Senior Developer Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Developer daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
19 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 181 113
Rank change year-on-year +2 -68 +37
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 728 448 701
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.56% 1.61% 2.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.70% 1.76% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 326 488
10th Percentile £406 £410 £400
25th Percentile £463 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £768 £709 £700
90th Percentile £938 £819 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 3
10th Percentile £37.25 - £40.29
25th Percentile £44.93 - £48.22
Median hourly rate £45.56 - £61.43
75th Percentile £46.18 - £74.47
90th Percentile £47.69 - £82.29
UK median hourly rate £45.56 - £61.43
% change year-on-year - - -8.99%

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 42,946 25,411 30,652
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 91.36% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,575 16,393 19,112
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% -3.24% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,509 1,371 1,480
10th Percentile £14.90 £13.75 £14.83
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £44.46 £25.15 £46.71
Median % change year-on-year +76.76% -46.16% +3.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £54.88 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 0 424 £650 - 386
North of England -1 141 £588 +6.82% 123
Midlands +7 73 £491 -8.18% 80
Yorkshire -4 71 £519 -13.54% 26
West Midlands +2 61 £513 -14.58% 62
North West -20 58 £625 +25.00% 68
South West -22 43 £525 -4.55% 24
South East -57 36 £425 -19.05% 81
North East -40 14 £450 -7.69% 29
East Midlands -10 11 - - 18
East of England -31 5 - - 22
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 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.

1 240 (32.97%) CI/CD
2 227 (31.18%) Agile
3 224 (30.77%) Java
4 167 (22.94%) Python
5 155 (21.29%) Azure
6 150 (20.60%) AWS
6 150 (20.60%) SQL
7 139 (19.09%) C#
8 137 (18.82%) Microservices
9 133 (18.27%) DevOps
10 128 (17.58%) JavaScript
10 128 (17.58%) TypeScript
11 119 (16.35%) REST
12 114 (15.66%) Security Cleared
13 109 (14.97%) Software Engineering
14 108 (14.84%) React
15 103 (14.15%) .NET
16 101 (13.87%) Git
16 101 (13.87%) SC Cleared
17 99 (13.60%) Full-Stack Development
18 97 (13.32%) Spring
18 97 (13.32%) Test Automation
19 96 (13.19%) Docker
20 91 (12.50%) AI
21 89 (12.23%) RESTful
22 81 (11.13%) Problem-Solving
22 81 (11.13%) Spring Boot
23 80 (10.99%) Kubernetes
24 78 (10.71%) Microsoft
25 73 (10.03%) Continuous Improvement

