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 £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2024.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 80 61
Rank change year-on-year -2 -19 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 45 93 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.06% 2.71% 3.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.17% 2.86% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 80 144
10th Percentile £410 £513 £475
25th Percentile £435 £574 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £705 £775 £725
90th Percentile £750 £839 £775
Central London median daily rate £531 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -21.30% +3.85% +14.29%

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 2,076 3,249 3,945
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.14% 94.83% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,437 2,191 2,948
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +6.19% +3.20%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £788 £815 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £555
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.11% +3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 20 50
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.37 £15.56
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £21.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -12.50% +122.53%
75th Percentile £34.69 £72.50 £54.88
90th Percentile £46.15 £88.30 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.86% -13.58% +113.30%

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 20 June 2024.

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

1 20 (44.44%) Azure
2 19 (42.22%) Agile
3 15 (33.33%) C#
3 15 (33.33%) DevOps
4 14 (31.11%) .NET
5 13 (28.89%) SQL Server
5 13 (28.89%) Java
6 12 (26.67%) JavaScript
6 12 (26.67%) Finance
6 12 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (26.67%) CI/CD
7 10 (22.22%) SQL
8 8 (17.78%) ASP.NET
8 8 (17.78%) XML
8 8 (17.78%) HTML
8 8 (17.78%) Microsoft
9 7 (15.56%) NoSQL
9 7 (15.56%) PowerShell
9 7 (15.56%) Test Automation
9 7 (15.56%) Data Ingestion
10 6 (13.33%) Front End Development
10 6 (13.33%) Roadmaps
10 6 (13.33%) Dynamics CRM
10 6 (13.33%) TDD
10 6 (13.33%) Linux
10 6 (13.33%) CRM
10 6 (13.33%) CSS
11 5 (11.11%) Python
11 5 (11.11%) Banking
11 5 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence

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 (2.22%) Appian
Business Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (4.44%) Endur
3 1 (2.22%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 20 (44.44%) Azure
2 12 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (8.89%) AWS
4 3 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.67%) GCP
5 2 (4.44%) dbt
5 2 (4.44%) GitHub
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.22%) SaaS
6 1 (2.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (28.89%) SQL Server
2 7 (15.56%) NoSQL
3 4 (8.89%) MongoDB
4 3 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (6.67%) KDB
5 2 (4.44%) Redis
6 1 (2.22%) Metadata
6 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Git
2 2 (4.44%) Mockito
2 2 (4.44%) SpecFlow
3 1 (2.22%) Maven
3 1 (2.22%) Mercurial
3 1 (2.22%) Moq
3 1 (2.22%) MSTest
3 1 (2.22%) Pylint
3 1 (2.22%) Subversion
3 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 12 (26.67%) Finance
2 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (11.11%) Banking
3 3 (6.67%) Front Office
3 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.44%) Back Office
4 2 (4.44%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.22%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (31.11%) .NET
2 8 (17.78%) ASP.NET
2 8 (17.78%) HTML
2 8 (17.78%) XML
3 6 (13.33%) CSS
4 5 (11.11%) React
5 4 (8.89%) Node.js
6 3 (6.67%) .NET Core
6 3 (6.67%) .NET Framework
6 3 (6.67%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (6.67%) JAX-RS
6 3 (6.67%) Kafka
6 3 (6.67%) RESTful
7 2 (4.44%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (4.44%) AngularJS
7 2 (4.44%) JSON
7 2 (4.44%) NumPy
7 2 (4.44%) RxJS
7 2 (4.44%) SciPy
7 2 (4.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (8.89%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.67%) Derivative
2 3 (6.67%) Equities
3 2 (4.44%) Contactless
4 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.22%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.33%) Linux
2 3 (6.67%) Mac OS X
2 3 (6.67%) Unix
3 1 (2.22%) Android
3 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (42.22%) Agile
2 15 (33.33%) DevOps
3 12 (26.67%) CI/CD
4 7 (15.56%) Data Ingestion
4 7 (15.56%) Test Automation
5 6 (13.33%) CRM
5 6 (13.33%) Front End Development
5 6 (13.33%) Roadmaps
5 6 (13.33%) TDD
6 5 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (11.11%) Business Transformation
6 5 (11.11%) Case Management
6 5 (11.11%) Clean Code
6 5 (11.11%) IT Strategy
6 5 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (11.11%) Strategic Roadmap
6 5 (11.11%) Unit Testing
7 4 (8.89%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (8.89%) OO
7 4 (8.89%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (33.33%) C#
2 13 (28.89%) Java
3 12 (26.67%) JavaScript
4 10 (22.22%) SQL
5 7 (15.56%) PowerShell
6 5 (11.11%) Bicep
6 5 (11.11%) Python
6 5 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 3 (6.67%) C++
8 2 (4.44%) Go
8 2 (4.44%) Rust
8 2 (4.44%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.22%) Kotlin
9 1 (2.22%) PHP
9 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
9 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.22%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.89%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (2.22%) ION Trading
3 1 (2.22%) OpenLink
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle
3 1 (2.22%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.22%) Salesforce