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 19 December 2025.

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

 6 months to
19 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 143 171
Rank change year-on-year -28 +28 -71
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 527 528 570
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 1.82% 1.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.84% 1.96% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 342 420
10th Percentile £408 £401 £425
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £720
90th Percentile £850 £838 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £590
% change year-on-year -8.70% -2.54% -9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £53.25
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - £73.00
UK median hourly rate - - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - -25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 28,706 26,921 34,873
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.27% 92.92% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,309 16,785 23,966
10th Percentile £291 £300 £288
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
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 1,763 853 1,358
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.73 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £19.50
Median hourly rate £26.78 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.61% -20.00% +38.46%
75th Percentile £60.68 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.90 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £34.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% -23.60% +48.33%

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 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025. 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 -33 310 £625 +4.17% 158
North of England -28 68 £550 +10.00% 97
South West +30 55 £475 -13.64% 37
Yorkshire -23 37 £638 +25.00% 36
South East -26 37 £487 +5.19% 153
North West -23 28 £500 - 47
Midlands -31 25 £510 +7.94% 46
East of England -15 22 £500 +7.53% 55
West Midlands -28 16 £525 +11.11% 24
North East 0 9 £488 -17.37% 14
East Midlands -13 9 £505 +10.68% 22
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, 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.

1 190 (36.05%) Java
2 188 (35.67%) Agile
3 164 (31.12%) AWS
4 152 (28.84%) SQL
5 145 (27.51%) CI/CD
6 144 (27.32%) Microservices
7 139 (26.38%) Azure
8 135 (25.62%) DevOps
9 125 (23.72%) Python
10 124 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
11 118 (22.39%) Kafka
12 113 (21.44%) Security Cleared
13 108 (20.49%) Docker
14 101 (19.17%) Kubernetes
15 99 (18.79%) JavaScript
16 96 (18.22%) SC Cleared
17 82 (15.56%) Spring
18 71 (13.47%) C#
19 69 (13.09%) Scrum
20 67 (12.71%) TDD
21 66 (12.52%) .NET
21 66 (12.52%) Git
21 66 (12.52%) PostgreSQL
21 66 (12.52%) Software Engineering
22 65 (12.33%) Azure DevOps
23 64 (12.14%) React
24 63 (11.95%) Analytics
24 63 (11.95%) RESTful
24 63 (11.95%) Spring Boot
25 62 (11.76%) Test Automation

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 15 (2.85%) Confluence
2 6 (1.14%) CMS
2 6 (1.14%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.76%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.38%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.19%) nginx
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.19%) SAS
5 1 (0.19%) Smallworld
5 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.57%) Endur
2 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.38%) 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
Cloud Services
1 164 (31.12%) AWS
2 139 (26.38%) Azure
3 65 (12.33%) Azure DevOps
4 52 (9.87%) GitHub
5 35 (6.64%) GCP
6 29 (5.50%) Serverless
7 24 (4.55%) Power Platform
8 19 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (2.85%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (2.66%) Amazon S3
11 13 (2.47%) Azure AKS
12 12 (2.28%) Amazon SQS
12 12 (2.28%) Power Automate
13 11 (2.09%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (2.09%) SaaS
14 9 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (1.71%) Azure Service Bus
14 9 (1.71%) Datadog
14 9 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (1.71%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.95%) Kerberos
2 3 (0.57%) SSL
3 2 (0.38%) Firewall
3 2 (0.38%) HTTP
4 1 (0.19%) Internet
4 1 (0.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (12.52%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (9.11%) MongoDB
3 42 (7.97%) Relational Database
4 40 (7.59%) SQL Server
5 31 (5.88%) NoSQL
6 23 (4.36%) Apache Cassandra
7 17 (3.23%) DB2
7 17 (3.23%) DynamoDB
8 13 (2.47%) Power BI
9 12 (2.28%) Redis
10 10 (1.90%) RDBMS
11 9 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (1.71%) Data Lake
11 9 (1.71%) MySQL
12 7 (1.33%) Data Hub
12 7 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.14%) Big Data
13 6 (1.14%) HBase
13 6 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.95%) KDB
Development Applications
1 66 (12.52%) Git
2 41 (7.78%) JUnit
3 35 (6.64%) Jenkins
3 35 (6.64%) Oracle APEX
4 26 (4.93%) JIRA
5 24 (4.55%) GitLab
6 22 (4.17%) Mockito
7 13 (2.47%) Maven
8 11 (2.09%) Gradle
9 10 (1.90%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.71%) Artifactory
10 9 (1.71%) SpecFlow
11 8 (1.52%) Postman
12 7 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (1.14%) Mocha
14 5 (0.95%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.95%) webpack
15 4 (0.76%) TeamCity
16 3 (0.57%) QUnit
16 3 (0.57%) Xcode
General
1 151 (28.65%) Social Skills
2 145 (27.51%) Finance
3 90 (17.08%) Banking
4 56 (10.63%) Public Sector
5 55 (10.44%) Analytical Skills
6 44 (8.35%) Investment Banking
7 28 (5.31%) Front Office
8 8 (1.52%) Financial Institution
9 5 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.76%) Military
10 4 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.57%) Automotive
11 3 (0.57%) Law
11 3 (0.57%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.57%) Marketing
11 3 (0.57%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.38%) Back Office
12 2 (0.38%) Publishing
12 2 (0.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (22.39%) Kafka
2 82 (15.56%) Spring
3 66 (12.52%) .NET
4 64 (12.14%) React
5 63 (11.95%) RESTful
5 63 (11.95%) Spring Boot
6 47 (8.92%) REST
7 42 (7.97%) Node.js
8 40 (7.59%) AngularJS
9 38 (7.21%) HTML
10 31 (5.88%) CSS
11 24 (4.55%) JSON
12 23 (4.36%) Web Services
13 22 (4.17%) .NET Core
14 20 (3.80%) .NET Framework
15 19 (3.61%) gRPC
15 19 (3.61%) RabbitMQ
16 18 (3.42%) Playwright
17 16 (3.04%) JMS
18 15 (2.85%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.78%) Distributed Systems
2 36 (6.83%) Cloud Native
3 33 (6.26%) Derivative
4 29 (5.50%) Equities
5 20 (3.80%) Market Risk
6 19 (3.61%) Data Structures
6 19 (3.61%) Management Information System
7 17 (3.23%) Algorithms
7 17 (3.23%) Fixed Income
8 14 (2.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 14 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (2.66%) Product Ownership
9 11 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.33%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.14%) Equity Derivative
11 6 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.14%) NHS
12 5 (0.95%) Hedge funds
13 4 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 52 (9.87%) Linux
2 24 (4.55%) Unix
3 18 (3.42%) Android
4 13 (2.47%) Mac OS X
5 12 (2.28%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.57%) Windows
7 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.19%) tvOS
8 1 (0.19%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (35.67%) Agile
2 145 (27.51%) CI/CD
3 144 (27.32%) Microservices
4 135 (25.62%) DevOps
5 124 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 69 (13.09%) Scrum
7 67 (12.71%) TDD
8 66 (12.52%) Software Engineering
9 63 (11.95%) Analytics
10 62 (11.76%) Test Automation
11 61 (11.57%) Containerisation
12 59 (11.20%) Full-Stack Development
13 55 (10.44%) Open Source
14 45 (8.54%) Event-Driven
15 43 (8.16%) Mentoring
16 42 (7.97%) SDLC
17 41 (7.78%) Clean Code
18 39 (7.40%) Risk Management
19 38 (7.21%) Unit Testing
19 38 (7.21%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 190 (36.05%) Java
2 152 (28.84%) SQL
3 125 (23.72%) Python
4 99 (18.79%) JavaScript
5 71 (13.47%) C#
6 48 (9.11%) TypeScript
7 43 (8.16%) PL/SQL
8 27 (5.12%) Go
9 19 (3.61%) Kotlin
10 16 (3.04%) Shell Script
11 14 (2.66%) C++
11 14 (2.66%) Ruby
12 9 (1.71%) PHP
13 8 (1.52%) Bash
13 8 (1.52%) PowerShell
14 6 (1.14%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.95%) Swift
16 4 (0.76%) Objective-C
17 3 (0.57%) SOQL
18 2 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 113 (21.44%) Security Cleared
2 96 (18.22%) SC Cleared
3 43 (8.16%) Degree
4 21 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.14%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.14%) Numerate Degree
6 6 (1.14%) OCP
6 6 (1.14%) Oracle Certification
7 5 (0.95%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.57%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.57%) MCP
8 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.38%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.38%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.36%) Accessibility
2 19 (3.61%) QA
3 11 (2.09%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.09%) WCAG
4 3 (0.57%) EU AI Act
4 3 (0.57%) NIST
5 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.19%) GDPR
6 1 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 108 (20.49%) Docker
2 5 (0.95%) zsh
3 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) GridGain
3 1 (0.19%) Lustre
3 1 (0.19%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.19%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.19%) OpenIDM
3 1 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 101 (19.17%) Kubernetes
2 24 (4.55%) Terraform
3 15 (2.85%) Grafana
4 6 (1.14%) Ansible
4 6 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.76%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.57%) Kibana
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 59 (11.20%) Oracle
2 26 (4.93%) Microsoft
3 22 (4.17%) Google
4 18 (3.42%) Sybase
5 16 (3.04%) Databricks
6 15 (2.85%) ServiceNow
7 9 (1.71%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.33%) Atlassian
9 5 (0.95%) Apple
10 4 (0.76%) CA Agile Central
10 4 (0.76%) Virgin Media
11 3 (0.57%) BMC
11 3 (0.57%) Dataiku
11 3 (0.57%) Foundry
11 3 (0.57%) HP
12 2 (0.38%) Computacenter
12 2 (0.38%) IBM
12 2 (0.38%) Ivanti
12 2 (0.38%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.38%) Remedy
512 Senior Developer jobs in England