Senior Developer Contracts in London

Senior Developer
England > London

The median Senior Developer daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 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
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 83 88
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 517 726 1,209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.92% 2.89% 3.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.12% 3.04% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 573 994
10th Percentile £413 £475 £463
25th Percentile £500 £550 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.54%
75th Percentile £800 £800 £750
90th Percentile £875 £900 £829
England median daily rate £550 £650 £613
% change year-on-year -15.38% +6.12% +11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £62.04 £61.50 -
25th Percentile £62.95 £63.75 -
Median hourly rate £65.72 £67.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% +92.86% -
75th Percentile £69.73 £71.25 -
90th Percentile £71.39 £73.50 -
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
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,910 36,706
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.68% 95.07% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,933 17,446 27,028
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £676 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 279 404
10th Percentile £15.98 £17.88 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.12 £22.57 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.49 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.70 £80.45 £67.50
England median hourly rate £38.50 £44.53 £24.00
% change year-on-year -13.54% +85.54% +14.01%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in London

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in London

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in London over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in London

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in London

Senior Developer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 11 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
Central London -6 54 £525 -22.22% 26
East London -2 17 £538 -43.42% 2
West London +18 10 £340 -45.60% 6
South London +9 7 £500 -44.44% 3
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 London region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 225 (43.52%) Agile
2 176 (34.04%) Azure
3 166 (32.11%) C#
4 165 (31.91%) DevOps
5 160 (30.95%) Java
6 147 (28.43%) CI/CD
7 139 (26.89%) .NET
8 136 (26.31%) Finance
9 135 (26.11%) JavaScript
10 130 (25.15%) SQL Server
11 115 (22.24%) Microsoft
12 110 (21.28%) Azure DevOps
13 106 (20.50%) React
14 98 (18.96%) TDD
15 96 (18.57%) SQL
16 89 (17.21%) Software Engineering
16 89 (17.21%) Social Skills
17 87 (16.83%) PowerShell
18 83 (16.05%) AWS
19 81 (15.67%) Scrum
20 80 (15.47%) TypeScript
21 74 (14.31%) HTML
22 72 (13.93%) XML
23 70 (13.54%) Python
24 69 (13.35%) Active Directory
25 62 (11.99%) Banking
26 60 (11.61%) CSS
27 59 (11.41%) Git
28 56 (10.83%) AngularJS
28 56 (10.83%) Front End Development

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 16 (3.09%) CMS
2 11 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.55%) SAS
4 7 (1.35%) Apache
5 6 (1.16%) Appian
5 6 (1.16%) Confluence
6 5 (0.97%) WordPress
7 3 (0.58%) WildFly
8 2 (0.39%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.39%) CICS
8 2 (0.39%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.19%) GemFire
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.19%) Elementor
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (2.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.16%) Endur
3 4 (0.77%) RMDS
4 3 (0.58%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.39%) Magento
5 2 (0.39%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.39%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.39%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle iProcurement
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.19%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 176 (34.04%) Azure
2 110 (21.28%) Azure DevOps
3 83 (16.05%) AWS
4 47 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 46 (8.90%) Azure Service Bus
6 41 (7.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 34 (6.58%) GCP
8 22 (4.26%) Serverless
9 21 (4.06%) GitHub
10 20 (3.87%) Azure Monitor
11 17 (3.29%) Amazon S3
12 15 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (2.51%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (2.32%) PaaS
15 11 (2.13%) Azure Pipelines
16 10 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
17 9 (1.74%) dbt
18 7 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
18 7 (1.35%) Amazon SQS
19 6 (1.16%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.58%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.39%) DNS
2 2 (0.39%) Internet
3 1 (0.19%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (25.15%) SQL Server
2 32 (6.19%) KDB
3 27 (5.22%) NoSQL
4 25 (4.84%) MongoDB
5 19 (3.68%) Relational Database
6 18 (3.48%) Redis
7 12 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (1.55%) DynamoDB
10 7 (1.35%) Oracle Database
11 6 (1.16%) MySQL
11 6 (1.16%) Power BI
12 5 (0.97%) Big Data
12 5 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (0.58%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.58%) DB2
14 3 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 59 (11.41%) Git
2 29 (5.61%) Jenkins
3 27 (5.22%) Mockito
4 14 (2.71%) JUnit
5 12 (2.32%) Cucumber
5 12 (2.32%) GitLab
5 12 (2.32%) SpecFlow
6 11 (2.13%) JIRA
6 11 (2.13%) Postman
7 7 (1.35%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.35%) Visual Studio
7 7 (1.35%) Visual Studio Team System
8 6 (1.16%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.97%) Maven
10 4 (0.77%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.77%) Pylint
10 4 (0.77%) Sourcetree
11 3 (0.58%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.39%) Babel
12 2 (0.39%) Gatling
General
1 136 (26.31%) Finance
2 89 (17.21%) Social Skills
3 62 (11.99%) Banking
4 53 (10.25%) Front Office
5 48 (9.28%) Public Sector
6 30 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (2.90%) Back Office
8 13 (2.51%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.13%) Local Government
10 9 (1.74%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.77%) Retail
13 3 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.58%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.39%) Advertising
14 2 (0.39%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.39%) Law
15 1 (0.19%) Automotive
15 1 (0.19%) Games
15 1 (0.19%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (26.89%) .NET
2 106 (20.50%) React
3 74 (14.31%) HTML
4 72 (13.93%) XML
5 60 (11.61%) CSS
6 56 (10.83%) AngularJS
7 52 (10.06%) .NET Core
8 43 (8.32%) ASP.NET
9 41 (7.93%) .NET Framework
10 31 (6.00%) Node.js
11 27 (5.22%) Spring Boot
12 26 (5.03%) REST
12 26 (5.03%) RESTful
13 24 (4.64%) Spring
14 23 (4.45%) Kafka
14 23 (4.45%) Web Services
15 19 (3.68%) Vue
16 18 (3.48%) Pandas
17 17 (3.29%) jQuery
18 15 (2.90%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 37 (7.16%) Fixed Income
2 37 (7.16%) Product Ownership
3 29 (5.61%) Derivative
4 27 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.90%) Algorithms
6 13 (2.51%) Credit Derivative
6 13 (2.51%) Equities
6 13 (2.51%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (2.32%) Renewable Energy
7 12 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.13%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.35%) Market Risk
11 6 (1.16%) Contactless
11 6 (1.16%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.16%) Mobile App
12 5 (0.97%) Hedge funds
12 5 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 40 (7.74%) Linux
2 22 (4.26%) Unix
3 14 (2.71%) Mac OS X
4 12 (2.32%) Android
5 11 (2.13%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.16%) Windows
7 2 (0.39%) zOS
8 1 (0.19%) CentOS
8 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (43.52%) Agile
2 165 (31.91%) DevOps
3 147 (28.43%) CI/CD
4 98 (18.96%) TDD
5 89 (17.21%) Software Engineering
6 81 (15.67%) Scrum
7 56 (10.83%) Front End Development
8 51 (9.86%) OO
9 50 (9.67%) Microservices
10 49 (9.48%) Test Automation
11 46 (8.90%) SDLC
12 43 (8.32%) Electronic Trading
13 40 (7.74%) B2C
13 40 (7.74%) Continuous Integration
14 36 (6.96%) Problem-Solving
15 35 (6.77%) Web Development
16 34 (6.58%) Clean Code
16 34 (6.58%) Design Patterns
17 33 (6.38%) BDD
18 31 (6.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 166 (32.11%) C#
2 160 (30.95%) Java
3 135 (26.11%) JavaScript
4 96 (18.57%) SQL
5 87 (16.83%) PowerShell
6 80 (15.47%) TypeScript
7 70 (13.54%) Python
8 52 (10.06%) Bicep
9 18 (3.48%) Scala
10 14 (2.71%) C++
10 14 (2.71%) Kotlin
11 12 (2.32%) T-SQL
12 11 (2.13%) VB.NET
13 9 (1.74%) Go
14 8 (1.55%) PHP
14 8 (1.55%) Shell Script
14 8 (1.55%) Swift
15 7 (1.35%) Ruby
16 6 (1.16%) Rust
17 5 (0.97%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 38 (7.35%) Security Cleared
2 35 (6.77%) SC Cleared
3 30 (5.80%) Degree
4 13 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (0.97%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.19%) OCP
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.48%) Accessibility
2 15 (2.90%) WCAG
3 10 (1.93%) PCI DSS
4 8 (1.55%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.39%) MiFID
5 2 (0.39%) QA
6 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.19%) GDPR
6 1 (0.19%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.19%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 69 (13.35%) Active Directory
2 42 (8.12%) Docker
3 7 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.39%) ACF2
4 2 (0.39%) IAG
4 2 (0.39%) RACF
5 1 (0.19%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 34 (6.58%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.90%) Terraform
3 11 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.97%) Grafana
5 4 (0.77%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.58%) Podman
7 2 (0.39%) Ansible
7 2 (0.39%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 115 (22.24%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.45%) Oracle
3 19 (3.68%) Google
4 14 (2.71%) ION Trading
5 9 (1.74%) Solace
5 9 (1.74%) TIBCO
6 8 (1.55%) IBM
7 6 (1.16%) Apple
8 5 (0.97%) SAP
8 5 (0.97%) Virgin Media
9 4 (0.77%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.58%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.39%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.39%) Murex
11 2 (0.39%) NEC
11 2 (0.39%) OpenLink
11 2 (0.39%) Sybase
11 2 (0.39%) Tradeweb
11 2 (0.39%) Workday
11 2 (0.39%) Xamarin