Senior Developer Contracts in London

Senior Developer
England > London

The median Senior Developer daily rate in London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 April 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
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 98 79
Rank change year-on-year -22 -19 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 291 414 892
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.31% 2.29% 3.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.47% 2.46% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 307 692
10th Percentile £450 £450 £476
25th Percentile £525 £513 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £788 £800 £789
90th Percentile £874 £875 £900
England median daily rate £600 £600 £650
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - - £61.50
25th Percentile - £56.25 £63.75
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +20.54%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £71.25
90th Percentile - - £73.50
England median hourly rate £77.19 £58.91 £62.50
% change year-on-year +31.04% -5.75% +5.38%

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 11,795 16,821 27,152
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 93.18% 95.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,079 12,144 19,608
10th Percentile £338 £325 £363
25th Percentile £427 £444 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 337 300
10th Percentile £21.15 £16.00 £18.41
25th Percentile £24.66 £19.57 £22.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.81 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.85% -21.66% +1.43%
75th Percentile £50.86 £46.50 £62.13
90th Percentile £65.00 £64.06 £75.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £32.50 £42.84
% change year-on-year +4.62% -24.14% +94.73%

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 2 April 2025.

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 2 April 2025. 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 -15 29 £613 +2.08% 21
South London +13 12 £925 +76.19% 5
West London +10 4 £500 +61.29% 5
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 April 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 London region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 114 (39.18%) Finance
2 102 (35.05%) Java
3 89 (30.58%) Agile
4 83 (28.52%) Social Skills
5 74 (25.43%) Python
6 70 (24.05%) Banking
7 68 (23.37%) SQL
8 67 (23.02%) AWS
9 63 (21.65%) JavaScript
9 63 (21.65%) CI/CD
10 60 (20.62%) Azure
11 58 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
12 55 (18.90%) DevOps
13 54 (18.56%) React
14 50 (17.18%) .NET
15 47 (16.15%) TypeScript
16 46 (15.81%) C#
16 46 (15.81%) CSS
17 44 (15.12%) HTML
17 44 (15.12%) AngularJS
17 44 (15.12%) Analytical Skills
18 43 (14.78%) Front Office
19 41 (14.09%) Software Engineering
20 40 (13.75%) TDD
20 40 (13.75%) Full-Stack Development
21 39 (13.40%) Kubernetes
22 37 (12.71%) Docker
23 33 (11.34%) Kafka
23 33 (11.34%) Microservices
24 32 (11.00%) Investment Banking

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 8 (2.75%) Apache Spark
1 8 (2.75%) GemFire
1 8 (2.75%) Oracle Coherence
2 5 (1.72%) Apache
2 5 (1.72%) CMS
3 3 (1.03%) Drupal
3 3 (1.03%) nginx
3 3 (1.03%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.69%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.69%) Confluence
4 2 (0.69%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.69%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.34%) Camunda
5 1 (0.34%) govService
5 1 (0.34%) JCAPS
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.34%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.34%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Adobe XD
1 3 (1.03%) Sketch
2 2 (0.69%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.69%) Endur
2 2 (0.69%) Infor CloudSuite
3 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 67 (23.02%) AWS
2 60 (20.62%) Azure
3 19 (6.53%) Serverless
4 14 (4.81%) GitHub
4 14 (4.81%) Power Platform
5 13 (4.47%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (3.44%) npm
7 10 (3.44%) Yarn
8 9 (3.09%) OpenShift
9 8 (2.75%) Amazon S3
10 7 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (2.41%) GCP
11 6 (2.06%) PaaS
12 5 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.72%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.72%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.72%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.37%) Firewall
2 3 (1.03%) HTTP
3 2 (0.69%) LAN
3 2 (0.69%) Network Security
3 2 (0.69%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.69%) SSL
3 2 (0.69%) VPN
3 2 (0.69%) WAN
4 1 (0.34%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.34%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.00%) Relational Database
2 29 (9.97%) MongoDB
3 27 (9.28%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (5.50%) SQL Server
5 13 (4.47%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.09%) DB2
6 9 (3.09%) MySQL
7 6 (2.06%) Big Data
7 6 (2.06%) Redis
8 5 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.72%) KDB
9 4 (1.37%) Amazon QuickSight
9 4 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.37%) Power BI
10 3 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.03%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.03%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.03%) Hazelcast
10 3 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (10.31%) Git
2 17 (5.84%) Jenkins
2 17 (5.84%) JUnit
3 12 (4.12%) JIRA
4 11 (3.78%) webpack
5 9 (3.09%) Gradle
6 7 (2.41%) TeamCity
7 6 (2.06%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.06%) Maven
8 5 (1.72%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.72%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (1.72%) IntelliJ
9 4 (1.37%) GitLab
9 4 (1.37%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.03%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.03%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.03%) git-flow
11 2 (0.69%) Babel
11 2 (0.69%) Mockito
General
1 114 (39.18%) Finance
2 83 (28.52%) Social Skills
3 70 (24.05%) Banking
4 44 (15.12%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (14.78%) Front Office
6 32 (11.00%) Investment Banking
7 23 (7.90%) Public Sector
8 8 (2.75%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.06%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.37%) Back Office
10 4 (1.37%) Billing
10 4 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.37%) Local Government
10 4 (1.37%) Retail
11 3 (1.03%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.03%) Marketing
11 3 (1.03%) Military
11 3 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.69%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (18.56%) React
2 50 (17.18%) .NET
3 46 (15.81%) CSS
4 44 (15.12%) AngularJS
4 44 (15.12%) HTML
5 33 (11.34%) Kafka
6 30 (10.31%) Spring
7 29 (9.97%) RESTful
8 28 (9.62%) Node.js
9 21 (7.22%) ASP.NET
10 17 (5.84%) Spring Boot
11 15 (5.15%) HTML5
11 15 (5.15%) JMS
12 14 (4.81%) .NET Core
13 13 (4.47%) Web Services
14 12 (4.12%) Android SDK
15 11 (3.78%) .NET Framework
16 10 (3.44%) REST
16 10 (3.44%) XML
17 9 (3.09%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 20 (6.87%) Derivative
3 19 (6.53%) Greenfield Project
4 14 (4.81%) Data Structures
4 14 (4.81%) Equities
5 12 (4.12%) Algorithms
6 10 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (3.44%) Market Risk
6 10 (3.44%) Mobile App
7 9 (3.09%) Renewable Energy
8 8 (2.75%) Fixed Income
9 7 (2.41%) Hedge funds
10 6 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (2.06%) Cloud Native
10 6 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.72%) Equity Derivative
11 5 (1.72%) N-Tier
11 5 (1.72%) State Machine
12 3 (1.03%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 31 (10.65%) Linux
2 13 (4.47%) Android
3 8 (2.75%) Unix
4 6 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.72%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.72%) Windows
6 1 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (30.58%) Agile
2 63 (21.65%) CI/CD
3 58 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (18.90%) DevOps
5 41 (14.09%) Software Engineering
6 40 (13.75%) Full-Stack Development
6 40 (13.75%) TDD
7 33 (11.34%) Microservices
8 29 (9.97%) Multithreading
9 27 (9.28%) Analytics
10 25 (8.59%) Performance Tuning
11 24 (8.25%) User Experience
12 23 (7.90%) Computer Science
12 23 (7.90%) Electronic Trading
12 23 (7.90%) OO
12 23 (7.90%) Unit Testing
13 21 (7.22%) Web Development
14 20 (6.87%) Test Automation
15 19 (6.53%) Design Patterns
15 19 (6.53%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 102 (35.05%) Java
2 74 (25.43%) Python
3 68 (23.37%) SQL
4 63 (21.65%) JavaScript
5 47 (16.15%) TypeScript
6 46 (15.81%) C#
7 15 (5.15%) Kotlin
8 14 (4.81%) C++
9 12 (4.12%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.06%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.06%) Scala
11 5 (1.72%) Bash
11 5 (1.72%) Go
11 5 (1.72%) Ruby
11 5 (1.72%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.37%) Swift
13 3 (1.03%) Apex Code
13 3 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.03%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.03%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 31 (10.65%) Degree
2 22 (7.56%) Security Cleared
3 18 (6.19%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.44%) Numerate Degree
5 9 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.37%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.69%) SnowPro
8 2 (0.69%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.34%) MCPD
9 1 (0.34%) MCSD
9 1 (0.34%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.19%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.09%) QA
3 3 (1.03%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.69%) WCAG
5 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.34%) HL7
5 1 (0.34%) SEPA
System Software
1 37 (12.71%) Docker
2 8 (2.75%) GridGain
3 3 (1.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (13.40%) Kubernetes
2 19 (6.53%) Terraform
3 11 (3.78%) Ansible
4 3 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.69%) Grafana
6 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (6.87%) Oracle
2 19 (6.53%) Microsoft
3 11 (3.78%) Sybase
4 10 (3.44%) Atlassian
4 10 (3.44%) Solace
5 7 (2.41%) ION Trading
5 7 (2.41%) TIBCO
6 6 (2.06%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.06%) Splunk
7 5 (1.72%) Google
7 5 (1.72%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.72%) Murex
7 5 (1.72%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.03%) Adobe
8 3 (1.03%) IBM
9 2 (0.69%) Cisco
9 2 (0.69%) Databricks
9 2 (0.69%) Infor
9 2 (0.69%) OpenLink
9 2 (0.69%) SAP