Senior Developer Contracts in the North of England

Senior Developer
England > North of England

The median Senior Developer daily rate in the North of England is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 145 140
Rank change year-on-year +14 -5 -29
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 54 57 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.11% 1.05% 1.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 1.10% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 37 86
10th Percentile £375 £419 £444
25th Percentile £425 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +2.27% +3.29%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £629
90th Percentile £628 £660 £663
England median daily rate £573 £650 £613
% change year-on-year -11.85% +6.12% +11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 9
10th Percentile £78.05 - -
25th Percentile £78.88 £61.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £81.50 £62.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.40% -16.67% +120.59%
75th Percentile £82.88 £63.75 £81.00
90th Percentile £82.95 - -
England median hourly rate £58.91 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -5.75% -10.71% +94.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,496 5,185 6,867
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 95.28% 96.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,721 3,630 5,013
10th Percentile £263 £263 £206
25th Percentile £385 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £569
90th Percentile £663 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 165 268
10th Percentile £11.12 £14.10 £11.28
25th Percentile £13.19 £17.50 £14.82
Median hourly rate £23.48 £27.20 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.69% +36.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £47.63 £43.75 £33.96
90th Percentile £66.61 £57.06 £63.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the North of England

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in the North of England

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in the North of England

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in the North of England

Senior Developer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
North West +18 33 £475 -18.94% 57
Yorkshire +10 21 £525 -7.28% 36
Senior Developer
England

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 12 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 North of England region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 14 (25.93%) Java
2 13 (24.07%) React
3 11 (20.37%) Agile
3 11 (20.37%) Node.js
4 9 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 9 (16.67%) E-Commerce
4 9 (16.67%) Front End Development
4 9 (16.67%) Vue
4 9 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 9 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (14.81%) Full Stack Development
6 7 (12.96%) AWS
6 7 (12.96%) TDD
6 7 (12.96%) Microservices
6 7 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (11.11%) Redux
7 6 (11.11%) Serverless
7 6 (11.11%) Finance
7 6 (11.11%) .NET
7 6 (11.11%) ITIL
7 6 (11.11%) Security Cleared
7 6 (11.11%) TypeScript
8 5 (9.26%) MongoDB
8 5 (9.26%) Test Automation
8 5 (9.26%) .NET Framework
8 5 (9.26%) Degree
8 5 (9.26%) HTML
8 5 (9.26%) Next.js
8 5 (9.26%) Kotlin
8 5 (9.26%) GraphQL

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (1.85%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.85%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.96%) AWS
2 6 (11.11%) Serverless
3 4 (7.41%) Azure
4 3 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.70%) IaaS
5 2 (3.70%) PaaS
5 2 (3.70%) SaaS
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.85%) Figma
6 1 (1.85%) Firebase
6 1 (1.85%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.26%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.56%) SQLite
3 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.85%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Crashlytics
1 1 (1.85%) Git
1 1 (1.85%) GitLab
1 1 (1.85%) Gradle
1 1 (1.85%) Mockito
1 1 (1.85%) Storybook
1 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (11.11%) Finance
4 4 (7.41%) Banking
5 2 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.85%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (24.07%) React
2 11 (20.37%) Node.js
3 9 (16.67%) Vue
4 6 (11.11%) .NET
4 6 (11.11%) Redux
5 5 (9.26%) .NET Framework
5 5 (9.26%) GraphQL
5 5 (9.26%) HTML
5 5 (9.26%) Next.js
6 4 (7.41%) CSS
6 4 (7.41%) Web Services
7 3 (5.56%) Express.js
7 3 (5.56%) MERN Stack
7 3 (5.56%) Spring
7 3 (5.56%) XML
8 2 (3.70%) .NET Core
8 2 (3.70%) Entity Framework
8 2 (3.70%) Kafka
9 1 (1.85%) AngularJS
9 1 (1.85%) JAX-RS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.70%) Algorithms
2 2 (3.70%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.70%) Derivative
2 2 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.85%) Genomics
3 1 (1.85%) mHealth
3 1 (1.85%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.85%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) Android
2 3 (5.56%) Linux
2 3 (5.56%) Unix
3 1 (1.85%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (20.37%) Agile
2 9 (16.67%) E-Commerce
2 9 (16.67%) Front End Development
2 9 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (14.81%) Full Stack Development
4 7 (12.96%) Microservices
4 7 (12.96%) TDD
5 6 (11.11%) ITIL
6 5 (9.26%) Test Automation
7 4 (7.41%) Analytics
7 4 (7.41%) Android Development
7 4 (7.41%) Customer Service
7 4 (7.41%) ITSM
7 4 (7.41%) MVVM
7 4 (7.41%) OO
7 4 (7.41%) Operations Management
7 4 (7.41%) Roadmaps
7 4 (7.41%) Scrum
7 4 (7.41%) Service Delivery
7 4 (7.41%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (25.93%) Java
2 9 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 6 (11.11%) TypeScript
4 5 (9.26%) Kotlin
5 4 (7.41%) C#
6 3 (5.56%) Scala
7 2 (3.70%) MATLAB
7 2 (3.70%) Python
7 2 (3.70%) SQL
7 2 (3.70%) VB.NET
7 2 (3.70%) VBA
8 1 (1.85%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 6 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.26%) Degree
3 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (7.41%) Pega
1 4 (7.41%) ServiceNow
2 2 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.85%) SAP
3 1 (1.85%) Siemens