Senior Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Developer daily rate in Work from Home is £575 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 109 113 105
Rank change year-on-year +4 -8 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 298 529 1,049
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.01% 2.15% 2.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.15% 2.25% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 416 797
10th Percentile £413 £425 £425
25th Percentile £500 £510 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £595
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +0.84% +16.10%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £688
90th Percentile £863 £850 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 9
10th Percentile £40.00 - £35.00
25th Percentile £48.75 £61.25 £52.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -1.79% +105.88%
75th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.70 £78.50 -
UK median hourly rate £58.91 £62.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year -5.75% -13.79% +113.24%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,848 23,488 42,066
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.30% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,603 30,429
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 558 537 595
10th Percentile £14.26 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.64 £25.71 £19.30
Median hourly rate £44.37 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.83% +54.29% +44.33%
75th Percentile £64.88 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £68.55
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Senior Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Senior Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Senior Developer.

Senior Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Developer over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Senior Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Developer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Senior Developer.

Senior Developer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Developer over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Senior Developer hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 106 (35.57%) Java
2 99 (33.22%) Agile
3 90 (30.20%) Azure
4 80 (26.85%) C#
5 79 (26.51%) Finance
6 76 (25.50%) DevOps
7 71 (23.83%) .NET
8 70 (23.49%) JavaScript
9 66 (22.15%) React
10 63 (21.14%) SQL Server
11 59 (19.80%) CI/CD
12 58 (19.46%) Social Skills
13 50 (16.78%) Software Engineering
14 47 (15.77%) Microsoft
14 47 (15.77%) TypeScript
14 47 (15.77%) AWS
15 44 (14.77%) SQL
15 44 (14.77%) XML
16 43 (14.43%) Azure DevOps
17 41 (13.76%) HTML
18 38 (12.75%) Python
18 38 (12.75%) Scrum
18 38 (12.75%) PowerShell
19 34 (11.41%) Microservices
19 34 (11.41%) Front Office
19 34 (11.41%) TDD
20 33 (11.07%) Front End Development
20 33 (11.07%) Public Sector
21 32 (10.74%) CSS
22 31 (10.40%) AngularJS

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.35%) CMS
3 6 (2.01%) Confluence
4 5 (1.68%) Apache
5 4 (1.34%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.01%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.67%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.67%) IIS
7 2 (0.67%) Mule
7 2 (0.67%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.34%) Appian
8 1 (0.34%) CICS
8 1 (0.34%) GemFire
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.34%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.01%) Endur
1 3 (1.01%) RMDS
2 1 (0.34%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 90 (30.20%) Azure
2 47 (15.77%) AWS
3 43 (14.43%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (7.72%) GCP
5 17 (5.70%) GitHub
6 15 (5.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 15 (5.03%) Azure Service Bus
7 13 (4.36%) Entra ID
8 12 (4.03%) Power Platform
9 8 (2.68%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (2.68%) Serverless
10 6 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.68%) Azure Pipelines
11 5 (1.68%) dbt
12 4 (1.34%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.34%) Power Automate
13 3 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (1.01%) PowerApps
14 2 (0.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.67%) SAN
1 2 (0.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.34%) HTTP
2 1 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (21.14%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.02%) MySQL
3 7 (2.35%) KDB
3 7 (2.35%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.35%) Oracle Reports
3 7 (2.35%) Power BI
4 6 (2.01%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.01%) Redis
4 6 (2.01%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.68%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.34%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.01%) SQLite
8 2 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.67%) Apache Ignite
8 2 (0.67%) CockroachDB
8 2 (0.67%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 24 (8.05%) Git
2 19 (6.38%) GitLab
3 17 (5.70%) Cucumber
4 16 (5.37%) Jenkins
4 16 (5.37%) JUnit
4 16 (5.37%) Mockito
5 12 (4.03%) JIRA
6 8 (2.68%) SpecFlow
7 5 (1.68%) Storybook
8 4 (1.34%) Selenium
9 3 (1.01%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.01%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.01%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.01%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.01%) Subversion
10 2 (0.67%) Android Studio
10 2 (0.67%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.67%) Pylint
10 2 (0.67%) Xcode
General
1 79 (26.51%) Finance
2 58 (19.46%) Social Skills
3 34 (11.41%) Front Office
4 33 (11.07%) Public Sector
5 23 (7.72%) Banking
6 19 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (4.03%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.68%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.34%) Law
10 3 (1.01%) Back Office
10 3 (1.01%) Local Government
10 3 (1.01%) Police
10 3 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.01%) Retail
11 2 (0.67%) Automotive
11 2 (0.67%) Games
11 2 (0.67%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.34%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (23.83%) .NET
2 66 (22.15%) React
3 44 (14.77%) XML
4 41 (13.76%) HTML
5 32 (10.74%) CSS
6 31 (10.40%) AngularJS
7 27 (9.06%) Spring Boot
8 24 (8.05%) REST
9 22 (7.38%) .NET Core
10 20 (6.71%) .NET Framework
11 17 (5.70%) Web Services
12 16 (5.37%) Spring
13 15 (5.03%) ASP.NET
13 15 (5.03%) Kafka
13 15 (5.03%) Node.js
14 14 (4.70%) Vue
15 11 (3.69%) RESTful
16 10 (3.36%) jQuery
17 9 (3.02%) Pandas
17 9 (3.02%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 15 (5.03%) Fixed Income
3 14 (4.70%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.70%) Product Ownership
4 13 (4.36%) Derivative
5 12 (4.03%) Credit Derivative
6 11 (3.69%) Equities
7 8 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (2.35%) Renewable Energy
9 6 (2.01%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.01%) Contactless
9 6 (2.01%) Mobile App
9 6 (2.01%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.68%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.34%) Hedge funds
11 4 (1.34%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.01%) Blockchain
12 3 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.01%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.03%) Linux
2 8 (2.68%) Android
3 5 (1.68%) Unix
4 3 (1.01%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.01%) Mac OS X
5 2 (0.67%) Debian
5 2 (0.67%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.34%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.34%) VMS
6 1 (0.34%) Windows
6 1 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (33.22%) Agile
2 76 (25.50%) DevOps
3 59 (19.80%) CI/CD
4 50 (16.78%) Software Engineering
5 38 (12.75%) Scrum
6 34 (11.41%) Microservices
6 34 (11.41%) TDD
7 33 (11.07%) Front End Development
8 30 (10.07%) SDLC
9 27 (9.06%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (8.39%) Test Automation
11 19 (6.38%) Design Patterns
11 19 (6.38%) Full Stack Development
11 19 (6.38%) OO
12 17 (5.70%) Web Development
13 16 (5.37%) Analytics
13 16 (5.37%) BDD
13 16 (5.37%) Clean Code
13 16 (5.37%) User Experience
14 15 (5.03%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 106 (35.57%) Java
2 80 (26.85%) C#
3 70 (23.49%) JavaScript
4 47 (15.77%) TypeScript
5 44 (14.77%) SQL
6 38 (12.75%) PowerShell
6 38 (12.75%) Python
7 23 (7.72%) Bicep
8 11 (3.69%) Kotlin
9 9 (3.02%) C++
10 7 (2.35%) Scala
11 4 (1.34%) Bash
11 4 (1.34%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.34%) Ruby
12 3 (1.01%) C
12 3 (1.01%) PHP
12 3 (1.01%) Swift
12 3 (1.01%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.67%) COBOL
13 2 (0.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 22 (7.38%) Degree
2 20 (6.71%) Security Cleared
3 18 (6.04%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.34%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.01%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.03%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.35%) WCAG
3 5 (1.68%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.67%) MiFID
4 2 (0.67%) QA
5 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.34%) HL7
5 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (8.72%) Active Directory
2 18 (6.04%) Docker
3 6 (2.01%) ACF2
3 6 (2.01%) IAG
3 6 (2.01%) RACF
4 5 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.34%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 14 (4.70%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.35%) Terraform
3 6 (2.01%) Docker Swarm
3 6 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.01%) Ansible
4 3 (1.01%) Grafana
4 3 (1.01%) Podman
5 2 (0.67%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.34%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 47 (15.77%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.38%) Oracle
3 11 (3.69%) Google
3 11 (3.69%) ServiceNow
4 8 (2.68%) IBM
5 6 (2.01%) Sybase
6 5 (1.68%) ION Trading
7 3 (1.01%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.01%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.01%) RedGate
7 3 (1.01%) Solace
8 2 (0.67%) QNX
8 2 (0.67%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.67%) VMware
9 1 (0.34%) Murex
9 1 (0.34%) NEC
9 1 (0.34%) OpenLink
9 1 (0.34%) PTC
9 1 (0.34%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.34%) TIBCO