Low-Code Contracts

Low-Code
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Low-Code in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Low-Code over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 514 607 750
Rank change year-on-year +93 +143 -71
Contract jobs citing Low-Code 61 75 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.13% 0.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.47% 0.40% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 55 71
10th Percentile £400 £369 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £568 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.39% +13.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £650 £616
90th Percentile £579 £815 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £500 £531
% change year-on-year +4.50% -5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £79.19 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £79.19 -

All Generic Skills
UK

Low-Code is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,955 18,685 29,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.09% 33.33% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,317 12,877 20,364
10th Percentile £270 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 612 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.18 £10.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.13 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +58.19% -17.99% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £74.93 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.61 £22.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +57.30% +3.53% -7.61%

Low-Code
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Low-Code in the UK

Low-Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Low-Code in the UK

Low-Code
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Low-Code over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Low-Code in the UK

Low-Code
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Low-Code within the UK 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
England +71 48 £525 -2.33% 70
Work from Home +122 36 £525 -12.50% 35
London +77 24 £525 -10.06% 27
UK excluding London +41 23 £523 +4.50% 48
North of England +27 7 £550 +4.76% 15
East of England - 6 £498 - 4
North West +25 5 £550 - 11
South West +7 4 £438 -32.69% 6
South East +7 3 £538 +7.50% 4
Wales +18 1 £500 +16.28% 2
Midlands +18 1 £189 -51.32% 11
Yorkshire +17 1 - - 3
East Midlands - 1 £189 - 4
North East - 1 £650 - 1
Scotland - 1 - - 5

Low-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 18 (29.51%) SharePoint
2 6 (9.84%) Appian
3 5 (8.20%) Alfresco
3 5 (8.20%) Camunda
3 5 (8.20%) IBM Notes
4 3 (4.92%) IIS
5 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.64%) CMS
5 1 (1.64%) Mendix
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Maximo
2 1 (1.64%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (45.90%) Power Platform
2 20 (32.79%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (27.87%) Azure
3 17 (27.87%) Power Automate
3 17 (27.87%) PowerApps
4 9 (14.75%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (6.56%) Serverless
6 3 (4.92%) Azure Functions
7 2 (3.28%) AWS
7 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.28%) GitHub
7 2 (3.28%) IaaS
7 2 (3.28%) PaaS
7 2 (3.28%) SaaS
8 1 (1.64%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.64%) Figma
8 1 (1.64%) GCP
8 1 (1.64%) Miro
8 1 (1.64%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (1.64%) Unqork
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.31%) Power BI
2 5 (8.20%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.64%) DataStage
3 1 (1.64%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Git
1 3 (4.92%) JIRA
2 2 (3.28%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.64%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.64%) Postman
3 1 (1.64%) Selenium
General
1 21 (34.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.11%) Finance
2 8 (13.11%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.56%) Banking
4 3 (4.92%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (4.92%) Marketing
5 1 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.64%) Games
5 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.64%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.64%) Local Government
5 1 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.64%) Police
5 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (39.34%) Developer
2 14 (22.95%) Architect
2 14 (22.95%) Power Platform Developer
3 7 (11.48%) Analyst
3 7 (11.48%) Applications Developer
3 7 (11.48%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (9.84%) Business Analyst
4 6 (9.84%) Lead
4 6 (9.84%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 5 (8.20%) Platform Architect
5 5 (8.20%) Power Platform Architect
6 3 (4.92%) Pega Developer
6 3 (4.92%) Salesforce Architect
7 2 (3.28%) Consultant
7 2 (3.28%) Designer
7 2 (3.28%) Lead Developer
7 2 (3.28%) Power Apps Developer
7 2 (3.28%) Technical Leader
8 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Architect
8 1 (1.64%) Project Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.75%) JSON
2 7 (11.48%) HTML
3 6 (9.84%) CSS
3 6 (9.84%) HTML5 Canvas
4 5 (8.20%) .NET
4 5 (8.20%) Drools
4 5 (8.20%) jBPM
5 4 (6.56%) .NET Framework
5 4 (6.56%) REST
6 3 (4.92%) SOAP
6 3 (4.92%) XHTML
7 2 (3.28%) GraphQL
7 2 (3.28%) Swagger
7 2 (3.28%) XML
8 1 (1.64%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (1.64%) MACH
8 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (1.64%) Playwright
8 1 (1.64%) PySpark
8 1 (1.64%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.39%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (8.20%) Algorithms
2 5 (8.20%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.20%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.28%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.28%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.28%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.64%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (27.87%) Agile
2 13 (21.31%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (19.67%) Workflow
4 9 (14.75%) DevOps
5 8 (13.11%) Microservices
6 7 (11.48%) Data Modelling
7 6 (9.84%) BPMN
7 6 (9.84%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (9.84%) Test Automation
8 5 (8.20%) API Design
8 5 (8.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (6.56%) Acceptance Criteria
9 4 (6.56%) Business Analysis
9 4 (6.56%) OOD
9 4 (6.56%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (6.56%) Roadmaps
9 4 (6.56%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (6.56%) User Stories
10 3 (4.92%) API Management
10 3 (4.92%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 13 (21.31%) C#
1 13 (21.31%) JavaScript
2 9 (14.75%) Java
3 5 (8.20%) Python
3 5 (8.20%) SQL
4 1 (1.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (26.23%) Security Cleared
2 12 (19.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.20%) Degree
3 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.28%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.28%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (4.92%) Grafana
Vendors
1 30 (49.18%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.11%) Pega
3 5 (8.20%) Lotus
3 5 (8.20%) New Relic
3 5 (8.20%) Splunk
4 4 (6.56%) IBM
5 3 (4.92%) Nintex
5 3 (4.92%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.92%) SAP
6 2 (3.28%) MuleSoft
6 2 (3.28%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 2 (3.28%) UiPath
7 1 (1.64%) Adobe
7 1 (1.64%) Blue Prism
7 1 (1.64%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.64%) Conga
7 1 (1.64%) Optimizely
7 1 (1.64%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.64%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.64%) Verint