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 7 February 2026.

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

 6 months to
7 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 139 177
Rank change year-on-year -27 +38 -71
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 560 484 521
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 1.85% 1.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.83% 1.99% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 323 387
10th Percentile £409 £426 £416
25th Percentile £455 £511 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £720
90th Percentile £888 £849 £843
UK median daily rate £525 £598 £575
% change year-on-year -12.13% +3.91% -9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 10
10th Percentile - - £46.15
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 - - £74.63
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 30,520 24,375 35,670
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.64% 93.06% 93.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,434 15,100 24,021
10th Percentile £300 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,939 720 2,128
10th Percentile £14.99 £15.89 £13.23
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £16.80
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -3.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.56 £61.25
90th Percentile £72.10 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £29.82 £33.77 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.69% -3.51% -

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 February 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 February 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 -14 353 £625 - 135
North of England -45 67 £575 +9.52% 62
South West +22 55 £475 -13.64% 33
Yorkshire -32 35 £638 +4.08% 20
South East -31 33 £500 +11.11% 60
North West -33 29 £505 -3.81% 35
Midlands -32 27 £513 -1.44% 24
West Midlands -30 20 £525 +1.45% 14
East of England -24 18 £500 -23.08% 16
North East -9 9 £488 +1.04% 7
East Midlands -23 7 £510 -1.92% 10
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 February 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.

1 195 (34.82%) Java
2 177 (31.61%) AWS
3 174 (31.07%) Agile
4 145 (25.89%) Microservices
4 145 (25.89%) SQL
5 136 (24.29%) Azure
5 136 (24.29%) CI/CD
6 128 (22.86%) Python
7 122 (21.79%) DevOps
7 122 (21.79%) Kafka
7 122 (21.79%) Security Cleared
8 109 (19.46%) Docker
9 108 (19.29%) SC Cleared
10 105 (18.75%) Kubernetes
11 103 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
12 102 (18.21%) JavaScript
13 84 (15.00%) Spring
14 75 (13.39%) TDD
15 73 (13.04%) Software Engineering
16 71 (12.68%) React
16 71 (12.68%) Spring Boot
17 67 (11.96%) Scrum
18 66 (11.79%) Test Automation
19 65 (11.61%) Git
20 63 (11.25%) Containerisation
21 59 (10.54%) Analytics
22 58 (10.36%) .NET
22 58 (10.36%) Oracle
23 57 (10.18%) C#
23 57 (10.18%) Open Source

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 12 (2.14%) Confluence
2 5 (0.89%) CMS
3 4 (0.71%) Ethereum
3 4 (0.71%) Hyperledger
3 4 (0.71%) Jupyter
3 4 (0.71%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.54%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.18%) Appian
6 1 (0.18%) IIS
6 1 (0.18%) JBoss
6 1 (0.18%) Mendix
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 12 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.54%) Endur
2 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
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%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 177 (31.61%) AWS
2 136 (24.29%) Azure
3 55 (9.82%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (7.50%) GitHub
5 28 (5.00%) GCP
6 27 (4.82%) Power Platform
7 25 (4.46%) Serverless
8 16 (2.86%) Power Automate
9 14 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (2.32%) PowerApps
11 12 (2.14%) Azure Service Bus
11 12 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
13 9 (1.61%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (1.61%) Azure AKS
13 9 (1.61%) Datadog
13 9 (1.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.07%) HTTP
2 5 (0.89%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.36%) Firewall
4 1 (0.18%) DNS
4 1 (0.18%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.18%) Internet
4 1 (0.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (9.64%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (8.04%) MongoDB
3 38 (6.79%) Relational Database
3 38 (6.79%) SQL Server
4 36 (6.43%) NoSQL
5 31 (5.54%) Apache Cassandra
6 19 (3.39%) Power BI
7 14 (2.50%) DynamoDB
8 12 (2.14%) DB2
9 10 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.61%) Data Hub
10 9 (1.61%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.61%) MySQL
11 8 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (1.25%) Oracle BI EE
12 7 (1.25%) Redis
13 6 (1.07%) HBase
13 6 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.89%) Oracle Database
14 5 (0.89%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 65 (11.61%) Git
2 35 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 34 (6.07%) JUnit
3 34 (6.07%) Oracle APEX
4 24 (4.29%) GitLab
5 22 (3.93%) JIRA
6 21 (3.75%) Mockito
7 14 (2.50%) Maven
8 12 (2.14%) Gradle
9 9 (1.61%) Artifactory
9 9 (1.61%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.25%) SonarQube
10 7 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (1.07%) Mocha
12 5 (0.89%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.71%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.71%) Postman
14 3 (0.54%) Lerna
14 3 (0.54%) QUnit
14 3 (0.54%) webpack
General
1 134 (23.93%) Social Skills
2 129 (23.04%) Finance
3 92 (16.43%) Banking
4 61 (10.89%) Public Sector
5 44 (7.86%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (7.32%) Investment Banking
7 23 (4.11%) Front Office
8 12 (2.14%) Financial Institution
9 5 (0.89%) Law
9 5 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.71%) Health Technology
10 4 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.71%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.54%) Legal
11 3 (0.54%) Military
11 3 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.54%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.36%) Marketing
12 2 (0.36%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (21.79%) Kafka
2 84 (15.00%) Spring
3 71 (12.68%) React
3 71 (12.68%) Spring Boot
4 58 (10.36%) .NET
5 47 (8.39%) AngularJS
5 47 (8.39%) REST
5 47 (8.39%) RESTful
6 44 (7.86%) Node.js
7 43 (7.68%) HTML
8 40 (7.14%) CSS
9 29 (5.18%) gRPC
10 26 (4.64%) Web Services
11 19 (3.39%) .NET Framework
12 16 (2.86%) .NET Core
13 15 (2.68%) Jest
14 14 (2.50%) JSON
14 14 (2.50%) Next.js
14 14 (2.50%) Playwright
14 14 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 44 (7.86%) Distributed Systems
2 41 (7.32%) Cloud Native
3 31 (5.54%) Derivative
4 27 (4.82%) Equities
5 21 (3.75%) Product Ownership
6 20 (3.57%) Algorithms
6 20 (3.57%) Market Risk
7 19 (3.39%) Management Information System
8 16 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (2.68%) Data Structures
9 15 (2.68%) Fixed Income
10 11 (1.96%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.43%) Equity Derivative
13 7 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 6 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
14 6 (1.07%) Onboarding
15 4 (0.71%) AI Agents
15 4 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 47 (8.39%) Linux
2 23 (4.11%) Unix
3 16 (2.86%) Android
4 13 (2.32%) Mac OS X
5 9 (1.61%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.07%) Windows
7 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.36%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (31.07%) Agile
2 145 (25.89%) Microservices
3 136 (24.29%) CI/CD
4 122 (21.79%) DevOps
5 103 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
6 75 (13.39%) TDD
7 73 (13.04%) Software Engineering
8 67 (11.96%) Scrum
9 66 (11.79%) Test Automation
10 63 (11.25%) Containerisation
11 59 (10.54%) Analytics
12 57 (10.18%) Open Source
13 50 (8.93%) Full-Stack Development
14 47 (8.39%) SDLC
15 40 (7.14%) Event-Driven
16 39 (6.96%) Code Quality
16 39 (6.96%) Mentoring
17 38 (6.79%) Design Patterns
18 36 (6.43%) Risk Management
19 34 (6.07%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 195 (34.82%) Java
2 145 (25.89%) SQL
3 128 (22.86%) Python
4 102 (18.21%) JavaScript
5 57 (10.18%) C#
6 47 (8.39%) TypeScript
7 39 (6.96%) PL/SQL
8 37 (6.61%) Go
9 23 (4.11%) Kotlin
10 19 (3.39%) Ruby
11 15 (2.68%) C++
12 11 (1.96%) Shell Script
13 9 (1.61%) PowerShell
14 8 (1.43%) Bash
15 5 (0.89%) PHP
16 3 (0.54%) Apex Code
16 3 (0.54%) Swift
17 2 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
17 2 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 122 (21.79%) Security Cleared
2 108 (19.29%) SC Cleared
3 32 (5.71%) Degree
4 16 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.43%) Numerate Degree
7 6 (1.07%) OCP
7 6 (1.07%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (0.71%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.71%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.54%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.36%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.18%) CISSP
11 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.18%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.11%) Accessibility
2 14 (2.50%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.50%) WCAG
3 11 (1.96%) QA
4 3 (0.54%) EU AI Act
4 3 (0.54%) NIST
5 2 (0.36%) GDPR
6 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 109 (19.46%) Docker
2 5 (0.89%) zsh
3 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) GridGain
3 1 (0.18%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.18%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.18%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 105 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.57%) Terraform
3 16 (2.86%) Grafana
4 8 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.89%) Ansible
6 4 (0.71%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.54%) 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%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 58 (10.36%) Oracle
2 33 (5.89%) Microsoft
3 20 (3.57%) Google
4 13 (2.32%) Sybase
5 11 (1.96%) ServiceNow
6 10 (1.79%) Databricks
7 7 (1.25%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.07%) Guidewire
9 5 (0.89%) SAP
10 4 (0.71%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.71%) Pega
11 3 (0.54%) Cognizant
11 3 (0.54%) Dataiku
11 3 (0.54%) Foundry
12 2 (0.36%) Apple
12 2 (0.36%) CA Agile Central
12 2 (0.36%) Confluent
12 2 (0.36%) IBM
12 2 (0.36%) New Relic
12 2 (0.36%) Red Hat
298 Senior Developer jobs in England