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 27 December 2025.

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

 6 months to
27 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 145 164
Rank change year-on-year -22 +19 -63
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 533 524 559
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 1.84% 1.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.84% 1.98% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 338 409
10th Percentile £409 £404 £425
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £698 £725 £715
90th Percentile £850 £839 £840
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 Vacancies
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 29,040 26,501 34,495
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.34% 92.91% 93.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,512 16,485 23,595
10th Percentile £295 £300 £285
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -0.94% -3.64%
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 1,779 837 1,444
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.91 £14.61
25th Percentile £18.35 £21.25 £19.50
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% -22.22% +38.46%
75th Percentile £61.18 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.10 £73.85 £76.86
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% -27.78% +46.96%

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025. 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 -29 314 £625 +4.17% 166
North of England -26 69 £550 +10.00% 154
South West +35 56 £475 -13.64% 67
Yorkshire -22 38 £631 +25.00% 64
South East -21 36 £473 +3.67% 198
North West -16 28 £500 - 70
Midlands -31 25 £513 +2.50% 92
East of England -16 22 £500 +7.53% 83
West Midlands -20 18 £525 +5.00% 44
North East 0 9 £488 -17.37% 20
East Midlands -18 7 £510 +11.78% 42
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 December 2025, 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 (35.46%) Java
2 181 (33.96%) Agile
3 169 (31.71%) AWS
4 144 (27.02%) CI/CD
4 144 (27.02%) SQL
5 140 (26.27%) Microservices
6 139 (26.08%) Azure
7 137 (25.70%) DevOps
8 129 (24.20%) Python
9 120 (22.51%) Problem-Solving
10 118 (22.14%) Security Cleared
11 116 (21.76%) Kafka
12 111 (20.83%) Docker
13 105 (19.70%) Kubernetes
14 102 (19.14%) JavaScript
14 102 (19.14%) SC Cleared
15 81 (15.20%) Spring
16 70 (13.13%) React
17 69 (12.95%) Git
18 68 (12.76%) C#
19 67 (12.57%) TDD
20 66 (12.38%) Software Engineering
21 65 (12.20%) Containerisation
21 65 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
21 65 (12.20%) Scrum
22 64 (12.01%) Analytics
23 63 (11.82%) .NET
23 63 (11.82%) Azure DevOps
23 63 (11.82%) Spring Boot
24 62 (11.63%) Test Automation

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%) CMS
2 6 (1.13%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.75%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.38%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.19%) nginx
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.19%) SAS
5 1 (0.19%) Smallworld
5 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
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
1 169 (31.71%) AWS
2 139 (26.08%) Azure
3 63 (11.82%) Azure DevOps
4 51 (9.57%) GitHub
5 34 (6.38%) GCP
6 25 (4.69%) Power Platform
6 25 (4.69%) Serverless
7 18 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (2.44%) Azure AKS
8 13 (2.44%) Power Automate
9 12 (2.25%) Amazon S3
9 12 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (2.06%) SaaS
11 9 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
11 9 (1.69%) Datadog
11 9 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (1.69%) PowerApps
12 8 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
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 65 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (8.82%) MongoDB
3 41 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 38 (7.13%) SQL Server
5 31 (5.82%) NoSQL
6 24 (4.50%) Apache Cassandra
7 14 (2.63%) DB2
7 14 (2.63%) DynamoDB
7 14 (2.63%) Power BI
8 12 (2.25%) Redis
9 11 (2.06%) MySQL
10 9 (1.69%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.50%) Data Hub
11 8 (1.50%) RDBMS
12 7 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (1.13%) Big Data
13 6 (1.13%) HBase
14 5 (0.94%) Oracle BI EE
14 5 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 69 (12.95%) Git
2 37 (6.94%) JUnit
3 35 (6.57%) Jenkins
3 35 (6.57%) Oracle APEX
4 24 (4.50%) GitLab
4 24 (4.50%) JIRA
5 22 (4.13%) Mockito
6 13 (2.44%) Maven
7 12 (2.25%) Gradle
8 9 (1.69%) Artifactory
8 9 (1.69%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.50%) Postman
10 7 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (1.31%) SpecFlow
11 6 (1.13%) Mocha
12 5 (0.94%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.94%) webpack
13 4 (0.75%) TeamCity
14 3 (0.56%) Lerna
14 3 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 144 (27.02%) Finance
1 144 (27.02%) Social Skills
2 87 (16.32%) Banking
3 62 (11.63%) Public Sector
4 51 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (7.88%) Investment Banking
6 26 (4.88%) Front Office
7 10 (1.88%) Financial Institution
8 5 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (0.75%) Law
9 4 (0.75%) Military
9 4 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.56%) Automotive
10 3 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.56%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.56%) Marketing
10 3 (0.56%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.38%) Local Government
11 2 (0.38%) Publishing
11 2 (0.38%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (21.76%) Kafka
2 81 (15.20%) Spring
3 70 (13.13%) React
4 63 (11.82%) .NET
4 63 (11.82%) Spring Boot
5 59 (11.07%) RESTful
6 47 (8.82%) REST
7 45 (8.44%) Node.js
8 44 (8.26%) HTML
9 42 (7.88%) AngularJS
10 37 (6.94%) CSS
11 26 (4.88%) Web Services
12 24 (4.50%) JSON
13 21 (3.94%) .NET Core
14 20 (3.75%) gRPC
15 19 (3.56%) RabbitMQ
16 18 (3.38%) .NET Framework
17 16 (3.00%) Playwright
18 15 (2.81%) JMS
19 14 (2.63%) JAX-RS
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.07%) Distributed Systems
2 36 (6.75%) Cloud Native
3 34 (6.38%) Derivative
4 30 (5.63%) Equities
5 20 (3.75%) Market Risk
6 19 (3.56%) Management Information System
7 18 (3.38%) Algorithms
7 18 (3.38%) Data Structures
8 17 (3.19%) Fixed Income
9 14 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (2.44%) Product Ownership
11 11 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.31%) Equity Derivative
12 7 (1.31%) Mobile App
13 6 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (1.13%) NHS
14 5 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (0.94%) Hedge funds
14 5 (0.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 50 (9.38%) Linux
2 23 (4.32%) Unix
3 17 (3.19%) Android
4 13 (2.44%) Mac OS X
5 11 (2.06%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.56%) Windows
7 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.19%) tvOS
8 1 (0.19%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (33.96%) Agile
2 144 (27.02%) CI/CD
3 140 (26.27%) Microservices
4 137 (25.70%) DevOps
5 120 (22.51%) Problem-Solving
6 67 (12.57%) TDD
7 66 (12.38%) Software Engineering
8 65 (12.20%) Containerisation
8 65 (12.20%) Scrum
9 64 (12.01%) Analytics
10 62 (11.63%) Test Automation
11 61 (11.44%) Full-Stack Development
12 56 (10.51%) Open Source
13 46 (8.63%) Event-Driven
14 43 (8.07%) SDLC
15 40 (7.50%) Mentoring
16 38 (7.13%) Risk Management
17 37 (6.94%) Performance Tuning
17 37 (6.94%) Validation
18 36 (6.75%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 189 (35.46%) Java
2 144 (27.02%) SQL
3 129 (24.20%) Python
4 102 (19.14%) JavaScript
5 68 (12.76%) C#
6 47 (8.82%) TypeScript
7 42 (7.88%) PL/SQL
8 28 (5.25%) Go
9 18 (3.38%) Kotlin
10 15 (2.81%) Ruby
10 15 (2.81%) Shell Script
11 14 (2.63%) C++
12 9 (1.69%) PHP
12 9 (1.69%) PowerShell
13 8 (1.50%) Bash
14 4 (0.75%) Objective-C
14 4 (0.75%) Swift
15 3 (0.56%) Apex Code
16 2 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.38%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 118 (22.14%) Security Cleared
2 102 (19.14%) SC Cleared
3 41 (7.69%) Degree
4 21 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.31%) 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%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.56%) MCP
9 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.38%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.38%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.50%) Accessibility
2 17 (3.19%) QA
3 12 (2.25%) WCAG
4 11 (2.06%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.56%) EU AI Act
5 3 (0.56%) NIST
6 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.19%) GDPR
7 1 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 111 (20.83%) 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
1 105 (19.70%) Kubernetes
2 25 (4.69%) Terraform
3 15 (2.81%) Grafana
4 7 (1.31%) 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 (10.88%) Oracle
2 28 (5.25%) Microsoft
3 21 (3.94%) Google
4 15 (2.81%) Databricks
4 15 (2.81%) Sybase
5 12 (2.25%) ServiceNow
6 7 (1.31%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.13%) Salesforce
8 5 (0.94%) Apple
9 3 (0.56%) BMC
9 3 (0.56%) Dataiku
9 3 (0.56%) Foundry
9 3 (0.56%) Virgin Media
10 2 (0.38%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.38%) Computacenter
10 2 (0.38%) Confluent
10 2 (0.38%) Guidewire
10 2 (0.38%) HP
10 2 (0.38%) IBM
10 2 (0.38%) MuleSoft
729 Senior Developer jobs in England