Software Developer Contracts in South London

Software Developer
London > South London

The median Software Developer daily rate in South London is £698, 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 34 45 52
Rank change year-on-year +11 +7 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 4 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 1.84% 0.54% 1.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.90% 0.58% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £480 - -
25th Percentile £553 - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £698 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - +150.00%
75th Percentile £735 - £463
90th Percentile £743 - -
London median daily rate £575 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
London median hourly rate £61.97 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +18.03% +50.00% -48.80%

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%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in South London

Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Developer in South London

Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Developer in South London

Software Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Developer in South London

Software 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 Software 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 - 2 £723 -
Kingston Upon Thames -1 1 - -
Software Developer
London

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) Flask
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (25.00%) BeanShell
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery

Software 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (25.00%) Local Government
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Flask
1 2 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) Django
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) API Development
2 1 (25.00%) BDD
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) User Stories
2 1 (25.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) BeanShell
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (25.00%) NEC