Senior Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 231 233 230
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 -46
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 176 210 342
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.83% 0.93% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 0.98% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 154 229
10th Percentile £335 £411 £413
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £588
90th Percentile £628 £700 £665
UK median daily rate £553 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -11.60% +4.17% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 11
10th Percentile £32.55 - £61.81
25th Percentile £54.85 £61.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £58.91 £62.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% -16.67% +114.29%
75th Percentile £82.50 £63.75 £79.25
90th Percentile £83.90 - £81.00
UK median hourly rate £58.91 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -5.75% -10.71% +100.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England +14 54 £488 -13.33% 101
North West +18 33 £475 -18.94% 57
Scotland +32 31 £488 -22.00% 27
Midlands +18 27 £450 -16.28% 65
South West -4 27 £475 -20.83% 33
South East +4 26 £550 +7.32% 68
West Midlands +28 22 £355 -35.50% 47
Yorkshire +10 21 £525 -7.28% 31
Wales +25 5 £550 +29.41% 11
East of England +2 4 £404 -25.32% 23
East Midlands -1 4 £513 +2.50% 17
Northern Ireland -3 2 £584 - 7
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 47 (26.70%) Agile
2 39 (22.16%) SQL
3 38 (21.59%) Java
3 38 (21.59%) React
4 27 (15.34%) Social Skills
5 26 (14.77%) Azure
6 25 (14.20%) .NET
7 24 (13.64%) JavaScript
7 24 (13.64%) C#
7 24 (13.64%) AWS
8 23 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (13.07%) DevOps
8 23 (13.07%) Microservices
9 22 (12.50%) Security Cleared
10 19 (10.80%) SC Cleared
10 19 (10.80%) Node.js
10 19 (10.80%) HTML
10 19 (10.80%) Finance
10 19 (10.80%) Spring
11 18 (10.23%) Full Stack Development
12 17 (9.66%) Spring Boot
12 17 (9.66%) CSS
12 17 (9.66%) REST
13 16 (9.09%) TDD
13 16 (9.09%) Front End Development
14 15 (8.52%) Power Platform
14 15 (8.52%) E-Commerce
15 14 (7.95%) Microsoft
15 14 (7.95%) Scrum
15 14 (7.95%) Software Engineering

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (1.70%) Confluence
1 3 (1.70%) SAS
1 3 (1.70%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.14%) Apache
2 2 (1.14%) Cloud Foundry
2 2 (1.14%) IIS
2 2 (1.14%) StreamWeaver
3 1 (0.57%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.57%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.14%) EngageOne
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.57%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.57%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 26 (14.77%) Azure
2 24 (13.64%) AWS
3 15 (8.52%) Power Platform
4 14 (7.95%) Serverless
5 13 (7.39%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (3.98%) Power Automate
7 6 (3.41%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (3.41%) PowerApps
8 4 (2.27%) GCP
9 3 (1.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (1.70%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.14%) Apigee
10 2 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.14%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.14%) Azure Storage
10 2 (1.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.14%) GitHub
10 2 (1.14%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.14%) OpenLDAP
1 2 (1.14%) SAN
1 2 (1.14%) SMS
1 2 (1.14%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.57%) Firewall
2 1 (0.57%) HTTP
2 1 (0.57%) SSL
2 1 (0.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.39%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.55%) Oracle Database
3 5 (2.84%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.27%) MariaDB
4 4 (2.27%) MySQL
4 4 (2.27%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.70%) Power BI
5 3 (1.70%) SQLite
6 2 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.14%) Metadata
7 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.57%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.57%) Big Data
7 1 (0.57%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.57%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.57%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (6.82%) JIRA
2 8 (4.55%) Git
3 7 (3.98%) GitLab
3 7 (3.98%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.98%) Rational Rhapsody
4 5 (2.84%) Maven
5 3 (1.70%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.70%) JUnit
5 3 (1.70%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (1.70%) REST Assured
5 3 (1.70%) Selenium
5 3 (1.70%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.14%) Subversion
6 2 (1.14%) VersionOne
6 2 (1.14%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.57%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.57%) Gradle
7 1 (0.57%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.57%) Mockito
7 1 (0.57%) Xcode
General
1 27 (15.34%) Social Skills
2 19 (10.80%) Finance
3 13 (7.39%) Public Sector
4 12 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.98%) Banking
6 3 (1.70%) Law
6 3 (1.70%) Local Government
6 3 (1.70%) Police
6 3 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.14%) Retail
8 1 (0.57%) Aviation
8 1 (0.57%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.57%) Front Office
8 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (21.59%) React
2 25 (14.20%) .NET
3 19 (10.80%) HTML
3 19 (10.80%) Node.js
3 19 (10.80%) Spring
4 17 (9.66%) CSS
4 17 (9.66%) REST
4 17 (9.66%) Spring Boot
5 12 (6.82%) AngularJS
5 12 (6.82%) GraphQL
5 12 (6.82%) Vue
6 11 (6.25%) Redux
7 10 (5.68%) Kafka
8 9 (5.11%) RESTful
9 8 (4.55%) Next.js
9 8 (4.55%) Web Services
10 7 (3.98%) .NET Framework
10 7 (3.98%) XML
11 6 (3.41%) Entity Framework
12 5 (2.84%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.11%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.41%) Legacy Applications
3 6 (3.41%) Wiki
4 5 (2.84%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.70%) Credit Risk
5 3 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.14%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.14%) Derivative
6 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.14%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.14%) NHS
7 1 (0.57%) IoT
7 1 (0.57%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.68%) Linux
2 7 (3.98%) Android
2 7 (3.98%) Unix
3 2 (1.14%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.14%) Debian
3 2 (1.14%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.57%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (26.70%) Agile
2 23 (13.07%) DevOps
2 23 (13.07%) Microservices
2 23 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (10.23%) Full Stack Development
4 16 (9.09%) Front End Development
4 16 (9.09%) TDD
5 15 (8.52%) E-Commerce
6 14 (7.95%) Scrum
6 14 (7.95%) Software Engineering
7 12 (6.82%) Test Automation
8 11 (6.25%) CI/CD
8 11 (6.25%) User Experience
9 10 (5.68%) Architectural Patterns
10 8 (4.55%) Clean Code
10 8 (4.55%) Code Quality
10 8 (4.55%) Configuration Management
10 8 (4.55%) ITIL
11 7 (3.98%) Analytics
11 7 (3.98%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 39 (22.16%) SQL
2 38 (21.59%) Java
3 24 (13.64%) C#
3 24 (13.64%) JavaScript
4 14 (7.95%) TypeScript
5 13 (7.39%) Python
6 7 (3.98%) Kotlin
7 6 (3.41%) Scala
8 4 (2.27%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.70%) C++
9 3 (1.70%) R
10 2 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.14%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.14%) Perl
10 2 (1.14%) PHP
10 2 (1.14%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.14%) VBA
11 1 (0.57%) ABAP
11 1 (0.57%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.80%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.82%) Degree
4 6 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.27%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.14%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.98%) HL7
2 4 (2.27%) QA
3 3 (1.70%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 2 (1.14%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (5.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.41%) Terraform
3 3 (1.70%) Ansible
3 3 (1.70%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (1.70%) Podman
4 2 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.57%) Control-M
5 1 (0.57%) Grafana
5 1 (0.57%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 14 (7.95%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.82%) Oracle
3 10 (5.68%) Pega
4 5 (2.84%) OutSystems
4 5 (2.84%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.27%) Google
6 3 (1.70%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.14%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.14%) IBM
7 2 (1.14%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.14%) VMware
8 1 (0.57%) JDA
8 1 (0.57%) NEC
8 1 (0.57%) RedGate
8 1 (0.57%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.57%) SAP
8 1 (0.57%) Siemens