Senior Contracts in England

Senior
UK > England

The median Senior daily rate in England is £560 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 20 19
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 3,074 3,953 5,780
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.44% 8.20% 8.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.10% 8.67% 8.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,059 2,911 4,265
10th Percentile £400 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +4.35% +6.48%
75th Percentile £675 £712 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £557 £595 £575
% change year-on-year -6.39% +3.48% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 87 95
10th Percentile £20.02 £17.72 £20.25
25th Percentile £32.00 £33.09 £25.68
Median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £43.36
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +3.79% +31.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.87 £77.43
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £43.36
% change year-on-year -4.76% +21.09% +31.98%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,787 45,579 67,163
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.59% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,417 32,381 47,891
10th Percentile £284 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.36%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,334 1,845
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +6.38%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in England

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in England

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in England

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in England

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in England

Senior
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
London +1 1,820 £600 -4.00% 1,985
South East +11 436 £525 +5.00% 868
North of England +3 344 £513 -8.07% 587
North West +8 252 £520 -0.95% 343
South West -3 149 £500 -16.67% 308
Midlands +7 135 £500 -7.41% 410
West Midlands +13 109 £494 -10.23% 285
East of England -13 92 £534 -10.06% 307
Yorkshire -11 86 £520 -9.57% 186
East Midlands -10 23 £525 - 126
North East +3 19 £600 -7.69% 64
Senior
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Senior 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 England region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 855 (27.81%) Agile
2 687 (22.35%) Finance
3 633 (20.59%) Social Skills
4 525 (17.08%) Azure
5 489 (15.91%) Security Cleared
6 477 (15.52%) DevOps
7 440 (14.31%) AWS
8 431 (14.02%) Python
9 390 (12.69%) Microsoft
10 375 (12.20%) Public Sector
11 370 (12.04%) Java
12 363 (11.81%) SQL
13 358 (11.65%) Software Engineering
14 345 (11.22%) CI/CD
15 314 (10.21%) SC Cleared
16 297 (9.66%) C#
17 293 (9.53%) Problem-Solving
18 264 (8.59%) Stakeholder Management
19 250 (8.13%) Degree
20 249 (8.10%) Banking
21 246 (8.00%) JavaScript
22 226 (7.35%) .NET
23 224 (7.29%) Project Management
24 215 (6.99%) Scrum
25 208 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
26 202 (6.57%) Migration
27 197 (6.41%) Windows
28 196 (6.38%) React
29 194 (6.31%) SQL Server
30 193 (6.28%) Active Directory

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 53 (1.72%) Confluence
2 50 (1.63%) Apache
3 49 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
4 42 (1.37%) SharePoint
5 37 (1.20%) CMS
6 31 (1.01%) Apache Spark
7 30 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
8 17 (0.55%) SAS
9 7 (0.23%) Documentum
9 7 (0.23%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.20%) Appian
10 6 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.20%) Skype for Business
10 6 (0.20%) WordPress
11 4 (0.13%) nginx
12 3 (0.098%) ThingWorx
13 2 (0.065%) CICS
13 2 (0.065%) Drupal
13 2 (0.065%) GemFire
13 2 (0.065%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 58 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
4 18 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.49%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
6 11 (0.36%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.29%) Revit
8 8 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 8 (0.26%) InDesign
8 8 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.20%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
10 4 (0.13%) InVision
10 4 (0.13%) SPSS
10 4 (0.13%) Windchill
11 3 (0.098%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.098%) Sketch
12 2 (0.065%) Simulink
12 2 (0.065%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 43 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.59%) Primavera
4 14 (0.46%) Endur
4 14 (0.46%) NEC Housing
5 12 (0.39%) Teamcenter
6 8 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.23%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.23%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
7 7 (0.23%) SAP SD
8 5 (0.16%) Shopify
8 5 (0.16%) SimCorp Dimension
9 4 (0.13%) OPENHousing
9 4 (0.13%) RMDS
10 3 (0.098%) ION MarketView
10 3 (0.098%) SAP EWM
11 2 (0.065%) Payment Gateway
11 2 (0.065%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 525 (17.08%) Azure
2 440 (14.31%) AWS
3 185 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
4 112 (3.64%) GCP
5 104 (3.38%) Power Platform
6 91 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
7 80 (2.60%) Serverless
8 73 (2.37%) Entra ID
9 65 (2.11%) GitHub
10 62 (2.02%) SaaS
11 59 (1.92%) Snowflake
12 55 (1.79%) Azure Service Bus
13 53 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
14 48 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 47 (1.53%) dbt
16 46 (1.50%) PaaS
17 36 (1.17%) Amazon S3
17 36 (1.17%) IaaS
18 32 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
19 31 (1.01%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 141 (4.59%) Firewall
2 60 (1.95%) Network Security
3 57 (1.85%) DNS
4 52 (1.69%) WAN
5 46 (1.50%) LAN
6 37 (1.20%) BGP
7 36 (1.17%) DHCP
8 31 (1.01%) VPN
9 28 (0.91%) DMZ
10 25 (0.81%) MPLS
11 24 (0.78%) Internet
11 24 (0.78%) OSPF
12 20 (0.65%) SAN
13 19 (0.62%) IPsec
13 19 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
13 19 (0.62%) Wireless
14 18 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
14 18 (0.59%) Cisco Firepower
14 18 (0.59%) TCP/IP
15 17 (0.55%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (6.31%) SQL Server
2 87 (2.83%) Power BI
3 64 (2.08%) NoSQL
4 60 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
5 57 (1.85%) Data Lake
6 48 (1.56%) MongoDB
7 45 (1.46%) Apache Cassandra
8 43 (1.40%) Relational Database
9 36 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
10 35 (1.14%) Big Data
11 30 (0.98%) Apache Arrow
11 30 (0.98%) Apache Ignite
11 30 (0.98%) Dremio
11 30 (0.98%) KDB
11 30 (0.98%) Tableau
12 26 (0.85%) Oracle Database
13 22 (0.72%) DynamoDB
13 22 (0.72%) MySQL
13 22 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
14 21 (0.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 153 (4.98%) Git
2 122 (3.97%) JIRA
3 107 (3.48%) Jenkins
4 49 (1.59%) GitLab
4 49 (1.59%) Selenium
5 41 (1.33%) Postman
6 36 (1.17%) Cucumber
7 33 (1.07%) SpecFlow
8 32 (1.04%) Cypress.io
9 30 (0.98%) Mockito
10 27 (0.88%) Visual Studio
11 25 (0.81%) JUnit
12 23 (0.75%) Bitbucket
13 22 (0.72%) TeamCity
14 20 (0.65%) WebDriver
15 17 (0.55%) JMeter
16 12 (0.39%) Artifactory
16 12 (0.39%) CircleCI
16 12 (0.39%) git-flow
17 11 (0.36%) SonarQube
General
1 687 (22.35%) Finance
2 633 (20.59%) Social Skills
3 375 (12.20%) Public Sector
4 249 (8.10%) Banking
5 208 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
6 123 (4.00%) Front Office
7 93 (3.03%) Marketing
8 88 (2.86%) Back Office
9 74 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
10 71 (2.31%) Investment Banking
10 71 (2.31%) Telecoms
11 64 (2.08%) Local Government
12 61 (1.98%) Retail
13 58 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 50 (1.63%) Manufacturing
15 45 (1.46%) Legal
16 42 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
17 37 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
18 36 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
19 24 (0.78%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (7.35%) .NET
2 196 (6.38%) React
3 112 (3.64%) XML
4 106 (3.45%) CSS
5 104 (3.38%) AngularJS
5 104 (3.38%) Node.js
6 103 (3.35%) HTML
7 97 (3.16%) Kafka
8 86 (2.80%) REST
9 75 (2.44%) .NET Core
10 63 (2.05%) Pandas
11 59 (1.92%) .NET Framework
11 59 (1.92%) RESTful
12 57 (1.85%) Spring Boot
13 56 (1.82%) Spring
14 52 (1.69%) NumPy
15 47 (1.53%) Web Services
16 46 (1.50%) SciPy
17 44 (1.43%) ASP.NET
18 42 (1.37%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 145 (4.72%) Product Ownership
