Senior Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 234 234 229
Rank change year-on-year 0 -5 -41
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 163 221 340
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.80% 0.95% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 1.01% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 160 229
10th Percentile £325 £413 £413
25th Percentile £425 £468 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £564 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.31% +7.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £575
90th Percentile £686 £700 £663
UK median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 11
10th Percentile £42.01 - £61.81
25th Percentile £54.85 £61.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £58.91 £62.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% -16.67% +120.59%
75th Percentile £72.73 £71.88 £79.25
90th Percentile £82.70 £76.75 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £58.91 £62.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year -5.75% -13.79% +113.24%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,752 21,824 29,184
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.30% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,467 15,208 20,476
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,268 1,112 1,441
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.74 £18.07 £14.51
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.83 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
North of England +28 62 £538 -5.70% 103
North West +28 44 £563 -3.10% 58
Scotland +20 28 £475 -24.00% 29
Yorkshire +10 23 £575 +2.22% 35
South West +1 23 £488 -18.75% 32
Midlands +15 19 £398 -26.90% 84
South East +4 19 £625 +19.05% 117
West Midlands +24 14 £259 -52.91% 57
Wales +25 7 £615 +44.71% 14
North East +19 7 £720 +10.77% 11
East of England +10 5 £600 +10.91% 27
East Midlands +11 4 £513 +2.50% 27
Senior Developer
UK

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 19 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 45 (27.61%) Agile
2 40 (24.54%) Java
3 39 (23.93%) SQL
4 37 (22.70%) React
5 31 (19.02%) Social Skills
6 28 (17.18%) Public Sector
7 27 (16.56%) .NET
7 27 (16.56%) Azure
8 25 (15.34%) AWS
8 25 (15.34%) Microservices
9 24 (14.72%) Security Cleared
9 24 (14.72%) C#
10 22 (13.50%) Spring
10 22 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (12.88%) DevOps
11 21 (12.88%) ITIL
11 21 (12.88%) REST
12 20 (12.27%) ServiceNow
13 19 (11.66%) Spring Boot
13 19 (11.66%) JavaScript
14 18 (11.04%) SC Cleared
15 16 (9.82%) RESTful
16 15 (9.20%) SQL Server
16 15 (9.20%) Microsoft
16 15 (9.20%) ITIL Certification
16 15 (9.20%) Front End Development
16 15 (9.20%) CI/CD
17 14 (8.59%) CSS
17 14 (8.59%) TDD
17 14 (8.59%) TypeScript

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (1.84%) Apache
1 3 (1.84%) Confluence
1 3 (1.84%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.23%) Cloud Foundry
2 2 (1.23%) IIS
3 1 (0.61%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.61%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.61%) SAS
3 1 (0.61%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 27 (16.56%) Azure
2 25 (15.34%) AWS
3 13 (7.98%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (7.98%) Power Platform
4 7 (4.29%) Power Automate
5 5 (3.07%) PowerApps
5 5 (3.07%) Serverless
6 4 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.84%) Azure Functions
7 3 (1.84%) GCP
7 3 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.84%) PaaS
8 2 (1.23%) Apigee
8 2 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.23%) IaaS
8 2 (1.23%) SaaS
9 1 (0.61%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.23%) OpenLDAP
1 2 (1.23%) SAN
1 2 (1.23%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.61%) Firewall
2 1 (0.61%) HTTP
2 1 (0.61%) SSL
2 1 (0.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.20%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.91%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.68%) Oracle Database
4 5 (3.07%) Power BI
4 5 (3.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (2.45%) MariaDB
5 4 (2.45%) MySQL
5 4 (2.45%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.84%) SQLite
7 2 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.23%) Metadata
8 1 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.61%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.61%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.61%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (6.75%) JIRA
2 8 (4.91%) GitLab
2 8 (4.91%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.29%) Git
3 7 (4.29%) Rational Rhapsody
4 5 (3.07%) Cucumber
4 5 (3.07%) JUnit
5 4 (2.45%) Maven
6 3 (1.84%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (1.84%) REST Assured
6 3 (1.84%) Selenium
6 3 (1.84%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.23%) IntelliJ
7 2 (1.23%) Postman
7 2 (1.23%) Subversion
7 2 (1.23%) VersionOne
8 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.61%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.61%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.61%) Xcode
General
1 31 (19.02%) Social Skills
2 28 (17.18%) Public Sector
3 11 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (6.75%) Finance
4 5 (3.07%) Banking
5 3 (1.84%) Law
5 3 (1.84%) Police
5 3 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.23%) Local Government
6 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.61%) Aviation
7 1 (0.61%) Retail
7 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (22.70%) React
2 27 (16.56%) .NET
3 22 (13.50%) Spring
4 21 (12.88%) REST
5 19 (11.66%) Spring Boot
6 16 (9.82%) RESTful
7 14 (8.59%) CSS
8 13 (7.98%) HTML
9 12 (7.36%) Redux
10 11 (6.75%) Node.js
11 10 (6.13%) AngularJS
11 10 (6.13%) Kafka
12 9 (5.52%) GraphQL
12 9 (5.52%) Vue
12 9 (5.52%) Web Services
13 8 (4.91%) .NET Core
14 7 (4.29%) Next.js
15 6 (3.68%) .NET Framework
15 6 (3.68%) XML
16 4 (2.45%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.52%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.91%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.68%) Legacy Applications
3 6 (3.68%) Wiki
4 5 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.84%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.84%) NHS
6 2 (1.23%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.23%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.23%) Derivative
6 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.61%) CMDB
7 1 (0.61%) Genomics
7 1 (0.61%) mHealth
7 1 (0.61%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.29%) Linux
2 6 (3.68%) Android
3 2 (1.23%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.23%) Debian
3 2 (1.23%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (27.61%) Agile
2 25 (15.34%) Microservices
3 22 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (12.88%) DevOps
4 21 (12.88%) ITIL
5 15 (9.20%) CI/CD
5 15 (9.20%) Front End Development
6 14 (8.59%) TDD
7 13 (7.98%) Roadmaps
8 11 (6.75%) Scrum
8 11 (6.75%) Software Engineering
9 10 (6.13%) Full Stack Development
10 9 (5.52%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (5.52%) Test Automation
10 9 (5.52%) User Experience
11 8 (4.91%) Configuration Management
11 8 (4.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (4.91%) Line Management
11 8 (4.91%) MVC
11 8 (4.91%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 40 (24.54%) Java
2 39 (23.93%) SQL
3 24 (14.72%) C#
4 19 (11.66%) JavaScript
5 14 (8.59%) TypeScript
6 10 (6.13%) Python
7 6 (3.68%) Kotlin
8 5 (3.07%) Scala
8 5 (3.07%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.84%) C++
9 3 (1.84%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.23%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.23%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.23%) PHP
10 2 (1.23%) R
10 2 (1.23%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.23%) VBA
11 1 (0.61%) ABAP
11 1 (0.61%) Go
11 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (14.72%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.04%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.20%) ITIL Certification
4 12 (7.36%) Degree
5 7 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.45%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.91%) HL7
2 4 (2.45%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.84%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 3 (1.84%) QA
4 2 (1.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (4.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (5.52%) Terraform
2 8 (4.91%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.84%) Ansible
3 3 (1.84%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (1.84%) Podman
4 2 (1.23%) Kibana
4 2 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.61%) Grafana
5 1 (0.61%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 20 (12.27%) ServiceNow
2 15 (9.20%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.13%) Oracle
4 4 (2.45%) RedGate
5 3 (1.84%) Google
6 2 (1.23%) IBM
6 2 (1.23%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.23%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.23%) VMware
7 1 (0.61%) JDA
7 1 (0.61%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.61%) SAP
7 1 (0.61%) Siemens