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 20 (2.75%) Confluence
2 12 (1.65%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.10%) SharePoint
4 7 (0.96%) Apache
4 7 (0.96%) Oracle Workflow
4 7 (0.96%) WordPress
5 6 (0.82%) CMS
6 5 (0.69%) Camunda
7 3 (0.41%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.41%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.27%) IIS
8 2 (0.27%) Moodle
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.14%) Drupal
9 1 (0.14%) HCL Domino
9 1 (0.14%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (2.20%) Teamcenter
2 11 (1.51%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.96%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.82%) Endur
6 5 (0.69%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.55%) Oracle FAH
7 4 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.41%) Quorum
8 3 (0.41%) R3 Corda
8 3 (0.41%) Ripple
8 3 (0.41%) Shopify
9 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle E-Business Tax
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Internet Expenses
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle iProcurement
9 2 (0.27%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 155 (21.29%) Azure
2 150 (20.60%) AWS
3 71 (9.75%) GitHub
4 47 (6.46%) GitHub Actions
4 47 (6.46%) Power Platform
5 45 (6.18%) Azure DevOps
6 39 (5.36%) Serverless
7 33 (4.53%) Power Automate
8 32 (4.40%) GCP
9 20 (2.75%) PowerApps
10 19 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (2.34%) Amazon S3
12 15 (2.06%) Amazon SQS
12 15 (2.06%) GitHub Copilot
13 12 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (1.65%) OpenShift
14 11 (1.51%) Azure Functions
15 10 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (1.24%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (1.24%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.69%) Multicast
2 3 (0.41%) HTTP
3 1 (0.14%) CTI
3 1 (0.14%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.14%) MQTT
3 1 (0.14%) NFC
3 1 (0.14%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (7.83%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 45 (6.18%) Relational Database
4 36 (4.95%) MongoDB
5 32 (4.40%) Power BI
6 23 (3.16%) NoSQL
7 15 (2.06%) DynamoDB
8 14 (1.92%) Oracle Database
9 12 (1.65%) KDB
10 11 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (1.51%) MySQL
11 10 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (1.24%) Redis
13 8 (1.10%) Geospatial Data
13 8 (1.10%) Kdb+
14 7 (0.96%) RDBMS
14 7 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (0.82%) Big Data
15 6 (0.82%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 101 (13.87%) Git
2 49 (6.73%) Jenkins
3 28 (3.85%) Mockito
4 26 (3.57%) JIRA
4 26 (3.57%) JUnit
5 24 (3.30%) Maven
6 23 (3.16%) GitLab
7 19 (2.61%) SonarQube
8 15 (2.06%) Gradle
9 10 (1.37%) Claude Code
10 9 (1.24%) REST Assured
11 7 (0.96%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.69%) MSI
12 5 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
12 5 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.69%) Xcode
13 4 (0.55%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.55%) IBM UrbanCode
13 4 (0.55%) Vite
13 4 (0.55%) XCUITest
General
1 178 (24.45%) Finance
2 137 (18.82%) Social Skills
3 114 (15.66%) Public Sector
4 103 (14.15%) Banking
5 76 (10.44%) Front Office
6 61 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
7 55 (7.55%) Investment Banking
8 32 (4.40%) Retail
9 29 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.65%) Back Office
10 12 (1.65%) Financial Institution
10 12 (1.65%) Military
11 7 (0.96%) Law
11 7 (0.96%) Legal
12 6 (0.82%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.69%) Games
14 3 (0.41%) Local Government
14 3 (0.41%) Publishing
14 3 (0.41%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (16.35%) REST
2 108 (14.84%) React
3 103 (14.15%) .NET
4 97 (13.32%) Spring
5 89 (12.23%) RESTful
6 81 (11.13%) Spring Boot
7 62 (8.52%) Kafka
8 49 (6.73%) Terraform
9 45 (6.18%) Node.js
9 45 (6.18%) Redux
9 45 (6.18%) SOAP
10 42 (5.77%) AngularJS
11 41 (5.63%) HTML
12 37 (5.08%) Django
13 35 (4.81%) JSON
14 34 (4.67%) CSS
15 33 (4.53%) Web Services
16 28 (3.85%) .NET Core
17 27 (3.71%) HTML5
18 26 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (8.93%) Cloud Native
2 52 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 52 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 45 (6.18%) Fixed Income
3 45 (6.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 38 (5.22%) Equities
5 32 (4.40%) Greenfield Project
6 24 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (1.92%) Algorithms
7 14 (1.92%) Data Structures
8 13 (1.79%) AI Agents
8 13 (1.79%) Mobile App
9 12 (1.65%) Derivative
9 12 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.37%) CMDB
10 10 (1.37%) Onboarding
11 7 (0.96%) Market Risk
12 6 (0.82%) Management Information System
12 6 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (0.82%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 46 (6.32%) Linux
2 38 (5.22%) Unix
3 10 (1.37%) Apple iOS
3 10 (1.37%) Windows
4 9 (1.24%) Android
5 4 (0.55%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (32.97%) CI/CD
2 227 (31.18%) Agile
3 137 (18.82%) Microservices
4 133 (18.27%) DevOps
5 109 (14.97%) Software Engineering
6 99 (13.60%) Full-Stack Development
7 97 (13.32%) Test Automation
8 91 (12.50%) AI
9 81 (11.13%) Problem-Solving
10 73 (10.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 72 (9.89%) Containerisation
12 66 (9.07%) Scrum
13 62 (8.52%) Mentoring
14 61 (8.38%) Event-Driven
14 61 (8.38%) TDD
15 60 (8.24%) Code Quality
16 55 (7.55%) Low Latency
17 54 (7.42%) Business Intelligence
17 54 (7.42%) Data Modelling
18 51 (7.01%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 224 (30.77%) Java
2 167 (22.94%) Python
3 150 (20.60%) SQL
4 139 (19.09%) C#
5 128 (17.58%) JavaScript
5 128 (17.58%) TypeScript
6 20 (2.75%) Shell Script
7 16 (2.20%) PL/SQL
8 15 (2.06%) C++
9 13 (1.79%) Apex Code
9 13 (1.79%) Kotlin
10 12 (1.65%) Ruby
11 9 (1.24%) Swift
12 8 (1.10%) C
12 8 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (0.96%) Bicep
13 7 (0.96%) PHP
14 6 (0.82%) Groovy
14 6 (0.82%) PowerShell
14 6 (0.82%) Scala
Qualifications
1 114 (15.66%) Security Cleared
2 101 (13.87%) SC Cleared
3 38 (5.22%) Degree
4 18 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (0.82%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.69%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.41%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.77%) Accessibility
2 34 (4.67%) QA
3 28 (3.85%) WCAG
4 17 (2.34%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.69%) GDPR
5 5 (0.69%) NCSC
6 2 (0.27%) Basel III
6 2 (0.27%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.14%) EMIR
7 1 (0.14%) GRC
7 1 (0.14%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.14%) MiFID
7 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.14%) SEPA
7 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 96 (13.19%) Docker
2 6 (0.82%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.27%) Postfix
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 80 (10.99%) Kubernetes
2 25 (3.43%) Grafana
3 21 (2.88%) Prometheus
4 11 (1.51%) Ansible
5 4 (0.55%) Argo
6 2 (0.27%) Bosun
6 2 (0.27%) Consul
6 2 (0.27%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.14%) SELinux
7 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) systemd
Vendors
1 78 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 57 (7.83%) Oracle
3 31 (4.26%) Salesforce
4 23 (3.16%) Databricks
5 16 (2.20%) ServiceNow
6 14 (1.92%) Google
7 11 (1.51%) Blue Prism
8 10 (1.37%) IBM
9 9 (1.24%) Avaloq
10 5 (0.69%) Jaspersoft
10 5 (0.69%) SAP
10 5 (0.69%) Solace
10 5 (0.69%) Splunk
11 4 (0.55%) ION Trading
12 3 (0.41%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.41%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.41%) New Relic
12 3 (0.41%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.41%) Sybase
13 2 (0.27%) Adobe
717 Senior Developer jobs in England