Senior Software Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Software Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Software Developer daily rate in Work from Home is £548 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 303 421 572
Rank change year-on-year +118 +151 -103
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 42 33 40
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.28% 0.13% 0.091%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.14% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 24 31
10th Percentile £444 £428 £413
25th Percentile £500 £506 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% +20.00% +15.47%
75th Percentile £800 £684 £577
90th Percentile £823 £796 £699
UK median daily rate £545 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -7.23% +2.17% +12.20%

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 13,806 23,471 42,177
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.27% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,297 16,589 30,510
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 538 592
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.44 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.33
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.14 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.43 £68.70
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Senior Software Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Software Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Software 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 Software Developer.

Senior Software Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Software Developer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Senior Software Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

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

1 29 (69.05%) Agile
1 29 (69.05%) Azure
2 24 (57.14%) PowerShell
3 22 (52.38%) SQL Server
4 21 (50.00%) C#
4 21 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 20 (47.62%) CI/CD
6 19 (45.24%) DevOps
7 18 (42.86%) XML
7 18 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (40.48%) .NET
8 17 (40.48%) Scrum
9 16 (38.10%) Software Engineering
10 14 (33.33%) JavaScript
11 12 (28.57%) SQL
11 12 (28.57%) Python
11 12 (28.57%) .NET Framework
12 10 (23.81%) AWS
12 10 (23.81%) AngularJS
12 10 (23.81%) Java
12 10 (23.81%) Front Office
12 10 (23.81%) Finance
13 9 (21.43%) Pandas
13 9 (21.43%) Derivative
14 8 (19.05%) TypeScript
14 8 (19.05%) GCP
14 8 (19.05%) Analytics
14 8 (19.05%) Protocol Buffers
14 8 (19.05%) SpecFlow
14 8 (19.05%) Asset Management

Senior Software 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 (19.05%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.76%) Apache
3 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 29 (69.05%) Azure
2 18 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (23.81%) AWS
4 8 (19.05%) GCP
5 4 (9.52%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (4.76%) dbt
6 2 (4.76%) GitHub
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) SAN
1 2 (4.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (52.38%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (4.76%) Apache Arrow
2 2 (4.76%) Apache Ignite
2 2 (4.76%) Dremio
3 1 (2.38%) Big Data
3 1 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (19.05%) SpecFlow
2 2 (4.76%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.38%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.38%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.38%) Selenium
3 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (2.38%) tSQLt
General
1 10 (23.81%) Finance
1 10 (23.81%) Front Office
2 6 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 6 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.76%) Banking
3 2 (4.76%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.38%) Law
4 1 (2.38%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (42.86%) XML
2 17 (40.48%) .NET
3 12 (28.57%) .NET Framework
4 10 (23.81%) AngularJS
5 9 (21.43%) Pandas
6 8 (19.05%) gRPC
6 8 (19.05%) Protocol Buffers
7 6 (14.29%) Material-UI
7 6 (14.29%) React
7 6 (14.29%) Vue
8 5 (11.90%) ARM Templates
9 3 (7.14%) .NET Core
9 3 (7.14%) NumPy
9 3 (7.14%) SciPy
10 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (2.38%) FHIR
10 1 (2.38%) Kafka
10 1 (2.38%) REST
10 1 (2.38%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.43%) Derivative
2 8 (19.05%) Equities
2 8 (19.05%) Fixed Income
2 8 (19.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (11.90%) Contactless
3 5 (11.90%) Product Ownership
4 4 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (7.14%) Management Information System
6 2 (4.76%) Hedge funds
6 2 (4.76%) Mobile App
7 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.38%) Clustering
7 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.38%) NHS
7 1 (2.38%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.14%) Linux
2 2 (4.76%) Debian
2 2 (4.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (69.05%) Agile
2 20 (47.62%) CI/CD
3 19 (45.24%) DevOps
4 17 (40.48%) Scrum
5 16 (38.10%) Software Engineering
6 8 (19.05%) Analytics
6 8 (19.05%) Asset Management
7 4 (9.52%) B2C
7 4 (9.52%) Content Management
7 4 (9.52%) Database Optimisation
7 4 (9.52%) Design Patterns
7 4 (9.52%) Prototyping
7 4 (9.52%) Test Automation
8 3 (7.14%) Project Delivery
9 2 (4.76%) BDD
9 2 (4.76%) Data Architecture
9 2 (4.76%) High Availability
9 2 (4.76%) Matrix Organization
9 2 (4.76%) Product Management
9 2 (4.76%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 24 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 21 (50.00%) C#
3 14 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 12 (28.57%) Python
4 12 (28.57%) SQL
5 10 (23.81%) Java
6 8 (19.05%) TypeScript
7 7 (16.67%) Bicep
8 3 (7.14%) T-SQL
9 2 (4.76%) Ruby
9 2 (4.76%) Scala
10 1 (2.38%) Bash
10 1 (2.38%) C++
10 1 (2.38%) Kotlin
10 1 (2.38%) Perl
10 1 (2.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) Degree
1 4 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.14%) DV Cleared
2 3 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.38%) HL7
System Software
1 4 (9.52%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.14%) RedGate
3 2 (4.76%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.76%) VMware
4 1 (2.38%) ION Trading
4 1 (2.38%) OpenLink