Senior Developer Contracts in London

Senior Developer
England > London

The median Senior Developer daily rate in London is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 79 85
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 475 776 1,240
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.72% 2.98% 3.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.91% 3.13% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 610 1,024
10th Percentile £413 £475 £463
25th Percentile £500 £554 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +13.54%
75th Percentile £825 £800 £750
90th Percentile £888 £900 £825
England median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £59.50 £61.50 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £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 £57.75
90th Percentile - £73.50 £71.40
England median hourly rate £59.45 £62.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year -4.88% -13.79% +113.24%

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 16,330 24,760 37,101
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 95.17% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,815 17,998 27,187
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 281 441
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.07 £22.50 £23.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +13.45%
75th Percentile £46.05 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.32 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%

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 20 May 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 20 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
Central London -8 53 £538 -20.37% 20
East London +2 17 £538 -43.42% 52
West London +14 8 £320 -48.80% 4
South London +2 5 £475 -50.00% 5
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 job ads across the London region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 212 (44.63%) Agile
2 161 (33.89%) Azure
3 158 (33.26%) DevOps
3 158 (33.26%) C#
4 151 (31.79%) Java
5 136 (28.63%) CI/CD
6 131 (27.58%) Finance
7 125 (26.32%) .NET
8 121 (25.47%) SQL Server
9 118 (24.84%) JavaScript
10 108 (22.74%) Microsoft
11 100 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
12 98 (20.63%) React
13 87 (18.32%) TDD
14 83 (17.47%) SQL
15 82 (17.26%) PowerShell
15 82 (17.26%) Social Skills
16 78 (16.42%) Software Engineering
17 75 (15.79%) Scrum
17 75 (15.79%) AWS
17 75 (15.79%) TypeScript
18 72 (15.16%) XML
19 69 (14.53%) Python
20 68 (14.32%) Active Directory
21 64 (13.47%) HTML
22 58 (12.21%) Front End Development
23 57 (12.00%) Banking
24 55 (11.58%) CSS
25 54 (11.37%) Git
25 54 (11.37%) .NET Core

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 (3.37%) CMS
2 9 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.26%) Apache
3 6 (1.26%) Appian
3 6 (1.26%) Confluence
4 5 (1.05%) SAS
5 4 (0.84%) WordPress
6 3 (0.63%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.42%) CICS
7 2 (0.42%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.21%) GemFire
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.26%) Endur
3 4 (0.84%) RMDS
4 3 (0.63%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.42%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.42%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.42%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.21%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 161 (33.89%) Azure
2 100 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
3 75 (15.79%) AWS
4 46 (9.68%) Entra ID
5 43 (9.05%) Azure Service Bus
6 38 (8.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 31 (6.53%) GCP
8 21 (4.42%) GitHub
9 20 (4.21%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (3.16%) Amazon S3
10 15 (3.16%) Serverless
11 13 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (2.32%) Azure Pipelines
14 9 (1.89%) PaaS
15 8 (1.68%) dbt
16 6 (1.26%) Azure API Management
16 6 (1.26%) Azure Key Vault
16 6 (1.26%) Azure Storage
16 6 (1.26%) Contentful
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.63%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.21%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (25.47%) SQL Server
2 29 (6.11%) KDB
3 24 (5.05%) NoSQL
4 23 (4.84%) MongoDB
5 16 (3.37%) Redis
6 12 (2.53%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.68%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.26%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (1.05%) MySQL
10 5 (1.05%) Power BI
11 3 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.63%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.42%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 54 (11.37%) Git
2 30 (6.32%) Mockito
3 29 (6.11%) Jenkins
4 17 (3.58%) JUnit
5 14 (2.95%) Cucumber
6 13 (2.74%) GitLab
7 12 (2.53%) SpecFlow
8 11 (2.32%) JIRA
9 9 (1.89%) Postman
10 7 (1.47%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.47%) TeamCity
11 6 (1.26%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.84%) NUnit
12 4 (0.84%) Pylint
12 4 (0.84%) Sourcetree
13 3 (0.63%) CircleCI
14 2 (0.42%) Babel
14 2 (0.42%) Gatling
14 2 (0.42%) ScalaTest
14 2 (0.42%) Storybook
General
1 131 (27.58%) Finance
2 82 (17.26%) Social Skills
3 57 (12.00%) Banking
4 49 (10.32%) Front Office
5 44 (9.26%) Public Sector
6 26 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (3.16%) Back Office
8 12 (2.53%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.32%) Local Government
10 8 (1.68%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.84%) Retail
13 3 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.63%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.42%) Advertising
14 2 (0.42%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.42%) Law
15 1 (0.21%) Automotive
15 1 (0.21%) Games
15 1 (0.21%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (26.32%) .NET
2 98 (20.63%) React
3 72 (15.16%) XML
4 64 (13.47%) HTML
5 55 (11.58%) CSS
6 54 (11.37%) .NET Core
7 52 (10.95%) AngularJS
8 35 (7.37%) ASP.NET
9 34 (7.16%) .NET Framework
10 30 (6.32%) Node.js
11 28 (5.89%) Spring Boot
12 24 (5.05%) Kafka
13 23 (4.84%) RESTful
13 23 (4.84%) Spring
14 22 (4.63%) REST
14 22 (4.63%) Web Services
15 19 (4.00%) jQuery
15 19 (4.00%) Vue
16 17 (3.58%) ActiveMQ
16 17 (3.58%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 37 (7.79%) Product Ownership
3 35 (7.37%) Fixed Income
4 29 (6.11%) Derivative
5 28 (5.89%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (3.58%) Algorithms
7 16 (3.37%) Credit Derivative
8 14 (2.95%) Equities
8 14 (2.95%) Onboarding
9 12 (2.53%) Management Information System
10 11 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (2.32%) Renewable Energy
11 9 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.68%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.68%) Market Risk
13 6 (1.26%) Contactless
13 6 (1.26%) Mobile App
14 5 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (1.05%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (8.42%) Linux
2 20 (4.21%) Unix
3 14 (2.95%) Mac OS X
4 10 (2.11%) Android
5 8 (1.68%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.26%) Windows
7 2 (0.42%) zOS
8 1 (0.21%) CentOS
8 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (44.63%) Agile
2 158 (33.26%) DevOps
3 136 (28.63%) CI/CD
4 87 (18.32%) TDD
5 78 (16.42%) Software Engineering
6 75 (15.79%) Scrum
7 58 (12.21%) Front End Development
8 52 (10.95%) Microservices
9 49 (10.32%) OO
10 46 (9.68%) SDLC
11 44 (9.26%) Test Automation
12 42 (8.84%) Electronic Trading
13 41 (8.63%) Continuous Integration
14 39 (8.21%) B2C
15 33 (6.95%) Web Development
16 32 (6.74%) BDD
17 31 (6.53%) Clean Code
17 31 (6.53%) Design Patterns
18 29 (6.11%) Analytics
18 29 (6.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 158 (33.26%) C#
2 151 (31.79%) Java
3 118 (24.84%) JavaScript
4 83 (17.47%) SQL
5 82 (17.26%) PowerShell
6 75 (15.79%) TypeScript
7 69 (14.53%) Python
8 52 (10.95%) Bicep
9 14 (2.95%) C++
9 14 (2.95%) Kotlin
9 14 (2.95%) Scala
10 9 (1.89%) Go
11 6 (1.26%) Ruby
11 6 (1.26%) Rust
11 6 (1.26%) Swift
12 5 (1.05%) Bash
12 5 (1.05%) Objective-C
12 5 (1.05%) PHP
12 5 (1.05%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.05%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (6.11%) Degree
2 28 (5.89%) Security Cleared
3 23 (4.84%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.05%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.42%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.79%) Accessibility
2 15 (3.16%) WCAG
3 10 (2.11%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.42%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.42%) MiFID
5 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.21%) GDPR
5 1 (0.21%) ISO 15022
5 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.21%) QA
System Software
1 68 (14.32%) Active Directory
2 35 (7.37%) Docker
3 9 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.42%) ACF2
4 2 (0.42%) IAG
4 2 (0.42%) RACF
5 1 (0.21%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 27 (5.68%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (1.68%) Terraform
4 3 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (0.63%) Grafana
5 2 (0.42%) CA Endevor
5 2 (0.42%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.21%) Podman
6 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 108 (22.74%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.00%) Oracle
3 15 (3.16%) Google
4 14 (2.95%) ION Trading
5 10 (2.11%) IBM
6 8 (1.68%) TIBCO
7 7 (1.47%) Solace
7 7 (1.47%) Virgin Media
8 6 (1.26%) Apple
9 4 (0.84%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.42%) NEC
10 2 (0.42%) OpenLink
10 2 (0.42%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.42%) SAP
10 2 (0.42%) Sybase
10 2 (0.42%) Tradeweb
10 2 (0.42%) Workday
11 1 (0.21%) Databricks
11 1 (0.21%) Kepware
11 1 (0.21%) Mapbox