Senior Developer Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Developer daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 January 2026.

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

 6 months to
24 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 140 173
Rank change year-on-year -31 +33 -71
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 542 492 528
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 1.84% 1.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.82% 1.98% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 327 390
10th Percentile £409 £425 £425
25th Percentile £456 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% -11.54%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £718
90th Percentile £866 £850 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -10.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 9
10th Percentile - - £43.55
25th Percentile £85.00 - £56.25
Median hourly rate £90.00 £77.19 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.60% +28.65% -4.00%
75th Percentile £95.00 - £72.50
90th Percentile - - £75.50
UK median hourly rate £90.00 £77.19 £60.00
% change year-on-year +16.60% +28.65% -4.00%

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 29,794 24,851 34,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.64% 92.97% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,017 15,358 23,541
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,844 750 1,852
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.92 £13.42
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.60 £35.00 £38.45
Median % change year-on-year -15.43% -8.98% +9.86%
75th Percentile £63.32 £64.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.72 £32.50 £38.10
% change year-on-year -14.72% -14.69% +9.53%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 -19 329 £613 -2.00% 132
North of England -32 73 £550 +6.28% 80
South West +23 54 £475 -13.64% 39
Yorkshire -35 39 £625 +19.05% 23
South East -37 33 £500 -8.26% 137
North West -24 31 £505 +1.00% 44
Midlands -32 26 £510 - 36
West Midlands -36 20 £525 +1.45% 18
East of England -18 17 £500 -5.66% 44
North East -7 9 £488 +1.04% 13
East Midlands -24 6 £493 -3.43% 17
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 January 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.

1 189 (34.87%) Java
2 173 (31.92%) Agile
2 173 (31.92%) AWS
3 146 (26.94%) Microservices
4 137 (25.28%) CI/CD
5 136 (25.09%) Azure
5 136 (25.09%) SQL
6 130 (23.99%) Security Cleared
7 127 (23.43%) Python
8 125 (23.06%) DevOps
9 114 (21.03%) Kafka
9 114 (21.03%) SC Cleared
10 111 (20.48%) Docker
11 110 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
12 106 (19.56%) Kubernetes
13 102 (18.82%) JavaScript
14 83 (15.31%) Spring
15 72 (13.28%) Software Engineering
16 71 (13.10%) TDD
17 70 (12.92%) Spring Boot
18 69 (12.73%) React
19 66 (12.18%) Containerisation
19 66 (12.18%) Scrum
20 65 (11.99%) Git
21 64 (11.81%) Test Automation
22 59 (10.89%) C#
23 58 (10.70%) Analytics
24 57 (10.52%) .NET
24 57 (10.52%) Open Source
25 56 (10.33%) Azure DevOps

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 14 (2.58%) Confluence
2 5 (0.92%) CMS
2 5 (0.92%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.74%) Jupyter
4 3 (0.55%) Ethereum
4 3 (0.55%) Hyperledger
5 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.37%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.18%) Appian
6 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.18%) IIS
6 1 (0.18%) JBoss
6 1 (0.18%) nginx
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.18%) SAS
6 1 (0.18%) Smallworld
6 1 (0.18%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.55%) Endur
2 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.18%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 173 (31.92%) AWS
2 136 (25.09%) Azure
3 56 (10.33%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (8.30%) GitHub
5 28 (5.17%) GCP
6 25 (4.61%) Serverless
7 23 (4.24%) Power Platform
8 13 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (2.21%) Azure AKS
9 12 (2.21%) Azure Service Bus
9 12 (2.21%) Power Automate
10 10 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (1.66%) Amazon S3
11 9 (1.66%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (1.66%) Datadog
11 9 (1.66%) PowerApps
11 9 (1.66%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.92%) Kerberos
2 4 (0.74%) HTTP
3 2 (0.37%) Firewall
3 2 (0.37%) SSL
4 1 (0.18%) DNS
4 1 (0.18%) Internet
4 1 (0.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (9.96%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (8.12%) MongoDB
3 37 (6.83%) Relational Database
3 37 (6.83%) SQL Server
4 34 (6.27%) NoSQL
5 29 (5.35%) Apache Cassandra
6 15 (2.77%) Power BI
7 14 (2.58%) DynamoDB
8 13 (2.40%) DB2
9 10 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.66%) Data Hub
10 9 (1.66%) Redis
11 8 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.48%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.29%) MySQL
12 7 (1.29%) Oracle BI EE
13 6 (1.11%) HBase
13 6 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.92%) Delta Lake
14 5 (0.92%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 65 (11.99%) Git
2 37 (6.83%) JUnit
3 35 (6.46%) Jenkins
4 34 (6.27%) Oracle APEX
5 26 (4.80%) JIRA
6 24 (4.43%) GitLab
7 21 (3.87%) Mockito
8 13 (2.40%) Maven
9 12 (2.21%) Gradle
10 9 (1.66%) Artifactory
11 8 (1.48%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.48%) Postman
12 7 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (1.29%) SpecFlow
13 6 (1.11%) Mocha
13 6 (1.11%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.74%) Bitbucket
15 3 (0.55%) Lerna
15 3 (0.55%) QUnit
16 2 (0.37%) webpack
General
1 137 (25.28%) Social Skills
2 126 (23.25%) Finance
3 87 (16.05%) Banking
4 66 (12.18%) Public Sector
5 46 (8.49%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (6.27%) Investment Banking
7 21 (3.87%) Front Office
8 13 (2.40%) Financial Institution
9 5 (0.92%) Military
9 5 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.74%) Health Technology
10 4 (0.74%) Law
10 4 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (0.74%) Retail Banking
10 4 (0.74%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.55%) Marketing
12 2 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.37%) Legal
12 2 (0.37%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (21.03%) Kafka
2 83 (15.31%) Spring
3 70 (12.92%) Spring Boot
4 69 (12.73%) React
5 57 (10.52%) .NET
6 53 (9.78%) RESTful
7 51 (9.41%) AngularJS
8 49 (9.04%) REST
9 43 (7.93%) HTML
9 43 (7.93%) Node.js
10 37 (6.83%) CSS
11 28 (5.17%) Web Services
12 26 (4.80%) gRPC
13 21 (3.87%) .NET Framework
14 20 (3.69%) JSON
15 17 (3.14%) Playwright
16 16 (2.95%) .NET Core
16 16 (2.95%) RabbitMQ
17 15 (2.77%) Next.js
18 14 (2.58%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 46 (8.49%) Distributed Systems
2 37 (6.83%) Cloud Native
3 30 (5.54%) Derivative
4 27 (4.98%) Equities
5 19 (3.51%) Algorithms
5 19 (3.51%) Market Risk
5 19 (3.51%) Product Ownership
6 18 (3.32%) Management Information System
7 15 (2.77%) Data Structures
7 15 (2.77%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (2.58%) Fixed Income
9 10 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.85%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.48%) Equity Derivative
11 6 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.11%) Onboarding
12 5 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (0.92%) NHS
13 4 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 46 (8.49%) Linux
2 23 (4.24%) Unix
3 17 (3.14%) Android
4 13 (2.40%) Mac OS X
5 10 (1.85%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.74%) Windows
7 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.37%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (31.92%) Agile
2 146 (26.94%) Microservices
3 137 (25.28%) CI/CD
4 125 (23.06%) DevOps
5 110 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
6 72 (13.28%) Software Engineering
7 71 (13.10%) TDD
8 66 (12.18%) Containerisation
8 66 (12.18%) Scrum
9 64 (11.81%) Test Automation
10 58 (10.70%) Analytics
11 57 (10.52%) Open Source
12 54 (9.96%) Full-Stack Development
13 43 (7.93%) SDLC
14 41 (7.56%) Event-Driven
15 37 (6.83%) Risk Management
15 37 (6.83%) Unit Testing
16 36 (6.64%) Mentoring
17 34 (6.27%) Code Quality
17 34 (6.27%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 189 (34.87%) Java
2 136 (25.09%) SQL
3 127 (23.43%) Python
4 102 (18.82%) JavaScript
5 59 (10.89%) C#
6 44 (8.12%) TypeScript
7 38 (7.01%) PL/SQL
8 35 (6.46%) Go
9 21 (3.87%) Kotlin
10 17 (3.14%) Ruby
11 14 (2.58%) C++
12 12 (2.21%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.85%) PowerShell
14 8 (1.48%) Bash
15 5 (0.92%) PHP
16 4 (0.74%) Swift
17 3 (0.55%) Apex Code
17 3 (0.55%) Objective-C
18 2 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 2 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 130 (23.99%) Security Cleared
2 114 (21.03%) SC Cleared
3 37 (6.83%) Degree
4 17 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.48%) Numerate Degree
7 6 (1.11%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.11%) OCP
7 6 (1.11%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (0.74%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.55%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.55%) MCP
10 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.37%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.18%) CISSP
11 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.18%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.80%) Accessibility
2 14 (2.58%) WCAG
3 12 (2.21%) QA
4 11 (2.03%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.55%) EU AI Act
5 3 (0.55%) NIST
6 2 (0.37%) GDPR
7 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 111 (20.48%) Docker
2 5 (0.92%) zsh
3 2 (0.37%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.18%) GridGain
4 1 (0.18%) Lustre
4 1 (0.18%) OpenAM
4 1 (0.18%) OpenDJ
4 1 (0.18%) OpenIDM
4 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 106 (19.56%) Kubernetes
2 22 (4.06%) Terraform
3 16 (2.95%) Grafana
4 10 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.92%) Ansible
6 4 (0.74%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.55%) Kibana
8 1 (0.18%) Argo
8 1 (0.18%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.18%) Control-M
8 1 (0.18%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.18%) Packer
8 1 (0.18%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 55 (10.15%) Oracle
2 24 (4.43%) Microsoft
3 20 (3.69%) Google
4 14 (2.58%) ServiceNow
4 14 (2.58%) Sybase
5 10 (1.85%) Databricks
6 6 (1.11%) Salesforce
7 5 (0.92%) Guidewire
8 4 (0.74%) Atlassian
8 4 (0.74%) Pega
9 3 (0.55%) Apple
9 3 (0.55%) BMC
9 3 (0.55%) Cognizant
9 3 (0.55%) Dataiku
9 3 (0.55%) Foundry
10 2 (0.37%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.37%) Confluent
10 2 (0.37%) HP
10 2 (0.37%) IBM
10 2 (0.37%) Red Hat
427 Senior Developer jobs in England