Senior Developer Contracts in Kent

Senior Developer
South East > Kent

The median Senior Developer daily rate in Kent is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 - 42
Rank change year-on-year - - -13
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 2.80% - 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.05% - 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £413
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.50%
75th Percentile £638 - £419
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £625 £523 £500
% change year-on-year +19.62% +4.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £54.85 - -
Median hourly rate £58.91 - -
75th Percentile £62.96 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £58.91 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Kent

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Kent. 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 Kent with a recognized job title 197 206 279
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.06% 98.10% 97.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 169 245
10th Percentile £191 £143 £171
25th Percentile £238 £200 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £350 £433
Median % change year-on-year +9.36% -19.08% +24.01%
75th Percentile £525 £475 £588
90th Percentile £600 £638 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 8 8
10th Percentile £11.81 £43.25 £17.13
25th Percentile £12.88 £51.94 £18.27
Median hourly rate £58.91 £56.35 £23.05
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% +144.48% -40.52%
75th Percentile £75.16 £60.01 £33.59
90th Percentile £82.43 £70.48 £39.23
South East median hourly rate £48.00 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% +150.00% -20.00%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Kent

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in Kent

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in Kent

Senior Developer
Contract Job Locations in Kent

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 Kent region over the 6 months to 1 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
Chatham - 2 £625 - 1
Gravesend - 2 - -
Senior Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 Kent region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) C#
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) SysML
2 2 (33.33%) Credit Risk
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
2 2 (33.33%) R
2 2 (33.33%) Entity Framework
2 2 (33.33%) Razor View Engine
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Coaching
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Core
2 2 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Blazor
2 2 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) UML
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) SAS
2 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 2 (33.33%) C++
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 2 (33.33%) Finance

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 (33.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 2 (33.33%) Blazor
1 2 (33.33%) Entity Framework
1 2 (33.33%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Coaching
2 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 2 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) SysML
2 2 (33.33%) UML
2 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C#
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) C++
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 12207