Senior Developer Contracts in the South West

Senior Developer
England > South West

The median Senior Developer daily rate in the South West is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 127 127
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 21 41 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.66% 1.11% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 1.21% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 35 31
10th Percentile £315 £413 £413
25th Percentile £405 £511 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £605 £513
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +18.05% +7.89%
75th Percentile £525 £688 £575
90th Percentile £570 £720 £588
England median daily rate £575 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South 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 South West with a recognized job title 2,985 3,400 3,576
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 92.32% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,927 2,534 2,546
10th Percentile £210 £263 £225
25th Percentile £391 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £588
90th Percentile £703 £713 £661
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 386 279 203
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.09 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.75 £51.25 £16.99
Median hourly rate £48.29 £65.00 £45.20
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +43.81% +6.35%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.05
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £69.05
England median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the South West

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in the South West

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in the South West over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in the South West

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in the South West

Senior Developer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 24 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
Bristol +21 12 £500 +17.65% 16
Wiltshire -9 3 - - 3
Devon -3 2 £275 -54.17% 6
Dorset - 2 - - 8
Gloucestershire +2 1 £350 -50.00% 4
Somerset -1 1 £450 -30.77% 6
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 West region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 7 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 7 (33.33%) Agile
2 6 (28.57%) C#
3 5 (23.81%) .NET
3 5 (23.81%) AngularJS
4 4 (19.05%) AWS
4 4 (19.05%) REST
4 4 (19.05%) SQL
4 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
4 4 (19.05%) Power BI
5 3 (14.29%) DevOps
5 3 (14.29%) Microservices
5 3 (14.29%) React
5 3 (14.29%) PowerApps
5 3 (14.29%) Power Automate
5 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (14.29%) Terraform
5 3 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
5 3 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (14.29%) JIRA
5 3 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 3 (14.29%) User Stories
5 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 3 (14.29%) Azure
5 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 4 (19.05%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) Azure
3 3 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (14.29%) Power Automate
3 3 (14.29%) PowerApps
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Service Fabric
4 1 (4.76%) Firebase
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Power BI
2 2 (9.52%) CockroachDB
2 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
2 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.76%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) webpack
General
1 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) .NET
1 5 (23.81%) AngularJS
2 4 (19.05%) REST
3 3 (14.29%) React
4 2 (9.52%) ASP.NET
4 2 (9.52%) CSS
4 2 (9.52%) Django
4 2 (9.52%) Kafka
4 2 (9.52%) SAML
4 2 (9.52%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (4.76%) .NET Core
5 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (4.76%) HTML
5 1 (4.76%) Laravel
5 1 (4.76%) NgRx
5 1 (4.76%) Node.js
5 1 (4.76%) Symfony
5 1 (4.76%) Web Services
5 1 (4.76%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Agile
2 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
3 3 (14.29%) DevOps
3 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (14.29%) Microservices
3 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
3 3 (14.29%) User Stories
4 2 (9.52%) API Design
4 2 (9.52%) Build Automation
4 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (9.52%) Data Modelling
4 2 (9.52%) Front End Development
4 2 (9.52%) Pair Programming
4 2 (9.52%) SDLC
4 2 (9.52%) SIEM
4 2 (9.52%) SOLID
4 2 (9.52%) TDD
4 2 (9.52%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) C#
2 4 (19.05%) SQL
3 3 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.52%) Python
5 1 (4.76%) Go
5 1 (4.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Terraform
2 2 (9.52%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow