Senior Developer Contracts in Devon

Senior Developer
South West > Devon

The median Senior Developer daily rate in Devon is £643, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 31 32
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 4 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Devon 1.63% 2.24% 1.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.70% 2.43% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 4
10th Percentile £600 £398 £622
25th Percentile £601 - £656
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £643 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year +7.15% -11.11% +38.46%
75th Percentile £685 - £675
90th Percentile - £660 £675
South West median daily rate £500 £578 £625
% change year-on-year -13.42% -7.60% +38.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Devon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Devon. 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 Devon with a recognized job title 235 206 204
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.53% 92.38% 91.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 159 141
10th Percentile £200 £300 £181
25th Percentile £406 £409 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £666 £674
90th Percentile £685 £700 £725
South West median daily rate £513 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -4.65% +2.38% +14.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 16 8
10th Percentile £16.90 £13.88 £11.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £20.13 £12.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £38.75 £17.75
Median % change year-on-year +67.74% +118.31% -58.24%
75th Percentile £72.50 £42.50 £27.25
90th Percentile - £53.13 £46.60
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £56.49 £61.50
% change year-on-year +15.06% -8.15% +29.47%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Devon

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in Devon

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Devon

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in Devon

Senior Developer
Contract Job Locations in Devon

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 Devon region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Exeter -3 2 £643 +7.15% 2
Senior Developer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 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 Devon region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (75.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) JMeter
3 2 (50.00%) Maven
3 2 (50.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (50.00%) REST
3 2 (50.00%) Apigee
3 2 (50.00%) Swagger
3 2 (50.00%) WSO2
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (50.00%) API Management
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) JUnit
3 2 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 2 (50.00%) OpenAPI
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
3 2 (50.00%) Apigee
3 2 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) JMeter
2 2 (50.00%) JUnit
2 2 (50.00%) Maven
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Local Government
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) Swagger
2 1 (25.00%) Flask
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE
2 1 (25.00%) SQLAlchemy
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Management
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 2 (50.00%) WSO2