Senior Developer Contracts in East London

Senior Developer
London > East London

The median Senior Developer daily rate in East London is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 20 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 16 11 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 7.17% 6.29% 7.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.04% 6.83% 8.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 20
10th Percentile £413 £535 £288
25th Percentile £425 £550 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £825 £375
Median % change year-on-year -34.85% +120.00% -30.23%
75th Percentile £788 £950 £400
90th Percentile £838 - £700
London median daily rate £600 £688 £650
% change year-on-year -12.73% +5.77% +13.04%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in East London. 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 East London with a recognized job title 199 161 247
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.24% 92.00% 96.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 133 203
10th Percentile £320 £190 £240
25th Percentile £420 £350 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £580
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -13.79% +21.47%
75th Percentile £629 £700 £700
90th Percentile £770 £775 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 9
10th Percentile £11.95 £20.64 -
25th Percentile £12.84 £23.20 £16.50
Median hourly rate £22.91 £27.47 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% +61.56% -36.21%
75th Percentile £28.37 £31.73 £25.48
90th Percentile £38.28 £34.29 £40.48
London median hourly rate £27.25 £35.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.78% +2.14% +8.63%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in East London

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in East London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in East London

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in East London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in East London

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in East London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in East London

Senior Developer
Contract Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the East London region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
Greenwich -1 9 £520 -5.45%
Tower Hamlets -8 4 £825 -13.16%
Senior Developer
London

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East London

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Senior 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 East London region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 15 (93.75%) Agile
2 11 (68.75%) C#
3 10 (62.50%) PowerShell
4 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
4 7 (43.75%) SQL Server
4 7 (43.75%) Azure
4 7 (43.75%) DevOps
4 7 (43.75%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
5 6 (37.50%) SQL
5 6 (37.50%) .NET
5 6 (37.50%) Scrum
5 6 (37.50%) Product Ownership
5 6 (37.50%) Project Delivery
6 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
6 5 (31.25%) TDD
6 5 (31.25%) .NET Framework
6 5 (31.25%) XML
6 5 (31.25%) Java
7 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
7 4 (25.00%) Finance
7 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
7 4 (25.00%) Scala
8 3 (18.75%) AngularJS
8 3 (18.75%) PCI DSS
8 3 (18.75%) Database Optimisation
8 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
8 3 (18.75%) SDLC
8 3 (18.75%) Content Management

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East London 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 1 (6.25%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
1 7 (43.75%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) SpecFlow
2 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Back Office
3 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) .NET
2 5 (31.25%) .NET Framework
2 5 (31.25%) XML
3 3 (18.75%) AngularJS
4 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
4 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET
4 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (6.25%) CSS
4 1 (6.25%) HTML
4 1 (6.25%) jQuery
4 1 (6.25%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 3 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Agile
2 7 (43.75%) DevOps
3 6 (37.50%) Project Delivery
3 6 (37.50%) Scrum
4 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
4 5 (31.25%) TDD
5 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 3 (18.75%) B2C
6 3 (18.75%) Content Management
6 3 (18.75%) Database Optimisation
6 3 (18.75%) Design Patterns
6 3 (18.75%) SDLC
7 1 (6.25%) API Management
7 1 (6.25%) Clean Code
7 1 (6.25%) Front End Development
7 1 (6.25%) OO
7 1 (6.25%) OOD
7 1 (6.25%) Software Testing
7 1 (6.25%) Storyboarding
7 1 (6.25%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) C#
2 10 (62.50%) PowerShell
3 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 6 (37.50%) SQL
4 5 (31.25%) Java
5 4 (25.00%) Scala
6 1 (6.25%) Bicep
6 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft