Senior Developer Contract Job Trends in Central London

Senior Developer
London > Central London

The median Senior Developer daily rate in Central London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 95 100
Rank change year-on-year +10 +5 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 39 35 34
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.80% 1.68% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.92% 1.81% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 20 26
10th Percentile £338 £454 £418
25th Percentile £475 £514 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -10.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £638 £706 £688
90th Percentile £773 £796 £806
London median daily rate £600 £630 £625
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.80% -10.71%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,033 1,938 2,424
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 92.82% 94.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,381 1,224 1,737
10th Percentile £350 £363 £333
25th Percentile £438 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £670 £675 £684
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 20 33
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £23.62 £30.52 £20.22
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +40.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £42.65 £40.63 £27.81
90th Percentile £59.00 £112.00 £49.95
London median hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year -4.11% +28.07% -18.57%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Senior Developer job vacancy trend in Central London

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Central London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Central London

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Central London over the 6 months to 26 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in Central London

Senior Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Central London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Central London

Senior Developer
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 26 February 2026. 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
City of London -4 35 £600 +4.35% 31
West End of London +8 2 £525 -1.87%
Camden - 1 £400 -
City of Westminster - 1 £650 -
Senior Developer
London

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 26 February 2026, Senior Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 14 (35.90%) Java
2 12 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 11 (28.21%) JavaScript
4 9 (23.08%) Agile
4 9 (23.08%) CSS
4 9 (23.08%) DevOps
4 9 (23.08%) HTML
4 9 (23.08%) TDD
5 8 (20.51%) AngularJS
5 8 (20.51%) Azure
5 8 (20.51%) Code Quality
5 8 (20.51%) Docker
5 8 (20.51%) Git
5 8 (20.51%) Python
5 8 (20.51%) React
5 8 (20.51%) SQL
5 8 (20.51%) Unit Testing
6 7 (17.95%) AWS
6 7 (17.95%) Containerisation
6 7 (17.95%) Security Cleared
6 7 (17.95%) User Experience
7 6 (15.38%) C#
7 6 (15.38%) GCP
7 6 (15.38%) Google
7 6 (15.38%) JIRA
7 6 (15.38%) Kubernetes
7 6 (15.38%) Linux
7 6 (15.38%) OSGi
7 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (15.38%) SC Cleared

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.69%) CMS
2 2 (5.13%) Ethereum
2 2 (5.13%) Hyperledger
3 1 (2.56%) Headless CMS
3 1 (2.56%) Mendix
3 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (2.56%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.51%) Azure
2 7 (17.95%) AWS
3 6 (15.38%) GCP
4 4 (10.26%) GitHub
5 3 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (5.13%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (5.13%) Firebase
6 2 (5.13%) Power Automate
6 2 (5.13%) PowerApps
6 2 (5.13%) Serverless
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.56%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (2.56%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) NoSQL
1 3 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.13%) KDB
2 2 (5.13%) Kdb+
2 2 (5.13%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.13%) MySQL
2 2 (5.13%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.13%) SQLite
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.56%) Big Data
3 1 (2.56%) DB2
3 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.56%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 8 (20.51%) Git
2 6 (15.38%) JIRA
3 5 (12.82%) Jenkins
4 3 (7.69%) JUnit
5 2 (5.13%) CocoaPods
5 2 (5.13%) Crashlytics
5 2 (5.13%) fastlane
5 2 (5.13%) Xcode
6 1 (2.56%) QUnit
General
1 7 (17.95%) Finance
1 7 (17.95%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.69%) Banking
2 3 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.13%) Financial Institution
3 2 (5.13%) Front Office
3 2 (5.13%) Law
3 2 (5.13%) Legal
4 1 (2.56%) Marketing
4 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.08%) CSS
1 9 (23.08%) HTML
2 8 (20.51%) AngularJS
2 8 (20.51%) React
3 6 (15.38%) OSGi
4 5 (12.82%) .NET
4 5 (12.82%) Kafka
4 5 (12.82%) REST
5 3 (7.69%) FastAPI
5 3 (7.69%) RESTful
5 3 (7.69%) Spring
5 3 (7.69%) Spring Boot
5 3 (7.69%) Web Services
6 2 (5.13%) AVFoundation
6 2 (5.13%) Core Data
6 2 (5.13%) gRPC
6 2 (5.13%) Qt
6 2 (5.13%) RxSwift
6 2 (5.13%) Spring Batch
6 2 (5.13%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 3 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (7.69%) Life Science
3 2 (5.13%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.13%) Animation
3 2 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.13%) Fixed Income
3 2 (5.13%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.56%) Derivative
4 1 (2.56%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.56%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.56%) Equities
4 1 (2.56%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.56%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.38%) Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Apple iOS
2 2 (5.13%) Unix
2 2 (5.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 9 (23.08%) Agile
2 9 (23.08%) DevOps
2 9 (23.08%) TDD
3 8 (20.51%) Code Quality
3 8 (20.51%) Unit Testing
4 7 (17.95%) Containerisation
4 7 (17.95%) User Experience
5 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (15.38%) Test Automation
6 5 (12.82%) Analytics
6 5 (12.82%) Microservices
6 5 (12.82%) Multithreading
6 5 (12.82%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (12.82%) Software Engineering
6 5 (12.82%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (10.26%) AI
7 4 (10.26%) Design Patterns
7 4 (10.26%) Mentoring
7 4 (10.26%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.90%) Java
2 11 (28.21%) JavaScript
3 8 (20.51%) Python
3 8 (20.51%) SQL
4 6 (15.38%) C#
5 4 (10.26%) C++
5 4 (10.26%) TypeScript
6 3 (7.69%) Go
7 2 (5.13%) Objective-C
7 2 (5.13%) Ruby
7 2 (5.13%) Swift
7 2 (5.13%) VBA
8 1 (2.56%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.56%) Elixir
8 1 (2.56%) PHP
8 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) Degree
4 2 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (20.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.13%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (15.38%) Google
2 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) Oracle
3 2 (5.13%) Apple
4 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.56%) Sybase