Junior Contracts in England

Junior
UK > England

The median Junior daily rate in England is £315, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 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
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 376 471
Rank change year-on-year +27 +95 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Junior 199 278 334
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.53% 0.59% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.62% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 194 212
10th Percentile £125 £132 £154
25th Percentile £213 £163 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 £270 £300
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £400 £363 £376
90th Percentile £500 £439 £471
UK median daily rate £320 £270 £300
% change year-on-year +18.52% -10.00% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 17 25
10th Percentile - £10.94 £13.82
25th Percentile - £12.95 £15.00
Median hourly rate £10.42 £14.24 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% -25.05% +2.70%
75th Percentile - £21.00 £22.40
90th Percentile £18.68 £30.54 £26.50
UK median hourly rate £10.42 £15.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -30.53% -21.05% +2.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,647 44,562 67,791
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.48% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,650 31,596 48,500
10th Percentile £295 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £530
% change year-on-year -2.33% +1.42% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,591 1,341 1,761
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.65 £20.00 £15.93
Median hourly rate £39.55 £44.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +76.00% +18.76%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £49.89
90th Percentile £74.54 £77.50 £65.30
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £43.81 £25.50
% change year-on-year -14.39% +71.78% +18.60%

Junior
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Junior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Junior in England

Junior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Junior in England.

Daily rate trend for Junior in England

Junior
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Junior in England over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Junior in England

Junior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Junior in England.

Hourly rate trend for Junior in England

Junior
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Junior in England over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Junior in England

Junior
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Junior within the England region over the 6 months to 27 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
London +55 92 £305 +12.96% 49
South East +5 39 £365 +92.11% 61
North of England +19 26 £360 +18.52% 63
Midlands +3 15 £208 -24.55% 42
Yorkshire +16 12 £325 +30.00% 20
West Midlands +10 12 £200 -5.88% 28
North East +19 11 £360 -4.00% 9
South West -4 11 £406 +103.13% 48
East of England -16 7 £290 +7.41% 34
East Midlands +4 3 £283 -19.29% 14
North West -9 3 £375 +16.73% 36
Junior
UK

Junior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 27 June 2024, Junior 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 England region featuring Junior in the job title.

1 60 (30.15%) Security Cleared
2 52 (26.13%) SC Cleared
3 42 (21.11%) Social Skills
4 34 (17.09%) Python
5 28 (14.07%) Project Management
5 28 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (13.07%) Agile
7 25 (12.56%) Azure
7 25 (12.56%) Analytical Skills
8 24 (12.06%) Degree
9 22 (11.06%) DevOps
10 20 (10.05%) AWS
11 19 (9.55%) Windows
11 19 (9.55%) Public Sector
12 18 (9.05%) SQL
13 17 (8.54%) Stakeholder Management
14 16 (8.04%) Microsoft
14 16 (8.04%) PMO
15 14 (7.04%) Unix
15 14 (7.04%) Finance
15 14 (7.04%) Scrum
15 14 (7.04%) Docker
15 14 (7.04%) Kubernetes
16 13 (6.53%) Cybersecurity
16 13 (6.53%) Computer Science
17 12 (6.03%) IBM
17 12 (6.03%) Netcool
17 12 (6.03%) Shell Script
17 12 (6.03%) Microsoft Excel
17 12 (6.03%) Data Protection Act

Junior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (4.52%) Apache
2 4 (2.01%) CMS
2 4 (2.01%) Confluence
3 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.51%) SAS
3 3 (1.51%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (6.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.52%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.51%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.01%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.50%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 25 (12.56%) Azure
2 20 (10.05%) AWS
3 9 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (3.52%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.02%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (2.51%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (1.51%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (1.51%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.51%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.01%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.01%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.01%) SaaS
9 2 (1.01%) Serverless
9 2 (1.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.50%) GCP
10 1 (0.50%) PaaS
10 1 (0.50%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.02%) DNS
1 6 (3.02%) FTP
1 6 (3.02%) HTTP
2 4 (2.01%) LAN
2 4 (2.01%) SMTP
2 4 (2.01%) SSL
3 3 (1.51%) Firewall
3 3 (1.51%) Network Security
3 3 (1.51%) WAN
3 3 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.01%) DHCP
4 2 (1.01%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.01%) VPN
5 1 (0.50%) BGP
5 1 (0.50%) DSL
5 1 (0.50%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.50%) Intranet
5 1 (0.50%) OSPF
5 1 (0.50%) RIP
5 1 (0.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (3.52%) Relational Database
2 6 (3.02%) Flink
3 5 (2.51%) Power BI
3 5 (2.51%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.51%) MySQL
4 3 (1.51%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.51%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.01%) Tableau
6 1 (0.50%) Big Data
6 1 (0.50%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.50%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.50%) MS Access
6 1 (0.50%) Power Query
6 1 (0.50%) Redis
6 1 (0.50%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.50%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 11 (5.53%) Git
2 7 (3.52%) JUnit
3 6 (3.02%) GitLab
4 5 (2.51%) JIRA
5 4 (2.01%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.51%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.51%) Selenium
7 2 (1.01%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.01%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.50%) Gatling
8 1 (0.50%) Postman
8 1 (0.50%) Subversion
General
1 42 (21.11%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.56%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (9.55%) Public Sector
4 14 (7.04%) Finance
5 9 (4.52%) Banking
6 8 (4.02%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.02%) Legal
7 6 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.02%) Retail
8 5 (2.51%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.51%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.51%) Marketing
9 4 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.01%) Automotive
11 2 (1.01%) Dutch Language
11 2 (1.01%) Front Office
11 2 (1.01%) German Language
11 2 (1.01%) Law
12 1 (0.50%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.53%) React
2 10 (5.03%) REST
3 8 (4.02%) Kafka
4 7 (3.52%) Spring Boot
5 6 (3.02%) Hibernate
5 6 (3.02%) JPA
5 6 (3.02%) Spring
6 5 (2.51%) .NET
7 4 (2.01%) CSS
7 4 (2.01%) HTML
7 4 (2.01%) LDAP
8 3 (1.51%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.51%) JSON
8 3 (1.51%) Vue
9 2 (1.01%) ARM Templates
9 2 (1.01%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.01%) NumPy
9 2 (1.01%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.01%) Web Services
9 2 (1.01%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.03%) Data Protection Act
1 12 (6.03%) Driving Licence
2 5 (2.51%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.01%) Algorithms
3 4 (2.01%) Cyberattack
3 4 (2.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (2.01%) iPhone
3 4 (2.01%) Mobile App
3 4 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.51%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.51%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (1.01%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.01%) Derivative
5 2 (1.01%) Equities
5 2 (1.01%) FMCG
5 2 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.01%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.01%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.50%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.55%) Windows
2 14 (7.04%) Unix
3 11 (5.53%) Linux
4 5 (2.51%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.01%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.01%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.50%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.50%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.50%) Windows 8
6 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
1 28 (14.07%) Project Management
2 26 (13.07%) Agile
3 22 (11.06%) DevOps
4 17 (8.54%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (7.04%) Scrum
6 13 (6.53%) Computer Science
6 13 (6.53%) Cybersecurity
7 12 (6.03%) CI/CD
7 12 (6.03%) Data Protection
8 11 (5.53%) Analytics
8 11 (5.53%) High Availability
8 11 (5.53%) User Experience
9 10 (5.03%) Collaborative Working
10 9 (4.52%) Data Analysis
10 9 (4.52%) Front End Development
11 8 (4.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (4.02%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (3.52%) Customer Value Proposition
12 7 (3.52%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 34 (17.09%) Python
2 18 (9.05%) SQL
3 12 (6.03%) Shell Script
4 11 (5.53%) Java
5 10 (5.03%) TypeScript
6 8 (4.02%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.02%) Bash
7 6 (3.02%) C#
7 6 (3.02%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.51%) C
9 2 (1.01%) Perl
9 2 (1.01%) VBA
10 1 (0.50%) ABAP
10 1 (0.50%) C++
10 1 (0.50%) Go
10 1 (0.50%) Julia
10 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 60 (30.15%) Security Cleared
2 52 (26.13%) SC Cleared
3 24 (12.06%) Degree
4 10 (5.03%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.51%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 5 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.51%) PMI Certification
5 5 (2.51%) PMP
6 4 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.01%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.51%) CCNA
7 3 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.51%) GIAC
7 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.01%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.01%) GCIA
8 2 (1.01%) GCIH
8 2 (1.01%) MCSE
8 2 (1.01%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.04%) PMO
2 5 (2.51%) QA
3 2 (1.01%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.01%) NIST
3 2 (1.01%) SLA
4 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.50%) GDPR
4 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.50%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (7.04%) Docker
2 5 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.01%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (7.04%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.03%) Netcool
3 9 (4.52%) Terraform
4 6 (3.02%) SCCM
5 3 (1.51%) Ansible
5 3 (1.51%) Grafana
5 3 (1.51%) SCOM
6 2 (1.01%) CSIRT
6 2 (1.01%) Istio
6 2 (1.01%) SCSM
7 1 (0.50%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.50%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 16 (8.04%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.03%) IBM
3 9 (4.52%) Oracle
4 8 (4.02%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.51%) Cisco
5 5 (2.51%) SAP
6 4 (2.01%) Darktrace
6 4 (2.01%) FireEye
6 4 (2.01%) IronPort
6 4 (2.01%) LogRhythm
6 4 (2.01%) Splunk
6 4 (2.01%) Symantec
7 3 (1.51%) Apple
7 3 (1.51%) Talend
7 3 (1.51%) VMware
8 2 (1.01%) Citrix
8 2 (1.01%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.50%) BT
9 1 (0.50%) HP
9 1 (0.50%) Informatica