Senior Software Developer Contracts in England

Senior Software Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Software Developer daily rate in England is £545 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 468 611 664
Rank change year-on-year +143 +53 -69
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 80 45 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.090% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.095% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 36 110
10th Percentile £416 £427 £463
25th Percentile £500 £511 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £600 £578
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +3.90% +3.13%
75th Percentile £688 £644 £650
90th Percentile £800 £788 £701
UK median daily rate £545 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -9.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £54.85 - -
Median hourly rate £58.91 - -
75th Percentile £62.96 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £58.91 - -

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 34,362 47,263 67,966
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,836 33,555 48,392
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% +7.69%
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 2,442 1,404 1,879
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.86 £77.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Senior Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Developer in England

Senior Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Software Developer in England

Senior Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Software Developer in England

Senior Software Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Software Developer in England

Senior Software 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 Software Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 6 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 +154 71 £545 -9.17% 19
South East +22 5 £521 -28.72% 10
East Midlands - 2 £550 - 3
Midlands - 2 £550 - 8
North of England +23 1 £350 -39.13% 10
Yorkshire +21 1 £350 -39.13% 5
East of England +9 1 £600 - 3
Senior Software Developer
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Senior Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Senior Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 62 (77.50%) Agile
2 52 (65.00%) C#
2 52 (65.00%) Azure
3 48 (60.00%) PowerShell
3 48 (60.00%) SQL Server
4 45 (56.25%) DevOps
5 42 (52.50%) .NET
5 42 (52.50%) Microsoft
6 41 (51.25%) CI/CD
7 40 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (45.00%) XML
8 36 (45.00%) Scrum
9 27 (33.75%) .NET Framework
10 24 (30.00%) Software Engineering
11 21 (26.25%) JavaScript
11 21 (26.25%) AngularJS
12 20 (25.00%) SQL
13 19 (23.75%) Python
13 19 (23.75%) Product Ownership
14 18 (22.50%) Java
15 16 (20.00%) Active Directory
16 15 (18.75%) Public Sector
17 14 (17.50%) Entra ID
17 14 (17.50%) B2C
18 13 (16.25%) Project Delivery
19 12 (15.00%) Bicep
19 12 (15.00%) SpecFlow
19 12 (15.00%) AWS
20 11 (13.75%) Finance
21 10 (12.50%) Front Office

Senior Software 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 8 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.50%) Apache
2 2 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.25%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Endur
1 1 (1.25%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 52 (65.00%) Azure
2 40 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (17.50%) Entra ID
4 12 (15.00%) AWS
5 8 (10.00%) GCP
6 4 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (3.75%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (3.75%) GitHub
7 3 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.50%) dbt
8 2 (2.50%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.25%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.25%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.25%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.00%) SAN
1 4 (5.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.25%) Firewall
2 1 (1.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (2.50%) Apache Arrow
2 2 (2.50%) Apache Ignite
2 2 (2.50%) Big Data
2 2 (2.50%) Dremio
2 2 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.50%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (15.00%) SpecFlow
2 3 (3.75%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.50%) Git
4 1 (1.25%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.25%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.25%) LabVIEW
4 1 (1.25%) Selenium
General
1 15 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 11 (13.75%) Finance
3 10 (12.50%) Front Office
4 7 (8.75%) Social Skills
5 4 (5.00%) Banking
5 4 (5.00%) Local Government
6 2 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.50%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.25%) Back Office
7 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.25%) Law
7 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (52.50%) .NET
2 36 (45.00%) XML
3 27 (33.75%) .NET Framework
4 21 (26.25%) AngularJS
5 10 (12.50%) .NET Core
6 9 (11.25%) Pandas
6 9 (11.25%) React
7 8 (10.00%) ARM Templates
7 8 (10.00%) gRPC
7 8 (10.00%) Protocol Buffers
8 6 (7.50%) Material-UI
8 6 (7.50%) Vue
9 3 (3.75%) Blazor
9 3 (3.75%) NumPy
9 3 (3.75%) Razor View Engine
9 3 (3.75%) SciPy
10 2 (2.50%) CSS
10 2 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (2.50%) HTML
10 2 (2.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 19 (23.75%) Product Ownership
2 9 (11.25%) Derivative
3 8 (10.00%) Equities
3 8 (10.00%) Fixed Income
3 8 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (8.75%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (6.25%) Contactless
6 3 (3.75%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.75%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.50%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.50%) Hedge funds
7 2 (2.50%) Market Risk
7 2 (2.50%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.50%) Linux
2 4 (5.00%) Debian
2 4 (5.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (77.50%) Agile
2 45 (56.25%) DevOps
3 41 (51.25%) CI/CD
4 36 (45.00%) Scrum
5 24 (30.00%) Software Engineering
6 14 (17.50%) B2C
7 13 (16.25%) Project Delivery
8 8 (10.00%) Analytics
8 8 (10.00%) Asset Management
8 8 (10.00%) Database Optimisation
9 7 (8.75%) Content Management
9 7 (8.75%) Design Patterns
10 5 (6.25%) Configuration Management
10 5 (6.25%) SDLC
11 4 (5.00%) Data Modelling
11 4 (5.00%) ITIL
11 4 (5.00%) Microservices
11 4 (5.00%) TDD
11 4 (5.00%) Test Automation
11 4 (5.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 52 (65.00%) C#
2 48 (60.00%) PowerShell
3 21 (26.25%) JavaScript
4 20 (25.00%) SQL
5 19 (23.75%) Python
6 18 (22.50%) Java
7 12 (15.00%) Bicep
8 9 (11.25%) TypeScript
9 4 (5.00%) C++
10 3 (3.75%) Ruby
11 2 (2.50%) Bash
11 2 (2.50%) Perl
11 2 (2.50%) Scala
12 1 (1.25%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.25%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (8.75%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.50%) Degree
3 4 (5.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.50%) Docker
4 1 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (52.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (5.00%) VMware
3 1 (1.25%) ION Trading
3 1 (1.25%) NEC
3 1 (1.25%) OpenLink
3 1 (1.25%) Remedy
3 1 (1.25%) Virgin Media
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