Senior Developer Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Senior Developer
East of England > Hertfordshire

The median Senior Developer daily rate in Hertfordshire is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 41 66
Rank change year-on-year -17 +25 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 8 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 1.20% 1.05% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 1.13% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £510 £599 £420
25th Percentile £525 £616 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £550
90th Percentile £590 - £580
East of England median daily rate £500 £465 £613
% change year-on-year +7.53% -24.08% +13.74%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hertfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hertfordshire. 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 Hertfordshire with a recognized job title 589 355 624
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.57% 93.42% 93.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 152 343
10th Percentile £263 £263 £285
25th Percentile £413 £338 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.63% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £625 £591 £631
90th Percentile £739 £674 £738
East of England median daily rate £487 £452 £475
% change year-on-year +7.63% -4.84% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 79 151
10th Percentile £17.93 £16.12 £25.00
25th Percentile £20.35 £40.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £67.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £89.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.05% +6.74% +117.07%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Senior Developer job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Hertfordshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Hertfordshire

Senior Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Hertfordshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Hertfordshire

Senior Developer
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 21 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
Watford - 4 - - 2
Hatfield - 2 - - 2
Stevenage - 1 £500 -
Senior Developer
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 21 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 Hertfordshire region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) .NET Core
2 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (37.50%) Design Patterns
2 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (37.50%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (37.50%) React
2 3 (37.50%) ServiceNow
2 3 (37.50%) Unit Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Computacenter
3 2 (25.00%) Product Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) System Testing
3 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Ansible
4 1 (12.50%) Apigee
4 1 (12.50%) Biotechnology
4 1 (12.50%) BMC
4 1 (12.50%) Boomi
4 1 (12.50%) Confluence
4 1 (12.50%) Control-M
4 1 (12.50%) DataStage
4 1 (12.50%) Degree
4 1 (12.50%) Dell

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Apigee
3 1 (12.50%) Boomi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Retail
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) .NET
1 3 (37.50%) .NET Core
1 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
1 3 (37.50%) React
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (37.50%) Design Patterns
2 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (37.50%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (37.50%) Unit Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Product Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) System Testing
3 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Biotechnology
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (12.50%) SDLC
4 1 (12.50%) Software Deployment
4 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) MATLAB
1 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
1 1 (12.50%) R
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) Lustre
1 1 (12.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Control-M
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) ServiceNow
2 2 (25.00%) Computacenter
3 1 (12.50%) BMC
3 1 (12.50%) Dell
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Talend