Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London 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 9 11 10
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 2,264 2,864 3,996
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.17% 12.38% 13.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.08% 13.13% 13.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,649 2,213 2,949
10th Percentile £306 £358 £356
25th Percentile £375 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £563
90th Percentile £650 £658 £631
UK median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.64% - +10.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 55 81
10th Percentile £35.00 £48.49 £31.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £52.38 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +16.36% +37.50%
75th Percentile £80.00 £72.46 £65.42
90th Percentile £90.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% +22.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,742 21,812 29,390
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.30% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,456 15,203 20,621
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,269 1,109 1,458
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.36
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +4 649 £450 -10.45% 592
South East -1 517 £490 -6.44% 594
North West +3 352 £450 -10.00% 341
Midlands +1 317 £425 -5.56% 422
South West -3 293 £450 -12.20% 238
Scotland -2 273 £450 -5.26% 137
Yorkshire +4 267 £488 -7.14% 188
West Midlands +5 224 £425 -10.53% 281
East of England +4 132 £430 -7.03% 163
East Midlands -2 93 £413 -2.94% 140
Wales +5 79 £450 -5.26% 68
North East +2 43 £475 -5.00% 68
Northern Ireland -1 18 £550 +37.50% 38
Developer
UK

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 544 (24.03%) SQL
2 486 (21.47%) Agile
3 455 (20.10%) JavaScript
4 399 (17.62%) Java
5 392 (17.31%) Python
6 363 (16.03%) C#
7 347 (15.33%) AWS
8 335 (14.80%) Azure
9 314 (13.87%) Security Cleared
10 310 (13.69%) HTML
11 294 (12.99%) React
12 284 (12.54%) Software Engineering
13 283 (12.50%) DevOps
14 281 (12.41%) .NET
15 267 (11.79%) Full Stack Development
16 256 (11.31%) Social Skills
17 253 (11.17%) SC Cleared
18 235 (10.38%) TypeScript
19 228 (10.07%) Problem-Solving
20 216 (9.54%) CI/CD
21 207 (9.14%) CSS
22 204 (9.01%) Degree
23 199 (8.79%) Public Sector
24 194 (8.57%) Microsoft
25 191 (8.44%) Microservices
26 190 (8.39%) Spring
27 189 (8.35%) Power Platform
28 182 (8.04%) Git
29 181 (7.99%) Finance
30 176 (7.77%) Artificial Intelligence

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 59 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.68%) Confluence
3 33 (1.46%) CMS
4 24 (1.06%) Apache
4 24 (1.06%) SAS
5 23 (1.02%) Umbraco
6 20 (0.88%) Drupal
7 19 (0.84%) Apache Spark
7 19 (0.84%) WordPress
8 12 (0.53%) CICS
9 9 (0.40%) ColdFusion
10 7 (0.31%) Headless CMS
11 6 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.27%) GeoServer
11 6 (0.27%) OpenEdge
12 5 (0.22%) IIS
13 4 (0.18%) JBoss
13 4 (0.18%) Mule
13 4 (0.18%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 135 (5.96%) Chatbot
2 14 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.13%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.088%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.088%) Sketch
5 2 (0.088%) Trello
6 1 (0.044%) 3ds Max
6 1 (0.044%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.044%) Blender
6 1 (0.044%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.044%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.044%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.044%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 16 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.62%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.31%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.27%) Shopify
5 5 (0.22%) Aareon QL
5 5 (0.22%) Maximo
5 5 (0.22%) Odoo
6 4 (0.18%) Exstream
6 4 (0.18%) LabWindows
6 4 (0.18%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.13%) Magento
7 3 (0.13%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 3 (0.13%) Remedy AR System
7 3 (0.13%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.13%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.13%) SAP FI-AP
Cloud Services
1 347 (15.33%) AWS
2 335 (14.80%) Azure
3 189 (8.35%) Power Platform
4 109 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
5 107 (4.73%) Serverless
6 77 (3.40%) Power Automate
7 71 (3.14%) GitHub
8 59 (2.61%) Amazon S3
9 57 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
10 54 (2.39%) PowerApps
11 52 (2.30%) GCP
12 51 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
13 46 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
14 44 (1.94%) Azure Functions
15 43 (1.90%) SaaS
16 32 (1.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 31 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
18 30 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
19 23 (1.02%) Azure Logic Apps
19 23 (1.02%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.28%) TCP/IP
2 15 (0.66%) SAN
3 14 (0.62%) Intranet
4 10 (0.44%) 5G
4 10 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
5 9 (0.40%) HTTP
6 6 (0.27%) Kerberos
6 6 (0.27%) Tactical Data Link
6 6 (0.27%) VPN
7 5 (0.22%) Firewall
7 5 (0.22%) NAS
7 5 (0.22%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (0.18%) 4G
8 4 (0.18%) Link 16
8 4 (0.18%) RS-232
8 4 (0.18%) SSL
8 4 (0.18%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.088%) DHCP
9 2 (0.088%) DNS
9 2 (0.088%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (5.83%) Power BI
2 119 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 117 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
4 70 (3.09%) Relational Database
5 67 (2.96%) MySQL
6 53 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
7 52 (2.30%) Oracle Database
8 49 (2.16%) NoSQL
9 48 (2.12%) MongoDB
10 47 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 30 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 28 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
13 21 (0.93%) GIS
14 19 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
14 19 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
15 18 (0.80%) Big Data
16 17 (0.75%) Power Query
17 16 (0.71%) DB2
17 16 (0.71%) Oracle Database 11g
17 16 (0.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 182 (8.04%) Git
2 108 (4.77%) JIRA
3 105 (4.64%) Jenkins
4 41 (1.81%) JUnit
5 38 (1.68%) Visual Studio
6 35 (1.55%) Bitbucket
7 31 (1.37%) Cypress.io
8 29 (1.28%) GitLab
9 26 (1.15%) Mockito
10 22 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 22 (0.97%) Maven
11 18 (0.80%) Cucumber
11 18 (0.80%) Oracle APEX
12 17 (0.75%) Android Studio
12 17 (0.75%) Selenium
13 16 (0.71%) Postman
14 15 (0.66%) Rational Rhapsody
14 15 (0.66%) Subversion
15 14 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
15 14 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 256 (11.31%) Social Skills
2 199 (8.79%) Public Sector
3 181 (7.99%) Finance
4 123 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (2.03%) Banking
6 32 (1.41%) Retail
7 26 (1.15%) Telecoms
8 25 (1.10%) Manufacturing
8 25 (1.10%) Marketing
9 22 (0.97%) Aerospace
10 19 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (0.80%) Billing
12 17 (0.75%) Law
13 14 (0.62%) Financial Institution
13 14 (0.62%) Local Government
14 9 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (0.35%) Automotive
16 7 (0.31%) Advertising
16 7 (0.31%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 310 (13.69%) HTML
2 294 (12.99%) React
3 281 (12.41%) .NET
4 207 (9.14%) CSS
5 190 (8.39%) Spring
6 171 (7.55%) AngularJS
7 165 (7.29%) REST
8 148 (6.54%) Spring Boot
9 122 (5.39%) Node.js
10 116 (5.12%) RESTful
11 82 (3.62%) Web Services
12 75 (3.31%) Kafka
13 69 (3.05%) .NET Core
14 60 (2.65%) Vue
15 56 (2.47%) ASP.NET
16 55 (2.43%) .NET Framework
17 53 (2.34%) GraphQL
18 50 (2.21%) XML
19 40 (1.77%) Next.js
20 35 (1.55%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 61 (2.69%) Product Ownership
2 48 (2.12%) Mobile App
3 39 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
4 36 (1.59%) Data Structures
5 33 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
7 30 (1.33%) Algorithms
8 29 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
9 19 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
10 15 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (0.66%) Onboarding
11 14 (0.62%) Cloud Native
11 14 (0.62%) Mainframe
11 14 (0.62%) NHS
12 13 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (0.53%) CMDB
13 12 (0.53%) IBM Mainframe
13 12 (0.53%) Robotics
14 10 (0.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 9 (0.40%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 132 (5.83%) Linux
2 69 (3.05%) Android
3 59 (2.61%) Unix
4 54 (2.39%) Apple iOS
5 25 (1.10%) Windows
6 18 (0.80%) Ubuntu
7 17 (0.75%) Debian
8 11 (0.49%) zOS
9 8 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.18%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.088%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.088%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.044%) AIX
12 1 (0.044%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.044%) VMS
12 1 (0.044%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 486 (21.47%) Agile
2 284 (12.54%) Software Engineering
3 283 (12.50%) DevOps
4 267 (11.79%) Full Stack Development
5 228 (10.07%) Problem-Solving
6 216 (9.54%) CI/CD
7 191 (8.44%) Microservices
8 176 (7.77%) Artificial Intelligence
9 171 (7.55%) Code Quality
10 155 (6.85%) Business Intelligence
11 149 (6.58%) Scrum
12 140 (6.18%) Unit Testing
13 136 (6.01%) Conversational UI
14 123 (5.43%) TDD
15 121 (5.34%) Front End Development
16 116 (5.12%) Data Modelling
17 114 (5.04%) Test Automation
18 101 (4.46%) User Experience
19 100 (4.42%) Analytics
20 97 (4.28%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 544 (24.03%) SQL
2 455 (20.10%) JavaScript
3 399 (17.62%) Java
4 392 (17.31%) Python
5 363 (16.03%) C#
6 235 (10.38%) TypeScript
7 91 (4.02%) PHP
7 91 (4.02%) PL/SQL
8 64 (2.83%) C
9 57 (2.52%) C++
10 52 (2.30%) Kotlin
11 49 (2.16%) PowerShell
12 48 (2.12%) Scala
13 36 (1.59%) T-SQL
14 33 (1.46%) Shell Script
15 29 (1.28%) Bash
15 29 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 28 (1.24%) ABAP
16 28 (1.24%) Go
16 28 (1.24%) Swift
Qualifications
1 314 (13.87%) Security Cleared
2 253 (11.17%) SC Cleared
3 204 (9.01%) Degree
4 49 (2.16%) DV Cleared
5 36 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
7 19 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (0.57%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.31%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.088%) PMP
11 1 (0.044%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.044%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.044%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.044%) PhD
11 1 (0.044%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.044%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (3.09%) QA
2 45 (1.99%) Accessibility
3 21 (0.93%) Data Quality
3 21 (0.93%) HL7
4 12 (0.53%) GDPR
5 11 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
6 8 (0.35%) ISO 9001
6 8 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.35%) WCAG
7 4 (0.18%) MISRA
7 4 (0.18%) SLA
8 3 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.088%) IFRS
9 2 (0.088%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.044%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.044%) GRC
10 1 (0.044%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.044%) MISRA C
10 1 (0.044%) NCSC
10 1 (0.044%) PMO
System Software
1 117 (5.17%) Docker
2 30 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.49%) Firmware
4 4 (0.18%) zsh
5 3 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.044%) HDFS
6 1 (0.044%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.044%) IAG
6 1 (0.044%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 116 (5.12%) Kubernetes
2 46 (2.03%) Ansible
3 36 (1.59%) Terraform
4 25 (1.10%) Grafana
5 19 (0.84%) PowerCLI
6 18 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.40%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.35%) Zipkin
9 7 (0.31%) Kibana
10 4 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.18%) Podman
11 2 (0.088%) CA Endevor
11 2 (0.088%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.088%) Puppet
12 1 (0.044%) Control-M
12 1 (0.044%) Hadoop YARN
12 1 (0.044%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.044%) OPNET
12 1 (0.044%) rkt
Vendors
1 194 (8.57%) Microsoft
2 159 (7.02%) Oracle
3 135 (5.96%) PayPal
4 93 (4.11%) ServiceNow
5 56 (2.47%) SAP
6 43 (1.90%) Google
6 43 (1.90%) Salesforce
7 29 (1.28%) IBM
8 27 (1.19%) VMware
9 25 (1.10%) Atlassian
10 21 (0.93%) Red Hat
11 19 (0.84%) Dell
12 18 (0.80%) HP
13 17 (0.75%) IFS
14 16 (0.71%) Adobe
14 16 (0.71%) Guidewire
15 11 (0.49%) Avaloq
15 11 (0.49%) Informatica
15 11 (0.49%) Syncsort
16 10 (0.44%) Splunk