Senior Developer Contracts in the Midlands

Senior Developer
England > Midlands

The median Senior Developer daily rate in the Midlands is £424 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 119 137 158
Rank change year-on-year +18 +21 -28
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 20 28 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.74% 0.84% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.88% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 24
10th Percentile - £374 £383
25th Percentile £259 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £550 £463
Median % change year-on-year -22.95% +18.92% +5.71%
75th Percentile £491 £600 £547
90th Percentile £550 £651 £655
England median daily rate £575 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £56.25 - -
England median hourly rate £59.45 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -4.88% -10.71% +105.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,498 3,169 4,742
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.01% 94.71% 95.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,687 2,225 3,456
10th Percentile £213 £219 £213
25th Percentile £325 £363 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +15.63%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £556
90th Percentile £688 £683 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 120 165
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.45 £10.58
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.18 £14.32
Median hourly rate £19.36 £20.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.21% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.50 £22.75
90th Percentile £52.45 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the Midlands

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in the Midlands

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in the Midlands

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in the Midlands

Senior Developer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +16 15 £259 -52.91% 41
East Midlands +17 4 £513 +2.50% 27
Senior Developer
England

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

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 Midlands region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 9 (45.00%) SQL
2 7 (35.00%) HL7
2 7 (35.00%) Rational Rhapsody
3 6 (30.00%) Agile
4 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 4 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 4 (20.00%) React
5 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 3 (15.00%) Azure
6 3 (15.00%) BDD
6 3 (15.00%) REST
6 3 (15.00%) Java
6 3 (15.00%) TDD
6 3 (15.00%) DevOps
6 3 (15.00%) Microservices
7 2 (10.00%) GCP
7 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
7 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
7 2 (10.00%) Apigee
7 2 (10.00%) Data Engineering
7 2 (10.00%) Power BI
7 2 (10.00%) Prototyping
7 2 (10.00%) Matrix Organization
7 2 (10.00%) Master's Degree
7 2 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (10.00%) Runbook
7 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) Apigee
2 2 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (10.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (10.00%) GCP
2 2 (10.00%) Power Automate
2 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (10.00%) PowerApps
2 2 (10.00%) Serverless
3 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) SAN
1 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (10.00%) Power BI
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Rational Rhapsody
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) Android Studio
3 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (5.00%) JUnit
3 1 (5.00%) Xcode
General
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (20.00%) React
2 3 (15.00%) REST
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (10.00%) Spring
4 1 (5.00%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (5.00%) Apollo GraphQL
4 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.00%) iOS SDK
4 1 (5.00%) Jest
4 1 (5.00%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (5.00%) Kafka
4 1 (5.00%) NestJS
4 1 (5.00%) Next.js
4 1 (5.00%) Node.js
4 1 (5.00%) Redux
4 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.00%) Online Banking
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Debian
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (5.00%) Android
2 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Agile
2 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (15.00%) BDD
4 3 (15.00%) DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) Microservices
4 3 (15.00%) TDD
5 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (10.00%) CRM
5 2 (10.00%) Customer Service
5 2 (10.00%) Data Engineering
5 2 (10.00%) E-Discovery
5 2 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
5 2 (10.00%) Matrix Organization
5 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.00%) Prototyping
5 2 (10.00%) Runbook
5 2 (10.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) Java
3 2 (10.00%) Python
3 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.00%) C++
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.00%) Kotlin
4 1 (5.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
1 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (35.00%) HL7
2 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (10.00%) VMware
3 1 (5.00%) JDA