Senior Developer Contracts 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 4 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 122 136
Rank change year-on-year -35 +14 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 470 718 915
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.78% 1.92% 1.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.94% 2.07% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 534 698
10th Percentile £410 £400 £450
25th Percentile £481 £463 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £788
90th Percentile £825 £850 £888
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 5
10th Percentile - £35.00 £60.50
25th Percentile - £54.85 £61.25
Median hourly rate £77.19 £58.91 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.04% -5.75% -13.79%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £75.00
90th Percentile - £83.00 £76.50
UK median hourly rate £77.19 £58.91 £62.50
% change year-on-year +31.04% -5.75% -13.79%

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 24,278 34,696 45,028
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 92.91% 94.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,841 22,709 31,930
10th Percentile £293 £300 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,141 2,561 1,374
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.88 £14.42
25th Percentile £17.98 £17.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £43.69
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -8.45% +74.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.75 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.80% -12.21% +68.63%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in England.

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 4 July 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 -46 323 £650 +8.33% 906
South East +48 36 £535 +1.90% 432
North of England -21 30 £525 +10.53% 358
South West +36 26 £600 +26.32% 169
Midlands +1 21 £535 +19.55% 199
North West -9 18 £550 +14.29% 225
West Midlands +3 16 £550 +23.60% 128
Yorkshire -9 11 £525 - 110
East of England +30 10 £650 +8.33% 178
East Midlands +6 5 £455 +4.30% 70
North East -1 1 £375 -11.76% 24
Senior Developer
UK

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 4 July 2025, Senior Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 170 (36.17%) Agile
2 157 (33.40%) Java
3 156 (33.19%) SQL
4 152 (32.34%) Finance
5 131 (27.87%) AWS
6 114 (24.26%) Social Skills
7 112 (23.83%) CI/CD
8 111 (23.62%) Azure
9 107 (22.77%) Python
10 102 (21.70%) DevOps
11 100 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
12 93 (19.79%) JavaScript
13 85 (18.09%) Banking
14 84 (17.87%) C#
14 84 (17.87%) Microservices
15 83 (17.66%) .NET
16 81 (17.23%) TypeScript
16 81 (17.23%) Docker
17 80 (17.02%) TDD
18 75 (15.96%) React
19 72 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
20 68 (14.47%) Relational Database
20 68 (14.47%) Kubernetes
20 68 (14.47%) Kafka
21 62 (13.19%) Spring
22 61 (12.98%) RESTful
23 59 (12.55%) Software Engineering
23 59 (12.55%) Full-Stack Development
24 58 (12.34%) PostgreSQL
25 56 (11.91%) AngularJS

