Senior Developer Contracts in the East of England

Senior Developer
England > East of England

The median Senior Developer daily rate in the East of England is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 108 115
Rank change year-on-year +35 +7 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 13 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.33% 0.26% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.53% 0.30% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 6
10th Percentile £470 £286 £438
25th Percentile £500 £404 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £541
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +10.91% -1.64%
75th Percentile £675 £619 £565
90th Percentile - £630 £572
England median daily rate £600 £600 £650
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £24.50 -
England median hourly rate £77.19 £59.45 £62.50
% change year-on-year +29.83% -4.88% -13.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 852 1,672 1,804
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.21% 88.56% 91.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 743 1,089
10th Percentile £200 £205 £188
25th Percentile £375 £314 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +3.26%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 592 277
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.30 £15.25
Median hourly rate £46.18 £43.00 £41.80
Median % change year-on-year +7.40% +2.87% +165.48%
75th Percentile £72.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.31% -17.38% +93.72%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the East of England

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in the East of England

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in the East of England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in the East of England

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in the East of England

Senior Developer
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 17 May 2025. 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
Hertfordshire +34 9 £650 - 6
Bedfordshire - 2 £500 - 4
Cambridgeshire - 2 £431 - 21
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 East of England region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 11 (84.62%) AWS
2 10 (76.92%) Azure
3 9 (69.23%) TensorFlow
3 9 (69.23%) Reinforcement Learning
3 9 (69.23%) Seaborn
3 9 (69.23%) Master's Degree
3 9 (69.23%) Data Science
3 9 (69.23%) Decision-Making
3 9 (69.23%) Analytics
3 9 (69.23%) Data Munging
3 9 (69.23%) Time Series Forecasting
3 9 (69.23%) Pandas
3 9 (69.23%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (69.23%) Apache Spark
3 9 (69.23%) Algorithms
3 9 (69.23%) scikit-learn
3 9 (69.23%) NumPy
3 9 (69.23%) R
3 9 (69.23%) Hadoop
3 9 (69.23%) Visualisation
3 9 (69.23%) Matplotlib
3 9 (69.23%) Tableau
3 9 (69.23%) Data Quality
3 9 (69.23%) Machine Learning
3 9 (69.23%) Big Data
3 9 (69.23%) Statistical Modelling
3 9 (69.23%) Data Analytics
3 9 (69.23%) Python
3 9 (69.23%) PhD
3 9 (69.23%) Data Analysis

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 9 (69.23%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) AWS
2 10 (76.92%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) Big Data
1 9 (69.23%) Hadoop
1 9 (69.23%) Tableau
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (69.23%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) Matplotlib
1 9 (69.23%) NumPy
1 9 (69.23%) Pandas
1 9 (69.23%) PyTorch
1 9 (69.23%) scikit-learn
1 9 (69.23%) Seaborn
1 9 (69.23%) TensorFlow
2 2 (15.38%) AWS CDK
3 1 (7.69%) .NET
3 1 (7.69%) Node.js
3 1 (7.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Analytics
1 9 (69.23%) Artificial Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) Computer Science
1 9 (69.23%) Data Analysis
1 9 (69.23%) Data Analytics
1 9 (69.23%) Data Munging
1 9 (69.23%) Data Science
1 9 (69.23%) Decision-Making
1 9 (69.23%) Feature Engineering
1 9 (69.23%) Generative AI
1 9 (69.23%) LLM
1 9 (69.23%) Machine Learning
1 9 (69.23%) Predictive Analytics
1 9 (69.23%) Reinforcement Learning
1 9 (69.23%) Statistical Modelling
1 9 (69.23%) Time Series Forecasting
1 9 (69.23%) Visualisation
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (7.69%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
1 9 (69.23%) R
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) Degree
1 9 (69.23%) Master's Degree
1 9 (69.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (69.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) OpenAI