Senior Developer Contracts in the South East

Senior Developer
England > South East

The median Senior Developer daily rate in the South East is £550, 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 174 178 211
Rank change year-on-year +4 +33 -63
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 26 37 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.45% 0.65% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.69% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 28 33
10th Percentile £453 £403 £414
25th Percentile £463 £443 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £650 £585 £588
90th Percentile £688 £691 £670
England median daily rate £573 £650 £613
% change year-on-year -11.85% +6.12% +11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £54.85 - -
Median hourly rate £58.91 - -
75th Percentile £75.23 - -
90th Percentile £82.59 - -
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
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,301 5,353 7,336
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 94.53% 95.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,132 3,704 5,019
10th Percentile £243 £213 £211
25th Percentile £400 £387 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £601 £594
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 552 234 310
10th Percentile £12.88 £16.33 £12.55
25th Percentile £18.82 £22.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +150.00% -13.93%
75th Percentile £66.74 £66.21 £47.44
90th Percentile £79.88 £75.00 £63.25
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the South East

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in the South East

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in the South East

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in the South East

Senior Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Developer in the South East

Senior Developer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley -4 11 £525 +7.69% 31
Berkshire -13 8 £525 +5.00% 14
Kent - 7 £625 - 5
Hampshire -5 5 £584 -35.08% 17
Buckinghamshire +20 3 £650 +36.84% 9
West Sussex +9 2 £500 -13.79%
Surrey +9 1 - - 9
Senior Developer
England

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

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 South East region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 10 (38.46%) SQL
1 10 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 9 (34.62%) SC Cleared
2 9 (34.62%) Agile
2 9 (34.62%) C#
3 8 (30.77%) Azure
4 6 (23.08%) DevOps
4 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
4 6 (23.08%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 6 (23.08%) Java
4 6 (23.08%) Configuration Management
4 6 (23.08%) Scrum
4 6 (23.08%) JIRA
5 5 (19.23%) Finance
5 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
5 5 (19.23%) .NET
5 5 (19.23%) Python
5 5 (19.23%) Power Platform
5 5 (19.23%) GitLab
5 5 (19.23%) REST
5 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
5 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
6 4 (15.38%) AWS
6 4 (15.38%) Entity Framework
6 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
6 4 (15.38%) GraphQL
6 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (15.38%) Linux
6 4 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (11.54%) Java EE

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (11.54%) SAS
2 2 (7.69%) Apache
3 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) Azure
2 5 (19.23%) Power Platform
3 4 (15.38%) AWS
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Storage
4 2 (7.69%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.85%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (3.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (7.69%) MariaDB
2 2 (7.69%) MySQL
3 1 (3.85%) Apache Hive
3 1 (3.85%) Big Data
3 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.85%) Impala
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) JIRA
2 5 (19.23%) GitLab
3 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
4 3 (11.54%) Cucumber
4 3 (11.54%) Git
4 3 (11.54%) REST Assured
4 3 (11.54%) Selenium
4 3 (11.54%) SonarQube
5 2 (7.69%) VersionOne
6 1 (3.85%) LabVIEW
6 1 (3.85%) Maven
6 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (19.23%) Finance
1 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Law
2 3 (11.54%) Police
3 2 (7.69%) Local Government
3 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Aviation
4 1 (3.85%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) .NET
1 5 (19.23%) REST
2 4 (15.38%) Entity Framework
2 4 (15.38%) GraphQL
3 3 (11.54%) .NET Core
3 3 (11.54%) ARM Templates
3 3 (11.54%) Blazor
3 3 (11.54%) Java EE
3 3 (11.54%) Kafka
3 3 (11.54%) Razor View Engine
4 2 (7.69%) .NET Framework
4 2 (7.69%) CSS
4 2 (7.69%) HTML
4 2 (7.69%) LAMP
4 2 (7.69%) LDAP
4 2 (7.69%) React
4 2 (7.69%) Redux
4 2 (7.69%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.85%) JWT
5 1 (3.85%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Credit Risk
2 2 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (7.69%) NHS
3 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Agile
2 6 (23.08%) Configuration Management
2 6 (23.08%) DevOps
2 6 (23.08%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 6 (23.08%) Scrum
3 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
4 4 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (11.54%) Analytics
5 3 (11.54%) Coaching
5 3 (11.54%) Containerisation
5 3 (11.54%) Decision-Making
5 3 (11.54%) Impact Assessments
5 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (11.54%) Software Architecture
5 3 (11.54%) Software Engineering
5 3 (11.54%) SysML
5 3 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (11.54%) Unit Testing
5 3 (11.54%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) SQL
2 9 (34.62%) C#
3 6 (23.08%) Java
4 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
4 5 (19.23%) Python
5 3 (11.54%) C++
5 3 (11.54%) R
5 3 (11.54%) Scala
6 2 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (7.69%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 9 (34.62%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.54%) Ansible
2 3 (11.54%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (11.54%) Podman
2 3 (11.54%) Terraform
3 1 (3.85%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
1 1 (3.85%) Pega