Developer Contracts in the South West

Developer
England > South West

The median Developer daily rate in the South West is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 12 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 -5 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 293 421 532
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 9.26% 12.13% 14.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.94% 13.12% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 322 417
10th Percentile £313 £364 £361
25th Percentile £363 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +2.50% +5.82%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £700 £675 £631
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 16 12
10th Percentile £64.88 £49.24 £45.37
25th Percentile £75.00 £50.04 £49.50
Median hourly rate £90.00 £56.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% +2.27% +14.58%
75th Percentile - £65.50 £62.25
90th Percentile - £73.09 £63.47
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% +16.36% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 2,947 3,209 3,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.11% 92.48% 95.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,874 2,397 2,514
10th Percentile £213 £275 £220
25th Percentile £400 £415 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £613 £644 £589
90th Percentile £700 £719 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 414 251 215
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.09 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £50.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +41.30% +8.24%
75th Percentile £71.25 £72.98 £63.60
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.40 £69.05
England median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the South West

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in the South West

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in the South West over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the South West

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the South West

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in the South West over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in the South West

Developer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Bristol 0 149 £413 -8.33% 101
Wiltshire -16 51 £600 +9.29% 16
Gloucestershire +1 41 £475 -19.15% 29
Devon -11 18 £650 +18.18% 39
Somerset -10 13 £450 -2.17% 32
Dorset -8 9 £419 -25.56% 16
Cornwall - 5 £388 - 4
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 West region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 77 (26.28%) JavaScript
2 66 (22.53%) Security Cleared
3 63 (21.50%) Python
4 54 (18.43%) TypeScript
5 53 (18.09%) React
5 53 (18.09%) Agile
6 51 (17.41%) SC Cleared
7 50 (17.06%) C#
8 49 (16.72%) .NET
9 47 (16.04%) Azure
9 47 (16.04%) AWS
9 47 (16.04%) Full Stack Development
10 44 (15.02%) SQL
11 41 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
12 40 (13.65%) Power Platform
13 39 (13.31%) DevOps
14 38 (12.97%) Java
15 37 (12.63%) HTML
15 37 (12.63%) AngularJS
16 36 (12.29%) Social Skills
16 36 (12.29%) OO
17 34 (11.60%) OOP
18 31 (10.58%) JIRA
19 30 (10.24%) CSS
20 29 (9.90%) CI/CD
21 27 (9.22%) Microsoft
21 27 (9.22%) REST
22 26 (8.87%) Business Intelligence
23 25 (8.53%) Linux
23 25 (8.53%) Jenkins

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 23 (7.85%) SharePoint
2 21 (7.17%) Confluence
3 6 (2.05%) CMS
3 6 (2.05%) Umbraco
4 4 (1.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.68%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (5.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.34%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.02%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.68%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.68%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.34%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.34%) Magento
4 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.34%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 47 (16.04%) AWS
1 47 (16.04%) Azure
2 40 (13.65%) Power Platform
3 17 (5.80%) Power Automate
4 13 (4.44%) GCP
5 12 (4.10%) PowerApps
6 10 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.05%) GitHub
10 5 (1.71%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (1.71%) Azure Storage
10 5 (1.71%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 4 (1.37%) npm
11 4 (1.37%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 4 (1.37%) Serverless
12 3 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (1.02%) Firebase
12 3 (1.02%) SaaS
12 3 (1.02%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.41%) Intranet
2 2 (0.68%) Tactical Data Link
3 1 (0.34%) 5G
3 1 (0.34%) DHCP
3 1 (0.34%) DNS
3 1 (0.34%) LTE
3 1 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.34%) SSL
3 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.34%) VPN
3 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.19%) Power BI
2 14 (4.78%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.39%) MySQL
4 6 (2.05%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.37%) Biml
6 4 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.02%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.68%) CockroachDB
8 2 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.68%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.68%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.34%) DataStage
9 1 (0.34%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.34%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 31 (10.58%) JIRA
2 25 (8.53%) Jenkins
3 21 (7.17%) Bitbucket
4 20 (6.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 8 (2.73%) Git
6 5 (1.71%) Visual Studio
7 4 (1.37%) Maven
8 3 (1.02%) GitLab
8 3 (1.02%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (1.02%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.68%) Postman
9 2 (0.68%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.68%) webpack
10 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.34%) ESLint
10 1 (0.34%) GoogleTest
10 1 (0.34%) Selenium
10 1 (0.34%) Subversion
General
1 36 (12.29%) Social Skills
2 22 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (6.48%) Finance
4 18 (6.14%) Aerospace
5 12 (4.10%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.05%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.71%) Tech for Good
7 5 (1.71%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.37%) Banking
8 4 (1.37%) Marketing
9 3 (1.02%) Law
10 2 (0.68%) Billing
10 2 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.68%) Military
11 1 (0.34%) Back Office
11 1 (0.34%) Electronics
11 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.34%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (18.09%) React
2 49 (16.72%) .NET
3 37 (12.63%) AngularJS
3 37 (12.63%) HTML
4 30 (10.24%) CSS
5 27 (9.22%) REST
6 24 (8.19%) Spring
7 23 (7.85%) .NET Core
8 16 (5.46%) Node.js
9 13 (4.44%) Next.js
10 11 (3.75%) GraphQL
10 11 (3.75%) SAML
11 10 (3.41%) ASP.NET
11 10 (3.41%) Spring Boot
12 8 (2.73%) React Native
13 7 (2.39%) Flask
13 7 (2.39%) GWT
13 7 (2.39%) JAX-RS
13 7 (2.39%) Restlet
14 6 (2.05%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 9 (3.07%) Mobile App
2 7 (2.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (1.37%) Insider Threat
4 4 (1.37%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.02%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.02%) FPGA
5 3 (1.02%) VHDL
6 2 (0.68%) IoT
6 2 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.34%) Derivative
7 1 (0.34%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (0.34%) PKI
7 1 (0.34%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.34%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.34%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 25 (8.53%) Linux
2 11 (3.75%) Android
3 9 (3.07%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.37%) Unix
5 2 (0.68%) Windows
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (18.09%) Agile
2 47 (16.04%) Full Stack Development
3 41 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (13.31%) DevOps
5 36 (12.29%) OO
6 34 (11.60%) OOP
7 29 (9.90%) CI/CD
8 26 (8.87%) Business Intelligence
9 23 (7.85%) Front End Development
9 23 (7.85%) Project Management
10 22 (7.51%) Configuration Management
11 21 (7.17%) Deployment Automation
12 20 (6.83%) Continuous Integration
13 19 (6.48%) Software Engineering
13 19 (6.48%) Task Automation
14 18 (6.14%) Infrastructure Automation
15 17 (5.80%) Artificial Intelligence
15 17 (5.80%) Code Quality
16 16 (5.46%) Conversational UI
17 15 (5.12%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 77 (26.28%) JavaScript
2 63 (21.50%) Python
3 54 (18.43%) TypeScript
4 50 (17.06%) C#
5 44 (15.02%) SQL
6 38 (12.97%) Java
7 22 (7.51%) PowerShell
8 14 (4.78%) C
9 8 (2.73%) PHP
10 6 (2.05%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.37%) C++
11 4 (1.37%) Objective-C
11 4 (1.37%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.37%) Swift
12 2 (0.68%) Dart
12 2 (0.68%) Go
12 2 (0.68%) PL/1
12 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.68%) SOQL
13 1 (0.34%) ProC
Qualifications
1 66 (22.53%) Security Cleared
2 51 (17.41%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.51%) Degree
4 12 (4.10%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.71%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.44%) QA
2 4 (1.37%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.02%) MISRA
4 2 (0.68%) WCAG
5 1 (0.34%) JSP 440
System Software
1 11 (3.75%) Docker
2 8 (2.73%) Firmware
3 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (6.48%) Ansible
1 19 (6.48%) PowerCLI
2 12 (4.10%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.07%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (2.05%) Terraform
5 1 (0.34%) OPNET
5 1 (0.34%) rkt
Vendors
1 27 (9.22%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.83%) Atlassian
3 18 (6.14%) Dell
3 18 (6.14%) HP
4 16 (5.46%) Google
5 15 (5.12%) PayPal
6 12 (4.10%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.39%) Oracle
8 6 (2.05%) Adobe
9 4 (1.37%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.02%) OutSystems
10 3 (1.02%) Xamarin
10 3 (1.02%) Xilinx
11 2 (0.68%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.34%) IBM
12 1 (0.34%) Marketo
12 1 (0.34%) Pardot
12 1 (0.34%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 1 (0.34%) SAP
12 1 (0.34%) VMware