Senior Developer Contracts in Bristol

Senior Developer
South West > Bristol

The median Senior Developer daily rate in Bristol is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 84 71
Rank change year-on-year +24 -13 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 19 7 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 1.78% 0.61% 1.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.87% 0.68% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 21
10th Percentile £434 £393 £413
25th Percentile £463 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £536 £451 £575
90th Percentile £573 £469 £588
South West median daily rate £475 £600 £529
% change year-on-year -20.83% +13.37% +17.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £35.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 1,018 1,036 1,342
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.23% 90.09% 94.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 753 921
10th Percentile £258 £300 £281
25th Percentile £375 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £588
90th Percentile £688 £713 £650
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 127 122
10th Percentile £27.50 £28.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £44.94 £55.63 £16.04
Median hourly rate £66.25 £65.00 £42.54
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% +52.82% +0.08%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.30 £64.65
90th Percentile £80.00 £83.75 £65.75
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £64.57 £45.17
% change year-on-year -14.82% +42.95% +1.51%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Bristol

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in Bristol.

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in Bristol

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Bristol over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in Bristol

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in Bristol.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in Bristol

Senior Developer
Contract Job Locations in Bristol

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 Bristol region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Avonmouth - 1 £410 -
Senior Developer
South West

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 Bristol region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 6 (31.58%) Power Platform
2 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
3 4 (21.05%) TypeScript
3 4 (21.05%) Front End Development
4 3 (15.79%) React
4 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (15.79%) User Stories
4 3 (15.79%) PowerApps
4 3 (15.79%) Power Automate
4 3 (15.79%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (15.79%) Agile
4 3 (15.79%) JIRA
4 3 (15.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (15.79%) .NET
4 3 (15.79%) C#
4 3 (15.79%) SharePoint
4 3 (15.79%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
5 2 (10.53%) Full Stack Development
5 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
5 2 (10.53%) SQL
5 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
5 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
5 2 (10.53%) Google
5 2 (10.53%) Node.js
5 2 (10.53%) Azure
5 2 (10.53%) GraphQL
5 2 (10.53%) Redux
5 2 (10.53%) Next.js

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 (15.79%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Power Platform
2 3 (15.79%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (15.79%) Power Automate
2 3 (15.79%) PowerApps
3 2 (10.53%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) GCP
4 1 (5.26%) AWS
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Service Fabric
4 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Power BI
2 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
General
1 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) .NET
1 3 (15.79%) React
2 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
2 2 (10.53%) GraphQL
2 2 (10.53%) Next.js
2 2 (10.53%) Node.js
2 2 (10.53%) Redux
3 1 (5.26%) .NET Core
3 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.26%) CSS
3 1 (5.26%) HTML
3 1 (5.26%) NgRx
3 1 (5.26%) REST
3 1 (5.26%) SAML
3 1 (5.26%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.26%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (21.05%) Front End Development
2 3 (15.79%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (15.79%) Agile
2 3 (15.79%) User Stories
3 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (10.53%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (5.26%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (5.26%) DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) E-Commerce
4 1 (5.26%) Fintech
4 1 (5.26%) Functional Testing
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (5.26%) Inventory Management
4 1 (5.26%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (5.26%) Logistics
4 1 (5.26%) Microservices
4 1 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (5.26%) Smoke Testing
4 1 (5.26%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (5.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) TypeScript
2 3 (15.79%) C#
3 2 (10.53%) SQL
4 1 (5.26%) Go
4 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) QA
1 1 (5.26%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Google