Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Developer daily rate in Work from Home is £503 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 4 4 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 0
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 2,580 4,680 9,093
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 17.52% 18.89% 20.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 18.74% 19.82% 21.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 3,545 6,912
10th Percentile £334 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £430 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.24% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £626
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.64% - +10.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 56 84
10th Percentile £23.17 £35.50 -
25th Percentile £35.00 £53.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +19.05% +17.32%
75th Percentile £69.38 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £74.50 £77.50 £76.64
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
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,766 23,608 42,537
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.49% 95.27% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,304 16,691 30,789
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 541 595
10th Percentile £14.23 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.71 £19.45
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.19 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Developer.

Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Developer over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Developer.

Developer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Developer over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Developer hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Developer in the job title.

1 627 (24.30%) JavaScript
2 619 (23.99%) SQL
3 581 (22.52%) C#
4 531 (20.58%) Agile
5 500 (19.38%) Finance
6 488 (18.91%) AWS
7 480 (18.60%) Java
8 478 (18.53%) Azure
9 467 (18.10%) Python
10 403 (15.62%) .NET
11 388 (15.04%) HTML
12 379 (14.69%) Software Engineering
13 372 (14.42%) React
14 366 (14.19%) Social Skills
15 322 (12.48%) TypeScript
16 321 (12.44%) DevOps
17 312 (12.09%) Full Stack Development
18 263 (10.19%) CSS
19 257 (9.96%) Microsoft
20 254 (9.84%) Degree
21 251 (9.73%) CI/CD
22 237 (9.19%) SQL Server
22 237 (9.19%) Security Cleared
23 225 (8.72%) Problem-Solving
24 218 (8.45%) Code Quality
25 212 (8.22%) Front Office
26 207 (8.02%) AngularJS
27 205 (7.95%) Banking
28 200 (7.75%) Artificial Intelligence
28 200 (7.75%) SC Cleared

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
2 56 (2.17%) Apache
3 47 (1.82%) CMS
4 45 (1.74%) SharePoint
5 24 (0.93%) WordPress
6 22 (0.85%) nginx
7 19 (0.74%) SAS
7 19 (0.74%) Umbraco
8 15 (0.58%) Confluence
9 14 (0.54%) Apache Spark
10 13 (0.50%) Headless CMS
11 10 (0.39%) Anypoint
11 10 (0.39%) Drupal
12 9 (0.35%) CICS
13 8 (0.31%) Kentico
13 8 (0.31%) Mule
14 7 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
15 5 (0.19%) Mule ESB
15 5 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
15 5 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 155 (6.01%) Chatbot
2 25 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.078%) 3ds Max
6 2 (0.078%) Blender
7 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.039%) Houdini
7 1 (0.039%) InDesign
7 1 (0.039%) InVision
7 1 (0.039%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.039%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.039%) Sketch
7 1 (0.039%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 26 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (0.74%) NetSuite
3 16 (0.62%) Endur
4 11 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
5 10 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
6 9 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
7 7 (0.27%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.27%) SAP FI-AP
7 7 (0.27%) Shopify
8 5 (0.19%) Aareon QL
8 5 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
9 4 (0.16%) Exstream
9 4 (0.16%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.16%) Teamcenter
10 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
10 3 (0.12%) Magento
10 3 (0.12%) Orchestrade
10 3 (0.12%) RMDS
