Hybrid/Remote Senior Developer Contract Job Trends

Senior Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Developer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £591, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 109 152
Rank change year-on-year -23 +43 -47
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 214 260 280
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.10% 2.14% 1.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.25% 2.30% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 168 209
10th Percentile £400 £396 £442
25th Percentile £491 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £591 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% -4.17% -2.04%
75th Percentile £709 £700 £700
90th Percentile £988 £799 £813
UK median daily rate £550 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £60.63
90th Percentile - - £61.75
UK median hourly rate - - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - -25.00%

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 remote/hybrid work 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 9,503 11,296 16,780
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.31% 93.10% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,215 7,149 11,556
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 206 378
10th Percentile £15.18 £18.50 £17.60
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.26 £26.24
Median hourly rate £43.69 £38.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.22% -27.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.63
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Developer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Senior Developer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Senior Developer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Senior Developer job vacancies

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Senior Developer over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Senior Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Senior Developer
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Senior Developer job vacancies.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Senior Developer job vacancies

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 13 December 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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 81 (37.85%) Java
2 76 (35.51%) Agile
3 70 (32.71%) AWS
4 69 (32.24%) Kafka
4 69 (32.24%) SQL
5 64 (29.91%) Python
6 58 (27.10%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (26.64%) Microservices
8 56 (26.17%) CI/CD
9 55 (25.70%) Docker
10 51 (23.83%) DevOps
11 49 (22.90%) Azure
12 46 (21.50%) Kubernetes
13 44 (20.56%) Spring
14 38 (17.76%) Containerisation
14 38 (17.76%) Software Engineering
14 38 (17.76%) TDD
15 37 (17.29%) C#
16 36 (16.82%) Analytics
16 36 (16.82%) PostgreSQL
17 33 (15.42%) Open Source
18 32 (14.95%) Git
19 31 (14.49%) Relational Database
20 30 (14.02%) JavaScript
20 30 (14.02%) Security Cleared
21 29 (13.55%) RESTful
21 29 (13.55%) Spring Boot
22 28 (13.08%) REST
23 27 (12.62%) Test Automation
24 25 (11.68%) SC Cleared

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (4.21%) Confluence
2 4 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.40%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.93%) CMS
4 2 (0.93%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.47%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.47%) SAP BRIM
1 1 (0.47%) SAP FI
1 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.47%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 70 (32.71%) AWS
2 49 (22.90%) Azure
3 15 (7.01%) GCP
3 15 (7.01%) Power Platform
4 14 (6.54%) GitHub
4 14 (6.54%) Serverless
5 11 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (4.21%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (4.21%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (4.21%) Power Automate
6 9 (4.21%) PowerApps
7 8 (3.74%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (3.74%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (3.27%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (3.27%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.27%) SaaS
9 6 (2.80%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (2.80%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.80%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.87%) VPN
2 3 (1.40%) SSL
2 3 (1.40%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.93%) Firewall
3 2 (0.93%) HTTP
3 2 (0.93%) SAN
4 1 (0.47%) BGP
4 1 (0.47%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.47%) FTP
4 1 (0.47%) Internet
4 1 (0.47%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (16.82%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (14.49%) Relational Database
3 22 (10.28%) MongoDB
4 15 (7.01%) DB2
4 15 (7.01%) NoSQL
5 14 (6.54%) Apache Cassandra
6 11 (5.14%) Data Hub
7 8 (3.74%) Power BI
8 7 (3.27%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (3.27%) RDBMS
9 6 (2.80%) SQL Server
10 5 (2.34%) MySQL
11 4 (1.87%) Big Data
11 4 (1.87%) Couchbase
11 4 (1.87%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.87%) Redis
12 3 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.40%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.40%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 32 (14.95%) Git
2 23 (10.75%) JUnit
3 21 (9.81%) Jenkins
4 15 (7.01%) GitLab
5 12 (5.61%) JIRA
6 6 (2.80%) Maven
6 6 (2.80%) Mockito
7 5 (2.34%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.40%) Gradle
8 3 (1.40%) Postman
9 2 (0.93%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.93%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.93%) git-flow
9 2 (0.93%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.93%) Mocha
9 2 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.93%) webpack
10 1 (0.47%) MSTest
10 1 (0.47%) QUnit
10 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
General
1 76 (35.51%) Finance
2 49 (22.90%) Banking
3 47 (21.96%) Social Skills
4 35 (16.36%) Investment Banking
5 32 (14.95%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (13.55%) Public Sector
7 12 (5.61%) Front Office
8 4 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.93%) Automotive
9 2 (0.93%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.93%) Military
10 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.47%) Games
10 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.47%) Law
10 1 (0.47%) Marketing
10 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (32.24%) Kafka
2 44 (20.56%) Spring
3 29 (13.55%) RESTful
3 29 (13.55%) Spring Boot
4 28 (13.08%) REST
5 24 (11.21%) React
6 23 (10.75%) .NET
7 17 (7.94%) HTML
7 17 (7.94%) JMS
8 16 (7.48%) Node.js
9 15 (7.01%) CSS
10 14 (6.54%) JSON
11 13 (6.07%) Web Services
12 12 (5.61%) AngularJS
12 12 (5.61%) gRPC
13 10 (4.67%) XML
14 8 (3.74%) OAuth
15 7 (3.27%) .NET Framework
15 7 (3.27%) RabbitMQ
15 7 (3.27%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.81%) Derivative
2 19 (8.88%) Data Structures
2 19 (8.88%) Equities
2 19 (8.88%) Management Information System
3 18 (8.41%) Market Risk
4 16 (7.48%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (5.61%) Cloud Native
6 10 (4.67%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (4.21%) Fixed Income
8 7 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.87%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.40%) Music Streaming
11 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.93%) FMCG
11 2 (0.93%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.93%) Video on Demand
12 1 (0.47%) Legacy Code
12 1 (0.47%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.81%) Linux
2 6 (2.80%) Unix
3 3 (1.40%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.93%) Android
4 2 (0.93%) Debian
4 2 (0.93%) Mac OS X
4 2 (0.93%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.93%) Windows
4 2 (0.93%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.47%) CentOS
5 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.47%) tvOS
5 1 (0.47%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (35.51%) Agile
2 58 (27.10%) Problem-Solving
3 57 (26.64%) Microservices
4 56 (26.17%) CI/CD
5 51 (23.83%) DevOps
6 38 (17.76%) Containerisation
6 38 (17.76%) Software Engineering
6 38 (17.76%) TDD
7 36 (16.82%) Analytics
8 33 (15.42%) Open Source
9 27 (12.62%) Test Automation
10 25 (11.68%) Scrum
11 22 (10.28%) Performance Tuning
12 20 (9.35%) Code Quality
12 20 (9.35%) Event-Driven
12 20 (9.35%) SDLC
13 19 (8.88%) Risk Management
14 17 (7.94%) Infrastructure as Code
15 16 (7.48%) Full-Stack Development
15 16 (7.48%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 81 (37.85%) Java
2 69 (32.24%) SQL
3 64 (29.91%) Python
4 37 (17.29%) C#
5 30 (14.02%) JavaScript
6 24 (11.21%) TypeScript
7 16 (7.48%) Shell Script
8 15 (7.01%) Go
9 5 (2.34%) PHP
9 5 (2.34%) Ruby
10 4 (1.87%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.40%) ABAP
11 3 (1.40%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.93%) C++
12 2 (0.93%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.93%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.47%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.47%) Groovy
13 1 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.47%) Swift
Qualifications
1 30 (14.02%) Security Cleared
2 25 (11.68%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.61%) Degree
4 9 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.40%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.93%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.67%) QA
2 8 (3.74%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.40%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.40%) WCAG
4 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.47%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 55 (25.70%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) OpenAM
2 1 (0.47%) OpenDJ
2 1 (0.47%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 46 (21.50%) Kubernetes
2 18 (8.41%) Terraform
3 4 (1.87%) Ansible
4 2 (0.93%) CloudHub
4 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.47%) Grafana
5 1 (0.47%) Kibana
5 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (7.01%) Microsoft
1 15 (7.01%) Sybase
2 10 (4.67%) Google
3 5 (2.34%) Databricks
3 5 (2.34%) Oracle
4 4 (1.87%) Atlassian
4 4 (1.87%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.40%) Apple
5 3 (1.40%) MuleSoft
5 3 (1.40%) SAP
6 2 (0.93%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (0.93%) IBM
6 2 (0.93%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.93%) Remedy
6 2 (0.93%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.93%) VMware
7 1 (0.47%) Ab Initio
7 1 (0.47%) Cisco
7 1 (0.47%) Ivanti
7 1 (0.47%) Splunk