Senior Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 June 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
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 237 233 227
Rank change year-on-year -4 -6 -43
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 163 213 345
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.77% 0.94% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 0.99% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 157 230
10th Percentile £325 £410 £413
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £588
90th Percentile £624 £700 £664
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 11
10th Percentile £32.55 - £61.81
25th Percentile £54.85 £61.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £58.91 £62.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% -16.67% +120.59%
75th Percentile £82.50 £63.75 £79.25
90th Percentile £83.90 - £81.00
UK median hourly rate £58.91 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -5.75% -10.71% +105.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,476 21,429 29,397
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 94.23% 95.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,646 14,879 20,663
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £575
90th Percentile £683 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,475 1,093 1,396
10th Percentile £12.53 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.86 £18.03 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +6.20%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £46.58
90th Percentile £74.22 £75.40 £61.95
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
North of England +17 49 £475 -15.56% 115
Scotland +22 31 £475 -24.00% 24
North West +17 31 £475 -17.39% 64
South West +8 27 £475 -20.83% 34
Midlands +16 24 £450 -16.28% 66
South East -9 23 £588 +12.98% 74
West Midlands +16 19 £259 -52.86% 49
Yorkshire +9 18 £463 -18.32% 34
Wales +20 4 £500 +17.65% 11
East Midlands +3 4 £513 +2.50% 17
East of England +3 4 £404 -25.32% 25
Northern Ireland -1 1 £550 - 8
Senior Developer
UK

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 8 June 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 45 (27.61%) Agile
2 38 (23.31%) Java
3 37 (22.70%) SQL
4 36 (22.09%) React
5 28 (17.18%) Social Skills
6 25 (15.34%) Azure
6 25 (15.34%) AWS
7 24 (14.72%) .NET
8 23 (14.11%) JavaScript
9 22 (13.50%) C#
9 22 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (13.50%) Microservices
10 20 (12.27%) DevOps
10 20 (12.27%) Spring
10 20 (12.27%) Security Cleared
11 19 (11.66%) Node.js
12 18 (11.04%) REST
12 18 (11.04%) HTML
12 18 (11.04%) Spring Boot
12 18 (11.04%) Full Stack Development
13 17 (10.43%) SC Cleared
14 16 (9.82%) CSS
14 16 (9.82%) Finance
14 16 (9.82%) Front End Development
15 15 (9.20%) Power Platform
15 15 (9.20%) TDD
15 15 (9.20%) E-Commerce
16 14 (8.59%) Microsoft
16 14 (8.59%) SQL Server
16 14 (8.59%) Serverless

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (2.45%) Confluence
2 3 (1.84%) SAS
2 3 (1.84%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.23%) Apache
3 2 (1.23%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (1.23%) IIS
3 2 (1.23%) StreamWeaver
4 1 (0.61%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.61%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.23%) EngageOne
1 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.61%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.61%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 25 (15.34%) AWS
1 25 (15.34%) Azure
2 15 (9.20%) Power Platform
3 14 (8.59%) Serverless
4 11 (6.75%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (4.29%) Power Automate
6 6 (3.68%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (3.68%) PowerApps
7 4 (2.45%) GCP
8 3 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.23%) Apigee
9 2 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.23%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.23%) GitHub
9 2 (1.23%) IaaS
9 2 (1.23%) PaaS
9 2 (1.23%) SaaS
10 1 (0.61%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.23%) OpenLDAP
1 2 (1.23%) SAN
1 2 (1.23%) SMS
1 2 (1.23%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.61%) Firewall
2 1 (0.61%) HTTP
2 1 (0.61%) SSL
2 1 (0.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.59%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.91%) Oracle Database
3 5 (3.07%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.45%) MariaDB
4 4 (2.45%) MySQL
4 4 (2.45%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.84%) Power BI
5 3 (1.84%) SQLite
6 2 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.23%) Metadata
7 1 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.61%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.61%) CockroachDB
7 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.61%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.61%) Impala
7 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (7.98%) JIRA
2 8 (4.91%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.29%) GitLab
3 7 (4.29%) Rational Rhapsody
4 6 (3.68%) Git
5 5 (3.07%) Maven
6 4 (2.45%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.45%) JUnit
7 3 (1.84%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (1.84%) REST Assured
7 3 (1.84%) Selenium
7 3 (1.84%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.23%) Subversion
8 2 (1.23%) VersionOne
8 2 (1.23%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.61%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.61%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.61%) Mockito
9 1 (0.61%) Xcode
General
1 28 (17.18%) Social Skills
2 16 (9.82%) Finance
3 13 (7.98%) Public Sector
4 12 (7.36%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.68%) Banking
6 3 (1.84%) Law
6 3 (1.84%) Local Government
6 3 (1.84%) Police
6 3 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.23%) Retail
8 1 (0.61%) Aviation
8 1 (0.61%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (22.09%) React
2 24 (14.72%) .NET
3 20 (12.27%) Spring
4 19 (11.66%) Node.js
5 18 (11.04%) HTML
5 18 (11.04%) REST
5 18 (11.04%) Spring Boot
6 16 (9.82%) CSS
7 11 (6.75%) Kafka
7 11 (6.75%) Redux
7 11 (6.75%) Vue
8 10 (6.13%) AngularJS
8 10 (6.13%) GraphQL
9 9 (5.52%) RESTful
10 8 (4.91%) Next.js
10 8 (4.91%) Web Services
11 7 (4.29%) XML
12 5 (3.07%) .NET Core
12 5 (3.07%) .NET Framework
13 4 (2.45%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.52%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.91%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.68%) Legacy Applications
3 6 (3.68%) Wiki
4 5 (3.07%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.84%) Credit Risk
5 3 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.23%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.23%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.23%) Derivative
6 2 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.23%) NHS
7 1 (0.61%) IoT
7 1 (0.61%) mHealth
7 1 (0.61%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.13%) Linux
2 7 (4.29%) Android
2 7 (4.29%) Unix
3 2 (1.23%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.23%) Debian
3 2 (1.23%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.61%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (27.61%) Agile
2 22 (13.50%) Microservices
2 22 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (12.27%) DevOps
4 18 (11.04%) Full Stack Development
5 16 (9.82%) Front End Development
6 15 (9.20%) E-Commerce
6 15 (9.20%) TDD
7 12 (7.36%) Scrum
7 12 (7.36%) Software Engineering
8 11 (6.75%) CI/CD
9 10 (6.13%) Test Automation
9 10 (6.13%) User Experience
10 8 (4.91%) Clean Code
10 8 (4.91%) Code Quality
10 8 (4.91%) Configuration Management
10 8 (4.91%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (4.91%) ITIL
11 7 (4.29%) Customer Service
11 7 (4.29%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 38 (23.31%) Java
2 37 (22.70%) SQL
3 23 (14.11%) JavaScript
4 22 (13.50%) C#
5 14 (8.59%) TypeScript
6 12 (7.36%) Python
7 7 (4.29%) Kotlin
8 6 (3.68%) Scala
9 4 (2.45%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.84%) C++
10 3 (1.84%) R
11 2 (1.23%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.23%) MATLAB
11 2 (1.23%) Perl
11 2 (1.23%) PHP
11 2 (1.23%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.23%) VBA
12 1 (0.61%) ABAP
12 1 (0.61%) Dart
12 1 (0.61%) Go
Qualifications
1 20 (12.27%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.43%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.75%) Degree
4 5 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.45%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.29%) HL7
2 4 (2.45%) QA
3 3 (1.84%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 2 (1.23%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (5.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (5.52%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.68%) Terraform
3 3 (1.84%) Ansible
3 3 (1.84%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (1.84%) Podman
4 2 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.61%) Control-M
5 1 (0.61%) Grafana
5 1 (0.61%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.61%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (8.59%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.36%) Oracle
3 5 (3.07%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.45%) Google
5 3 (1.84%) MuleSoft
5 3 (1.84%) OutSystems
6 2 (1.23%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.23%) IBM
6 2 (1.23%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.23%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.23%) VMware
7 1 (0.61%) JDA
7 1 (0.61%) NEC
7 1 (0.61%) RedGate
7 1 (0.61%) SAP
7 1 (0.61%) Siemens