Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Developer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £500, 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 3 4 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 0
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 2,625 4,414 8,979
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 17.79% 18.49% 20.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 19.02% 19.41% 21.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,949 3,371 6,835
10th Percentile £325 £375 £381
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £628 £650 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £744
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 48 81
10th Percentile £22.84 £42.30 £31.25
25th Percentile £30.63 £58.01 £35.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £67.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.52% +22.27% +22.91%
75th Percentile £66.88 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £78.50 £78.00 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% +16.36% +22.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 13,801 22,740 41,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,147 30,496
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 528 563
10th Percentile £14.27 £16.98 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +25.00% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.56 £66.05 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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.

1 646 (24.61%) JavaScript
2 611 (23.28%) SQL
3 570 (21.71%) C#
4 547 (20.84%) Agile
5 501 (19.09%) Finance
6 488 (18.59%) AWS
7 478 (18.21%) Java
8 477 (18.17%) Azure
9 473 (18.02%) Python
10 402 (15.31%) HTML
11 397 (15.12%) .NET
12 388 (14.78%) Software Engineering
13 371 (14.13%) Social Skills
14 364 (13.87%) React
15 325 (12.38%) DevOps
16 323 (12.30%) TypeScript
17 319 (12.15%) Full Stack Development
18 276 (10.51%) CSS
19 256 (9.75%) Microsoft
20 246 (9.37%) SQL Server
21 243 (9.26%) CI/CD
22 234 (8.91%) Problem-Solving
23 233 (8.88%) Security Cleared
24 230 (8.76%) Degree
25 216 (8.23%) Front Office
26 213 (8.11%) AngularJS
27 209 (7.96%) Banking
28 197 (7.50%) Code Quality
29 194 (7.39%) Microservices
30 192 (7.31%) 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 72 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
2 69 (2.63%) Apache
3 54 (2.06%) SharePoint
4 46 (1.75%) CMS
5 27 (1.03%) WordPress
6 21 (0.80%) Umbraco
7 20 (0.76%) SAS
8 16 (0.61%) Confluence
9 15 (0.57%) nginx
10 14 (0.53%) Apache Spark
11 13 (0.50%) Headless CMS
12 10 (0.38%) Anypoint
12 10 (0.38%) Drupal
13 9 (0.34%) CICS
13 9 (0.34%) Mule
14 7 (0.27%) Kentico
15 6 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
15 6 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
16 5 (0.19%) Mule ESB
17 4 (0.15%) GeoServer
Applications
1 129 (4.91%) Chatbot
2 24 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.076%) 3ds Max
6 2 (0.076%) Blender
6 2 (0.076%) UserZoom
7 1 (0.038%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.038%) Elementor
7 1 (0.038%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.038%) Houdini
7 1 (0.038%) InDesign
7 1 (0.038%) InVision
7 1 (0.038%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.038%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.038%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 30 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (0.72%) NetSuite
3 17 (0.65%) Endur
4 10 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 9 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
5 9 (0.34%) Shopify
6 7 (0.27%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 7 (0.27%) SAP FI-AP
7 6 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.19%) Aareon QL
8 5 (0.19%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.15%) Exstream
9 4 (0.15%) Teamcenter
10 3 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
10 3 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
10 3 (0.11%) Magento
10 3 (0.11%) NEC Housing
10 3 (0.11%) Orchestrade
10 3 (0.11%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 488 (18.59%) AWS
2 477 (18.17%) Azure
3 171 (6.51%) Power Platform
4 165 (6.29%) GCP
5 164 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 107 (4.08%) Serverless
7 81 (3.09%) PowerApps
8 79 (3.01%) GitHub
9 71 (2.70%) Power Automate
10 68 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
11 52 (1.98%) Azure Service Bus
11 52 (1.98%) dbt
12 51 (1.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 46 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
14 45 (1.71%) Amazon S3
15 42 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
16 39 (1.49%) Azure Functions
17 38 (1.45%) Snowflake
18 35 (1.33%) SaaS
19 29 (1.10%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 26 (0.99%) HTTP
2 16 (0.61%) TCP/IP
3 10 (0.38%) SAN
4 7 (0.27%) DNS
4 7 (0.27%) VPN
5 6 (0.23%) Internet
6 4 (0.15%) Firewall
6 4 (0.15%) FTP
6 4 (0.15%) MQTT
6 4 (0.15%) SSL
7 3 (0.11%) Intranet
8 2 (0.076%) 5G
8 2 (0.076%) Bluetooth
8 2 (0.076%) DHCP
8 2 (0.076%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.076%) LTE
8 2 (0.076%) WAN
8 2 (0.076%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.038%) Extranet
9 1 (0.038%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 246 (9.37%) SQL Server
2 117 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
3 105 (4.00%) Power BI
4 75 (2.86%) MySQL
5 65 (2.48%) NoSQL
6 60 (2.29%) Oracle Database
7 58 (2.21%) Apache Ignite
7 58 (2.21%) Relational Database
8 56 (2.13%) MongoDB
9 52 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
10 49 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
10 49 (1.87%) Apache Arrow
11 48 (1.83%) Dremio
12 46 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 43 (1.64%) Data Lake
14 33 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 31 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
16 24 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
17 23 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
18 21 (0.80%) Redis
Development Applications
1 141 (5.37%) Git
2 66 (2.51%) JIRA
3 65 (2.48%) Jenkins
4 38 (1.45%) GitLab
5 36 (1.37%) Cypress.io
6 28 (1.07%) Mockito
7 27 (1.03%) JUnit
8 26 (0.99%) Visual Studio
9 24 (0.91%) Cucumber
9 24 (0.91%) Maven
10 23 (0.88%) Selenium
11 20 (0.76%) Oracle Forms
12 19 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
13 18 (0.69%) Oracle APEX
14 15 (0.57%) SpecFlow
15 13 (0.50%) Storybook
15 13 (0.50%) webpack
16 11 (0.42%) Android Studio
16 11 (0.42%) TeamCity
17 9 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 501 (19.09%) Finance
2 371 (14.13%) Social Skills
3 216 (8.23%) Front Office
4 209 (7.96%) Banking
5 165 (6.29%) Public Sector
6 130 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
7 103 (3.92%) Investment Banking
8 52 (1.98%) Retail
9 36 (1.37%) Financial Institution
10 35 (1.33%) Telecoms
11 34 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 26 (0.99%) Manufacturing
13 25 (0.95%) Marketing
14 20 (0.76%) Tech for Good
15 14 (0.53%) Law
16 13 (0.50%) Back Office
17 12 (0.46%) Automotive
17 12 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
17 12 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
17 12 (0.46%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 402 (15.31%) HTML
2 397 (15.12%) .NET
3 364 (13.87%) React
4 276 (10.51%) CSS
5 213 (8.11%) AngularJS
6 190 (7.24%) REST
7 179 (6.82%) Node.js
8 117 (4.46%) Spring Boot
9 114 (4.34%) Spring
10 113 (4.30%) RESTful
11 111 (4.23%) Web Services
12 89 (3.39%) XML
13 88 (3.35%) .NET Framework
14 84 (3.20%) .NET Core
15 82 (3.12%) ASP.NET
16 77 (2.93%) Vue
17 72 (2.74%) GraphQL
18 70 (2.67%) Kafka
19 66 (2.51%) gRPC
20 64 (2.44%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 121 (4.61%) Fixed Income
2 120 (4.57%) Derivative
3 84 (3.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 76 (2.90%) Equities
4 76 (2.90%) Hedge funds
5 68 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
6 63 (2.40%) Mobile App
7 59 (2.25%) Product Ownership
8 52 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
9 43 (1.64%) Algorithms
10 31 (1.18%) Data Structures
10 31 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
11 28 (1.07%) Equity Derivative
12 23 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
13 22 (0.84%) Onboarding
14 21 (0.80%) Management Information System
15 16 (0.61%) Cloud Native
15 16 (0.61%) Credit Derivative
16 15 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
