Senior Developer Contracts in Belfast

Senior Developer
County Antrim > Belfast

The median Senior Developer daily rate in Belfast is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - 20
Rank change year-on-year - - -3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 5 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 3.40% - 2.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.70% - 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £482 - -
25th Percentile £492 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile £615 - -
County Antrim median daily rate £500 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Belfast

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Belfast. 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 Belfast with a recognized job title 135 117 147
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.84% 94.35% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 72 72
10th Percentile £155 £173 £166
25th Percentile £273 £309 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £419
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +7.46% -
75th Percentile £530 £575 £504
90th Percentile £625 £650 £636
County Antrim median daily rate £410 £450 £419
% change year-on-year -8.89% +7.46% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 8
10th Percentile £22.50 - £13.29
25th Percentile £22.92 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £26.59 £14.19 £14.59
Median % change year-on-year +87.45% -2.79% +16.74%
75th Percentile £48.32 £16.12 £15.94
90th Percentile £78.47 - £16.87
County Antrim median hourly rate £24.18 £15.75 £14.59
% change year-on-year +53.52% +7.93% +5.06%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Belfast

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in Belfast

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Belfast

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Belfast over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in Belfast

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Belfast region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Electronic Trading
1 2 (40.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) Line Management
2 1 (20.00%) Derivative
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Moodle
2 1 (20.00%) Scala
2 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) HBase
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Sybase
2 1 (20.00%) DB2

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (20.00%) Moodle
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) DB2
2 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (20.00%) HBase
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) UniData
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (20.00%) Derivative
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (20.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Electronic Trading
1 2 (40.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Client Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) High-Frequency Trading
2 1 (20.00%) Line Management
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) SOA
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Scala
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) UniBasic
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (20.00%) Sybase