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 23 July 2026.

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

 6 months to
23 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 161 119
Rank change year-on-year -12 -42 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 708 478 701
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.58% 1.75% 1.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.71% 1.90% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 358 505
10th Percentile £406 £409 £400
25th Percentile £472 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +5.45% -15.38%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £725
90th Percentile £938 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 9
10th Percentile £37.25 - £50.88
25th Percentile £43.01 - £54.85
Median hourly rate £45.56 - £58.91
75th Percentile £46.18 - £72.50
90th Percentile - - £83.90
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 41,522 25,105 32,718
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 91.81% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,299 16,309 21,568
10th Percentile £325 £288 £300
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,983 1,254 2,147
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.75 £13.51
25th Percentile £22.46 £17.87 £18.30
Median hourly rate £45.56 £27.29 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.91% -35.78% -3.53%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.04 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.69 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +73.72% -37.63% -7.70%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -12 434 £625 -3.85% 96
North of England +12 116 £575 +9.52% 42
Yorkshire +2 63 £575 +9.52% 11
Midlands -27 48 £513 -6.82% 24
North West -18 46 £563 +7.14% 27
South East -61 42 £525 -0.80% 35
South West -24 41 £500 -9.09% 11
West Midlands -34 40 £513 -10.87% 12
East of England -21 16 £500 - 7
North East - 9 £875 - 4
East Midlands -11 7 £525 +5.00% 12
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 July 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.

1 225 (31.78%) Java
2 211 (29.80%) CI/CD
3 210 (29.66%) Agile
4 161 (22.74%) AWS
5 153 (21.61%) Python
6 147 (20.76%) Azure
7 146 (20.62%) SQL
8 144 (20.34%) Microservices
9 128 (18.08%) JavaScript
10 125 (17.66%) DevOps
11 124 (17.51%) C#
12 119 (16.81%) TypeScript
13 116 (16.38%) React
14 106 (14.97%) Docker
15 104 (14.69%) Security Cleared
16 97 (13.70%) .NET
16 97 (13.70%) Full-Stack Development
16 97 (13.70%) SC Cleared
17 95 (13.42%) REST
18 91 (12.85%) RESTful
19 90 (12.71%) Kubernetes
20 87 (12.29%) Test Automation
21 84 (11.86%) Software Engineering
22 83 (11.72%) Spring
23 76 (10.73%) Git
24 72 (10.17%) Containerisation
24 72 (10.17%) Kafka
25 71 (10.03%) AI
26 70 (9.89%) Spring Boot
27 66 (9.32%) 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 12 (1.69%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.41%) Confluence
3 8 (1.13%) CMS
3 8 (1.13%) Oracle Workflow
4 7 (0.99%) Apache
5 6 (0.85%) WordPress
6 4 (0.56%) Ethereum
6 4 (0.56%) Headless CMS
6 4 (0.56%) Hyperledger
6 4 (0.56%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.28%) IIS
7 2 (0.28%) Moodle
8 1 (0.14%) Drupal
8 1 (0.14%) HCL Domino
8 1 (0.14%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 16 (2.26%) Teamcenter
2 10 (1.41%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.85%) Endur
3 6 (0.85%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.71%) Oracle Financials
4 5 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
4 5 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (0.71%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.56%) Oracle FAH
5 4 (0.56%) R3 Corda
6 3 (0.42%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (0.42%) Quorum
6 3 (0.42%) Ripple
6 3 (0.42%) Shopify
6 3 (0.42%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Internet Expenses
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle iProcurement
Cloud Services
1 161 (22.74%) AWS
2 147 (20.76%) Azure
3 60 (8.47%) GitHub
4 42 (5.93%) Serverless
5 41 (5.79%) Power Platform
6 38 (5.37%) GitHub Actions
7 35 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
7 35 (4.94%) GCP
8 27 (3.81%) Power Automate
9 22 (3.11%) PowerApps
10 20 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
11 19 (2.68%) Amazon S3
12 17 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (1.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (1.84%) Copilot Studio
14 12 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
14 12 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
15 11 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
16 10 (1.41%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.85%) Multicast
2 5 (0.71%) HTTP
3 2 (0.28%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.28%) RTP
4 1 (0.14%) CTI
4 1 (0.14%) MQTT
4 1 (0.14%) NFC
4 1 (0.14%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (7.91%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (6.21%) SQL Server
3 39 (5.51%) Relational Database
4 35 (4.94%) Power BI
5 32 (4.52%) MongoDB
6 24 (3.39%) NoSQL
7 17 (2.40%) DynamoDB
8 14 (1.98%) MySQL
9 13 (1.84%) Apache Cassandra
10 12 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (1.41%) KDB
12 9 (1.27%) Oracle Database
13 8 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (1.13%) Redis
14 7 (0.99%) Data Lake
14 7 (0.99%) Geospatial Data
14 7 (0.99%) Kdb+
15 6 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
15 6 (0.85%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 76 (10.73%) Git
2 45 (6.36%) Jenkins
3 26 (3.67%) Mockito
4 23 (3.25%) GitLab
4 23 (3.25%) Maven
5 22 (3.11%) JUnit
6 15 (2.12%) JIRA
7 14 (1.98%) SonarQube
8 13 (1.84%) Gradle
9 6 (0.85%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.71%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.71%) Snyk
10 5 (0.71%) Xcode
11 4 (0.56%) Ant
11 4 (0.56%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.56%) MSI
11 4 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (0.56%) XCTest
11 4 (0.56%) XCUITest
General
1 162 (22.88%) Finance
2 108 (15.25%) Banking
3 104 (14.69%) Social Skills
4 103 (14.55%) Public Sector
5 63 (8.90%) Investment Banking
6 61 (8.62%) Front Office
7 45 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
8 29 (4.10%) Retail
9 20 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.98%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.55%) Military
12 8 (1.13%) Legal
13 6 (0.85%) Back Office
13 6 (0.85%) Games
13 6 (0.85%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.71%) Law
15 3 (0.42%) Local Government
15 3 (0.42%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.28%) Automotive
16 2 (0.28%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (16.38%) React
2 97 (13.70%) .NET
3 95 (13.42%) REST
4 91 (12.85%) RESTful
5 83 (11.72%) Spring
6 72 (10.17%) Kafka
7 70 (9.89%) Spring Boot
8 52 (7.34%) Redux
9 49 (6.92%) Node.js
10 43 (6.07%) HTML
11 40 (5.65%) AngularJS
12 37 (5.23%) CSS
13 33 (4.66%) SOAP
14 30 (4.24%) Django
15 27 (3.81%) Web Services
16 26 (3.67%) .NET Core
17 24 (3.39%) HTML5
18 23 (3.25%) JSON
19 20 (2.82%) GraphQL
20 19 (2.68%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (8.19%) Distributed Systems
2 54 (7.63%) Cloud Native
3 46 (6.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 45 (6.36%) Fixed Income
5 37 (5.23%) Product Ownership
6 35 (4.94%) Equities
7 34 (4.80%) Greenfield Project
8 16 (2.26%) Mobile App
9 15 (2.12%) Derivative
10 14 (1.98%) AI Agents
10 14 (1.98%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.84%) Algorithms
11 13 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.41%) CMDB
12 10 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.13%) Market Risk
13 8 (1.13%) Onboarding
14 5 (0.71%) Low-Code
14 5 (0.71%) Virtual Team
15 4 (0.56%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 50 (7.06%) Linux
2 36 (5.08%) Unix
3 20 (2.82%) Windows
4 11 (1.55%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.27%) Android
5 9 (1.27%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.99%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (29.80%) CI/CD
2 210 (29.66%) Agile
3 144 (20.34%) Microservices
4 125 (17.66%) DevOps
5 97 (13.70%) Full-Stack Development
6 87 (12.29%) Test Automation
7 84 (11.86%) Software Engineering
8 72 (10.17%) Containerisation
9 71 (10.03%) AI
10 65 (9.18%) TDD
11 62 (8.76%) Problem-Solving
12 59 (8.33%) Code Quality
13 56 (7.91%) Continuous Improvement
13 56 (7.91%) Mentoring
14 55 (7.77%) Event-Driven
14 55 (7.77%) Scrum
15 53 (7.49%) Data Modelling
16 49 (6.92%) Business Intelligence
16 49 (6.92%) Low Latency
16 49 (6.92%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 225 (31.78%) Java
2 153 (21.61%) Python
3 146 (20.62%) SQL
4 128 (18.08%) JavaScript
5 124 (17.51%) C#
6 119 (16.81%) TypeScript
7 18 (2.54%) Go
8 16 (2.26%) C++
9 15 (2.12%) Ruby
10 14 (1.98%) Shell Script
11 13 (1.84%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.69%) PL/SQL
13 10 (1.41%) Apex Code
14 9 (1.27%) Swift
15 6 (0.85%) C
15 6 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (0.85%) Groovy
15 6 (0.85%) PHP
15 6 (0.85%) PowerShell
15 6 (0.85%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 104 (14.69%) Security Cleared
2 97 (13.70%) SC Cleared
3 24 (3.39%) Degree
4 13 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (0.85%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.42%) Master's 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 (5.93%) Accessibility
2 31 (4.38%) QA
3 27 (3.81%) WCAG
4 15 (2.12%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.56%) NCSC
6 2 (0.28%) GDPR
7 1 (0.14%) Basel III
7 1 (0.14%) GRC
7 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.14%) SEPA
7 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 106 (14.97%) Docker
2 6 (0.85%) 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 90 (12.71%) Kubernetes
2 53 (7.49%) Terraform
3 18 (2.54%) Grafana
4 14 (1.98%) Prometheus
5 9 (1.27%) 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 (9.32%) Microsoft
2 40 (5.65%) Oracle
3 21 (2.97%) Salesforce
3 21 (2.97%) ServiceNow
4 12 (1.69%) Databricks
4 12 (1.69%) Google
5 10 (1.41%) SAP
6 9 (1.27%) Avaloq
7 7 (0.99%) Blue Prism
8 6 (0.85%) Jaspersoft
9 5 (0.71%) Solace
10 4 (0.56%) IBM
10 4 (0.56%) New Relic
10 4 (0.56%) Sybase
11 3 (0.42%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.42%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.42%) SimCorp
11 3 (0.42%) Splunk
12 2 (0.28%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.28%) MuleSoft
199 Senior Developer jobs in England