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 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 141 130 120
Rank change year-on-year -11 -10 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 620 1,002 1,636
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.69% 2.05% 2.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.82% 2.16% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 760 1,311
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 £750 £775 £725
90th Percentile £870 £875 £800
UK median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 13
10th Percentile £51.64 £60.50 £38.50
25th Percentile £55.20 £61.25 £61.81
Median hourly rate £59.45 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -10.71% +105.88%
75th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £80.50
90th Percentile £82.55 £78.00 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £58.91 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -5.75% -10.71% +105.88%

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 34,080 46,338 66,904
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,599 32,894 47,614
10th Percentile £281 £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 £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,444 1,371 1,856
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.30 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.88
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -3 471 £600 -12.73% 178
North of England +35 66 £538 -5.70% 86
North West +39 46 £550 -5.25% 55
Yorkshire +13 25 £575 +2.22% 25
South West +4 23 £500 -16.67% 34
Midlands +18 20 £424 -22.95% 73
South East 0 19 £525 - 75
West Midlands +16 15 £259 -52.91% 44
North East +20 7 £720 +10.77% 8
East of England +12 5 £600 +10.91% 18
East Midlands +17 4 £513 +2.50% 29
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 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.

1 252 (40.65%) Agile
2 181 (29.19%) C#
3 180 (29.03%) Azure
4 179 (28.87%) Java
5 175 (28.23%) DevOps
6 149 (24.03%) CI/CD
7 147 (23.71%) .NET
8 140 (22.58%) JavaScript
8 140 (22.58%) Finance
9 134 (21.61%) SQL Server
10 125 (20.16%) Microsoft
10 125 (20.16%) React
11 110 (17.74%) Social Skills
12 107 (17.26%) Azure DevOps
13 102 (16.45%) SQL
14 100 (16.13%) TDD
15 93 (15.00%) AWS
16 88 (14.19%) TypeScript
17 86 (13.87%) Software Engineering
18 83 (13.39%) PowerShell
19 81 (13.06%) Scrum
20 79 (12.74%) HTML
21 76 (12.26%) XML
21 76 (12.26%) Python
22 74 (11.94%) Front End Development
23 72 (11.61%) CSS
24 70 (11.29%) Microservices
25 68 (10.97%) Public Sector
26 67 (10.81%) Active Directory
27 65 (10.48%) 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 (2.74%) CMS
2 8 (1.29%) Apache
2 8 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.97%) Appian
3 6 (0.97%) Confluence
4 5 (0.81%) SAS
4 5 (0.81%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.65%) WordPress
6 3 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.32%) CICS
7 2 (0.32%) IIS
7 2 (0.32%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.16%) GemFire
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.81%) Endur
3 4 (0.65%) 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%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.16%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.16%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 180 (29.03%) Azure
2 107 (17.26%) Azure DevOps
3 93 (15.00%) AWS
4 44 (7.10%) Entra ID
5 43 (6.94%) Azure Service Bus
6 37 (5.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 33 (5.32%) GCP
8 24 (3.87%) GitHub
8 24 (3.87%) Power Platform
9 20 (3.23%) Serverless
10 19 (3.06%) Azure Monitor
11 15 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (2.26%) Amazon S3
13 11 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (1.77%) Azure Pipelines
13 11 (1.77%) PaaS
13 11 (1.77%) PowerApps
14 10 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (1.61%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.48%) HTTPS
1 3 (0.48%) SAN
1 3 (0.48%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.32%) HTTP
2 2 (0.32%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (0.16%) Firewall
3 1 (0.16%) Multicast
3 1 (0.16%) SSL
3 1 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (21.61%) SQL Server
2 32 (5.16%) MongoDB
3 27 (4.35%) KDB
4 22 (3.55%) NoSQL
5 17 (2.74%) Relational Database
6 16 (2.58%) Redis
7 12 (1.94%) Power BI
8 10 (1.61%) MySQL
9 9 (1.45%) DynamoDB
10 8 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.65%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.48%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.48%) SQLite
14 2 (0.32%) Data Mining
14 2 (0.32%) DB2
Development Applications
1 54 (8.71%) Git
2 35 (5.65%) Jenkins
3 31 (5.00%) Mockito
4 21 (3.39%) GitLab
4 21 (3.39%) JIRA
5 19 (3.06%) JUnit
6 18 (2.90%) Cucumber
7 12 (1.94%) SpecFlow
8 8 (1.29%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.29%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.13%) Rational Rhapsody
9 7 (1.13%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.97%) Postman
11 5 (0.81%) Selenium
12 4 (0.65%) NUnit
12 4 (0.65%) Pylint
12 4 (0.65%) Sourcetree
13 3 (0.48%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.48%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.48%) SonarQube
General
1 140 (22.58%) Finance
2 110 (17.74%) Social Skills
3 68 (10.97%) Public Sector
4 58 (9.35%) Banking
5 47 (7.58%) Front Office
6 35 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (2.26%) Back Office
8 13 (2.10%) Local Government
9 12 (1.94%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.45%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.81%) Law
13 4 (0.65%) Retail
14 3 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.48%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.48%) Marketing
14 3 (0.48%) Police
14 3 (0.48%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.32%) Advertising
15 2 (0.32%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (23.71%) .NET
2 125 (20.16%) React
3 79 (12.74%) HTML
4 76 (12.26%) XML
5 72 (11.61%) CSS
6 65 (10.48%) AngularJS
7 62 (10.00%) .NET Core
8 44 (7.10%) Node.js
9 41 (6.61%) .NET Framework
10 39 (6.29%) REST
11 38 (6.13%) ASP.NET
12 34 (5.48%) Spring Boot
13 33 (5.32%) Spring
14 30 (4.84%) Kafka
14 30 (4.84%) RESTful
14 30 (4.84%) Web Services
15 29 (4.68%) Vue
16 19 (3.06%) jQuery
17 18 (2.90%) ActiveMQ
18 17 (2.74%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 39 (6.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 39 (6.29%) Product Ownership
2 34 (5.48%) Fixed Income
3 32 (5.16%) Derivative
4 29 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (3.06%) Algorithms
6 16 (2.58%) Credit Derivative
6 16 (2.58%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.26%) Equities
7 14 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (1.94%) Management Information System
9 11 (1.77%) Renewable Energy
10 10 (1.61%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.29%) Market Risk
12 8 (1.29%) Mobile App
13 7 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (0.97%) Contactless
15 5 (0.81%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 48 (7.74%) Linux
2 22 (3.55%) Unix
3 15 (2.42%) Android
4 14 (2.26%) Mac OS X
5 9 (1.45%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.97%) Windows
7 3 (0.48%) Debian
7 3 (0.48%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.32%) zOS
9 1 (0.16%) CentOS
9 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (40.65%) Agile
2 175 (28.23%) DevOps
3 149 (24.03%) CI/CD
4 100 (16.13%) TDD
5 86 (13.87%) Software Engineering
6 81 (13.06%) Scrum
7 74 (11.94%) Front End Development
8 70 (11.29%) Microservices
9 54 (8.71%) Test Automation
10 53 (8.55%) OO
11 50 (8.06%) Problem-Solving
11 50 (8.06%) SDLC
12 45 (7.26%) Continuous Integration
13 39 (6.29%) Full Stack Development
14 38 (6.13%) B2C
14 38 (6.13%) Electronic Trading
15 37 (5.97%) BDD
15 37 (5.97%) Design Patterns
15 37 (5.97%) Web Development
16 36 (5.81%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 181 (29.19%) C#
2 179 (28.87%) Java
3 140 (22.58%) JavaScript
4 102 (16.45%) SQL
5 88 (14.19%) TypeScript
6 83 (13.39%) PowerShell
7 76 (12.26%) Python
8 51 (8.23%) Bicep
9 21 (3.39%) Scala
10 20 (3.23%) Kotlin
11 18 (2.90%) C++
12 10 (1.61%) Go
13 7 (1.13%) PHP
13 7 (1.13%) Ruby
13 7 (1.13%) Swift
14 6 (0.97%) Rust
15 5 (0.81%) Bash
15 5 (0.81%) Objective-C
16 4 (0.65%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (8.23%) Security Cleared
2 42 (6.77%) Degree
3 41 (6.61%) SC Cleared
4 17 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.42%) ITIL Certification
6 9 (1.45%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.65%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.87%) Accessibility
2 16 (2.58%) WCAG
3 10 (1.61%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.13%) HL7
5 5 (0.81%) 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%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.16%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 67 (10.81%) Active Directory
2 40 (6.45%) Docker
3 9 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.48%) ACF2
4 3 (0.48%) IAG
4 3 (0.48%) RACF
5 1 (0.16%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 36 (5.81%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.58%) Terraform
3 12 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.97%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (0.65%) 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%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 125 (20.16%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.35%) ServiceNow
3 20 (3.23%) Oracle
4 18 (2.90%) Google
5 13 (2.10%) ION Trading
6 11 (1.77%) IBM
7 8 (1.29%) TIBCO
7 8 (1.29%) Virgin Media
8 7 (1.13%) Solace
9 6 (0.97%) Apple
10 5 (0.81%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.65%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.48%) SAP
12 3 (0.48%) Sybase
12 3 (0.48%) VMware
13 2 (0.32%) Blue Prism
13 2 (0.32%) Databricks
13 2 (0.32%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.32%) NEC
13 2 (0.32%) Workday