Senior Developer Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Developer daily rate in England is £544, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
7 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 150 162
Rank change year-on-year -17 +12 -48
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 593 462 554
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.63% 1.80% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.77% 1.93% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 319 398
10th Percentile £400 £425 £410
25th Percentile £454 £512 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £657 £730 £724
90th Percentile £888 £850 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 14
10th Percentile - - £50.58
25th Percentile £85.00 - £55.20
Median hourly rate £90.00 £77.19 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year +16.60% +31.04% -5.75%
75th Percentile £95.00 - £72.50
90th Percentile - - £79.88
UK median hourly rate £90.00 £77.19 £58.91
% change year-on-year +16.60% +31.04% -5.75%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 33,508 23,892 35,472
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.02% 92.95% 92.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,182 15,386 23,744
10th Percentile £306 £300 £270
25th Percentile £412 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,169 770 2,257
10th Percentile £15.25 £16.21 £13.05
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.71 £36.00 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year -0.81% +9.44% -20.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.22 £71.87
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -1.44% +6.06% -18.67%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Senior Developer job vacancy trend in England

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in England

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in England over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in England

Senior 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 Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 7 March 2026. 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 -6 373 £600 -4.00% 108
North of England -52 63 £525 - 82
South West +14 55 £475 -20.83% 26
South East -24 43 £509 +13.11% 62
North West -36 33 £505 -3.81% 48
Midlands -49 31 £525 +0.72% 28
Yorkshire -44 29 £550 +6.28% 28
East of England -16 23 £500 -23.08% 23
West Midlands -45 22 £525 -4.55% 17
East Midlands -24 9 £520 - 11
North East -8 6 £525 -11.02% 7
Senior Developer
UK

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 7 March 2026, Senior Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 185 (31.20%) AWS
2 183 (30.86%) Java
3 176 (29.68%) Agile
4 148 (24.96%) SQL
5 140 (23.61%) CI/CD
6 138 (23.27%) Azure
6 138 (23.27%) Microservices
7 130 (21.92%) Python
8 126 (21.25%) Security Cleared
9 119 (20.07%) DevOps
10 117 (19.73%) JavaScript
11 116 (19.56%) SC Cleared
12 114 (19.22%) Docker
12 114 (19.22%) Kafka
13 109 (18.38%) Kubernetes
14 92 (15.51%) Problem-Solving
15 78 (13.15%) React
16 77 (12.98%) Spring
17 76 (12.82%) Software Engineering
18 74 (12.48%) TDD
19 67 (11.30%) Containerisation
19 67 (11.30%) Scrum
19 67 (11.30%) Spring Boot
20 66 (11.13%) Git
21 60 (10.12%) Test Automation
22 59 (9.95%) .NET
23 57 (9.61%) TypeScript
24 56 (9.44%) Open Source
24 56 (9.44%) Oracle
25 55 (9.27%) C#

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (1.35%) Confluence
2 7 (1.18%) CMS
3 6 (1.01%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.67%) Ethereum
4 4 (0.67%) Headless CMS
4 4 (0.67%) Hyperledger
4 4 (0.67%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.51%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.17%) IIS
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) Mendix
7 1 (0.17%) nginx
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.17%) Smallworld
7 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Endur
2 2 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.17%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 185 (31.20%) AWS
2 138 (23.27%) Azure
3 54 (9.11%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (7.25%) GitHub
5 31 (5.23%) Power Platform
6 29 (4.89%) GCP
7 24 (4.05%) Serverless
8 18 (3.04%) Power Automate
9 15 (2.53%) Azure Service Bus
9 15 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (2.53%) PowerApps
10 13 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (2.02%) Amazon S3
11 12 (2.02%) Amazon SQS
12 11 (1.85%) Copilot Studio
12 11 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
13 10 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
13 10 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.01%) HTTP
2 5 (0.84%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.34%) Firewall
4 1 (0.17%) DNS
4 1 (0.17%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.17%) Internet
4 1 (0.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (8.94%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (6.41%) NoSQL
3 37 (6.24%) Relational Database
4 35 (5.90%) Apache Cassandra
4 35 (5.90%) SQL Server
5 33 (5.56%) MongoDB
6 25 (4.22%) Power BI
7 16 (2.70%) DynamoDB
8 11 (1.85%) DB2
9 10 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.52%) Data Hub
10 9 (1.52%) MySQL
11 7 (1.18%) Oracle BI EE
12 6 (1.01%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.01%) HBase
12 6 (1.01%) Redis
13 5 (0.84%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.84%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.67%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 66 (11.13%) Git
2 34 (5.73%) Oracle APEX
3 33 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 33 (5.56%) JUnit
4 22 (3.71%) GitLab
5 18 (3.04%) JIRA
6 16 (2.70%) Maven
7 15 (2.53%) Mockito
8 11 (1.85%) Gradle
9 9 (1.52%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.35%) Artifactory
10 8 (1.35%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.84%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.84%) Mocha
13 4 (0.67%) SpecFlow
14 3 (0.51%) Lerna
14 3 (0.51%) Selenium
14 3 (0.51%) webpack
15 2 (0.34%) Postman
General
1 131 (22.09%) Social Skills
2 118 (19.90%) Finance
3 85 (14.33%) Banking
4 69 (11.64%) Public Sector
5 39 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (6.24%) Investment Banking
7 22 (3.71%) Front Office
8 12 (2.02%) Financial Institution
9 5 (0.84%) Law
10 4 (0.67%) Health Technology
10 4 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.67%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.51%) Legal
11 3 (0.51%) Military
11 3 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.51%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.34%) Marketing
12 2 (0.34%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (19.22%) Kafka
2 78 (13.15%) React
3 77 (12.98%) Spring
4 67 (11.30%) Spring Boot
5 59 (9.95%) .NET
6 50 (8.43%) Node.js
6 50 (8.43%) REST
7 48 (8.09%) AngularJS
8 47 (7.93%) HTML
8 47 (7.93%) RESTful
9 44 (7.42%) CSS
10 32 (5.40%) gRPC
11 26 (4.38%) Web Services
12 18 (3.04%) .NET Core
13 17 (2.87%) RabbitMQ
14 16 (2.70%) .NET Framework
15 14 (2.36%) Jest
15 14 (2.36%) Pandas
15 14 (2.36%) Redux
16 13 (2.19%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 48 (8.09%) Distributed Systems
2 34 (5.73%) Cloud Native
3 28 (4.72%) Derivative
4 24 (4.05%) Equities
5 20 (3.37%) Algorithms
5 20 (3.37%) Product Ownership
6 18 (3.04%) Market Risk
7 17 (2.87%) Management Information System
8 16 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (2.53%) Data Structures
10 13 (2.19%) Fixed Income
11 12 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (2.02%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.35%) Equity Derivative
12 8 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (1.18%) Onboarding
14 6 (1.01%) AI Agents
15 5 (0.84%) Animation
16 4 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
16 4 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 34 (5.73%) Linux
2 16 (2.70%) Android
3 13 (2.19%) Unix
4 12 (2.02%) Windows
5 9 (1.52%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.84%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.84%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.34%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (29.68%) Agile
2 140 (23.61%) CI/CD
3 138 (23.27%) Microservices
4 119 (20.07%) DevOps
5 92 (15.51%) Problem-Solving
6 76 (12.82%) Software Engineering
7 74 (12.48%) TDD
8 67 (11.30%) Containerisation
8 67 (11.30%) Scrum
9 60 (10.12%) Test Automation
10 56 (9.44%) Open Source
11 53 (8.94%) Analytics
12 52 (8.77%) Full-Stack Development
13 46 (7.76%) SDLC
14 43 (7.25%) Code Quality
14 43 (7.25%) Design Patterns
14 43 (7.25%) Mentoring
15 36 (6.07%) Event-Driven
16 35 (5.90%) Front End Development
17 34 (5.73%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 183 (30.86%) Java
2 148 (24.96%) SQL
3 130 (21.92%) Python
4 117 (19.73%) JavaScript
5 57 (9.61%) TypeScript
6 55 (9.27%) C#
7 45 (7.59%) Go
8 40 (6.75%) PL/SQL
9 23 (3.88%) Kotlin
10 21 (3.54%) Ruby
11 15 (2.53%) C++
12 9 (1.52%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.01%) PowerShell
14 5 (0.84%) PHP
15 4 (0.67%) Bash
15 4 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.67%) VBA
16 3 (0.51%) Apex Code
16 3 (0.51%) Swift
17 2 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 126 (21.25%) Security Cleared
2 116 (19.56%) SC Cleared
3 25 (4.22%) Degree
4 13 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.35%) Numerate Degree
7 6 (1.01%) OCP
7 6 (1.01%) Oracle Certification
8 5 (0.84%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.67%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.51%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.17%) CISSP
12 1 (0.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.89%) Accessibility
2 18 (3.04%) WCAG
3 12 (2.02%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.02%) QA
4 3 (0.51%) EU AI Act
4 3 (0.51%) GDPR
4 3 (0.51%) NIST
5 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 114 (19.22%) Docker
2 2 (0.34%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.34%) zsh
3 1 (0.17%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.17%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.17%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 109 (18.38%) Kubernetes
2 27 (4.55%) Terraform
3 17 (2.87%) Grafana
4 9 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.01%) Ansible
6 4 (0.67%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.51%) Kibana
8 1 (0.17%) Argo
8 1 (0.17%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.17%) Control-M
8 1 (0.17%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 56 (9.44%) Oracle
2 32 (5.40%) Microsoft
3 17 (2.87%) Google
3 17 (2.87%) ServiceNow
4 11 (1.85%) Sybase
5 9 (1.52%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.35%) Databricks
7 7 (1.18%) SAP
8 6 (1.01%) Guidewire
9 4 (0.67%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.67%) Pega
10 3 (0.51%) Cognizant
10 3 (0.51%) Dataiku
10 3 (0.51%) Foundry
11 2 (0.34%) Apple
11 2 (0.34%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.34%) ForgeRock
11 2 (0.34%) IBM
11 2 (0.34%) New Relic
12 1 (0.17%) Dell
299 Senior Developer jobs in England