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 14 May 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 85 79
Rank change year-on-year -3 -6 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 467 769 1,264
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.67% 2.94% 3.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.86% 3.09% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 600 1,047
10th Percentile £413 £475 £463
25th Percentile £500 £563 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £688 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +5.77% +13.04%
75th Percentile £803 £800 £747
90th Percentile £875 £900 £825
England median daily rate £583 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -10.38% +8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £59.50 £61.50 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £63.75 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +92.86% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £71.25 £57.75
90th Percentile - £73.50 £71.40
England median hourly rate £59.45 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -4.88% -10.71% +105.88%

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 16,343 24,896 37,051
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.38% 95.22% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,808 18,088 27,120
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 281 447
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.75 £22.59
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.94% +1.43% +8.63%
75th Percentile £44.25 £62.68 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.00 £67.75
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +4.03%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 +1 52 £538 -20.37% 25
East London -1 16 £538 -36.76% 4
West London +14 8 £320 -48.80% 3
South London +6 5 £475 -50.00% 3
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 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 (44.97%) Agile
2 160 (34.26%) Azure
3 158 (33.83%) DevOps
4 156 (33.40%) C#
5 148 (31.69%) Java
6 131 (28.05%) CI/CD
7 127 (27.19%) Finance
8 123 (26.34%) .NET
9 119 (25.48%) SQL Server
10 117 (25.05%) JavaScript
11 105 (22.48%) Microsoft
12 99 (21.20%) Azure DevOps
13 97 (20.77%) React
14 85 (18.20%) TDD
15 84 (17.99%) Social Skills
16 82 (17.56%) PowerShell
17 77 (16.49%) SQL
18 75 (16.06%) Software Engineering
18 75 (16.06%) AWS
19 74 (15.85%) TypeScript
19 74 (15.85%) Scrum
20 71 (15.20%) XML
21 66 (14.13%) Active Directory
22 65 (13.92%) Python
23 64 (13.70%) HTML
24 57 (12.21%) Front End Development
25 55 (11.78%) CSS
26 53 (11.35%) Banking
26 53 (11.35%) Git
26 53 (11.35%) AngularJS

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 (3.43%) CMS
2 8 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.28%) Apache
3 6 (1.28%) Appian
3 6 (1.28%) Confluence
4 5 (1.07%) SAS
5 4 (0.86%) WordPress
6 3 (0.64%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.43%) CICS
7 2 (0.43%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.21%) GemFire
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.07%) Endur
3 4 (0.86%) RMDS
4 2 (0.43%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.43%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.43%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (0.43%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.21%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 160 (34.26%) Azure
2 99 (21.20%) Azure DevOps
3 75 (16.06%) AWS
4 44 (9.42%) Entra ID
5 41 (8.78%) Azure Service Bus
6 36 (7.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 31 (6.64%) GCP
8 22 (4.71%) GitHub
9 19 (4.07%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (3.21%) Serverless
11 14 (3.00%) Amazon S3
12 13 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (2.36%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (2.36%) Azure Pipelines
14 8 (1.71%) dbt
14 8 (1.71%) PaaS
15 6 (1.28%) Contentful
15 6 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
15 6 (1.28%) Power Platform
16 5 (1.07%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.64%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.21%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (25.48%) SQL Server
2 27 (5.78%) KDB
3 23 (4.93%) MongoDB
4 22 (4.71%) NoSQL
5 16 (3.43%) Redis
6 12 (2.57%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.71%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.28%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (1.28%) Power BI
10 5 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.07%) MySQL
11 3 (0.64%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.43%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.43%) DB2
12 2 (0.43%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 53 (11.35%) Git
2 30 (6.42%) Mockito
3 28 (6.00%) Jenkins
4 17 (3.64%) JUnit
5 14 (3.00%) Cucumber
6 13 (2.78%) GitLab
7 12 (2.57%) SpecFlow
8 11 (2.36%) JIRA
9 7 (1.50%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.50%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.50%) TeamCity
10 6 (1.28%) Postman
11 4 (0.86%) NUnit
11 4 (0.86%) Pylint
11 4 (0.86%) Sourcetree
12 3 (0.64%) CircleCI
13 2 (0.43%) Babel
13 2 (0.43%) Gatling
13 2 (0.43%) ScalaTest
13 2 (0.43%) Storybook
General
1 127 (27.19%) Finance
2 84 (17.99%) Social Skills
3 53 (11.35%) Banking
4 46 (9.85%) Front Office
5 45 (9.64%) Public Sector
6 26 (5.57%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (3.00%) Back Office
8 11 (2.36%) Investment Banking
8 11 (2.36%) Local Government
9 8 (1.71%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.64%) Retail
11 3 (0.64%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.43%) Advertising
12 2 (0.43%) Law
13 1 (0.21%) Automotive
13 1 (0.21%) Games
13 1 (0.21%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.21%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (26.34%) .NET
2 97 (20.77%) React
3 71 (15.20%) XML
4 64 (13.70%) HTML
5 55 (11.78%) CSS
6 53 (11.35%) .NET Core
6 53 (11.35%) AngularJS
7 35 (7.49%) ASP.NET
8 34 (7.28%) .NET Framework
9 31 (6.64%) Node.js
10 27 (5.78%) Spring Boot
11 25 (5.35%) Kafka
12 23 (4.93%) REST
12 23 (4.93%) Spring
13 22 (4.71%) RESTful
14 20 (4.28%) Web Services
15 19 (4.07%) jQuery
16 18 (3.85%) Vue
17 17 (3.64%) ActiveMQ
17 17 (3.64%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 36 (7.71%) Product Ownership
2 35 (7.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 34 (7.28%) Fixed Income
4 29 (6.21%) Derivative
5 26 (5.57%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (3.64%) Algorithms
7 16 (3.43%) Credit Derivative
8 14 (3.00%) Equities
8 14 (3.00%) Onboarding
9 12 (2.57%) Management Information System
10 11 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (2.36%) Renewable Energy
11 9 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.71%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.71%) Market Risk
13 6 (1.28%) Contactless
13 6 (1.28%) Mobile App
14 5 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (1.07%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (8.57%) Linux
2 20 (4.28%) Unix
3 14 (3.00%) Mac OS X
4 10 (2.14%) Android
5 8 (1.71%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.28%) Windows
7 2 (0.43%) zOS
8 1 (0.21%) CentOS
8 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (44.97%) Agile
2 158 (33.83%) DevOps
3 131 (28.05%) CI/CD
4 85 (18.20%) TDD
5 75 (16.06%) Software Engineering
6 74 (15.85%) Scrum
7 57 (12.21%) Front End Development
8 50 (10.71%) Microservices
9 48 (10.28%) OO
10 46 (9.85%) SDLC
11 43 (9.21%) Test Automation
12 38 (8.14%) B2C
12 38 (8.14%) Continuous Integration
12 38 (8.14%) Electronic Trading
13 33 (7.07%) Web Development
14 32 (6.85%) BDD
15 31 (6.64%) Design Patterns
15 31 (6.64%) Problem-Solving
16 30 (6.42%) Clean Code
17 29 (6.21%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 156 (33.40%) C#
2 148 (31.69%) Java
3 117 (25.05%) JavaScript
4 82 (17.56%) PowerShell
5 77 (16.49%) SQL
6 74 (15.85%) TypeScript
7 65 (13.92%) Python
8 51 (10.92%) Bicep
9 15 (3.21%) Scala
10 14 (3.00%) C++
10 14 (3.00%) Kotlin
11 9 (1.93%) Go
12 6 (1.28%) Ruby
12 6 (1.28%) Rust
12 6 (1.28%) Swift
13 5 (1.07%) Bash
13 5 (1.07%) Objective-C
13 5 (1.07%) PHP
14 4 (0.86%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (6.42%) Degree
2 28 (6.00%) Security Cleared
3 23 (4.93%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.07%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.43%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 14 (3.00%) WCAG
3 10 (2.14%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.43%) MiFID
5 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.21%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.21%) GDPR
5 1 (0.21%) ISO 15022
5 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.21%) QA
System Software
1 66 (14.13%) Active Directory
2 33 (7.07%) Docker
3 9 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.43%) ACF2
4 2 (0.43%) IAG
4 2 (0.43%) RACF
5 1 (0.21%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 27 (5.78%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (1.28%) Terraform
4 3 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (0.64%) Grafana
5 2 (0.43%) CA Endevor
5 2 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 105 (22.48%) Microsoft
2 18 (3.85%) Oracle
3 15 (3.21%) Google
4 13 (2.78%) ION Trading
5 10 (2.14%) IBM
6 8 (1.71%) TIBCO
7 7 (1.50%) Solace
7 7 (1.50%) Virgin Media
8 6 (1.28%) Apple
9 4 (0.86%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.43%) Databricks
10 2 (0.43%) NEC
10 2 (0.43%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.43%) SAP
10 2 (0.43%) Sybase
10 2 (0.43%) Workday
11 1 (0.21%) Ab Initio
11 1 (0.21%) Kepware
11 1 (0.21%) Mapbox
11 1 (0.21%) Red Hat