Senior Developer Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Senior Developer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Senior Developer daily rate in Leeds is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 September 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
8 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 54 57
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 26 11 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 4.40% 1.53% 2.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.51% 1.66% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 8 22
10th Percentile £513 £363 £439
25th Percentile £531 £423 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £663
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -24.53% +15.22%
75th Percentile £694 £588 £700
90th Percentile £700 £657 £720
West Yorkshire median daily rate £625 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% +8.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 576 662 1,083
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.46% 92.07% 97.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 430 753
10th Percentile £313 £350 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £559 £575 £625
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 30 13
10th Percentile £25.15 £17.89 £12.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £19.50 £15.75
Median hourly rate £29.56 £24.18 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.23% +27.26% -10.59%
75th Percentile £50.48 £46.25 £21.31
90th Percentile £79.33 £48.75 £23.45
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £77.50 £25.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +210.00% +31.58% -5.00%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Leeds

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Leeds over the 6 months to 8 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in Leeds

Senior Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 8 September 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 Leeds region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 17 (65.38%) Java
2 16 (61.54%) Microservices
3 15 (57.69%) Test Automation
4 14 (53.85%) Agile
4 14 (53.85%) Continuous Deployment
5 13 (50.00%) Linux
6 12 (46.15%) TDD
6 12 (46.15%) Unix
6 12 (46.15%) BDD
7 11 (42.31%) AWS
7 11 (42.31%) Kafka
7 11 (42.31%) Mac OS X
8 10 (38.46%) Pair Programming
8 10 (38.46%) Mockito
8 10 (38.46%) MongoDB
8 10 (38.46%) Security Cleared
9 9 (34.62%) SC Cleared
9 9 (34.62%) ActiveMQ
9 9 (34.62%) Web Design
9 9 (34.62%) JAX-RS
9 9 (34.62%) Responsive Web Design
10 8 (30.77%) Web Development
11 6 (23.08%) Python
11 6 (23.08%) Terraform
11 6 (23.08%) Public Sector
12 5 (19.23%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (19.23%) DevOps
13 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
13 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
13 4 (15.38%) NHS

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (3.85%) Moodle
Cloud Services
1 11 (42.31%) AWS
2 3 (11.54%) Azure
3 2 (7.69%) Serverless
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.85%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (3.85%) Azure AKS
4 1 (3.85%) GCP
4 1 (3.85%) GitHub
4 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (38.46%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (38.46%) Mockito
2 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.85%) Git
3 1 (3.85%) GitLab
3 1 (3.85%) Gradle
3 1 (3.85%) JUnit
3 1 (3.85%) Log4j
3 1 (3.85%) Maven
3 1 (3.85%) Selenium
3 1 (3.85%) Subversion
General
1 6 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 2 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (42.31%) Kafka
2 9 (34.62%) ActiveMQ
2 9 (34.62%) JAX-RS
3 2 (7.69%) Node.js
3 2 (7.69%) React
3 2 (7.69%) RESTful
3 2 (7.69%) Spring
3 2 (7.69%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.85%) Hibernate
4 1 (3.85%) J2EE
4 1 (3.85%) JPA
4 1 (3.85%) JWT
4 1 (3.85%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (3.85%) Micronaut
4 1 (3.85%) PowerMock
4 1 (3.85%) pytest
4 1 (3.85%) REST
4 1 (3.85%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) NHS
2 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 13 (50.00%) Linux
2 12 (46.15%) Unix
3 11 (42.31%) Mac OS X
4 1 (3.85%) Android
4 1 (3.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (61.54%) Microservices
2 15 (57.69%) Test Automation
3 14 (53.85%) Agile
3 14 (53.85%) Continuous Deployment
4 12 (46.15%) BDD
4 12 (46.15%) TDD
5 10 (38.46%) Pair Programming
6 9 (34.62%) Responsive Web Design
6 9 (34.62%) Web Design
7 8 (30.77%) Web Development
8 5 (19.23%) DevOps
9 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
9 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
11 2 (7.69%) CI/CD
11 2 (7.69%) Coaching
11 2 (7.69%) Configuration Management
11 2 (7.69%) Containerisation
11 2 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
12 1 (3.85%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 17 (65.38%) Java
2 6 (23.08%) Python
3 2 (7.69%) SQL
4 1 (3.85%) Bash
4 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.85%) Kotlin
4 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 9 (34.62%) SC Cleared
3 5 (19.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Terraform
2 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle
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