Senior Developer Contracts in the West Midlands

Senior Developer
England > West Midlands

The median Senior Developer daily rate in the West Midlands is £259 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 122 143
Rank change year-on-year +23 +21 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 15 20 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.78% 0.83% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 0.88% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 16
10th Percentile - £353 £438
25th Percentile - £434 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £259 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -52.91% +4.76% +41.89%
75th Percentile £475 £639 £543
90th Percentile - £663 £634
England median daily rate £575 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £56.25 - -
England median hourly rate £58.91 £62.50 £59.31
% change year-on-year -5.75% +5.38% +74.43%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,763 2,276 3,434
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.30% 94.79% 96.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,186 1,566 2,513
10th Percentile £258 £250 £213
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% +5.26% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 68 85
10th Percentile £11.97 £12.50 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.07 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £19.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £42.50 £26.19 £20.00
90th Percentile £56.00 £54.88 £23.15
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 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
Birmingham +12 13 £259 -52.91% 17
Coventry +11 2 £450 -25.00%
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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 9 (60.00%) SQL
2 7 (46.67%) HL7
2 7 (46.67%) Rational Rhapsody
3 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
4 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
5 2 (13.33%) E-Discovery
5 2 (13.33%) BDD
5 2 (13.33%) Azure
5 2 (13.33%) REST
5 2 (13.33%) Master's Degree
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (13.33%) Runbook
5 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (13.33%) Serverless
5 2 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Functions
5 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
5 2 (13.33%) PowerApps
5 2 (13.33%) Power Automate
5 2 (13.33%) Microservices
5 2 (13.33%) GCP
5 2 (13.33%) React
5 2 (13.33%) Apigee
5 2 (13.33%) Agile
5 2 (13.33%) TDD
5 2 (13.33%) Spring

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Apigee
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Functions
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (13.33%) GCP
1 2 (13.33%) Power Automate
1 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
1 2 (13.33%) PowerApps
1 2 (13.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (13.33%) Power BI
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Rational Rhapsody
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.67%) Android Studio
3 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (6.67%) Xcode
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (13.33%) React
2 2 (13.33%) REST
2 2 (13.33%) Spring
3 1 (6.67%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (6.67%) iOS SDK
3 1 (6.67%) Jetpack Compose
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Android
1 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (13.33%) Agile
2 2 (13.33%) BDD
2 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (13.33%) CRM
2 2 (13.33%) DevOps
2 2 (13.33%) E-Discovery
2 2 (13.33%) ETL
2 2 (13.33%) Microservices
2 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (13.33%) Runbook
2 2 (13.33%) SOA
2 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (13.33%) TDD
3 1 (6.67%) Android Development
3 1 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (6.67%) iOS Development
3 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (6.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) C++
3 1 (6.67%) Kotlin
3 1 (6.67%) Swift
3 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
1 2 (13.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (46.67%) HL7
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft