Senior Developer Contract Job Trends in Liverpool

Senior Developer
Merseyside > Liverpool

The median Senior Developer daily rate in Liverpool is £510, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 25 26
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 6 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Liverpool 3.43% 2.16% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.61% 2.33% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £502 £400 -
25th Percentile £505 £427 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £498 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% +17.06% -29.17%
75th Percentile - £588 £438
90th Percentile - £612 -
Merseyside median daily rate £510 £498 £425
% change year-on-year +2.51% +17.06% -29.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Liverpool

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Liverpool. 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 Liverpool with a recognized job title 166 172 152
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 92.97% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 71 83
10th Percentile £158 £150 £220
25th Percentile £213 £200 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £420
Median % change year-on-year - +1.19% -11.58%
75th Percentile £547 £563 £503
90th Percentile £685 £600 £598
Merseyside median daily rate £403 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +0.63% -5.88% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 17 15
10th Percentile - £15.99 £12.70
25th Percentile £12.21 £17.44 £16.25
Median hourly rate £15.18 £18.13 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.27% -4.58% +88.31%
75th Percentile £34.16 £23.53 £25.25
90th Percentile £51.02 £28.91 £42.00
Merseyside median hourly rate £16.24 £18.13 £18.25
% change year-on-year -10.42% -0.66% +17.74%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

Senior Developer job vacancy trend in Liverpool

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 5 November 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 Liverpool region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) Spring
1 6 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (83.33%) Accessibility
2 5 (83.33%) AngularJS
2 5 (83.33%) API Development
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) jQuery
2 5 (83.33%) JSON
2 5 (83.33%) JUnit
2 5 (83.33%) MVC
2 5 (83.33%) POJO
2 5 (83.33%) Postman
2 5 (83.33%) React
2 5 (83.33%) RESTful
2 5 (83.33%) Thymeleaf
2 5 (83.33%) Unit Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Azure AKS
3 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 4 (66.67%) Docker
3 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 4 (66.67%) Microservices
3 4 (66.67%) User Research
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) API Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Coaching

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Azure AKS
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) JUnit
1 5 (83.33%) Postman
General
1 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Spring
1 6 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (83.33%) AngularJS
2 5 (83.33%) jQuery
2 5 (83.33%) JSON
2 5 (83.33%) POJO
2 5 (83.33%) React
2 5 (83.33%) RESTful
2 5 (83.33%) Thymeleaf
3 1 (16.67%) Spring MVC
3 1 (16.67%) Swagger
3 1 (16.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) API Development
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) MVC
2 5 (83.33%) Unit Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (66.67%) Microservices
3 4 (66.67%) User Research
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) API Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Coaching
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes