Software Developer Freelance Benchmark in United Kingdom
Certified Local Primary from a reviewed Strong national occupation mapping. This page uses official local evidence; it is not a currency-converted U.S. landing page.
Official local benchmark
£29.31 GBP/hour employee median → £51.29 GBP/hour modeled planning benchmark
TransparentRate applies the same provisional ×1.75 coefficient once and preserves the source’s native period.
Source and occupation mapping
| TransparentRate occupation | Full-Stack Developer |
|---|---|
| Official occupation | Programmers and software development professionals (2134) |
| Mapping | strong_official_proxy — National group explicitly contains this occupation and is economically close. |
| Source agency | Office for National Statistics |
| Dataset | Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Table 14.6a, occupation SOC 2020 (4 digit), hourly pay excluding overtime |
| Reference period | 2025 provisional |
| Source edition | GB-ASHE14.6A-2025P-r1 |
| Release | TR-METH-2.0.0 · TR-DATA-2026-08-21.1 |
What this result means
The employee statistic describes the source population and period above. The modeled result is a planning reference, not an observed freelancer-rate distribution, guaranteed market price, personal minimum, or recommended quote.
Comparison limits
The official source statistic is preserved in its native unit.
Percent difference is directional only when the local source uses net pay, a monthly-hours assumption, a broad proxy, or a different population scope.
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