Senior Developer Contracts in South London

Senior Developer
London > South London

The median Senior Developer daily rate in South London is £475 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 34 42 53
Rank change year-on-year +8 +11 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 7 10 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 2.87% 2.54% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.94% 2.75% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 2
10th Percentile £428 £648 £489
25th Percentile £430 £713 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £950 £563
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +68.89% +25.00%
75th Percentile £529 £1,000 £609
90th Percentile £563 £1,050 £626
London median daily rate £600 £688 £650
% change year-on-year -12.73% +5.77% +13.04%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in South 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 South London with a recognized job title 238 364 358
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.54% 92.39% 96.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 286 276
10th Percentile £235 £213 £238
25th Percentile £413 £425 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - +1.49%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £638
90th Percentile £638 £763 £713
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 14
10th Percentile £17.00 £16.50 £39.43
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.38 £40.70
Median hourly rate £23.50 £23.46 £46.82
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% -49.89% +0.86%
75th Percentile £75.00 £50.42 £48.59
90th Percentile £83.75 £54.66 £54.08
London median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +10.62%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in South London

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in South London

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in South London

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in South London

Senior Developer
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 South 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
Croydon +8 3 £525 -27.59% 1
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 - - 1
Senior Developer
London

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 South London region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Scrum
2 4 (57.14%) .NET
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) .NET Core
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Bicep
3 3 (42.86%) Observability
3 3 (42.86%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) React
3 3 (42.86%) Spring Boot
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
3 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) REST
3 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
3 3 (42.86%) C#
3 3 (42.86%) Java
3 3 (42.86%) Hibernate
3 3 (42.86%) Spring
3 3 (42.86%) Spring Security
3 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) JPA
4 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 2 (28.57%) TDD
4 2 (28.57%) B2C

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 (28.57%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon MSK
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (28.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (14.29%) Back Office
1 1 (14.29%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) .NET
1 4 (57.14%) .NET Core
2 3 (42.86%) Hibernate
2 3 (42.86%) JPA
2 3 (42.86%) React
2 3 (42.86%) REST
2 3 (42.86%) Spring
2 3 (42.86%) Spring Boot
2 3 (42.86%) Spring Security
3 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
3 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (28.57%) CSS
3 2 (28.57%) HTML
3 2 (28.57%) XML
4 1 (14.29%) OAuth
4 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
4 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Mobile Payment
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) Observability
4 2 (28.57%) B2C
4 2 (28.57%) Front End Development
4 2 (28.57%) High Availability
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) Static Code Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) TDD
5 1 (14.29%) API Management
5 1 (14.29%) BDD
5 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
5 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 1 (14.29%) OO
5 1 (14.29%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Bicep
1 3 (42.86%) C#
1 3 (42.86%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) NEC