Senior Backend Developer Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Senior Backend Developer
England > North of England

The median Senior Backend Developer daily rate in the North of England is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 - 182
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Backend Developer 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.021% - 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% - 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £415
25th Percentile £413 - £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £425
75th Percentile £438 - £456
90th Percentile - - £468
England median daily rate £600 £550 £595
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.56% -8.46%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,327 3,308 4,346
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.54% 92.09% 93.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,899 1,910 2,911
10th Percentile £213 £230 £270
25th Percentile £363 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £593
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 170 208
10th Percentile £16.47 £15.35 £15.49
25th Percentile £20.00 £18.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.99 £25.03 £27.90
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -10.29% +29.77%
75th Percentile £55.00 £42.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.75 £60.50 £61.99
England median hourly rate £26.78 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.61% -20.00% +38.46%

Senior Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Backend Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Senior Backend Developer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Senior Backend Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Backend Developer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Backend Developer job vacancies in the North of England

Senior Backend Developer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Backend Developer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
North West - 1 £425 - 3
Senior Backend Developer
England

Senior Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, Senior Backend Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Senior Backend Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Laravel
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js

Senior Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Laravel
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google