Senior Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Developer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 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
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 111 108
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 316 513 1,048
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.14% 2.15% 2.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.29% 2.26% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 408 783
10th Percentile £419 £417 £425
25th Percentile £500 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £695
90th Percentile £859 £850 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 9
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile £40.00 £61.25 £52.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% +105.88%
75th Percentile £82.50 £69.38 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.80 £72.75 -
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
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 13,812 22,728 41,958
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.24% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,312 16,121 30,511
10th Percentile £325 £359 £359
25th Percentile £425 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 526 561
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.56 £25.00 £19.91
Median hourly rate £43.00 £50.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.85% +26.25% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.19 £66.57 £59.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 11 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 108 (34.18%) Java
2 107 (33.86%) Agile
3 100 (31.65%) Azure
4 86 (27.22%) C#
5 82 (25.95%) JavaScript
6 80 (25.32%) DevOps
7 79 (25.00%) Finance
8 76 (24.05%) .NET
9 70 (22.15%) React
10 68 (21.52%) SQL Server
11 60 (18.99%) CI/CD
12 57 (18.04%) Social Skills
13 56 (17.72%) Software Engineering
14 49 (15.51%) SQL
14 49 (15.51%) HTML
14 49 (15.51%) TypeScript
14 49 (15.51%) AWS
15 48 (15.19%) Azure DevOps
16 47 (14.87%) Microsoft
17 44 (13.92%) XML
18 41 (12.97%) Scrum
19 40 (12.66%) PowerShell
20 38 (12.03%) Python
21 37 (11.71%) CSS
22 36 (11.39%) TDD
22 36 (11.39%) AngularJS
23 35 (11.08%) Front Office
24 33 (10.44%) Microservices
24 33 (10.44%) Full Stack Development
25 32 (10.13%) Front End Development

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 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.22%) CMS
2 7 (2.22%) Confluence
3 6 (1.90%) Apache
4 4 (1.27%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.95%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.63%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.63%) Mule
6 2 (0.63%) ThingWorx
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.32%) Appian
7 1 (0.32%) CICS
7 1 (0.32%) GemFire
7 1 (0.32%) Jetty
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.32%) StreamWeaver
7 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.32%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.32%) Elementor
2 1 (0.32%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.95%) Endur
2 3 (0.95%) RMDS
3 2 (0.63%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 100 (31.65%) Azure
2 49 (15.51%) AWS
3 48 (15.19%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (8.23%) Serverless
5 24 (7.59%) GCP
6 19 (6.01%) Azure Service Bus
6 19 (6.01%) GitHub
7 18 (5.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 13 (4.11%) Entra ID
9 9 (2.85%) Power Platform
10 8 (2.53%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.58%) Azure Pipelines
12 5 (1.58%) dbt
13 4 (1.27%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.27%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (1.27%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.63%) DNS
1 2 (0.63%) HTTP
1 2 (0.63%) SAN
1 2 (0.63%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.32%) FTP
2 1 (0.32%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.32%) Internet
2 1 (0.32%) SMS
2 1 (0.32%) SSH
2 1 (0.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (21.52%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.16%) MySQL
2 10 (3.16%) Relational Database
3 8 (2.53%) MongoDB
3 8 (2.53%) Oracle Database
4 7 (2.22%) KDB
4 7 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.22%) Redis
5 6 (1.90%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.27%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.27%) Power BI
7 3 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.95%) SQLite
8 2 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.63%) Apache Ignite
8 2 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.63%) Big Data
8 2 (0.63%) Couchbase
8 2 (0.63%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 28 (8.86%) Git
2 18 (5.70%) GitLab
3 17 (5.38%) Jenkins
4 15 (4.75%) Cucumber
4 15 (4.75%) JIRA
4 15 (4.75%) JUnit
4 15 (4.75%) Mockito
5 9 (2.85%) SpecFlow
6 5 (1.58%) Storybook
7 4 (1.27%) Selenium
8 3 (0.95%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.95%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.95%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.95%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.95%) Visual Studio Team System
9 2 (0.63%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.63%) Moq
9 2 (0.63%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.63%) Pylint
9 2 (0.63%) Xcode
General
1 79 (25.00%) Finance
2 57 (18.04%) Social Skills
3 35 (11.08%) Front Office
4 30 (9.49%) Public Sector
5 27 (8.54%) Banking
6 21 (6.65%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (3.80%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.90%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.27%) Law
9 4 (1.27%) Local Government
9 4 (1.27%) Retail
10 3 (0.95%) Back Office
10 3 (0.95%) Police
10 3 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.63%) Automotive
11 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.32%) Games
12 1 (0.32%) German Language
12 1 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (24.05%) .NET
2 70 (22.15%) React
3 49 (15.51%) HTML
4 44 (13.92%) XML
5 37 (11.71%) CSS
6 36 (11.39%) AngularJS
7 30 (9.49%) REST
8 26 (8.23%) Spring Boot
9 25 (7.91%) Node.js
10 23 (7.28%) .NET Core
10 23 (7.28%) .NET Framework
11 19 (6.01%) ASP.NET
12 18 (5.70%) Spring
13 17 (5.38%) Web Services
14 16 (5.06%) Vue
15 14 (4.43%) Kafka
16 11 (3.48%) RESTful
17 10 (3.16%) HTML5
18 9 (2.85%) Pandas
18 9 (2.85%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 17 (5.38%) Fixed Income
3 15 (4.75%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.43%) Derivative
4 14 (4.43%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.80%) Equities
6 10 (3.16%) Credit Derivative
6 10 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.53%) Renewable Energy
8 7 (2.22%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.90%) Contactless
9 6 (1.90%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.58%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.58%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.27%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.27%) Hedge funds
12 3 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.11%) Linux
2 9 (2.85%) Android
3 7 (2.22%) Unix
4 3 (0.95%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.95%) Mac OS X
5 2 (0.63%) Debian
5 2 (0.63%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (33.86%) Agile
2 80 (25.32%) DevOps
3 60 (18.99%) CI/CD
4 56 (17.72%) Software Engineering
5 41 (12.97%) Scrum
6 36 (11.39%) TDD
7 33 (10.44%) Full Stack Development
7 33 (10.44%) Microservices
8 32 (10.13%) Front End Development
9 30 (9.49%) SDLC
10 29 (9.18%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (8.86%) Test Automation
12 23 (7.28%) Design Patterns
13 22 (6.96%) E-Commerce
13 22 (6.96%) OO
14 19 (6.01%) Web Development
15 17 (5.38%) Clean Code
15 17 (5.38%) Continuous Integration
16 16 (5.06%) BDD
16 16 (5.06%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 108 (34.18%) Java
2 86 (27.22%) C#
3 82 (25.95%) JavaScript
4 49 (15.51%) SQL
4 49 (15.51%) TypeScript
5 40 (12.66%) PowerShell
6 38 (12.03%) Python
7 23 (7.28%) Bicep
8 11 (3.48%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.22%) C++
9 7 (2.22%) Scala
10 4 (1.27%) PHP
10 4 (1.27%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.27%) Ruby
10 4 (1.27%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.95%) Bash
11 3 (0.95%) BeanShell
11 3 (0.95%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.95%) Swift
11 3 (0.95%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 23 (7.28%) Degree
2 22 (6.96%) Security Cleared
3 21 (6.65%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.58%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.63%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.80%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.22%) WCAG
3 5 (1.58%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.27%) QA
5 2 (0.63%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.63%) MiFID
6 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (8.23%) Active Directory
2 20 (6.33%) Docker
3 6 (1.90%) ACF2
3 6 (1.90%) IAG
3 6 (1.90%) RACF
4 5 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.32%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 17 (5.38%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.53%) Docker Swarm
3 7 (2.22%) Terraform
4 6 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.27%) Ansible
6 3 (0.95%) Grafana
6 3 (0.95%) Podman
7 2 (0.63%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.32%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 47 (14.87%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.96%) Oracle
3 12 (3.80%) Google
4 9 (2.85%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.90%) IBM
5 6 (1.90%) Sybase
6 5 (1.58%) ION Trading
7 4 (1.27%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.27%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.27%) Solace
8 3 (0.95%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.63%) Apiary
9 2 (0.63%) NEC
9 2 (0.63%) QNX
9 2 (0.63%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.63%) VMware
10 1 (0.32%) Murex
10 1 (0.32%) RedGate
10 1 (0.32%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.32%) Xamarin