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 during the 6 months to 1 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
1 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 2,304 2,739 3,984
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.06% 12.02% 13.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.97% 12.76% 13.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,680 2,130 2,920
10th Percentile £306 £350 £358
25th Percentile £375 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% +2.11% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £568
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 49 81
10th Percentile £35.00 £50.00 £32.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £52.38 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% +27.91%
75th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £90.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% +10.00%

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 19,247 21,469 29,158
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.25% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,616 14,937 20,515
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,085 1,398
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +4 647 £450 -10.45% 491
South East +1 534 £475 -5.47% 320
North West +1 346 £450 -10.00% 304
Midlands +2 313 £425 -5.56% 338
South West -4 297 £450 -10.00% 198
Scotland -2 287 £450 -5.26% 113
Yorkshire +3 268 £475 -9.52% 136
West Midlands +4 220 £425 -10.53% 214
East of England +8 141 £420 -11.58% 142
East Midlands -4 93 £425 -5.56% 122
Wales +6 77 £450 -7.69% 36
North East +1 33 £428 -14.50% 55
Northern Ireland +1 21 £575 +43.75% 20
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 548 (23.78%) SQL
2 498 (21.61%) Agile
3 467 (20.27%) JavaScript
4 422 (18.32%) Java
5 408 (17.71%) Python
6 367 (15.93%) C#
7 361 (15.67%) AWS
8 347 (15.06%) Azure
9 321 (13.93%) HTML
10 309 (13.41%) Security Cleared
11 303 (13.15%) React
12 288 (12.50%) .NET
13 284 (12.33%) DevOps
14 281 (12.20%) Software Engineering
15 279 (12.11%) Full Stack Development
16 260 (11.28%) Social Skills
17 248 (10.76%) SC Cleared
18 237 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
19 231 (10.03%) TypeScript
20 220 (9.55%) CI/CD
21 215 (9.33%) CSS
22 209 (9.07%) Power Platform
23 207 (8.98%) Microsoft
24 206 (8.94%) Spring
25 196 (8.51%) Microservices
25 196 (8.51%) Finance
26 192 (8.33%) Public Sector
27 188 (8.16%) Git
28 181 (7.86%) Degree
29 176 (7.64%) 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 65 (2.82%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.61%) Confluence
3 30 (1.30%) CMS
4 26 (1.13%) SAS
5 25 (1.09%) Umbraco
6 22 (0.95%) Apache
6 22 (0.95%) Apache Spark
7 20 (0.87%) Drupal
7 20 (0.87%) WordPress
8 12 (0.52%) CICS
9 9 (0.39%) ColdFusion
10 7 (0.30%) Headless CMS
11 6 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.26%) GeoServer
11 6 (0.26%) OpenEdge
12 5 (0.22%) IIS
13 4 (0.17%) JBoss
13 4 (0.17%) Moodle
13 4 (0.17%) Mule
13 4 (0.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 113 (4.90%) Chatbot
2 14 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.26%) Sketch
5 4 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.13%) InVision
6 3 (0.13%) Trello
7 2 (0.087%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.087%) 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 18 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.61%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (0.30%) Shopify
3 7 (0.30%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.22%) Aareon QL
4 5 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.22%) Maximo
4 5 (0.22%) SAP CO
4 5 (0.22%) SAP FI
4 5 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (0.17%) Exstream
5 4 (0.17%) LabWindows
5 4 (0.17%) Odoo
5 4 (0.17%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.13%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 3 (0.13%) Remedy AR System
6 3 (0.13%) SAP FI-AP
6 3 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.087%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 361 (15.67%) AWS
2 347 (15.06%) Azure
3 209 (9.07%) Power Platform
4 119 (5.16%) Serverless
5 107 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
6 85 (3.69%) Power Automate
7 72 (3.13%) GitHub
8 67 (2.91%) PowerApps
9 65 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
10 64 (2.78%) Amazon S3
11 51 (2.21%) GCP
12 48 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
13 46 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
14 44 (1.91%) Azure Functions
14 44 (1.91%) SaaS
15 33 (1.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 32 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
17 29 (1.26%) Azure Monitor
17 29 (1.26%) Microsoft 365
18 24 (1.04%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.13%) TCP/IP
2 14 (0.61%) SAN
3 12 (0.52%) Intranet
4 10 (0.43%) HTTP
5 9 (0.39%) 5G
5 9 (0.39%) 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%) 4G
9 3 (0.13%) Wireless
10 2 (0.087%) MQTT
10 2 (0.087%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (6.12%) Power BI
2 122 (5.30%) SQL Server
3 121 (5.25%) PostgreSQL
4 68 (2.95%) Relational Database
5 67 (2.91%) MySQL
6 54 (2.34%) Oracle Database
7 53 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
8 50 (2.17%) NoSQL
9 44 (1.91%) MongoDB
10 43 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 30 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 29 (1.26%) Amazon Aurora
13 22 (0.95%) GIS
14 21 (0.91%) Big Data
15 19 (0.82%) Power Query
16 18 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
17 17 (0.74%) Tableau
18 16 (0.69%) DB2
18 16 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
19 15 (0.65%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 188 (8.16%) Git
2 112 (4.86%) JIRA
3 109 (4.73%) Jenkins
4 43 (1.87%) JUnit
5 37 (1.61%) Visual Studio
6 36 (1.56%) Bitbucket
7 31 (1.35%) Cypress.io
8 27 (1.17%) GitLab
9 26 (1.13%) Maven
9 26 (1.13%) Mockito
10 23 (1.00%) Selenium
11 22 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 20 (0.87%) Cucumber
13 18 (0.78%) Oracle APEX
14 16 (0.69%) Android Studio
15 15 (0.65%) Postman
15 15 (0.65%) Rational Rhapsody
15 15 (0.65%) Subversion
16 14 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
17 12 (0.52%) webpack
General
1 260 (11.28%) Social Skills
2 196 (8.51%) Finance
3 192 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 132 (5.73%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (2.30%) Banking
6 34 (1.48%) Retail
7 31 (1.35%) Telecoms
8 24 (1.04%) Manufacturing
9 22 (0.95%) Aerospace
9 22 (0.95%) Marketing
10 19 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (0.78%) Billing
12 16 (0.69%) Law
13 14 (0.61%) Local Government
14 12 (0.52%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.35%) Automotive
17 8 (0.35%) Investment Banking
18 7 (0.30%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 321 (13.93%) HTML
2 303 (13.15%) React
3 288 (12.50%) .NET
4 215 (9.33%) CSS
5 206 (8.94%) Spring
6 176 (7.64%) REST
7 170 (7.38%) AngularJS
8 157 (6.81%) Spring Boot
9 130 (5.64%) Node.js
10 122 (5.30%) RESTful
11 83 (3.60%) Web Services
12 80 (3.47%) Kafka
13 71 (3.08%) .NET Core
14 60 (2.60%) Vue
15 59 (2.56%) .NET Framework
16 57 (2.47%) ASP.NET
17 52 (2.26%) GraphQL
18 46 (2.00%) XML
19 38 (1.65%) Next.js
20 36 (1.56%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 60 (2.60%) Product Ownership
2 52 (2.26%) Mobile App
3 40 (1.74%) Data Structures
3 40 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
4 33 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
5 31 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
6 30 (1.30%) Algorithms
6 30 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
7 20 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
8 15 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (0.61%) Cloud Native
9 14 (0.61%) Mainframe
10 13 (0.56%) NHS
10 13 (0.56%) Onboarding
10 13 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (0.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 12 (0.52%) IBM Mainframe
11 12 (0.52%) Robotics
12 11 (0.48%) CMDB
13 9 (0.39%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 132 (5.73%) Linux
2 71 (3.08%) Android
3 70 (3.04%) Unix
4 58 (2.52%) Apple iOS
5 26 (1.13%) Windows
6 17 (0.74%) Ubuntu
7 16 (0.69%) Debian
8 11 (0.48%) 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 (21.61%) Agile
2 284 (12.33%) DevOps
3 281 (12.20%) Software Engineering
4 279 (12.11%) Full Stack Development
5 237 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
6 220 (9.55%) CI/CD
7 196 (8.51%) Microservices
8 165 (7.16%) Business Intelligence
9 152 (6.60%) Artificial Intelligence
10 150 (6.51%) Scrum
11 148 (6.42%) Code Quality
12 138 (5.99%) Unit Testing
13 131 (5.69%) TDD
14 121 (5.25%) Data Modelling
15 118 (5.12%) Test Automation
16 117 (5.08%) Front End Development
17 113 (4.90%) Conversational UI
18 104 (4.51%) Analytics
19 102 (4.43%) SDLC
20 100 (4.34%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 548 (23.78%) SQL
2 467 (20.27%) JavaScript
3 422 (18.32%) Java
4 408 (17.71%) Python
5 367 (15.93%) C#
6 231 (10.03%) TypeScript
7 94 (4.08%) PL/SQL
8 88 (3.82%) PHP
9 67 (2.91%) C
10 59 (2.56%) C++
11 51 (2.21%) Kotlin
12 50 (2.17%) PowerShell
13 46 (2.00%) Scala
14 38 (1.65%) T-SQL
15 36 (1.56%) Shell Script
16 31 (1.35%) Bash
17 30 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 28 (1.22%) ABAP
18 28 (1.22%) Swift
19 27 (1.17%) Go
Qualifications
1 309 (13.41%) Security Cleared
2 248 (10.76%) SC Cleared
3 181 (7.86%) Degree
4 50 (2.17%) DV Cleared
5 37 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (0.56%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.35%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.087%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.087%) PMP
12 1 (0.043%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.043%) CEH
12 1 (0.043%) CISSP
12 1 (0.043%) OCP
12 1 (0.043%) PhD
12 1 (0.043%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.043%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (2.99%) QA
2 42 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 22 (0.95%) Data Quality
4 19 (0.82%) HL7
5 12 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
6 11 (0.48%) GDPR
7 8 (0.35%) ISO 9001
7 8 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.30%) WCAG
9 4 (0.17%) MISRA
9 4 (0.17%) SLA
10 3 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 2 (0.087%) IFRS
11 2 (0.087%) 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
1 118 (5.12%) Docker
2 31 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.48%) Firmware
4 4 (0.17%) 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
1 114 (4.95%) Kubernetes
2 45 (1.95%) Ansible
3 32 (1.39%) Terraform
4 26 (1.13%) Grafana
5 19 (0.82%) PowerCLI
6 18 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.39%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.35%) Zipkin
9 7 (0.30%) Kibana
10 4 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.17%) Podman
11 2 (0.087%) 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
1 207 (8.98%) Microsoft
2 165 (7.16%) Oracle
3 108 (4.69%) PayPal
4 83 (3.60%) ServiceNow
5 58 (2.52%) SAP
6 45 (1.95%) Google
7 39 (1.69%) Salesforce
8 26 (1.13%) IBM
9 25 (1.09%) Atlassian
10 23 (1.00%) VMware
11 20 (0.87%) Splunk
12 19 (0.82%) Dell
12 19 (0.82%) Red Hat
13 18 (0.78%) HP
14 16 (0.69%) Guidewire
15 14 (0.61%) IFS
16 13 (0.56%) Adobe
17 11 (0.48%) Avaloq
17 11 (0.48%) Informatica
17 11 (0.48%) Syncsort