Senior Developer Contracts

Senior Developer
UK

The median Senior Developer daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 135 123
Rank change year-on-year 0 -12 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 728 1,089 1,874
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.69% 1.94% 2.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.82% 2.05% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 832 1,439
10th Percentile £408 £450 £450
25th Percentile £463 £518 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £726 £775 £713
90th Percentile £863 £875 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £553 £525
% change year-on-year -14.03% +5.24% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 13
10th Percentile £36.50 £60.50 £38.50
25th Percentile £43.71 £61.25 £61.81
Median hourly rate £58.91 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% -10.71% +105.88%
75th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.85 £78.00 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.91 £62.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -5.75% -16.67% +120.59%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the UK

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in the UK

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in the UK

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in the UK

Senior Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Developer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Developer in the UK

Senior Developer
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England -4 639 £555 -14.62% 485
London +7 500 £600 -11.11% 198
Work from Home +7 309 £575 -4.17% 284
UK excluding London -3 160 £475 -14.03% 314
North of England +12 48 £475 -16.67% 94
North West +20 30 £475 -17.39% 59
Scotland +19 30 £475 -24.00% 26
South West +2 27 £475 -20.83% 38
Midlands +17 21 £424 -21.16% 59
South East -5 21 £625 +19.62% 62
Yorkshire +9 18 £463 -18.86% 28
West Midlands +17 16 £259 -52.91% 43
Wales +24 7 £583 +37.06% 10
East of England +3 5 £600 +10.91% 26
East Midlands +4 4 £513 +2.50% 16
Northern Ireland 0 1 £550 - 5

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 280 (38.46%) Agile
2 216 (29.67%) Java
3 201 (27.61%) Azure
4 187 (25.69%) C#
4 187 (25.69%) DevOps
5 167 (22.94%) JavaScript
6 163 (22.39%) .NET
7 159 (21.84%) CI/CD
8 153 (21.02%) Finance
9 152 (20.88%) React
10 144 (19.78%) SQL Server
11 133 (18.27%) SQL
12 132 (18.13%) Microsoft
13 126 (17.31%) Social Skills
14 117 (16.07%) Azure DevOps
15 116 (15.93%) TDD
16 109 (14.97%) AWS
17 101 (13.87%) TypeScript
18 99 (13.60%) Software Engineering
19 95 (13.05%) Scrum
19 95 (13.05%) HTML
20 91 (12.50%) PowerShell
21 87 (11.95%) Python
22 86 (11.81%) XML
23 81 (11.13%) CSS
24 80 (10.99%) Front End Development
25 78 (10.71%) Microservices
26 76 (10.44%) Active Directory
27 68 (9.34%) Public Sector
28 65 (8.93%) Banking

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 18 (2.47%) CMS
2 11 (1.51%) Confluence
3 10 (1.37%) Apache
3 10 (1.37%) SAS
4 9 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.82%) Appian
5 6 (0.82%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.69%) WordPress
7 3 (0.41%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.41%) ThingWorx
7 3 (0.41%) WildFly
8 2 (0.27%) CICS
8 2 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.27%) IIS
8 2 (0.27%) Mule
9 1 (0.14%) GemFire
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Elementor
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.82%) Endur
3 4 (0.55%) RMDS
4 3 (0.41%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.27%) Magento
5 2 (0.27%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.27%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.27%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.14%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.14%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 201 (27.61%) Azure
2 117 (16.07%) Azure DevOps
3 109 (14.97%) AWS
4 47 (6.46%) Azure Service Bus
4 47 (6.46%) Entra ID
5 41 (5.63%) GCP
6 40 (5.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 38 (5.22%) Serverless
8 34 (4.67%) GitHub
9 22 (3.02%) Power Platform
10 20 (2.75%) Azure Monitor
11 17 (2.34%) Amazon S3
11 17 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (1.92%) PaaS
13 13 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (1.51%) Azure Pipelines
14 11 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
15 9 (1.24%) dbt
15 9 (1.24%) Microsoft 365
15 9 (1.24%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.41%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.27%) DNS
2 2 (0.27%) HTTP
2 2 (0.27%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (0.27%) SAN
2 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.14%) Firewall
3 1 (0.14%) Internet
3 1 (0.14%) Multicast
3 1 (0.14%) SNMP
3 1 (0.14%) SSH
3 1 (0.14%) SSL
3 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (19.78%) SQL Server
2 31 (4.26%) KDB
3 28 (3.85%) MongoDB
3 28 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 23 (3.16%) Relational Database
5 19 (2.61%) Redis
6 15 (2.06%) MySQL
7 13 (1.79%) Oracle Database
7 13 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
7 13 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (1.24%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.10%) Power BI
10 7 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.82%) Big Data
11 6 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (0.55%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.55%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 64 (8.79%) Git
2 38 (5.22%) Jenkins
3 31 (4.26%) Mockito
4 26 (3.57%) JIRA
5 23 (3.16%) GitLab
6 22 (3.02%) JUnit
7 19 (2.61%) Cucumber
8 13 (1.79%) Postman
8 13 (1.79%) SpecFlow
9 10 (1.37%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.96%) Rational Rhapsody
11 6 (0.82%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.82%) Maven
11 6 (0.82%) TeamCity
12 5 (0.69%) Selenium
12 5 (0.69%) Storybook
13 4 (0.55%) Pylint
13 4 (0.55%) Sourcetree
13 4 (0.55%) Subversion
14 3 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 153 (21.02%) Finance
2 126 (17.31%) Social Skills
3 68 (9.34%) Public Sector
4 65 (8.93%) Banking
5 49 (6.73%) Front Office
6 44 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (2.06%) Back Office
8 14 (1.92%) Financial Institution
9 13 (1.79%) Investment Banking
9 13 (1.79%) Local Government
10 9 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (0.96%) Retail
12 5 (0.69%) Law
12 5 (0.69%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.55%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.41%) Automotive
14 3 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.41%) Police
15 2 (0.27%) Advertising
15 2 (0.27%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (22.39%) .NET
2 152 (20.88%) React
3 95 (13.05%) HTML
4 86 (11.81%) XML
5 81 (11.13%) CSS
6 65 (8.93%) AngularJS
7 60 (8.24%) .NET Core
8 56 (7.69%) Node.js
9 52 (7.14%) Spring Boot
10 50 (6.87%) REST
11 48 (6.59%) Spring
12 43 (5.91%) .NET Framework
13 40 (5.49%) ASP.NET
13 40 (5.49%) RESTful
14 39 (5.36%) Web Services
15 35 (4.81%) Kafka
16 31 (4.26%) Vue
17 18 (2.47%) jQuery
17 18 (2.47%) Next.js
17 18 (2.47%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 46 (6.32%) Product Ownership
2 42 (5.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 36 (4.95%) Fixed Income
4 31 (4.26%) Derivative
4 31 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (2.47%) Algorithms
5 18 (2.47%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.20%) Credit Derivative
6 16 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (1.79%) Equities
8 13 (1.79%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.65%) Mobile App
9 12 (1.65%) Renewable Energy
10 10 (1.37%) Cloud Native
10 10 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
11 9 (1.24%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.10%) Market Risk
13 7 (0.96%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 50 (6.87%) Linux
2 24 (3.30%) Unix
3 19 (2.61%) Android
4 15 (2.06%) Mac OS X
5 14 (1.92%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.96%) Windows
7 2 (0.27%) Debian
7 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.27%) zOS
8 1 (0.14%) CentOS
8 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.14%) OpenVMS
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.14%) VMS
8 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (38.46%) Agile
2 187 (25.69%) DevOps
3 159 (21.84%) CI/CD
4 116 (15.93%) TDD
5 99 (13.60%) Software Engineering
6 95 (13.05%) Scrum
7 80 (10.99%) Front End Development
8 78 (10.71%) Microservices
9 64 (8.79%) Test Automation
10 60 (8.24%) Problem-Solving
11 57 (7.83%) OO
12 56 (7.69%) Full Stack Development
13 53 (7.28%) SDLC
14 49 (6.73%) Continuous Integration
15 43 (5.91%) Electronic Trading
16 41 (5.63%) B2C
16 41 (5.63%) Design Patterns
17 40 (5.49%) User Experience
17 40 (5.49%) Web Development
18 39 (5.36%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 216 (29.67%) Java
2 187 (25.69%) C#
3 167 (22.94%) JavaScript
4 133 (18.27%) SQL
5 101 (13.87%) TypeScript
6 91 (12.50%) PowerShell
7 87 (11.95%) Python
8 52 (7.14%) Bicep
9 24 (3.30%) Kotlin
10 22 (3.02%) Scala
11 20 (2.75%) C++
12 10 (1.37%) Go
12 10 (1.37%) PHP
12 10 (1.37%) Ruby
12 10 (1.37%) Swift
12 10 (1.37%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.96%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.82%) Rust
14 6 (0.82%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.82%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 64 (8.79%) Security Cleared
2 55 (7.55%) SC Cleared
3 44 (6.04%) Degree
4 21 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.24%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.41%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.14%) OCP
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.43%) Accessibility
2 18 (2.47%) WCAG
3 11 (1.51%) PCI DSS
4 8 (1.10%) QA
5 7 (0.96%) HL7
6 6 (0.82%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 2 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.27%) MiFID
9 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.14%) GDPR
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 76 (10.44%) Active Directory
2 53 (7.28%) Docker
3 8 (1.10%) ACF2
3 8 (1.10%) IAG
3 8 (1.10%) RACF
3 8 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.14%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 44 (6.04%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.61%) Terraform
3 15 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.82%) Docker Swarm
4 6 (0.82%) Grafana
4 6 (0.82%) Podman
5 5 (0.69%) Ansible
6 4 (0.55%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.27%) CA Endevor
7 2 (0.27%) CloudHub
7 2 (0.27%) Kibana
8 1 (0.14%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.14%) SCCM
8 1 (0.14%) TADDM
8 1 (0.14%) WMI
Vendors
1 132 (18.13%) Microsoft
2 40 (5.49%) Oracle
3 24 (3.30%) Google
4 19 (2.61%) ServiceNow
5 14 (1.92%) ION Trading
6 12 (1.65%) IBM
7 9 (1.24%) Solace
7 9 (1.24%) TIBCO
8 8 (1.10%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.10%) Sybase
9 6 (0.82%) Apple
9 6 (0.82%) Virgin Media
10 5 (0.69%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.69%) SAP
11 3 (0.41%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.41%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.41%) RedGate
12 2 (0.27%) OpenLink
12 2 (0.27%) QNX
12 2 (0.27%) Tradeweb