Senior Applications Developer Contracts in London

Senior Application Developer
England > London

The median Senior Application Developer daily rate in London is £508, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 389 484
Rank change year-on-year +43 +95 +93
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Applications Developer 7 2 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.056% 0.011% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.012% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile £487 - £463
25th Percentile £504 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.50%
75th Percentile £738 - £565
90th Percentile £798 - £635
England median daily rate £508 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +6.84% -13.64% +2.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Senior Applications Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Applications Developer in London

Senior Applications Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Applications Developer in London

Senior Applications Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Applications Developer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Applications Developer in London

Senior Applications Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Applications Developer in London

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Applications 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 London region featuring Senior Applications Developer in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) NoSQL
2 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) RESTful
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) .NET
3 3 (42.86%) HTML
3 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 3 (42.86%) CSS
3 3 (42.86%) Vue
4 2 (28.57%) SOLID
4 2 (28.57%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
4 2 (28.57%) Node.js
4 2 (28.57%) Responsive Web Design
4 2 (28.57%) Kafka
4 2 (28.57%) AWS
4 2 (28.57%) SaaS
4 2 (28.57%) MVVM
4 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
4 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
4 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) Infor
4 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (28.57%) Docker
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices

Senior Applications Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Stack
2 2 (28.57%) SaaS
2 2 (28.57%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) NoSQL
2 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) .NET
1 4 (57.14%) RESTful
2 3 (42.86%) CSS
2 3 (42.86%) HTML
2 3 (42.86%) Vue
3 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
3 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
3 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (28.57%) Kafka
3 2 (28.57%) Node.js
3 2 (28.57%) Spring
3 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
3 2 (28.57%) Web Services
4 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 1 (14.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
2 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Microservices
2 2 (28.57%) MVC
2 2 (28.57%) MVVM
2 2 (28.57%) OO
2 2 (28.57%) OOP
2 2 (28.57%) Responsive Web Design
2 2 (28.57%) SOLID
2 2 (28.57%) TDD
2 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Web Development
3 1 (14.29%) Front End Development
3 1 (14.29%) Progressive Web App
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) ActionScript
3 2 (28.57%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Infor
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
1 2 (28.57%) TIBCO
11 Senior Applications Developer jobs in England