Senior Applications Developer Contracts in England

Senior Application Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Application Developer daily rate in England is £508, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 534 633
Rank change year-on-year +61 +99 +121
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Applications Developer 12 8 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.049% 0.022% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.023% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 13
10th Percentile £338 £259 £449
25th Percentile £475 £335 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.84% -13.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £488 £605
90th Percentile £758 - -
UK median daily rate £508 £475 £605
% change year-on-year +6.84% -21.49% +12.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £24.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £24.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Senior Applications Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Applications Developer in England

Senior Applications Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Applications Developer in England.

Daily rate trend for Senior Applications Developer in England

Senior Applications Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Applications Developer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Applications Developer in England

Senior Applications Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Applications Developer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Applications Developer in England

Senior Applications Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Applications Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +43 7 £508 - 5
South East +47 3 £600 +26.32% 2
East of England +30 2 £375 +80.29% 1
Senior Applications Developer
UK

Senior Applications Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Applications 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 England region featuring Senior Applications Developer in the job title.

1 11 (91.67%) Azure
2 8 (66.67%) SQL
3 7 (58.33%) Test Automation
4 6 (50.00%) .NET
5 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
5 5 (41.67%) Tricentis Tosca
6 4 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (33.33%) RESTful
6 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
6 4 (33.33%) SaaS
6 4 (33.33%) NoSQL
7 3 (25.00%) HTML
7 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
7 3 (25.00%) CSS
7 3 (25.00%) Vue
7 3 (25.00%) Azure Stack
8 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
8 2 (16.67%) PowerApps
8 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
8 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
8 2 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (16.67%) Infor CloudSuite
8 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (16.67%) SOLID
8 2 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
8 2 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (16.67%) Code Quality

Senior Applications Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Tricentis Tosca
3 4 (33.33%) SaaS
4 3 (25.00%) Azure Stack
5 2 (16.67%) AWS
5 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 2 (16.67%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) .NET
2 4 (33.33%) RESTful
3 3 (25.00%) CSS
3 3 (25.00%) HTML
3 3 (25.00%) Vue
4 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
4 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
4 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (16.67%) Kafka
4 2 (16.67%) Node.js
4 2 (16.67%) Spring
4 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 2 (16.67%) Web Services
5 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
5 1 (8.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (8.33%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Test Automation
2 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (16.67%) IT Governance
2 2 (16.67%) ITIL
2 2 (16.67%) Microservices
2 2 (16.67%) MVC
2 2 (16.67%) MVVM
2 2 (16.67%) OO
2 2 (16.67%) OOP
2 2 (16.67%) Re-Platforming
2 2 (16.67%) Responsive Web Design
2 2 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (16.67%) Software Delivery
2 2 (16.67%) SOLID
2 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (16.67%) TDD
2 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
2 2 (16.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) ActionScript
3 2 (16.67%) C#
3 2 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Infor
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle
1 2 (16.67%) TIBCO