Senior Developer Contracts in London

Senior Developer
England > London

The median Senior Developer daily rate in London is £625 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 84 86 81
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 469 759 1,246
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.69% 2.93% 3.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.88% 3.08% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 593 1,031
10th Percentile £413 £475 £463
25th Percentile £500 £563 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £688 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% +13.54%
75th Percentile £825 £800 £744
90th Percentile £888 £900 £825
England median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £59.50 £61.50 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £63.75 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +92.86% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £71.25 £57.75
90th Percentile - £73.50 £71.40
England median hourly rate £59.45 £62.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year -4.88% -13.79% +113.24%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,306 24,641 36,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 95.23% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,788 17,910 26,919
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 281 439
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.07 £22.63 £22.94
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +10.62%
75th Percentile £46.05 £62.68 £49.92
90th Percentile £65.32 £80.00 £67.63
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
% change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in London

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in London

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in London

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in London

Senior Developer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London -11 51 £531 -21.30% 21
East London +2 17 £538 -40.28% 3
West London +15 8 £320 -48.80% 4
South London +3 5 £475 -50.00% 2
Senior Developer
England

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

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 London region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 208 (44.35%) Agile
2 159 (33.90%) Azure
3 156 (33.26%) DevOps
3 156 (33.26%) C#
4 150 (31.98%) Java
5 131 (27.93%) CI/CD
6 129 (27.51%) Finance
7 123 (26.23%) .NET
8 119 (25.37%) SQL Server
9 116 (24.73%) JavaScript
10 104 (22.17%) Microsoft
11 99 (21.11%) Azure DevOps
12 97 (20.68%) React
13 85 (18.12%) TDD
14 82 (17.48%) PowerShell
14 82 (17.48%) Social Skills
15 79 (16.84%) SQL
16 75 (15.99%) Software Engineering
16 75 (15.99%) AWS
17 74 (15.78%) Scrum
18 73 (15.57%) TypeScript
19 71 (15.14%) XML
20 66 (14.07%) Python
20 66 (14.07%) Active Directory
21 63 (13.43%) HTML
22 57 (12.15%) Front End Development
23 55 (11.73%) Banking
24 54 (11.51%) CSS
25 53 (11.30%) Git
25 53 (11.30%) .NET Core

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 16 (3.41%) CMS
2 9 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.28%) Apache
3 6 (1.28%) Appian
3 6 (1.28%) Confluence
4 5 (1.07%) SAS
5 4 (0.85%) WordPress
6 3 (0.64%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.43%) CICS
7 2 (0.43%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.21%) GemFire
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.07%) Endur
3 4 (0.85%) RMDS
4 3 (0.64%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.43%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.43%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.43%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.21%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 159 (33.90%) Azure
2 99 (21.11%) Azure DevOps
3 75 (15.99%) AWS
4 44 (9.38%) Entra ID
5 41 (8.74%) Azure Service Bus
6 36 (7.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 31 (6.61%) GCP
8 22 (4.69%) GitHub
9 19 (4.05%) Azure Monitor
10 14 (2.99%) Amazon S3
10 14 (2.99%) Serverless
11 12 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (2.35%) Azure Pipelines
13 8 (1.71%) dbt
13 8 (1.71%) PaaS
14 6 (1.28%) Contentful
15 5 (1.07%) Azure API Management
15 5 (1.07%) Azure Key Vault
15 5 (1.07%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.64%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.21%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (25.37%) SQL Server
2 29 (6.18%) KDB
3 23 (4.90%) MongoDB
4 22 (4.69%) NoSQL
5 16 (3.41%) Redis
6 12 (2.56%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.49%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.28%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.07%) MySQL
9 5 (1.07%) Power BI
10 3 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.64%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.43%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.43%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 53 (11.30%) Git
2 30 (6.40%) Mockito
3 29 (6.18%) Jenkins
4 17 (3.62%) JUnit
5 14 (2.99%) Cucumber
6 13 (2.77%) GitLab
7 12 (2.56%) SpecFlow
8 11 (2.35%) JIRA
9 7 (1.49%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.49%) TeamCity
10 6 (1.28%) Cypress.io
10 6 (1.28%) Postman
11 4 (0.85%) NUnit
11 4 (0.85%) Pylint
11 4 (0.85%) Sourcetree
12 3 (0.64%) CircleCI
13 2 (0.43%) Babel
13 2 (0.43%) Gatling
13 2 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
13 2 (0.43%) webpack
General
1 129 (27.51%) Finance
2 82 (17.48%) Social Skills
3 55 (11.73%) Banking
4 48 (10.23%) Front Office
5 45 (9.59%) Public Sector
6 25 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (2.99%) Back Office
8 12 (2.56%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.35%) Local Government
10 8 (1.71%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.64%) Retail
12 3 (0.64%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.43%) Advertising
13 2 (0.43%) Law
14 1 (0.21%) Automotive
14 1 (0.21%) Games
14 1 (0.21%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.21%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (26.23%) .NET
2 97 (20.68%) React
3 71 (15.14%) XML
4 63 (13.43%) HTML
5 54 (11.51%) CSS
6 53 (11.30%) .NET Core
7 52 (11.09%) AngularJS
8 35 (7.46%) ASP.NET
9 34 (7.25%) .NET Framework
10 30 (6.40%) Node.js
11 28 (5.97%) Spring Boot
12 25 (5.33%) Kafka
13 23 (4.90%) RESTful
13 23 (4.90%) Spring
14 22 (4.69%) REST
15 20 (4.26%) Web Services
16 19 (4.05%) jQuery
17 18 (3.84%) Vue
18 17 (3.62%) ActiveMQ
18 17 (3.62%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 36 (7.68%) Product Ownership
2 35 (7.46%) Fixed Income
2 35 (7.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 29 (6.18%) Derivative
4 27 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (3.62%) Algorithms
6 16 (3.41%) Credit Derivative
7 14 (2.99%) Equities
7 14 (2.99%) Onboarding
8 12 (2.56%) Management Information System
9 11 (2.35%) Renewable Energy
10 10 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.71%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.71%) Market Risk
13 6 (1.28%) Contactless
13 6 (1.28%) Mobile App
14 5 (1.07%) Credit Risk
14 5 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 40 (8.53%) Linux
2 20 (4.26%) Unix
3 14 (2.99%) Mac OS X
4 10 (2.13%) Android
5 8 (1.71%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.28%) Windows
7 2 (0.43%) zOS
8 1 (0.21%) CentOS
8 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (44.35%) Agile
2 156 (33.26%) DevOps
3 131 (27.93%) CI/CD
4 85 (18.12%) TDD
5 75 (15.99%) Software Engineering
6 74 (15.78%) Scrum
7 57 (12.15%) Front End Development
8 51 (10.87%) Microservices
9 48 (10.23%) OO
10 45 (9.59%) SDLC
11 44 (9.38%) Test Automation
12 41 (8.74%) Electronic Trading
13 39 (8.32%) Continuous Integration
14 38 (8.10%) B2C
15 33 (7.04%) Web Development
16 32 (6.82%) BDD
17 31 (6.61%) Design Patterns
18 30 (6.40%) Clean Code
18 30 (6.40%) Problem-Solving
19 29 (6.18%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 156 (33.26%) C#
2 150 (31.98%) Java
3 116 (24.73%) JavaScript
4 82 (17.48%) PowerShell
5 79 (16.84%) SQL
6 73 (15.57%) TypeScript
7 66 (14.07%) Python
8 51 (10.87%) Bicep
9 15 (3.20%) Scala
10 14 (2.99%) C++
10 14 (2.99%) Kotlin
11 9 (1.92%) Go
12 6 (1.28%) Ruby
12 6 (1.28%) Rust
12 6 (1.28%) Swift
13 5 (1.07%) Bash
13 5 (1.07%) Objective-C
13 5 (1.07%) PHP
14 4 (0.85%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (6.18%) Degree
2 28 (5.97%) Security Cleared
3 23 (4.90%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.07%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.43%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.84%) Accessibility
2 14 (2.99%) WCAG
3 10 (2.13%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.43%) MiFID
5 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.21%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.21%) GDPR
5 1 (0.21%) ISO 15022
5 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.21%) QA
System Software
1 66 (14.07%) Active Directory
2 34 (7.25%) Docker
3 9 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.43%) ACF2
4 2 (0.43%) IAG
4 2 (0.43%) RACF
5 1 (0.21%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 28 (5.97%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (1.49%) Terraform
4 3 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (0.64%) Grafana
5 2 (0.43%) CA Endevor
5 2 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 104 (22.17%) Microsoft
2 18 (3.84%) Oracle
3 15 (3.20%) Google
4 14 (2.99%) ION Trading
5 10 (2.13%) IBM
6 8 (1.71%) TIBCO
7 7 (1.49%) Solace
7 7 (1.49%) Virgin Media
8 6 (1.28%) Apple
9 4 (0.85%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.43%) NEC
10 2 (0.43%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.43%) SAP
10 2 (0.43%) Sybase
10 2 (0.43%) Tradeweb
10 2 (0.43%) Workday
11 1 (0.21%) Adobe
11 1 (0.21%) Informatica
11 1 (0.21%) Murex
11 1 (0.21%) Red Hat