Senior Developer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Senior Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Developer daily rate in the City of London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 82 90
Rank change year-on-year -12 +8 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 27 39 59
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.59% 1.86% 2.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.69% 1.99% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 25 47
10th Percentile £433 £440 £523
25th Percentile £513 £494 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £675
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -14.81% +8.00%
75th Percentile £700 £719 £813
90th Percentile £829 £838 £850
Central London median daily rate £650 £535 £673
% change year-on-year +21.50% -20.45% +7.60%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,595 1,957 2,637
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 93.28% 94.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,108 1,203 1,842
10th Percentile £325 £363 £358
25th Percentile £421 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £578
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -0.43% +0.43%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 15 14
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.07 £25.06 £18.06
Median hourly rate £27.75 £57.50 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.74% +55.41% -10.30%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £48.25
90th Percentile £64.30 £137.50 £63.88
Central London median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -2.78% -12.20%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of 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 the City of London.

Senior Developer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in the City of London

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in the City of London

Senior Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in the City of London

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 30 October 2025, 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 City of London region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 12 (44.44%) Azure
2 11 (40.74%) Agile
3 8 (29.63%) C#
3 8 (29.63%) DevOps
3 8 (29.63%) Python
4 7 (25.93%) .NET
4 7 (25.93%) CI/CD
4 7 (25.93%) Java
5 6 (22.22%) Analytics
5 6 (22.22%) AWS
5 6 (22.22%) OO
5 6 (22.22%) Relational Database
5 6 (22.22%) SQL
6 5 (18.52%) Databricks
6 5 (18.52%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (18.52%) Git
6 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (14.81%) AngularJS
7 4 (14.81%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (14.81%) Low Latency
7 4 (14.81%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (11.11%) Accessibility
8 3 (11.11%) AI
8 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (11.11%) Code Quality
8 3 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (11.11%) Containerisation
8 3 (11.11%) Continuous Integration

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (7.41%) CMS
2 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Endur
1 1 (3.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (44.44%) Azure
2 6 (22.22%) AWS
3 4 (14.81%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (11.11%) GCP
4 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon Neptune
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (7.41%) Firebase
6 1 (3.70%) Azure App Service
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.70%) Cloud Run
6 1 (3.70%) GitHub
6 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Ethernet
1 1 (3.70%) HTTP
1 1 (3.70%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 3 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 3 (11.11%) KDB
2 3 (11.11%) Kdb+
2 3 (11.11%) Power BI
2 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (7.41%) SQLite
4 1 (3.70%) Big Data
4 1 (3.70%) Hazelcast
4 1 (3.70%) MySQL
4 1 (3.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Git
2 3 (11.11%) JIRA
3 2 (7.41%) CocoaPods
3 2 (7.41%) Crashlytics
3 2 (7.41%) fastlane
3 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.41%) QUnit
3 2 (7.41%) Xcode
4 1 (3.70%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.70%) GitLab
General
1 10 (37.04%) Finance
2 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Front Office
4 2 (7.41%) Banking
4 2 (7.41%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.70%) Advertising
5 1 (3.70%) Law
5 1 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.93%) .NET
2 4 (14.81%) AngularJS
3 3 (11.11%) HTML
4 2 (7.41%) .NET Core
4 2 (7.41%) AVFoundation
4 2 (7.41%) Core Animation
4 2 (7.41%) Core Data
4 2 (7.41%) CSS
4 2 (7.41%) HTML5
4 2 (7.41%) REST
4 2 (7.41%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (7.41%) RxSwift
4 2 (7.41%) UIKit
4 2 (7.41%) Web Services
5 1 (3.70%) FastAPI
5 1 (3.70%) LangGraph
5 1 (3.70%) Playwright
5 1 (3.70%) Quarkus
5 1 (3.70%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (3.70%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Fixed Income
2 3 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 3 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 3 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (7.41%) Animation
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (7.41%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.70%) Derivative
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.70%) e-Learning
4 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.70%) Equities
4 1 (3.70%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Apple iOS
2 2 (7.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (40.74%) Agile
2 8 (29.63%) DevOps
3 7 (25.93%) CI/CD
4 6 (22.22%) Analytics
4 6 (22.22%) OO
5 5 (18.52%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (14.81%) Low Latency
6 4 (14.81%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (11.11%) Code Quality
7 3 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 3 (11.11%) Data Lineage
7 3 (11.11%) Data Modelling
7 3 (11.11%) Decision-Making
7 3 (11.11%) Design Patterns
7 3 (11.11%) Machine Learning
7 3 (11.11%) Mentoring
7 3 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) C#
1 8 (29.63%) Python
2 7 (25.93%) Java
3 6 (22.22%) SQL
4 3 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.41%) Objective-C
5 2 (7.41%) Ruby
5 2 (7.41%) Swift
5 2 (7.41%) VBA
6 1 (3.70%) C++
6 1 (3.70%) Go
6 1 (3.70%) PHP
6 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) AWS Certification
1 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified Developer
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
1 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Postgraduate
2 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 3 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.70%) Ansible
2 1 (3.70%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Databricks
2 3 (11.11%) Dataiku
2 3 (11.11%) Google
3 2 (7.41%) Apple
3 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.70%) BMC
4 1 (3.70%) HP
4 1 (3.70%) Ivanti
4 1 (3.70%) Murex
4 1 (3.70%) OpenLink
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) Remedy
4 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow