Senior Developer Contracts in the West Midlands

Senior Developer
England > West Midlands

The median Senior Developer daily rate in the West Midlands is £550, 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 81 96 120
Rank change year-on-year +15 +24 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 16 15 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.19% 0.77% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.31% 0.84% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 10
10th Percentile £410 - £353
25th Percentile £495 - £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £259 £550
Median % change year-on-year +112.36% -52.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £475 £639
90th Percentile £700 - £663
England median daily rate £608 £575 £650
% change year-on-year +5.65% -11.54% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £77.19 £58.91 £62.50
% change year-on-year +31.04% -5.75% +13.64%

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 1,221 1,776 2,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 91.22% 94.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 1,198 1,556
10th Percentile £200 £259 £250
25th Percentile £369 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -2.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £702 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 134 66
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.01 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £15.02
Median hourly rate £18.07 £22.25 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.81% +14.10% +12.85%
75th Percentile £28.18 £42.31 £26.82
90th Percentile £35.58 £55.88 £55.63
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer 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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in the West Midlands

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer 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 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
Birmingham +7 3 £543 +109.46% 15
Solihull - 2 £420 - 1
Herefordshire - 2 £700 - 2
Staffordshire - 2 £550 - 12
Warwickshire - 2 - - 13
Worcestershire - 2 £700 - 4
Shropshire - 1 - - 1
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 12 (75.00%) SQL
2 9 (56.25%) JavaScript
2 9 (56.25%) Agile
2 9 (56.25%) Docker
3 7 (43.75%) RESTful
4 6 (37.50%) AWS
4 6 (37.50%) JIRA
4 6 (37.50%) Git
5 5 (31.25%) Java
5 5 (31.25%) Code Quality
6 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (25.00%) PHP
6 4 (25.00%) Python
6 4 (25.00%) Finance
6 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
6 4 (25.00%) TDD
6 4 (25.00%) Moodle
6 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
6 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
6 4 (25.00%) Microservices
6 4 (25.00%) API Development
6 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (18.75%) Postman
7 3 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (18.75%) REST
7 3 (18.75%) Behat
7 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
7 3 (18.75%) PHPUnit

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 4 (25.00%) Moodle
2 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (12.50%) AWS CodeCommit
2 2 (12.50%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Boomi
2 2 (12.50%) GCP
2 2 (12.50%) OCI
2 2 (12.50%) PaaS
2 2 (12.50%) SaaS
2 2 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Git
1 6 (37.50%) JIRA
2 3 (18.75%) JUnit
2 3 (18.75%) Maven
2 3 (18.75%) PHPUnit
2 3 (18.75%) Postman
3 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
4 1 (6.25%) Gradle
4 1 (6.25%) Mockito
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) RESTful
2 3 (18.75%) Behat
2 3 (18.75%) JSON
2 3 (18.75%) REST
2 3 (18.75%) Spring
2 3 (18.75%) XML
3 2 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 2 (12.50%) Bootstrap
3 2 (12.50%) Django
3 2 (12.50%) Hibernate
3 2 (12.50%) JPA
3 2 (12.50%) MACH
3 2 (12.50%) Node.js
3 2 (12.50%) React
3 2 (12.50%) SOAP
3 2 (12.50%) Spring Batch
3 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 2 (12.50%) Spring Integration
3 2 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) e-Learning
1 3 (18.75%) VLE
2 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Agile
2 5 (31.25%) Code Quality
3 4 (25.00%) API Development
3 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (25.00%) Microservices
3 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) TDD
3 4 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (18.75%) Data Management
4 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
5 2 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (12.50%) ETL
5 2 (12.50%) Load Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Regression Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) SQL
2 9 (56.25%) JavaScript
3 5 (31.25%) Java
4 4 (25.00%) PHP
4 4 (25.00%) Python
5 2 (12.50%) Go
5 2 (12.50%) R
5 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
6 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 9 (56.25%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (6.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Jaspersoft
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) IFS
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.25%) Splunk