Senior Developer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Developer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £600, 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 138 108 110
Rank change year-on-year -30 +2 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 186 310 567
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.88% 2.02% 2.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.00% 2.16% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 231 439
10th Percentile £423 £420 £425
25th Percentile £500 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £775 £750 £750
90th Percentile £835 £863 £850
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 4
10th Percentile - £40.00 -
25th Percentile - £56.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year - -12.73% +96.43%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £76.25
90th Percentile - £82.60 £78.50
UK median hourly rate £77.19 £58.20 £62.50
% change year-on-year +32.62% -6.88% +13.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Senior Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Senior Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Developer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Senior Developer.

Senior Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Senior Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Senior Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Developer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Senior Developer.

Senior Developer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 63 (33.87%) Agile
2 60 (32.26%) SQL
3 57 (30.65%) Java
4 55 (29.57%) Social Skills
5 46 (24.73%) Banking
5 46 (24.73%) Python
6 44 (23.66%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (22.04%) Docker
8 40 (21.51%) Finance
9 39 (20.97%) Azure
9 39 (20.97%) DevOps
10 36 (19.35%) React
11 35 (18.82%) CI/CD
12 34 (18.28%) Investment Banking
12 34 (18.28%) Software Engineering
12 34 (18.28%) JavaScript
13 32 (17.20%) Linux
13 32 (17.20%) TypeScript
14 31 (16.67%) Relational Database
14 31 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
15 29 (15.59%) Kafka
16 28 (15.05%) C#
16 28 (15.05%) Containerisation
17 27 (14.52%) .NET
18 26 (13.98%) TDD
18 26 (13.98%) Technical Leadership
19 25 (13.44%) SDLC
19 25 (13.44%) Kubernetes
19 25 (13.44%) Git
20 24 (12.90%) AWS

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 16 (8.60%) Moodle
2 8 (4.30%) GemFire
2 8 (4.30%) Oracle Coherence
3 6 (3.23%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.15%) Confluence
5 3 (1.61%) CMS
5 3 (1.61%) Headless CMS
6 2 (1.08%) Apache
6 2 (1.08%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.61%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.54%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 39 (20.97%) Azure
2 24 (12.90%) AWS
3 14 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (6.99%) Power Platform
5 12 (6.45%) Serverless
6 10 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (4.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (4.30%) Amazon S3
7 8 (4.30%) GitHub
8 7 (3.76%) npm
9 5 (2.69%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.69%) Power Automate
9 5 (2.69%) PowerApps
9 5 (2.69%) Yarn
10 4 (2.15%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.15%) Slack
11 3 (1.61%) Amazon Cognito
11 3 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.23%) HTTP
2 3 (1.61%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (1.08%) Firewall
3 2 (1.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 22 (11.83%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (10.22%) MongoDB
4 13 (6.99%) SQL Server
5 11 (5.91%) DB2
5 11 (5.91%) KDB
5 11 (5.91%) Kdb+
6 9 (4.84%) MySQL
7 7 (3.76%) DynamoDB
7 7 (3.76%) Power BI
8 5 (2.69%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.69%) Redis
9 4 (2.15%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (2.15%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.61%) Big Data
10 3 (1.61%) Parquet
10 3 (1.61%) Power Query
11 2 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 25 (13.44%) Git
2 23 (12.37%) JUnit
3 11 (5.91%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.30%) Gradle
4 8 (4.30%) Mockito
5 6 (3.23%) JIRA
5 6 (3.23%) Liquibase
5 6 (3.23%) webpack
6 5 (2.69%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.69%) GitLab
6 5 (2.69%) Jasmine
6 5 (2.69%) PHPUnit
6 5 (2.69%) Postman
7 3 (1.61%) Maven
8 2 (1.08%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.08%) Mocha
8 2 (1.08%) MSTest
8 2 (1.08%) NUnit
8 2 (1.08%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (1.08%) Visual Studio
General
1 55 (29.57%) Social Skills
2 46 (24.73%) Banking
3 40 (21.51%) Finance
4 34 (18.28%) Investment Banking
5 31 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (8.60%) Public Sector
7 15 (8.06%) Front Office
8 8 (4.30%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.69%) Marketing
10 4 (2.15%) Electronics
10 4 (2.15%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.61%) Retail
12 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.08%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.08%) Legal
12 2 (1.08%) Military
13 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.54%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (19.35%) React
2 29 (15.59%) Kafka
3 27 (14.52%) .NET
4 23 (12.37%) Spring
5 22 (11.83%) RESTful
6 20 (10.75%) CSS
7 17 (9.14%) AngularJS
7 17 (9.14%) Node.js
8 14 (7.53%) HTML
9 13 (6.99%) ASP.NET
9 13 (6.99%) OpenAPI
9 13 (6.99%) Swagger
10 12 (6.45%) Spring Boot
11 11 (5.91%) JMS
12 10 (5.38%) .NET Core
13 9 (4.84%) Redux
14 8 (4.30%) JSON
15 7 (3.76%) AWS CDK
16 6 (3.23%) FIX Protocol
16 6 (3.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.99%) Data Structures
1 13 (6.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 11 (5.91%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (5.91%) Equities
3 10 (5.38%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (4.84%) Derivative
5 8 (4.30%) Mobile App
5 8 (4.30%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.69%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.69%) e-Learning
6 5 (2.69%) Renewable Energy
6 5 (2.69%) State Machine
6 5 (2.69%) VLE
7 4 (2.15%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.61%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.61%) Market Risk
9 2 (1.08%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.08%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 32 (17.20%) Linux
2 12 (6.45%) Android
2 12 (6.45%) Windows
3 4 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.61%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (33.87%) Agile
2 44 (23.66%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (20.97%) DevOps
4 35 (18.82%) CI/CD
5 34 (18.28%) Software Engineering
6 28 (15.05%) Containerisation
7 26 (13.98%) TDD
7 26 (13.98%) Technical Leadership
8 25 (13.44%) SDLC
9 22 (11.83%) Performance Tuning
10 21 (11.29%) Microservices
11 20 (10.75%) Multithreading
12 19 (10.22%) Mentoring
13 16 (8.60%) User Experience
14 14 (7.53%) Computer Science
14 14 (7.53%) Electronic Trading
14 14 (7.53%) Full-Stack Development
14 14 (7.53%) Performance Optimisation
15 13 (6.99%) Code Quality
16 12 (6.45%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 60 (32.26%) SQL
2 57 (30.65%) Java
3 46 (24.73%) Python
4 34 (18.28%) JavaScript
5 32 (17.20%) TypeScript
6 28 (15.05%) C#
7 17 (9.14%) C++
8 12 (6.45%) Shell Script
9 11 (5.91%) Kotlin
10 6 (3.23%) PHP
10 6 (3.23%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.69%) Bash
12 4 (2.15%) Ruby
13 3 (1.61%) VBA
14 1 (0.54%) ABAP
14 1 (0.54%) C
14 1 (0.54%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.54%) Perl
14 1 (0.54%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.54%) UniBasic
Qualifications
1 15 (8.06%) Degree
2 14 (7.53%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.99%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.30%) Numerate Degree
5 6 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.15%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.84%) Accessibility
1 9 (4.84%) QA
2 2 (1.08%) WCAG
3 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (22.04%) Docker
2 8 (4.30%) GridGain
3 3 (1.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (13.44%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.76%) Terraform
3 4 (2.15%) Ansible
4 2 (1.08%) Grafana
4 2 (1.08%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.54%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.54%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (8.06%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.91%) Sybase
3 9 (4.84%) Oracle
4 5 (2.69%) Atlassian
4 5 (2.69%) ION Trading
4 5 (2.69%) SAP
4 5 (2.69%) Solace
5 4 (2.15%) Google
6 3 (1.61%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.54%) Adobe
7 1 (0.54%) Apple
7 1 (0.54%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.54%) Databricks
7 1 (0.54%) Okta
7 1 (0.54%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.54%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.54%) Splunk
7 1 (0.54%) TIBCO