Senior Developer Contracts in Manchester

Senior Developer
North West > Manchester

The median Senior Developer daily rate in Manchester is £475 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 70 91 74
Rank change year-on-year +21 -17 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 27 21 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.87% 1.17% 2.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.96% 1.22% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 12 49
10th Percentile £410 £407 £463
25th Percentile £450 £410 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +7.06%
75th Percentile £575 £605 £663
90th Percentile £613 £636 -
North West median daily rate £475 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £78.05 - -
25th Percentile £78.88 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £81.50 - £74.50
75th Percentile £82.88 - £81.00
90th Percentile £82.95 - -
North West median hourly rate £81.50 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +120.59%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,380 1,717 2,574
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.57% 96.03% 97.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 953 1,279 2,005
10th Percentile £313 £313 £230
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +2.56% +12.07%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £660
North West median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 47 61
10th Percentile £12.07 £14.49 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.31 £16.85 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% +12.50% +23.23%
75th Percentile £63.13 £39.80 £35.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £32.90 £29.65 £24.10
% change year-on-year +10.94% +23.03% +33.89%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Manchester

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in Manchester

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Manchester over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in Manchester

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in Manchester

Senior Developer
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester 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
Stockport - 1 £550 - 5
Senior Developer
North West

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

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 Manchester region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 10 (37.04%) Java
2 9 (33.33%) React
3 7 (25.93%) Front End Development
4 6 (22.22%) Vue
4 6 (22.22%) Redux
5 5 (18.52%) Agile
5 5 (18.52%) TDD
5 5 (18.52%) GraphQL
5 5 (18.52%) Next.js
5 5 (18.52%) Microservices
6 4 (14.81%) Android Development
6 4 (14.81%) Node.js
6 4 (14.81%) Kotlin
6 4 (14.81%) E-Commerce
6 4 (14.81%) HTML
6 4 (14.81%) OO
6 4 (14.81%) AWS
6 4 (14.81%) MVVM
6 4 (14.81%) Android
6 4 (14.81%) Test Automation
6 4 (14.81%) Full Stack Development
7 3 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 3 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
7 3 (11.11%) Design Patterns
7 3 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
7 3 (11.11%) CRM
7 3 (11.11%) Banking
7 3 (11.11%) Spring
7 3 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.70%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.81%) AWS
2 3 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 3 (11.11%) Serverless
3 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (7.41%) Azure
3 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.70%) Figma
4 1 (3.70%) Firebase
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub
4 1 (3.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) SQLite
2 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Crashlytics
1 1 (3.70%) GitLab
1 1 (3.70%) Gradle
1 1 (3.70%) Mockito
1 1 (3.70%) Storybook
1 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (11.11%) Banking
1 3 (11.11%) Finance
1 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) React
2 6 (22.22%) Redux
2 6 (22.22%) Vue
3 5 (18.52%) GraphQL
3 5 (18.52%) Next.js
4 4 (14.81%) HTML
4 4 (14.81%) Node.js
5 3 (11.11%) .NET
5 3 (11.11%) .NET Framework
5 3 (11.11%) CSS
5 3 (11.11%) Spring
5 3 (11.11%) XML
6 2 (7.41%) .NET Core
6 2 (7.41%) Entity Framework
6 2 (7.41%) Kafka
7 1 (3.70%) Dagger
7 1 (3.70%) JAX-RS
7 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
7 1 (3.70%) Svelte
7 1 (3.70%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Algorithms
1 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
1 2 (7.41%) Derivative
1 2 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Android
2 3 (11.11%) Linux
2 3 (11.11%) Unix
3 1 (3.70%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) Front End Development
2 5 (18.52%) Agile
2 5 (18.52%) Microservices
2 5 (18.52%) TDD
3 4 (14.81%) Android Development
3 4 (14.81%) E-Commerce
3 4 (14.81%) Full Stack Development
3 4 (14.81%) MVVM
3 4 (14.81%) OO
3 4 (14.81%) Test Automation
4 3 (11.11%) Analytics
4 3 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 3 (11.11%) CRM
4 3 (11.11%) Design Patterns
4 3 (11.11%) Low Latency
4 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (7.41%) MVC
5 2 (7.41%) OOP
5 2 (7.41%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) Java
2 4 (14.81%) Kotlin
3 3 (11.11%) TypeScript
4 2 (7.41%) C#
4 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.70%) ABAP
5 1 (3.70%) Apex Code
5 1 (3.70%) Python
5 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
1 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
1 1 (3.70%) SAP
1 1 (3.70%) Siemens