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 17 January 2026.

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

 6 months to
17 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 145 168
Rank change year-on-year -22 +23 -62
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 535 489 530
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 1.82% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.83% 1.95% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 321 390
10th Percentile £409 £425 £425
25th Percentile £453 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £598 £589
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% +1.49% -9.42%
75th Percentile £691 £725 £718
90th Percentile £871 £860 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £583 £575
% change year-on-year -9.87% +1.30% -10.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 9
10th Percentile - - £43.55
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - £77.19 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +28.65% -4.00%
75th Percentile - - £72.50
90th Percentile - - £75.50
UK median hourly rate - £77.19 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +28.65% -4.00%

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 29,270 25,024 34,190
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.59% 92.98% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,698 15,494 23,173
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
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 1,784 765 1,662
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.91 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £41.91
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -16.48% +19.73%
75th Percentile £61.52 £64.73 £64.88
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £41.37
% change year-on-year -15.38% -21.43% +18.19%

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 17 January 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
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 17 January 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 -24 325 £625 - 118
North of England -33 72 £550 +7.84% 81
South West +25 54 £475 -13.64% 42
Yorkshire -27 38 £631 +20.24% 27
South East -27 33 £473 -13.21% 129
North West -19 31 £500 - 42
Midlands -26 24 £505 +1.00% 35
West Midlands -26 19 £525 - 17
East of England -20 17 £500 -13.42% 37
North East -5 9 £488 +1.04% 12
East Midlands -26 5 £475 -5.00% 18
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 January 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.

1 188 (35.14%) Java
2 174 (32.52%) Agile
3 171 (31.96%) AWS
4 143 (26.73%) Microservices
5 138 (25.79%) SQL
6 134 (25.05%) Azure
7 133 (24.86%) CI/CD
8 127 (23.74%) Python
9 126 (23.55%) Security Cleared
10 124 (23.18%) DevOps
11 114 (21.31%) Kafka
12 110 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
12 110 (20.56%) SC Cleared
13 109 (20.37%) Docker
14 103 (19.25%) Kubernetes
15 101 (18.88%) JavaScript
16 80 (14.95%) Spring
17 72 (13.46%) TDD
18 70 (13.08%) Software Engineering
19 68 (12.71%) React
20 66 (12.34%) Spring Boot
21 65 (12.15%) Containerisation
22 63 (11.78%) Git
22 63 (11.78%) Scrum
22 63 (11.78%) Test Automation
23 61 (11.40%) C#
24 59 (11.03%) Analytics
25 57 (10.65%) .NET
26 56 (10.47%) Azure DevOps
26 56 (10.47%) Open Source

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 14 (2.62%) Confluence
2 5 (0.93%) CMS
2 5 (0.93%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.75%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.37%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.19%) Appian
5 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.19%) IIS
5 1 (0.19%) JBoss
5 1 (0.19%) nginx
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.19%) SAS
5 1 (0.19%) Smallworld
5 1 (0.19%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Endur
2 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.19%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 171 (31.96%) AWS
2 134 (25.05%) Azure
3 56 (10.47%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (8.60%) GitHub
5 29 (5.42%) GCP
6 25 (4.67%) Serverless
7 21 (3.93%) Power Platform
8 14 (2.62%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (2.43%) Azure Service Bus
9 13 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (2.24%) Azure AKS
11 11 (2.06%) Power Automate
12 10 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (1.68%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.68%) Amazon SQS
13 9 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (1.68%) Datadog
13 9 (1.68%) SaaS
14 8 (1.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.93%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.37%) Firewall
2 2 (0.37%) HTTP
2 2 (0.37%) SSL
3 1 (0.19%) DNS
3 1 (0.19%) Internet
3 1 (0.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (10.47%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (7.85%) MongoDB
3 37 (6.92%) SQL Server
4 36 (6.73%) Relational Database
5 31 (5.79%) NoSQL
6 28 (5.23%) Apache Cassandra
7 14 (2.62%) DB2
7 14 (2.62%) DynamoDB
8 13 (2.43%) Power BI
9 10 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.68%) Data Hub
10 9 (1.68%) Redis
11 8 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.50%) Data Lake
11 8 (1.50%) MySQL
12 7 (1.31%) Oracle BI EE
13 6 (1.12%) HBase
13 6 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.93%) Delta Lake
14 5 (0.93%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 63 (11.78%) Git
2 35 (6.54%) Jenkins
2 35 (6.54%) JUnit
3 34 (6.36%) Oracle APEX
4 24 (4.49%) GitLab
5 23 (4.30%) JIRA
6 21 (3.93%) Mockito
7 13 (2.43%) Maven
8 12 (2.24%) Gradle
9 9 (1.68%) Artifactory
10 8 (1.50%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.50%) Postman
11 7 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (1.31%) SpecFlow
12 6 (1.12%) Mocha
12 6 (1.12%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.75%) Bitbucket
14 3 (0.56%) QUnit
14 3 (0.56%) TeamCity
14 3 (0.56%) webpack
General
1 136 (25.42%) Social Skills
2 131 (24.49%) Finance
3 86 (16.07%) Banking
4 62 (11.59%) Public Sector
5 46 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (6.92%) Investment Banking
7 21 (3.93%) Front Office
8 13 (2.43%) Financial Institution
9 5 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.75%) Law
10 4 (0.75%) Military
10 4 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (0.75%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.56%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.56%) Marketing
11 3 (0.56%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.37%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.37%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (21.31%) Kafka
2 80 (14.95%) Spring
3 68 (12.71%) React
4 66 (12.34%) Spring Boot
5 57 (10.65%) .NET
6 51 (9.53%) RESTful
7 47 (8.79%) AngularJS
8 46 (8.60%) REST
9 44 (8.22%) HTML
10 41 (7.66%) Node.js
11 39 (7.29%) CSS
12 28 (5.23%) Web Services
13 22 (4.11%) gRPC
14 21 (3.93%) JSON
15 20 (3.74%) .NET Framework
16 17 (3.18%) .NET Core
16 17 (3.18%) Playwright
16 17 (3.18%) RabbitMQ
17 15 (2.80%) Next.js
18 14 (2.62%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 46 (8.60%) Distributed Systems
2 37 (6.92%) Cloud Native
3 32 (5.98%) Derivative
4 28 (5.23%) Equities
5 20 (3.74%) Market Risk
6 19 (3.55%) Algorithms
6 19 (3.55%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.99%) Data Structures
7 16 (2.99%) Fixed Income
8 15 (2.80%) Product Ownership
9 14 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.68%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.50%) Equity Derivative
12 7 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (1.12%) NHS
13 6 (1.12%) Onboarding
14 4 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 49 (9.16%) Linux
2 23 (4.30%) Unix
3 17 (3.18%) Android
4 13 (2.43%) Mac OS X
5 9 (1.68%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.56%) Windows
7 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (32.52%) Agile
2 143 (26.73%) Microservices
3 133 (24.86%) CI/CD
4 124 (23.18%) DevOps
5 110 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
6 72 (13.46%) TDD
7 70 (13.08%) Software Engineering
8 65 (12.15%) Containerisation
9 63 (11.78%) Scrum
9 63 (11.78%) Test Automation
10 59 (11.03%) Analytics
11 56 (10.47%) Open Source
12 55 (10.28%) Full-Stack Development
13 44 (8.22%) Event-Driven
14 43 (8.04%) SDLC
15 38 (7.10%) Risk Management
16 34 (6.36%) Mentoring
16 34 (6.36%) Software Delivery
16 34 (6.36%) Unit Testing
16 34 (6.36%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 188 (35.14%) Java
2 138 (25.79%) SQL
3 127 (23.74%) Python
4 101 (18.88%) JavaScript
5 61 (11.40%) C#
6 40 (7.48%) TypeScript
7 38 (7.10%) PL/SQL
8 34 (6.36%) Go
9 22 (4.11%) Kotlin
10 16 (2.99%) Ruby
11 15 (2.80%) C++
12 13 (2.43%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.87%) PowerShell
14 8 (1.50%) Bash
15 5 (0.93%) PHP
16 3 (0.56%) Objective-C
16 3 (0.56%) Swift
17 2 (0.37%) Apex Code
17 2 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 126 (23.55%) Security Cleared
2 110 (20.56%) SC Cleared
3 37 (6.92%) Degree
4 17 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.50%) Numerate Degree
6 6 (1.12%) OCP
6 6 (1.12%) Oracle Certification
7 5 (0.93%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.93%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.56%) MCP
9 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.37%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.37%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.49%) Accessibility
2 14 (2.62%) QA
3 13 (2.43%) WCAG
4 9 (1.68%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.56%) EU AI Act
5 3 (0.56%) NIST
6 1 (0.19%) GDPR
6 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 109 (20.37%) Docker
2 5 (0.93%) zsh
3 2 (0.37%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.19%) GridGain
4 1 (0.19%) Lustre
4 1 (0.19%) OpenAM
4 1 (0.19%) OpenDJ
4 1 (0.19%) OpenIDM
4 1 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 103 (19.25%) Kubernetes
2 24 (4.49%) Terraform
3 15 (2.80%) Grafana
4 9 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.12%) Ansible
6 3 (0.56%) Kibana
6 3 (0.56%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.19%) Argo
7 1 (0.19%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.19%) Control-M
7 1 (0.19%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.19%) Packer
7 1 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 54 (10.09%) Oracle
2 23 (4.30%) Microsoft
3 20 (3.74%) Google
4 15 (2.80%) Sybase
5 13 (2.43%) ServiceNow
6 10 (1.87%) Databricks
7 5 (0.93%) Atlassian
7 5 (0.93%) Guidewire
7 5 (0.93%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.56%) Apple
8 3 (0.56%) BMC
8 3 (0.56%) Cognizant
8 3 (0.56%) Dataiku
8 3 (0.56%) Foundry
8 3 (0.56%) Pega
9 2 (0.37%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.37%) Confluent
9 2 (0.37%) HP
9 2 (0.37%) IBM
9 2 (0.37%) Red Hat
412 Senior Developer jobs in England