Developer Contracts in the South East

Developer
England > South East

The median Developer daily rate in the South East is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 12 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 534 560 796
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 9.46% 9.88% 10.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.26% 10.44% 10.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 418 543
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £578
90th Percentile £675 £676 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £551
% change year-on-year -4.55% -0.09% +10.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 21 24
10th Percentile £42.88 £52.50 £19.95
25th Percentile £52.70 £58.59 £42.60
Median hourly rate £60.70 £70.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% +35.92% -11.75%
75th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £84.45 - £65.38
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +7.84%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,205 5,364 7,367
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 94.62% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,082 3,717 5,057
10th Percentile £234 £217 £206
25th Percentile £400 £388 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £604 £590
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 524 238 311
10th Percentile £12.88 £16.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.18 £16.18
Median hourly rate £48.20 £50.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +150.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £45.56
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £61.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the South East

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Developer in the South East

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the South East

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the South East

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in the South East

Developer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Thames Valley +2 262 £514 -2.14% 105
Berkshire +1 173 £525 +5.00% 41
Surrey +19 105 £488 -9.05% 36
Hampshire -14 87 £470 -10.05% 69
Buckinghamshire +13 69 £500 -9.09% 32
East Sussex +2 25 £400 -11.11% 38
West Sussex -12 23 £381 -7.97% 12
Oxfordshire -1 20 £525 +12.90% 32
Kent +13 17 £525 +27.27% 32
Sussex - 8 £350 - 7
Middlesex -13 3 £325 -67.50% 1
Home Counties +3 1 £475 +14.46%
Developer
England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 2 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 job ads across the South East region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 136 (25.47%) Agile
2 115 (21.54%) SQL
3 103 (19.29%) Azure
4 101 (18.91%) Security Cleared
5 100 (18.73%) DevOps
6 92 (17.23%) SC Cleared
7 88 (16.48%) Python
8 81 (15.17%) C#
9 79 (14.79%) JavaScript
10 78 (14.61%) Java
11 77 (14.42%) Full Stack Development
12 75 (14.04%) Git
13 60 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
14 59 (11.05%) AWS
15 58 (10.86%) Software Engineering
16 56 (10.49%) .NET
16 56 (10.49%) Linux
17 55 (10.30%) Microsoft
18 52 (9.74%) Power Platform
19 50 (9.36%) Finance
20 49 (9.18%) HTML
21 48 (8.99%) React
22 47 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
22 47 (8.80%) Scrum
23 46 (8.61%) Oracle
23 46 (8.61%) CSS
23 46 (8.61%) Social Skills
24 44 (8.24%) Microservices
25 43 (8.05%) PostgreSQL
26 41 (7.68%) AngularJS

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 15 (2.81%) SAS
2 12 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.87%) Drupal
4 7 (1.31%) Apache
5 5 (0.94%) Confluence
6 4 (0.75%) CICS
6 4 (0.75%) Jadu
6 4 (0.75%) Moodle
6 4 (0.75%) WordPress
7 3 (0.56%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.56%) CMS
7 3 (0.56%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.37%) FileNet
8 2 (0.37%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.37%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.37%) JBoss
8 2 (0.37%) Kentico
8 2 (0.37%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.75%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.56%) Sketch
5 1 (0.19%) 3ds Max
5 1 (0.19%) Blender
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.19%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (0.94%) Aareon QL
2 4 (0.75%) LabWindows
3 3 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.56%) Remedy AR System
3 3 (0.56%) Shopify
4 1 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.19%) Epicor Tropos
4 1 (0.19%) Magento
4 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.19%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 103 (19.29%) Azure
2 59 (11.05%) AWS
3 52 (9.74%) Power Platform
4 36 (6.74%) Serverless
5 35 (6.55%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (5.43%) Azure Monitor
7 27 (5.06%) Azure Functions
8 26 (4.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 26 (4.87%) Azure Data Factory
9 22 (4.12%) Power Automate
10 20 (3.75%) Entra ID
11 17 (3.18%) SaaS
12 15 (2.81%) GitHub
12 15 (2.81%) PowerApps
13 12 (2.25%) Azure Logic Apps
14 11 (2.06%) Amazon S3
15 10 (1.87%) Azure AKS
16 9 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
17 8 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
17 8 (1.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.37%) TCP/IP
2 10 (1.87%) SAN
3 7 (1.31%) HTTP
4 5 (0.94%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (0.75%) Link 16
5 4 (0.75%) RS-232
5 4 (0.75%) Tactical Data Link
6 2 (0.37%) SNMP
6 2 (0.37%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (8.05%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (6.74%) SQL Server
3 31 (5.81%) NoSQL
4 28 (5.24%) Power BI
5 22 (4.12%) MySQL
6 16 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (2.81%) Oracle Database
8 13 (2.43%) Relational Database
9 12 (2.25%) Oracle Database 11g
10 10 (1.87%) Couchbase
11 9 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (1.50%) GIS
13 7 (1.31%) Crystal Reports
13 7 (1.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 7 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (1.12%) Data Lake
14 6 (1.12%) MongoDB
14 6 (1.12%) Tableau
15 5 (0.94%) Power Query
15 5 (0.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 75 (14.04%) Git
2 25 (4.68%) Jenkins
3 21 (3.93%) Visual Studio
4 20 (3.75%) JIRA
5 14 (2.62%) Selenium
6 12 (2.25%) LabVIEW
7 11 (2.06%) GitLab
8 6 (1.12%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.94%) REST Assured
9 5 (0.94%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.94%) Subversion
10 4 (0.75%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.75%) JUnit
11 3 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.37%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.37%) GoogleTest
12 2 (0.37%) JMeter
12 2 (0.37%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.37%) VersionOne
General
1 50 (9.36%) Finance
2 47 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (8.61%) Social Skills
4 35 (6.55%) Public Sector
5 17 (3.18%) Telecoms
6 12 (2.25%) Billing
7 8 (1.50%) Banking
7 8 (1.50%) Local Government
7 8 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.12%) Marketing
10 5 (0.94%) Retail
11 4 (0.75%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.75%) Front Office
11 4 (0.75%) Law
11 4 (0.75%) Police
12 3 (0.56%) Advertising
12 3 (0.56%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.56%) Music Industry
13 2 (0.37%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (10.49%) .NET
2 49 (9.18%) HTML
3 48 (8.99%) React
4 46 (8.61%) CSS
5 41 (7.68%) AngularJS
6 33 (6.18%) REST
7 28 (5.24%) Spring
8 27 (5.06%) ASP.NET
8 27 (5.06%) Kafka
9 23 (4.31%) Node.js
10 21 (3.93%) Spring Boot
11 18 (3.37%) Web Services
12 13 (2.43%) RESTful
12 13 (2.43%) XML
13 11 (2.06%) .NET Core
13 11 (2.06%) ASP.NET MVC
13 11 (2.06%) JSON
14 10 (1.87%) Django
14 10 (1.87%) SOAP
15 9 (1.69%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 18 (3.37%) Product Ownership
2 12 (2.25%) Robotics
3 9 (1.69%) CCTV
4 8 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (0.94%) Housing Association
6 5 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (0.75%) Credit Risk
7 4 (0.75%) Derivative
7 4 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (0.75%) IBM Mainframe
7 4 (0.75%) Mainframe
7 4 (0.75%) Management Information System
7 4 (0.75%) Mobile App
8 3 (0.56%) Biopharmaceutical
8 3 (0.56%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (0.56%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.37%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.37%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.37%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 56 (10.49%) Linux
2 14 (2.62%) Windows
3 12 (2.25%) Debian
3 12 (2.25%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.06%) Unix
5 6 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.94%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.75%) Android
7 4 (0.75%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.75%) zOS
8 1 (0.19%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (25.47%) Agile
2 100 (18.73%) DevOps
3 77 (14.42%) Full Stack Development
4 60 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (10.86%) Software Engineering
6 47 (8.80%) Scrum
7 44 (8.24%) Microservices
8 41 (7.68%) CI/CD
9 37 (6.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 36 (6.74%) Unit Testing
11 35 (6.55%) TDD
12 33 (6.18%) Business Intelligence
13 32 (5.99%) Data Modelling
14 29 (5.43%) Analytics
15 28 (5.24%) Migration
16 27 (5.06%) Test Automation
17 24 (4.49%) SDLC
18 23 (4.31%) User Experience
19 18 (3.37%) Performance Tuning
19 18 (3.37%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 115 (21.54%) SQL
2 88 (16.48%) Python
3 81 (15.17%) C#
4 79 (14.79%) JavaScript
5 78 (14.61%) Java
6 35 (6.55%) PL/SQL
7 32 (5.99%) PHP
8 28 (5.24%) C++
9 24 (4.49%) C
10 18 (3.37%) PowerShell
11 13 (2.43%) T-SQL
12 11 (2.06%) Scala
12 11 (2.06%) TypeScript
13 9 (1.69%) ProC
14 7 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (1.31%) Go
14 7 (1.31%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.12%) VB
16 5 (0.94%) X++
17 4 (0.75%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 101 (18.91%) Security Cleared
2 92 (17.23%) SC Cleared
3 16 (3.00%) Degree
4 9 (1.69%) DV Cleared
5 4 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.37%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.19%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.19%) OCP
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.25%) QA
2 8 (1.50%) ISO 9001
2 8 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.12%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.94%) GDPR
5 3 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 2 (0.37%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.37%) IFRS
6 2 (0.37%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.19%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.19%) MISRA
7 1 (0.19%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.19%) PMO
7 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (3.93%) Active Directory
2 20 (3.75%) Docker
3 2 (0.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 28 (5.24%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.75%) Ansible
3 7 (1.31%) Terraform
4 4 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (0.75%) Podman
5 2 (0.37%) Kibana
6 1 (0.19%) Control-M
6 1 (0.19%) Grafana
6 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (10.30%) Microsoft
2 46 (8.61%) Oracle
3 29 (5.43%) ServiceNow
4 16 (3.00%) Guidewire
4 16 (3.00%) VMware
5 15 (2.81%) Red Hat
6 14 (2.62%) SAP
7 9 (1.69%) Google
8 8 (1.50%) Informatica
9 7 (1.31%) IFS
10 6 (1.12%) IBM
10 6 (1.12%) Workday
11 5 (0.94%) Aareon
11 5 (0.94%) Adobe
11 5 (0.94%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.75%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.75%) Remedy
12 4 (0.75%) Snow
12 4 (0.75%) Syncsort
12 4 (0.75%) Virgin Media