11 2 (0.078%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 488 (18.91%) AWS
2 478 (18.53%) Azure
3 166 (6.43%) Azure DevOps
4 163 (6.32%) Power Platform
5 160 (6.20%) GCP
6 95 (3.68%) Serverless
7 84 (3.26%) GitHub
8 73 (2.83%) PowerApps
9 65 (2.52%) Power Automate
10 61 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
11 54 (2.09%) Azure Service Bus
12 48 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
12 48 (1.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 43 (1.67%) Amazon S3
14 42 (1.63%) dbt
15 41 (1.59%) Azure Functions
16 38 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
16 38 (1.47%) SaaS
17 32 (1.24%) Azure Monitor
18 31 (1.20%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 20 (0.78%) HTTP
2 17 (0.66%) TCP/IP
3 12 (0.47%) SAN
4 8 (0.31%) VPN
5 6 (0.23%) Intranet
6 5 (0.19%) DNS
7 4 (0.16%) Firewall
7 4 (0.16%) Internet
7 4 (0.16%) MQTT
8 3 (0.12%) SSL
8 3 (0.12%) WAN
9 2 (0.078%) Bluetooth
9 2 (0.078%) DHCP
9 2 (0.078%) FTP
9 2 (0.078%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.039%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.039%) Extranet
10 1 (0.039%) LAN
10 1 (0.039%) MPLS
10 1 (0.039%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 237 (9.19%) SQL Server
2 118 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
3 108 (4.19%) Power BI
4 76 (2.95%) MySQL
5 68 (2.64%) NoSQL
6 62 (2.40%) Oracle Database
7 59 (2.29%) MongoDB
8 55 (2.13%) Relational Database
9 46 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 45 (1.74%) Apache Ignite
10 45 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
11 39 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
12 38 (1.47%) Apache Arrow
12 38 (1.47%) Dremio
13 36 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 34 (1.32%) Data Lake
15 31 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
16 24 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
17 23 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
18 22 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 143 (5.54%) Git
2 66 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 64 (2.48%) JIRA
4 46 (1.78%) GitLab
5 35 (1.36%) Cypress.io
6 30 (1.16%) Mockito
6 30 (1.16%) Visual Studio
7 28 (1.09%) Cucumber
7 28 (1.09%) JUnit
8 23 (0.89%) Maven
8 23 (0.89%) Selenium
9 21 (0.81%) Oracle Forms
10 20 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
11 17 (0.66%) Oracle APEX
12 16 (0.62%) SpecFlow
13 15 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
14 14 (0.54%) webpack
15 13 (0.50%) Storybook
16 11 (0.43%) Android Studio
17 10 (0.39%) TeamCity
General
1 500 (19.38%) Finance
2 366 (14.19%) Social Skills
3 212 (8.22%) Front Office
4 205 (7.95%) Banking
5 168 (6.51%) Public Sector
6 131 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
7 103 (3.99%) Investment Banking
8 45 (1.74%) Retail
9 39 (1.51%) Financial Institution
10 35 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 34 (1.32%) Telecoms
12 27 (1.05%) Manufacturing
13 24 (0.93%) Marketing
14 20 (0.78%) Tech for Good
15 14 (0.54%) Back Office
15 14 (0.54%) Law
16 12 (0.47%) Billing
16 12 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (0.43%) Games
17 11 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 403 (15.62%) .NET
2 388 (15.04%) HTML
3 372 (14.42%) React
4 263 (10.19%) CSS
5 207 (8.02%) AngularJS
6 172 (6.67%) Node.js
6 172 (6.67%) REST
7 113 (4.38%) Web Services
8 110 (4.26%) Spring Boot
9 104 (4.03%) Spring
10 100 (3.88%) RESTful
11 91 (3.53%) XML
12 85 (3.29%) .NET Framework
13 80 (3.10%) .NET Core
14 77 (2.98%) GraphQL
15 75 (2.91%) ASP.NET
16 72 (2.79%) Vue
17 68 (2.64%) Kafka
18 59 (2.29%) Next.js
19 53 (2.05%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 117 (4.53%) Derivative
2 115 (4.46%) Fixed Income
3 74 (2.87%) Hedge funds
4 70 (2.71%) Equities
5 66 (2.56%) Product Ownership
6 65 (2.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 64 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
8 55 (2.13%) Mobile App
9 52 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
10 45 (1.74%) Algorithms
11 35 (1.36%) Equity Derivative
12 30 (1.16%) Data Structures
12 30 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
13 24 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
14 21 (0.81%) Onboarding
15 20 (0.78%) Management Information System
16 19 (0.74%) Cloud Native
17 18 (0.70%) Credit Derivative
18 15 (0.58%) Blockchain
19 14 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 98 (3.80%) Linux
2 63 (2.44%) Unix
3 50 (1.94%) Android
4 40 (1.55%) Apple iOS
5 19 (0.74%) Windows
6 13 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.47%) Debian
8 9 (0.35%) zOS
9 4 (0.16%) VMS
10 3 (0.12%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.078%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.078%) CentOS
11 2 (0.078%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.039%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.039%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.039%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 531 (20.58%) Agile
2 379 (14.69%) Software Engineering
3 321 (12.44%) DevOps
4 312 (12.09%) Full Stack Development
5 251 (9.73%) CI/CD
6 225 (8.72%) Problem-Solving
7 218 (8.45%) Code Quality
8 200 (7.75%) Artificial Intelligence
9 196 (7.60%) Microservices
10 185 (7.17%) Front End Development
11 157 (6.09%) Conversational UI
12 144 (5.58%) Business Intelligence
13 140 (5.43%) TDD
14 136 (5.27%) Test Automation
15 133 (5.16%) User Experience
16 128 (4.96%) Data Modelling
16 128 (4.96%) Unit Testing
17 127 (4.92%) Analytics
18 123 (4.77%) Scrum
19 110 (4.26%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 627 (24.30%) JavaScript
2 619 (23.99%) SQL
3 581 (22.52%) C#
4 480 (18.60%) Java
5 467 (18.10%) Python
6 322 (12.48%) TypeScript
7 87 (3.37%) PHP
8 81 (3.14%) PL/SQL
9 75 (2.91%) C++
10 68 (2.64%) PowerShell
11 49 (1.90%) Go
11 49 (1.90%) Kotlin
12 42 (1.63%) Scala
13 40 (1.55%) Ruby
14 38 (1.47%) Bicep
15 37 (1.43%) ABAP
16 25 (0.97%) Bash
16 25 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 24 (0.93%) T-SQL
18 23 (0.89%) Perl
Qualifications
1 254 (9.84%) Degree
2 237 (9.19%) Security Cleared
3 200 (7.75%) SC Cleared
4 40 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 27 (1.05%) DV Cleared
7 22 (0.85%) Master's Degree
8 13 (0.50%) PhD
9 7 (0.27%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.23%) CCNA
10 6 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.16%) CTC Cleared
12 3 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.12%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.039%) CAPM
13 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.039%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.039%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (2.95%) Accessibility
2 63 (2.44%) QA
3 24 (0.93%) Data Quality
4 21 (0.81%) WCAG
5 9 (0.35%) MiFID
6 7 (0.27%) HL7
7 5 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
7 5 (0.19%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.19%) SEPA
8 4 (0.16%) Dodd-Frank
8 4 (0.16%) GDPR
9 3 (0.12%) SLA
10 1 (0.039%) EMIR
10 1 (0.039%) FATCA
10 1 (0.039%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.039%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.039%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.039%) NIST
System Software
1 127 (4.92%) Docker
2 47 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.39%) IAG
4 8 (0.31%) ACF2
4 8 (0.31%) RACF
5 5 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.12%) Firmware
6 3 (0.12%) zsh
7 2 (0.078%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.039%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 135 (5.23%) Kubernetes
2 71 (2.75%) Terraform
3 22 (0.85%) Grafana
4 19 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (0.70%) Ansible
6 9 (0.35%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.27%) CloudHub
8 6 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
8 6 (0.23%) Kibana
9 3 (0.12%) Podman
9 3 (0.12%) Zipkin
10 2 (0.078%) CA Endevor
10 2 (0.078%) Istio
10 2 (0.078%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.078%) Packer
10 2 (0.078%) Puppet
10 2 (0.078%) SCOM
11 1 (0.039%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.039%) logstash
11 1 (0.039%) Nagios
Vendors
1 257 (9.96%) Microsoft
2 180 (6.98%) Oracle
3 151 (5.85%) PayPal
4 72 (2.79%) ServiceNow
5 65 (2.52%) SAP
6 61 (2.36%) Google
7 58 (2.25%) Salesforce
8 32 (1.24%) IBM
9 19 (0.74%) MuleSoft
10 18 (0.70%) Databricks
11 17 (0.66%) Adobe
11 17 (0.66%) Red Hat
12 15 (0.58%) OpenAI
13 14 (0.54%) Bloomberg
13 14 (0.54%) Guidewire
14 13 (0.50%) OpenLink
14 13 (0.50%) VMware
15 12 (0.47%) Siebel
15 12 (0.47%) Splunk
16 11 (0.43%) Xamarin