Senior Developer Contract Job Trends in Swansea

Senior Developer
West Wales > Swansea

The median Senior Developer daily rate in Swansea is £413, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swansea 1.92% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Wales median daily rate £413 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Swansea

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Swansea. 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 Swansea with a recognized job title 47 23 20
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.38% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 22 17
10th Percentile £363 - £200
25th Percentile £383 £206 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% +100.00%
75th Percentile £482 £488 £506
90th Percentile £549 £638 £550
West Wales median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% +100.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £12.70
25th Percentile - £17.75 £14.13
Median hourly rate - £18.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year - +2.78% +18.36%
75th Percentile - £19.25 £21.63
90th Percentile - - £22.90
West Wales median hourly rate £26.20 £18.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year +41.62% +2.78% +18.36%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Swansea.

Senior Developer job vacancy trend in Swansea

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Swansea

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

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

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea

For the 6 months to 25 September 2026, Senior Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Swansea region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusive Design
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OneLogin
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Wallet
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Product Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) SFIA
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) OneLogin
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle