Developer Contracts in South London

Developer
London > South London

The median Developer daily rate in South London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 4 10
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 40 78 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 18.43% 21.20% 15.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 18.96% 22.74% 16.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 59 49
10th Percentile £410 £450 £363
25th Percentile £430 £481 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £813 £638
90th Percentile £740 £900 £745
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +10.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
London median hourly rate £67.00 £67.00 £42.02
% change year-on-year - +59.45% -34.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South 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 South London with a recognized job title 211 343 374
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.24% 93.21% 97.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 265 290
10th Percentile £356 £268 £274
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £519
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.20% -2.12%
75th Percentile £567 £600 £638
90th Percentile £630 £728 £700
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 11
10th Percentile £17.03 £13.63 £14.29
25th Percentile £20.25 £18.75 £38.85
Median hourly rate £56.30 £50.42 £43.62
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% +15.59% -7.19%
75th Percentile £83.75 £53.48 £49.22
90th Percentile - £55.39 £51.48
London median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in South London

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in South London

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in South London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in South London

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in South London

Developer
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Croydon -1 27 £494 +1.28% 5
Bromley 0 5 £688 +10.00% 4
Kingston Upon Thames -7 2 £500 -16.67%
Merton -1 1 £425 -5.56%
Developer
London

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 South London region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 24 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (57.50%) SC Cleared
3 20 (50.00%) Java
4 15 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 15 (37.50%) Agile
5 14 (35.00%) TDD
6 13 (32.50%) CI/CD
7 12 (30.00%) Spring
7 12 (30.00%) AWS
8 11 (27.50%) REST
8 11 (27.50%) Microservices
8 11 (27.50%) React
8 11 (27.50%) Spring Boot
9 10 (25.00%) Public Sector
9 10 (25.00%) Scrum
9 10 (25.00%) SQL
9 10 (25.00%) HTML
10 9 (22.50%) Python
10 9 (22.50%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (22.50%) DevOps
11 8 (20.00%) Serverless
11 8 (20.00%) CSS
11 8 (20.00%) Jenkins
12 7 (17.50%) .NET
12 7 (17.50%) Kubernetes
12 7 (17.50%) Docker
13 6 (15.00%) Oracle
13 6 (15.00%) Amazon S3
13 6 (15.00%) PowerShell
13 6 (15.00%) Git

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 (7.50%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.50%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) JBoss
2 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.50%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) NEC Housing
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Internet Expenses
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.00%) AWS
2 8 (20.00%) Serverless
3 6 (15.00%) Amazon S3
4 5 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (12.50%) Azure
5 4 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (7.50%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (7.50%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (7.50%) GitHub
7 2 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.00%) Entra ID
7 2 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (5.00%) OCI
8 1 (2.50%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (2.50%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (22.50%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 4 (10.00%) Oracle Database
3 4 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (7.50%) Oracle ODI
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.00%) Redis
6 1 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.50%) DB2
6 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.50%) Flink
6 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.50%) MySQL
6 1 (2.50%) Power BI
6 1 (2.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (15.00%) Git
3 3 (7.50%) Bitbucket
4 2 (5.00%) JIRA
4 2 (5.00%) JMeter
4 2 (5.00%) JUnit
5 1 (2.50%) Ant
5 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (2.50%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.50%) Gradle
5 1 (2.50%) Maven
5 1 (2.50%) Mockito
5 1 (2.50%) Selenium
General
1 10 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (10.00%) Finance
2 4 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Back Office
4 1 (2.50%) Banking
4 1 (2.50%) Front Office
4 1 (2.50%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.00%) Spring
2 11 (27.50%) React
2 11 (27.50%) REST
2 11 (27.50%) Spring Boot
3 10 (25.00%) HTML
4 8 (20.00%) CSS
5 7 (17.50%) .NET
6 5 (12.50%) .NET Core
6 5 (12.50%) Hibernate
6 5 (12.50%) Kafka
6 5 (12.50%) Web Services
7 4 (10.00%) Node.js
7 4 (10.00%) RESTful
8 3 (7.50%) AngularJS
8 3 (7.50%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (7.50%) J2EE
9 2 (5.00%) ASP.NET
9 2 (5.00%) SOAP
9 2 (5.00%) Spring Security
9 2 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.50%) Spread Betting
3 2 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (5.00%) Mobile Payment
3 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.50%) Derivative
4 1 (2.50%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.50%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Unix
2 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (37.50%) Agile
2 14 (35.00%) TDD
3 13 (32.50%) CI/CD
4 11 (27.50%) Microservices
5 10 (25.00%) Scrum
6 9 (22.50%) DevOps
7 5 (12.50%) BDD
7 5 (12.50%) Front End Development
8 4 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
8 4 (10.00%) Kanban
8 4 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (7.50%) ETL
9 3 (7.50%) Identity Access Management
9 3 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (7.50%) SDLC
9 3 (7.50%) Test Automation
10 2 (5.00%) MVC
10 2 (5.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (50.00%) Java
2 15 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 10 (25.00%) SQL
4 9 (22.50%) Python
5 6 (15.00%) PowerShell
6 5 (12.50%) C#
6 5 (12.50%) Shell Script
7 4 (10.00%) PL/SQL
7 4 (10.00%) TypeScript
8 3 (7.50%) Bicep
9 1 (2.50%) BeanShell
9 1 (2.50%) C++
Qualifications
1 24 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (57.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.50%) Degree
3 1 (2.50%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (17.50%) Docker
2 3 (7.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (17.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.00%) Terraform
3 3 (7.50%) Ansible
4 2 (5.00%) Kibana
5 1 (2.50%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) Oracle
2 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.00%) MuleSoft
3 2 (5.00%) NEC
4 1 (2.50%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.50%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.50%) Splunk