Senior Developer Contracts in the East Midlands

Senior Developer
England > East Midlands

The median Senior Developer daily rate in the East Midlands is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 76 85
Rank change year-on-year +15 +9 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 5 8 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.65% 0.77% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.81% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 10
10th Percentile £418 £393 £373
25th Percentile £463 £450 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -2.70%
75th Percentile - £588 £475
90th Percentile £603 £610 £507
England median daily rate £575 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 719 982 1,346
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.86% 94.06% 94.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 754 986
10th Percentile £166 £213 £179
25th Percentile £260 £325 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £550 £565 £504
90th Percentile £625 £700 £600
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 62 94
10th Percentile £11.81 £11.80 £9.59
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.35 £13.56
Median hourly rate £17.50 £20.36 £17.29
Median % change year-on-year -14.05% +17.74% +17.64%
75th Percentile £26.15 £31.50 £24.38
90th Percentile £51.91 £64.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the East Midlands

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in the East Midlands

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in the East Midlands

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in the East Midlands

Senior Developer
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Northamptonshire +11 2 £436 +10.79% 3
Nottinghamshire +5 1 £625 +25.00% 6
Senior Developer
England

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 27 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 East Midlands region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Matrix Organization
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) React
3 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (40.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 2 (40.00%) Prototyping
3 2 (40.00%) Full Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) Debian
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) SAN
3 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) Web Design
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) JavaScript

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) Apollo GraphQL
2 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (20.00%) Jest
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) NestJS
2 1 (20.00%) Next.js
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) Redux
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Online Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Debian
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Full Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Matrix Organization
3 2 (40.00%) Prototyping
3 2 (40.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 1 (20.00%) Adaptive Web Design
4 1 (20.00%) API Development
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (40.00%) VMware