Senior Developer Contracts in England

Senior Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Developer daily rate in England is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 129 123
Rank change year-on-year -7 -6 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 624 1,022 1,635
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.69% 2.04% 2.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.83% 2.16% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 774 1,317
10th Percentile £410 £463 £438
25th Percentile £463 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £748 £775 £725
90th Percentile £863 £875 £800
UK median daily rate £574 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.16% +4.17% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 5
10th Percentile £51.64 £60.50 -
25th Percentile £55.20 £61.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £59.45 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% +13.64% +61.76%
75th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.42
90th Percentile £82.55 £78.00 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £58.91 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.75% +13.64% +61.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,178 47,326 67,913
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,701 33,606 48,311
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,407 1,890
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.37 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.37
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Developer in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 4 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
London +3 473 £600 -12.73% 181
North of England +28 67 £531 -6.80% 73
North West +36 47 £550 -6.14% 47
Yorkshire +14 25 £575 +1.55% 22
South West +7 22 £500 -16.67% 37
Midlands +20 20 £424 -22.95% 66
South East -4 20 £524 -0.24% 70
West Midlands +22 15 £259 -52.91% 36
North East +22 7 £720 +15.20% 6
East of England +8 5 £600 +9.69% 17
East Midlands +18 4 £513 +2.50% 30
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 England region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 258 (41.35%) Agile
2 183 (29.33%) C#
3 181 (29.01%) Azure
4 177 (28.37%) Java
5 173 (27.72%) DevOps
6 150 (24.04%) .NET
7 146 (23.40%) CI/CD
8 139 (22.28%) JavaScript
9 138 (22.12%) Finance
10 133 (21.31%) SQL Server
11 125 (20.03%) Microsoft
12 121 (19.39%) React
13 110 (17.63%) Social Skills
14 106 (16.99%) Azure DevOps
14 106 (16.99%) SQL
15 99 (15.87%) TDD
16 97 (15.54%) AWS
17 86 (13.78%) Software Engineering
18 85 (13.62%) TypeScript
19 83 (13.30%) Scrum
20 82 (13.14%) Python
20 82 (13.14%) PowerShell
21 77 (12.34%) HTML
22 76 (12.18%) Microservices
23 73 (11.70%) XML
24 72 (11.54%) Front End Development
24 72 (11.54%) Public Sector
25 71 (11.38%) CSS
26 65 (10.42%) Active Directory
26 65 (10.42%) AngularJS

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 17 (2.72%) CMS
2 8 (1.28%) Apache
2 8 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (1.28%) Confluence
3 6 (0.96%) Appian
4 5 (0.80%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.64%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.64%) SAS
5 4 (0.64%) WordPress
6 2 (0.32%) CICS
6 2 (0.32%) IIS
6 2 (0.32%) ThingWorx
7 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.16%) GemFire
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.80%) Endur
3 3 (0.48%) RMDS
4 2 (0.32%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.32%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.32%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (0.32%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.16%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.16%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 181 (29.01%) Azure
2 106 (16.99%) Azure DevOps
3 97 (15.54%) AWS
4 42 (6.73%) Entra ID
5 41 (6.57%) Azure Service Bus
6 36 (5.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 32 (5.13%) GCP
8 25 (4.01%) GitHub
8 25 (4.01%) Power Platform
9 20 (3.21%) Serverless
10 18 (2.88%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (2.56%) Amazon S3
12 15 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (2.24%) PowerApps
14 11 (1.76%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (1.76%) Azure Pipelines
14 11 (1.76%) PaaS
14 11 (1.76%) Power Automate
15 10 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.64%) SAN
1 4 (0.64%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.48%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.32%) HTTP
3 2 (0.32%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.16%) Firewall
4 1 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (21.31%) SQL Server
2 33 (5.29%) MongoDB
3 24 (3.85%) KDB
4 22 (3.53%) NoSQL
5 17 (2.72%) Relational Database
6 15 (2.40%) Redis
7 13 (2.08%) Power BI
8 10 (1.60%) MySQL
9 9 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (1.44%) DynamoDB
10 8 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (0.64%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.48%) Big Data
13 3 (0.48%) DB2
13 3 (0.48%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.48%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 53 (8.49%) Git
2 35 (5.61%) Jenkins
3 31 (4.97%) Mockito
4 22 (3.53%) JIRA
5 21 (3.37%) GitLab
6 19 (3.04%) JUnit
7 18 (2.88%) Cucumber
8 12 (1.92%) SpecFlow
9 8 (1.28%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.28%) Cypress.io
10 7 (1.12%) Rational Rhapsody
11 6 (0.96%) Postman
11 6 (0.96%) TeamCity
12 5 (0.80%) Selenium
13 4 (0.64%) NUnit
13 4 (0.64%) Pylint
13 4 (0.64%) Sourcetree
14 3 (0.48%) CircleCI
14 3 (0.48%) SonarQube
14 3 (0.48%) Storybook
General
1 138 (22.12%) Finance
2 110 (17.63%) Social Skills
3 72 (11.54%) Public Sector
4 61 (9.78%) Banking
5 44 (7.05%) Front Office
6 36 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (2.24%) Back Office
7 14 (2.24%) Investment Banking
8 13 (2.08%) Local Government
9 9 (1.44%) Financial Institution
10 8 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.80%) Law
12 4 (0.64%) Retail
13 3 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.48%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.48%) Marketing
13 3 (0.48%) Police
13 3 (0.48%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.32%) Advertising
14 2 (0.32%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (24.04%) .NET
2 121 (19.39%) React
3 77 (12.34%) HTML
4 73 (11.70%) XML
5 71 (11.38%) CSS
6 65 (10.42%) AngularJS
7 62 (9.94%) .NET Core
8 43 (6.89%) .NET Framework
8 43 (6.89%) Node.js
8 43 (6.89%) REST
9 38 (6.09%) ASP.NET
10 36 (5.77%) Spring Boot
11 33 (5.29%) Kafka
11 33 (5.29%) Spring
12 30 (4.81%) RESTful
13 29 (4.65%) Vue
13 29 (4.65%) Web Services
14 19 (3.04%) jQuery
15 18 (2.88%) ActiveMQ
16 17 (2.72%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 40 (6.41%) Product Ownership
2 38 (6.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 31 (4.97%) Fixed Income
4 30 (4.81%) Derivative
5 28 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (2.88%) Algorithms
7 16 (2.56%) Credit Derivative
7 16 (2.56%) Onboarding
8 14 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.92%) Equities
10 12 (1.92%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.60%) Renewable Energy
12 9 (1.44%) Data Structures
13 8 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.28%) Market Risk
14 7 (1.12%) Cloud Native
14 7 (1.12%) Hedge funds
14 7 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (1.12%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 48 (7.69%) Linux
2 22 (3.53%) Unix
3 15 (2.40%) Android
4 14 (2.24%) Mac OS X
5 9 (1.44%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.80%) Windows
7 4 (0.64%) Debian
7 4 (0.64%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.32%) zOS
9 1 (0.16%) CentOS
9 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (41.35%) Agile
2 173 (27.72%) DevOps
3 146 (23.40%) CI/CD
4 99 (15.87%) TDD
5 86 (13.78%) Software Engineering
6 83 (13.30%) Scrum
7 76 (12.18%) Microservices
8 72 (11.54%) Front End Development
9 55 (8.81%) Test Automation
10 52 (8.33%) SDLC
11 51 (8.17%) OO
11 51 (8.17%) Problem-Solving
12 43 (6.89%) Continuous Integration
13 39 (6.25%) Full Stack Development
14 38 (6.09%) Clean Code
15 37 (5.93%) Design Patterns
15 37 (5.93%) User Experience
16 36 (5.77%) B2C
16 36 (5.77%) BDD
16 36 (5.77%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 183 (29.33%) C#
2 177 (28.37%) Java
3 139 (22.28%) JavaScript
4 106 (16.99%) SQL
5 85 (13.62%) TypeScript
6 82 (13.14%) PowerShell
6 82 (13.14%) Python
7 49 (7.85%) Bicep
8 22 (3.53%) Scala
9 19 (3.04%) Kotlin
10 17 (2.72%) C++
11 9 (1.44%) Go
12 7 (1.12%) PHP
12 7 (1.12%) Ruby
12 7 (1.12%) Swift
13 6 (0.96%) Rust
13 6 (0.96%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.80%) Bash
14 5 (0.80%) Objective-C
14 5 (0.80%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (8.49%) Security Cleared
2 43 (6.89%) SC Cleared
3 42 (6.73%) Degree
4 17 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.40%) ITIL Certification
6 9 (1.44%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.64%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 15 (2.40%) WCAG
3 10 (1.60%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.12%) HL7
5 6 (0.96%) QA
6 3 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 2 (0.32%) MiFID
8 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.16%) GDPR
8 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 65 (10.42%) Active Directory
2 41 (6.57%) Docker
3 9 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.48%) ACF2
4 3 (0.48%) IAG
4 3 (0.48%) RACF
5 1 (0.16%) GridGain
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 37 (5.93%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.56%) Terraform
3 12 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.96%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (0.64%) Grafana
6 3 (0.48%) Ansible
6 3 (0.48%) Podman
7 2 (0.32%) CA Endevor
7 2 (0.32%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 125 (20.03%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.33%) ServiceNow
3 22 (3.53%) Oracle
4 17 (2.72%) Google
5 11 (1.76%) IBM
5 11 (1.76%) ION Trading
6 8 (1.28%) TIBCO
6 8 (1.28%) Virgin Media
7 6 (0.96%) Apple
7 6 (0.96%) Solace
8 5 (0.80%) Blue Prism
8 5 (0.80%) Salesforce
8 5 (0.80%) UiPath
9 4 (0.64%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.64%) Sybase
9 4 (0.64%) VMware
10 3 (0.48%) Databricks
10 3 (0.48%) SAP
11 2 (0.32%) NEC
11 2 (0.32%) Workday