Senior Developer Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Senior Developer
England > West Midlands

The median Senior Developer daily rate in the West Midlands is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 95 90
Rank change year-on-year -31 -5 +75
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 8 20 30
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.40% 1.06% 1.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 1.15% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 20
10th Percentile £499 £424 £386
25th Percentile £504 £486 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £663
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -24.53% +23.26%
75th Percentile - £588 £691
90th Percentile £660 £653 £709
England median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% -3.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,766 1,746 1,868
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.37% 92.72% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,142 1,109 1,279
10th Percentile £251 £213 £220
25th Percentile £400 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £588 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £706 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 60 66
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.58 £15.38
25th Percentile £15.69 £14.18 £17.31
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.25 £22.20
Median % change year-on-year +13.03% +0.25% +25.25%
75th Percentile £35.75 £32.60 £33.64
90th Percentile £50.00 £44.38 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +54.59%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Senior Developer job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in the West Midlands

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in the West Midlands

Senior Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in the West Midlands

Senior Developer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 October 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
Herefordshire - 4 £600 -
Worcestershire - 4 £600 -
Shropshire - 2 £531 -
Birmingham -11 1 £500 - 12
Solihull - 1 - -
Senior Developer
England

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 26 October 2025, Senior Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) React
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Clean Code
3 4 (50.00%) Java
3 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (50.00%) Node.js
3 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) AWS
4 3 (37.50%) Git
4 3 (37.50%) Grafana
4 3 (37.50%) JPA
4 3 (37.50%) JUnit
4 3 (37.50%) Maven
4 3 (37.50%) Microservices
4 3 (37.50%) Mockito
4 3 (37.50%) Scrum
4 3 (37.50%) Spring
4 3 (37.50%) Spring Boot
4 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (25.00%) Coaching
5 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
5 2 (25.00%) Gherkin
5 2 (25.00%) GitLab
5 2 (25.00%) GraalVM
5 2 (25.00%) HTML

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS KMS
2 1 (12.50%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) JUnit
1 3 (37.50%) Maven
1 3 (37.50%) Mockito
2 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (25.00%) GitLab
2 2 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (12.50%) DbUnit
3 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) jMock
3 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) React
2 4 (50.00%) Node.js
3 3 (37.50%) JPA
3 3 (37.50%) Spring
3 3 (37.50%) Spring Boot
4 2 (25.00%) Gherkin
4 2 (25.00%) GraalVM
4 2 (25.00%) HTML
4 2 (25.00%) JDBC
4 2 (25.00%) JSON
4 2 (25.00%) OAuth
4 2 (25.00%) OAuth2
4 2 (25.00%) OpenID
4 2 (25.00%) Playwright
5 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
5 1 (12.50%) Bootstrap
5 1 (12.50%) REST
5 1 (12.50%) RESTful
5 1 (12.50%) Spring Batch
5 1 (12.50%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Microservices
3 3 (37.50%) Scrum
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) Coaching
4 2 (25.00%) OO
4 2 (25.00%) OOD
4 2 (25.00%) Open Source
4 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) BDD
5 1 (12.50%) Biometrics
5 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
5 1 (12.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Grafana
2 2 (25.00%) Kibana
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
1 1 (12.50%) Jaspersoft
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle