Senior Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Developer daily rate in Work from Home is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 114 107
Rank change year-on-year +12 -7 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 305 546 1,052
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.03% 2.17% 2.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.17% 2.28% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 423 810
10th Percentile £413 £425 £425
25th Percentile £500 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +2.13% +14.63%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £688
90th Percentile £863 £850 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile £40.00 - -
25th Percentile £48.75 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £68.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +96.43% +2.94%
75th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £46.25
90th Percentile £82.70 £78.50 £53.00
UK median hourly rate £58.91 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.75% +13.64% +61.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,049 23,953 42,349
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.34% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,416 16,906 30,628
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 553 596
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.61 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.34 £25.71 £18.76
Median hourly rate £44.74 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.15% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Senior Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Senior Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Senior Developer.

Senior Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Developer over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Senior Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Developer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Senior Developer.

Senior Developer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Developer over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Senior Developer hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 7 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 107 (35.08%) Java
1 107 (35.08%) Agile
2 93 (30.49%) Azure
3 83 (27.21%) C#
4 80 (26.23%) DevOps
5 78 (25.57%) Finance
6 77 (25.25%) .NET
7 71 (23.28%) JavaScript
8 65 (21.31%) React
9 64 (20.98%) SQL Server
10 61 (20.00%) CI/CD
11 57 (18.69%) Social Skills
12 52 (17.05%) Microsoft
13 50 (16.39%) Software Engineering
14 47 (15.41%) SQL
14 47 (15.41%) AWS
15 46 (15.08%) Azure DevOps
16 45 (14.75%) TypeScript
16 45 (14.75%) XML
17 41 (13.44%) HTML
17 41 (13.44%) Python
18 39 (12.79%) PowerShell
19 38 (12.46%) Scrum
20 36 (11.80%) Public Sector
21 35 (11.48%) TDD
22 34 (11.15%) Front Office
22 34 (11.15%) Microservices
23 33 (10.82%) CSS
24 32 (10.49%) Front End Development
25 31 (10.16%) SDLC