16 15 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 84 (3.20%) Linux
2 66 (2.51%) Android
3 58 (2.21%) Unix
4 50 (1.90%) Apple iOS
5 16 (0.61%) Windows
6 11 (0.42%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.38%) Debian
8 9 (0.34%) zOS
9 3 (0.11%) Mac OS X
9 3 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.11%) VMS
10 2 (0.076%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.076%) CentOS
11 1 (0.038%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.038%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.038%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 547 (20.84%) Agile
2 388 (14.78%) Software Engineering
3 325 (12.38%) DevOps
4 319 (12.15%) Full Stack Development
5 243 (9.26%) CI/CD
6 234 (8.91%) Problem-Solving
7 197 (7.50%) Code Quality
8 194 (7.39%) Microservices
9 179 (6.82%) Front End Development
10 175 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence
11 146 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
12 141 (5.37%) Unit Testing
13 138 (5.26%) TDD
14 135 (5.14%) Test Automation
15 133 (5.07%) User Experience
16 130 (4.95%) Conversational UI
17 127 (4.84%) Scrum
18 124 (4.72%) Data Modelling
19 122 (4.65%) Analytics
20 114 (4.34%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 646 (24.61%) JavaScript
2 611 (23.28%) SQL
3 570 (21.71%) C#
4 478 (18.21%) Java
5 473 (18.02%) Python
6 323 (12.30%) TypeScript
7 84 (3.20%) PHP
8 83 (3.16%) PL/SQL
9 71 (2.70%) PowerShell
10 69 (2.63%) C++
11 60 (2.29%) Kotlin
12 46 (1.75%) Go
13 45 (1.71%) Scala
14 38 (1.45%) Ruby
15 37 (1.41%) Bicep
16 35 (1.33%) ABAP
17 31 (1.18%) T-SQL
18 24 (0.91%) Bash
18 24 (0.91%) Perl
19 22 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 233 (8.88%) Security Cleared
2 230 (8.76%) Degree
3 192 (7.31%) SC Cleared
4 43 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 26 (0.99%) DV Cleared
7 21 (0.80%) Master's Degree
8 9 (0.34%) PhD
9 7 (0.27%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.23%) CCNA
10 6 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.038%) CTC Cleared
13 1 (0.038%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.038%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.038%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.038%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.038%) PMP
13 1 (0.038%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (2.78%) Accessibility
2 66 (2.51%) QA
3 26 (0.99%) Data Quality
4 22 (0.84%) WCAG
5 9 (0.34%) MiFID
6 6 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
6 6 (0.23%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.19%) HL7
7 5 (0.19%) SEPA
8 4 (0.15%) Dodd-Frank
9 3 (0.11%) GDPR
9 3 (0.11%) SLA
10 1 (0.038%) Basel III
10 1 (0.038%) EMIR
10 1 (0.038%) FATCA
10 1 (0.038%) GRC
10 1 (0.038%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.038%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.038%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.038%) NIST
System Software
1 127 (4.84%) Docker
2 47 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.38%) IAG
4 8 (0.30%) ACF2
4 8 (0.30%) RACF
5 5 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.076%) Firmware
6 2 (0.076%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.076%) zsh
7 1 (0.038%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 134 (5.10%) Kubernetes
2 70 (2.67%) Terraform
3 22 (0.84%) Grafana
4 18 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (0.65%) Ansible
6 9 (0.34%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
8 7 (0.27%) CloudHub
9 5 (0.19%) Kibana
10 3 (0.11%) Podman
10 3 (0.11%) Zipkin
11 2 (0.076%) CA Endevor
11 2 (0.076%) Packer
11 2 (0.076%) Puppet
11 2 (0.076%) SCOM
12 1 (0.038%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.038%) logstash
12 1 (0.038%) Nagios
12 1 (0.038%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.038%) Rancher
Vendors
1 256 (9.75%) Microsoft
2 175 (6.67%) Oracle
3 121 (4.61%) PayPal
4 79 (3.01%) ServiceNow
5 64 (2.44%) Google
6 61 (2.32%) SAP
7 55 (2.10%) Salesforce
8 27 (1.03%) IBM
9 23 (0.88%) MuleSoft
10 22 (0.84%) Databricks
11 17 (0.65%) OpenAI
12 16 (0.61%) Red Hat
13 14 (0.53%) Adobe
13 14 (0.53%) Bloomberg
13 14 (0.53%) Guidewire
13 14 (0.53%) OpenLink
14 13 (0.50%) Pega
14 13 (0.50%) Xamarin
15 12 (0.46%) Sybase
16 11 (0.42%) Siebel