Senior Developer Contracts in the City of London

Senior Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Developer daily rate in the City of London is £578, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 November 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
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 90 76
Rank change year-on-year -2 -14 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 35 61 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.65% 2.20% 3.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.77% 2.34% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 47 103
10th Percentile £463 £523 £463
25th Percentile £505 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £663 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +6.00% +3.31%
75th Percentile £719 £813 £775
90th Percentile £838 £850 £868
Central London median daily rate £550 £663 £625
% change year-on-year -16.98% +6.00% +4.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,978 2,612 4,256
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 94.06% 94.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,214 1,841 2,835
10th Percentile £363 £350 £356
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £792
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £575
% change year-on-year - - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 55
10th Percentile £15.95 £17.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £28.06 £17.97 £18.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £38.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.63% -9.52% +29.63%
75th Percentile £112.00 £50.63 £58.13
90th Percentile £137.50 £71.75 £78.75
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £38.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -7.89% -6.17% +20.90%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the City of London

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in the City of London

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in the City of London

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 14 November 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 City of London region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 12 (34.29%) C#
1 12 (34.29%) JavaScript
1 12 (34.29%) SQL
1 12 (34.29%) .NET
2 11 (31.43%) SQL Server
2 11 (31.43%) Azure
3 10 (28.57%) Finance
3 10 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 8 (22.86%) Docker
5 7 (20.00%) DevOps
5 7 (20.00%) GCP
5 7 (20.00%) Terraform
6 6 (17.14%) Front End Development
6 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (17.14%) Node.js
6 6 (17.14%) ETL
6 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
6 6 (17.14%) Java
6 6 (17.14%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (17.14%) Google
7 5 (14.29%) RESTful
7 5 (14.29%) Agile
7 5 (14.29%) .NET Framework
7 5 (14.29%) Back Office
7 5 (14.29%) REST
7 5 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
8 4 (11.43%) SAP Fiori
8 4 (11.43%) Data Ingestion

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (5.71%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) Apache
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.86%) Liferay
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (2.86%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Endur
2 1 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 11 (31.43%) Azure
2 7 (20.00%) GCP
3 4 (11.43%) AWS
4 3 (8.57%) GitHub
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (5.71%) dbt
5 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.86%) SaaS
6 1 (2.86%) Serverless
6 1 (2.86%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (31.43%) SQL Server
2 6 (17.14%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (8.57%) MySQL
4 3 (8.57%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.71%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (5.71%) BigQuery
5 2 (5.71%) CockroachDB
5 2 (5.71%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (5.71%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.71%) Power BI
5 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.86%) Big Data
6 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.86%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.86%) Spark SQL
6 1 (2.86%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.57%) Git
3 2 (5.71%) Cucumber
3 2 (5.71%) GitLab
3 2 (5.71%) JIRA
4 1 (2.86%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.86%) Crucible
4 1 (2.86%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.86%) Gradle
4 1 (2.86%) Jasmine
4 1 (2.86%) JUnit
4 1 (2.86%) Maven
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (2.86%) Selenium
4 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (2.86%) webpack
General
1 10 (28.57%) Finance
2 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Back Office
4 4 (11.43%) Law
4 4 (11.43%) Legal
4 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.71%) Banking
5 2 (5.71%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Front Office
6 1 (2.86%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (34.29%) .NET
2 6 (17.14%) Node.js
3 5 (14.29%) .NET Framework
3 5 (14.29%) REST
3 5 (14.29%) RESTful
4 4 (11.43%) CSS
4 4 (11.43%) FIX Protocol
4 4 (11.43%) HTML
4 4 (11.43%) Kafka
4 4 (11.43%) SAP Fiori
5 3 (8.57%) Django
5 3 (8.57%) HTML5
5 3 (8.57%) jQuery
5 3 (8.57%) React
6 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
6 2 (5.71%) Spring
6 2 (5.71%) Swagger
6 2 (5.71%) Web Services
6 2 (5.71%) WinForms
6 2 (5.71%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (11.43%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.71%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (2.86%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.86%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (2.86%) Freedom of Information Act
3 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.86%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Linux
2 2 (5.71%) Android
3 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 7 (20.00%) DevOps
3 6 (17.14%) ETL
3 6 (17.14%) Front End Development
3 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (14.29%) Agile
4 5 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (11.43%) Data Ingestion
5 4 (11.43%) Investment Management
5 4 (11.43%) OO
5 4 (11.43%) OOP
5 4 (11.43%) TDD
6 3 (8.57%) API Design
6 3 (8.57%) BDD
6 3 (8.57%) Containerisation
6 3 (8.57%) High Availability
6 3 (8.57%) Microservices
6 3 (8.57%) MVC
6 3 (8.57%) Test Automation
6 3 (8.57%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (34.29%) C#
1 12 (34.29%) JavaScript
1 12 (34.29%) SQL
2 6 (17.14%) Java
3 4 (11.43%) ABAP
3 4 (11.43%) Go
3 4 (11.43%) T-SQL
4 3 (8.57%) Kotlin
4 3 (8.57%) Python
5 2 (5.71%) PL/SQL
5 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.86%) Bash
6 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.86%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
1 3 (8.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) EMIR
1 4 (11.43%) MiFID
2 2 (5.71%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (22.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) Terraform
2 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.71%) Ansible
3 2 (5.71%) Salt
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) Google
1 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) Oracle
2 4 (11.43%) SAP
3 2 (5.71%) OpenLink
4 1 (2.86%) Databricks
4 1 (2.86%) Sybase