Senior Developer Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Senior Developer
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The median Senior Developer daily rate in Nottinghamshire is £510, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 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
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 23 25
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 5 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 2.94% 0.63% 3.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.16% 0.69% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 7
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £475 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -23.08% +6.12%
75th Percentile £536 - £700
90th Percentile £556 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £455 £456 £575
% change year-on-year -0.27% -20.65% +12.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Nottinghamshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Nottinghamshire. 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 Nottinghamshire with a recognized job title 158 144 204
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 91.14% 96.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 74 163
10th Percentile £203 £247 £266
25th Percentile £394 £365 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £611 £575 £675
90th Percentile £758 £639 £745
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -8.89% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 14
10th Percentile £11.44 £12.73 £11.49
25th Percentile £16.17 £12.75 £13.25
Median hourly rate £17.87 £14.00 £24.51
Median % change year-on-year +27.64% -42.87% +73.87%
75th Percentile - £15.14 £84.06
90th Percentile £25.15 £37.69 £92.25
East Midlands median hourly rate £21.32 £21.59 £20.00
% change year-on-year -1.25% +7.95% +13.90%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Nottinghamshire

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Nottinghamshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Nottinghamshire

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Nottinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Nottinghamshire over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in Nottinghamshire

Senior Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Nottinghamshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Nottinghamshire

Senior Developer
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 20 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
Nottingham - 5 £510 - 11
Senior Developer
East Midlands

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire 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