Senior Developer Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Developer daily rate in England is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
15 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 175 111
Rank change year-on-year -9 -64 +37
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 729 450 706
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.58% 1.64% 2.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.71% 1.80% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 326 497
10th Percentile £406 £411 £400
25th Percentile £463 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -14.56%
75th Percentile £759 £709 £725
90th Percentile £938 £825 £834
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 3
10th Percentile £37.25 - £40.29
25th Percentile £44.93 - £48.22
Median hourly rate £45.56 - £61.43
75th Percentile £46.18 - £74.47
90th Percentile £47.69 - £82.29
UK median hourly rate £45.56 - £61.43
% change year-on-year - - -8.99%

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 42,696 24,979 30,334
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 91.29% 93.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,483 16,104 19,043
10th Percentile £325 £280 £301
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,419 1,343 1,501
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.66 £14.65
25th Percentile £21.07 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +72.96% -47.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.20 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.15 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.59% -41.51% -1.96%

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 15 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Developer in England over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Developer 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 15 September 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 -1 426 £650 - 417
North of England +4 142 £588 +6.82% 128
Yorkshire +4 72 £525 -12.50% 32
Midlands +8 69 £461 -11.30% 83
North West -10 58 £625 +25.00% 67
West Midlands -3 57 £463 -22.92% 61
South West -35 44 £525 -4.55% 30
South East -63 36 £425 -19.32% 86
North East -28 14 £450 -7.69% 29
East Midlands -7 11 - - 21
East of England -34 6 - - 28
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 September 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.

1 241 (33.06%) CI/CD
2 227 (31.14%) Agile
3 224 (30.73%) Java
4 166 (22.77%) Python
5 160 (21.95%) Azure
6 154 (21.12%) SQL
7 153 (20.99%) AWS
8 142 (19.48%) C#
9 139 (19.07%) DevOps
10 138 (18.93%) Microservices
11 131 (17.97%) TypeScript
12 127 (17.42%) JavaScript
13 119 (16.32%) REST
14 113 (15.50%) Security Cleared
15 109 (14.95%) React
16 107 (14.68%) Software Engineering
17 105 (14.40%) .NET
18 101 (13.85%) Full-Stack Development
18 101 (13.85%) SC Cleared
19 100 (13.72%) Docker
20 99 (13.58%) Git
21 98 (13.44%) Test Automation
22 96 (13.17%) Spring
23 90 (12.35%) RESTful
24 89 (12.21%) AI
25 83 (11.39%) Kubernetes
26 81 (11.11%) Microsoft
27 80 (10.97%) Spring Boot
28 78 (10.70%) Problem-Solving
29 74 (10.15%) Continuous Improvement

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 20 (2.74%) Confluence
2 12 (1.65%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.10%) SharePoint
4 7 (0.96%) Apache
4 7 (0.96%) Oracle Workflow
4 7 (0.96%) WordPress
5 6 (0.82%) CMS
6 4 (0.55%) Camunda
7 3 (0.41%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.41%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.27%) IIS
8 2 (0.27%) Moodle
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.14%) Drupal
9 1 (0.14%) HCL Domino
9 1 (0.14%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (2.19%) Teamcenter
2 11 (1.51%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.96%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.82%) Endur
6 5 (0.69%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.55%) Oracle FAH
7 4 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.41%) Quorum
8 3 (0.41%) R3 Corda
8 3 (0.41%) Ripple
8 3 (0.41%) Shopify
9 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle iProcurement
9 2 (0.27%) SAP HCM
9 2 (0.27%) SAP Payroll
9 2 (0.27%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 160 (21.95%) Azure
2 153 (20.99%) AWS
3 70 (9.60%) GitHub
4 49 (6.72%) Power Platform
5 47 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
6 46 (6.31%) GitHub Actions
7 41 (5.62%) Serverless
8 33 (4.53%) GCP
8 33 (4.53%) Power Automate
9 20 (2.74%) PowerApps
10 19 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (2.33%) Amazon S3
12 16 (2.19%) Amazon SQS
13 15 (2.06%) GitHub Copilot
14 13 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (1.65%) Azure Functions
15 12 (1.65%) OpenShift
16 10 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (1.37%) Azure Service Bus
17 9 (1.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.82%) Multicast
2 3 (0.41%) HTTP
3 1 (0.14%) CTI
3 1 (0.14%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.14%) MQTT
3 1 (0.14%) NFC
3 1 (0.14%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.14%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (8.09%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (7.54%) SQL Server
3 46 (6.31%) Relational Database
4 35 (4.80%) MongoDB
5 34 (4.66%) Power BI
6 23 (3.16%) NoSQL
7 15 (2.06%) DynamoDB
8 14 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (1.92%) Oracle Database
9 11 (1.51%) MySQL
10 10 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (1.37%) KDB
11 9 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (1.23%) Redis
12 8 (1.10%) Geospatial Data
13 7 (0.96%) Kdb+
13 7 (0.96%) RDBMS
13 7 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (0.82%) Big Data
14 6 (0.82%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 99 (13.58%) Git
2 50 (6.86%) Jenkins
3 29 (3.98%) Mockito
4 27 (3.70%) JUnit
5 26 (3.57%) JIRA
5 26 (3.57%) Maven
6 23 (3.16%) GitLab
7 19 (2.61%) SonarQube
8 15 (2.06%) Gradle
9 9 (1.23%) Claude Code
10 8 (1.10%) REST Assured
11 7 (0.96%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.69%) MSI
12 5 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
12 5 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.69%) Xcode
13 4 (0.55%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.55%) Snyk
13 4 (0.55%) XCTest
13 4 (0.55%) XCUITest
General
1 179 (24.55%) Finance
2 135 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 117 (16.05%) Public Sector
4 103 (14.13%) Banking
5 75 (10.29%) Front Office
6 60 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
7 55 (7.54%) Investment Banking
8 32 (4.39%) Retail
9 29 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.78%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.65%) Back Office
11 12 (1.65%) Military
12 7 (0.96%) Legal
13 6 (0.82%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.69%) Games
14 5 (0.69%) Law
15 3 (0.41%) Local Government
15 3 (0.41%) Publishing
15 3 (0.41%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (16.32%) REST
2 109 (14.95%) React
3 105 (14.40%) .NET
4 96 (13.17%) Spring
5 90 (12.35%) RESTful
6 80 (10.97%) Spring Boot
7 60 (8.23%) Kafka
8 50 (6.86%) Terraform
9 47 (6.45%) Node.js
10 46 (6.31%) Redux
11 45 (6.17%) SOAP
12 43 (5.90%) AngularJS
13 40 (5.49%) HTML
14 37 (5.08%) Django
15 35 (4.80%) JSON
16 34 (4.66%) Web Services
17 33 (4.53%) CSS
18 29 (3.98%) .NET Core
19 26 (3.57%) HTML5
19 26 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (8.92%) Cloud Native
2 51 (7.00%) Distributed Systems
2 51 (7.00%) Product Ownership
3 45 (6.17%) Fixed Income
3 45 (6.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 37 (5.08%) Equities
5 32 (4.39%) Greenfield Project
6 23 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (1.92%) Data Structures
8 13 (1.78%) AI Agents
8 13 (1.78%) Algorithms
8 13 (1.78%) Mobile App
9 12 (1.65%) Derivative
9 12 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.37%) CMDB
10 10 (1.37%) Onboarding
11 7 (0.96%) Market Risk
12 6 (0.82%) Management Information System
12 6 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (0.82%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 47 (6.45%) Linux
2 40 (5.49%) Unix
3 12 (1.65%) Windows
4 10 (1.37%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.23%) Android
6 4 (0.55%) Mac OS X
7 3 (0.41%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (33.06%) CI/CD
2 227 (31.14%) Agile
3 139 (19.07%) DevOps
4 138 (18.93%) Microservices
5 107 (14.68%) Software Engineering
6 101 (13.85%) Full-Stack Development
7 98 (13.44%) Test Automation
8 89 (12.21%) AI
9 78 (10.70%) Problem-Solving
10 74 (10.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 73 (10.01%) Containerisation
12 66 (9.05%) Scrum
13 62 (8.50%) Code Quality
13 62 (8.50%) Mentoring
14 61 (8.37%) TDD
15 60 (8.23%) Event-Driven
16 57 (7.82%) Data Modelling
17 56 (7.68%) Business Intelligence
18 55 (7.54%) Low Latency
19 52 (7.13%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 224 (30.73%) Java
2 166 (22.77%) Python
3 154 (21.12%) SQL
4 142 (19.48%) C#
5 131 (17.97%) TypeScript
6 127 (17.42%) JavaScript
7 22 (3.02%) Shell Script
8 16 (2.19%) PL/SQL
9 15 (2.06%) C++
10 13 (1.78%) Apex Code
10 13 (1.78%) Kotlin
11 12 (1.65%) Ruby
12 9 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (1.23%) Swift
13 8 (1.10%) C
14 7 (0.96%) Bicep
14 7 (0.96%) PHP
15 6 (0.82%) PowerShell
15 6 (0.82%) Scala
15 6 (0.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 113 (15.50%) Security Cleared
2 101 (13.85%) SC Cleared
3 38 (5.21%) Degree
4 18 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (0.82%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.69%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.41%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.90%) Accessibility
2 36 (4.94%) QA
3 29 (3.98%) WCAG
4 17 (2.33%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.69%) GDPR
5 5 (0.69%) NCSC
6 2 (0.27%) Basel III
6 2 (0.27%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.14%) EMIR
7 1 (0.14%) GRC
7 1 (0.14%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.14%) MiFID
7 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.14%) SEPA
7 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 100 (13.72%) Docker
2 6 (0.82%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.27%) GridGain
3 2 (0.27%) Postfix
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 83 (11.39%) Kubernetes
2 26 (3.57%) Grafana
3 21 (2.88%) Prometheus
4 11 (1.51%) Ansible
5 4 (0.55%) Argo
6 2 (0.27%) Bosun
6 2 (0.27%) Consul
6 2 (0.27%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.14%) SELinux
7 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) systemd
Vendors
1 81 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.09%) Oracle
3 31 (4.25%) Salesforce
4 23 (3.16%) Databricks
5 15 (2.06%) ServiceNow
6 14 (1.92%) Google
7 10 (1.37%) Blue Prism
7 10 (1.37%) IBM
8 9 (1.23%) Avaloq
9 7 (0.96%) Solace
10 5 (0.69%) Jaspersoft
10 5 (0.69%) SAP
10 5 (0.69%) Splunk
10 5 (0.69%) Sybase
11 3 (0.41%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.41%) ION Trading
11 3 (0.41%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.41%) New Relic
11 3 (0.41%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.27%) Optimizely
762 Senior Developer jobs in England