Senior Software Developer Contracts

Senior Software Developer
UK

The median Senior Software Developer daily rate in the UK is £538, 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 504 648 726
Rank change year-on-year +144 +78 -60
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 80 49 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.088% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.093% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 37 102
10th Percentile £413 £429 £463
25th Percentile £500 £468 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £634 £631 £698
90th Percentile £800 £780 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £588 £500
% change year-on-year -6.38% +17.50% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £54.85 - -
Median hourly rate £58.91 - -
75th Percentile £62.96 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.91 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Senior Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Developer in the UK

Senior Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Software Developer in the UK

Senior Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Software Developer in the UK

Senior Software Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Software Developer in the UK

Senior Software Developer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Developer within the UK 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
England +124 78 £538 -8.51% 53
London +126 70 £538 -10.42% 8
Work from Home +128 39 £545 -9.17% 36
UK excluding London +19 9 £550 -6.38% 53
South East +15 3 - - 12
North of England +13 2 £475 -13.64% 15
East Midlands - 2 £550 - 1
Midlands - 2 £550 - 11
Yorkshire +14 1 £350 -39.13% 10
North West +12 1 £600 - 3
East of England +5 1 £600 - 1
Wales - 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Senior Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 61 (76.25%) Agile
2 53 (66.25%) Azure
3 51 (63.75%) PowerShell
4 48 (60.00%) C#
4 48 (60.00%) SQL Server
5 46 (57.50%) DevOps
6 43 (53.75%) Microsoft
7 41 (51.25%) Azure DevOps
8 40 (50.00%) CI/CD
8 40 (50.00%) .NET
9 37 (46.25%) XML
9 37 (46.25%) Scrum
10 28 (35.00%) .NET Framework
11 26 (32.50%) Software Engineering
12 22 (27.50%) AngularJS
13 21 (26.25%) SQL
14 19 (23.75%) JavaScript
14 19 (23.75%) Product Ownership
15 16 (20.00%) Public Sector
15 16 (20.00%) Java
15 16 (20.00%) Active Directory
16 14 (17.50%) B2C
16 14 (17.50%) Entra ID
17 13 (16.25%) SpecFlow
17 13 (16.25%) Project Delivery
17 13 (16.25%) Python
18 12 (15.00%) Finance
18 12 (15.00%) Bicep
19 11 (13.75%) AWS
20 10 (12.50%) Front Office

Senior Software 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 8 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.50%) Apache
3 1 (1.25%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Endur
1 1 (1.25%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 53 (66.25%) Azure
2 41 (51.25%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (17.50%) Entra ID
4 11 (13.75%) AWS
5 8 (10.00%) GCP
6 4 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (3.75%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (3.75%) GitHub
7 3 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.50%) dbt
9 1 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.25%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.25%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.25%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.25%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) SAN
1 2 (2.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.25%) Firewall
2 1 (1.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (2.50%) Apache Arrow
2 2 (2.50%) Apache Ignite
2 2 (2.50%) Dremio
3 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (16.25%) SpecFlow
2 2 (2.50%) fastlane
2 2 (2.50%) Git
3 1 (1.25%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.25%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.25%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.25%) LabVIEW
3 1 (1.25%) Selenium
General
1 16 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 12 (15.00%) Finance
3 10 (12.50%) Front Office
3 10 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.00%) Local Government
5 3 (3.75%) Banking
6 2 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.50%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.25%) Back Office
7 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.25%) Law
7 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (50.00%) .NET
2 37 (46.25%) XML
3 28 (35.00%) .NET Framework
4 22 (27.50%) AngularJS
5 10 (12.50%) React
6 9 (11.25%) Pandas
7 8 (10.00%) .NET Core
7 8 (10.00%) ARM Templates
7 8 (10.00%) gRPC
7 8 (10.00%) Protocol Buffers
8 6 (7.50%) Material-UI
8 6 (7.50%) Vue
9 3 (3.75%) Blazor
9 3 (3.75%) NumPy
9 3 (3.75%) Razor View Engine
9 3 (3.75%) SciPy
10 2 (2.50%) CSS
10 2 (2.50%) HTML
10 2 (2.50%) RESTful
10 2 (2.50%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 19 (23.75%) Product Ownership
2 9 (11.25%) Derivative
3 8 (10.00%) Equities
3 8 (10.00%) Fixed Income
3 8 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (8.75%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (6.25%) Contactless
6 3 (3.75%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.50%) Hedge funds
7 2 (2.50%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.25%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.50%) Apple iOS
1 2 (2.50%) Debian
1 2 (2.50%) Linux
1 2 (2.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (76.25%) Agile
2 46 (57.50%) DevOps
3 40 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 37 (46.25%) Scrum
5 26 (32.50%) Software Engineering
6 14 (17.50%) B2C
7 13 (16.25%) Project Delivery
8 9 (11.25%) TDD
9 8 (10.00%) Analytics
9 8 (10.00%) Asset Management
9 8 (10.00%) Database Optimisation
10 7 (8.75%) Content Management
10 7 (8.75%) Design Patterns
11 5 (6.25%) Configuration Management
11 5 (6.25%) SDLC
12 4 (5.00%) BDD
12 4 (5.00%) Prototyping
13 3 (3.75%) Collaborative Working
13 3 (3.75%) Test Automation
13 3 (3.75%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 51 (63.75%) PowerShell
2 48 (60.00%) C#
3 21 (26.25%) SQL
4 19 (23.75%) JavaScript
5 16 (20.00%) Java
6 13 (16.25%) Python
7 12 (15.00%) Bicep
8 9 (11.25%) TypeScript
9 4 (5.00%) C++
9 4 (5.00%) Ruby
10 2 (2.50%) BeanShell
10 2 (2.50%) Scala
10 2 (2.50%) Swift
11 1 (1.25%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.25%) Rust
11 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (7.50%) Degree
1 6 (7.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 43 (53.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.50%) Red Hat
2 2 (2.50%) VMware
3 1 (1.25%) ION Trading
3 1 (1.25%) NEC
3 1 (1.25%) OpenLink
3 1 (1.25%) RedGate
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