Senior Developer Contracts in London

Senior Developer
England > London

The median Senior Developer daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 102 76
Rank change year-on-year +25 -26 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 528 561 1,357
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.28% 2.48% 3.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.49% 2.63% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 431 1,097
10th Percentile £413 £465 £463
25th Percentile £495 £525 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £750 £800 £775
90th Percentile £875 £900 £850
England median daily rate £550 £634 £650
% change year-on-year -13.21% -2.50% +15.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £61.43 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.09% - -
England median hourly rate £61.43 £67.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -8.99% -10.00% +55.39%

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 15,122 21,371 37,774
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 94.47% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 15,627 27,598
10th Percentile £345 £356 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £680 £694 £695
90th Percentile £800 £800 £788
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 232 310
10th Percentile £17.54 £18.20 £15.70
25th Percentile £23.29 £22.44 £21.00
Median hourly rate £34.25 £37.42 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.47% +16.03% +7.50%
75th Percentile £55.75 £63.81 £55.75
90th Percentile £71.88 £77.50 £72.50
England median hourly rate £47.50 £43.90 £26.00
% change year-on-year +8.20% +68.85% +30.00%

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 7 September 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
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 7 September 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 -2 51 £538 -21.82% 23
West London +23 10 £403 -34.98% 2
East London +1 9 £438 -46.97% 5
South London +12 7 £500 -23.08%
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 September 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.

1 224 (42.42%) Agile
2 149 (28.22%) Java
3 148 (28.03%) DevOps
4 146 (27.65%) CI/CD
5 142 (26.89%) C#
5 142 (26.89%) Finance
6 141 (26.70%) Azure
7 132 (25.00%) .NET
8 124 (23.48%) JavaScript
9 102 (19.32%) SQL Server
10 99 (18.75%) SQL
10 99 (18.75%) TDD
11 94 (17.80%) Banking
12 92 (17.42%) Social Skills
13 90 (17.05%) Azure DevOps
14 84 (15.91%) Microsoft
15 81 (15.34%) AWS
16 79 (14.96%) Python
16 79 (14.96%) React
17 75 (14.20%) Git
18 73 (13.83%) HTML
19 72 (13.64%) Scrum
19 72 (13.64%) Software Engineering
20 71 (13.45%) TypeScript
21 64 (12.12%) CSS
22 63 (11.93%) XML
23 59 (11.17%) Front Office
24 57 (10.80%) .NET Core
25 53 (10.04%) PowerShell
26 52 (9.85%) Test Automation

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 (3.03%) Apache Spark
2 15 (2.84%) CMS
3 7 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.33%) Confluence
4 6 (1.14%) SAS
5 5 (0.95%) Apache
5 5 (0.95%) WordPress
6 4 (0.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.76%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.57%) Appian
7 3 (0.57%) Mendix
7 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.57%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.57%) WildFly
8 2 (0.38%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.19%) GemFire
9 1 (0.19%) Liferay
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Elementor
1 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.76%) Magento
2 4 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.76%) Oracle EBS R12
2 4 (0.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (0.76%) RMDS
3 3 (0.57%) ION MarketView
3 3 (0.57%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 3 (0.57%) Oracle iProcurement
3 3 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.38%) Endur
4 2 (0.38%) OpenText MBPM
5 1 (0.19%) Cognos Business Intelligence
5 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.19%) Shopify
5 1 (0.19%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 141 (26.70%) Azure
2 90 (17.05%) Azure DevOps
3 81 (15.34%) AWS
4 45 (8.52%) Azure Service Bus
5 42 (7.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 32 (6.06%) Serverless
7 31 (5.87%) Entra ID
8 25 (4.73%) GCP
9 19 (3.60%) Azure Monitor
10 17 (3.22%) GitHub
11 16 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
12 15 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (2.46%) SaaS
14 11 (2.08%) AWS Step Functions
14 11 (2.08%) Azure Pipelines
14 11 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
14 11 (2.08%) Power Platform
15 10 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (1.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 10 (1.89%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.14%) Internet
2 3 (0.57%) DNS
2 3 (0.57%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.19%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (19.32%) SQL Server
2 32 (6.06%) KDB
3 29 (5.49%) MongoDB
4 28 (5.30%) Relational Database
5 21 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (3.79%) NoSQL
7 19 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (3.22%) Big Data
8 17 (3.22%) Redis
9 14 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (2.08%) Hadoop
11 10 (1.89%) Power BI
12 9 (1.70%) Oracle Database
13 7 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (1.14%) Data Lake
14 6 (1.14%) DynamoDB
14 6 (1.14%) RDBMS
14 6 (1.14%) Star Schema
14 6 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 75 (14.20%) Git
2 37 (7.01%) Jenkins
3 19 (3.60%) Maven
4 16 (3.03%) Mockito
5 12 (2.27%) Android Studio
5 12 (2.27%) SpecFlow
6 11 (2.08%) JIRA
7 10 (1.89%) Postman
8 8 (1.52%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.33%) Visual Studio
9 7 (1.33%) Visual Studio Team System
10 6 (1.14%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.14%) GitLab
10 6 (1.14%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.95%) JUnit
12 4 (0.76%) Oracle Forms
13 3 (0.57%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.57%) PHPUnit
13 3 (0.57%) webpack
14 2 (0.38%) NetBeans
General
1 142 (26.89%) Finance
2 94 (17.80%) Banking
3 92 (17.42%) Social Skills
4 59 (11.17%) Front Office
5 51 (9.66%) Public Sector
6 41 (7.77%) Investment Banking
7 30 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (3.41%) Back Office
8 18 (3.41%) Financial Institution
9 9 (1.70%) Local Government
10 4 (0.76%) Retail
11 3 (0.57%) General Ledger
11 3 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.38%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.38%) Marketing
12 2 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.19%) Automotive
13 1 (0.19%) German Language
13 1 (0.19%) Law
13 1 (0.19%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (25.00%) .NET
2 79 (14.96%) React
3 73 (13.83%) HTML
4 64 (12.12%) CSS
5 63 (11.93%) XML
6 57 (10.80%) .NET Core
7 43 (8.14%) ASP.NET
8 40 (7.58%) AngularJS
9 34 (6.44%) .NET Framework
10 29 (5.49%) Kafka
10 29 (5.49%) REST
11 28 (5.30%) Node.js
12 27 (5.11%) RESTful
13 19 (3.60%) HTML5
14 18 (3.41%) jQuery
14 18 (3.41%) Spring
15 17 (3.22%) Spring Boot
16 14 (2.65%) ActiveMQ
16 14 (2.65%) Django
16 14 (2.65%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 47 (8.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 38 (7.20%) Fixed Income
2 38 (7.20%) Product Ownership
3 26 (4.92%) Derivative
4 22 (4.17%) Mobile App
5 18 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (3.41%) Equities
6 16 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (2.65%) Algorithms
8 12 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (2.08%) Data Structures
9 11 (2.08%) Hedge funds
10 10 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.89%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
12 7 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.33%) Market Risk
13 5 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.76%) Credit Derivative
14 4 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 29 (5.49%) Linux
2 25 (4.73%) Android
2 25 (4.73%) Unix
3 13 (2.46%) Mac OS X
3 13 (2.46%) Windows
4 7 (1.33%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (42.42%) Agile
2 148 (28.03%) DevOps
3 146 (27.65%) CI/CD
4 99 (18.75%) TDD
5 72 (13.64%) Scrum
5 72 (13.64%) Software Engineering
6 52 (9.85%) Test Automation
7 51 (9.66%) Microservices
8 45 (8.52%) SDLC
9 43 (8.14%) Front End Development
9 43 (8.14%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (7.58%) OO
11 39 (7.39%) Design Patterns
12 37 (7.01%) Unit Testing
13 35 (6.63%) BDD
14 34 (6.44%) Computer Science
15 33 (6.25%) Electronic Trading
15 33 (6.25%) Full-Stack Development
16 32 (6.06%) Clean Code
17 31 (5.87%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 149 (28.22%) Java
2 142 (26.89%) C#
3 124 (23.48%) JavaScript
4 99 (18.75%) SQL
5 79 (14.96%) Python
6 71 (13.45%) TypeScript
7 53 (10.04%) PowerShell
8 42 (7.95%) Bicep
9 28 (5.30%) Kotlin
10 19 (3.60%) Scala
11 18 (3.41%) T-SQL
12 17 (3.22%) Go
13 14 (2.65%) VB.NET
14 11 (2.08%) C++
15 10 (1.89%) PHP
15 10 (1.89%) Shell Script
16 8 (1.52%) C
17 6 (1.14%) PL/SQL
18 5 (0.95%) Ruby
18 5 (0.95%) Swift
Qualifications
1 50 (9.47%) Security Cleared
2 41 (7.77%) SC Cleared
3 38 (7.20%) Degree
4 14 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.14%) DV Cleared
6 5 (0.95%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.38%) OCP
8 2 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.19%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.19%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 16 (3.03%) WCAG
3 11 (2.08%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.52%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.57%) MiFID
5 3 (0.57%) QA
6 2 (0.38%) Basel III
6 2 (0.38%) EMIR
7 1 (0.19%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.19%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 50 (9.47%) Active Directory
1 50 (9.47%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 52 (9.85%) Kubernetes
2 16 (3.03%) Terraform
3 10 (1.89%) Ansible
4 8 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.14%) Grafana
6 5 (0.95%) Podman
7 4 (0.76%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.38%) Salt
9 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 84 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 33 (6.25%) Oracle
3 19 (3.60%) Google
4 12 (2.27%) Solace
5 11 (2.08%) ION Trading
5 11 (2.08%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.52%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.33%) TIBCO
8 6 (1.14%) Calypso
8 6 (1.14%) Databricks
8 6 (1.14%) SAP
9 4 (0.76%) Cloudera
9 4 (0.76%) Hortonworks
10 3 (0.57%) IBM
10 3 (0.57%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.38%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.38%) Murex
11 2 (0.38%) Tradeweb
11 2 (0.38%) Virgin Media
11 2 (0.38%) Xamarin