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 5 December 2025.

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

 6 months to
5 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 128 169
Rank change year-on-year -41 +41 -72
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 519 597 586
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 1.94% 1.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.83% 2.09% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 395 424
10th Percentile £413 £396 £433
25th Percentile £450 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £720
90th Percentile £848 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £568 £600
% change year-on-year -3.08% -5.42% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £53.25
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £68.13
90th Percentile - - £75.25
UK median hourly rate - - £60.00

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 28,419 28,527 35,622
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.21% 92.94% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,252 17,617 24,501
10th Percentile £287 £300 £292
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -1.69% -2.91%
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 1,704 990 1,393
10th Percentile £14.28 £15.36 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.05 £19.50
Median hourly rate £25.44 £37.25 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.70% -17.22% +36.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.85 £74.47 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.45% +39.68%

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 5 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 5 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 -42 300 £631 +5.21% 95
North of England -35 66 £550 +10.00% 81
South West +28 57 £475 -11.63% 25
South East -9 44 £500 -4.76% 116
Yorkshire -16 37 £638 +23.19% 20
North West -25 25 £510 +2.00% 52
Midlands -27 24 £513 +2.50% 36
East of England -15 17 £535 +33.75% 30
West Midlands -28 16 £525 +5.00% 25
North East -4 8 £544 +27.94% 9
East Midlands -10 8 £510 +11.78% 10
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 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.

1 206 (39.69%) Agile
2 187 (36.03%) Java
3 157 (30.25%) SQL
4 152 (29.29%) AWS
5 145 (27.94%) Microservices
6 143 (27.55%) CI/CD
7 140 (26.97%) Azure
8 136 (26.20%) DevOps
9 130 (25.05%) Problem-Solving
10 128 (24.66%) Python
11 115 (22.16%) Kafka
12 109 (21.00%) Security Cleared
13 103 (19.85%) Docker
14 95 (18.30%) Kubernetes
15 93 (17.92%) SC Cleared
16 90 (17.34%) JavaScript
17 84 (16.18%) Spring
18 75 (14.45%) C#
19 74 (14.26%) Scrum
20 67 (12.91%) RESTful
20 67 (12.91%) Software Engineering
21 66 (12.72%) Analytics
21 66 (12.72%) TDD
22 65 (12.52%) Git
22 65 (12.52%) Spring Boot
23 63 (12.14%) .NET
24 62 (11.95%) Azure DevOps
24 62 (11.95%) PostgreSQL
25 61 (11.75%) React
26 60 (11.56%) Containerisation

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 15 (2.89%) Confluence
2 8 (1.54%) CMS
3 6 (1.16%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.77%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.58%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.19%) SAS
7 1 (0.19%) Smallworld
Applications
1 7 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.77%) Endur
2 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.19%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 152 (29.29%) AWS
2 140 (26.97%) Azure
3 62 (11.95%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (9.06%) GitHub
5 34 (6.55%) GCP
6 26 (5.01%) Power Platform
6 26 (5.01%) Serverless
7 19 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (2.70%) Amazon S3
8 14 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (2.50%) Azure AKS
10 12 (2.31%) Power Automate
11 11 (2.12%) SaaS
12 10 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (1.93%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (1.93%) Azure Service Bus
12 10 (1.93%) PowerApps
13 9 (1.73%) Datadog
13 9 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.96%) Kerberos
2 4 (0.77%) SAN
2 4 (0.77%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.58%) SSL
3 3 (0.58%) VPN
4 2 (0.39%) Firewall
4 2 (0.39%) HTTP
5 1 (0.19%) BGP
5 1 (0.19%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.19%) Internet
5 1 (0.19%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (11.95%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (9.63%) MongoDB
3 45 (8.67%) Relational Database
4 35 (6.74%) SQL Server
5 34 (6.55%) NoSQL
6 22 (4.24%) Apache Cassandra
7 19 (3.66%) DB2
8 17 (3.28%) Power BI
9 16 (3.08%) DynamoDB
10 14 (2.70%) Redis
11 11 (2.12%) Data Lake
12 10 (1.93%) MySQL
12 10 (1.93%) RDBMS
13 8 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (1.35%) Data Hub
14 7 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (1.16%) Big Data
15 6 (1.16%) HBase
16 5 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
16 5 (0.96%) KDB
Development Applications
1 65 (12.52%) Git
2 45 (8.67%) JUnit
3 37 (7.13%) Jenkins
4 34 (6.55%) Oracle APEX
5 27 (5.20%) JIRA
6 24 (4.62%) GitLab
7 23 (4.43%) Mockito
8 14 (2.70%) Maven
9 13 (2.50%) Gradle
10 10 (1.93%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.73%) Artifactory
11 9 (1.73%) SpecFlow
12 8 (1.54%) Postman
13 7 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
14 6 (1.16%) Bitbucket
14 6 (1.16%) Mocha
15 5 (0.96%) webpack
16 4 (0.77%) TeamCity
17 3 (0.58%) QUnit
17 3 (0.58%) Xcode
General
1 153 (29.48%) Social Skills
2 146 (28.13%) Finance
3 90 (17.34%) Banking
4 59 (11.37%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (10.02%) Public Sector
6 49 (9.44%) Investment Banking
7 34 (6.55%) Front Office
8 6 (1.16%) Marketing
9 5 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.77%) Back Office
10 4 (0.77%) Financial Institution
10 4 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.77%) Military
11 3 (0.58%) Automotive
11 3 (0.58%) Law
11 3 (0.58%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.39%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.39%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.19%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (22.16%) Kafka
2 84 (16.18%) Spring
3 67 (12.91%) RESTful
4 65 (12.52%) Spring Boot
5 63 (12.14%) .NET
6 61 (11.75%) React
7 48 (9.25%) REST
8 42 (8.09%) Node.js
9 37 (7.13%) AngularJS
10 35 (6.74%) HTML
11 29 (5.59%) CSS
12 25 (4.82%) JSON
12 25 (4.82%) Web Services
13 24 (4.62%) .NET Core
14 20 (3.85%) .NET Framework
15 19 (3.66%) RabbitMQ
16 18 (3.47%) JMS
16 18 (3.47%) Playwright
17 17 (3.28%) gRPC
18 15 (2.89%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 36 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
2 35 (6.74%) Derivative
3 34 (6.55%) Cloud Native
4 30 (5.78%) Equities
5 21 (4.05%) Data Structures
5 21 (4.05%) Market Risk
6 20 (3.85%) Fixed Income
6 20 (3.85%) Management Information System
7 18 (3.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 16 (3.08%) Algorithms
8 16 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (2.70%) Product Ownership
10 10 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.35%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.96%) Hedge funds
14 4 (0.77%) Data Fabric
14 4 (0.77%) Equity Derivative
14 4 (0.77%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 54 (10.40%) Linux
2 24 (4.62%) Unix
3 19 (3.66%) Android
4 13 (2.50%) Apple iOS
4 13 (2.50%) Mac OS X
5 7 (1.35%) Windows
6 4 (0.77%) Debian
6 4 (0.77%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.77%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.19%) CentOS
8 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.19%) tvOS
8 1 (0.19%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (39.69%) Agile
2 145 (27.94%) Microservices
3 143 (27.55%) CI/CD
4 136 (26.20%) DevOps
5 130 (25.05%) Problem-Solving
6 74 (14.26%) Scrum
7 67 (12.91%) Software Engineering
8 66 (12.72%) Analytics
8 66 (12.72%) TDD
9 60 (11.56%) Containerisation
10 56 (10.79%) Test Automation
11 54 (10.40%) Full-Stack Development
12 53 (10.21%) Open Source
13 47 (9.06%) Event-Driven
14 46 (8.86%) Mentoring
15 42 (8.09%) Clean Code
15 42 (8.09%) SDLC
16 38 (7.32%) Performance Tuning
17 37 (7.13%) API Development
17 37 (7.13%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 187 (36.03%) Java
2 157 (30.25%) SQL
3 128 (24.66%) Python
4 90 (17.34%) JavaScript
5 75 (14.45%) C#
6 51 (9.83%) TypeScript
7 38 (7.32%) PL/SQL
8 23 (4.43%) Go
9 20 (3.85%) Kotlin
10 17 (3.28%) Shell Script
11 13 (2.50%) C++
12 12 (2.31%) Ruby
13 9 (1.73%) PHP
14 8 (1.54%) Bash
14 8 (1.54%) PowerShell
15 6 (1.16%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.96%) Swift
17 4 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 4 (0.77%) Objective-C
18 3 (0.58%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 109 (21.00%) Security Cleared
2 93 (17.92%) SC Cleared
3 42 (8.09%) Degree
4 23 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.16%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.16%) OCP
6 6 (1.16%) Oracle Certification
7 5 (0.96%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.77%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.58%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.58%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.58%) MCP
9 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.43%) Accessibility
2 21 (4.05%) QA
3 11 (2.12%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.12%) WCAG
4 3 (0.58%) EU AI Act
4 3 (0.58%) NIST
5 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.19%) GDPR
6 1 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 103 (19.85%) Docker
2 5 (0.96%) 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 95 (18.30%) Kubernetes
2 27 (5.20%) Terraform
3 13 (2.50%) Grafana
4 5 (0.96%) Ansible
4 5 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.58%) Kibana
5 3 (0.58%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.39%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.19%) Argo
7 1 (0.19%) Control-M
7 1 (0.19%) Packer
7 1 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 51 (9.83%) Oracle
2 27 (5.20%) Microsoft
3 21 (4.05%) Databricks
3 21 (4.05%) Google
4 20 (3.85%) Sybase
5 15 (2.89%) ServiceNow
6 14 (2.70%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.35%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.16%) Red Hat
9 5 (0.96%) Apple
9 5 (0.96%) Dataiku
9 5 (0.96%) Virgin Media
10 4 (0.77%) CA Agile Central
10 4 (0.77%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 4 (0.77%) VMware
11 3 (0.58%) BMC
11 3 (0.58%) Foundry
11 3 (0.58%) HP
11 3 (0.58%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.58%) Remedy
353 Senior Developer jobs in England