Senior Developer Contracts in England

Senior Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Developer daily rate in England is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 130 121
Rank change year-on-year -10 -9 -20
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 615 973 1,618
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.69% 2.02% 2.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.82% 2.13% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 748 1,299
10th Percentile £410 £463 £438
25th Percentile £463 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £750 £775 £725
90th Percentile £875 £879 £800
UK median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 14
10th Percentile £51.64 £60.50 £40.25
25th Percentile £55.20 £61.25 £62.61
Median hourly rate £59.45 £62.50 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -13.79% +113.24%
75th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £79.75
90th Percentile £82.55 £78.00 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £58.91 £62.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year -5.75% -13.79% +113.24%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 33,742 45,591 67,107
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,367 32,416 47,845
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,431 1,343 1,853
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.39 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Developer in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Developer in England

Senior 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 Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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
London +2 469 £625 -9.09% 175
North of England +24 62 £538 -5.70% 91
North West +34 44 £563 -3.10% 56
Yorkshire +6 23 £575 +2.22% 26
South West -2 23 £488 -18.75% 38
Midlands +21 20 £424 -22.07% 79
South East -6 19 £625 +19.05% 75
West Midlands +27 15 £259 -52.91% 52
North East +15 7 £720 +10.77% 10
East of England +7 5 £600 +10.91% 20
East Midlands +7 4 £513 +2.50% 27
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 England region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 244 (39.67%) Agile
2 180 (29.27%) C#
2 180 (29.27%) Azure
3 178 (28.94%) Java
4 172 (27.97%) DevOps
5 145 (23.58%) .NET
5 145 (23.58%) CI/CD
6 140 (22.76%) Finance
7 137 (22.28%) JavaScript
8 133 (21.63%) SQL Server
9 125 (20.33%) React
10 120 (19.51%) Microsoft
11 108 (17.56%) Social Skills
12 107 (17.40%) Azure DevOps
13 103 (16.75%) SQL
14 98 (15.93%) TDD
15 93 (15.12%) AWS
16 88 (14.31%) TypeScript
17 86 (13.98%) Software Engineering
18 82 (13.33%) Scrum
18 82 (13.33%) PowerShell
19 77 (12.52%) HTML
20 76 (12.36%) Python
21 75 (12.20%) XML
22 73 (11.87%) Front End Development
23 70 (11.38%) Microservices
24 69 (11.22%) CSS
25 67 (10.89%) Active Directory
26 66 (10.73%) Public Sector
27 63 (10.24%) AngularJS

Senior 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 17 (2.76%) CMS
2 9 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.30%) Apache
4 6 (0.98%) Appian
4 6 (0.98%) Confluence
4 6 (0.98%) SAS
5 5 (0.81%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.65%) WordPress
7 3 (0.49%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.33%) CICS
8 2 (0.33%) IIS
8 2 (0.33%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.16%) GemFire
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.81%) Endur
3 4 (0.65%) RMDS
4 3 (0.49%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.33%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.33%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.33%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.16%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.16%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 180 (29.27%) Azure
2 107 (17.40%) Azure DevOps
3 93 (15.12%) AWS
4 44 (7.15%) Entra ID
5 43 (6.99%) Azure Service Bus
6 37 (6.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 34 (5.53%) GCP
8 23 (3.74%) GitHub
9 20 (3.25%) Power Platform
10 19 (3.09%) Azure Monitor
10 19 (3.09%) Serverless
11 14 (2.28%) Amazon S3
11 14 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (1.79%) Azure Pipelines
13 11 (1.79%) PaaS
14 10 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
15 9 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
15 9 (1.46%) Power Automate
16 8 (1.30%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.49%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.33%) HTTP
2 2 (0.33%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (0.33%) SAN
2 2 (0.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.16%) Firewall
3 1 (0.16%) Multicast
3 1 (0.16%) SSL
3 1 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (21.63%) SQL Server
2 31 (5.04%) MongoDB
3 29 (4.72%) KDB
4 23 (3.74%) NoSQL
5 16 (2.60%) Redis
5 16 (2.60%) Relational Database
6 10 (1.63%) MySQL
6 10 (1.63%) Power BI
7 8 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (1.30%) DynamoDB
7 8 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.65%) MariaDB
10 3 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (0.49%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.49%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 54 (8.78%) Git
2 34 (5.53%) Jenkins
3 30 (4.88%) Mockito
4 21 (3.41%) JIRA
5 20 (3.25%) GitLab
6 18 (2.93%) JUnit
7 17 (2.76%) Cucumber
8 12 (1.95%) SpecFlow
9 8 (1.30%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.14%) Cypress.io
10 7 (1.14%) Rational Rhapsody
10 7 (1.14%) TeamCity
11 6 (0.98%) Postman
12 5 (0.81%) Selenium
13 4 (0.65%) NUnit
13 4 (0.65%) Pylint
13 4 (0.65%) Sourcetree
14 3 (0.49%) CircleCI
14 3 (0.49%) REST Assured
14 3 (0.49%) Storybook
General
1 140 (22.76%) Finance
2 108 (17.56%) Social Skills
3 66 (10.73%) Public Sector
4 59 (9.59%) Banking
5 48 (7.80%) Front Office
6 35 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (2.28%) Back Office
8 13 (2.11%) Local Government
9 12 (1.95%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.46%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.81%) Law
13 4 (0.65%) Retail
14 3 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.49%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.49%) Marketing
14 3 (0.49%) Police
14 3 (0.49%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.33%) Advertising
15 2 (0.33%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (23.58%) .NET
2 125 (20.33%) React
3 77 (12.52%) HTML
4 75 (12.20%) XML
5 69 (11.22%) CSS
6 63 (10.24%) AngularJS
7 62 (10.08%) .NET Core
8 43 (6.99%) Node.js
9 41 (6.67%) .NET Framework
10 38 (6.18%) ASP.NET
11 36 (5.85%) REST
12 33 (5.37%) Spring Boot
13 32 (5.20%) Spring
14 31 (5.04%) Kafka
15 30 (4.88%) RESTful
16 28 (4.55%) Vue
16 28 (4.55%) Web Services
17 19 (3.09%) jQuery
18 17 (2.76%) ActiveMQ
18 17 (2.76%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 39 (6.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 39 (6.34%) Product Ownership
2 35 (5.69%) Fixed Income
3 31 (5.04%) Derivative
4 30 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (3.09%) Algorithms
6 16 (2.60%) Credit Derivative
7 15 (2.44%) Onboarding
8 14 (2.28%) Equities
8 14 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (1.95%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
11 10 (1.63%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.30%) Market Risk
13 8 (1.30%) Mobile App
14 7 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
15 6 (0.98%) Contactless
15 6 (0.98%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 47 (7.64%) Linux
2 22 (3.58%) Unix
3 15 (2.44%) Android
4 14 (2.28%) Mac OS X
5 9 (1.46%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.98%) Windows
7 2 (0.33%) Debian
7 2 (0.33%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.33%) zOS
8 1 (0.16%) CentOS
8 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (39.67%) Agile
2 172 (27.97%) DevOps
3 145 (23.58%) CI/CD
4 98 (15.93%) TDD
5 86 (13.98%) Software Engineering
6 82 (13.33%) Scrum
7 73 (11.87%) Front End Development
8 70 (11.38%) Microservices
9 54 (8.78%) OO
9 54 (8.78%) Test Automation
10 50 (8.13%) Problem-Solving
11 48 (7.80%) SDLC
12 46 (7.48%) Continuous Integration
13 41 (6.67%) Electronic Trading
14 39 (6.34%) Full Stack Development
15 38 (6.18%) B2C
16 37 (6.02%) Design Patterns
16 37 (6.02%) Web Development
17 36 (5.85%) BDD
18 34 (5.53%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 180 (29.27%) C#
2 178 (28.94%) Java
3 137 (22.28%) JavaScript
4 103 (16.75%) SQL
5 88 (14.31%) TypeScript
6 82 (13.33%) PowerShell
7 76 (12.36%) Python
8 51 (8.29%) Bicep
9 20 (3.25%) Kotlin
9 20 (3.25%) Scala
10 18 (2.93%) C++
11 10 (1.63%) Go
12 7 (1.14%) PHP
12 7 (1.14%) Swift
13 6 (0.98%) Ruby
13 6 (0.98%) Rust
14 5 (0.81%) Bash
14 5 (0.81%) Objective-C
15 4 (0.65%) C
15 4 (0.65%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (8.13%) Security Cleared
2 41 (6.67%) Degree
3 40 (6.50%) SC Cleared
4 17 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
6 9 (1.46%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.65%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.74%) Accessibility
2 16 (2.60%) WCAG
3 10 (1.63%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.14%) HL7
5 5 (0.81%) QA
6 3 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 2 (0.33%) MiFID
8 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.16%) GDPR
8 1 (0.16%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.16%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 67 (10.89%) Active Directory
2 40 (6.50%) Docker
3 9 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.49%) ACF2
4 3 (0.49%) IAG
4 3 (0.49%) RACF
5 1 (0.16%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 37 (6.02%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.76%) Terraform
3 12 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (0.65%) Grafana
6 3 (0.49%) Ansible
6 3 (0.49%) Podman
7 2 (0.33%) CA Endevor
7 2 (0.33%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.16%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 120 (19.51%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.23%) ServiceNow
3 20 (3.25%) Oracle
4 18 (2.93%) Google
5 14 (2.28%) ION Trading
6 10 (1.63%) IBM
7 8 (1.30%) TIBCO
8 7 (1.14%) Solace
8 7 (1.14%) Virgin Media
9 6 (0.98%) Apple
10 5 (0.81%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.49%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.49%) SAP
11 3 (0.49%) Sybase
12 2 (0.33%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.33%) NEC
12 2 (0.33%) Tradeweb
12 2 (0.33%) VMware
12 2 (0.33%) Workday
13 1 (0.16%) Sitecore