Senior Developer Contracts in Birmingham

Senior Developer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Senior Developer daily rate in Birmingham is £259 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 65 77
Rank change year-on-year +14 +12 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 13 13 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.73% 1.41% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.88% 1.47% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 12
10th Percentile - £389 £418
25th Percentile - £475 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £259 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -52.91% +4.76% +13.51%
75th Percentile £260 £644 -
90th Percentile £480 £663 £671
West Midlands median daily rate £259 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -52.91% +4.76% +41.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £56.25 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £56.25 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 692 882 1,295
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.90% 95.45% 96.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 591 956
10th Percentile £250 £263 £211
25th Percentile £325 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 32 21
10th Percentile £12.95 £11.10 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £12.50 £13.75
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +21.21% -8.33%
75th Percentile £48.75 £24.47 £18.00
90th Percentile £59.58 £63.13 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.00 £19.00 £17.28
% change year-on-year +15.79% +9.95% +4.73%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Birmingham

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in Birmingham

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 18 April 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 Birmingham region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 9 (69.23%) SQL
2 7 (53.85%) HL7
2 7 (53.85%) Rational Rhapsody
3 3 (23.08%) AngularJS
3 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Power BI
4 2 (15.38%) Master's Degree
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (15.38%) Runbook
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (15.38%) Serverless
4 2 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Functions
4 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 2 (15.38%) PowerApps
4 2 (15.38%) Power Automate
4 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
4 2 (15.38%) Azure
4 2 (15.38%) E-Discovery
4 2 (15.38%) BDD
4 2 (15.38%) Microservices
4 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) React
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Apigee
4 2 (15.38%) Agile

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Apigee
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (15.38%) Azure Functions
1 2 (15.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (15.38%) GCP
1 2 (15.38%) Power Automate
1 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
1 2 (15.38%) PowerApps
1 2 (15.38%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (15.38%) Power BI
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Rational Rhapsody
2 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
General
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) AngularJS
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (15.38%) React
2 2 (15.38%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
2 2 (15.38%) Agile
2 2 (15.38%) BDD
2 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
2 2 (15.38%) CRM
2 2 (15.38%) DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) E-Discovery
2 2 (15.38%) ETL
2 2 (15.38%) Microservices
2 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (15.38%) Runbook
2 2 (15.38%) SOA
2 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
2 2 (15.38%) TDD
3 1 (7.69%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
3 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (7.69%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) C++
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
1 2 (15.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) HL7
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft