Senior Developer Contracts in London

Senior Developer
England > London

The median Senior Developer daily rate in London is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 82 80
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 463 818 1,274
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.61% 3.02% 3.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.81% 3.17% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 629 1,046
10th Percentile £421 £484 £463
25th Percentile £507 £563 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £640
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +9.38% +13.78%
75th Percentile £800 £800 £738
90th Percentile £875 £900 £825
England median daily rate £575 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile - £61.50 -
25th Percentile £56.25 £63.75 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £67.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +92.86% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £71.25 £57.75
90th Percentile - £73.50 £71.40
England median hourly rate £58.91 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.75% +13.64% +61.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,503 25,805 37,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.30% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,697 27,064
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 292 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £17.98 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.83 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in London

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in London

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in London

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in London

Senior Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Developer in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Developer in London

Senior Developer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Central London -17 49 £538 -20.37% 18
East London 0 14 £569 -31.06% 3
West London +13 7 £320 -46.67% 3
South London +9 6 £520 -45.26% 3
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 London region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 210 (45.36%) Agile
2 153 (33.05%) Azure
3 150 (32.40%) C#
4 148 (31.97%) DevOps
5 145 (31.32%) Java
6 124 (26.78%) Finance
7 121 (26.13%) CI/CD
8 116 (25.05%) .NET
9 111 (23.97%) JavaScript
10 109 (23.54%) SQL Server
11 95 (20.52%) Microsoft
12 89 (19.22%) Azure DevOps
13 85 (18.36%) React
14 83 (17.93%) AWS
15 82 (17.71%) SQL
15 82 (17.71%) TDD
15 82 (17.71%) Social Skills
16 74 (15.98%) PowerShell
17 71 (15.33%) Software Engineering
17 71 (15.33%) Python
18 69 (14.90%) Scrum
19 65 (14.04%) TypeScript
20 61 (13.17%) XML
21 59 (12.74%) Active Directory
22 57 (12.31%) Microservices
23 56 (12.10%) Banking
24 54 (11.66%) Front End Development
25 53 (11.45%) HTML
26 52 (11.23%) AngularJS
27 49 (10.58%) Git

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (3.46%) CMS
2 9 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.73%) Confluence
4 6 (1.30%) Apache
4 6 (1.30%) Appian
5 4 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.86%) SAS
5 4 (0.86%) WordPress
6 2 (0.43%) CICS
7 1 (0.22%) GemFire
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.22%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.08%) Endur
3 2 (0.43%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.43%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.43%) RMDS
3 2 (0.43%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (0.43%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.22%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 153 (33.05%) Azure
2 89 (19.22%) Azure DevOps
3 83 (17.93%) AWS
4 37 (7.99%) Entra ID
5 34 (7.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 34 (7.34%) Azure Service Bus
6 28 (6.05%) GCP
7 24 (5.18%) GitHub
8 18 (3.89%) Azure Monitor
9 16 (3.46%) Amazon S3
10 15 (3.24%) Serverless
11 13 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (2.38%) Azure Pipelines
13 8 (1.73%) dbt
13 8 (1.73%) Power Platform
14 7 (1.51%) PaaS
15 6 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
15 6 (1.30%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.65%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (23.54%) SQL Server
2 24 (5.18%) MongoDB
3 22 (4.75%) KDB
4 21 (4.54%) NoSQL
5 11 (2.38%) Relational Database
6 10 (2.16%) Redis
7 8 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (1.73%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.51%) Power BI
9 6 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (1.08%) MySQL
11 4 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.65%) Big Data
12 3 (0.65%) DB2
12 3 (0.65%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.65%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.65%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 49 (10.58%) Git
2 31 (6.70%) Mockito
3 30 (6.48%) Jenkins
4 18 (3.89%) JUnit
5 14 (3.02%) Cucumber
5 14 (3.02%) GitLab
6 11 (2.38%) JIRA
7 9 (1.94%) SpecFlow
8 7 (1.51%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.51%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.30%) TeamCity
10 5 (1.08%) Postman
11 4 (0.86%) NUnit
11 4 (0.86%) Pylint
11 4 (0.86%) Sourcetree
12 3 (0.65%) CircleCI
13 2 (0.43%) Gatling
13 2 (0.43%) ScalaTest
13 2 (0.43%) Storybook
13 2 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 124 (26.78%) Finance
2 82 (17.71%) Social Skills
3 56 (12.10%) Banking
4 49 (10.58%) Public Sector
5 44 (9.50%) Front Office
6 26 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (3.02%) Investment Banking
8 13 (2.81%) Back Office
9 11 (2.38%) Local Government
10 8 (1.73%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.65%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.43%) Advertising
13 2 (0.43%) Law
13 2 (0.43%) Retail
14 1 (0.22%) Automotive
14 1 (0.22%) Games
14 1 (0.22%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.22%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (25.05%) .NET
2 85 (18.36%) React
3 61 (13.17%) XML
4 53 (11.45%) HTML
5 52 (11.23%) AngularJS
6 46 (9.94%) .NET Core
6 46 (9.94%) CSS
7 32 (6.91%) .NET Framework
8 30 (6.48%) Spring Boot
9 28 (6.05%) ASP.NET
9 28 (6.05%) Node.js
10 27 (5.83%) Kafka
10 27 (5.83%) REST
11 24 (5.18%) Spring
12 20 (4.32%) RESTful
13 19 (4.10%) jQuery
13 19 (4.10%) Web Services
14 18 (3.89%) ActiveMQ
14 18 (3.89%) Pandas
15 17 (3.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 33 (7.13%) Product Ownership
3 30 (6.48%) Fixed Income
4 28 (6.05%) Derivative
5 25 (5.40%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (3.89%) Algorithms
7 17 (3.67%) Onboarding
8 16 (3.46%) Credit Derivative
9 13 (2.81%) Equities
10 11 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (2.16%) Management Information System
11 10 (2.16%) Renewable Energy
12 8 (1.73%) Market Risk
12 8 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.51%) Data Structures
13 7 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (1.51%) Hedge funds
14 6 (1.30%) Cloud Native
14 6 (1.30%) Contactless
14 6 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 38 (8.21%) Linux
2 19 (4.10%) Unix
3 14 (3.02%) Mac OS X
4 9 (1.94%) Android
5 7 (1.51%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.86%) Windows
7 2 (0.43%) zOS
8 1 (0.22%) CentOS
8 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (45.36%) Agile
2 148 (31.97%) DevOps
3 121 (26.13%) CI/CD
4 82 (17.71%) TDD
5 71 (15.33%) Software Engineering
6 69 (14.90%) Scrum
7 57 (12.31%) Microservices
8 54 (11.66%) Front End Development
9 49 (10.58%) SDLC
10 45 (9.72%) OO
11 42 (9.07%) Test Automation
12 36 (7.78%) Continuous Integration
13 31 (6.70%) B2C
13 31 (6.70%) Clean Code
13 31 (6.70%) Electronic Trading
13 31 (6.70%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (6.70%) Web Development
14 29 (6.26%) BDD
14 29 (6.26%) Design Patterns
15 28 (6.05%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 150 (32.40%) C#
2 145 (31.32%) Java
3 111 (23.97%) JavaScript
4 82 (17.71%) SQL
5 74 (15.98%) PowerShell
6 71 (15.33%) Python
7 65 (14.04%) TypeScript
8 44 (9.50%) Bicep
9 16 (3.46%) Scala
10 15 (3.24%) C++
11 12 (2.59%) Kotlin
12 10 (2.16%) Ruby
13 8 (1.73%) Go
14 6 (1.30%) PL/SQL
14 6 (1.30%) Rust
14 6 (1.30%) T-SQL
15 5 (1.08%) Swift
16 4 (0.86%) Bash
16 4 (0.86%) Objective-C
16 4 (0.86%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (6.48%) Security Cleared
2 29 (6.26%) Degree
3 25 (5.40%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.08%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.43%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.67%) Accessibility
2 13 (2.81%) WCAG
3 9 (1.94%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.43%) MiFID
4 2 (0.43%) QA
5 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 59 (12.74%) Active Directory
2 33 (7.13%) Docker
3 9 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.65%) IAG
5 2 (0.43%) ACF2
5 2 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.43%) RACF
6 1 (0.22%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 28 (6.05%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (1.30%) Terraform
4 3 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (0.65%) Grafana
5 2 (0.43%) CA Endevor
5 2 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 95 (20.52%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.32%) Oracle
3 12 (2.59%) Google
4 11 (2.38%) IBM
5 10 (2.16%) ION Trading
6 9 (1.94%) Virgin Media
7 7 (1.51%) TIBCO
8 5 (1.08%) Apple
9 4 (0.86%) Blue Prism
9 4 (0.86%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.86%) Solace
9 4 (0.86%) UiPath
10 3 (0.65%) Databricks
10 3 (0.65%) Sybase
11 2 (0.43%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.43%) NEC
11 2 (0.43%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.43%) SAP
11 2 (0.43%) Workday
12 1 (0.22%) Mapbox