Senior Developer Contracts in Nottingham

Senior Developer
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The median Senior Developer daily rate in Nottingham is £510, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 July 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
23 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 5 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Nottingham 3.85% - 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.39% - 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.11%
75th Percentile £536 - -
90th Percentile £556 - -
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £510 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Nottingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Nottingham. 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 Nottingham with a recognized job title 114 118 226
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.69% 94.40% 97.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 68 176
10th Percentile £221 £205 £313
25th Percentile £394 £325 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% - -
75th Percentile £547 £575 £700
90th Percentile £585 £613 £745
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £465 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -5.82% -1.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 20 17
10th Percentile £11.44 £12.67 £11.38
25th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £13.25
Median hourly rate £17.87 £14.00 £21.52
Median % change year-on-year +27.64% -34.93% +47.26%
75th Percentile £18.61 £14.79 £50.00
90th Percentile £25.15 £15.75 £77.50
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £17.87 £14.14 £21.67
% change year-on-year +26.42% -34.77% +48.32%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Nottingham

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Nottingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in Nottingham.

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in Nottingham

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Nottingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Nottingham over the 6 months to 23 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in Nottingham

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Nottingham

For the 6 months to 23 July 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 Nottingham region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (40.00%) API Integration
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) PHP
1 2 (40.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Apex Code
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) User Stories
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Nottingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) ChatGPT
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (20.00%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) API Integration
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Apex Code
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) PHP
1 2 (40.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (20.00%) Google