Senior Software Developer Contracts

Senior Software Developer
UK

The median Senior Software Developer daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 499 651 713
Rank change year-on-year +152 +62 -80
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 83 61 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.10% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.11% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 50 124
10th Percentile £432 £438 £436
25th Percentile £508 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £738 £656 £650
90th Percentile £800 £753 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -8.33% +26.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £54.85 - -
Median hourly rate £58.91 - -
75th Percentile £62.96 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.91 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,476 56,906 85,219
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,420 39,710 59,771
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,641 1,614 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.92 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Senior Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Developer in the UK

Senior Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Software Developer in the UK

Senior Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Developer over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Software Developer in the UK

Senior Software Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Software Developer in the UK

Senior Software Developer
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 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
England +153 78 £548 -8.75% 57
London +142 69 £548 -8.75% 22
Work from Home +133 43 £550 -8.33% 26
UK excluding London +42 13 £550 -8.33% 45
South East +14 5 £521 -28.72% 13
Wales - 4 £615 -
East Midlands - 2 £550 - 2
Midlands - 2 £550 - 5
North of England +36 1 £350 -39.13% 9
Yorkshire +26 1 £350 -39.13% 5
East of England +15 1 £600 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Senior Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 60 (72.29%) Agile
2 52 (62.65%) Azure
3 50 (60.24%) C#
4 47 (56.63%) PowerShell
5 46 (55.42%) SQL Server
6 42 (50.60%) DevOps
7 40 (48.19%) Microsoft
8 39 (46.99%) .NET
9 37 (44.58%) CI/CD
9 37 (44.58%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (40.96%) XML
10 34 (40.96%) Scrum
11 26 (31.33%) Software Engineering
12 24 (28.92%) .NET Framework
12 24 (28.92%) SQL
12 24 (28.92%) JavaScript
13 23 (27.71%) AngularJS
14 21 (25.30%) Python
15 18 (21.69%) Java
15 18 (21.69%) Product Ownership
16 16 (19.28%) Active Directory
17 14 (16.87%) B2C
17 14 (16.87%) Public Sector
17 14 (16.87%) Entra ID
18 13 (15.66%) Finance
18 13 (15.66%) AWS
19 12 (14.46%) Front Office
19 12 (14.46%) Project Delivery
19 12 (14.46%) Bicep
20 11 (13.25%) React

Senior Software 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (12.05%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.41%) Apache
2 2 (2.41%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.20%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Endur
1 1 (1.20%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 52 (62.65%) Azure
2 37 (44.58%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (16.87%) Entra ID
4 13 (15.66%) AWS
5 10 (12.05%) GCP
6 4 (4.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (3.61%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.41%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.41%) dbt
8 2 (2.41%) GitHub
8 2 (2.41%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.20%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.20%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.20%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.20%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.82%) SAN
1 4 (4.82%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.20%) Firewall
2 1 (1.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (55.42%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.41%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (2.41%) Apache Arrow
2 2 (2.41%) Apache Ignite
2 2 (2.41%) Big Data
2 2 (2.41%) Dremio
2 2 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.41%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.20%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (10.84%) SpecFlow
2 2 (2.41%) Cypress.io
2 2 (2.41%) Git
3 1 (1.20%) LabVIEW
3 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.20%) tSQLt
General
1 14 (16.87%) Public Sector
2 13 (15.66%) Finance
3 12 (14.46%) Front Office
4 8 (9.64%) Social Skills
5 4 (4.82%) Banking
5 4 (4.82%) Local Government
6 2 (2.41%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.41%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.20%) Back Office
7 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.20%) Law
7 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (46.99%) .NET
2 34 (40.96%) XML
3 24 (28.92%) .NET Framework
4 23 (27.71%) AngularJS
5 11 (13.25%) Pandas
5 11 (13.25%) React
6 10 (12.05%) .NET Core
6 10 (12.05%) gRPC
6 10 (12.05%) Protocol Buffers
7 8 (9.64%) ARM Templates
7 8 (9.64%) Material-UI
7 8 (9.64%) Vue
8 3 (3.61%) Blazor
8 3 (3.61%) NumPy
8 3 (3.61%) Razor View Engine
8 3 (3.61%) SciPy
9 2 (2.41%) CSS
9 2 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (2.41%) HTML
9 2 (2.41%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 18 (21.69%) Product Ownership
2 11 (13.25%) Derivative
3 10 (12.05%) Equities
3 10 (12.05%) Fixed Income
3 10 (12.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (9.64%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (6.02%) Contactless
6 3 (3.61%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.61%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.41%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.41%) Hedge funds
7 2 (2.41%) Market Risk
7 2 (2.41%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.20%) Clustering
8 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.20%) NHS
8 1 (1.20%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.23%) Linux
2 4 (4.82%) Debian
2 4 (4.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (72.29%) Agile
2 42 (50.60%) DevOps
3 37 (44.58%) CI/CD
4 34 (40.96%) Scrum
5 26 (31.33%) Software Engineering
6 14 (16.87%) B2C
7 12 (14.46%) Project Delivery
8 10 (12.05%) Analytics
8 10 (12.05%) Asset Management
9 9 (10.84%) Database Optimisation
10 8 (9.64%) Content Management
11 7 (8.43%) Design Patterns
12 6 (7.23%) SDLC
13 5 (6.02%) Configuration Management
13 5 (6.02%) Test Automation
14 4 (4.82%) Clean Code
14 4 (4.82%) Data Modelling
14 4 (4.82%) ITIL
14 4 (4.82%) TDD
14 4 (4.82%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 50 (60.24%) C#
2 47 (56.63%) PowerShell
3 24 (28.92%) JavaScript
3 24 (28.92%) SQL
4 21 (25.30%) Python
5 18 (21.69%) Java
6 12 (14.46%) Bicep
7 11 (13.25%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.82%) C++
8 4 (4.82%) T-SQL
9 3 (3.61%) Ruby
10 2 (2.41%) Bash
10 2 (2.41%) Perl
10 2 (2.41%) Scala
11 1 (1.20%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (8.43%) Degree
1 7 (8.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.82%) DV Cleared
3 3 (3.61%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.23%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.20%) HL7
3 1 (1.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (19.28%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.02%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.41%) Docker
4 1 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.20%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (48.19%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.82%) Red Hat
2 4 (4.82%) RedGate
2 4 (4.82%) VMware
3 1 (1.20%) ION Trading
3 1 (1.20%) NEC
3 1 (1.20%) OpenLink
3 1 (1.20%) Remedy
3 1 (1.20%) Virgin Media
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