Senior Applications Developer Contracts

Senior Application Developer
UK

The median Senior Application Developer daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 563 654 817
Rank change year-on-year +91 +163 -112
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Applications Developer 8 33 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.058% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.061% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 26 20
10th Percentile £284 £463 £403
25th Percentile £399 £514 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £605 £527
Median % change year-on-year -21.49% +14.86% +27.70%
75th Percentile £525 - £628
90th Percentile £593 - £737
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £555 £477
% change year-on-year -14.41% +16.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.75 - -
Median hourly rate £24.50 - -
75th Percentile £26.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Senior Applications Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Applications Developer in the UK

Senior Applications Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Applications Developer in the UK

Senior Applications Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Applications Developer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Applications Developer in the UK

Senior Applications Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Applications Developer in the UK

Senior Applications Developer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Applications Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England +97 8 £475 -5.94% 3
UK excluding London +54 6 £475 -14.41% 2
Work from Home +88 2 £475 -21.49% 2
South East +31 2 £475 -0.78% 1
West Midlands - 2 - - 1
Midlands - 2 - - 1
East of England - 2 £208 -
London +92 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Senior Applications 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 featuring Senior Applications Developer in the job title.

1 5 (62.50%) Power Automate
1 5 (62.50%) Power Platform
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (37.50%) Degree
3 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) .NET
3 3 (37.50%) HTML
3 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 3 (37.50%) CSS
3 3 (37.50%) Python
3 3 (37.50%) PowerApps
3 3 (37.50%) Power BI
4 2 (25.00%) GCP
4 2 (25.00%) Apigee
4 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) MariaDB
4 2 (25.00%) Qualitative Research
4 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (25.00%) Quantitative Research
4 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (25.00%) Runbook
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (25.00%) Serverless

Senior Applications Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (25.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Power Automate
1 5 (62.50%) Power Platform
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) PowerApps
3 2 (25.00%) Apigee
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (37.50%) Power BI
3 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (25.00%) MariaDB
3 2 (25.00%) MySQL
3 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (25.00%) Local Government
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) .NET
1 3 (37.50%) CSS
1 3 (37.50%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
3 1 (12.50%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) NHS
2 1 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Agile
1 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) CRM
2 2 (25.00%) E-Discovery
2 2 (25.00%) ETL
2 2 (25.00%) Informatics
2 2 (25.00%) MVC
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Qualitative Research
2 2 (25.00%) Quantitative Research
2 2 (25.00%) Runbook
2 2 (25.00%) Web Development
3 1 (12.50%) API Integration
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) SDLC
3 1 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft