Senior Developer Contracts in England

Senior Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Developer daily rate in England is £553 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 133 125
Rank change year-on-year 0 -8 -24
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 640 955 1,586
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.73% 2.00% 2.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.87% 2.12% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 741 1,268
10th Percentile £410 £456 £450
25th Percentile £463 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £650 £613
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +6.12% +11.36%
75th Percentile £750 £775 £725
90th Percentile £875 £888 £820
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 13
10th Percentile £36.98 £60.50 £38.50
25th Percentile £54.85 £61.25 £61.81
Median hourly rate £60.17 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.73% -10.71% +105.88%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.95 £78.00 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £58.91 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -5.75% -10.71% +105.88%

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 34,255 45,148 67,437
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,555 32,138 48,275
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,585 1,311 1,778
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.54
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +6 500 £600 -11.11% 208
North of England +19 49 £475 -16.67% 92
North West +16 31 £475 -17.39% 55
South West +6 27 £475 -20.83% 38
Midlands +19 21 £424 -21.16% 62
South East -6 21 £625 +19.62% 65
Yorkshire +12 18 £463 -18.86% 28
West Midlands +18 16 £259 -52.91% 46
East of England +6 5 £600 +10.91% 27
East Midlands +2 4 £513 +2.50% 16
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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.

1 255 (39.84%) Agile
2 187 (29.22%) Azure
3 186 (29.06%) Java
4 180 (28.13%) C#
5 174 (27.19%) DevOps
6 153 (23.91%) CI/CD
7 150 (23.44%) JavaScript
8 149 (23.28%) .NET
9 143 (22.34%) Finance
10 135 (21.09%) SQL Server
11 131 (20.47%) React
12 128 (20.00%) Microsoft
13 111 (17.34%) TDD
13 111 (17.34%) Social Skills
14 109 (17.03%) Azure DevOps
14 109 (17.03%) SQL
15 97 (15.16%) Software Engineering
15 97 (15.16%) AWS
16 92 (14.38%) TypeScript
17 88 (13.75%) Scrum
18 87 (13.59%) PowerShell
19 80 (12.50%) HTML
19 80 (12.50%) Python
20 76 (11.88%) XML
21 73 (11.41%) Front End Development
22 71 (11.09%) CSS
23 70 (10.94%) Active Directory
24 66 (10.31%) Microservices
25 63 (9.84%) Banking
25 63 (9.84%) 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 (2.66%) CMS
2 10 (1.56%) SAS
3 9 (1.41%) Apache
3 9 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.94%) Appian
4 6 (0.94%) Confluence
5 5 (0.78%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.78%) WordPress
6 3 (0.47%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.47%) WildFly
7 2 (0.31%) CICS
7 2 (0.31%) IIS
7 2 (0.31%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.16%) GemFire
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.16%) Elementor
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.94%) Endur
3 4 (0.63%) RMDS
4 3 (0.47%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.31%) Magento
5 2 (0.31%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.31%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.31%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.16%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.16%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 187 (29.22%) Azure
2 109 (17.03%) Azure DevOps
3 97 (15.16%) AWS
4 47 (7.34%) Entra ID
5 46 (7.19%) Azure Service Bus
6 39 (6.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 39 (6.09%) GCP
7 31 (4.84%) Serverless
8 24 (3.75%) GitHub
9 22 (3.44%) Power Platform
10 20 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
11 17 (2.66%) Amazon S3
11 17 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (1.88%) PaaS
14 11 (1.72%) Azure Pipelines
14 11 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
15 9 (1.41%) dbt
16 8 (1.25%) Power Automate
16 8 (1.25%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.47%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.31%) DNS
2 2 (0.31%) HTTP
2 2 (0.31%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (0.31%) SAN
2 2 (0.31%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.16%) Firewall
3 1 (0.16%) Internet
3 1 (0.16%) Multicast
3 1 (0.16%) SSL
3 1 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (21.09%) SQL Server
2 31 (4.84%) KDB
3 28 (4.38%) MongoDB
4 26 (4.06%) NoSQL
5 19 (2.97%) Relational Database
6 18 (2.81%) Redis
7 10 (1.56%) MySQL
7 10 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (1.41%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.25%) Power BI
10 7 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.94%) Big Data
11 6 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.78%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (0.63%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.47%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 55 (8.59%) Git
2 35 (5.47%) Jenkins
3 31 (4.84%) Mockito
4 21 (3.28%) JIRA
5 20 (3.13%) GitLab
6 18 (2.81%) JUnit
7 17 (2.66%) Cucumber
8 12 (1.88%) SpecFlow
9 11 (1.72%) Postman
10 8 (1.25%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.09%) Rational Rhapsody
12 6 (0.94%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.94%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.78%) Selenium
14 4 (0.63%) Pylint
14 4 (0.63%) Sourcetree
15 3 (0.47%) CircleCI
15 3 (0.47%) REST Assured
15 3 (0.47%) SonarQube
15 3 (0.47%) Storybook
General
1 143 (22.34%) Finance
2 111 (17.34%) Social Skills
3 63 (9.84%) Banking
4 50 (7.81%) Public Sector
5 49 (7.66%) Front Office
6 40 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (2.34%) Back Office
8 13 (2.03%) Local Government
9 12 (1.88%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.41%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.78%) Law
12 5 (0.78%) Retail
13 3 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.47%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.47%) Police
13 3 (0.47%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.31%) Advertising
14 2 (0.31%) Games
14 2 (0.31%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (23.28%) .NET
2 131 (20.47%) React
3 80 (12.50%) HTML
4 76 (11.88%) XML
5 71 (11.09%) CSS
6 63 (9.84%) AngularJS
7 59 (9.22%) .NET Core
8 49 (7.66%) Node.js
9 41 (6.41%) .NET Framework
10 38 (5.94%) ASP.NET
11 37 (5.78%) REST
12 34 (5.31%) Spring Boot
13 31 (4.84%) Kafka
13 31 (4.84%) Spring
14 29 (4.53%) RESTful
14 29 (4.53%) Vue
14 29 (4.53%) Web Services
15 18 (2.81%) ActiveMQ
15 18 (2.81%) jQuery
16 17 (2.66%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 42 (6.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 40 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 36 (5.63%) Fixed Income
4 31 (4.84%) Derivative
5 30 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (2.81%) Algorithms
7 16 (2.50%) Credit Derivative
8 15 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (2.03%) Equities
9 13 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (2.03%) Management Information System
9 13 (2.03%) Onboarding
10 12 (1.88%) Renewable Energy
11 9 (1.41%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.25%) Market Risk
12 8 (1.25%) Mobile App
13 7 (1.09%) Credit Risk
13 7 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (0.94%) Contactless
Operating Systems
1 48 (7.50%) Linux
2 24 (3.75%) Unix
3 15 (2.34%) Android
3 15 (2.34%) Mac OS X
4 12 (1.88%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.09%) Windows
6 2 (0.31%) Debian
6 2 (0.31%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.31%) zOS
7 1 (0.16%) CentOS
7 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (39.84%) Agile
2 174 (27.19%) DevOps
3 153 (23.91%) CI/CD
4 111 (17.34%) TDD
5 97 (15.16%) Software Engineering
6 88 (13.75%) Scrum
7 73 (11.41%) Front End Development
8 66 (10.31%) Microservices
9 58 (9.06%) Test Automation
10 56 (8.75%) OO
11 51 (7.97%) Problem-Solving
12 50 (7.81%) SDLC
13 46 (7.19%) Full Stack Development
14 45 (7.03%) Continuous Integration
15 43 (6.72%) Electronic Trading
16 40 (6.25%) B2C
17 38 (5.94%) Web Development
18 37 (5.78%) BDD
18 37 (5.78%) Design Patterns
19 36 (5.63%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 186 (29.06%) Java
2 180 (28.13%) C#
3 150 (23.44%) JavaScript
4 109 (17.03%) SQL
5 92 (14.38%) TypeScript
6 87 (13.59%) PowerShell
7 80 (12.50%) Python
8 52 (8.13%) Bicep
9 22 (3.44%) Scala
10 20 (3.13%) Kotlin
11 17 (2.66%) C++
12 10 (1.56%) Go
12 10 (1.56%) PHP
13 9 (1.41%) Swift
14 7 (1.09%) Ruby
15 6 (0.94%) Rust
15 6 (0.94%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.94%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.94%) VB.NET
16 5 (0.78%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 57 (8.91%) Security Cleared
2 49 (7.66%) SC Cleared
3 35 (5.47%) Degree
4 16 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.25%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.47%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.16%) OCP
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.44%) Accessibility
2 16 (2.50%) WCAG
3 10 (1.56%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.09%) HL7
5 6 (0.94%) QA
6 5 (0.78%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 2 (0.31%) MiFID
9 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.16%) GDPR
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 70 (10.94%) Active Directory
2 47 (7.34%) Docker
3 8 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.47%) ACF2
4 3 (0.47%) IAG
4 3 (0.47%) RACF
5 1 (0.16%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 43 (6.72%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.97%) Terraform
3 13 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
4 6 (0.94%) Grafana
4 6 (0.94%) Podman
5 5 (0.78%) Ansible
6 4 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.31%) CA Endevor
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
1 128 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 24 (3.75%) Oracle
3 23 (3.59%) Google
4 14 (2.19%) ION Trading
5 11 (1.72%) ServiceNow
6 10 (1.56%) IBM
7 9 (1.41%) Solace
7 9 (1.41%) TIBCO
8 6 (0.94%) Apple
9 5 (0.78%) Salesforce
9 5 (0.78%) Virgin Media
10 4 (0.63%) SAP
11 3 (0.47%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.47%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.47%) Sybase
12 2 (0.31%) NEC
12 2 (0.31%) OpenLink
12 2 (0.31%) Tradeweb
12 2 (0.31%) VMware
12 2 (0.31%) Workday