Senior Developer Contracts in England

Senior Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Developer daily rate in England is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 137 127 120
Rank change year-on-year -10 -7 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 619 1,049 1,639
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.67% 2.08% 2.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.81% 2.20% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 793 1,321
10th Percentile £410 £468 £431
25th Percentile £475 £531 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £745 £775 £719
90th Percentile £863 £875 £800
UK median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 5
10th Percentile £54.85 £60.50 -
25th Percentile £55.90 £61.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £58.91 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% +13.64% +61.76%
75th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.42
90th Percentile £81.50 £78.00 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £58.20 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -6.88% +13.64% +61.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,279 47,758 67,889
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,753 33,910 48,235
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,414 1,409 1,903
10th Percentile £12.94 £14.35 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.60 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
% change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in England.

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Developer in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

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 28 April 2024. 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 -4 463 £600 -14.29% 204
North of England +35 71 £538 -5.70% 82
North West +41 49 £550 -6.14% 53
Yorkshire +21 26 £550 -2.22% 24
Midlands +19 21 £450 -18.18% 50
South East -2 21 £524 -0.24% 60
South West -4 21 £500 -17.01% 40
West Midlands +27 15 £259 -52.91% 33
North East +22 8 £720 +20.00% 8
East Midlands +16 5 £550 +10.00% 17
East of England +7 5 £600 +9.69% 20
Senior Developer
UK

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Senior Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 254 (41.03%) Agile
2 177 (28.59%) Java
3 175 (28.27%) C#
3 175 (28.27%) Azure
4 164 (26.49%) DevOps
5 140 (22.62%) .NET
6 136 (21.97%) JavaScript
6 136 (21.97%) CI/CD
7 135 (21.81%) Finance
8 124 (20.03%) SQL Server
9 115 (18.58%) React
10 114 (18.42%) Microsoft
11 109 (17.61%) Social Skills
12 108 (17.45%) SQL
13 106 (17.12%) AWS
14 98 (15.83%) TDD
15 96 (15.51%) Azure DevOps
16 87 (14.05%) Software Engineering
17 86 (13.89%) Python
18 80 (12.92%) TypeScript
19 77 (12.44%) Microservices
20 76 (12.28%) Scrum
21 75 (12.12%) Public Sector
22 74 (11.95%) PowerShell
23 71 (11.47%) Front End Development
24 69 (11.15%) HTML
25 65 (10.50%) XML
25 65 (10.50%) AngularJS
26 64 (10.34%) CSS
27 60 (9.69%) Active Directory

