Senior Developer Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Developer daily rate in England is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026.

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

 6 months to
29 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 160 141
Rank change year-on-year -12 -19 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 655 415 614
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.57% 1.73% 1.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.70% 1.88% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 305 458
10th Percentile £409 £410 £409
25th Percentile £499 £483 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £704 £750 £750
90th Percentile £893 £838 £875
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -8.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 11
10th Percentile £37.25 - £35.00
25th Percentile £44.93 - £54.85
Median hourly rate £45.56 £77.19 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year -40.98% +31.04% -5.75%
75th Percentile £46.18 - £77.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £83.00
UK median hourly rate £45.56 £77.19 £58.91
% change year-on-year -40.98% +31.04% -5.75%

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 38,613 22,095 34,042
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.34% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,880 14,635 22,555
10th Percentile £322 £294 £285
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -1.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,705 913 2,522
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.80% -22.48% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.99 £37.18
% change year-on-year +51.84% -24.72% -17.38%

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 29 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Developer in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Developer 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 29 May 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 +2 426 £625 -3.85% 54
North of England -9 96 £525 - 36
Yorkshire -13 52 £575 +9.52% 8
North West -9 44 £488 -2.50% 22
Midlands -36 42 £513 -6.82% 10
South East -38 38 £560 +8.74% 48
West Midlands -43 34 £513 -6.82% 6
South West -23 25 £410 -28.70% 14
East of England -19 20 £500 -23.08% 9
East Midlands -22 7 £525 +28.05% 4
North East -26 2 £538 +43.33% 6
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 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.

1 205 (31.30%) Java
2 179 (27.33%) AWS
3 170 (25.95%) CI/CD
4 158 (24.12%) Agile
5 137 (20.92%) Python
6 135 (20.61%) Azure
7 130 (19.85%) Microservices
8 127 (19.39%) SQL
9 109 (16.64%) Docker
10 104 (15.88%) DevOps
11 94 (14.35%) Kubernetes
11 94 (14.35%) Security Cleared
12 91 (13.89%) JavaScript
12 91 (13.89%) SC Cleared
13 86 (13.13%) React
14 85 (12.98%) Kafka
15 82 (12.52%) .NET
16 79 (12.06%) C#
17 78 (11.91%) Spring
18 74 (11.30%) Software Engineering
19 73 (11.15%) TypeScript
20 72 (10.99%) TDD
21 71 (10.84%) Full-Stack Development
22 69 (10.53%) Containerisation
22 69 (10.53%) Spring Boot
23 68 (10.38%) Test Automation
24 66 (10.08%) Git
24 66 (10.08%) RESTful
25 55 (8.40%) Data Modelling
25 55 (8.40%) REST

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 (1.53%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.07%) Apache
3 6 (0.92%) CMS
3 6 (0.92%) Ethereum
3 6 (0.92%) Hyperledger
4 4 (0.61%) Confluence
4 4 (0.61%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.46%) IIS
5 3 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.46%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.31%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.15%) JBoss
7 1 (0.15%) Moodle
7 1 (0.15%) nginx
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (2.44%) Teamcenter
2 5 (0.76%) Endur
3 3 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.46%) R3 Corda
3 3 (0.46%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.31%) Quorum
4 2 (0.31%) Ripple
4 2 (0.31%) Shopify
5 1 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.15%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.15%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 179 (27.33%) AWS
2 135 (20.61%) Azure
3 51 (7.79%) GitHub
4 38 (5.80%) Power Platform
5 37 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (5.04%) Serverless
7 30 (4.58%) GitHub Actions
8 25 (3.82%) Power Automate
9 24 (3.66%) GCP
10 23 (3.51%) Amazon SQS
11 20 (3.05%) PowerApps
12 19 (2.90%) Amazon S3
12 19 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (2.60%) Azure Service Bus
14 15 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
15 14 (2.14%) Copilot Studio
16 13 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 13 (1.98%) Microsoft Copilot
17 12 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
17 12 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.22%) HTTP
2 6 (0.92%) Multicast
3 2 (0.31%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.31%) RTP
4 1 (0.15%) DNS
4 1 (0.15%) Firewall
4 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (8.09%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (6.11%) SQL Server
3 36 (5.50%) Relational Database
4 32 (4.89%) Power BI
5 31 (4.73%) MongoDB
6 26 (3.97%) NoSQL
7 23 (3.51%) Apache Cassandra
8 18 (2.75%) DynamoDB
9 15 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (1.83%) MySQL
11 10 (1.53%) KDB
12 7 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (1.07%) Kdb+
12 7 (1.07%) Oracle BI EE
13 6 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (0.92%) Oracle Database
13 6 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.61%) DB2
14 4 (0.61%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 66 (10.08%) Git
2 34 (5.19%) Jenkins
3 23 (3.51%) Maven
4 20 (3.05%) JUnit
5 19 (2.90%) Mockito
6 18 (2.75%) GitLab
6 18 (2.75%) SonarQube
7 13 (1.98%) Gradle
8 12 (1.83%) JIRA
9 5 (0.76%) Snyk
10 4 (0.61%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.61%) Xcode
11 3 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.46%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (0.46%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.46%) DbUnit
11 3 (0.46%) jMock
11 3 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.46%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.46%) XCUITest
General
1 132 (20.15%) Finance
2 93 (14.20%) Banking
3 90 (13.74%) Public Sector
4 87 (13.28%) Social Skills
5 38 (5.80%) Investment Banking
6 34 (5.19%) Front Office
7 32 (4.89%) Analytical Skills
8 22 (3.36%) Financial Institution
9 15 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.53%) Retail
11 9 (1.37%) Military
12 6 (0.92%) Legal
13 5 (0.76%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.61%) Law
14 4 (0.61%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.46%) Back Office
15 3 (0.46%) Games
15 3 (0.46%) Health Technology
16 2 (0.31%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (13.13%) React
2 85 (12.98%) Kafka
3 82 (12.52%) .NET
4 78 (11.91%) Spring
5 69 (10.53%) Spring Boot
6 66 (10.08%) RESTful
7 55 (8.40%) REST
8 49 (7.48%) AngularJS
9 46 (7.02%) Node.js
10 38 (5.80%) HTML
11 35 (5.34%) CSS
12 29 (4.43%) Redux
13 25 (3.82%) Web Services
14 22 (3.36%) gRPC
15 21 (3.21%) Django
16 20 (3.05%) .NET Core
17 19 (2.90%) SOAP
18 16 (2.44%) OAuth
19 15 (2.29%) .NET Framework
20 14 (2.14%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 61 (9.31%) Distributed Systems
2 45 (6.87%) Cloud Native
3 28 (4.27%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.05%) Derivative
5 19 (2.90%) Fixed Income
5 19 (2.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 17 (2.60%) Equities
6 17 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (2.60%) Mobile App
7 12 (1.83%) Algorithms
8 9 (1.37%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.22%) Market Risk
10 7 (1.07%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.07%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.07%) Equity Derivative
11 6 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.92%) Onboarding
12 5 (0.76%) NHS
13 4 (0.61%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.61%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 42 (6.41%) Linux
2 24 (3.66%) Unix
3 17 (2.60%) Windows
4 10 (1.53%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.37%) Mac OS
6 8 (1.22%) Android
7 5 (0.76%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.31%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (25.95%) CI/CD
2 158 (24.12%) Agile
3 130 (19.85%) Microservices
4 104 (15.88%) DevOps
5 74 (11.30%) Software Engineering
6 72 (10.99%) TDD
7 71 (10.84%) Full-Stack Development
8 69 (10.53%) Containerisation
9 68 (10.38%) Test Automation
10 55 (8.40%) Data Modelling
11 53 (8.09%) Code Quality
12 49 (7.48%) Event-Driven
13 48 (7.33%) Problem-Solving
14 47 (7.18%) Business Intelligence
15 45 (6.87%) Analytics
16 44 (6.72%) Migration
17 43 (6.56%) Mentoring
17 43 (6.56%) Scrum
18 42 (6.41%) AI
19 40 (6.11%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 205 (31.30%) Java
2 137 (20.92%) Python
3 127 (19.39%) SQL
4 91 (13.89%) JavaScript
5 79 (12.06%) C#
6 73 (11.15%) TypeScript
7 33 (5.04%) Go
8 20 (3.05%) Ruby
9 17 (2.60%) C++
10 14 (2.14%) Kotlin
11 8 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (1.22%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.22%) Swift
12 7 (1.07%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.92%) PowerShell
14 5 (0.76%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.61%) R
15 4 (0.61%) VBA
16 2 (0.31%) PHP
16 2 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 94 (14.35%) Security Cleared
2 91 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 24 (3.66%) Degree
4 13 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (0.92%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.61%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.15%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.15%) CISSP
10 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.43%) Accessibility
2 22 (3.36%) QA
3 18 (2.75%) WCAG
4 12 (1.83%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.31%) GDPR
6 1 (0.15%) Basel III
6 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 109 (16.64%) Docker
2 3 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.31%) GridGain
3 2 (0.31%) Postfix
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 94 (14.35%) Kubernetes
2 39 (5.95%) Terraform
3 19 (2.90%) Grafana
4 13 (1.98%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.92%) Ansible
5 6 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.61%) Argo
7 2 (0.31%) Consul
7 2 (0.31%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.15%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.15%) SELinux
8 1 (0.15%) systemd
Vendors
1 45 (6.87%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.27%) Oracle
3 14 (2.14%) ServiceNow
4 10 (1.53%) Databricks
4 10 (1.53%) Salesforce
5 8 (1.22%) SAP
6 7 (1.07%) Google
7 6 (0.92%) Avaloq
7 6 (0.92%) Guidewire
7 6 (0.92%) Jaspersoft
7 6 (0.92%) Sybase
8 4 (0.61%) Pega
8 4 (0.61%) Solace
9 3 (0.46%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.46%) Cognizant
9 3 (0.46%) New Relic
9 3 (0.46%) SimCorp
9 3 (0.46%) Splunk
10 2 (0.31%) Blue Prism
10 2 (0.31%) Dynatrace
154 Senior Developer jobs in England