Senior Development Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Development Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Development Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 386 -
Rank change year-on-year +45 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Development Engineer 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.016% 0.020% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.021% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £418 - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile £483 - -
UK median daily rate £450 £513 £575
% change year-on-year -12.20% -10.87% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 11,837 18,742 21,756
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.97% 92.49% 94.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,537 11,429 15,189
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 842 2,251 1,113
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £27.24 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.91% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.18 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.79% -18.89% +87.50%

Senior Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Development Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Development Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Development Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Development Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Development Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Development Engineer
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 Development Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
South East - 1 £475 - 8
South West - 1 £425 - 2
Senior Development Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Senior Development Engineer 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 Development Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Valgrind
2 1 (50.00%) Memory Management
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) SDET
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Multithreaded Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) PySpark
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) NFC
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (50.00%) PPP
2 1 (50.00%) Smartcard
2 1 (50.00%) C#

Senior Development Engineer 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) NFC
1 1 (50.00%) PPP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (50.00%) Valgrind
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Memory Management
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Multithreaded Programming
1 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (50.00%) SDET
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL