Senior Backend Developer Contracts in London

Senior Backend Developer
England > London

The median Senior Backend Developer daily rate in London is £500 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 350 464 571
Rank change year-on-year +114 +107 -119
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Backend Developer 43 41 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.24% 0.15% 0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.16% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 38 33
10th Percentile £427 - £425
25th Percentile £456 £625 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £556 £850 £725
90th Percentile £575 - £766
England median daily rate £500 £650 £525
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £59.50 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,617 25,468 37,159
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.23% 95.25% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,021 18,449 27,170
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £676 £700 £681
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 290 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.40
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.21
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +10.62%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.20 £67.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%

Senior Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Backend Developer in London

Senior Backend Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Backend Developer in London

Senior Backend Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Backend Developer in London

Senior Backend Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Backend Developer in London

Senior Backend Developer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Backend Developer within the London 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
Central London +44 7 £500 -28.57%
South London - 3 £430 - 1
East London - 2 £438 -
Senior Backend Developer
England

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

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

1 33 (76.74%) Agile
2 32 (74.42%) C#
3 29 (67.44%) .NET
3 29 (67.44%) SQL Server
3 29 (67.44%) Azure
3 29 (67.44%) DevOps
4 28 (65.12%) .NET Core
4 28 (65.12%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (65.12%) Active Directory
5 26 (60.47%) Microsoft
5 26 (60.47%) PowerShell
5 26 (60.47%) Bicep
6 24 (55.81%) CI/CD
7 22 (51.16%) Entra ID
7 22 (51.16%) Scrum
7 22 (51.16%) XML
8 21 (48.84%) B2C
9 18 (41.86%) Azure Service Bus
10 17 (39.53%) JavaScript
11 16 (37.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 13 (30.23%) React
12 13 (30.23%) TypeScript
12 13 (30.23%) HTML
12 13 (30.23%) ASP.NET
13 12 (27.91%) CSS
13 12 (27.91%) Redis
13 12 (27.91%) ASP.NET Core
14 10 (23.26%) Public Sector
14 10 (23.26%) Product Ownership
15 7 (16.28%) SDLC

Senior Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (4.65%) CICS
2 1 (2.33%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 29 (67.44%) Azure
2 28 (65.12%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (51.16%) Entra ID
4 18 (41.86%) Azure Service Bus
5 16 (37.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 6 (13.95%) AWS
7 4 (9.30%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (4.65%) GitHub
8 2 (4.65%) Serverless
9 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.33%) AWS CodeBuild
9 1 (2.33%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (67.44%) SQL Server
2 12 (27.91%) Redis
3 2 (4.65%) DB2
4 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (16.28%) Git
2 1 (2.33%) Pylint
General
1 10 (23.26%) Public Sector
2 5 (11.63%) Back Office
3 3 (6.98%) Finance
3 3 (6.98%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Banking
4 2 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.65%) Local Government
5 1 (2.33%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (67.44%) .NET
2 28 (65.12%) .NET Core
3 22 (51.16%) XML
4 13 (30.23%) ASP.NET
4 13 (30.23%) HTML
4 13 (30.23%) React
5 12 (27.91%) ASP.NET Core
5 12 (27.91%) CSS
6 3 (6.98%) Kafka
6 3 (6.98%) REST
7 2 (4.65%) ISPF
7 2 (4.65%) JSON
7 2 (4.65%) Web Services
8 1 (2.33%) Apache Commons
8 1 (2.33%) Flask
8 1 (2.33%) Node.js
8 1 (2.33%) pytest
8 1 (2.33%) Spring
8 1 (2.33%) Spring Boot
8 1 (2.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.26%) Product Ownership
2 6 (13.95%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (9.30%) Mobile App
4 3 (6.98%) Algorithms
4 3 (6.98%) Mobile Payment
5 2 (4.65%) Mainframe
5 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.33%) IoT
6 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) zOS
2 1 (2.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (76.74%) Agile
2 29 (67.44%) DevOps
3 24 (55.81%) CI/CD
4 22 (51.16%) Scrum
5 21 (48.84%) B2C
6 7 (16.28%) OO
6 7 (16.28%) SDLC
7 6 (13.95%) API Management
7 6 (13.95%) OOD
7 6 (13.95%) TDD
8 5 (11.63%) Clean Code
8 5 (11.63%) Front End Development
9 4 (9.30%) Design Patterns
9 4 (9.30%) Software Architecture
9 4 (9.30%) Software Engineering
10 3 (6.98%) Content Management
10 3 (6.98%) Database Optimisation
10 3 (6.98%) Microservices
10 3 (6.98%) Problem-Solving
11 2 (4.65%) Change Data Capture
Programming Languages
1 32 (74.42%) C#
2 26 (60.47%) Bicep
2 26 (60.47%) PowerShell
3 17 (39.53%) JavaScript
4 13 (30.23%) TypeScript
5 7 (16.28%) Java
6 6 (13.95%) Python
7 5 (11.63%) SQL
8 3 (6.98%) C
8 3 (6.98%) C++
9 2 (4.65%) COBOL
10 1 (2.33%) Go
10 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (4.65%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (65.12%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (13.95%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (4.65%) CA Endevor
2 2 (4.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (60.47%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.65%) IBM