Senior Developer Contracts in the Midlands

Senior Developer
England > Midlands

The median Senior Developer daily rate in the Midlands is £450, 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 114 132 172
Rank change year-on-year +18 +40 -29
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 27 26 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.92% 0.81% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 0.85% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 19 19
10th Percentile - £378 £375
25th Percentile £259 £435 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £538 £450
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +19.44% +2.86%
75th Percentile £525 £594 £552
90th Percentile £575 £648 £602
England median daily rate £573 £650 £613
% change year-on-year -11.85% +6.12% +11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £56.25 - -
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
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 2,719 3,042 4,799
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.23% 94.50% 95.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,809 2,147 3,499
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £338 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +1.05% +15.85%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £569
90th Percentile £675 £692 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 113 146
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.50 £11.63
25th Percentile £14.09 £15.00 £14.67
Median hourly rate £19.00 £20.71 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.23% +13.45% +21.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £51.91 £65.00 £35.00
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 Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the Midlands

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in the Midlands

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in the Midlands

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in the Midlands

Senior Developer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +28 22 £355 -35.50% 51
East Midlands -1 4 £513 +2.50% 17
Senior Developer
England

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

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 Midlands region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 9 (33.33%) SQL
2 7 (25.93%) HL7
2 7 (25.93%) Rational Rhapsody
2 7 (25.93%) AngularJS
2 7 (25.93%) React
3 6 (22.22%) Agile
3 6 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 5 (18.52%) JavaScript
4 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
4 5 (18.52%) OutSystems
5 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
5 4 (14.81%) Finance
5 4 (14.81%) HTML
5 4 (14.81%) CSS
5 4 (14.81%) Azure
5 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
6 3 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (11.11%) HTML5
6 3 (11.11%) TDD
6 3 (11.11%) CRM
6 3 (11.11%) Java
6 3 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
6 3 (11.11%) Serverless
6 3 (11.11%) Vue
6 3 (11.11%) API Integration
6 3 (11.11%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 3 (11.11%) DevOps
6 3 (11.11%) Microservices
6 3 (11.11%) BDD
6 3 (11.11%) REST

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.81%) Azure
2 3 (11.11%) Serverless
3 2 (7.41%) Apigee
3 2 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (7.41%) Azure Functions
3 2 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (7.41%) GCP
3 2 (7.41%) Power Automate
3 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
3 2 (7.41%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) SAN
1 2 (7.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (7.41%) Power BI
1 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
1 2 (7.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Rational Rhapsody
2 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.70%) Android Studio
3 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.70%) JUnit
3 1 (3.70%) Xcode
General
1 4 (14.81%) Finance
1 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.70%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.93%) AngularJS
1 7 (25.93%) React
2 4 (14.81%) CSS
2 4 (14.81%) HTML
3 3 (11.11%) HTML5
3 3 (11.11%) REST
3 3 (11.11%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 3 (11.11%) Vue
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (7.41%) Node.js
4 2 (7.41%) Spring
5 1 (3.70%) .NET
5 1 (3.70%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (3.70%) Apollo GraphQL
5 1 (3.70%) GraphQL
5 1 (3.70%) iOS SDK
5 1 (3.70%) Jetpack Compose
5 1 (3.70%) Kafka
5 1 (3.70%) NestJS
5 1 (3.70%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Low-Code
1 2 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.70%) Online Banking
2 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Debian
1 2 (7.41%) Linux
1 2 (7.41%) Ubuntu
2 1 (3.70%) Android
2 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (22.22%) Agile
1 6 (22.22%) Software Engineering
2 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
3 3 (11.11%) API Integration
3 3 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (11.11%) BDD
3 3 (11.11%) CRM
3 3 (11.11%) DevOps
3 3 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
3 3 (11.11%) Microservices
3 3 (11.11%) TDD
4 2 (7.41%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (7.41%) Configuration Management
4 2 (7.41%) Data Engineering
4 2 (7.41%) Data Modelling
4 2 (7.41%) ETL
4 2 (7.41%) ITIL
4 2 (7.41%) Matrix Organization
4 2 (7.41%) Prototyping
4 2 (7.41%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) SQL
2 5 (18.52%) JavaScript
3 3 (11.11%) Java
4 2 (7.41%) Python
4 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.70%) C#
5 1 (3.70%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
1 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
1 2 (7.41%) Master's Degree
1 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.93%) HL7
2 2 (7.41%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
1 5 (18.52%) OutSystems
2 2 (7.41%) Red Hat
2 2 (7.41%) VMware
3 1 (3.70%) JDA
3 1 (3.70%) Pega