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.30%) CMS
3 6 (1.97%) Confluence
4 5 (1.64%) Apache
5 4 (1.31%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.98%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.66%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.66%) IIS
7 2 (0.66%) Mule
7 2 (0.66%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.33%) Appian
8 1 (0.33%) CICS
8 1 (0.33%) GemFire
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.33%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.98%) Endur
2 2 (0.66%) RMDS
3 1 (0.33%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 93 (30.49%) Azure
2 47 (15.41%) AWS
3 46 (15.08%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (7.21%) GCP
5 17 (5.57%) GitHub
6 15 (4.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 15 (4.92%) Azure Service Bus
6 15 (4.92%) Power Platform
7 13 (4.26%) Entra ID
8 8 (2.62%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (2.62%) Serverless
9 6 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.64%) Azure Pipelines
10 5 (1.64%) dbt
10 5 (1.64%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.64%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (0.98%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (0.66%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.31%) SAN
1 4 (1.31%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.33%) HTTP
2 1 (0.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (20.98%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.95%) MySQL
2 9 (2.95%) Power BI
3 7 (2.30%) KDB
3 7 (2.30%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.30%) Oracle Reports
3 7 (2.30%) Relational Database
4 6 (1.97%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.97%) Redis
5 4 (1.31%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.31%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.98%) CockroachDB
6 3 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (0.98%) SQLite
7 2 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.66%) Apache Arrow
7 2 (0.66%) Apache Ignite
7 2 (0.66%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 24 (7.87%) Git
2 20 (6.56%) GitLab
3 18 (5.90%) Cucumber
4 17 (5.57%) JUnit
4 17 (5.57%) Mockito
5 16 (5.25%) Jenkins
6 12 (3.93%) JIRA
7 8 (2.62%) SpecFlow
8 5 (1.64%) Storybook
9 4 (1.31%) Selenium
10 3 (0.98%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.98%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.98%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.98%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.98%) Subversion
11 2 (0.66%) Android Studio
11 2 (0.66%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.66%) Pylint
11 2 (0.66%) Xcode
General
1 78 (25.57%) Finance
2 57 (18.69%) Social Skills
3 36 (11.80%) Public Sector
4 34 (11.15%) Front Office
5 24 (7.87%) Banking
6 18 (5.90%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (3.93%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.97%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.31%) Law
10 3 (0.98%) Back Office
10 3 (0.98%) Local Government
10 3 (0.98%) Police
10 3 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.98%) Retail
11 2 (0.66%) Automotive
11 2 (0.66%) Games
11 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.33%) German Language
12 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (25.25%) .NET
2 65 (21.31%) React
3 45 (14.75%) XML
4 41 (13.44%) HTML
5 33 (10.82%) CSS
6 31 (10.16%) AngularJS
7 28 (9.18%) Spring Boot
8 26 (8.52%) REST
9 22 (7.21%) .NET Core
10 21 (6.89%) .NET Framework
11 18 (5.90%) Web Services
12 17 (5.57%) Kafka
12 17 (5.57%) Spring
13 16 (5.25%) ASP.NET
14 14 (4.59%) Node.js
15 13 (4.26%) Vue
16 11 (3.61%) RESTful
17 10 (3.28%) jQuery
18 9 (2.95%) JSON
18 9 (2.95%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 16 (5.25%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.59%) Derivative
3 14 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.59%) Fixed Income
4 12 (3.93%) Credit Derivative
5 11 (3.61%) Equities
6 9 (2.95%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.97%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.97%) Contactless
7 6 (1.97%) Legacy Applications
7 6 (1.97%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.97%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.97%) Renewable Energy
8 4 (1.31%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.31%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.98%) Blockchain
9 3 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.98%) NHS
9 3 (0.98%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.57%) Linux
2 8 (2.62%) Android
3 5 (1.64%) Unix
4 4 (1.31%) Debian
4 4 (1.31%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.98%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.98%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.33%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.33%) VMS
6 1 (0.33%) Windows
6 1 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (35.08%) Agile
2 80 (26.23%) DevOps
3 61 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 50 (16.39%) Software Engineering
5 38 (12.46%) Scrum
6 35 (11.48%) TDD
7 34 (11.15%) Microservices
8 32 (10.49%) Front End Development
9 31 (10.16%) SDLC
10 27 (8.85%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (8.52%) Test Automation
12 19 (6.23%) Clean Code
12 19 (6.23%) Design Patterns
12 19 (6.23%) Full Stack Development
12 19 (6.23%) OO
13 18 (5.90%) User Experience
14 17 (5.57%) Data Modelling
14 17 (5.57%) Web Development
15 16 (5.25%) Analytics
16 15 (4.92%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 107 (35.08%) Java
2 83 (27.21%) C#
3 71 (23.28%) JavaScript
4 47 (15.41%) SQL
5 45 (14.75%) TypeScript
6 41 (13.44%) Python
7 39 (12.79%) PowerShell
8 23 (7.54%) Bicep
9 10 (3.28%) Kotlin
10 9 (2.95%) C++
11 7 (2.30%) Scala
12 4 (1.31%) Bash
12 4 (1.31%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.31%) Ruby
13 3 (0.98%) C
13 3 (0.98%) PHP
13 3 (0.98%) Swift
13 3 (0.98%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.66%) COBOL
14 2 (0.66%) Rust
Qualifications
1 22 (7.21%) Degree
2 21 (6.89%) Security Cleared
3 19 (6.23%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.31%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.98%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.93%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.30%) WCAG
3 5 (1.64%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.66%) MiFID
4 2 (0.66%) QA
5 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.33%) HL7
5 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (8.52%) Active Directory
2 18 (5.90%) Docker
3 6 (1.97%) ACF2
3 6 (1.97%) IAG
3 6 (1.97%) RACF
4 5 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.33%) GridGain
5 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (4.92%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.30%) Terraform
3 6 (1.97%) Docker Swarm
3 6 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.98%) Ansible
4 3 (0.98%) Grafana
4 3 (0.98%) Podman
5 2 (0.66%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.33%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 52 (17.05%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.23%) Oracle
3 11 (3.61%) Google
3 11 (3.61%) ServiceNow
4 9 (2.95%) IBM
5 6 (1.97%) Sybase
6 4 (1.31%) ION Trading
6 4 (1.31%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.31%) VMware
7 3 (0.98%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.98%) MuleSoft
7 3 (0.98%) RedGate
8 2 (0.66%) Blue Prism
8 2 (0.66%) Databricks
8 2 (0.66%) QNX
8 2 (0.66%) Solace
8 2 (0.66%) UiPath
9 1 (0.33%) Kepware
9 1 (0.33%) NEC
9 1 (0.33%) Salesforce