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 24 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
24 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 179 111
Rank change year-on-year -1 -68 +43
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 731 443 690
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.57% 1.59% 2.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.70% 1.74% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 322 474
10th Percentile £406 £410 £400
25th Percentile £466 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £761 £709 £700
90th Percentile £938 £825 £836
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 42,964 25,407 30,277
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.24% 91.30% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,510 16,379 18,703
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.11%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £735 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,556 1,389 1,420
10th Percentile £14.82 £13.75 £14.84
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.44 £21.37
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -45.54% +2.62%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.50 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -3 422 £650 - 343
North of England +9 144 £588 +6.82% 105
Midlands +13 76 £513 -4.21% 80
Yorkshire 0 71 £515 -14.17% 25
West Midlands +9 64 £513 -14.58% 61
North West -14 61 £625 +25.00% 60
South West -25 43 £525 -5.15% 19
South East -65 34 £428 -16.89% 77
North East -34 14 £450 -7.69% 20
East Midlands -14 11 - - 19
East of England -35 6 £388 -22.50% 25
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 (32.83%) CI/CD
2 227 (31.05%) Agile
3 224 (30.64%) Java
4 165 (22.57%) Python
5 157 (21.48%) Azure
6 153 (20.93%) SQL
7 152 (20.79%) AWS
8 142 (19.43%) C#
9 137 (18.74%) Microservices
10 132 (18.06%) DevOps
11 128 (17.51%) JavaScript
12 127 (17.37%) TypeScript
13 125 (17.10%) REST
14 115 (15.73%) Security Cleared
15 113 (15.46%) Software Engineering
16 106 (14.50%) React
17 102 (13.95%) .NET
17 102 (13.95%) SC Cleared
18 98 (13.41%) Git
19 97 (13.27%) Full-Stack Development
19 97 (13.27%) Spring
20 96 (13.13%) AI
20 96 (13.13%) Docker
21 93 (12.72%) Test Automation
22 86 (11.76%) RESTful
23 84 (11.49%) Kubernetes
24 81 (11.08%) Spring Boot
25 79 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
26 78 (10.67%) Microsoft
27 74 (10.12%) 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 19 (2.60%) Confluence
2 12 (1.64%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.09%) SharePoint
4 7 (0.96%) Apache
4 7 (0.96%) Oracle Workflow
4 7 (0.96%) WordPress
5 6 (0.82%) CMS
6 5 (0.68%) Camunda
7 4 (0.55%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.41%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.27%) Moodle
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.27%) Solana
10 1 (0.14%) Drupal
10 1 (0.14%) HCL Domino
10 1 (0.14%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
10 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 (2.19%) Teamcenter
2 11 (1.50%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.96%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.82%) Endur
6 5 (0.68%) 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 Applications
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle iProcurement
9 2 (0.27%) SAP HCM
9 2 (0.27%) SAP Payroll
9 2 (0.27%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 157 (21.48%) Azure
2 152 (20.79%) AWS
3 68 (9.30%) GitHub
4 47 (6.43%) Power Platform
5 45 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
6 44 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
7 36 (4.92%) Serverless
8 33 (4.51%) Power Automate
9 32 (4.38%) GCP
10 20 (2.74%) PowerApps
11 19 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
12 17 (2.33%) Amazon S3
13 15 (2.05%) GitHub Copilot
14 13 (1.78%) Amazon SQS
15 12 (1.64%) OpenShift
16 11 (1.50%) Azure Functions
17 10 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 10 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
18 9 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
18 9 (1.23%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.41%) HTTP
1 3 (0.41%) Multicast
2 1 (0.14%) CTI
2 1 (0.14%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.14%) MQTT
2 1 (0.14%) NFC
2 1 (0.14%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (8.21%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (7.39%) SQL Server
3 45 (6.16%) Relational Database
4 35 (4.79%) MongoDB
5 32 (4.38%) Power BI
6 25 (3.42%) NoSQL
7 14 (1.92%) Oracle Database
8 13 (1.78%) DynamoDB
9 12 (1.64%) MySQL
10 11 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (1.37%) KDB
12 9 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (1.23%) Redis
13 8 (1.09%) Geospatial Data
14 7 (0.96%) 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 98 (13.41%) Git
2 47 (6.43%) Jenkins
3 29 (3.97%) Mockito
4 27 (3.69%) JUnit
5 26 (3.56%) JIRA
6 24 (3.28%) GitLab
6 24 (3.28%) Maven
7 19 (2.60%) SonarQube
8 13 (1.78%) Gradle
9 12 (1.64%) Claude Code
10 10 (1.37%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.82%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.68%) MSI
12 5 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
12 5 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (0.55%) IBM UrbanCode
13 4 (0.55%) Snyk
13 4 (0.55%) Xcode
13 4 (0.55%) XCTest
13 4 (0.55%) XCUITest
General
1 184 (25.17%) Finance
2 137 (18.74%) Social Skills
3 112 (15.32%) Public Sector
4 102 (13.95%) Banking
5 74 (10.12%) Front Office
6 60 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
7 54 (7.39%) Investment Banking
8 32 (4.38%) Retail
9 27 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.92%) Back Office
11 12 (1.64%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.64%) Military
12 7 (0.96%) Law
12 7 (0.96%) Legal
13 6 (0.82%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.68%) Games
14 5 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.41%) Local Government
16 3 (0.41%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (17.10%) REST
2 106 (14.50%) React
3 102 (13.95%) .NET
4 97 (13.27%) Spring
5 86 (11.76%) RESTful
6 81 (11.08%) Spring Boot
7 64 (8.76%) Kafka
8 48 (6.57%) SOAP
9 46 (6.29%) Terraform
10 45 (6.16%) Node.js
10 45 (6.16%) Redux
11 41 (5.61%) AngularJS
12 39 (5.34%) HTML
13 36 (4.92%) JSON
14 34 (4.65%) Django
14 34 (4.65%) Web Services
15 32 (4.38%) CSS
16 29 (3.97%) .NET Core
17 26 (3.56%) XML
18 25 (3.42%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 65 (8.89%) Cloud Native
2 51 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
2 51 (6.98%) Product Ownership
3 44 (6.02%) Fixed Income
4 43 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 37 (5.06%) Equities
5 37 (5.06%) Greenfield Project
6 26 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (1.92%) Data Structures
8 13 (1.78%) AI Agents
8 13 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.64%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.64%) Derivative
10 11 (1.50%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.37%) CMDB
12 9 (1.23%) Onboarding
13 7 (0.96%) Market Risk
13 7 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (0.96%) Spread Betting
14 6 (0.82%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.70%) Linux
2 37 (5.06%) Unix
3 9 (1.23%) Apple iOS
3 9 (1.23%) Windows
4 8 (1.09%) 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 (32.83%) CI/CD
2 227 (31.05%) Agile
3 137 (18.74%) Microservices
4 132 (18.06%) DevOps
5 113 (15.46%) Software Engineering
6 97 (13.27%) Full-Stack Development
7 96 (13.13%) AI
8 93 (12.72%) Test Automation
9 79 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
10 74 (10.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 72 (9.85%) Containerisation
12 67 (9.17%) Scrum
13 65 (8.89%) Event-Driven
14 62 (8.48%) TDD
15 61 (8.34%) Mentoring
16 58 (7.93%) Code Quality
17 55 (7.52%) Data Modelling
18 54 (7.39%) Migration
19 53 (7.25%) Business Intelligence
20 52 (7.11%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 224 (30.64%) Java
2 165 (22.57%) Python
3 153 (20.93%) SQL
4 142 (19.43%) C#
5 128 (17.51%) JavaScript
6 127 (17.37%) TypeScript
7 20 (2.74%) Shell Script
8 16 (2.19%) PL/SQL
9 15 (2.05%) C++
10 13 (1.78%) Apex Code
10 13 (1.78%) Kotlin
11 12 (1.64%) Ruby
12 8 (1.09%) C
12 8 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (1.09%) Swift
13 7 (0.96%) Bicep
13 7 (0.96%) PHP
13 7 (0.96%) Scala
14 6 (0.82%) Groovy
14 6 (0.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 115 (15.73%) Security Cleared
2 102 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 38 (5.20%) Degree
4 18 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (0.82%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.68%) 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 40 (5.47%) Accessibility
2 35 (4.79%) QA
3 26 (3.56%) WCAG
4 16 (2.19%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.68%) GDPR
5 5 (0.68%) 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 (13.13%) 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 84 (11.49%) Kubernetes
2 25 (3.42%) Grafana
3 21 (2.87%) Prometheus
4 11 (1.50%) 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%) Istio
7 1 (0.14%) Kibana
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 (10.67%) Microsoft
2 60 (8.21%) Oracle
3 30 (4.10%) Salesforce
4 21 (2.87%) Databricks
5 17 (2.33%) ServiceNow
6 13 (1.78%) Google
7 11 (1.50%) Blue Prism
8 10 (1.37%) IBM
9 9 (1.23%) Avaloq
10 5 (0.68%) Jaspersoft
10 5 (0.68%) SAP
10 5 (0.68%) Solace
11 4 (0.55%) ION Trading
11 4 (0.55%) New Relic
11 4 (0.55%) Splunk
12 3 (0.41%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.41%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.41%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.41%) Sybase
13 2 (0.27%) Optimizely
649 Senior Developer jobs in England