Senior Developer Contracts in London

Senior Developer
England > London

The median Senior Developer daily rate in London is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 86 86
Rank change year-on-year +7 0 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 500 743 1,209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.86% 2.92% 3.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.05% 3.07% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 588 999
10th Percentile £413 £475 £463
25th Percentile £500 £550 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +15.30%
75th Percentile £803 £800 £750
90th Percentile £888 £900 £825
England median daily rate £555 £650 £613
% change year-on-year -14.62% +6.12% +11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £62.64 £61.50 -
25th Percentile £64.47 £63.75 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +92.86% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £71.25 -
90th Percentile - £73.50 -
England median hourly rate £60.17 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.73% -10.71% +105.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,385 24,202 36,842
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,830 17,663 27,089
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in London

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in London

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in London

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in London

Senior Developer
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London -1 54 £525 -22.22% 20
East London -3 17 £538 -43.42% 2
West London +16 9 £330 -47.20% 4
South London +6 7 £500 -47.37% 3
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 London region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 220 (44.00%) Agile
2 165 (33.00%) Azure
3 162 (32.40%) Java
4 159 (31.80%) DevOps
5 157 (31.40%) C#
6 142 (28.40%) CI/CD
7 131 (26.20%) Finance
8 128 (25.60%) .NET
9 124 (24.80%) JavaScript
10 122 (24.40%) SQL Server
11 110 (22.00%) Microsoft
12 102 (20.40%) Azure DevOps
13 101 (20.20%) React
14 95 (19.00%) TDD
15 87 (17.40%) Social Skills
16 86 (17.20%) Software Engineering
16 86 (17.20%) PowerShell
17 85 (17.00%) SQL
18 80 (16.00%) AWS
19 78 (15.60%) Scrum
20 75 (15.00%) TypeScript
21 72 (14.40%) XML
22 69 (13.80%) Python
22 69 (13.80%) Active Directory
23 65 (13.00%) HTML
24 59 (11.80%) Banking
25 56 (11.20%) CSS
25 56 (11.20%) Front End Development
26 55 (11.00%) Git
27 53 (10.60%) AngularJS

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 16 (3.20%) CMS
2 9 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.60%) SAS
4 7 (1.40%) Apache
5 6 (1.20%) Appian
5 6 (1.20%) Confluence
6 5 (1.00%) WordPress
7 3 (0.60%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.60%) WildFly
8 2 (0.40%) CICS
8 2 (0.40%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.20%) GemFire
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.20%) Elementor
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.20%) Endur
3 4 (0.80%) RMDS
4 3 (0.60%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.40%) Magento
5 2 (0.40%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.40%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.40%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.20%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 165 (33.00%) Azure
2 102 (20.40%) Azure DevOps
3 80 (16.00%) AWS
4 47 (9.40%) Entra ID
5 44 (8.80%) Azure Service Bus
6 38 (7.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 35 (7.00%) GCP
8 22 (4.40%) GitHub
9 20 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
10 18 (3.60%) Serverless
11 17 (3.40%) Amazon S3
12 15 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (2.20%) Azure Pipelines
15 10 (2.00%) PaaS
16 9 (1.80%) dbt
17 7 (1.40%) Amazon SQS
18 6 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
18 6 (1.20%) Azure Key Vault
18 6 (1.20%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.60%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.40%) DNS
3 1 (0.20%) Internet
3 1 (0.20%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (24.40%) SQL Server
2 31 (6.20%) KDB
3 25 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 23 (4.60%) MongoDB
5 18 (3.60%) Redis
6 15 (3.00%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (1.60%) DynamoDB
9 7 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.20%) Big Data
10 6 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (1.00%) MySQL
11 5 (1.00%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.80%) Power BI
13 3 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (0.60%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.60%) DB2
14 2 (0.40%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 55 (11.00%) Git
2 30 (6.00%) Jenkins
2 30 (6.00%) Mockito
3 17 (3.40%) JUnit
4 14 (2.80%) Cucumber
4 14 (2.80%) GitLab
5 12 (2.40%) SpecFlow
6 11 (2.20%) JIRA
6 11 (2.20%) Postman
7 7 (1.40%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.20%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.00%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.80%) Pylint
10 4 (0.80%) Sourcetree
11 3 (0.60%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.40%) Babel
12 2 (0.40%) fastlane
12 2 (0.40%) Gatling
12 2 (0.40%) ScalaTest
12 2 (0.40%) Storybook
General
1 131 (26.20%) Finance
2 87 (17.40%) Social Skills
3 59 (11.80%) Banking
4 49 (9.80%) Front Office
5 45 (9.00%) Public Sector
6 29 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (3.00%) Back Office
8 12 (2.40%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.20%) Local Government
10 8 (1.60%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.80%) Retail
13 3 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.60%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.40%) Advertising
14 2 (0.40%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.40%) Law
15 1 (0.20%) Automotive
15 1 (0.20%) Games
15 1 (0.20%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (25.60%) .NET
2 101 (20.20%) React
3 72 (14.40%) XML
4 65 (13.00%) HTML
5 56 (11.20%) CSS
6 53 (10.60%) AngularJS
7 51 (10.20%) .NET Core
8 35 (7.00%) ASP.NET
9 33 (6.60%) .NET Framework
10 31 (6.20%) Node.js
11 29 (5.80%) Spring Boot
12 25 (5.00%) RESTful
13 24 (4.80%) Kafka
13 24 (4.80%) REST
13 24 (4.80%) Spring
14 22 (4.40%) Web Services
15 19 (3.80%) Vue
16 18 (3.60%) jQuery
17 17 (3.40%) ActiveMQ
17 17 (3.40%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 38 (7.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 37 (7.40%) Product Ownership
3 36 (7.20%) Fixed Income
4 29 (5.80%) Derivative
5 27 (5.40%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (3.20%) Algorithms
6 16 (3.20%) Credit Derivative
7 13 (2.60%) Equities
7 13 (2.60%) Management Information System
8 12 (2.40%) Onboarding
8 12 (2.40%) Renewable Energy
9 11 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.60%) Market Risk
12 7 (1.40%) Data Structures
13 6 (1.20%) Contactless
13 6 (1.20%) Mobile App
14 5 (1.00%) Hedge funds
14 5 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 40 (8.00%) Linux
2 21 (4.20%) Unix
3 14 (2.80%) Mac OS X
4 11 (2.20%) Apple iOS
5 10 (2.00%) Android
6 7 (1.40%) Windows
7 2 (0.40%) zOS
8 1 (0.20%) CentOS
8 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (44.00%) Agile
2 159 (31.80%) DevOps
3 142 (28.40%) CI/CD
4 95 (19.00%) TDD
5 86 (17.20%) Software Engineering
6 78 (15.60%) Scrum
7 56 (11.20%) Front End Development
8 51 (10.20%) Microservices
9 50 (10.00%) OO
10 46 (9.20%) SDLC
10 46 (9.20%) Test Automation
11 43 (8.60%) Electronic Trading
12 40 (8.00%) B2C
13 39 (7.80%) Continuous Integration
14 33 (6.60%) Web Development
15 32 (6.40%) BDD
15 32 (6.40%) Design Patterns
16 31 (6.20%) Clean Code
16 31 (6.20%) Problem-Solving
17 29 (5.80%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 162 (32.40%) Java
2 157 (31.40%) C#
3 124 (24.80%) JavaScript
4 86 (17.20%) PowerShell
5 85 (17.00%) SQL
6 75 (15.00%) TypeScript
7 69 (13.80%) Python
8 52 (10.40%) Bicep
9 17 (3.40%) Scala
10 14 (2.80%) C++
10 14 (2.80%) Kotlin
11 9 (1.80%) Go
12 8 (1.60%) PHP
12 8 (1.60%) Swift
13 7 (1.40%) Ruby
14 6 (1.20%) Rust
14 6 (1.20%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.20%) T-SQL
15 5 (1.00%) Objective-C
16 4 (0.80%) C
Qualifications
1 35 (7.00%) Security Cleared
2 31 (6.20%) SC Cleared
3 27 (5.40%) Degree
4 12 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (0.80%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.20%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.20%) OCP
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.60%) Accessibility
2 15 (3.00%) WCAG
3 10 (2.00%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.00%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.40%) MiFID
5 2 (0.40%) QA
6 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.20%) GDPR
6 1 (0.20%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 69 (13.80%) Active Directory
2 41 (8.20%) Docker
3 8 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.40%) ACF2
4 2 (0.40%) IAG
4 2 (0.40%) RACF
5 1 (0.20%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 33 (6.60%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
2 11 (2.20%) Terraform
3 5 (1.00%) Grafana
4 4 (0.80%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (0.60%) Podman
6 2 (0.40%) Ansible
6 2 (0.40%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 110 (22.00%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.40%) Oracle
3 19 (3.80%) Google
4 14 (2.80%) ION Trading
5 10 (2.00%) IBM
6 9 (1.80%) Solace
6 9 (1.80%) TIBCO
7 6 (1.20%) Apple
8 5 (1.00%) Virgin Media
9 4 (0.80%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.60%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.60%) SAP
11 2 (0.40%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.40%) NEC
11 2 (0.40%) OpenLink
11 2 (0.40%) Sybase
11 2 (0.40%) Tradeweb
11 2 (0.40%) Workday
12 1 (0.20%) Databricks
12 1 (0.20%) Mapbox