Senior Software Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Software Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Software Developer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £545, 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 302 430 587
Rank change year-on-year +128 +157 -112
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 39 27 36
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.11% 0.082%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.12% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 18 27
10th Percentile £443 £448 £410
25th Percentile £500 £506 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +20.00% +13.38%
75th Percentile £800 £728 £577
90th Percentile £830 £830 £699
UK median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.52% - +9.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,801 22,740 41,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,147 30,496
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 528 563
10th Percentile £14.27 £16.98 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +25.00% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.56 £66.05 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Senior Software Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Senior Software Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Software Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Software Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Senior Software Developer.

Senior Software Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Software Developer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Senior Software Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Senior Software Developer in the job title.

1 29 (74.36%) Azure
2 27 (69.23%) Agile
3 23 (58.97%) PowerShell
4 21 (53.85%) SQL Server
5 20 (51.28%) C#
5 20 (51.28%) Microsoft
6 19 (48.72%) DevOps
6 19 (48.72%) CI/CD
7 18 (46.15%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (43.59%) XML
9 16 (41.03%) .NET
9 16 (41.03%) Scrum
9 16 (41.03%) Software Engineering
10 13 (33.33%) JavaScript
11 12 (30.77%) .NET Framework
12 11 (28.21%) Python
13 10 (25.64%) SQL
13 10 (25.64%) Front Office
13 10 (25.64%) Finance
13 10 (25.64%) AngularJS
13 10 (25.64%) AWS
14 9 (23.08%) Derivative
14 9 (23.08%) Pandas
14 9 (23.08%) Java
15 8 (20.51%) Asset Management
15 8 (20.51%) Fixed Income
15 8 (20.51%) Equities
15 8 (20.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 8 (20.51%) Analytics
15 8 (20.51%) Protocol Buffers

Senior Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (20.51%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.13%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 29 (74.36%) Azure
2 18 (46.15%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (25.64%) AWS
4 8 (20.51%) GCP
5 4 (10.26%) Entra ID
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (5.13%) dbt
6 2 (5.13%) GitHub
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) SAN
1 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (53.85%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.13%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (5.13%) Apache Arrow
2 2 (5.13%) Apache Ignite
2 2 (5.13%) Dremio
3 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (20.51%) SpecFlow
2 1 (2.56%) CircleCI
2 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.56%) Selenium
General
1 10 (25.64%) Finance
1 10 (25.64%) Front Office
2 6 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.13%) Banking
3 2 (5.13%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.56%) Law
4 1 (2.56%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (43.59%) XML
2 16 (41.03%) .NET
3 12 (30.77%) .NET Framework
4 10 (25.64%) AngularJS
5 9 (23.08%) Pandas
6 8 (20.51%) gRPC
6 8 (20.51%) Protocol Buffers
7 6 (15.38%) Material-UI
7 6 (15.38%) React
7 6 (15.38%) Vue
8 5 (12.82%) ARM Templates
9 3 (7.69%) NumPy
9 3 (7.69%) SciPy
10 2 (5.13%) .NET Core
11 1 (2.56%) REST
11 1 (2.56%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.08%) Derivative
2 8 (20.51%) Equities
2 8 (20.51%) Fixed Income
2 8 (20.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (12.82%) Contactless
3 5 (12.82%) Product Ownership
4 4 (10.26%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (7.69%) Management Information System
6 2 (5.13%) Hedge funds
6 2 (5.13%) Mobile App
7 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Debian
1 2 (5.13%) Linux
1 2 (5.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (69.23%) Agile
2 19 (48.72%) CI/CD
2 19 (48.72%) DevOps
3 16 (41.03%) Scrum
3 16 (41.03%) Software Engineering
4 8 (20.51%) Analytics
4 8 (20.51%) Asset Management
5 4 (10.26%) B2C
5 4 (10.26%) Content Management
5 4 (10.26%) Database Optimisation
5 4 (10.26%) Design Patterns
5 4 (10.26%) Prototyping
6 3 (7.69%) Project Delivery
6 3 (7.69%) Test Automation
7 2 (5.13%) BDD
7 2 (5.13%) Configuration Management
7 2 (5.13%) Data Architecture
7 2 (5.13%) Investment Management
7 2 (5.13%) Product Management
7 2 (5.13%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (58.97%) PowerShell
2 20 (51.28%) C#
3 13 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 11 (28.21%) Python
5 10 (25.64%) SQL
6 9 (23.08%) Java
7 8 (20.51%) TypeScript
8 7 (17.95%) Bicep
9 2 (5.13%) Ruby
9 2 (5.13%) Scala
10 1 (2.56%) C++
10 1 (2.56%) Kotlin
10 1 (2.56%) Rust
10 1 (2.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) Degree
2 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 3 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 20 (51.28%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.13%) Red Hat
2 2 (5.13%) VMware
3 1 (2.56%) ION Trading
3 1 (2.56%) OpenLink
3 1 (2.56%) RedGate