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 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 89 98
Rank change year-on-year -23 +9 +63
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 9 22 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.49% 1.15% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 1.24% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 19
10th Percentile £510 - £372
25th Percentile £525 £425 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £613
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -18.37% +6.52%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £694
90th Percentile - £628 £718
England median daily rate £575 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% -

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 1,643 1,781 1,956
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.44% 93.29% 95.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,065 1,151 1,331
10th Percentile £235 £231 £228
25th Percentile £375 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £582 £624 £600
90th Percentile £650 £713 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 63 58
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.62 £14.42
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.63 £17.03
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £40.07 £33.74 £30.78
90th Percentile £50.00 £52.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer 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
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 18 September 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
Warwickshire -8 2 - - 7
Birmingham -17 2 £550 +10.00% 6
Solihull - 1 - -
Herefordshire - 1 £600 - 2
Staffordshire - 1 - -
Worcestershire - 1 £600 -
Senior Developer
England

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, 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 West Midlands region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) Docker
3 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (33.33%) Java
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Git
3 3 (33.33%) RESTful
3 3 (33.33%) Moodle
4 2 (22.22%) PHPUnit
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
4 2 (22.22%) AWS
4 2 (22.22%) Open Source
4 2 (22.22%) PHP
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (22.22%) JSON
4 2 (22.22%) e-Learning
4 2 (22.22%) VLE
4 2 (22.22%) Data Management
4 2 (22.22%) XML
4 2 (22.22%) Microservices
4 2 (22.22%) Postman
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (33.33%) Moodle
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (11.11%) AWS CodeCommit
2 1 (11.11%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 1 (11.11%) AWS KMS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (11.11%) Boomi
2 1 (11.11%) OCI
2 1 (11.11%) PaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Route 53
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) PHPUnit
2 2 (22.22%) Postman
3 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (11.11%) DbUnit
3 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA
3 1 (11.11%) jMock
3 1 (11.11%) JUnit
3 1 (11.11%) Maven
3 1 (11.11%) Mockito
3 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) RESTful
2 2 (22.22%) Behat
2 2 (22.22%) JSON
2 2 (22.22%) XML
3 1 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
3 1 (11.11%) Bootstrap
3 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
3 1 (11.11%) MACH
3 1 (11.11%) Node.js
3 1 (11.11%) PowerMock
3 1 (11.11%) React
3 1 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) SOAP
3 1 (11.11%) Spring
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Batch
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Integration
3 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (22.22%) e-Learning
1 2 (22.22%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Agile
1 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
2 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
2 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (22.22%) Data Management
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Microservices
2 2 (22.22%) Open Source
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) BDD
3 1 (11.11%) ITSM
3 1 (11.11%) Kanban
3 1 (11.11%) Load Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Regression Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum
3 1 (11.11%) TDD
3 1 (11.11%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) Java
4 2 (22.22%) PHP
5 1 (11.11%) Python
5 1 (11.11%) R
5 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
1 1 (11.11%) Jaspersoft
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
1 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow