Senior Developer Contracts in the South East

Senior Developer
England > South East

The median Senior Developer daily rate in the South East is £530, 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 131 184 179
Rank change year-on-year +53 -5 +34
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 28 21 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.93% 0.38% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 0.41% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 31
10th Percentile £372 £463 £425
25th Percentile £452 £472 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £524 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% -0.24% +5.00%
75th Percentile £597 £650 £583
90th Percentile £618 £688 £688
England median daily rate £608 £575 £650
% change year-on-year +5.65% -11.54% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £77.19 £58.91 -
Median % change year-on-year +31.04% - -
England median hourly rate £77.19 £58.91 £62.50
% change year-on-year +31.04% -5.75% +13.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 2,767 5,141 5,491
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.50% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 3,084 3,829
10th Percentile £250 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.42%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £606
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 481 240
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £18.04
25th Percentile £20.06 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £65.16
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Thames Valley +47 15 £565 -3.62% 24
Berkshire +38 14 £585 +1.74% 10
Surrey - 8 £515 - 3
Hampshire +26 3 £465 -15.45% 11
Buckinghamshire +13 1 £545 -7.04% 6
West Sussex +11 1 £422 -15.60% 4
East Sussex - 1 - - 3
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 South East region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 14 (50.00%) Azure
2 12 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 9 (32.14%) HTML
3 9 (32.14%) SQL
3 9 (32.14%) Test Automation
4 8 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 8 (28.57%) Workflow
4 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 7 (25.00%) Python
5 7 (25.00%) .NET
5 7 (25.00%) C#
5 7 (25.00%) CSS
5 7 (25.00%) SaaS
5 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
6 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
6 6 (21.43%) Git
6 6 (21.43%) Agile
6 6 (21.43%) DevOps
7 5 (17.86%) User Experience
7 5 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (17.86%) Power Platform
7 5 (17.86%) Product Ownership
7 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
7 5 (17.86%) Java
7 5 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (17.86%) XML
7 5 (17.86%) TypeScript
8 4 (14.29%) REST
8 4 (14.29%) UX Design
8 4 (14.29%) RESTful

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 3 (10.71%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.57%) Anypoint
2 1 (3.57%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) Moodle
2 1 (3.57%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.57%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 14 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (25.00%) SaaS
3 5 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (17.86%) Power Platform
4 4 (14.29%) Tricentis Tosca
5 3 (10.71%) AWS
5 3 (10.71%) Azure Stack
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (7.14%) Serverless
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.57%) npm
7 1 (3.57%) Power Automate
7 1 (3.57%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (3.57%) LTE
2 1 (3.57%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (14.29%) Power BI
1 4 (14.29%) Power Query
2 2 (7.14%) RDBMS
2 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.57%) Big Data
3 1 (3.57%) Couchbase
3 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Git
2 4 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 4 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
4 2 (7.14%) JIRA
4 2 (7.14%) JMeter
4 2 (7.14%) JUnit
4 2 (7.14%) Mockito
4 2 (7.14%) Moq
4 2 (7.14%) Selenium
4 2 (7.14%) SpecFlow
4 2 (7.14%) Visual Studio
5 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.57%) GitLab
General
1 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Aerospace
2 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Telecoms
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.57%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (32.14%) HTML
2 7 (25.00%) .NET
2 7 (25.00%) CSS
3 5 (17.86%) XML
4 4 (14.29%) .NET Core
4 4 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 4 (14.29%) JSON
4 4 (14.29%) REST
4 4 (14.29%) RESTful
4 4 (14.29%) YAML
5 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET
5 3 (10.71%) Node.js
5 3 (10.71%) React
6 2 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (7.14%) Bootstrap
6 2 (7.14%) Hibernate
6 2 (7.14%) jQuery
6 2 (7.14%) Spring
6 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
6 2 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.71%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.14%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Android
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Test Automation
2 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 8 (28.57%) Workflow
3 6 (21.43%) Agile
3 6 (21.43%) DevOps
4 5 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
4 5 (17.86%) User Experience
5 4 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (14.29%) Design Patterns
5 4 (14.29%) Front End Development
5 4 (14.29%) Insurtech
5 4 (14.29%) Microservices
5 4 (14.29%) Product Backlog
5 4 (14.29%) Progressive Web App
5 4 (14.29%) SOLID
5 4 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
5 4 (14.29%) Sprint Retrospective
5 4 (14.29%) Technical Debt
5 4 (14.29%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 9 (32.14%) SQL
3 7 (25.00%) C#
3 7 (25.00%) Python
4 5 (17.86%) Java
4 5 (17.86%) TypeScript
5 3 (10.71%) ABAP
5 3 (10.71%) VBA
6 2 (7.14%) Perl
6 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.57%) ActionScript
7 1 (3.57%) Dart
7 1 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (3.57%) DataWeave
7 1 (3.57%) Go
7 1 (3.57%) Kotlin
7 1 (3.57%) R
7 1 (3.57%) T-SQL
7 1 (3.57%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) Degree
4 2 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 2 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) Kibana
3 1 (3.57%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Adobe
3 2 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 2 (7.14%) SAP
3 2 (7.14%) Splunk
4 1 (3.57%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.57%) Databricks
4 1 (3.57%) Infor
4 1 (3.57%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.57%) Rackspace