Senior Backend Developer Contracts

Senior Backend Developer
UK

The median Senior Backend Developer daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 663 793
Rank change year-on-year +108 +130 -134
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Backend Developer 45 50 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.084% 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.089% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 41 47
10th Percentile £426 £504 £376
25th Percentile £463 £625 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £566 £850 £577
90th Percentile £615 - £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 - £456
% change year-on-year - - +10.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,448 56,471 84,729
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,348 39,474 59,497
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,658 1,569 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.94
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -9.41% +117.95% +2.63%

Senior Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Backend Developer in the UK

Senior Backend Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Backend Developer in the UK

Senior Backend Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Backend Developer over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Backend Developer in the UK

Senior Backend Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Backend Developer in the UK

Senior Backend Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Backend Developer over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Backend Developer in the UK

Senior Backend Developer
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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
England +103 43 £500 -23.08% 18
London +104 39 £500 -23.08% 14
Work from Home +104 22 £519 -20.19% 14
UK excluding London +69 4 £425 - 6
North of England - 4 £425 - 2
North West - 4 £425 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 featuring Senior Backend Developer in the job title.

1 27 (60.00%) Agile
2 26 (57.78%) C#
3 24 (53.33%) .NET
3 24 (53.33%) SQL Server
3 24 (53.33%) Azure
3 24 (53.33%) DevOps
4 23 (51.11%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (51.11%) .NET Core
4 23 (51.11%) Active Directory
5 21 (46.67%) Microsoft
5 21 (46.67%) Bicep
6 20 (44.44%) PowerShell
7 19 (42.22%) CI/CD
8 17 (37.78%) Scrum
8 17 (37.78%) XML
8 17 (37.78%) Entra ID
9 16 (35.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 16 (35.56%) B2C
10 13 (28.89%) AWS
10 13 (28.89%) Azure Service Bus
11 11 (24.44%) JavaScript
12 10 (22.22%) Java
12 10 (22.22%) Public Sector
13 8 (17.78%) React
13 8 (17.78%) TypeScript
13 8 (17.78%) HTML
13 8 (17.78%) ASP.NET
13 8 (17.78%) Python
13 8 (17.78%) Product Ownership
14 7 (15.56%) OO

Senior Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.44%) CICS
2 1 (2.22%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 24 (53.33%) Azure
2 23 (51.11%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (37.78%) Entra ID
4 16 (35.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 13 (28.89%) AWS
5 13 (28.89%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (8.89%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (6.67%) Serverless
8 2 (4.44%) GitHub
9 1 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.22%) AWS CodeBuild
9 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.22%) GCP
9 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (53.33%) SQL Server
2 7 (15.56%) Redis
3 2 (4.44%) DB2
3 2 (4.44%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (15.56%) Git
2 1 (2.22%) Maven
2 1 (2.22%) Pylint
General
1 10 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 5 (11.11%) Back Office
3 3 (6.67%) Finance
4 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Banking
4 2 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.44%) Local Government
4 2 (4.44%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Games
5 1 (2.22%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (53.33%) .NET
2 23 (51.11%) .NET Core
3 17 (37.78%) XML
4 8 (17.78%) ASP.NET
4 8 (17.78%) HTML
4 8 (17.78%) React
5 7 (15.56%) ASP.NET Core
5 7 (15.56%) CSS
6 5 (11.11%) Web Services
7 4 (8.89%) REST
8 3 (6.67%) Kafka
8 3 (6.67%) OAuth
8 3 (6.67%) OAuth2
8 3 (6.67%) OpenID
8 3 (6.67%) RESTful
9 2 (4.44%) ISPF
9 2 (4.44%) JSON
9 2 (4.44%) Node.js
9 2 (4.44%) Spring
9 2 (4.44%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Product Ownership
2 5 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 5 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.89%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.44%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.22%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.22%) IoT
5 1 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.22%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.44%) zOS
2 1 (2.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (60.00%) Agile
2 24 (53.33%) DevOps
3 19 (42.22%) CI/CD
4 17 (37.78%) Scrum
5 16 (35.56%) B2C
6 7 (15.56%) OO
6 7 (15.56%) TDD
7 6 (13.33%) API Management
7 6 (13.33%) OOD
7 6 (13.33%) SDLC
8 5 (11.11%) Clean Code
8 5 (11.11%) Front End Development
9 4 (8.89%) Software Architecture
10 3 (6.67%) Design Patterns
10 3 (6.67%) Microservices
10 3 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (6.67%) Software Engineering
11 2 (4.44%) Artificial Intelligence
11 2 (4.44%) Containerisation
11 2 (4.44%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (57.78%) C#
2 21 (46.67%) Bicep
3 20 (44.44%) PowerShell
4 11 (24.44%) JavaScript
5 10 (22.22%) Java
6 8 (17.78%) Python
6 8 (17.78%) TypeScript
7 5 (11.11%) C++
8 4 (8.89%) SQL
9 3 (6.67%) C
10 2 (4.44%) COBOL
11 1 (2.22%) Go
11 1 (2.22%) Rust
11 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (2.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (51.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.44%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 21 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.44%) IBM
3 1 (2.22%) Google