Market intelligence
Outside IR35 market
Last 90 daysUK
Median day rate
£450
-0.1% MoM
Active roles
1,716
1 new today
Top decile
£700
Top rate today
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Day rate trend — Outside IR35 market
90 days · median (line) and 25th-75th percentile (band)
Top skills by median rate
≥ 8 roles in windowAndroid
£3,200
ETL
£874
Linux
£724
Pandas
£700
Kotlin
£650
C++
£650
Sector premium
vs market medianBanking & capital markets+£130
QA & testing+£100
Cyber security+£88
DevOps & platform+£77
Enterprise platforms+£75
Cloud & infrastructure+£75
Data platforms+£50
AI & data science+£50
Delivery & PMO+£50
Design+£50
Backend engineering+£38
Software engineering+£25
Frontend engineering+£12
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 | 25 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 19 |
| Project Manager | 16 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 22 |
| Agile | 10 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 12 |
| Python | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| Business Analyst | 18 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Android | Mobile Development | £3,200 | £3,200 | £3,200 | 1 | View jobs |
ETL | Data Engineering | £874 | £180 | £3,200 | 6 | View jobs |
Linux | Infrastructure & Operations | £724 | £53 | £3,200 | 8 | View jobs |
Pandas | Data Science | £700 | £700 | £700 | 1 | View jobs |
Kotlin | Software Engineering | £650 | £650 | £650 | 1 | View jobs |
C++ | Software Engineering | £650 | £650 | £650 | 1 | View jobs |
C | Software Engineering | £606 | £55 | £3,200 | 12 | View jobs |
FastAPI | Backend Development | £600 | £600 | £600 | 1 | View jobs |
Spring Boot | Backend Development | £600 | £600 | £600 | 1 | View jobs |
Programme Manager | Project Management | £600 | £600 | £600 | 1 | View jobs |
Python | Software Engineering | £596 | £90 | £3,200 | 16 | View jobs |
Solution Architect | Project Management | £550 | £550 | £550 | 1 | View jobs |
Business Analyst | Project Management | £507 | £350 | £950 | 19 | View jobs |
Finance Director | Finance | £500 | £500 | £500 | 1 | View jobs |
Figma | UX & UI Design | £500 | £500 | £500 | 1 | View jobs |
Prince2 | Project Management | £490 | £400 | £600 | 4 | View jobs |
Finance Systems | Finance | £480 | £480 | £480 | 1 | View jobs |
Finance Transformation | Finance | £475 | £475 | £475 | 1 | View jobs |
CloudFormation | Cloud Engineering | £475 | £475 | £475 | 1 | View jobs |
Tableau | Data Science | £475 | £475 | £475 | 1 | View jobs |
Django | Backend Development | £466 | £232 | £700 | 2 | View jobs |
NLP | Data Science | £459 | £317 | £600 | 2 | View jobs |
Delivery Manager | Project Management | £458 | £400 | £515 | 2 | View jobs |
Docker | Cloud Engineering | £457 | £188 | £600 | 4 | View jobs |
Power BI | Data Science | £457 | £198 | £550 | 7 | View jobs |
Monitoring | Infrastructure & Operations | £455 | £180 | £800 | 9 | View jobs |
Cisco | Infrastructure & Operations | £450 | £450 | £450 | 1 | View jobs |
AWS | Cloud Engineering | £448 | £257 | £600 | 7 | View jobs |
Stakeholder Management | Project Management | £445 | £2 | £800 | 26 | View jobs |
React | Frontend Development | £441 | £282 | £600 | 2 | View jobs |
Terraform | Cloud Engineering | £441 | £282 | £600 | 2 | View jobs |
Test Automation | Testing & QA | £440 | £440 | £440 | 1 | View jobs |
Spark | Data Engineering | £440 | £180 | £700 | 3 | View jobs |
GCP | Cloud Engineering | £432 | £257 | £600 | 3 | View jobs |
DevOps | DevOps & CI/CD | £429 | £198 | £630 | 5 | View jobs |
.NET | Software Engineering | £429 | £257 | £600 | 2 | View jobs |
Dynamics 365 | Business Intelligence | £424 | £198 | £600 | 3 | View jobs |
Change Management | Project Management | £423 | £296 | £600 | 4 | View jobs |
Project Manager | Project Management | £420 | £2 | £800 | 23 | View jobs |
Kubernetes | Cloud Engineering | £419 | £107 | £600 | 6 | View jobs |
Agile | Project Management | £410 | £55 | £700 | 22 | View jobs |
SAFe | Project Management | £401 | £188 | £515 | 3 | View jobs |
TypeScript | Software Engineering | £397 | £317 | £475 | 3 | View jobs |
SQL | Data Engineering | £396 | £147 | £700 | 15 | View jobs |
Node.js | Backend Development | £396 | £317 | £475 | 2 | View jobs |
Azure | Cloud Engineering | £382 | £180 | £700 | 14 | View jobs |
Java | Software Engineering | £381 | £90 | £650 | 7 | View jobs |
Scrum | Project Management | £368 | £150 | £515 | 3 | View jobs |
Salesforce | Business Intelligence | £363 | £150 | £575 | 2 | View jobs |
IAM | Cyber Security | £358 | £358 | £358 | 1 | View jobs |
SAP | Business Intelligence | £335 | £246 | £400 | 3 | View jobs |
Databricks | Data Engineering | £323 | £180 | £440 | 3 | View jobs |
Ansible | Cloud Engineering | £282 | £282 | £282 | 1 | View jobs |
Windows Server | Infrastructure & Operations | £282 | £282 | £282 | 1 | View jobs |
JavaScript | Software Engineering | £260 | £150 | £475 | 6 | View jobs |
Networking | Infrastructure & Operations | £250 | £53 | £450 | 8 | View jobs |
Workday | Business Intelligence | £250 | £250 | £250 | 1 | View jobs |
Oracle | Business Intelligence | £246 | £246 | £246 | 1 | View jobs |
Go | Software Engineering | £238 | £150 | £400 | 5 | View jobs |
CSS | Frontend Development | £232 | £232 | £232 | 1 | View jobs |
Ruby | Software Engineering | £232 | £232 | £232 | 1 | View jobs |
Ruby on Rails | Backend Development | £232 | £232 | £232 | 1 | View jobs |
HTML | Frontend Development | £232 | £232 | £232 | 1 | View jobs |
UX Design | UX & UI Design | £198 | £198 | £198 | 1 | View jobs |