Senior Applications Developer Contracts

Senior Application Developer
UK

The median Senior Application Developer daily rate in the UK is £508, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 574 683
Rank change year-on-year +68 +109 +142
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Applications Developer 14 8 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.018% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.020% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 28
10th Percentile £338 £259 £468
25th Percentile £479 £335 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £475 £605
Median % change year-on-year +6.84% -21.49% +12.56%
75th Percentile £600 £488 -
90th Percentile £748 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £603
% change year-on-year +3.58% -21.16% +26.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £24.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £24.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Senior Applications Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Applications Developer in the UK

Senior Applications Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Applications Developer.

Daily rate trend for Senior Applications Developer in the UK

Senior Applications Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Applications Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Applications Developer in the UK

Senior Applications Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Applications Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Applications Developer in the UK

Senior Applications Developer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Applications Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +61 12 £508 +6.84% 10
London +43 7 £508 - 5
UK excluding London +63 6 £492 +3.58% 6
South East +47 3 £600 +26.32% 2
Work from Home +42 3 £492 +3.58% 4
East of England +30 2 £375 +80.29% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £492 -

Senior Applications Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Applications 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 featuring Senior Applications Developer in the job title.

1 11 (78.57%) Azure
2 8 (57.14%) Test Automation
2 8 (57.14%) SQL
3 6 (42.86%) .NET
4 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
4 5 (35.71%) Tricentis Tosca
5 4 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (28.57%) RESTful
5 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
5 4 (28.57%) SaaS
5 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
6 3 (21.43%) HTML
6 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
6 3 (21.43%) CSS
6 3 (21.43%) Vue
6 3 (21.43%) Azure Stack
7 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
7 2 (14.29%) PowerApps
7 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
7 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
7 2 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 2 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (14.29%) Code Quality
7 2 (14.29%) Design Patterns
7 2 (14.29%) SOLID
7 2 (14.29%) Software Delivery
7 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot

Senior Applications Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (7.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) Tricentis Tosca
3 4 (28.57%) SaaS
4 3 (21.43%) Azure Stack
5 2 (14.29%) AWS
5 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 2 (14.29%) PowerApps
6 1 (7.14%) Apple Pay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.14%) UniData
General
1 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) .NET
2 4 (28.57%) RESTful
3 3 (21.43%) CSS
3 3 (21.43%) HTML
3 3 (21.43%) Vue
4 2 (14.29%) .NET Framework
4 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET
4 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (14.29%) Kafka
4 2 (14.29%) Node.js
4 2 (14.29%) Spring
4 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 2 (14.29%) Web Services
5 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
5 1 (7.14%) iOS SDK
5 1 (7.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (7.14%) e-Learning
2 1 (7.14%) EMV
2 1 (7.14%) Mobile Payment
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Test Automation
2 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 2 (14.29%) DevOps
2 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (14.29%) IT Governance
2 2 (14.29%) ITIL
2 2 (14.29%) Microservices
2 2 (14.29%) MVC
2 2 (14.29%) MVVM
2 2 (14.29%) OO
2 2 (14.29%) OOP
2 2 (14.29%) Re-Platforming
2 2 (14.29%) Responsive Web Design
2 2 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (14.29%) Software Delivery
2 2 (14.29%) SOLID
2 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (14.29%) TDD
2 2 (14.29%) Unit Testing
2 2 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) ActionScript
3 2 (14.29%) C#
3 2 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) UniBasic
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Infor
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle
1 2 (14.29%) TIBCO
2 1 (7.14%) Apple