Developer Contracts in England

Developer
UK > England

The median Developer daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 6 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 5,216 7,582 13,197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 14.02% 16.11% 18.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.11% 17.05% 19.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,888 5,837 10,313
10th Percentile £325 £375 £398
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £675
90th Percentile £800 £813 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 77 123
10th Percentile £35.00 £49.10 £31.45
25th Percentile £54.85 £52.38 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £89.75 £76.75 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% +18.92%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,518 44,474 67,322
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,601 31,623 48,168
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.19% +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,625 1,324 1,768
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.38 £12.74
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +88.21% +13.59%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in England

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in England.

Daily rate trend for Developer in England

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in England

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in England

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in England

Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London 0 3,152 £575 -4.17% 857
North of England +3 649 £450 -10.45% 538
South East -1 531 £475 -5.00% 322
North West +3 351 £450 -10.00% 327
Midlands +1 318 £425 -5.56% 342
South West -3 297 £450 -7.22% 192
Yorkshire +2 264 £475 -9.52% 150
West Midlands +4 222 £425 -10.53% 209
East of England +7 143 £420 -11.58% 147
East Midlands -5 96 £419 -6.94% 133
North East -1 34 £450 -10.00% 66
Developer
UK

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 9 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 England region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 1,385 (26.55%) Agile
2 1,224 (23.47%) SQL
3 1,099 (21.07%) C#
4 1,098 (21.05%) Finance
5 1,052 (20.17%) JavaScript
6 1,039 (19.92%) Java
7 1,017 (19.50%) Azure
8 996 (19.10%) Python
9 914 (17.52%) AWS
10 847 (16.24%) .NET
11 770 (14.76%) React
12 754 (14.46%) DevOps
13 733 (14.05%) Social Skills
14 699 (13.40%) Full Stack Development
15 692 (13.27%) Software Engineering
16 635 (12.17%) HTML
17 607 (11.64%) TypeScript
18 596 (11.43%) CI/CD
19 561 (10.76%) Security Cleared
20 554 (10.62%) Microsoft
21 531 (10.18%) SQL Server
22 529 (10.14%) Banking
23 525 (10.07%) Problem-Solving
24 505 (9.68%) CSS
25 490 (9.39%) SC Cleared
26 447 (8.57%) Microservices
27 441 (8.45%) TDD
27 441 (8.45%) Front Office
28 439 (8.42%) Git
29 414 (7.94%) AngularJS

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 166 (3.18%) Apache
2 141 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
3 128 (2.45%) SharePoint
4 87 (1.67%) CMS
5 57 (1.09%) Confluence
6 43 (0.82%) SAS
7 40 (0.77%) Apache Spark
8 36 (0.69%) WordPress
9 32 (0.61%) Umbraco
10 23 (0.44%) Drupal
11 21 (0.40%) Headless CMS
12 19 (0.36%) IIS
13 17 (0.33%) CICS
14 15 (0.29%) Anypoint
14 15 (0.29%) nginx
15 9 (0.17%) Appian
15 9 (0.17%) ColdFusion
15 9 (0.17%) MQSeries
15 9 (0.17%) Mule
15 9 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 125 (2.40%) Chatbot
2 79 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (0.21%) Sketch
5 7 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.12%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.096%) InVision
8 4 (0.077%) Trello
9 2 (0.038%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.019%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.019%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.019%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.019%) Blender
10 1 (0.019%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.019%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.019%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.019%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.019%) Simulink
10 1 (0.019%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 62 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.56%) Endur
3 15 (0.29%) Shopify
4 14 (0.27%) NetSuite
5 13 (0.25%) ION MarketView
5 13 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
6 10 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
6 10 (0.19%) Teamcenter
7 8 (0.15%) NEC Housing
8 7 (0.13%) Magento
8 7 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.12%) Aareon QL
9 6 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
9 6 (0.12%) SAP CO
9 6 (0.12%) SAP FI
9 6 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.096%) Dynamics NAV
11 4 (0.077%) Exstream
11 4 (0.077%) LabWindows
11 4 (0.077%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,017 (19.50%) Azure
2 914 (17.52%) AWS
3 362 (6.94%) Power Platform
4 358 (6.86%) GCP
5 317 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
6 230 (4.41%) Serverless
7 169 (3.24%) GitHub
8 155 (2.97%) Power Automate
9 150 (2.88%) PowerApps
10 125 (2.40%) Azure Service Bus
11 116 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
12 110 (2.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 99 (1.90%) Azure Functions
14 85 (1.63%) Entra ID
15 84 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
16 82 (1.57%) Amazon S3
17 75 (1.44%) Microsoft 365
18 68 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
19 65 (1.25%) SaaS
20 64 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.21%) HTTP
2 31 (0.59%) TCP/IP
3 21 (0.40%) Internet
4 15 (0.29%) Intranet
5 13 (0.25%) DNS
5 13 (0.25%) SAN
6 12 (0.23%) VPN
7 11 (0.21%) SSL
8 10 (0.19%) SSH
9 9 (0.17%) Firewall
10 8 (0.15%) 5G
10 8 (0.15%) Kerberos
10 8 (0.15%) Radio Access Network
11 6 (0.12%) DHCP
11 6 (0.12%) FTP
11 6 (0.12%) MQTT
11 6 (0.12%) Tactical Data Link
12 5 (0.096%) NAS
12 5 (0.096%) OpenLDAP
12 5 (0.096%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 531 (10.18%) SQL Server
2 295 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
3 240 (4.60%) Power BI
4 221 (4.24%) NoSQL
5 155 (2.97%) Relational Database
6 131 (2.51%) MongoDB
7 122 (2.34%) Apache Ignite
8 121 (2.32%) MySQL
9 111 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
10 104 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 93 (1.78%) Oracle Database
12 81 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 73 (1.40%) KDB
14 64 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
15 56 (1.07%) Data Lake
15 56 (1.07%) Redis
16 53 (1.02%) Apache Cassandra
17 48 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
17 48 (0.92%) Apache Arrow
18 47 (0.90%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 439 (8.42%) Git
2 207 (3.97%) Jenkins
3 188 (3.60%) JIRA
4 97 (1.86%) Cypress.io
5 89 (1.71%) JUnit
6 78 (1.50%) GitLab
7 72 (1.38%) Visual Studio
8 66 (1.27%) Mockito
9 62 (1.19%) Selenium
10 53 (1.02%) Cucumber
11 52 (1.00%) TeamCity
12 50 (0.96%) Bitbucket
13 44 (0.84%) Maven
14 35 (0.67%) webpack
15 29 (0.56%) SpecFlow
16 26 (0.50%) Postman
17 25 (0.48%) Android Studio
18 24 (0.46%) SonarQube
19 23 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 23 (0.44%) NUnit
General
1 1,098 (21.05%) Finance
2 733 (14.05%) Social Skills
3 529 (10.14%) Banking
4 441 (8.45%) Front Office
5 370 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
6 301 (5.77%) Public Sector
7 200 (3.83%) Investment Banking
8 79 (1.51%) Retail
9 68 (1.30%) Marketing
10 65 (1.25%) Telecoms
11 57 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 41 (0.79%) Financial Institution
13 40 (0.77%) Back Office
14 38 (0.73%) Manufacturing
15 36 (0.69%) Local Government
16 29 (0.56%) Law
17 27 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
18 26 (0.50%) Games
19 23 (0.44%) Aerospace
20 21 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 847 (16.24%) .NET
2 770 (14.76%) React
3 635 (12.17%) HTML
4 505 (9.68%) CSS
5 414 (7.94%) AngularJS
6 388 (7.44%) REST
7 314 (6.02%) Spring
8 302 (5.79%) Node.js
9 263 (5.04%) RESTful
10 236 (4.52%) Spring Boot
11 231 (4.43%) .NET Core
12 227 (4.35%) Kafka
13 198 (3.80%) .NET Framework
14 192 (3.68%) XML
15 186 (3.57%) Redux
15 186 (3.57%) Web Services
16 176 (3.37%) ASP.NET
17 139 (2.66%) gRPC
18 130 (2.49%) Protocol Buffers
19 121 (2.32%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 292 (5.60%) Fixed Income
2 212 (4.06%) Derivative
3 200 (3.83%) Hedge funds
4 173 (3.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 153 (2.93%) Equities
6 132 (2.53%) Product Ownership
7 112 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
8 107 (2.05%) Algorithms
9 106 (2.03%) Mobile App
10 96 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
11 77 (1.48%) Data Structures
12 70 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
13 60 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
14 54 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
14 54 (1.04%) Management Information System
15 48 (0.92%) Onboarding
16 35 (0.67%) Equity Derivative
17 32 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
18 31 (0.59%) Cloud Native
18 31 (0.59%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 256 (4.91%) Linux
2 154 (2.95%) Unix
3 137 (2.63%) Android
4 114 (2.19%) Apple iOS
5 90 (1.73%) Windows
6 21 (0.40%) Mac OS X
7 19 (0.36%) zOS
8 15 (0.29%) Debian
8 15 (0.29%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.12%) Windows 10
11 5 (0.096%) VMS
12 4 (0.077%) Windows Server
13 3 (0.058%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.058%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.058%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.019%) CentOS
14 1 (0.019%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,385 (26.55%) Agile
2 754 (14.46%) DevOps
3 699 (13.40%) Full Stack Development
4 692 (13.27%) Software Engineering
5 596 (11.43%) CI/CD
6 525 (10.07%) Problem-Solving
7 447 (8.57%) Microservices
8 441 (8.45%) TDD
9 345 (6.61%) Scrum
10 342 (6.56%) Front End Development
11 310 (5.94%) Business Intelligence
12 299 (5.73%) Test Automation
13 286 (5.48%) Unit Testing
14 261 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence
15 257 (4.93%) SDLC
16 251 (4.81%) Analytics
16 251 (4.81%) OO
17 247 (4.74%) Continuous Integration
18 234 (4.49%) Migration
19 222 (4.26%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 1,224 (23.47%) SQL
2 1,099 (21.07%) C#
3 1,052 (20.17%) JavaScript
4 1,039 (19.92%) Java
5 996 (19.10%) Python
6 607 (11.64%) TypeScript
7 214 (4.10%) PowerShell
8 194 (3.72%) C++
9 172 (3.30%) PL/SQL
10 171 (3.28%) PHP
11 143 (2.74%) Scala
12 119 (2.28%) Kotlin
13 103 (1.97%) T-SQL
14 95 (1.82%) C
15 80 (1.53%) Go
16 77 (1.48%) Bicep
17 61 (1.17%) Ruby
18 54 (1.04%) Swift
19 50 (0.96%) Shell Script
20 48 (0.92%) VBA
Qualifications
1 561 (10.76%) Security Cleared
2 490 (9.39%) SC Cleared
3 392 (7.52%) Degree
4 121 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (1.02%) Master's Degree
6 48 (0.92%) DV Cleared
7 33 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
9 13 (0.25%) Azure Certification
10 10 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
10 10 (0.19%) PhD
11 7 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.12%) CCNA
12 6 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.077%) CTC Cleared
13 4 (0.077%) PMP
14 3 (0.058%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 2 (0.038%) AWS Certification
15 2 (0.038%) OCP
15 2 (0.038%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (2.78%) QA
2 80 (1.53%) Accessibility
3 53 (1.02%) Data Quality
4 36 (0.69%) WCAG
5 21 (0.40%) MiFID
6 18 (0.35%) HL7
7 14 (0.27%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.23%) GDPR
9 9 (0.17%) Dodd-Frank
10 8 (0.15%) ISO 9001
10 8 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 7 (0.13%) EMIR
11 7 (0.13%) SLA
12 6 (0.12%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.12%) MISRA
13 5 (0.096%) GRC
13 5 (0.096%) SEPA
14 3 (0.058%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.058%) IFRS
14 3 (0.058%) NIST
System Software
1 297 (5.69%) Docker
2 126 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.19%) Firmware
5 9 (0.17%) IAG
6 8 (0.15%) ACF2
6 8 (0.15%) RACF
7 3 (0.058%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.058%) zsh
8 2 (0.038%) HDFS
8 2 (0.038%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.038%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.038%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.019%) Cronacle
9 1 (0.019%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 342 (6.56%) Kubernetes
2 140 (2.68%) Terraform
3 82 (1.57%) Ansible
4 42 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
5 27 (0.52%) Grafana
6 19 (0.36%) PowerCLI
7 15 (0.29%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.19%) Podman
9 8 (0.15%) Control-M
10 7 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.096%) CA Endevor
11 5 (0.096%) CloudHub
11 5 (0.096%) Puppet
12 4 (0.077%) Kibana
12 4 (0.077%) Nagios
12 4 (0.077%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.077%) SCOM
13 3 (0.058%) Istio
13 3 (0.058%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.058%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 554 (10.62%) Microsoft
2 351 (6.73%) Oracle
3 190 (3.64%) Google
4 157 (3.01%) ServiceNow
5 113 (2.17%) Salesforce
5 113 (2.17%) SAP
6 110 (2.11%) PayPal
7 51 (0.98%) IBM
8 48 (0.92%) MuleSoft
9 41 (0.79%) Databricks
10 37 (0.71%) ION Trading
11 32 (0.61%) Splunk
12 31 (0.59%) Virgin Media
13 27 (0.52%) Adobe
13 27 (0.52%) Atlassian
14 24 (0.46%) OpenLink
15 23 (0.44%) Citrix
15 23 (0.44%) Red Hat
15 23 (0.44%) VMware
16 22 (0.42%) Informatica