Senior Software Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Software Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Software Developer daily rate in Work from Home is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 302 438 583
Rank change year-on-year +136 +145 -127
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 44 34 40
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.29% 0.13% 0.090%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.14% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 25 31
10th Percentile £450 £448 £413
25th Percentile £504 £513 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £507
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +18.46% +19.18%
75th Percentile £800 £700 £591
90th Percentile - £795 £700
UK median daily rate £548 £600 £578
% change year-on-year -8.75% +3.90% +12.68%

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 14,287 24,650 42,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.33% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,551 17,415 30,835
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +2.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £748 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 564 611
10th Percentile £14.27 £18.50 £13.12
25th Percentile £22.84 £26.19 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
% change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%

Senior Software Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Software Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Software 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 Software Developer.

Senior Software Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Software Developer over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Senior Software Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Senior Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 30 (68.18%) Agile
2 29 (65.91%) Azure
3 23 (52.27%) PowerShell
4 21 (47.73%) Microsoft
5 20 (45.45%) C#
5 20 (45.45%) SQL Server
6 18 (40.91%) CI/CD
7 17 (38.64%) Software Engineering
7 17 (38.64%) DevOps
8 16 (36.36%) XML
8 16 (36.36%) JavaScript
8 16 (36.36%) .NET
8 16 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (34.09%) Python
9 15 (34.09%) Scrum
10 13 (29.55%) SQL
11 11 (25.00%) Java
11 11 (25.00%) Front Office
11 11 (25.00%) Finance
11 11 (25.00%) AngularJS
11 11 (25.00%) AWS
12 10 (22.73%) .NET Framework
12 10 (22.73%) Derivative
12 10 (22.73%) Pandas
13 9 (20.45%) GCP
13 9 (20.45%) TypeScript
13 9 (20.45%) Analytics
13 9 (20.45%) Protocol Buffers
13 9 (20.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (20.45%) Asset Management

Senior Software 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 9 (20.45%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.55%) Apache
3 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 29 (65.91%) Azure
2 16 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (25.00%) AWS
4 9 (20.45%) GCP
5 4 (9.09%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (4.55%) dbt
6 2 (4.55%) GitHub
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.27%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.09%) SAN
1 4 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (4.55%) Apache Arrow
2 2 (4.55%) Apache Ignite
2 2 (4.55%) Dremio
3 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.27%) Big Data
3 1 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (13.64%) SpecFlow
2 2 (4.55%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.27%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.27%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.27%) Selenium
3 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (2.27%) tSQLt
General
1 11 (25.00%) Finance
1 11 (25.00%) Front Office
2 7 (15.91%) Public Sector
3 6 (13.64%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Banking
4 2 (4.55%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.27%) Law
5 1 (2.27%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (36.36%) .NET
1 16 (36.36%) XML
2 11 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 10 (22.73%) .NET Framework
3 10 (22.73%) Pandas
4 9 (20.45%) gRPC
4 9 (20.45%) Protocol Buffers
5 7 (15.91%) Material-UI
5 7 (15.91%) React
5 7 (15.91%) Vue
6 5 (11.36%) ARM Templates
7 3 (6.82%) .NET Core
7 3 (6.82%) NumPy
7 3 (6.82%) SciPy
8 1 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (2.27%) FHIR
8 1 (2.27%) Kafka
8 1 (2.27%) REST
8 1 (2.27%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.73%) Derivative
2 9 (20.45%) Equities
2 9 (20.45%) Fixed Income
2 9 (20.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (11.36%) Contactless
3 5 (11.36%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (11.36%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.82%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.55%) Hedge funds
5 2 (4.55%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.27%) Clustering
6 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.27%) NHS
6 1 (2.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.36%) Linux
2 4 (9.09%) Debian
2 4 (9.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (68.18%) Agile
2 18 (40.91%) CI/CD
3 17 (38.64%) DevOps
3 17 (38.64%) Software Engineering
4 15 (34.09%) Scrum
5 9 (20.45%) Analytics
5 9 (20.45%) Asset Management
6 5 (11.36%) Content Management
6 5 (11.36%) Database Optimisation
7 4 (9.09%) B2C
7 4 (9.09%) Data Modelling
7 4 (9.09%) Design Patterns
7 4 (9.09%) ITIL
7 4 (9.09%) Prototyping
7 4 (9.09%) Test Automation
8 3 (6.82%) Customer Service
8 3 (6.82%) Project Delivery
9 2 (4.55%) Clean Code
9 2 (4.55%) Matrix Organization
9 2 (4.55%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 23 (52.27%) PowerShell
2 20 (45.45%) C#
3 16 (36.36%) JavaScript
4 15 (34.09%) Python
5 13 (29.55%) SQL
6 11 (25.00%) Java
7 9 (20.45%) TypeScript
8 7 (15.91%) Bicep
9 3 (6.82%) T-SQL
10 2 (4.55%) Ruby
10 2 (4.55%) Scala
11 1 (2.27%) Bash
11 1 (2.27%) C++
11 1 (2.27%) Kotlin
11 1 (2.27%) Perl
11 1 (2.27%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (11.36%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.09%) Degree
2 4 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.82%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.27%) HL7
System Software
1 4 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.82%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.27%) Docker
3 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (47.73%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.09%) Red Hat
2 4 (9.09%) VMware
3 3 (6.82%) RedGate
4 1 (2.27%) ION Trading
4 1 (2.27%) OpenLink
4 1 (2.27%) Remedy