Senior Contracts in the Midlands

Senior
England > Midlands

The median Senior daily rate in the Midlands is £500 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 31 38 36
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 135 165 270
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.02% 5.03% 5.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.44% 5.32% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 119 183
10th Percentile £285 £355 £365
25th Percentile £400 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
England median daily rate £560 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -6.67% +4.35% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 5
10th Percentile £13.50 - £17.60
25th Percentile £17.17 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.50 £17.72 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +117.27% -17.58% +34.38%
75th Percentile £55.00 £20.86 £22.75
90th Percentile £67.63 £24.98 -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £43.36
% change year-on-year +5.56% +3.79% +31.98%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 2,482 3,101 4,798
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.23% 94.54% 96.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,687 2,180 3,495
10th Percentile £213 £223 £210
25th Percentile £325 £363 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +2.70% +14.91%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £563
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 116 164
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.50 £10.87
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.00 £14.58
Median hourly rate £19.13 £20.41 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% +16.63% +16.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.50 £22.88
90th Percentile £52.45 £61.25 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +6.38%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the Midlands

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in the Midlands

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior in the Midlands

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in the Midlands

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in the Midlands

Senior
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +13 109 £494 -10.23% 284
East Midlands -10 23 £525 - 125
Senior
England

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

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 Midlands region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 38 (28.15%) Agile
2 34 (25.19%) Social Skills
3 33 (24.44%) Project Management
4 30 (22.22%) Finance
5 29 (21.48%) Stakeholder Management
6 22 (16.30%) SQL
7 21 (15.56%) Azure
7 21 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (15.56%) Project Delivery
8 19 (14.07%) Security Cleared
9 18 (13.33%) Microsoft
9 18 (13.33%) SC Cleared
9 18 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
9 18 (13.33%) Public Sector
10 16 (11.85%) Power Platform
10 16 (11.85%) Power BI
10 16 (11.85%) Business Intelligence
11 15 (11.11%) Change Management
11 15 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (10.37%) Decision-Making
13 13 (9.63%) Analytics
14 12 (8.89%) PRINCE2
14 12 (8.89%) Python
15 11 (8.15%) DevOps
16 10 (7.41%) PMO
16 10 (7.41%) Linux
16 10 (7.41%) Degree
17 9 (6.67%) Computer Science
17 9 (6.67%) SAP
17 9 (6.67%) ETL

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (3.70%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.22%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.48%) Apache
5 1 (0.74%) CMS
5 1 (0.74%) Confluence
5 1 (0.74%) Moodle
Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.74%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.74%) Revit
3 1 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.48%) NEC Housing
2 2 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.74%) