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 12 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
12 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 167 108
Rank change year-on-year -3 -59 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 715 452 705
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.57% 1.63% 2.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.70% 1.78% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 339 503
10th Percentile £406 £409 £400
25th Percentile £475 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £725
90th Percentile £938 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 8
10th Percentile £37.25 - £48.89
25th Percentile £43.01 - £54.85
Median hourly rate £45.56 - £58.91
75th Percentile £46.18 - £67.97
90th Percentile - - £84.35
UK median hourly rate £45.56 - £58.91
% change year-on-year - - -21.46%

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 42,165 25,369 30,950
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 91.65% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,544 16,436 20,307
10th Percentile £325 £285 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,170 1,324 1,794
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.52 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.47 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £25.23 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.45% -43.94% +8.04%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.63 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.25 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.99% -41.51% +2.87%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -11 429 £625 -3.85% 276
North of England +12 122 £575 +9.52% 92
Yorkshire +3 62 £550 +4.76% 30
Midlands -13 56 £513 -4.21% 34
North West -10 53 £625 +25.00% 52
West Midlands -14 44 £513 -14.58% 19
South East -56 44 £494 -6.71% 73
South West -25 43 £500 -9.09% 18
East Midlands -2 11 £513 +2.50% 15
East of England -18 11 £500 - 22
North East - 9 £875 - 11
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 August 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.

1 226 (31.61%) CI/CD
2 214 (29.93%) Java
3 213 (29.79%) Agile
4 158 (22.10%) Azure
5 152 (21.26%) Python
6 149 (20.84%) AWS
6 149 (20.84%) SQL
7 142 (19.86%) Microservices
8 134 (18.74%) C#
9 129 (18.04%) JavaScript
10 128 (17.90%) DevOps
11 125 (17.48%) TypeScript
12 116 (16.22%) Security Cleared
13 115 (16.08%) React
14 110 (15.38%) REST
15 106 (14.83%) Docker
15 106 (14.83%) SC Cleared
16 105 (14.69%) .NET
17 100 (13.99%) Full-Stack Development
18 97 (13.57%) RESTful
19 91 (12.73%) Software Engineering
20 88 (12.31%) Kubernetes
21 86 (12.03%) Spring
22 85 (11.89%) Git
22 85 (11.89%) Test Automation
23 78 (10.91%) AI
24 74 (10.35%) Containerisation
25 69 (9.65%) Spring Boot
26 67 (9.37%) Problem-Solving
27 66 (9.23%) Microsoft

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 13 (1.82%) Confluence
2 12 (1.68%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.26%) CMS
4 8 (1.12%) Oracle Workflow
5 7 (0.98%) Apache
5 7 (0.98%) WordPress
6 5 (0.70%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.56%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.42%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.42%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.28%) IIS
9 2 (0.28%) Moodle
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle Application Server
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 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 16 (2.24%) Teamcenter
2 11 (1.54%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.98%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.84%) Endur
5 5 (0.70%) Oracle Financials
5 5 (0.70%) Oracle General Ledger
5 5 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
5 5 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.56%) Oracle FAH
7 3 (0.42%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.42%) Quorum
7 3 (0.42%) R3 Corda
7 3 (0.42%) Ripple
7 3 (0.42%) Shopify
7 3 (0.42%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle E-Business Tax
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle Internet Expenses
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 158 (22.10%) Azure
2 149 (20.84%) AWS
3 63 (8.81%) GitHub
4 44 (6.15%) Power Platform
5 42 (5.87%) GitHub Actions
6 40 (5.59%) Serverless
7 39 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
8 37 (5.17%) GCP
9 28 (3.92%) Power Automate
10 20 (2.80%) PowerApps
11 19 (2.66%) Amazon SQS
12 18 (2.52%) Amazon S3
13 15 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (1.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (1.68%) Azure Service Bus
14 12 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
15 11 (1.54%) OpenShift
16 10 (1.40%) GitHub Copilot
17 9 (1.26%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.84%) Multicast
2 3 (0.42%) HTTP
3 2 (0.28%) RTP
4 1 (0.14%) CTI
4 1 (0.14%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.14%) MQTT
4 1 (0.14%) NFC
4 1 (0.14%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (6.71%) SQL Server
3 41 (5.73%) Relational Database
4 38 (5.31%) Power BI
5 29 (4.06%) MongoDB
6 23 (3.22%) NoSQL
7 17 (2.38%) DynamoDB
8 13 (1.82%) MySQL
9 12 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (1.68%) Oracle Database
10 10 (1.40%) Apache Cassandra
10 10 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (1.40%) KDB
11 8 (1.12%) Geospatial Data
11 8 (1.12%) Redis
12 7 (0.98%) Kdb+
13 6 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (0.84%) Big Data
13 6 (0.84%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 85 (11.89%) Git
2 48 (6.71%) Jenkins
3 27 (3.78%) Mockito
4 26 (3.64%) GitLab
5 24 (3.36%) JUnit
5 24 (3.36%) Maven
6 17 (2.38%) JIRA
7 16 (2.24%) SonarQube
8 13 (1.82%) Gradle
9 7 (0.98%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.98%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.70%) MSI
10 5 (0.70%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.70%) Xcode
11 4 (0.56%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.56%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.56%) Snyk
11 4 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (0.56%) XCTest
11 4 (0.56%) XCUITest
General
1 159 (22.24%) Finance
2 117 (16.36%) Social Skills
3 105 (14.69%) Public Sector
4 102 (14.27%) Banking
5 61 (8.53%) Front Office
6 56 (7.83%) Investment Banking
7 51 (7.13%) Analytical Skills
8 34 (4.76%) Retail
9 20 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.96%) Financial Institution
11 13 (1.82%) Military
12 9 (1.26%) Back Office
13 7 (0.98%) Legal
14 6 (0.84%) Games
14 6 (0.84%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.56%) Law
16 3 (0.42%) Local Government
16 3 (0.42%) Publishing
16 3 (0.42%) Telecoms
17 2 (0.28%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (16.08%) React
2 110 (15.38%) REST
3 105 (14.69%) .NET
4 97 (13.57%) RESTful
5 86 (12.03%) Spring
6 69 (9.65%) Spring Boot
7 60 (8.39%) Kafka
8 50 (6.99%) Node.js
9 47 (6.57%) Redux
10 42 (5.87%) AngularJS
10 42 (5.87%) HTML
11 39 (5.45%) SOAP
12 35 (4.90%) CSS
13 30 (4.20%) Django
13 30 (4.20%) Web Services
14 28 (3.92%) .NET Core
15 26 (3.64%) JSON
16 25 (3.50%) HTML5
17 21 (2.94%) XML
18 20 (2.80%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 60 (8.39%) Cloud Native
2 57 (7.97%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (6.29%) Fixed Income
4 44 (6.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 39 (5.45%) Product Ownership
6 37 (5.17%) Equities
7 32 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (2.10%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.96%) Mobile App
11 13 (1.82%) AI Agents
11 13 (1.82%) Derivative
12 12 (1.68%) Algorithms
12 12 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (1.40%) CMDB
14 9 (1.26%) Onboarding
15 7 (0.98%) Market Risk
16 5 (0.70%) Low-Code
16 5 (0.70%) Spread Betting
17 4 (0.56%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 44 (6.15%) Linux
2 33 (4.62%) Unix
3 16 (2.24%) Windows
4 11 (1.54%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.40%) Android
6 6 (0.84%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.56%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (31.61%) CI/CD
2 213 (29.79%) Agile
3 142 (19.86%) Microservices
4 128 (17.90%) DevOps
5 100 (13.99%) Full-Stack Development
6 91 (12.73%) Software Engineering
7 85 (11.89%) Test Automation
8 78 (10.91%) AI
9 74 (10.35%) Containerisation
10 67 (9.37%) Problem-Solving
11 64 (8.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 61 (8.53%) Code Quality
13 60 (8.39%) Event-Driven
14 59 (8.25%) Data Modelling
14 59 (8.25%) Mentoring
15 58 (8.11%) Business Intelligence
16 56 (7.83%) TDD
17 54 (7.55%) Scrum
18 53 (7.41%) Migration
19 51 (7.13%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 214 (29.93%) Java
2 152 (21.26%) Python
3 149 (20.84%) SQL
4 134 (18.74%) C#
5 129 (18.04%) JavaScript
6 125 (17.48%) TypeScript
7 17 (2.38%) PL/SQL
8 16 (2.24%) Shell Script
9 15 (2.10%) C++
10 14 (1.96%) Go
10 14 (1.96%) Ruby
11 13 (1.82%) Apex Code
12 11 (1.54%) Kotlin
13 9 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (1.26%) Swift
14 7 (0.98%) Groovy
14 7 (0.98%) PHP
15 6 (0.84%) C
15 6 (0.84%) PowerShell
15 6 (0.84%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 116 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 106 (14.83%) SC Cleared
3 30 (4.20%) Degree
4 16 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (0.84%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.42%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.28%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.87%) Accessibility
2 36 (5.03%) QA
3 26 (3.64%) WCAG
4 17 (2.38%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.70%) NCSC
6 2 (0.28%) GDPR
6 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.14%) Basel III
7 1 (0.14%) GRC
7 1 (0.14%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.14%) SEPA
7 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 106 (14.83%) Docker
2 7 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.28%) GridGain
3 2 (0.28%) Postfix
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 88 (12.31%) Kubernetes
2 54 (7.55%) Terraform
3 19 (2.66%) Grafana
4 15 (2.10%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.54%) Ansible
6 4 (0.56%) Argo
7 2 (0.28%) Bosun
7 2 (0.28%) Consul
7 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.28%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.14%) SELinux
8 1 (0.14%) systemd
Vendors
1 66 (9.23%) Microsoft
2 46 (6.43%) Oracle
3 26 (3.64%) Salesforce
4 20 (2.80%) Databricks
5 19 (2.66%) ServiceNow
6 15 (2.10%) Google
7 9 (1.26%) Avaloq
7 9 (1.26%) Blue Prism
8 8 (1.12%) IBM
9 6 (0.84%) Jaspersoft
9 6 (0.84%) SAP
9 6 (0.84%) Solace
10 4 (0.56%) Sybase
11 3 (0.42%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.42%) Citrix
11 3 (0.42%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.42%) New Relic
11 3 (0.42%) SimCorp
12 2 (0.28%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.28%) Optimizely
503 Senior Developer jobs in England