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 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 5 6 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 5,169 7,652 13,171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 14.01% 16.12% 18.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.10% 17.05% 19.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,881 5,900 10,291
10th Percentile £325 £380 £390
25th Percentile £413 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £675
90th Percentile £800 £806 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 71 122
10th Percentile £35.00 £47.75 £32.03
25th Percentile £54.85 £52.38 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% +2.27%
75th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £89.75 £80.00 £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
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 34,226 44,888 67,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,546 31,942 48,134
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
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% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,576 1,314 1,782
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.51
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.57 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
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 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 1 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 1 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 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
London 0 3,109 £575 -4.17% 927
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
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
North East +1 33 £428 -14.50% 55
Developer
UK

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

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 England region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 1,377 (26.64%) Agile
2 1,214 (23.49%) SQL
3 1,097 (21.22%) C#
4 1,077 (20.84%) Finance
5 1,056 (20.43%) JavaScript
6 1,032 (19.97%) Java
7 1,015 (19.64%) Azure
8 995 (19.25%) Python
9 917 (17.74%) AWS
10 839 (16.23%) .NET
11 774 (14.97%) React
12 747 (14.45%) DevOps
13 729 (14.10%) Social Skills
14 703 (13.60%) Full Stack Development
15 689 (13.33%) Software Engineering
16 626 (12.11%) HTML
17 615 (11.90%) TypeScript
18 588 (11.38%) CI/CD
19 565 (10.93%) Security Cleared
20 548 (10.60%) Microsoft
21 524 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
22 516 (9.98%) SQL Server
23 515 (9.96%) Banking
24 504 (9.75%) CSS
25 493 (9.54%) SC Cleared
26 448 (8.67%) Microservices
27 439 (8.49%) TDD
28 435 (8.42%) Git
29 434 (8.40%) Front Office
30 416 (8.05%) 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
1 159 (3.08%) Apache
2 133 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
3 125 (2.42%) SharePoint
4 87 (1.68%) CMS
5 59 (1.14%) Confluence
6 42 (0.81%) SAS
7 40 (0.77%) Apache Spark
8 36 (0.70%) WordPress
9 33 (0.64%) Umbraco
10 24 (0.46%) Drupal
11 21 (0.41%) Headless CMS
12 18 (0.35%) IIS
13 17 (0.33%) CICS
14 16 (0.31%) nginx
15 15 (0.29%) Anypoint
16 9 (0.17%) Appian
16 9 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
16 9 (0.17%) ColdFusion
16 9 (0.17%) MQSeries
16 9 (0.17%) Mule
Applications
1 125 (2.42%) Chatbot
2 78 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.19%) Sketch
5 7 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.12%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.097%) InVision
8 4 (0.077%) Trello
9 2 (0.039%) 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 55 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (0.52%) Endur
3 14 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 13 (0.25%) ION MarketView
5 12 (0.23%) Shopify
6 10 (0.19%) Teamcenter
7 9 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
8 7 (0.14%) Magento
8 7 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
9 6 (0.12%) Aareon QL
9 6 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
9 6 (0.12%) NEC Housing
10 5 (0.097%) Dynamics NAV
10 5 (0.097%) SAP CO
10 5 (0.097%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.097%) SAP FI/CO
11 4 (0.077%) Exstream
11 4 (0.077%) LabWindows
