Senior Developer Contracts in the South East

Senior Developer
England > South East

The median Senior Developer daily rate in the South East is £524 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 178 207
Rank change year-on-year -2 +29 -57
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 21 43 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.38% 0.74% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.78% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 31 32
10th Percentile £463 £425 £407
25th Percentile £472 £469 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.24% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £650 £583 £588
90th Percentile £688 £688 £693
England median daily rate £575 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £54.85 - -
Median hourly rate £58.91 - -
75th Percentile £62.96 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £58.91 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.75% +13.64% +61.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,108 5,493 7,428
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 94.56% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,065 3,830 5,033
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £615 £604 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 478 240 336
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.04 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £15.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.16 £43.56
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the South East

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in the South East

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in the South East

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in the South East

Senior Developer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
Thames Valley -11 11 £586 +12.74% 30
Berkshire -10 7 £575 +7.48% 14
Buckinghamshire +19 4 £586 +19.64% 8
Kent - 4 - - 4
Hampshire +3 3 £550 -11.11% 12
West Sussex -2 2 £500 -13.79% 2
Senior Developer
England

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, 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 South East region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 10 (47.62%) Security Cleared
2 9 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 7 (33.33%) C#
4 6 (28.57%) Configuration Management
4 6 (28.57%) Agile
4 6 (28.57%) Azure
5 5 (23.81%) REST
5 5 (23.81%) GitLab
5 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
5 5 (23.81%) JIRA
5 5 (23.81%) Java
5 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
5 5 (23.81%) SQL
5 5 (23.81%) .NET
5 5 (23.81%) Linux
5 5 (23.81%) Python
6 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
6 4 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (19.05%) Power Platform
6 4 (19.05%) Clean Code
6 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (19.05%) Terraform
6 4 (19.05%) .NET Core
6 4 (19.05%) DevOps
7 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (14.29%) Ansible
7 3 (14.29%) Docker
7 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
7 3 (14.29%) SonarQube
7 3 (14.29%) Razor View Engine

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (9.52%) Apache
2 1 (4.76%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) Power Platform
3 3 (14.29%) AWS
4 2 (9.52%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.76%) PaaS
5 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) OpenLDAP
1 2 (9.52%) SAN
1 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.76%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.52%) MariaDB
2 2 (9.52%) MySQL
3 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.76%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) GitLab
1 5 (23.81%) JIRA
2 3 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 3 (14.29%) REST Assured
2 3 (14.29%) Selenium
2 3 (14.29%) SonarQube
3 2 (9.52%) VersionOne
4 1 (4.76%) Git
4 1 (4.76%) LabVIEW
4 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Law
2 3 (14.29%) Police
2 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.52%) Local Government
4 1 (4.76%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) .NET
1 5 (23.81%) REST
2 4 (19.05%) .NET Core
3 3 (14.29%) ARM Templates
3 3 (14.29%) Blazor
3 3 (14.29%) Java EE
3 3 (14.29%) Razor View Engine
4 2 (9.52%) CSS
4 2 (9.52%) Entity Framework
4 2 (9.52%) GraphQL
4 2 (9.52%) HTML
4 2 (9.52%) Kafka
4 2 (9.52%) LAMP
4 2 (9.52%) LDAP
4 2 (9.52%) React
4 2 (9.52%) Redux
4 2 (9.52%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.76%) DOM
5 1 (4.76%) OAuth
5 1 (4.76%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (9.52%) NHS
2 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Debian
2 2 (9.52%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Agile
1 6 (28.57%) Configuration Management
2 4 (19.05%) Clean Code
2 4 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (19.05%) DevOps
2 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 3 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (14.29%) Software Architecture
3 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 3 (14.29%) SysML
3 3 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
3 3 (14.29%) UML
3 3 (14.29%) Waterfall
4 2 (9.52%) Data Modelling
4 2 (9.52%) ITIL
4 2 (9.52%) Statistics
4 2 (9.52%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) C#
2 5 (23.81%) Java
2 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
2 5 (23.81%) Python
2 5 (23.81%) SQL
3 3 (14.29%) C++
4 2 (9.52%) PHP
4 2 (9.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (47.62%) Security Cleared
2 9 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.76%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Terraform
2 3 (14.29%) Ansible
2 3 (14.29%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (14.29%) Podman
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Red Hat
2 2 (9.52%) VMware
3 1 (4.76%) Remedy