Software Developer Contracts in England

Software Developer
UK > England

The median Software Developer daily rate in England is £519, 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 222 333 341
Rank change year-on-year +111 +8 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 396 336 562
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.06% 0.71% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 0.76% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 245 361
10th Percentile £379 £350 £369
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% - +12.30%
75th Percentile £738 £675 £622
90th Percentile £888 £745 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -0.96% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 20 20
10th Percentile £46.25 £49.78 -
25th Percentile £50.55 £52.09 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.43 £57.42 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% +20.88% +31.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £69.36 £55.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £76.00 £58.11
UK median hourly rate £61.43 £59.03 £48.74
% change year-on-year +4.07% +21.11% +98.94%

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 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in England

Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Software Developer in England

Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Developer in England

Software Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Developer in England

Software Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Developer in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Developer in England

Software Developer
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 Software Developer within the England 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
London +114 205 £575 -4.17% 67
North of England +69 81 £450 -10.00% 94
North West +36 39 £450 -5.26% 46
South East -9 35 £400 -3.03% 77
South West 0 31 £525 -4.55% 38
Midlands +21 29 £375 -29.25% 74
Yorkshire +37 28 £450 -12.20% 35
East Midlands +7 15 £425 -28.08% 25
West Midlands +22 14 £360 -31.43% 49
North East +18 14 - - 15
East of England +5 10 £485 -3.00% 18
Software Developer
UK

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

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 England region featuring Software Developer in the job title.

1 219 (55.30%) C#
2 207 (52.27%) JavaScript
3 206 (52.02%) Software Engineering
4 201 (50.76%) Python
5 172 (43.43%) SQL
6 161 (40.66%) Agile
7 144 (36.36%) HTML
8 128 (32.32%) Degree
9 115 (29.04%) Artificial Intelligence
9 115 (29.04%) Conversational UI
10 114 (28.79%) Code Quality
11 113 (28.54%) Chatbot
12 110 (27.78%) PayPal
13 101 (25.51%) Azure
14 92 (23.23%) .NET
15 90 (22.73%) AWS
16 89 (22.47%) Java
17 79 (19.95%) DevOps
18 65 (16.41%) SQL Server
19 64 (16.16%) PowerShell
20 63 (15.91%) Finance
21 62 (15.66%) CI/CD
22 61 (15.40%) Scrum
23 60 (15.15%) Microsoft
24 57 (14.39%) Azure DevOps
25 55 (13.89%) TypeScript
26 49 (12.37%) Banking
27 46 (11.62%) Front Office
28 45 (11.36%) Asset Management
28 45 (11.36%) .NET Framework

Software Developer 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 41 (10.35%) Apache
1 41 (10.35%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.26%) Umbraco
3 4 (1.01%) CMS
4 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.25%) Confluence
4 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 113 (28.54%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.01%) LabWindows
1 4 (1.01%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.25%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.25%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 101 (25.51%) Azure
2 90 (22.73%) AWS
3 57 (14.39%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (11.11%) GCP
5 41 (10.35%) dbt
6 34 (8.59%) Snowflake
7 16 (4.04%) GitHub
8 15 (3.79%) Entra ID
9 13 (3.28%) Serverless
10 12 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (2.53%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (2.02%) Amazon S3
13 7 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (1.26%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (1.26%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (1.26%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (1.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 5 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
15 4 (1.01%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.01%) RS-232
2 3 (0.76%) VPN
3 2 (0.51%) Firewall
3 2 (0.51%) MQTT
3 2 (0.51%) Tactical Data Link
3 2 (0.51%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.25%) 5G
4 1 (0.25%) DHCP
4 1 (0.25%) DNS
4 1 (0.25%) LTE
4 1 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (16.41%) SQL Server
2 41 (10.35%) Amazon Athena
2 41 (10.35%) Apache Arrow
2 41 (10.35%) Apache Ignite
2 41 (10.35%) Dremio
3 35 (8.84%) Data Lake
4 18 (4.55%) NoSQL
5 7 (1.77%) MongoDB
5 7 (1.77%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.52%) MySQL
7 5 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.76%) Redis
9 2 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.51%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.51%) Power BI
10 1 (0.25%) MS Access
10 1 (0.25%) OLTP
10 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (5.81%) Git
2 16 (4.04%) SpecFlow
3 7 (1.77%) Selenium
3 7 (1.77%) Visual Studio
4 6 (1.52%) LabVIEW
5 5 (1.26%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.01%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.01%) JIRA
6 4 (1.01%) Subversion
7 3 (0.76%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.76%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.76%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.51%) GitLab
8 2 (0.51%) Mockito
8 2 (0.51%) NUnit
8 2 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.51%) Postman
8 2 (0.51%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 63 (15.91%) Finance
2 49 (12.37%) Banking
3 46 (11.62%) Front Office
4 43 (10.86%) Investment Banking
5 40 (10.10%) Public Sector
6 34 (8.59%) Social Skills
7 8 (2.02%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (1.77%) Law
9 6 (1.52%) Local Government
10 4 (1.01%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.01%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.51%) Back Office
11 2 (0.51%) Retail
12 1 (0.25%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.25%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.25%) Legal
12 1 (0.25%) Marketing
12 1 (0.25%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.25%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (36.36%) HTML
2 92 (23.23%) .NET
3 45 (11.36%) .NET Framework
4 43 (10.86%) NumPy
4 43 (10.86%) Pandas
4 43 (10.86%) SciPy
4 43 (10.86%) XML
5 41 (10.35%) gRPC
5 41 (10.35%) Protocol Buffers
6 30 (7.58%) CSS
7 28 (7.07%) AngularJS
8 27 (6.82%) React
9 25 (6.31%) RESTful
10 19 (4.80%) .NET Core
11 14 (3.54%) REST
12 12 (3.03%) Node.js
13 11 (2.78%) ASP.NET
13 11 (2.78%) Spring
14 9 (2.27%) ARM Templates
14 9 (2.27%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 41 (10.35%) Derivative
1 41 (10.35%) Fixed Income
2 38 (9.60%) Equities
2 38 (9.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 38 (9.60%) Hedge funds
3 26 (6.57%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (1.77%) Algorithms
6 6 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.26%) Contactless
7 5 (1.26%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.01%) CCTV
8 4 (1.01%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.01%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.01%) NHS
9 3 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.76%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.51%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.51%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.03%) Linux
2 10 (2.53%) Windows
3 4 (1.01%) Unix
3 4 (1.01%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.76%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.51%) Android
5 2 (0.51%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (52.02%) Software Engineering
2 161 (40.66%) Agile
3 115 (29.04%) Artificial Intelligence
3 115 (29.04%) Conversational UI
4 114 (28.79%) Code Quality
5 79 (19.95%) DevOps
6 62 (15.66%) CI/CD
7 61 (15.40%) Scrum
8 45 (11.36%) Asset Management
9 34 (8.59%) Line Management
10 24 (6.06%) TDD
11 22 (5.56%) Test Automation
12 21 (5.30%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (5.30%) Software Testing
13 19 (4.80%) Microservices
14 18 (4.55%) Investment Management
14 18 (4.55%) SDLC
15 17 (4.29%) API Development
15 17 (4.29%) B2C
15 17 (4.29%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 219 (55.30%) C#
2 207 (52.27%) JavaScript
3 201 (50.76%) Python
4 172 (43.43%) SQL
5 89 (22.47%) Java
6 64 (16.16%) PowerShell
7 55 (13.89%) TypeScript
8 15 (3.79%) C++
9 13 (3.28%) Bicep
10 9 (2.27%) C
11 7 (1.77%) Ruby
12 6 (1.52%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.01%) BeanShell
13 4 (1.01%) Go
13 4 (1.01%) PHP
13 4 (1.01%) Scala
13 4 (1.01%) Swift
14 3 (0.76%) Bash
14 3 (0.76%) Rust
15 2 (0.51%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 128 (32.32%) Degree
2 44 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 29 (7.32%) SC Cleared
4 7 (1.77%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.76%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (0.51%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.02%) QA
2 6 (1.52%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.01%) HL7
4 3 (0.76%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 3 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.51%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.51%) WCAG
6 1 (0.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 14 (3.54%) Docker
3 6 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.51%) zsh
5 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (3.54%) Terraform
2 9 (2.27%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.76%) Grafana
4 2 (0.51%) Ansible
5 1 (0.25%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 110 (27.78%) PayPal
2 60 (15.15%) Microsoft
3 11 (2.78%) OpenAI
4 5 (1.26%) Google
5 4 (1.01%) Bloomberg
5 4 (1.01%) NEC
5 4 (1.01%) Reuters
6 3 (0.76%) Oracle
7 2 (0.51%) Apple
7 2 (0.51%) Splunk
7 2 (0.51%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.25%) Aareon
8 1 (0.25%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.25%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.25%) Databricks
8 1 (0.25%) Denodo
8 1 (0.25%) OpenLink
8 1 (0.25%) Palantir
8 1 (0.25%) Solace
8 1 (0.25%) Talend