Senior Software Developer Contracts in the North West

Senior Software Developer
England > North West

The median Senior Software Developer daily rate in the North West 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 114 - 153
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 6 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.30% - 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% - 0.13%
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 - -
England median daily rate £525 £545 £600
% change year-on-year -3.67% -9.17% -

All Contract 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 1,821 2,603 3,030
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 94.48% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,205 1,698 2,172
10th Percentile £250 £281 £300
25th Percentile £378 £393 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £588
90th Percentile £652 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 266 133
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.07 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%
75th Percentile £59.24 £46.18 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.41 £63.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Senior Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Developer in the North West

Senior Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Software Developer in the North West

Senior Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Software Developer in the North West

Senior Software Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Software Developer in the North West

Senior Software 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 Software Developer within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Manchester - 6 £550 - 9
Senior Software Developer
England

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

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 North West 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 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 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