11 4 (0.077%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,015 (19.64%) Azure
2 917 (17.74%) AWS
3 359 (6.95%) Power Platform
4 353 (6.83%) GCP
5 314 (6.07%) Azure DevOps
6 227 (4.39%) Serverless
7 168 (3.25%) GitHub
8 152 (2.94%) Power Automate
9 148 (2.86%) PowerApps
10 125 (2.42%) Azure Service Bus
11 110 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 104 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
13 97 (1.88%) Azure Functions
14 88 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
15 84 (1.63%) Entra ID
16 81 (1.57%) Amazon S3
17 75 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
18 67 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
19 66 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
20 65 (1.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.18%) HTTP
2 31 (0.60%) TCP/IP
3 20 (0.39%) Internet
4 16 (0.31%) Intranet
5 14 (0.27%) SAN
6 12 (0.23%) DNS
6 12 (0.23%) VPN
7 11 (0.21%) SSL
8 10 (0.19%) SSH
9 9 (0.17%) 5G
9 9 (0.17%) Radio Access Network
10 8 (0.15%) Firewall
10 8 (0.15%) Kerberos
11 6 (0.12%) DHCP
11 6 (0.12%) MQTT
11 6 (0.12%) Tactical Data Link
12 5 (0.097%) FTP
12 5 (0.097%) NAS
12 5 (0.097%) VoIP
12 5 (0.097%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 516 (9.98%) SQL Server
2 294 (5.69%) PostgreSQL
3 241 (4.66%) Power BI
4 215 (4.16%) NoSQL
5 150 (2.90%) Relational Database
6 132 (2.55%) MongoDB
7 121 (2.34%) MySQL
8 116 (2.24%) Apache Ignite
9 110 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
10 101 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 89 (1.72%) Oracle Database
12 80 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 74 (1.43%) KDB
14 64 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
15 57 (1.10%) Redis
16 52 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
16 52 (1.01%) Data Lake
17 43 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
17 43 (0.83%) Big Data
18 42 (0.81%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 435 (8.42%) Git
2 203 (3.93%) Jenkins
3 186 (3.60%) JIRA
4 99 (1.92%) Cypress.io
5 88 (1.70%) JUnit
6 79 (1.53%) GitLab
7 67 (1.30%) Mockito
7 67 (1.30%) Visual Studio
8 62 (1.20%) Selenium
9 54 (1.04%) Cucumber
10 52 (1.01%) Bitbucket
10 52 (1.01%) TeamCity
11 41 (0.79%) Maven
12 37 (0.72%) webpack
13 31 (0.60%) SpecFlow
14 25 (0.48%) Android Studio
14 25 (0.48%) Postman
15 24 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 24 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
16 23 (0.44%) SonarQube
General
1 1,077 (20.84%) Finance
2 729 (14.10%) Social Skills
3 515 (9.96%) Banking
4 434 (8.40%) Front Office
5 371 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
6 305 (5.90%) Public Sector
7 195 (3.77%) Investment Banking
8 75 (1.45%) Retail
9 69 (1.33%) Marketing
10 63 (1.22%) Telecoms
11 60 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 40 (0.77%) Manufacturing
13 39 (0.75%) Back Office
14 38 (0.74%) Financial Institution
15 34 (0.66%) Local Government
16 31 (0.60%) Law
17 27 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
18 25 (0.48%) Aerospace
19 24 (0.46%) Games
20 21 (0.41%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 839 (16.23%) .NET
2 774 (14.97%) React
3 626 (12.11%) HTML
4 504 (9.75%) CSS
5 416 (8.05%) AngularJS
6 385 (7.45%) REST
7 310 (6.00%) Spring
8 302 (5.84%) Node.js
9 256 (4.95%) RESTful
10 235 (4.55%) .NET Core
11 231 (4.47%) Spring Boot
12 221 (4.28%) Kafka
13 189 (3.66%) XML
14 187 (3.62%) .NET Framework
15 186 (3.60%) Redux
15 186 (3.60%) Web Services
16 169 (3.27%) ASP.NET
17 131 (2.53%) gRPC
18 124 (2.40%) Protocol Buffers
19 120 (2.32%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 284 (5.49%) Fixed Income
2 209 (4.04%) Derivative
3 197 (3.81%) Hedge funds
4 158 (3.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 150 (2.90%) Equities
6 130 (2.51%) Product Ownership
7 112 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
8 108 (2.09%) Algorithms
9 101 (1.95%) Mobile App
10 94 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
11 74 (1.43%) Data Structures
12 70 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
13 58 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
14 53 (1.03%) Management Information System
15 52 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
16 51 (0.99%) Onboarding
17 38 (0.74%) Equity Derivative
18 34 (0.66%) Cloud Native
19 33 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
20 30 (0.58%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 253 (4.89%) Linux
2 150 (2.90%) Unix
3 131 (2.53%) Android
4 111 (2.15%) Apple iOS
5 89 (1.72%) Windows
6 21 (0.41%) Mac OS X
7 19 (0.37%) zOS
8 16 (0.31%) Debian
8 16 (0.31%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.12%) Windows 10
11 5 (0.097%) 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 1,377 (26.64%) Agile
2 747 (14.45%) DevOps
3 703 (13.60%) Full Stack Development
4 689 (13.33%) Software Engineering
5 588 (11.38%) CI/CD
6 524 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
7 448 (8.67%) Microservices
8 439 (8.49%) TDD
9 354 (6.85%) Front End Development
10 348 (6.73%) Scrum
11 308 (5.96%) Business Intelligence
12 299 (5.78%) Test Automation
13 281 (5.44%) Unit Testing
14 262 (5.07%) Artificial Intelligence
15 257 (4.97%) SDLC
16 250 (4.84%) Analytics
17 249 (4.82%) OO
18 245 (4.74%) Continuous Integration
19 231 (4.47%) Migration
20 218 (4.22%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 1,214 (23.49%) SQL
2 1,097 (21.22%) C#
3 1,056 (20.43%) JavaScript
4 1,032 (19.97%) Java
5 995 (19.25%) Python
6 615 (11.90%) TypeScript
7 212 (4.10%) PowerShell
8 197 (3.81%) C++
9 172 (3.33%) PHP
10 168 (3.25%) PL/SQL
11 141 (2.73%) Scala
12 115 (2.22%) Kotlin
13 97 (1.88%) C
14 96 (1.86%) T-SQL
15 82 (1.59%) Go
16 77 (1.49%) Bicep
17 61 (1.18%) Ruby
18 53 (1.03%) Swift
19 48 (0.93%) Perl
20 47 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 565 (10.93%) Security Cleared
2 493 (9.54%) SC Cleared
3 386 (7.47%) Degree
4 118 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 52 (1.01%) Master's Degree
6 51 (0.99%) DV Cleared
7 34 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (0.25%) Azure Certification
9 12 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
10 11 (0.21%) PhD
11 10 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.12%) CCNA
13 6 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.077%) CTC Cleared
14 4 (0.077%) PMP
15 3 (0.058%) OCP
15 3 (0.058%) Oracle Certification
15 3 (0.058%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 2 (0.039%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (2.88%) QA
2 83 (1.61%) Accessibility
3 52 (1.01%) Data Quality
4 37 (0.72%) WCAG
5 21 (0.41%) 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 (0.14%) EMIR
11 7 (0.14%) SLA
12 6 (0.12%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.097%) SEPA
14 4 (0.077%) GRC
14 4 (0.077%) MISRA
15 3 (0.058%) IFRS
15 3 (0.058%) IFRS 9
15 3 (0.058%) NIST
System Software
1 293 (5.67%) Docker
2 125 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.25%) Firmware
5 9 (0.17%) IAG
6 8 (0.15%) ACF2
6 8 (0.15%) RACF
7 4 (0.077%) zsh
8 3 (0.058%) VMware Infrastructure
9 2 (0.039%) HDFS
9 2 (0.039%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.039%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.039%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.019%) Cronacle
10 1 (0.019%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 338 (6.54%) Kubernetes
2 138 (2.67%) Terraform
3 80 (1.55%) Ansible
4 41 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
5 27 (0.52%) Grafana
6 19 (0.37%) PowerCLI
7 15 (0.29%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.19%) Podman
9 7 (0.14%) Control-M
9 7 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (0.097%) CA Endevor
10 5 (0.097%) CloudHub
10 5 (0.097%) Puppet
11 4 (0.077%) Kibana
11 4 (0.077%) Nagios
11 4 (0.077%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.077%) SCOM
12 3 (0.058%) Istio
12 3 (0.058%) PingFederate
13 2 (0.039%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 548 (10.60%) Microsoft
2 345 (6.67%) Oracle
3 189 (3.66%) Google
4 152 (2.94%) ServiceNow
5 115 (2.22%) Salesforce
6 110 (2.13%) PayPal
7 105 (2.03%) SAP
8 52 (1.01%) IBM
9 47 (0.91%) MuleSoft
10 41 (0.79%) Databricks
11 36 (0.70%) ION Trading
12 33 (0.64%) Splunk
13 29 (0.56%) Atlassian
13 29 (0.56%) Virgin Media
14 28 (0.54%) Adobe
15 24 (0.46%) Red Hat
15 24 (0.46%) VMware
16 22 (0.43%) Citrix
16 22 (0.43%) Informatica
16 22 (0.43%) TIBCO