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (2.98%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.55%) Moodle
3 10 (2.13%) CMS
4 8 (1.70%) Confluence
4 8 (1.70%) GemFire
4 8 (1.70%) Oracle Coherence
5 7 (1.49%) Apache
6 4 (0.85%) Camunda
6 4 (0.85%) Headless CMS
6 4 (0.85%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.64%) Alfresco
8 2 (0.43%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.43%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.21%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.21%) Drupal
9 1 (0.21%) govService
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.64%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (0.43%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.21%) Endur
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 131 (27.87%) AWS
2 111 (23.62%) Azure
3 48 (10.21%) Serverless
4 34 (7.23%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
5 24 (5.11%) Power Platform
6 22 (4.68%) GitHub
7 17 (3.62%) Amazon S3
7 17 (3.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (3.62%) GCP
8 14 (2.98%) SaaS
9 12 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (2.55%) PowerApps
10 11 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (2.34%) npm
11 10 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (2.13%) Yarn
12 9 (1.91%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (1.91%) OpenShift
12 9 (1.91%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.85%) SAN
1 4 (0.85%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.64%) HTTP
2 3 (0.64%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.43%) VPN
4 1 (0.21%) BGP
4 1 (0.21%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.21%) Firewall
4 1 (0.21%) MPLS
4 1 (0.21%) Multicast
4 1 (0.21%) POP3
4 1 (0.21%) SMTP
4 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (14.47%) Relational Database
2 58 (12.34%) PostgreSQL
3 44 (9.36%) MongoDB
4 31 (6.60%) SQL Server
5 20 (4.26%) NoSQL
6 17 (3.62%) DB2
6 17 (3.62%) MySQL
7 13 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (2.77%) Power BI
7 13 (2.77%) Redis
8 12 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (2.34%) Big Data
10 9 (1.91%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.70%) Apache Cassandra
11 8 (1.70%) Hadoop
11 8 (1.70%) RDBMS
11 8 (1.70%) Tableau
12 7 (1.49%) Power Query
13 5 (1.06%) KDB
14 4 (0.85%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 50 (10.64%) Git
2 44 (9.36%) JUnit
3 26 (5.53%) Jenkins
3 26 (5.53%) JIRA
4 17 (3.62%) Gradle
5 16 (3.40%) Mockito
6 12 (2.55%) Maven
7 11 (2.34%) GitLab
8 10 (2.13%) webpack
9 9 (1.91%) Liquibase
10 6 (1.28%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.28%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.28%) IntelliJ
10 6 (1.28%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.28%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.06%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.06%) PHPUnit
11 5 (1.06%) Postman
11 5 (1.06%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.85%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 152 (32.34%) Finance
2 114 (24.26%) Social Skills
3 85 (18.09%) Banking
4 72 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (10.43%) Investment Banking
6 38 (8.09%) Public Sector
7 37 (7.87%) Front Office
8 15 (3.19%) Telecoms
9 12 (2.55%) Marketing
10 10 (2.13%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.70%) Back Office
12 7 (1.49%) Electronics
12 7 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.28%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.06%) Billing
15 4 (0.85%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.85%) Retail
16 3 (0.64%) Military
16 3 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
17 2 (0.43%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (17.66%) .NET
2 75 (15.96%) React
3 68 (14.47%) Kafka
4 62 (13.19%) Spring
5 61 (12.98%) RESTful
6 56 (11.91%) AngularJS
7 54 (11.49%) Node.js
8 44 (9.36%) HTML
9 43 (9.15%) CSS
10 38 (8.09%) Spring Boot
11 35 (7.45%) .NET Core
12 30 (6.38%) REST
13 29 (6.17%) ASP.NET
14 28 (5.96%) Web Services
15 20 (4.26%) JMS
15 20 (4.26%) XML
16 17 (3.62%) JSON
17 16 (3.40%) .NET Framework
18 14 (2.98%) OpenAPI
18 14 (2.98%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 29 (6.17%) Derivative
3 22 (4.68%) Equities
4 21 (4.47%) Data Structures
4 21 (4.47%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (4.26%) Product Ownership
6 19 (4.04%) Market Risk
7 18 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (3.40%) Algorithms
9 14 (2.98%) Cloud Native
10 13 (2.77%) Mobile App
11 12 (2.55%) Fixed Income
11 12 (2.55%) Management Information System
12 10 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.28%) e-Learning
13 6 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (1.06%) Hedge funds
14 5 (1.06%) VLE
15 4 (0.85%) N-Tier
15 4 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 45 (9.57%) Linux
2 15 (3.19%) Android
3 12 (2.55%) Unix
4 10 (2.13%) Windows
5 8 (1.70%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.85%) Debian
6 4 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.85%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.85%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.21%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (36.17%) Agile
2 112 (23.83%) CI/CD
3 102 (21.70%) DevOps
4 100 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
5 84 (17.87%) Microservices
6 80 (17.02%) TDD
7 59 (12.55%) Full-Stack Development
7 59 (12.55%) Software Engineering
8 55 (11.70%) Mentoring
9 48 (10.21%) Analytics
10 41 (8.72%) Scrum
11 40 (8.51%) Containerisation
12 33 (7.02%) OO
12 33 (7.02%) Performance Tuning
13 32 (6.81%) Computer Science
14 31 (6.60%) Technical Leadership
14 31 (6.60%) Test Automation
15 30 (6.38%) Event-Driven
15 30 (6.38%) Multithreading
16 29 (6.17%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 157 (33.40%) Java
2 156 (33.19%) SQL
3 107 (22.77%) Python
4 93 (19.79%) JavaScript
5 84 (17.87%) C#
6 81 (17.23%) TypeScript
7 23 (4.89%) Shell Script
8 15 (3.19%) Kotlin
9 14 (2.98%) C++
9 14 (2.98%) Ruby
10 12 (2.55%) Go
11 10 (2.13%) PowerShell
12 8 (1.70%) PHP
12 8 (1.70%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.70%) R
12 8 (1.70%) VBA
13 6 (1.28%) Apex Code
13 6 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (1.06%) Bash
14 5 (1.06%) Scala
Qualifications
1 52 (11.06%) Security Cleared
2 46 (9.79%) SC Cleared
3 42 (8.94%) Degree
4 11 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.70%) Numerate Degree
6 6 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.28%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.28%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.06%) PhD
8 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.43%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.43%) MCPD
9 2 (0.43%) MCSD
9 2 (0.43%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.43%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.21%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.40%) QA
2 10 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.70%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.21%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 81 (17.23%) Docker
2 8 (1.70%) GridGain
3 4 (0.85%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.21%) Firmware
4 1 (0.21%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 68 (14.47%) Kubernetes
2 38 (8.09%) Terraform
3 9 (1.91%) Ansible
4 6 (1.28%) Grafana
5 5 (1.06%) Kibana
5 5 (1.06%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.21%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 34 (7.23%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.96%) Oracle
3 19 (4.04%) Sybase
4 15 (3.19%) Salesforce
5 13 (2.77%) Atlassian
6 12 (2.55%) Google
7 10 (2.13%) SAP
8 9 (1.91%) Databricks
8 9 (1.91%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.70%) Solace
9 8 (1.70%) TIBCO
10 5 (1.06%) IFS
10 5 (1.06%) Splunk
11 4 (0.85%) Adobe
11 4 (0.85%) Murex
11 4 (0.85%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.85%) Virgin Media
11 4 (0.85%) VMware
12 3 (0.64%) Infor
12 3 (0.64%) ION Trading