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (2.75%) CMS
2 9 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.29%) Apache
3 8 (1.29%) Confluence
4 6 (0.97%) Appian
5 5 (0.81%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.65%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.65%) SAS
6 4 (0.65%) WordPress
7 2 (0.32%) CICS
7 2 (0.32%) IIS
8 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.16%) GemFire
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.16%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (2.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.81%) Endur
3 2 (0.32%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.32%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.32%) RMDS
3 2 (0.32%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (0.32%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.16%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.16%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 175 (28.27%) Azure
2 106 (17.12%) AWS
3 96 (15.51%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (5.98%) Entra ID
5 36 (5.82%) Azure Service Bus
6 35 (5.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 31 (5.01%) GCP
8 25 (4.04%) GitHub
9 24 (3.88%) Power Platform
10 20 (3.23%) Serverless
11 18 (2.91%) Azure Monitor
12 16 (2.58%) Amazon S3
13 15 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (2.26%) PowerApps
15 11 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (1.78%) Azure Pipelines
15 11 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
15 11 (1.78%) Power Automate
16 10 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (1.62%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.65%) SAN
1 4 (0.65%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.48%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.32%) HTTP
3 2 (0.32%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.16%) CTI
4 1 (0.16%) Firewall
4 1 (0.16%) VoIP
4 1 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (20.03%) SQL Server
2 32 (5.17%) MongoDB
3 22 (3.55%) KDB
4 21 (3.39%) NoSQL
5 16 (2.58%) Relational Database
6 13 (2.10%) Power BI
7 10 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (1.62%) MySQL
7 10 (1.62%) Redis
8 9 (1.45%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
10 7 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.65%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.48%) Big Data
12 3 (0.48%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.48%) Oracle ODI
12 3 (0.48%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 50 (8.08%) Git
2 35 (5.65%) Jenkins
3 31 (5.01%) Mockito
4 21 (3.39%) GitLab
4 21 (3.39%) JIRA
5 19 (3.07%) JUnit
6 17 (2.75%) Cucumber
7 9 (1.45%) SpecFlow
8 8 (1.29%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.29%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.13%) Rational Rhapsody
10 6 (0.97%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.81%) Postman
11 5 (0.81%) Selenium
12 4 (0.65%) NUnit
12 4 (0.65%) Pylint
12 4 (0.65%) Sourcetree
13 3 (0.48%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.48%) Jasmine
13 3 (0.48%) SonarQube
General
1 135 (21.81%) Finance
2 109 (17.61%) Social Skills
3 75 (12.12%) Public Sector
4 60 (9.69%) Banking
5 44 (7.11%) Front Office
6 35 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (2.26%) Investment Banking
8 13 (2.10%) Back Office
8 13 (2.10%) Local Government
9 9 (1.45%) Financial Institution
10 8 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (0.97%) Law
12 4 (0.65%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.48%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.48%) Marketing
13 3 (0.48%) Police
13 3 (0.48%) Retail
14 2 (0.32%) Advertising
14 2 (0.32%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (22.62%) .NET
2 115 (18.58%) React
3 69 (11.15%) HTML
4 65 (10.50%) AngularJS
4 65 (10.50%) XML
5 64 (10.34%) CSS
6 57 (9.21%) .NET Core
7 43 (6.95%) Node.js
8 42 (6.79%) REST
9 40 (6.46%) .NET Framework
10 36 (5.82%) Spring Boot
11 33 (5.33%) Kafka
11 33 (5.33%) Spring
12 32 (5.17%) ASP.NET
13 30 (4.85%) RESTful
13 30 (4.85%) Web Services
14 29 (4.68%) Vue
15 19 (3.07%) jQuery
16 18 (2.91%) ActiveMQ
16 18 (2.91%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 38 (6.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 37 (5.98%) Product Ownership
3 30 (4.85%) Derivative
3 30 (4.85%) Fixed Income
4 28 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (3.23%) Algorithms
6 18 (2.91%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.58%) Credit Derivative
8 13 (2.10%) Equities
8 13 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (1.62%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.62%) Renewable Energy
11 9 (1.45%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.29%) Market Risk
13 7 (1.13%) Cloud Native
13 7 (1.13%) Hedge funds
13 7 (1.13%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 47 (7.59%) Linux
2 22 (3.55%) Unix
3 14 (2.26%) Android
3 14 (2.26%) Mac OS X
4 8 (1.29%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.81%) Windows
6 4 (0.65%) Debian
6 4 (0.65%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.32%) zOS
8 1 (0.16%) CentOS
8 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (41.03%) Agile
2 164 (26.49%) DevOps
3 136 (21.97%) CI/CD
4 98 (15.83%) TDD
5 87 (14.05%) Software Engineering
6 77 (12.44%) Microservices
7 76 (12.28%) Scrum
8 71 (11.47%) Front End Development
9 54 (8.72%) Test Automation
10 53 (8.56%) SDLC
11 52 (8.40%) Problem-Solving
12 51 (8.24%) OO
13 44 (7.11%) Continuous Integration
14 40 (6.46%) Full Stack Development
15 37 (5.98%) Clean Code
16 36 (5.82%) Design Patterns
16 36 (5.82%) Web Development
17 35 (5.65%) User Experience
18 34 (5.49%) BDD
19 31 (5.01%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 177 (28.59%) Java
2 175 (28.27%) C#
3 136 (21.97%) JavaScript
4 108 (17.45%) SQL
5 86 (13.89%) Python
6 80 (12.92%) TypeScript
7 74 (11.95%) PowerShell
8 44 (7.11%) Bicep
9 22 (3.55%) Scala
10 21 (3.39%) C++
11 18 (2.91%) Kotlin
12 10 (1.62%) Go
12 10 (1.62%) Ruby
13 6 (0.97%) PHP
13 6 (0.97%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.97%) Rust
13 6 (0.97%) Swift
13 6 (0.97%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.65%) Objective-C
14 4 (0.65%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 53 (8.56%) Security Cleared
2 43 (6.95%) SC Cleared
3 42 (6.79%) Degree
4 17 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.42%) ITIL Certification
6 9 (1.45%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.65%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.72%) Accessibility
2 15 (2.42%) WCAG
3 9 (1.45%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.13%) HL7
5 5 (0.81%) QA
6 3 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 2 (0.32%) MiFID
8 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.16%) GDPR
8 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (9.69%) Active Directory
2 39 (6.30%) Docker
3 9 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.65%) IAG
5 3 (0.48%) ACF2
5 3 (0.48%) RACF
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.16%) GridGain
7 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (6.30%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.58%) Terraform
3 11 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.97%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (0.65%) Ansible
5 4 (0.65%) Grafana
6 3 (0.48%) Podman
7 2 (0.32%) CA Endevor
7 2 (0.32%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 114 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.36%) ServiceNow
3 23 (3.72%) Oracle
4 15 (2.42%) Google
5 11 (1.78%) IBM
6 10 (1.62%) ION Trading
7 9 (1.45%) Virgin Media
8 7 (1.13%) TIBCO
9 5 (0.81%) Apple
9 5 (0.81%) Blue Prism
9 5 (0.81%) Salesforce
9 5 (0.81%) UiPath
10 4 (0.65%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.65%) Solace
10 4 (0.65%) Sybase
10 4 (0.65%) VMware
11 3 (0.48%) Databricks
11 3 (0.48%) SAP
12 2 (0.32%) NEC
12 2 (0.32%) Workday