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 £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 117 105
Rank change year-on-year +13 -12 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 5 7 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.26% 0.34% 1.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.37% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 27
10th Percentile £326 £435 £363
25th Percentile £502 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £547 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.69% -0.55% +1.15%
75th Percentile £609 £569 £596
90th Percentile £626 £573 £600
England median daily rate £575 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £53.43
25th Percentile £22.75 - £54.83
Median hourly rate £24.50 - £59.31
75th Percentile £26.25 - £63.44
90th Percentile - - £64.63
England median hourly rate £58.91 £62.50 £59.31
% change year-on-year -5.75% +5.38% +74.43%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,716 1,900 2,419
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.61% 91.48% 93.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 798 1,162 1,392
10th Percentile £206 £185 £163
25th Percentile £315 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £560 £600 £540
90th Percentile £650 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 578 301 375
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £35.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% +125.81% -5.62%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £39.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%

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 24 April 2024.

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 24 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
Norfolk - 2 £208 - 2
Essex +1 1 £600 +9.69% 4
Hertfordshire - 1 £600 - 2
Suffolk - 1 £625 -
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 of England region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) CSS
2 3 (60.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 3 (60.00%) .NET
3 2 (40.00%) MySQL
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (40.00%) IIS
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (40.00%) MVC
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) Web Development
3 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 2 (40.00%) Informatics
3 2 (40.00%) React
3 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) MariaDB
3 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) UiPath
4 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (20.00%) PowerApps

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 2 (40.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MariaDB
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
1 3 (60.00%) CSS
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) React
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Informatics
2 2 (40.00%) MVC
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Web Development
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Blue Prism
2 1 (20.00%) UiPath