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 £434, 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 203 230 246
Rank change year-on-year +27 +16 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 210 218 302
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.99% 0.95% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 1.01% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 148 174
10th Percentile £330 £334 £314
25th Percentile £400 £398 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £464 £490
Median % change year-on-year -6.47% -5.36% +15.29%
75th Percentile £500 £562 £550
90th Percentile £600 £638 £624
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.90% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 17
10th Percentile - £51.25 £44.29
25th Percentile £46.25 £52.38 £46.25
Median hourly rate £58.91 £58.59 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% +7.50% +60.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £73.47 £59.94
UK median hourly rate £61.43 £58.81 £50.62
% change year-on-year +4.46% +16.18% +106.61%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 19,528 21,567 29,335
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 94.42% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,672 14,888 20,612
10th Percentile £213 £231 £210
25th Percentile £365 £399 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £530
% change year-on-year -2.33% +1.42% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,125 1,402
10th Percentile £12.65 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £17.72 £15.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +100.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £74.86 £75.50 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £43.81 £25.50
% change year-on-year -14.39% +71.78% +18.60%

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 27 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 27 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 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
North of England +75 78 £450 -14.29% 79
North West +33 38 £435 -13.00% 31
South East -16 36 £400 -3.03% 66
Midlands +22 30 £360 -31.43% 54
South West 0 27 £463 -11.90% 31
Yorkshire +32 26 £463 -19.57% 31
Scotland -4 23 £439 -5.14% 23
West Midlands +22 15 £345 -34.91% 36
East Midlands +11 15 £425 -19.05% 18
North East +19 14 - - 18
East of England +3 10 £485 -3.00% 18
Northern Ireland - 4 £613 - 7
Wales +9 2 £425 +37.10% 12
Software Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 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.

1 145 (69.05%) C#
2 140 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 132 (62.86%) Software Engineering
4 130 (61.90%) HTML
5 121 (57.62%) SQL
6 118 (56.19%) Python
7 113 (53.81%) Degree
8 112 (53.33%) Artificial Intelligence
8 112 (53.33%) Code Quality
9 111 (52.86%) Chatbot
9 111 (52.86%) Conversational UI
10 108 (51.43%) PayPal
11 42 (20.00%) Agile
12 31 (14.76%) .NET
13 26 (12.38%) Azure
14 23 (10.95%) Security Cleared
14 23 (10.95%) CSS
15 22 (10.48%) DevOps
16 21 (10.00%) AWS
17 19 (9.05%) Java
18 17 (8.10%) Public Sector
19 16 (7.62%) CI/CD
19 16 (7.62%) React
20 15 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
21 14 (6.67%) Microsoft
22 13 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
23 12 (5.71%) MVC
23 12 (5.71%) C++
23 12 (5.71%) SQL Server
23 12 (5.71%) TDD

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 6 (2.86%) Umbraco
2 3 (1.43%) CMS
3 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
Applications
1 111 (52.86%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.90%) LabWindows
2 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 26 (12.38%) Azure
2 21 (10.00%) AWS
3 13 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (3.81%) GitHub
5 7 (3.33%) Amazon S3
5 7 (3.33%) Serverless
6 6 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (1.90%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.43%) Amazon Bedrock
8 3 (1.43%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (1.43%) Azure AI
8 3 (1.43%) GCP
9 2 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.95%) OpenShift
9 2 (0.95%) SaaS
10 1 (0.48%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.48%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.48%) npm
10 1 (0.48%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.90%) RS-232
2 3 (1.43%) VPN
3 2 (0.95%) Firewall
3 2 (0.95%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.48%) 5G
4 1 (0.48%) DHCP
4 1 (0.48%) DNS
4 1 (0.48%) LTE
4 1 (0.48%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.48%) SSL
4 1 (0.48%) Tactical Data Link
4 1 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.38%) MySQL
4 3 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.43%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (1.43%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.95%) MariaDB
5 2 (0.95%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.95%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.95%) Power BI
6 1 (0.48%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.48%) MS Access
6 1 (0.48%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.48%) Redis
6 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (4.76%) Git
2 6 (2.86%) LabVIEW
2 6 (2.86%) Visual Studio
3 4 (1.90%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.90%) Subversion
4 3 (1.43%) JIRA
5 2 (0.95%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.95%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.95%) Maven
5 2 (0.95%) Postman
5 2 (0.95%) Selenium
5 2 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.95%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.48%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.48%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.48%) Mocha
6 1 (0.48%) Mockito
6 1 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.48%) Storybook
6 1 (0.48%) webpack
General
1 17 (8.10%) Public Sector
2 10 (4.76%) Finance
2 10 (4.76%) Social Skills
3 5 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (1.90%) Manufacturing
4 4 (1.90%) Tech for Good
5 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
5 1 (0.48%) Law
5 1 (0.48%) Local Government
5 1 (0.48%) Marketing
5 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (61.90%) HTML
2 31 (14.76%) .NET
3 23 (10.95%) CSS
4 16 (7.62%) React
5 10 (4.76%) ASP.NET
6 9 (4.29%) Node.js
6 9 (4.29%) REST
7 7 (3.33%) .NET Core
7 7 (3.33%) ASP.NET MVC
7 7 (3.33%) AWS CDK
7 7 (3.33%) Spring
8 6 (2.86%) .NET Framework
8 6 (2.86%) AngularJS
8 6 (2.86%) Blazor
8 6 (2.86%) RESTful
8 6 (2.86%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.90%) Web Services
10 3 (1.43%) Entity Framework
10 3 (1.43%) Kafka
10 3 (1.43%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 5 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (1.90%) Algorithms
2 4 (1.90%) CCTV
2 4 (1.90%) NHS
3 2 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (0.95%) Data Structures
3 2 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.48%) Educational Technology
4 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.48%) IoT
4 1 (0.48%) Legacy Code
4 1 (0.48%) Life Science
4 1 (0.48%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.76%) Linux
2 9 (4.29%) Windows
3 4 (1.90%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.95%) Unix
5 1 (0.48%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (62.86%) Software Engineering
2 112 (53.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 112 (53.33%) Code Quality
3 111 (52.86%) Conversational UI
4 42 (20.00%) Agile
5 22 (10.48%) DevOps
6 16 (7.62%) CI/CD
7 15 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (5.71%) MVC
8 12 (5.71%) Scrum
8 12 (5.71%) TDD
9 10 (4.76%) Full Stack Development
9 10 (4.76%) OO
9 10 (4.76%) Software Testing
9 10 (4.76%) Test Automation
10 9 (4.29%) Microservices
11 8 (3.81%) Front End Development
11 8 (3.81%) SOLID
12 7 (3.33%) Continuous Integration
13 6 (2.86%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 145 (69.05%) C#
2 140 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 121 (57.62%) SQL
4 118 (56.19%) Python
5 19 (9.05%) Java
6 12 (5.71%) C++
6 12 (5.71%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.33%) C
8 4 (1.90%) Bash
9 3 (1.43%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.95%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.48%) Fortran
11 1 (0.48%) Go
11 1 (0.48%) Perl
11 1 (0.48%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 113 (53.81%) Degree
2 23 (10.95%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.24%) DV Cleared
4 10 (4.76%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.38%) QA
3 4 (1.90%) HL7
4 3 (1.43%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 3 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (2.38%) Docker
2 2 (0.95%) zsh
3 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.90%) Grafana
3 2 (0.95%) Terraform
4 1 (0.48%) Ansible
4 1 (0.48%) Kibana
Vendors
1 108 (51.43%) PayPal
2 14 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.90%) Oracle
4 3 (1.43%) Google
4 3 (1.43%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.95%) Denodo
5 2 (0.95%) Talend
5 2 (0.95%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.48%) Atmel
6 1 (0.48%) Civica
6 1 (0.48%) NEC
6 1 (0.48%) OutSystems