Senior Backend Developer Contracts in England

Senior Backend Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Backend Developer daily rate in England is £498, 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 501 558 716
Rank change year-on-year +57 +158 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Backend Developer 13 31 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.042% 0.077% 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.082% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 25 35
10th Percentile £410 £500 £528
25th Percentile £433 £513 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% - +36.84%
75th Percentile £500 £675 £800
90th Percentile £563 - £850
UK median daily rate £498 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -23.46% - +36.84%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 28,953 37,638 64,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 93.75% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,172 45,824
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £418 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,111 1,422 1,621
10th Percentile £15.10 £15.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.15 £19.25 £16.69
Median hourly rate £41.50 £45.94 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +53.13% +50.00%
75th Percentile £66.61 £65.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

Senior Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Backend Developer in England

Senior Backend Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Backend Developer in England

Senior Backend Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Backend Developer in England over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Backend Developer in England

Senior Backend Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Backend Developer in England

Senior Backend Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Backend Developer within the England 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
London +32 10 £498 -23.46% 2
East of England - 2 - - 1
North of England +30 1 - - 4
North East -6 1 - -
Senior Backend Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Senior Backend 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 England region featuring Senior Backend Developer in the job title.

1 8 (61.54%) Azure
1 8 (61.54%) C#
1 8 (61.54%) Agile
2 7 (53.85%) .NET
3 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
4 5 (38.46%) ASP.NET
4 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
4 5 (38.46%) Scrum
4 5 (38.46%) RESTful
4 5 (38.46%) React
4 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
5 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (30.77%) .NET Core
5 4 (30.77%) ASP.NET Core
5 4 (30.77%) Serverless
5 4 (30.77%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (30.77%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (30.77%) Bicep
5 4 (30.77%) Entra ID
5 4 (30.77%) Redis
5 4 (30.77%) TypeScript
5 4 (30.77%) DevOps
5 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
5 4 (30.77%) CSS
5 4 (30.77%) XML
5 4 (30.77%) HTML
5 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
5 4 (30.77%) B2C
5 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
5 4 (30.77%) Active Directory

Senior Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (15.38%) CMS
1 2 (15.38%) Umbraco
2 1 (7.69%) Liferay
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (30.77%) Azure Service Bus
2 4 (30.77%) Entra ID
2 4 (30.77%) Serverless
3 3 (23.08%) AWS
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Redis
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) .NET
2 5 (38.46%) ASP.NET
2 5 (38.46%) React
2 5 (38.46%) RESTful
3 4 (30.77%) .NET Core
3 4 (30.77%) ASP.NET Core
3 4 (30.77%) CSS
3 4 (30.77%) HTML
3 4 (30.77%) XML
4 3 (23.08%) GraphQL
5 2 (15.38%) .NET Framework
5 2 (15.38%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
1 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
1 1 (7.69%) Mobile Payment
1 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) Scrum
3 4 (30.77%) B2C
3 4 (30.77%) DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Content Management
4 3 (23.08%) TDD
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (15.38%) Front End Development
5 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 2 (15.38%) MVC
5 2 (15.38%) Pair Programming
5 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (15.38%) Process Improvement
5 2 (15.38%) User Experience
5 2 (15.38%) UX Design
6 1 (7.69%) Code Quality
6 1 (7.69%) Database Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) C#
2 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
3 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
4 4 (30.77%) Bicep
4 4 (30.77%) TypeScript
5 3 (23.08%) Java
6 2 (15.38%) Python
7 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) DBS Check
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Informatica