Market intelligence
Outside IR35 market
Last 90 daysUK
Median day rate
£450
+3.2% MoM
Active roles
843
2 new today
Top decile
£650
Top rate today
£515
Service Manager
Day rate trend — Outside IR35 market
90 days · median (line) and 25th-75th percentile (band)
Top skills by median rate
≥ 8 roles in windowDjango
£700
Workday
£700
Go
£686
Solution Architect
£600
Programme Manager
£590
Snowflake
£575
Sector premium
vs market medianBackend engineering+£125
Banking & capital markets+£125
Enterprise platforms+£100
Cloud & infrastructure+£100
Cyber security+£100
DevOps & platform+£100
Data platforms+£50
AI & data science+£50
Frontend engineering+£50
Delivery & PMO+£50
Software engineering+£50
QA & testing+£48
Infrastructure+£8
Design±0
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 | 28 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 10 |
| Project Manager | 13 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 22 |
| Agile | 13 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 15 |
| Azure | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| SAFe | 4 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Django | Backend Development | £700 | £700 | £700 | 1 | View jobs |
Workday | Business Intelligence | £700 | £700 | £700 | 1 | View jobs |
Go | Software Engineering | £686 | £375 | £1,500 | 12 | View jobs |
Solution Architect | Project Management | £600 | £600 | £600 | 1 | View jobs |
Programme Manager | Project Management | £590 | £150 | £750 | 5 | View jobs |
Snowflake | Data Engineering | £575 | £500 | £625 | 3 | View jobs |
NLP | Data Science | £575 | £550 | £600 | 3 | View jobs |
FastAPI | Backend Development | £575 | £575 | £575 | 1 | View jobs |
Python | Software Engineering | £571 | £500 | £700 | 7 | View jobs |
Databricks | Data Engineering | £563 | £500 | £625 | 2 | View jobs |
ETL | Data Engineering | £563 | £550 | £575 | 2 | View jobs |
AWS | Cloud Engineering | £560 | £496 | £650 | 7 | View jobs |
UX Design | UX & UI Design | £560 | £400 | £800 | 5 | View jobs |
GCP | Cloud Engineering | £558 | £550 | £575 | 3 | View jobs |
Prince2 | Project Management | £550 | £450 | £600 | 3 | View jobs |
React | Frontend Development | £550 | £550 | £550 | 1 | View jobs |
Docker | Cloud Engineering | £550 | £550 | £550 | 1 | View jobs |
MLOps | Data Science | £550 | £550 | £550 | 1 | View jobs |
Stakeholder Management | Project Management | £539 | £300 | £1,000 | 28 | View jobs |
Oracle | Business Intelligence | £532 | £496 | £600 | 3 | View jobs |
Delivery Manager | Project Management | £526 | £479 | £600 | 7 | View jobs |
Salesforce | Business Intelligence | £525 | £250 | £650 | 4 | View jobs |
Tableau | Data Science | £525 | £425 | £625 | 2 | View jobs |
Swift | Software Engineering | £525 | £525 | £525 | 1 | View jobs |
Change Management | Project Management | £520 | £400 | £600 | 5 | View jobs |
Azure | Cloud Engineering | £519 | £250 | £650 | 16 | View jobs |
Finance Director | Finance | £515 | £275 | £700 | 5 | View jobs |
Dynamics 365 | Business Intelligence | £513 | £275 | £650 | 6 | View jobs |
DevOps | DevOps & CI/CD | £511 | £250 | £700 | 10 | View jobs |
Finance Systems | Finance | £500 | £450 | £550 | 2 | View jobs |
dbt | Data Engineering | £500 | £500 | £500 | 1 | View jobs |
SOC | Cyber Security | £500 | £400 | £600 | 2 | View jobs |
SQL | Data Engineering | £497 | £400 | £625 | 11 | View jobs |
JavaScript | Software Engineering | £496 | £496 | £496 | 1 | View jobs |
Terraform | Cloud Engineering | £496 | £496 | £496 | 1 | View jobs |
Selenium | Testing & QA | £496 | £496 | £496 | 1 | View jobs |
GitHub Actions | DevOps & CI/CD | £496 | £496 | £496 | 1 | View jobs |
Java | Software Engineering | £496 | £496 | £496 | 1 | View jobs |
Scrum | Project Management | £492 | £350 | £600 | 11 | View jobs |
Agile | Project Management | £481 | £250 | £650 | 27 | View jobs |
TypeScript | Software Engineering | £480 | £410 | £550 | 2 | View jobs |
Test Automation | Testing & QA | £477 | £410 | £525 | 3 | View jobs |
Business Analyst | Project Management | £462 | £325 | £650 | 16 | View jobs |
Kubernetes | Cloud Engineering | £453 | £410 | £496 | 2 | View jobs |
C | Software Engineering | £451 | £1 | £1,000 | 8 | View jobs |
Service Design | UX & UI Design | £441 | £350 | £515 | 4 | View jobs |
Project Manager | Project Management | £438 | £37 | £650 | 22 | View jobs |
Power BI | Data Science | £432 | £37 | £625 | 9 | View jobs |
Cisco | Infrastructure & Operations | £425 | £400 | £450 | 2 | View jobs |
SAP | Business Intelligence | £417 | £37 | £650 | 5 | View jobs |
Cypress | Testing & QA | £410 | £410 | £410 | 1 | View jobs |
VMware | Infrastructure & Operations | £400 | £400 | £400 | 1 | View jobs |
Monitoring | Infrastructure & Operations | £400 | £36 | £700 | 11 | View jobs |
Networking | Infrastructure & Operations | £340 | £250 | £450 | 5 | View jobs |
SAFe | Project Management | £318 | £150 | £550 | 6 | View jobs |
Finance Transformation | Finance | £300 | £300 | £300 | 1 | View jobs |
Windows Server | Infrastructure & Operations | £250 | £250 | £250 | 1 | View jobs |
Linux | Infrastructure & Operations | £250 | £250 | £250 | 1 | View jobs |