Senior Developer Contracts in the North of England

Senior Developer
England > North of England

The median Senior Developer daily rate in the North of England is £544 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 142 138
Rank change year-on-year +22 -4 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 63 62 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.36% 1.11% 1.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.46% 1.16% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 41 87
10th Percentile £375 £410 £429
25th Percentile £425 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +3.64% +9.45%
75th Percentile £652 £619 £623
90th Percentile £720 £663 £663
England median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 8
10th Percentile £78.05 - -
25th Percentile £78.88 £61.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £81.50 £62.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.40% -16.67% +120.59%
75th Percentile £82.88 £71.88 £81.00
90th Percentile £82.95 £76.75 -
England median hourly rate £59.45 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -4.88% -10.71% +105.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,314 5,351 6,907
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 95.47% 96.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,699 3,757 5,063
10th Percentile £263 £275 £200
25th Percentile £388 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £556
90th Percentile £675 £682 £639
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 398 157 294
10th Percentile £11.05 £14.25 £11.06
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.50 £14.40
Median hourly rate £20.77 £30.54 £19.35
Median % change year-on-year -31.99% +57.81% +8.11%
75th Percentile £46.14 £49.50 £34.41
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.28 £58.75
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +4.55%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the North of England

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in the North of England

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in the North of England

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in the North of England

Senior Developer
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 15 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
North West +35 44 £563 -4.01% 51
Yorkshire +13 24 £600 +6.67% 25
North East +16 7 £720 +10.77% 12
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 North of England region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 19 (30.16%) ITIL
1 19 (30.16%) ServiceNow
2 17 (26.98%) Java
3 15 (23.81%) ITIL Certification
4 14 (22.22%) Public Sector
5 13 (20.63%) Roadmaps
5 13 (20.63%) React
6 12 (19.05%) Agile
7 11 (17.46%) Social Skills
8 10 (15.87%) Microservices
8 10 (15.87%) Node.js
9 9 (14.29%) AWS
9 9 (14.29%) Front End Development
9 9 (14.29%) Vue
10 8 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (12.70%) Security Cleared
10 8 (12.70%) MongoDB
10 8 (12.70%) Software Delivery
10 8 (12.70%) Line Management
10 8 (12.70%) JavaScript
11 7 (11.11%) .NET
11 7 (11.11%) Redux
12 6 (9.52%) CI/CD
12 6 (9.52%) TDD
12 6 (9.52%) Spring
12 6 (9.52%) TypeScript
12 6 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
12 6 (9.52%) RESTful
13 5 (7.94%) Azure
13 5 (7.94%) .NET Framework

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (1.59%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.29%) AWS
2 5 (7.94%) Azure
3 2 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.17%) IaaS
3 2 (3.17%) PaaS
3 2 (3.17%) SaaS
3 2 (3.17%) Serverless
4 1 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (1.59%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (1.59%) Figma
4 1 (1.59%) Firebase
4 1 (1.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.70%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.76%) SQLite
3 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.17%) GitLab
2 1 (1.59%) Crashlytics
2 1 (1.59%) Gradle
2 1 (1.59%) Storybook
General
1 14 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 11 (17.46%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.35%) Finance
5 3 (4.76%) Banking
6 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.63%) React
2 10 (15.87%) Node.js
3 9 (14.29%) Vue
4 7 (11.11%) .NET
4 7 (11.11%) Redux
5 6 (9.52%) RESTful
5 6 (9.52%) Spring
6 5 (7.94%) .NET Framework
6 5 (7.94%) CSS
6 5 (7.94%) GraphQL
6 5 (7.94%) HTML
6 5 (7.94%) Next.js
6 5 (7.94%) Web Services
7 3 (4.76%) Express.js
7 3 (4.76%) MERN Stack
7 3 (4.76%) XML
8 2 (3.17%) .NET Core
8 2 (3.17%) Entity Framework
8 2 (3.17%) J2EE
8 2 (3.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.17%) Algorithms
2 2 (3.17%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.17%) Derivative
2 2 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.59%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.59%) CMDB
3 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.59%) Genomics
3 1 (1.59%) mHealth
3 1 (1.59%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.59%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.35%) Android
2 2 (3.17%) Linux
2 2 (3.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (30.16%) ITIL
2 13 (20.63%) Roadmaps
3 12 (19.05%) Agile
4 10 (15.87%) Microservices
5 9 (14.29%) Front End Development
6 8 (12.70%) Line Management
6 8 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (12.70%) Software Delivery
7 6 (9.52%) CI/CD
7 6 (9.52%) TDD
8 5 (7.94%) Design Patterns
8 5 (7.94%) E-Commerce
8 5 (7.94%) ITSM
8 5 (7.94%) Service Management
9 4 (6.35%) Asset Management
9 4 (6.35%) IT Asset Management
9 4 (6.35%) OO
9 4 (6.35%) Operations Management
9 4 (6.35%) Scrum
9 4 (6.35%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 17 (26.98%) Java
2 8 (12.70%) JavaScript
3 6 (9.52%) TypeScript
4 5 (7.94%) C#
4 5 (7.94%) Kotlin
5 3 (4.76%) Scala
5 3 (4.76%) SQL
6 2 (3.17%) MATLAB
6 2 (3.17%) VB.NET
6 2 (3.17%) VBA
7 1 (1.59%) ABAP
7 1 (1.59%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.59%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (23.81%) ITIL Certification
2 8 (12.70%) Security Cleared
3 5 (7.94%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (7.94%) Degree
4 4 (6.35%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.59%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 4 (6.35%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.17%) Terraform
3 1 (1.59%) Grafana
Vendors
1 19 (30.16%) ServiceNow
2 2 (3.17%) Google
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.59%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.59%) SAP
3 1 (1.59%) Siemens