Backend Developer Contracts in London

Backend Developer
England > London

The median Backend Developer daily rate in London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 310 354 376
Rank change year-on-year +44 +22 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Backend Developer 83 140 228
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.47% 0.55% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.58% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 105 186
10th Percentile £418 £450 £444
25th Percentile £450 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +4.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile £556 £675 £725
90th Percentile £620 £725 £813
England median daily rate £500 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £72.50 - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - -13.39%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,399 24,342 36,962
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,837 17,773 27,187
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in London

Backend Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Backend Developer in London

Backend Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backend Developer in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Backend Developer in London

Backend Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Backend Developer in London

Backend Developer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backend Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London +13 10 £500 -23.08%
West London +24 4 £538 -2.27%
East London - 4 £435 -
South London - 3 £430 -
Backend Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Backend 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 London region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 54 (65.06%) Agile
2 47 (56.63%) C#
3 45 (54.22%) Azure
3 45 (54.22%) DevOps
4 42 (50.60%) .NET
4 42 (50.60%) SQL Server
5 41 (49.40%) Azure DevOps
6 40 (48.19%) .NET Core
6 40 (48.19%) Microsoft
6 40 (48.19%) Active Directory
7 38 (45.78%) CI/CD
8 37 (44.58%) PowerShell
9 36 (43.37%) Bicep
10 34 (40.96%) XML
11 33 (39.76%) JavaScript
12 31 (37.35%) Entra ID
13 30 (36.14%) B2C
13 30 (36.14%) Scrum
14 26 (31.33%) Java
14 26 (31.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 23 (27.71%) Azure Service Bus
15 23 (27.71%) TypeScript
16 21 (25.30%) HTML
17 20 (24.10%) CSS
18 18 (21.69%) Public Sector
19 16 (19.28%) React
19 16 (19.28%) ASP.NET
19 16 (19.28%) AWS
19 16 (19.28%) Git
20 15 (18.07%) Redis

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (3.61%) CICS
2 1 (1.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.20%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 45 (54.22%) Azure
2 41 (49.40%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (37.35%) Entra ID
4 26 (31.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 23 (27.71%) Azure Service Bus
6 16 (19.28%) AWS
7 6 (7.23%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (6.02%) Serverless
9 3 (3.61%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (2.41%) Amazon Cognito
10 2 (2.41%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.41%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (2.41%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (2.41%) AWS KMS
10 2 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.41%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (2.41%) GitHub
11 1 (1.20%) AWS CodeBuild
11 1 (1.20%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.41%) HTTP
1 2 (2.41%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (50.60%) SQL Server
2 15 (18.07%) Redis
3 5 (6.02%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.61%) DB2
4 3 (3.61%) DynamoDB
4 3 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.41%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.41%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.20%) MySQL
6 1 (1.20%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.20%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (19.28%) Git
2 3 (3.61%) Karma Test Runner
3 2 (2.41%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.41%) Mocha
4 1 (1.20%) Jasmine
4 1 (1.20%) Liquibase
4 1 (1.20%) Pylint
4 1 (1.20%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (21.69%) Public Sector
2 13 (15.66%) Social Skills
3 8 (9.64%) Back Office
4 5 (6.02%) Local Government
5 3 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.41%) Banking
6 2 (2.41%) Finance
7 1 (1.20%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (50.60%) .NET
2 40 (48.19%) .NET Core
3 34 (40.96%) XML
4 21 (25.30%) HTML
5 20 (24.10%) CSS
6 16 (19.28%) ASP.NET
6 16 (19.28%) React
7 14 (16.87%) ASP.NET Core
8 10 (12.05%) Node.js
9 9 (10.84%) Spring
10 8 (9.64%) Spring Boot
11 7 (8.43%) REST
12 4 (4.82%) JSON
12 4 (4.82%) Kafka
13 3 (3.61%) AngularJS
13 3 (3.61%) Apache Felix
13 3 (3.61%) Apache Sling
13 3 (3.61%) ISPF
13 3 (3.61%) JSR 170
13 3 (3.61%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.66%) Product Ownership
2 10 (12.05%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.43%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.82%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.82%) Mobile Payment
5 3 (3.61%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.61%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.20%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.20%) IoT
7 1 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.61%) zOS
2 1 (1.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (65.06%) Agile
2 45 (54.22%) DevOps
3 38 (45.78%) CI/CD
4 30 (36.14%) B2C
4 30 (36.14%) Scrum
5 14 (16.87%) Front End Development
6 10 (12.05%) OO
6 10 (12.05%) TDD
7 9 (10.84%) API Management
7 9 (10.84%) Clean Code
7 9 (10.84%) OOD
8 8 (9.64%) SDLC
8 8 (9.64%) Software Engineering
9 7 (8.43%) Design Patterns
9 7 (8.43%) Microservices
9 7 (8.43%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (7.23%) Database Optimisation
11 5 (6.02%) Content Management
11 5 (6.02%) Software Architecture
11 5 (6.02%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 47 (56.63%) C#
2 37 (44.58%) PowerShell
3 36 (43.37%) Bicep
4 33 (39.76%) JavaScript
5 26 (31.33%) Java
6 23 (27.71%) TypeScript
7 11 (13.25%) SQL
8 7 (8.43%) Python
9 5 (6.02%) Kotlin
10 4 (4.82%) C
10 4 (4.82%) C++
11 3 (3.61%) COBOL
12 1 (1.20%) JCL
12 1 (1.20%) Scala
12 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (9.64%) Degree
2 5 (6.02%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.61%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.02%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.41%) QA
3 1 (1.20%) Data Quality
System Software
1 40 (48.19%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (8.43%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (7.23%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.61%) CA Endevor
4 1 (1.20%) Argo
Vendors
1 40 (48.19%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.61%) IBM
3 1 (1.20%) Adobe
3 1 (1.20%) Checkmarx
3 1 (1.20%) Google
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle