Senior Software Developer Contracts in Manchester

Senior Software Developer
North West > Manchester

The median Senior Software Developer daily rate in Manchester is £550, 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 73 - 114
Rank change year-on-year - - +27
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 6 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.65% - 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% - 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £456 - -
25th Percentile £458 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile £644 - -
North West median daily rate £550 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 867 1,456 1,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 95.98% 96.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 1,007 1,360
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £588
90th Percentile £674 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 84 55
10th Percentile - £12.07 £14.10
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £25.10 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -28.30% +100.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £48.13
90th Percentile £74.38 £73.75 £68.40
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
% change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%

Senior Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Developer in Manchester

Senior Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Software Developer in Manchester

Senior Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Software Developer in Manchester

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

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

1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (66.67%) Node.js
3 4 (66.67%) Serverless
4 3 (50.00%) Personalization
4 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (50.00%) Google
4 3 (50.00%) GitHub
4 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (50.00%) Mobile App
4 3 (50.00%) React
4 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (33.33%) OOP
5 2 (33.33%) OO
5 2 (33.33%) Python
5 2 (33.33%) ObjectStore
5 2 (33.33%) Git
5 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 2 (33.33%) RESTful
5 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
5 2 (33.33%) QA
5 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (33.33%) API Design
5 2 (33.33%) Analytics
5 2 (33.33%) AngularJS

Senior Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (16.67%) CMS
1 1 (16.67%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Serverless
3 3 (50.00%) GitHub
3 3 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (16.67%) Contentful
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Node.js
2 3 (50.00%) React
3 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (33.33%) RESTful
4 1 (16.67%) Express.js
4 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
4 1 (16.67%) Jest
4 1 (16.67%) Next.js
4 1 (16.67%) React Native
4 1 (16.67%) Redux
4 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) Personalization
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) API Design
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (33.33%) Digital Twin
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 2 (33.33%) OO
2 2 (33.33%) OOP
2 2 (33.33%) RBAC
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google