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 £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 May 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 219 236 222
Rank change year-on-year +17 -14 -33
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 173 229 347
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.85% 0.97% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 1.03% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 165 236
10th Percentile £325 £413 £413
25th Percentile £425 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £565 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +7.62% +10.53%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £580
90th Percentile £676 £700 £663
UK median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 10
10th Percentile £42.01 - £60.88
25th Percentile £54.85 £61.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £58.91 £62.50 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% -13.79% +113.24%
75th Percentile £72.73 £71.88 £80.13
90th Percentile £82.70 £76.75 £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 18,841 22,170 29,329
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.51% 94.33% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,467 15,486 20,548
10th Percentile £213 £225 £203
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,255 1,134 1,466
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +3.98%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.03
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.13%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +24 66 £538 -5.70% 92
North West +40 46 £550 -5.25% 56
Scotland +30 33 £475 -24.00% 29
Yorkshire +14 25 £575 +2.22% 26
South West +5 23 £500 -16.67% 35
Midlands +24 20 £424 -22.07% 82
South East -3 19 £525 - 82
West Midlands +21 15 £259 -52.91% 52
Wales +27 7 £615 +44.71% 11
North East +17 7 £720 +10.77% 12
East of England +5 5 £600 +10.91% 18
East Midlands +18 4 £513 +2.50% 30
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 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 51 (29.48%) Agile
2 45 (26.01%) Java
3 42 (24.28%) SQL
4 40 (23.12%) React
5 35 (20.23%) Social Skills
6 31 (17.92%) Public Sector
7 29 (16.76%) .NET
8 28 (16.18%) Azure
9 26 (15.03%) Spring
10 25 (14.45%) AWS
10 25 (14.45%) REST
10 25 (14.45%) Microservices
11 24 (13.87%) Security Cleared
12 23 (13.29%) C#
13 22 (12.72%) ITIL
13 22 (12.72%) DevOps
13 22 (12.72%) Spring Boot
13 22 (12.72%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (11.56%) ServiceNow
14 20 (11.56%) JavaScript
15 18 (10.40%) Microsoft
15 18 (10.40%) SC Cleared
16 17 (9.83%) RESTful
16 17 (9.83%) TDD
16 17 (9.83%) CI/CD
17 16 (9.25%) Front End Development
17 16 (9.25%) SQL Server
18 15 (8.67%) CSS
18 15 (8.67%) ITIL Certification
18 15 (8.67%) Power Platform

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 6 (3.47%) Confluence
2 4 (2.31%) Apache
3 3 (1.73%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.16%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (1.16%) IIS
5 1 (0.58%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.58%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.58%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 28 (16.18%) Azure
2 25 (14.45%) AWS
3 15 (8.67%) Power Platform
4 14 (8.09%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (4.05%) Power Automate
6 6 (3.47%) PowerApps
7 5 (2.89%) Serverless
8 4 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.73%) Azure Functions
9 3 (1.73%) GCP
9 3 (1.73%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.73%) PaaS
10 2 (1.16%) Apigee
10 2 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.16%) IaaS
10 2 (1.16%) SaaS
11 1 (0.58%) Firebase
11 1 (0.58%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.73%) SAN
1 3 (1.73%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.16%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (0.58%) 5G
3 1 (0.58%) Firewall
3 1 (0.58%) HTTP
3 1 (0.58%) SSL
3 1 (0.58%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.25%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.62%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.47%) Power BI
4 5 (2.89%) Oracle Database
4 5 (2.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (2.31%) MariaDB
5 4 (2.31%) MySQL
5 4 (2.31%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.73%) SQLite
7 2 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.16%) Metadata
8 1 (0.58%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (8.09%) JIRA
2 11 (6.36%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.78%) Git
4 8 (4.62%) Cucumber
4 8 (4.62%) GitLab
4 8 (4.62%) JUnit
5 7 (4.05%) Rational Rhapsody
6 5 (2.89%) Postman
7 4 (2.31%) IntelliJ
7 4 (2.31%) Maven
8 3 (1.73%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (1.73%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.73%) Selenium
8 3 (1.73%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.16%) Subversion
9 2 (1.16%) VersionOne
10 1 (0.58%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.58%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.58%) Xcode
General
1 35 (20.23%) Social Skills
2 31 (17.92%) Public Sector
3 11 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.20%) Finance
5 5 (2.89%) Banking
6 3 (1.73%) Law
6 3 (1.73%) Police
6 3 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.16%) Local Government
7 2 (1.16%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.58%) Aviation
8 1 (0.58%) Retail
8 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (23.12%) React
2 29 (16.76%) .NET
3 26 (15.03%) Spring
4 25 (14.45%) REST
5 22 (12.72%) Spring Boot
6 17 (9.83%) RESTful
7 15 (8.67%) CSS
8 13 (7.51%) HTML
8 13 (7.51%) Kafka
9 12 (6.94%) Redux
10 11 (6.36%) Node.js
11 10 (5.78%) AngularJS
11 10 (5.78%) Vue
11 10 (5.78%) Web Services
12 9 (5.20%) GraphQL
13 8 (4.62%) .NET Core
13 8 (4.62%) J2EE
14 7 (4.05%) Next.js
15 6 (3.47%) .NET Framework
15 6 (3.47%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.36%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.62%) Legacy Applications
2 8 (4.62%) Wiki
3 7 (4.05%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.73%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.73%) NHS
7 2 (1.16%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.16%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.16%) Derivative
7 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.58%) CMDB
8 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.58%) Genomics
8 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.58%) mHealth
8 1 (0.58%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.62%) Linux
2 6 (3.47%) Android
3 3 (1.73%) Debian
3 3 (1.73%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.16%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (29.48%) Agile
2 25 (14.45%) Microservices
3 22 (12.72%) DevOps
3 22 (12.72%) ITIL
3 22 (12.72%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (9.83%) CI/CD
4 17 (9.83%) TDD
5 16 (9.25%) Front End Development
6 14 (8.09%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (7.51%) Roadmaps
7 13 (7.51%) User Experience
8 12 (6.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (6.36%) Full Stack Development
9 11 (6.36%) Software Engineering
10 10 (5.78%) Code Quality
10 10 (5.78%) Scrum
10 10 (5.78%) Test Automation
11 9 (5.20%) Knowledge Transfer
12 8 (4.62%) Line Management
12 8 (4.62%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 45 (26.01%) Java
2 42 (24.28%) SQL
3 23 (13.29%) C#
4 20 (11.56%) JavaScript
5 14 (8.09%) TypeScript
6 9 (5.20%) Python
7 6 (3.47%) Kotlin
7 6 (3.47%) Scala
8 5 (2.89%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.31%) C++
9 4 (2.31%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.16%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.16%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.16%) PHP
10 2 (1.16%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.16%) VBA
11 1 (0.58%) Dart
11 1 (0.58%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.58%) R
11 1 (0.58%) Swift
Qualifications
1 24 (13.87%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.40%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.67%) ITIL Certification
4 12 (6.94%) Degree
5 7 (4.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.31%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.16%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.62%) HL7
2 5 (2.89%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.73%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 3 (1.73%) QA
4 2 (1.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (5.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (5.20%) Kubernetes
1 9 (5.20%) Terraform
2 4 (2.31%) Kibana
3 3 (1.73%) Ansible
3 3 (1.73%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (1.73%) Podman
4 2 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.58%) Grafana
Vendors
1 20 (11.56%) ServiceNow
2 18 (10.40%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.78%) Oracle
4 4 (2.31%) RedGate
5 3 (1.73%) Google
5 3 (1.73%) Red Hat
5 3 (1.73%) VMware
6 2 (1.16%) IBM
6 2 (1.16%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.58%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.58%) JDA
7 1 (0.58%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.58%) Remedy
7 1 (0.58%) SAP
7 1 (0.58%) Siemens
7 1 (0.58%) UiPath