Market intelligence
Outside IR35 market
Last 90 daysUK
Median day rate
£450
+3.2% MoM
Active roles
1,157
8 new today
Top decile
£650
Top rate today
£650
Full Stack Developer
Day rate trend — Outside IR35 market
90 days · median (line) and 25th-75th percentile (band)
Top skills by median rate
≥ 8 roles in windowWorkday
£700
Programme Manager
£625
Snowflake
£613
TypeScript
£603
Finance Systems
£600
Business Architect
£600
Sector premium
vs market medianBanking & capital markets+£150
Cyber security+£125
Enterprise platforms+£100
Cloud & infrastructure+£100
DevOps & platform+£100
Backend engineering+£68
AI & data science+£65
Data platforms+£50
Frontend engineering+£50
Delivery & PMO+£50
Software engineering+£50
QA & testing+£46
Design+£25
Infrastructure±0
Mobile-£75
Premium or discount relative to the overall market median of £450/day. Based on roles posted in the last 90 days.
Demand heatmap — region × stack
active roles, last 30 days| London | South East | Manchester | Edinburgh | Remote UK | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stakeholder Management | 46 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 17 |
| Project Manager | 26 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 25 |
| Agile | 20 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 19 |
| Business Analyst | 16 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| Azure | 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 15 |
Cell intensity reflects the number of active roles. Brighter cells indicate higher demand.
Rates by skill
Last 30 days| Skill | Category | Avg | Min | Max | Jobs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Workday | Business Intelligence | £700 | £700 | £700 | 1 | View jobs |
Programme Manager | Project Management | £625 | £150 | £800 | 8 | View jobs |
Snowflake | Data Engineering | £613 | £600 | £625 | 2 | View jobs |
TypeScript | Software Engineering | £603 | £510 | £750 | 3 | View jobs |
Finance Systems | Finance | £600 | £450 | £750 | 3 | View jobs |
Business Architect | Project Management | £600 | £600 | £600 | 1 | View jobs |
IAM | Cyber Security | £600 | £450 | £750 | 2 | View jobs |
Actuarial | Finance | £600 | £600 | £600 | 1 | View jobs |
Finance Director | Finance | £583 | £500 | £700 | 3 | View jobs |
Tableau | Data Science | £575 | £500 | £625 | 3 | View jobs |
Dynamics 365 | Business Intelligence | £567 | £300 | £650 | 6 | View jobs |
Databricks | Data Engineering | £558 | £450 | £625 | 3 | View jobs |
JavaScript | Software Engineering | £555 | £510 | £600 | 2 | View jobs |
ETL | Data Engineering | £550 | £550 | £550 | 1 | View jobs |
MLOps | Data Science | £550 | £550 | £550 | 1 | View jobs |
Go | Software Engineering | £547 | £45 | £1,500 | 18 | View jobs |
Delivery Manager | Project Management | £544 | £479 | £600 | 11 | View jobs |
GCP | Cloud Engineering | £535 | £450 | £575 | 5 | View jobs |
DevOps | DevOps & CI/CD | £535 | £250 | £750 | 10 | View jobs |
Azure | Cloud Engineering | £529 | £400 | £650 | 18 | View jobs |
Swift | Software Engineering | £525 | £525 | £525 | 1 | View jobs |
Stakeholder Management | Project Management | £514 | £45 | £1,000 | 42 | View jobs |
HTML | Frontend Development | £510 | £510 | £510 | 1 | View jobs |
CSS | Frontend Development | £510 | £510 | £510 | 1 | View jobs |
Node.js | Backend Development | £510 | £510 | £510 | 1 | View jobs |
AWS | Cloud Engineering | £504 | £49 | £750 | 6 | View jobs |
Security Architecture | Cyber Security | £500 | £500 | £500 | 1 | View jobs |
SOC | Cyber Security | £500 | £400 | £600 | 2 | View jobs |
Figma | UX & UI Design | £500 | £500 | £500 | 2 | View jobs |
Oracle | Business Intelligence | £500 | £500 | £500 | 1 | View jobs |
GRC | Cyber Security | £500 | £500 | £500 | 1 | View jobs |
Salesforce | Business Intelligence | £500 | £250 | £650 | 4 | View jobs |
Scrum | Project Management | £490 | £350 | £600 | 9 | View jobs |
Agile | Project Management | £489 | £107 | £650 | 32 | View jobs |
Power BI | Data Science | £476 | £37 | £900 | 11 | View jobs |
Finance Transformation | Finance | £475 | £100 | £750 | 4 | View jobs |
React | Frontend Development | £465 | £49 | £750 | 4 | View jobs |
Test Automation | Testing & QA | £463 | £400 | £525 | 2 | View jobs |
FastAPI | Backend Development | £458 | £49 | £750 | 3 | View jobs |
Jenkins | DevOps & CI/CD | £455 | £400 | £510 | 2 | View jobs |
Kubernetes | Cloud Engineering | £450 | £450 | £450 | 1 | View jobs |
Terraform | Cloud Engineering | £450 | £450 | £450 | 1 | View jobs |
Business Analyst | Project Management | £448 | £100 | £700 | 18 | View jobs |
SQL | Data Engineering | £445 | £49 | £625 | 16 | View jobs |
Service Design | UX & UI Design | £433 | £350 | £515 | 2 | View jobs |
C | Software Engineering | £422 | £1 | £1,000 | 14 | View jobs |
Prince2 | Project Management | £403 | £107 | £600 | 5 | View jobs |
GitHub Actions | DevOps & CI/CD | £400 | £400 | £400 | 1 | View jobs |
VMware | Infrastructure & Operations | £400 | £400 | £400 | 1 | View jobs |
Networking | Infrastructure & Operations | £397 | £250 | £600 | 8 | View jobs |
SAP | Business Intelligence | £397 | £37 | £650 | 4 | View jobs |
Change Management | Project Management | £393 | £60 | £600 | 6 | View jobs |
Project Manager | Project Management | £392 | £37 | £720 | 32 | View jobs |
NLP | Data Science | £391 | £49 | £575 | 3 | View jobs |
Python | Software Engineering | £390 | £40 | £750 | 10 | View jobs |
SAFe | Project Management | £386 | £22 | £650 | 9 | View jobs |
Monitoring | Infrastructure & Operations | £378 | £35 | £700 | 15 | View jobs |
UX Design | UX & UI Design | £375 | £150 | £500 | 4 | View jobs |
Django | Backend Development | £375 | £49 | £700 | 2 | View jobs |
Cisco | Infrastructure & Operations | £367 | £250 | £450 | 3 | View jobs |
Ruby on Rails | Backend Development | £327 | £327 | £327 | 1 | View jobs |
SRE | Infrastructure & Operations | £327 | £327 | £327 | 1 | View jobs |
Docker | Cloud Engineering | £308 | £65 | £550 | 2 | View jobs |
Java | Software Engineering | £65 | £65 | £65 | 1 | View jobs |
GitLab CI | DevOps & CI/CD | £65 | £65 | £65 | 1 | View jobs |
Flask | Backend Development | £49 | £49 | £49 | 1 | View jobs |
Angular | Frontend Development | £49 | £49 | £49 | 1 | View jobs |