Software Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 June 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 195 232 252
Rank change year-on-year +37 +20 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 218 231 305
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.05% 1.01% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 1.07% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 161 183
10th Percentile £363 £338 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -3.06% +15.29%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £557
90th Percentile £633 £648 £620
UK median daily rate £506 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -1.22% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 18
10th Percentile - £51.25 £44.47
25th Percentile £46.25 £52.38 £46.87
Median hourly rate £58.91 £58.59 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% +7.50% +60.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.63 £57.19
90th Percentile £77.00 £73.85 £59.33
UK median hourly rate £61.43 £59.03 £48.74
% change year-on-year +4.07% +21.11% +45.49%

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 19,181 21,601 29,418
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 94.27% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,558 15,029 20,712
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,427 1,082 1,404
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.76 £18.01 £14.78
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +6.20%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.15
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.46
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.97% +12.51%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in the UK excluding London

Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Developer in the UK excluding London

Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Developer in the UK excluding London

Software Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Developer in the UK excluding London

Software Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Developer in the UK excluding London

Software 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 Software Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
North of England +76 79 £450 -5.26% 82
North West +29 37 £420 -11.58% 45
South East -10 36 £400 -3.03% 85
South West +9 32 £525 -12.50% 48
Yorkshire +37 28 £450 -5.26% 25
Midlands +27 28 £400 -24.53% 79
Scotland +4 23 £450 -5.26% 26
East Midlands +10 15 £425 -28.08% 29
North East +22 14 - - 15
West Midlands +19 13 £375 -28.57% 50
East of England +8 11 £485 -3.00% 23
Wales +15 5 £520 +15.56% 9
Northern Ireland - 4 £613 - 4
Software Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 UK excluding London region featuring Software Developer in the job title.

1 147 (67.43%) C#
2 146 (66.97%) JavaScript
3 135 (61.93%) HTML
4 131 (60.09%) Software Engineering
5 125 (57.34%) SQL
6 124 (56.88%) Python
7 115 (52.75%) Degree
8 113 (51.83%) Artificial Intelligence
8 113 (51.83%) Code Quality
9 111 (50.92%) Conversational UI
9 111 (50.92%) Chatbot
10 108 (49.54%) PayPal
11 43 (19.72%) Agile
12 31 (14.22%) .NET
13 27 (12.39%) Azure
14 26 (11.93%) CSS
15 25 (11.47%) Security Cleared
16 24 (11.01%) Java
17 22 (10.09%) AWS
18 20 (9.17%) DevOps
18 20 (9.17%) Public Sector
19 17 (7.80%) CI/CD
20 16 (7.34%) React
21 15 (6.88%) Problem-Solving
22 14 (6.42%) TypeScript
22 14 (6.42%) REST
22 14 (6.42%) Linux
22 14 (6.42%) Software Testing
23 13 (5.96%) TDD
23 13 (5.96%) Scrum

Software 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 5 (2.29%) Umbraco
2 3 (1.38%) CMS
3 1 (0.46%) Confluence
3 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.46%) WebLogic
Applications
1 111 (50.92%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) LabWindows
2 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (12.39%) Azure
2 22 (10.09%) AWS
3 13 (5.96%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (3.67%) Amazon S3
4 8 (3.67%) GitHub
4 8 (3.67%) Serverless
5 7 (3.21%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (1.83%) GCP
7 3 (1.38%) Amazon Bedrock
7 3 (1.38%) Anthropic Claude
7 3 (1.38%) Azure AI
7 3 (1.38%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.38%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.46%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.46%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.46%) PaaS
8 1 (0.46%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.46%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.83%) RS-232
2 3 (1.38%) VPN
3 2 (0.92%) Firewall
3 2 (0.92%) Tactical Data Link
3 2 (0.92%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.46%) 5G
4 1 (0.46%) DHCP
4 1 (0.46%) DNS
4 1 (0.46%) LTE
4 1 (0.46%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.50%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.83%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.83%) MySQL
4 3 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (0.92%) MariaDB
5 2 (0.92%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.92%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.92%) Power BI
6 1 (0.46%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.46%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.46%) Redis
6 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (4.59%) Git
2 6 (2.75%) LabVIEW
2 6 (2.75%) Visual Studio
3 5 (2.29%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.83%) JIRA
4 4 (1.83%) Subversion
5 3 (1.38%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.38%) Selenium
6 2 (0.92%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.92%) Maven
6 2 (0.92%) Mockito
6 2 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.92%) Postman
6 2 (0.92%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.92%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.92%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.92%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.46%) JMeter
7 1 (0.46%) NUnit
7 1 (0.46%) webpack
General
1 20 (9.17%) Public Sector
2 8 (3.67%) Finance
2 8 (3.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (2.29%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (1.83%) Manufacturing
4 4 (1.83%) Tech for Good
5 1 (0.46%) Aerospace
5 1 (0.46%) Law
5 1 (0.46%) Marketing
5 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (61.93%) HTML
2 31 (14.22%) .NET
3 26 (11.93%) CSS
4 16 (7.34%) React
5 14 (6.42%) REST
6 11 (5.05%) ASP.NET
7 9 (4.13%) Node.js
8 8 (3.67%) .NET Core
8 8 (3.67%) ASP.NET MVC
8 8 (3.67%) AWS CDK
9 7 (3.21%) Spring
10 6 (2.75%) .NET Framework
10 6 (2.75%) Blazor
10 6 (2.75%) Flask
10 6 (2.75%) RESTful
10 6 (2.75%) Spring Boot
11 5 (2.29%) AngularJS
12 4 (1.83%) Kafka
12 4 (1.83%) Web Services
13 3 (1.38%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 5 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (1.83%) Algorithms
2 4 (1.83%) CCTV
2 4 (1.83%) NHS
3 2 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (0.92%) Data Structures
3 2 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (0.92%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.46%) Educational Technology
4 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.46%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.46%) IoT
4 1 (0.46%) Legacy Code
4 1 (0.46%) Life Science
4 1 (0.46%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.42%) Linux
2 10 (4.59%) Windows
3 4 (1.83%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.38%) Unix
5 2 (0.92%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (60.09%) Software Engineering
2 113 (51.83%) Artificial Intelligence
2 113 (51.83%) Code Quality
3 111 (50.92%) Conversational UI
4 43 (19.72%) Agile
5 20 (9.17%) DevOps
6 17 (7.80%) CI/CD
7 15 (6.88%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (6.42%) Software Testing
9 13 (5.96%) MVC
9 13 (5.96%) Scrum
9 13 (5.96%) TDD
9 13 (5.96%) Test Automation
10 12 (5.50%) Front End Development
10 12 (5.50%) OO
11 10 (4.59%) Full Stack Development
11 10 (4.59%) Microservices
12 9 (4.13%) Clean Code
13 8 (3.67%) SOLID
14 7 (3.21%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 147 (67.43%) C#
2 146 (66.97%) JavaScript
3 125 (57.34%) SQL
4 124 (56.88%) Python
5 24 (11.01%) Java
6 14 (6.42%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.50%) C++
8 7 (3.21%) C
9 6 (2.75%) Bash
10 4 (1.83%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.38%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.92%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.92%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.46%) Go
13 1 (0.46%) Perl
Qualifications
1 115 (52.75%) Degree
2 25 (11.47%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.05%) DV Cleared
4 9 (4.13%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.67%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.75%) QA
3 4 (1.83%) HL7
4 3 (1.38%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 3 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (2.75%) Docker
2 3 (1.38%) zsh
3 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.46%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (3.21%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.38%) Grafana
3 2 (0.92%) Terraform
4 1 (0.46%) Ansible
4 1 (0.46%) Kibana
4 1 (0.46%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 108 (49.54%) PayPal
2 12 (5.50%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.29%) Oracle
4 4 (1.83%) Google
5 3 (1.38%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.38%) RedGate
6 2 (0.92%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.46%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.46%) Atmel
7 1 (0.46%) VMware