Senior Developer Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Developer daily rate in England is £536, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026.

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

 6 months to
8 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 146 170
Rank change year-on-year -19 +24 -67
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 532 493 518
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.69% 1.80% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.84% 1.94% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 320 374
10th Percentile £406 £422 £425
25th Percentile £450 £503 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £589 £588
Median % change year-on-year -9.04% +0.21% -9.62%
75th Percentile £695 £725 £700
90th Percentile £850 £850 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £53.25
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - £73.00
UK median hourly rate - - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - -25.00%

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 28,868 25,405 33,449
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.50% 92.84% 93.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,444 15,743 22,770
10th Percentile £300 £300 £280
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -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 1,758 792 1,481
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.92 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.24 £19.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -22.22% +28.57%
75th Percentile £62.25 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.99 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £26.54 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.35% -26.97% +34.85%

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 8 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 8 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 -26 319 £625 +1.42% 117
North of England -23 70 £550 +6.28% 111
South West +32 56 £475 -13.64% 55
Yorkshire -22 38 £631 +20.24% 39
South East -28 33 £473 +2.27% 175
North West -17 29 £500 - 46
Midlands -26 26 £513 +2.50% 54
West Midlands -29 19 £525 +5.00% 22
East of England -19 18 £500 -5.66% 83
North East -4 9 £488 -17.37% 26
East Midlands -23 7 £510 +11.78% 30
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 188 (35.34%) Java
2 176 (33.08%) Agile
3 171 (32.14%) AWS
4 143 (26.88%) Microservices
5 141 (26.50%) SQL
6 138 (25.94%) CI/CD
7 137 (25.75%) Azure
8 131 (24.62%) DevOps
9 128 (24.06%) Python
10 125 (23.50%) Security Cleared
11 117 (21.99%) Kafka
12 115 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
13 111 (20.86%) Docker
14 109 (20.49%) SC Cleared
15 106 (19.92%) Kubernetes
16 101 (18.98%) JavaScript
17 79 (14.85%) Spring
18 71 (13.35%) React
19 69 (12.97%) Software Engineering
20 68 (12.78%) TDD
21 67 (12.59%) Git
22 65 (12.22%) C#
22 65 (12.22%) Containerisation
22 65 (12.22%) Scrum
23 63 (11.84%) Spring Boot
24 62 (11.65%) Analytics
24 62 (11.65%) PostgreSQL
24 62 (11.65%) Test Automation
25 60 (11.28%) .NET
26 59 (11.09%) 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 (2.63%) Confluence
2 6 (1.13%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.94%) CMS
4 4 (0.75%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.38%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.19%) nginx
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.19%) SAS
6 1 (0.19%) Smallworld
6 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Endur
2 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.19%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 171 (32.14%) AWS
2 137 (25.75%) Azure
3 59 (11.09%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (9.21%) GitHub
5 31 (5.83%) GCP
6 24 (4.51%) Power Platform
6 24 (4.51%) Serverless
7 15 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (2.44%) Azure AKS
9 12 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (2.26%) Azure Service Bus
9 12 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (2.26%) Power Automate
10 10 (1.88%) Amazon S3
11 9 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (1.69%) Datadog
11 9 (1.69%) PowerApps
11 9 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.94%) Kerberos
2 3 (0.56%) SSL
3 2 (0.38%) Firewall
3 2 (0.38%) HTTP
4 1 (0.19%) Internet
4 1 (0.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (11.65%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (8.65%) MongoDB
3 39 (7.33%) Relational Database
4 37 (6.95%) SQL Server
5 31 (5.83%) NoSQL
6 28 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
7 14 (2.63%) DynamoDB
7 14 (2.63%) Power BI
8 13 (2.44%) DB2
9 11 (2.07%) MySQL
9 11 (2.07%) Redis
10 9 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.50%) Data Hub
11 8 (1.50%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (1.32%) RDBMS
13 6 (1.13%) HBase
13 6 (1.13%) Oracle BI EE
14 5 (0.94%) Big Data
14 5 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 67 (12.59%) Git
2 35 (6.58%) Jenkins
2 35 (6.58%) Oracle APEX
3 34 (6.39%) JUnit
4 24 (4.51%) GitLab
4 24 (4.51%) JIRA
5 21 (3.95%) Mockito
6 13 (2.44%) Maven
7 12 (2.26%) Gradle
8 9 (1.69%) Artifactory
8 9 (1.69%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.50%) Postman
10 7 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (1.32%) SpecFlow
11 6 (1.13%) Mocha
12 5 (0.94%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.94%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.75%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.75%) webpack
14 3 (0.56%) QUnit
General
1 141 (26.50%) Finance
2 140 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 87 (16.35%) Banking
4 60 (11.28%) Public Sector
5 47 (8.83%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (7.52%) Investment Banking
7 25 (4.70%) Front Office
8 12 (2.26%) Financial Institution
9 5 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.75%) Law
10 4 (0.75%) Military
10 4 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.56%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.56%) Marketing
11 3 (0.56%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.38%) Local Government
12 2 (0.38%) Retail
12 2 (0.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (21.99%) Kafka
2 79 (14.85%) Spring
3 71 (13.35%) React
4 63 (11.84%) Spring Boot
5 60 (11.28%) .NET
6 53 (9.96%) RESTful
7 45 (8.46%) HTML
7 45 (8.46%) REST
8 44 (8.27%) AngularJS
8 44 (8.27%) Node.js
9 39 (7.33%) CSS
10 26 (4.89%) Web Services
11 23 (4.32%) gRPC
11 23 (4.32%) JSON
12 19 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
13 18 (3.38%) .NET Core
13 18 (3.38%) .NET Framework
14 16 (3.01%) Playwright
15 15 (2.82%) Next.js
16 14 (2.63%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 46 (8.65%) Distributed Systems
2 34 (6.39%) Cloud Native
2 34 (6.39%) Derivative
3 30 (5.64%) Equities
4 20 (3.76%) Market Risk
5 19 (3.57%) Algorithms
5 19 (3.57%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.20%) Data Structures
6 17 (3.20%) Fixed Income
7 14 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (2.44%) Product Ownership
9 12 (2.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 11 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.50%) Equity Derivative
12 7 (1.32%) Mobile App
13 6 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (1.13%) NHS
13 6 (1.13%) Onboarding
14 5 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (0.94%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 49 (9.21%) Linux
2 23 (4.32%) Unix
3 16 (3.01%) Android
4 13 (2.44%) Mac OS X
5 10 (1.88%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.38%) Windows
7 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.19%) tvOS
7 1 (0.19%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (33.08%) Agile
2 143 (26.88%) Microservices
3 138 (25.94%) CI/CD
4 131 (24.62%) DevOps
5 115 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
6 69 (12.97%) Software Engineering
7 68 (12.78%) TDD
8 65 (12.22%) Containerisation
8 65 (12.22%) Scrum
9 62 (11.65%) Analytics
9 62 (11.65%) Test Automation
10 58 (10.90%) Full-Stack Development
11 57 (10.71%) Open Source
12 45 (8.46%) Event-Driven
12 45 (8.46%) SDLC
13 39 (7.33%) Risk Management
14 36 (6.77%) Mentoring
14 36 (6.77%) Unit Testing
15 35 (6.58%) Performance Tuning
15 35 (6.58%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 188 (35.34%) Java
2 141 (26.50%) SQL
3 128 (24.06%) Python
4 101 (18.98%) JavaScript
5 65 (12.22%) C#
6 43 (8.08%) TypeScript
7 42 (7.89%) PL/SQL
8 32 (6.02%) Go
9 20 (3.76%) Kotlin
10 15 (2.82%) C++
11 14 (2.63%) Shell Script
12 13 (2.44%) Ruby
13 9 (1.69%) PHP
13 9 (1.69%) PowerShell
14 8 (1.50%) Bash
15 4 (0.75%) Objective-C
15 4 (0.75%) Swift
16 2 (0.38%) Apex Code
16 2 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 125 (23.50%) Security Cleared
2 109 (20.49%) SC Cleared
3 40 (7.52%) Degree
4 20 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.50%) Numerate Degree
7 6 (1.13%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.13%) OCP
7 6 (1.13%) Oracle Certification
8 5 (0.94%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.56%) MCP
10 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.38%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.38%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.51%) Accessibility
2 15 (2.82%) QA
3 12 (2.26%) WCAG
4 10 (1.88%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.56%) EU AI Act
5 3 (0.56%) NIST
6 1 (0.19%) GDPR
6 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 111 (20.86%) Docker
2 5 (0.94%) zsh
3 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) GridGain
3 1 (0.19%) Lustre
3 1 (0.19%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.19%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.19%) OpenIDM
3 1 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 106 (19.92%) Kubernetes
2 24 (4.51%) Terraform
3 15 (2.82%) Grafana
4 8 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.13%) Ansible
6 4 (0.75%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.56%) Kibana
8 1 (0.19%) Argo
8 1 (0.19%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.19%) Control-M
8 1 (0.19%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.19%) Packer
8 1 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 58 (10.90%) Oracle
2 25 (4.70%) Microsoft
3 21 (3.95%) Google
4 14 (2.63%) Sybase
5 12 (2.26%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.07%) Databricks
7 6 (1.13%) Atlassian
8 5 (0.94%) Apple
8 5 (0.94%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.75%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.56%) BMC
10 3 (0.56%) Dataiku
10 3 (0.56%) Foundry
11 2 (0.38%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.38%) Cognizant
11 2 (0.38%) Confluent
11 2 (0.38%) IBM
11 2 (0.38%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.38%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.38%) Remedy
572 Senior Developer jobs in England