Senior Developer Contracts in the City of London

Senior Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Developer daily rate in the City of London is £575, 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 92 81 78
Rank change year-on-year -11 -3 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 27 46 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.54% 2.09% 3.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.65% 2.21% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 36 88
10th Percentile £425 £410 £509
25th Percentile £458 £427 £562
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £675
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -20.37% +3.85%
75th Percentile £650 £706 £775
90th Percentile £725 £763 £829
Central London median daily rate £588 £538 £675
% change year-on-year +9.30% -20.37% +5.88%

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 1,632 2,086 3,469
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 94.95% 95.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 1,483 2,364
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the City of London

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer 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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in the City of London

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in the City of London

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

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 City of London region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
1 11 (40.74%) Kubernetes
1 11 (40.74%) Java
1 11 (40.74%) Finance
2 10 (37.04%) Python
2 10 (37.04%) DevOps
2 10 (37.04%) CI/CD
3 9 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 9 (33.33%) AWS
4 8 (29.63%) Azure
5 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (25.93%) Docker
6 6 (22.22%) C#
7 5 (18.52%) C++
7 5 (18.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (18.52%) Spring
7 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (18.52%) Microservices
7 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (14.81%) Low Latency
8 4 (14.81%) Terraform
8 4 (14.81%) Agile
8 4 (14.81%) .NET
8 4 (14.81%) Splunk
8 4 (14.81%) AngularJS
8 4 (14.81%) Degree
9 3 (11.11%) Computer Science
9 3 (11.11%) Unit Testing
9 3 (11.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (11.11%) RESTful

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 (3.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) AWS
2 8 (29.63%) Azure
3 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.41%) Azure App Service
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (7.41%) GCP
4 2 (7.41%) GitHub
4 2 (7.41%) OpenShift
4 2 (7.41%) Serverless
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Big Data
1 2 (7.41%) KDB
1 2 (7.41%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.70%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (3.70%) MySQL
2 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Power BI
2 1 (3.70%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (3.70%) Tableau
2 1 (3.70%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 3 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
1 3 (11.11%) Gradle
1 3 (11.11%) IntelliJ
1 3 (11.11%) JUnit
1 3 (11.11%) Maven
1 3 (11.11%) SonarQube
2 2 (7.41%) Git
3 1 (3.70%) Android Studio
3 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.70%) Xcode
General
1 11 (40.74%) Finance
1 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Front Office
4 2 (7.41%) Banking
4 2 (7.41%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Billing
5 1 (3.70%) Games
5 1 (3.70%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) Spring
2 4 (14.81%) .NET
2 4 (14.81%) AngularJS
3 3 (11.11%) JMS
3 3 (11.11%) JPA
3 3 (11.11%) RESTful
4 2 (7.41%) Android SDK
4 2 (7.41%) HTML
4 2 (7.41%) HTML5
4 2 (7.41%) Middleware
4 2 (7.41%) NumPy
4 2 (7.41%) Pandas
4 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.70%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.70%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (3.70%) FastAPI
5 1 (3.70%) Jetpack Compose
5 1 (3.70%) PySpark
5 1 (3.70%) scikit-learn
5 1 (3.70%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (11.11%) Algorithms
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.41%) Equities
4 1 (3.70%) Credit Risk
4 1 (3.70%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Android
2 2 (7.41%) Unix
3 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) CI/CD
1 10 (37.04%) DevOps
2 9 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (18.52%) Microservices
5 4 (14.81%) Agile
5 4 (14.81%) Low Latency
6 3 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (11.11%) Computer Science
6 3 (11.11%) Line Management
6 3 (11.11%) Unit Testing
7 2 (7.41%) Android Development
7 2 (7.41%) Event-Driven
7 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (7.41%) Market Making
7 2 (7.41%) Mentoring
7 2 (7.41%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (7.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) Java
2 10 (37.04%) Python
3 6 (22.22%) C#
4 5 (18.52%) C++
5 3 (11.11%) SQL
6 2 (7.41%) Go
6 2 (7.41%) Kotlin
7 1 (3.70%) C
7 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.70%) Objective-C
7 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.70%) Rust
7 1 (3.70%) Swift
7 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Degree
2 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (40.74%) Kubernetes
2 4 (14.81%) Terraform
3 2 (7.41%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Splunk
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle
46 Senior Developer jobs in Central London