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 4 March 2026.

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

 6 months to
4 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 153 166
Rank change year-on-year -18 +13 -51
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 593 448 542
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 1.78% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.79% 1.92% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 308 389
10th Percentile £400 £425 £409
25th Percentile £455 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £656 £728 £720
90th Percentile £888 £850 £840
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 13
10th Percentile - - £49.97
25th Percentile £85.00 - £56.25
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 - - £80.75
UK median hourly rate £90.00 £77.19 £58.20
% change year-on-year +16.60% +32.62% -6.88%

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 33,061 23,387 34,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.94% 92.91% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,941 15,028 23,405
10th Percentile £306 £299 £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 £625 £638 £638
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 2,141 735 2,208
10th Percentile £15.18 £16.13 £13.15
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £33.31
Median % change year-on-year - +5.08% -19.28%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.25 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £34.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -1.47% - -16.05%

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 4 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 4 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 -14 374 £600 -4.76% 108
North of England -46 63 £525 - 100
South West +13 55 £475 -20.83% 40
South East -20 43 £509 +13.11% 91
North West -40 32 £505 -3.81% 53
Yorkshire -44 30 £575 +11.11% 41
Midlands -47 30 £525 +0.72% 40
East of England -18 23 £500 -23.08% 49
West Midlands -47 21 £525 -4.55% 24
East Midlands -24 9 £520 - 15
North East -10 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 4 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.

1 186 (31.37%) AWS
2 185 (31.20%) Java
3 179 (30.19%) Agile
4 148 (24.96%) SQL
5 141 (23.78%) CI/CD
5 141 (23.78%) Microservices
6 138 (23.27%) Azure
7 130 (21.92%) Python
8 126 (21.25%) Security Cleared
9 120 (20.24%) DevOps
10 116 (19.56%) JavaScript
10 116 (19.56%) SC Cleared
11 115 (19.39%) Docker
11 115 (19.39%) Kafka
12 110 (18.55%) Kubernetes
13 93 (15.68%) Problem-Solving
14 78 (13.15%) React
15 77 (12.98%) Spring
16 76 (12.82%) Software Engineering
17 75 (12.65%) TDD
18 67 (11.30%) Containerisation
18 67 (11.30%) Git
18 67 (11.30%) Scrum
18 67 (11.30%) Spring Boot
19 61 (10.29%) Test Automation
20 60 (10.12%) .NET
21 57 (9.61%) C#
21 57 (9.61%) Oracle
21 57 (9.61%) TypeScript
22 56 (9.44%) 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 10 (1.69%) Confluence
2 7 (1.18%) CMS
3 6 (1.01%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.67%) Ethereum
4 4 (0.67%) Hyperledger
4 4 (0.67%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.51%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.51%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) Appian
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%) 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
Cloud Services
1 186 (31.37%) AWS
2 138 (23.27%) Azure
3 54 (9.11%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (7.59%) GitHub
5 29 (4.89%) GCP
5 29 (4.89%) Power Platform
6 24 (4.05%) Serverless
7 17 (2.87%) Power Automate
8 15 (2.53%) Azure Service Bus
8 15 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (2.36%) 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 54 (9.11%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (6.58%) SQL Server
3 38 (6.41%) NoSQL
4 36 (6.07%) Relational Database
5 35 (5.90%) Apache Cassandra
5 35 (5.90%) MongoDB
6 23 (3.88%) Power BI
7 16 (2.70%) DynamoDB
8 11 (1.85%) DB2
9 10 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (1.52%) Data Hub
10 9 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.52%) MySQL
11 7 (1.18%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.18%) Oracle BI EE
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%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 67 (11.30%) Git
2 34 (5.73%) Jenkins
2 34 (5.73%) Oracle APEX
3 33 (5.56%) JUnit
4 22 (3.71%) GitLab
5 20 (3.37%) JIRA
6 17 (2.87%) Maven
7 16 (2.70%) Mockito
8 11 (1.85%) Gradle
9 9 (1.52%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.35%) Artifactory
10 8 (1.35%) SonarQube
11 7 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (1.01%) SpecFlow
13 5 (0.84%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.84%) Mocha
14 3 (0.51%) Lerna
14 3 (0.51%) Selenium
14 3 (0.51%) webpack
15 2 (0.34%) Gatling
General
1 130 (21.92%) Social Skills
2 119 (20.07%) Finance
3 86 (14.50%) Banking
4 69 (11.64%) Public Sector
5 39 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (6.24%) Investment Banking
7 23 (3.88%) 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
1 115 (19.39%) Kafka
2 78 (13.15%) React
3 77 (12.98%) Spring
4 67 (11.30%) Spring Boot
5 60 (10.12%) .NET
6 52 (8.77%) REST
7 51 (8.60%) Node.js
8 50 (8.43%) AngularJS
9 48 (8.09%) RESTful
10 47 (7.93%) HTML
11 45 (7.59%) CSS
12 32 (5.40%) gRPC
13 26 (4.38%) Web Services
14 18 (3.04%) .NET Core
14 18 (3.04%) .NET Framework
15 17 (2.87%) RabbitMQ
16 14 (2.36%) Jest
16 14 (2.36%) Pandas
16 14 (2.36%) Playwright
16 14 (2.36%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 47 (7.93%) Distributed Systems
2 34 (5.73%) Cloud Native
3 28 (4.72%) Derivative
4 24 (4.05%) Equities
5 21 (3.54%) Product Ownership
6 20 (3.37%) Algorithms
7 18 (3.04%) Market Risk
8 17 (2.87%) Management Information System
9 16 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (2.36%) Data Structures
11 13 (2.19%) Fixed Income
12 12 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (2.02%) Mobile App
13 8 (1.35%) Equity Derivative
13 8 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (1.18%) Onboarding
15 6 (1.01%) AI Agents
15 6 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
16 4 (0.67%) Animation
16 4 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 37 (6.24%) Linux
2 16 (2.70%) Android
3 15 (2.53%) Unix
4 12 (2.02%) Windows
5 9 (1.52%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.01%) Mac OS X
7 5 (0.84%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.34%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (30.19%) Agile
2 141 (23.78%) CI/CD
2 141 (23.78%) Microservices
3 120 (20.24%) DevOps
4 93 (15.68%) Problem-Solving
5 76 (12.82%) Software Engineering
6 75 (12.65%) TDD
7 67 (11.30%) Containerisation
7 67 (11.30%) Scrum
8 61 (10.29%) Test Automation
9 56 (9.44%) Open Source
10 55 (9.27%) Full-Stack Development
11 53 (8.94%) Analytics
12 46 (7.76%) SDLC
13 43 (7.25%) Code Quality
13 43 (7.25%) Design Patterns
13 43 (7.25%) Mentoring
14 36 (6.07%) Event-Driven
15 34 (5.73%) Front End Development
15 34 (5.73%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 185 (31.20%) Java
2 148 (24.96%) SQL
3 130 (21.92%) Python
4 116 (19.56%) JavaScript
5 57 (9.61%) C#
5 57 (9.61%) TypeScript
6 44 (7.42%) Go
7 40 (6.75%) PL/SQL
8 23 (3.88%) Kotlin
9 21 (3.54%) Ruby
10 15 (2.53%) C++
11 10 (1.69%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.01%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.84%) Bash
13 5 (0.84%) PHP
14 4 (0.67%) VBA
15 3 (0.51%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.51%) Swift
16 2 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 126 (21.25%) Security Cleared
2 116 (19.56%) SC Cleared
3 27 (4.55%) 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 28 (4.72%) Accessibility
2 18 (3.04%) WCAG
3 13 (2.19%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.19%) 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
1 115 (19.39%) Docker
2 3 (0.51%) zsh
3 2 (0.34%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.17%) GridGain
4 1 (0.17%) OpenAM
4 1 (0.17%) OpenDJ
4 1 (0.17%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 110 (18.55%) 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 57 (9.61%) Oracle
2 32 (5.40%) Microsoft
3 17 (2.87%) Google
3 17 (2.87%) ServiceNow
4 12 (2.02%) Sybase
5 9 (1.52%) Databricks
5 9 (1.52%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.18%) SAP
7 6 (1.01%) Guidewire
8 4 (0.67%) Atlassian
8 4 (0.67%) Pega
9 3 (0.51%) Cognizant
9 3 (0.51%) Dataiku
9 3 (0.51%) Foundry
10 2 (0.34%) Apple
10 2 (0.34%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.34%) ForgeRock
10 2 (0.34%) IBM
10 2 (0.34%) New Relic
11 1 (0.17%) BMC
404 Senior Developer jobs in England