiFID
6 7 (0.27%) HL7
7 6 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.19%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.15%) Dodd-Frank
9 4 (0.15%) GDPR
9 4 (0.15%) SEPA
10 3 (0.11%) SLA
11 1 (0.038%) EMIR
11 1 (0.038%) FATCA
11 1 (0.038%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.038%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.038%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.038%) NIST
System Software
1 128 (4.85%) Docker
2 47 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.38%) IAG
4 8 (0.30%) ACF2
4 8 (0.30%) RACF
5 5 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.11%) Firmware
6 3 (0.11%) zsh
7 2 (0.076%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.038%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 134 (5.08%) Kubernetes
2 73 (2.77%) Terraform
3 24 (0.91%) Grafana
4 19 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (0.68%) Ansible
6 9 (0.34%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.27%) CloudHub
8 6 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
8 6 (0.23%) Kibana
9 3 (0.11%) Podman
9 3 (0.11%) Zipkin
10 2 (0.076%) CA Endevor
10 2 (0.076%) Istio
10 2 (0.076%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.076%) Packer
10 2 (0.076%) Puppet
11 1 (0.038%) Argo
11 1 (0.038%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.038%) Rancher
11 1 (0.038%) SCOM
Vendors
1 254 (9.63%) Microsoft
2 211 (8.00%) PayPal
3 180 (6.83%) Oracle
4 72 (2.73%) ServiceNow
5 64 (2.43%) SAP
6 60 (2.28%) Google
7 58 (2.20%) Salesforce
8 31 (1.18%) IBM
9 19 (0.72%) MuleSoft
10 18 (0.68%) Databricks
11 17 (0.64%) Adobe
11 17 (0.64%) Red Hat
12 15 (0.57%) OpenAI
13 14 (0.53%) Bloomberg
13 14 (0.53%) Guidewire
14 13 (0.49%) OpenLink
14 13 (0.49%) VMware
15 12 (0.46%) Siebel
15 12 (0.46%) Splunk
16 11 (0.42%) Sybase