Senior Developer Contracts in the North of England

Senior Developer
England > North of England

The median Senior Developer daily rate in the North of England is £590, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 119 155
Rank change year-on-year -3 +36 -23
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 43 66 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.31% 1.41% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.40% 1.51% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 51 42
10th Percentile £400 £375 £412
25th Percentile £456 £425 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £538 £570
Median % change year-on-year +9.77% -5.70% +3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £617
90th Percentile £681 £720 £662
England median daily rate £600 £575 £650
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £78.05 -
25th Percentile - £78.88 £61.25
Median hourly rate - £81.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +30.40% -16.67%
75th Percentile - £82.88 £71.88
90th Percentile - £82.95 £76.75
England median hourly rate £77.19 £59.45 £62.50
% change year-on-year +29.83% -4.88% -10.71%

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 3,080 4,358 5,416
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 93.24% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,035 2,723 3,814
10th Percentile £230 £263 £280
25th Percentile £367 £386 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.77% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £582 £599
90th Percentile £639 £674 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 399 158
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.25 £12.53 £18.50
Median hourly rate £24.59 £20.74 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +18.54% -32.33% +61.30%
75th Percentile £51.00 £46.18 £50.06
90th Percentile £81.72 £62.50 £66.21
England median hourly rate £30.26 £37.50 £44.77
% change year-on-year -19.31% -16.23% +94.63%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the North of England

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in the North of England

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in the North of England

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in the North of England

Senior 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 Developer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 12 May 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 -8 25 £600 +9.09% 132
Yorkshire +5 16 £563 -2.17% 36
North East -11 2 £483 -32.99% 19
Senior Developer
England

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 12 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 North of England region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 19 (44.19%) CI/CD
2 18 (41.86%) Security Cleared
2 18 (41.86%) AWS
3 16 (37.21%) Java
3 16 (37.21%) SC Cleared
4 14 (32.56%) Containerisation
4 14 (32.56%) Kubernetes
5 13 (30.23%) Microservices
5 13 (30.23%) Public Sector
5 13 (30.23%) TDD
5 13 (30.23%) SQL
5 13 (30.23%) Linux
5 13 (30.23%) Git
5 13 (30.23%) Test Automation
6 12 (27.91%) Bash
6 12 (27.91%) BDD
6 12 (27.91%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (27.91%) Mentoring
6 12 (27.91%) Docker
6 12 (27.91%) Technical Leadership
7 11 (25.58%) Spring Boot
7 11 (25.58%) Agile
7 11 (25.58%) Spring
7 11 (25.58%) Software Engineering
7 11 (25.58%) MySQL
7 11 (25.58%) MongoDB
7 11 (25.58%) RESTful
7 11 (25.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (25.58%) Node.js
8 10 (23.26%) Jasmine

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (16.28%) Confluence
2 4 (9.30%) Moodle
3 1 (2.33%) Camunda
3 1 (2.33%) CMS
3 1 (2.33%) Headless CMS
3 1 (2.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 18 (41.86%) AWS
2 8 (18.60%) Serverless
3 7 (16.28%) Slack
4 6 (13.95%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (11.63%) Azure
6 4 (9.30%) GitHub
6 4 (9.30%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (4.65%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.33%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.33%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (2.33%) Contentful
8 1 (2.33%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.33%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) HTTP
2 1 (2.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.58%) MongoDB
1 11 (25.58%) MySQL
2 10 (23.26%) Apache Cassandra
2 10 (23.26%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.65%) ObjectStore
3 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.33%) Power BI
4 1 (2.33%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 13 (30.23%) Git
2 10 (23.26%) Jasmine
3 9 (20.93%) JIRA
4 8 (18.60%) Cucumber
4 8 (18.60%) JUnit
5 5 (11.63%) GitLab
6 2 (4.65%) Grunt
6 2 (4.65%) gulp
6 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
6 2 (4.65%) Mocha
7 1 (2.33%) Selenium
7 1 (2.33%) SpecFlow
7 1 (2.33%) Subversion
7 1 (2.33%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (30.23%) Public Sector
2 4 (9.30%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.33%) Finance
4 1 (2.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (25.58%) Node.js
1 11 (25.58%) RESTful
1 11 (25.58%) Spring
1 11 (25.58%) Spring Boot
2 9 (20.93%) Spring Batch
2 9 (20.93%) Spring Security
3 7 (16.28%) OpenAPI
3 7 (16.28%) Swagger
4 5 (11.63%) React
5 4 (9.30%) .NET
5 4 (9.30%) Kafka
6 3 (6.98%) AngularJS
6 3 (6.98%) CSS
6 3 (6.98%) HTML
6 3 (6.98%) HTML5
7 2 (4.65%) GraphQL
7 2 (4.65%) jQuery
7 2 (4.65%) Mustache
7 2 (4.65%) REST
7 2 (4.65%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (6.98%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.98%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.33%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (30.23%) Linux
2 11 (25.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.65%) Unix
4 1 (2.33%) CentOS
4 1 (2.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (44.19%) CI/CD
2 14 (32.56%) Containerisation
3 13 (30.23%) Microservices
3 13 (30.23%) TDD
3 13 (30.23%) Test Automation
4 12 (27.91%) BDD
4 12 (27.91%) Continuous Integration
4 12 (27.91%) Mentoring
4 12 (27.91%) Technical Leadership
5 11 (25.58%) Agile
5 11 (25.58%) Software Engineering
6 10 (23.26%) Integration Testing
7 9 (20.93%) API Design
8 8 (18.60%) Continuous Delivery
8 8 (18.60%) DevOps
8 8 (18.60%) Kernel Tuning
9 7 (16.28%) Coaching
9 7 (16.28%) OWASP
10 6 (13.95%) Full-Stack Development
11 5 (11.63%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 16 (37.21%) Java
2 13 (30.23%) SQL
3 12 (27.91%) Bash
4 8 (18.60%) JavaScript
4 8 (18.60%) Python
5 4 (9.30%) C#
6 2 (4.65%) Clojure
6 2 (4.65%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.33%) Go
7 1 (2.33%) PHP
7 1 (2.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (41.86%) Security Cleared
2 16 (37.21%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) QA
2 2 (4.65%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (27.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (32.56%) Kubernetes
2 5 (11.63%) Terraform
3 1 (2.33%) Ansible
3 1 (2.33%) Grafana
3 1 (2.33%) Kibana
3 1 (2.33%) Packer
3 1 (2.33%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (6.98%) Google
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle
2 1 (2.33%) TIBCO