2 90 (2.93%) Derivative
3 83 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 77 (2.50%) Fixed Income
5 68 (2.21%) Management Information System
6 63 (2.05%) Hedge funds
7 62 (2.02%) Data Centre
8 60 (1.95%) Onboarding
9 56 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
9 56 (1.82%) Mobile App
10 48 (1.56%) Algorithms
10 48 (1.56%) Equities
11 45 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
12 39 (1.27%) Data Structures
13 38 (1.24%) NHS
14 34 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
14 34 (1.11%) Public Cloud
15 33 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
16 27 (0.88%) Cloud Native
17 21 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 197 (6.41%) Windows
2 164 (5.34%) Linux
3 62 (2.02%) Unix
4 56 (1.82%) Windows Server
5 51 (1.66%) Android
6 49 (1.59%) Windows 10
7 45 (1.46%) Apple iOS
8 20 (0.65%) Mac OS X
9 13 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 12 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
11 11 (0.36%) Mac OS
12 10 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 7 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
14 6 (0.20%) Ubuntu
15 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
16 4 (0.13%) Solaris
17 3 (0.098%) VMS
17 3 (0.098%) Windows 7
18 2 (0.065%) Windows Server 2008
18 2 (0.065%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 855 (27.81%) Agile
2 477 (15.52%) DevOps
3 358 (11.65%) Software Engineering
4 345 (11.22%) CI/CD
5 293 (9.53%) Problem-Solving
6 264 (8.59%) Stakeholder Management
7 224 (7.29%) Project Management
8 215 (6.99%) Scrum
9 202 (6.57%) Migration
10 189 (6.15%) Test Automation
11 179 (5.82%) Analytics
12 177 (5.76%) User Experience
13 160 (5.20%) TDD
14 159 (5.17%) Project Delivery
15 157 (5.11%) Mentoring
16 149 (4.85%) Microservices
17 147 (4.78%) Business Intelligence
18 145 (4.72%) Roadmaps
19 143 (4.65%) SDLC
20 142 (4.62%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 431 (14.02%) Python
2 370 (12.04%) Java
3 363 (11.81%) SQL
4 297 (9.66%) C#
5 246 (8.00%) JavaScript
6 187 (6.08%) TypeScript
7 175 (5.69%) PowerShell
8 79 (2.57%) Go
9 61 (1.98%) Bicep
10 56 (1.82%) C++
11 48 (1.56%) Bash
12 46 (1.50%) Kotlin
13 43 (1.40%) Scala
14 38 (1.24%) C
15 21 (0.68%) Perl
16 17 (0.55%) Rust
16 17 (0.55%) Swift
17 13 (0.42%) PHP
18 11 (0.36%) R
18 11 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 489 (15.91%) Security Cleared
2 314 (10.21%) SC Cleared
3 250 (8.13%) Degree
4 126 (4.10%) DV Cleared
5 83 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
6 52 (1.69%) Master's Degree
7 48 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (1.17%) CCNP
8 36 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
9 35 (1.14%) CCNA
10 32 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
11 26 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (0.62%) AWS Certification
12 19 (0.62%) Azure Certification
12 19 (0.62%) PMI Certification
13 17 (0.55%) CISSP
14 16 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 15 (0.49%) PMP
16 11 (0.36%) PhD
17 9 (0.29%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (2.41%) Data Quality
2 72 (2.34%) QA
3 62 (2.02%) Accessibility
4 59 (1.92%) PMO
5 46 (1.50%) PCI DSS
6 37 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 36 (1.17%) GDPR
8 31 (1.01%) NIST
9 25 (0.81%) SLA
10 23 (0.75%) WCAG
11 10 (0.33%) GRC
12 9 (0.29%) NCSC
13 8 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.23%) HL7
15 6 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.20%) ISO 20022
16 4 (0.13%) MiFID
17 3 (0.098%) ISO/IEC 12207
17 3 (0.098%) NIST 800
17 3 (0.098%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 193 (6.28%) Active Directory
2 154 (5.01%) Docker
3 34 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.85%) vSphere
6 12 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.36%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.33%) Firmware
9 8 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.23%) XenApp
11 3 (0.098%) ACF2
11 3 (0.098%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 3 (0.098%) IAG
11 3 (0.098%) RACF
11 3 (0.098%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.098%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.098%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.098%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.065%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.065%) Squid
Systems Management
1 175 (5.69%) Kubernetes
2 155 (5.04%) Terraform
3 74 (2.41%) Ansible
4 30 (0.98%) Grafana
5 24 (0.78%) SCCM
6 23 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (0.55%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
9 11 (0.36%) Puppet
10 9 (0.29%) Kibana
10 9 (0.29%) Podman
11 8 (0.26%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.23%) SolarWinds Orion
12 7 (0.23%) VxRail
12 7 (0.23%) WSUS
13 6 (0.20%) Argo
13 6 (0.20%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.20%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.20%) SCOM
Vendors
1 390 (12.69%) Microsoft
2 145 (4.72%) SAP
3 117 (3.81%) Cisco
4 91 (2.96%) Oracle
5 82 (2.67%) VMware
6 66 (2.15%) ServiceNow
7 58 (1.89%) Google
8 41 (1.33%) Citrix
8 41 (1.33%) Palo Alto
9 35 (1.14%) CheckPoint
9 35 (1.14%) Databricks
10 33 (1.07%) Adobe
10 33 (1.07%) Apple
10 33 (1.07%) Salesforce
10 33 (1.07%) Splunk
11 31 (1.01%) Juniper
12 26 (0.85%) Arista
13 24 (0.78%) F5
13 24 (0.78%) SolarWinds
14 22 (0.72%) IBM