Senior Developer Contract Job Trends in the North West

Senior Developer
England > North West

The median Senior Developer daily rate in the North West is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 September 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
5 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 100 114
Rank change year-on-year -7 +14 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 20 20 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.92% 0.86% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 0.90% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 19 26
10th Percentile £413 £380 £438
25th Percentile £463 £413 £574
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £663
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -28.30% +6.64%
75th Percentile £521 £556 £720
90th Percentile £603 £606 -
England median daily rate £575 £550 £648
% change year-on-year +4.55% -15.06% -0.38%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 1,995 2,217 2,579
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 94.82% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,296 1,305 1,772
10th Percentile £268 £271 £285
25th Percentile £370 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +3.09%
75th Percentile £553 £588 £588
90th Percentile £658 £680 £673
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.69% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 175 155
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.22 £15.85
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.72 £17.75
Median hourly rate £24.88 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -28.91% +14.60% +32.47%
75th Percentile £47.12 £54.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.77 £71.26 £64.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.23 £43.86
% change year-on-year -45.60% +5.40% +66.34%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the North West

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in the North West

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in the North West over the 6 months to 5 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in the North West

Senior Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in the North West

Senior Developer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 5 September 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
Manchester -1 12 £475 - 17
Merseyside +4 7 £510 +2.51% 1
Cheshire - 1 £358 - 8
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 September 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 West region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 11 (55.00%) CI/CD
1 11 (55.00%) DevOps
2 10 (50.00%) Java
3 9 (45.00%) Spring
3 9 (45.00%) Docker
3 9 (45.00%) React
4 8 (40.00%) Agile
4 8 (40.00%) Spring Boot
5 7 (35.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (30.00%) Public Sector
6 6 (30.00%) Accessibility
6 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 6 (30.00%) API Development
6 6 (30.00%) JavaScript
6 6 (30.00%) JUnit
6 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
6 6 (30.00%) Microservices
6 6 (30.00%) AngularJS
6 6 (30.00%) Unit Testing
6 6 (30.00%) RESTful
6 6 (30.00%) Azure
6 6 (30.00%) Node.js
7 5 (25.00%) POJO
7 5 (25.00%) jQuery
7 5 (25.00%) AWS
7 5 (25.00%) Thymeleaf
7 5 (25.00%) MVC
7 5 (25.00%) HTML
7 5 (25.00%) JSON
7 5 (25.00%) Azure DevOps

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (10.00%) Moodle
2 1 (5.00%) Camunda
2 1 (5.00%) CMS
2 1 (5.00%) Headless CMS
2 1 (5.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 4 (20.00%) GitHub
4 3 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (15.00%) Serverless
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.00%) Contentful
5 1 (5.00%) GCP
5 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (5.00%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) MySQL
1 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (10.00%) Redis
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (5.00%) Cognos Framework Manager
2 1 (5.00%) Cognos Report Studio
2 1 (5.00%) Cognos Transformer
2 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.00%) OLAP
2 1 (5.00%) OLAP Cube
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) JUnit
2 5 (25.00%) Postman
3 3 (15.00%) Git
3 3 (15.00%) JIRA
4 1 (5.00%) Ant
4 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (5.00%) Eclipse
4 1 (5.00%) IntelliJ
4 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.00%) Mockito
4 1 (5.00%) NUnit
4 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (45.00%) React
1 9 (45.00%) Spring
2 8 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 6 (30.00%) AngularJS
3 6 (30.00%) Node.js
3 6 (30.00%) RESTful
4 5 (25.00%) HTML
4 5 (25.00%) jQuery
4 5 (25.00%) JSON
4 5 (25.00%) POJO
4 5 (25.00%) Thymeleaf
5 3 (15.00%) .NET
5 3 (15.00%) Express.js
5 3 (15.00%) GraphQL
5 3 (15.00%) Jest
5 3 (15.00%) Next.js
5 3 (15.00%) REST
6 2 (10.00%) CSS
6 2 (10.00%) HTML5
6 2 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) CI/CD
1 11 (55.00%) DevOps
2 8 (40.00%) Agile
3 7 (35.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (30.00%) API Development
4 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 6 (30.00%) Microservices
4 6 (30.00%) Unit Testing
5 5 (25.00%) MVC
6 4 (20.00%) User Research
7 2 (10.00%) API Integration
7 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
7 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
7 2 (10.00%) Migration
7 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
7 2 (10.00%) Sprint Retrospective
7 2 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
8 1 (5.00%) Architectural Design
8 1 (5.00%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) Java
2 6 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (20.00%) SQL
4 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (10.00%) C#
6 1 (5.00%) Bash
6 1 (5.00%) PHP
6 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Cognos
1 1 (5.00%) Google
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (5.00%) TIBCO