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 during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 73 61
Rank change year-on-year -12 -12 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 44 115 164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.98% 3.15% 3.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.08% 3.31% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 90 146
10th Percentile £410 £500 £488
25th Percentile £430 £543 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £675 £630
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% +7.14% +9.57%
75th Percentile £719 £775 £717
90th Percentile £768 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £675 £605
% change year-on-year -20.37% +11.57% +5.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,111 3,471 3,990
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.00% 95.20% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,503 2,350 3,011
10th Percentile £350 £350 £369
25th Percentile £450 £470 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £792 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £560
% change year-on-year -5.17% +3.57% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 26 50
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.74
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.04% +107.23%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £44.10 £86.65 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +107.23%

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 25 April 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 25 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 City of London region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 22 (50.00%) Azure
2 21 (47.73%) Agile
3 17 (38.64%) Java
4 13 (29.55%) C#
4 13 (29.55%) DevOps
5 12 (27.27%) Finance
6 11 (25.00%) .NET
6 11 (25.00%) SQL Server
7 10 (22.73%) JavaScript
7 10 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (20.45%) CI/CD
8 9 (20.45%) Python
9 7 (15.91%) ASP.NET
9 7 (15.91%) XML
9 7 (15.91%) AWS
9 7 (15.91%) PowerShell
10 6 (13.64%) Test Automation
10 6 (13.64%) Banking
10 6 (13.64%) HTML
10 6 (13.64%) Data Ingestion
10 6 (13.64%) Front End Development
11 5 (11.36%) Case Management
11 5 (11.36%) IT Strategy
11 5 (11.36%) Strategic Roadmap
11 5 (11.36%) Data Pipeline
11 5 (11.36%) Roadmaps
11 5 (11.36%) CRM
11 5 (11.36%) Microsoft
11 5 (11.36%) CSS
11 5 (11.36%) SQL

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 (2.27%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.27%) Appian
Business Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.27%) Endur
2 1 (2.27%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 22 (50.00%) Azure
2 10 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (15.91%) AWS
4 2 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (4.55%) Entra ID
4 2 (4.55%) GCP
4 2 (4.55%) GitHub
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.27%) dbt
5 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.36%) NoSQL
3 4 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.55%) KDB
4 2 (4.55%) Redis
5 1 (2.27%) Big Data
5 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.27%) DB2
5 1 (2.27%) Metadata
5 1 (2.27%) Power BI
5 1 (2.27%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Mockito
1 2 (4.55%) SpecFlow
2 1 (2.27%) Git
2 1 (2.27%) Mercurial
2 1 (2.27%) Moq
2 1 (2.27%) MSTest
2 1 (2.27%) Pylint
2 1 (2.27%) Subversion
General
1 12 (27.27%) Finance
2 6 (13.64%) Banking
3 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.82%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Front Office
5 1 (2.27%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (25.00%) .NET
2 7 (15.91%) ASP.NET
2 7 (15.91%) XML
3 6 (13.64%) HTML
4 5 (11.36%) CSS
5 4 (9.09%) Kafka
5 4 (9.09%) React
6 3 (6.82%) .NET Core
6 3 (6.82%) AngularJS
6 3 (6.82%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (6.82%) Node.js
7 2 (4.55%) .NET Framework
7 2 (4.55%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (4.55%) JAX-RS
7 2 (4.55%) NumPy
7 2 (4.55%) Pandas
7 2 (4.55%) REST
7 2 (4.55%) RxJS
7 2 (4.55%) SciPy
7 2 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (6.82%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.55%) Contactless
2 2 (4.55%) Derivative
2 2 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (4.55%) Hedge funds
2 2 (4.55%) Market Risk
3 1 (2.27%) Equities
3 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.09%) Linux
2 3 (6.82%) Mac OS X
2 3 (6.82%) Unix
3 1 (2.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (47.73%) Agile
2 13 (29.55%) DevOps
3 9 (20.45%) CI/CD
4 6 (13.64%) Data Ingestion
4 6 (13.64%) Front End Development
4 6 (13.64%) Test Automation
5 5 (11.36%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (11.36%) Business Transformation
5 5 (11.36%) Case Management
5 5 (11.36%) CRM
5 5 (11.36%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (11.36%) IT Strategy
5 5 (11.36%) Roadmaps
5 5 (11.36%) Scrum
5 5 (11.36%) Strategic Roadmap
6 4 (9.09%) Clean Code
6 4 (9.09%) Microservices
6 4 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (9.09%) SDLC
6 4 (9.09%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (38.64%) Java
2 13 (29.55%) C#
3 10 (22.73%) JavaScript
4 9 (20.45%) Python
5 7 (15.91%) PowerShell
6 5 (11.36%) SQL
7 4 (9.09%) Bicep
8 3 (6.82%) TypeScript
9 2 (4.55%) C++
9 2 (4.55%) Rust
10 1 (2.27%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (2.27%) BeanShell
10 1 (2.27%) Go
10 1 (2.27%) Kotlin
10 1 (2.27%) PHP
10 1 (2.27%) Scala
10 1 (2.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.82%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.27%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.55%) Docker
2 1 (2.27%) IAG
Systems Management
1 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (11.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.55%) Databricks
3 1 (2.27%) Google
3 1 (2.27%) ION Trading
3 1 (2.27%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.27%) Sybase