Senior Developer Contracts in England

Senior Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Developer daily rate in England is £573, 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 128 132 123
Rank change year-on-year +4 -9 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 672 936 1,578
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.79% 1.99% 2.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.93% 2.11% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 719 1,254
10th Percentile £410 £456 £450
25th Percentile £463 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £650 £613
Median % change year-on-year -11.85% +6.12% +11.36%
75th Percentile £745 £781 £725
90th Percentile £863 £888 £824
UK median daily rate £553 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -11.60% +4.17% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 13
10th Percentile £35.00 £60.50 £38.50
25th Percentile £54.85 £61.25 £61.81
Median hourly rate £58.91 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% -10.71% +94.44%
75th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £76.50 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £58.91 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -5.75% -10.71% +100.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
London +6 517 £600 -11.11% 183
North of England +14 54 £488 -13.33% 104
North West +18 33 £475 -18.94% 56
Midlands +18 27 £450 -16.28% 69
South West -4 27 £475 -20.83% 32
South East +4 26 £550 +7.32% 69
West Midlands +28 22 £355 -35.50% 51
Yorkshire +10 21 £525 -7.28% 36
East of England +2 4 £404 -25.32% 22
East Midlands -1 4 £513 +2.50% 17
Senior Developer
UK

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 England region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 263 (39.14%) Agile
2 197 (29.32%) Azure
3 188 (27.98%) C#
4 186 (27.68%) Java
5 183 (27.23%) DevOps
6 164 (24.40%) JavaScript
7 158 (23.51%) .NET
8 157 (23.36%) CI/CD
9 153 (22.77%) Finance
10 143 (21.28%) SQL Server
11 137 (20.39%) React
12 132 (19.64%) Microsoft
13 124 (18.45%) SQL
14 118 (17.56%) Azure DevOps
15 115 (17.11%) TDD
16 112 (16.67%) Social Skills
17 103 (15.33%) Software Engineering
18 99 (14.73%) AWS
19 96 (14.29%) TypeScript
20 94 (13.99%) Scrum
21 92 (13.69%) HTML
22 88 (13.10%) PowerShell
23 82 (12.20%) Python
24 78 (11.61%) CSS
25 76 (11.31%) XML
26 73 (10.86%) Front End Development
27 70 (10.42%) Active Directory
28 69 (10.27%) AngularJS
29 68 (10.12%) Banking
30 66 (9.82%) Microservices

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 17 (2.53%) CMS
2 11 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (1.64%) SAS
3 9 (1.34%) Apache
4 6 (0.89%) Appian
4 6 (0.89%) Confluence
5 5 (0.74%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.74%) WordPress
6 3 (0.45%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.45%) WildFly
7 2 (0.30%) CICS
7 2 (0.30%) IIS
7 2 (0.30%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.15%) GemFire
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.15%) Elementor
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (2.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.89%) Endur
3 4 (0.60%) RMDS
4 3 (0.45%) ION MarketView
4 3 (0.45%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.30%) Magento
5 2 (0.30%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.30%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle iProcurement
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.15%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.15%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 197 (29.32%) Azure
2 118 (17.56%) Azure DevOps
3 99 (14.73%) AWS
4 50 (7.44%) Azure Service Bus
5 47 (6.99%) Entra ID
6 44 (6.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 38 (5.65%) GCP
8 35 (5.21%) Serverless
9 23 (3.42%) GitHub
9 23 (3.42%) Power Platform
10 22 (3.27%) Azure Monitor
11 17 (2.53%) Amazon S3
11 17 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
12 14 (2.08%) PaaS
13 13 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (1.64%) Azure Pipelines
15 9 (1.34%) dbt
16 8 (1.19%) Azure Key Vault
16 8 (1.19%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.45%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.30%) DNS
2 2 (0.30%) HTTP
2 2 (0.30%) Internet
2 2 (0.30%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (0.30%) SAN
2 2 (0.30%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.15%) Firewall
3 1 (0.15%) Multicast
3 1 (0.15%) SSL
3 1 (0.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (21.28%) SQL Server
2 33 (4.91%) KDB
3 30 (4.46%) MongoDB
4 28 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 23 (3.42%) Relational Database
6 18 (2.68%) Redis
7 13 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (1.64%) MySQL
9 9 (1.34%) DynamoDB
9 9 (1.34%) Power BI
10 8 (1.19%) Oracle Database
11 6 (0.89%) Big Data
11 6 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (0.60%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.45%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 63 (9.38%) Git
2 35 (5.21%) Jenkins
3 28 (4.17%) Mockito
4 22 (3.27%) JIRA
5 18 (2.68%) GitLab
6 15 (2.23%) Cucumber
6 15 (2.23%) JUnit
7 12 (1.79%) SpecFlow
8 11 (1.64%) Postman
9 9 (1.34%) Visual Studio
10 8 (1.19%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.04%) Rational Rhapsody
11 7 (1.04%) Visual Studio Team System
12 6 (0.89%) Maven
12 6 (0.89%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.74%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.74%) Selenium
14 4 (0.60%) Pylint
14 4 (0.60%) Sourcetree
15 3 (0.45%) CircleCI
General
1 153 (22.77%) Finance
2 112 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 68 (10.12%) Banking
4 54 (8.04%) Front Office
5 53 (7.89%) Public Sector
6 41 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (2.23%) Back Office
8 14 (2.08%) Local Government
9 13 (1.93%) Investment Banking
10 11 (1.64%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (0.89%) Retail
13 5 (0.74%) Law
14 3 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.45%) Police
15 2 (0.30%) Advertising
15 2 (0.30%) Games
15 2 (0.30%) Health Technology
15 2 (0.30%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.30%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (23.51%) .NET
2 137 (20.39%) React
3 92 (13.69%) HTML
4 78 (11.61%) CSS
5 76 (11.31%) XML
6 69 (10.27%) AngularJS
7 58 (8.63%) .NET Core
8 50 (7.44%) .NET Framework
9 49 (7.29%) Node.js
10 46 (6.85%) ASP.NET
11 39 (5.80%) REST
12 32 (4.76%) Spring
12 32 (4.76%) Spring Boot
12 32 (4.76%) Vue
13 30 (4.46%) Kafka
13 30 (4.46%) Web Services
14 29 (4.32%) RESTful
15 18 (2.68%) Pandas
16 17 (2.53%) jQuery
17 16 (2.38%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 46 (6.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 40 (5.95%) Product Ownership
3 38 (5.65%) Fixed Income
4 31 (4.61%) Derivative
5 30 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (2.53%) Algorithms
6 17 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (2.08%) Management Information System
8 13 (1.93%) Credit Derivative
8 13 (1.93%) Equities
9 12 (1.79%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
10 11 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.49%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.19%) Credit Risk
12 8 (1.19%) Data Structures
13 7 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (1.04%) Market Risk
14 6 (0.89%) Contactless
Operating Systems
1 50 (7.44%) Linux
2 27 (4.02%) Unix
3 17 (2.53%) Android
4 15 (2.23%) Mac OS X
5 12 (1.79%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.89%) Windows
7 2 (0.30%) Debian
7 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.30%) zOS
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
8 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (39.14%) Agile
2 183 (27.23%) DevOps
3 157 (23.36%) CI/CD
4 115 (17.11%) TDD
5 103 (15.33%) Software Engineering
6 94 (13.99%) Scrum
7 73 (10.86%) Front End Development
8 66 (9.82%) Microservices
9 63 (9.38%) Test Automation
10 57 (8.48%) OO
11 56 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
12 49 (7.29%) SDLC
13 47 (6.99%) Full Stack Development
14 46 (6.85%) Continuous Integration
15 44 (6.55%) Electronic Trading
16 41 (6.10%) Design Patterns
17 40 (5.95%) B2C
17 40 (5.95%) Web Development
18 39 (5.80%) Analytics
18 39 (5.80%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 188 (27.98%) C#
2 186 (27.68%) Java
3 164 (24.40%) JavaScript
4 124 (18.45%) SQL
5 96 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 88 (13.10%) PowerShell
7 82 (12.20%) Python
8 52 (7.74%) Bicep
9 24 (3.57%) Scala
10 20 (2.98%) Kotlin
11 17 (2.53%) C++
12 13 (1.93%) VB.NET
13 12 (1.79%) T-SQL
14 10 (1.49%) Go
14 10 (1.49%) PHP
15 9 (1.34%) Swift
16 8 (1.19%) Shell Script
17 7 (1.04%) Ruby
18 6 (0.89%) Rust
19 5 (0.74%) BeanShell
Qualifications
1 61 (9.08%) Security Cleared
2 54 (8.04%) SC Cleared
3 39 (5.80%) Degree
4 18 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.34%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.30%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.15%) OCP
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.27%) Accessibility
2 16 (2.38%) WCAG
3 10 (1.49%) PCI DSS
4 9 (1.34%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.04%) HL7
5 7 (1.04%) QA
6 3 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 2 (0.30%) MiFID
8 1 (0.15%) Basel III
8 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.15%) GDPR
8 1 (0.15%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 70 (10.42%) Active Directory
2 47 (6.99%) Docker
3 7 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.45%) ACF2
4 3 (0.45%) IAG
4 3 (0.45%) RACF
5 1 (0.15%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 46 (6.85%) Kubernetes
2 23 (3.42%) Terraform
3 13 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.89%) Docker Swarm
4 6 (0.89%) Grafana
4 6 (0.89%) Podman
5 5 (0.74%) Ansible
6 4 (0.60%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.30%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.15%) Control-M
8 1 (0.15%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 132 (19.64%) Microsoft
2 25 (3.72%) Oracle
3 23 (3.42%) Google
4 14 (2.08%) ION Trading
5 12 (1.79%) ServiceNow
6 9 (1.34%) Pega
6 9 (1.34%) Solace
6 9 (1.34%) TIBCO
7 8 (1.19%) IBM
8 6 (0.89%) Apple
8 6 (0.89%) SAP
9 5 (0.74%) OutSystems
9 5 (0.74%) Virgin Media
10 3 (0.45%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.45%) NEC
10 3 (0.45%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.45%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.45%) Sybase
11 2 (0.30%) VMware
11 2 (0.30%) Xamarin