Senior Developer Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Senior Developer
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The median Senior Developer daily rate in Newcastle upon Tyne is £590, 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 33 20 45
Rank change year-on-year -13 +25 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 3 7 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.35% 3.33% 2.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.38% 3.72% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 7
10th Percentile £408 £711 £560
25th Percentile £476 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £720 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.06% +20.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile - - £625
90th Percentile - - £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £590 £720 £600
% change year-on-year -18.06% +20.00% +20.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Newcastle upon Tyne

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne. 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 Newcastle upon Tyne with a recognized job title 217 188 322
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.31% 89.52% 98.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 93 252
10th Percentile £236 £338 £320
25th Percentile £358 £400 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £570 £590 £650
90th Percentile £625 £650 £742
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £455 £500 £555
% change year-on-year -9.00% -9.91% +11.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 22 0
10th Percentile £21.05 £12.66 -
25th Percentile £30.50 £18.69 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £47.50 -
75th Percentile £50.38 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £51.35 £67.88 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £13.00 £17.50 -
% change year-on-year -25.71% - -

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) SSL
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) nginx
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Power Query
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
2 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) SQL

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 2 (66.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
33 Senior Developer jobs in Tyne and Wear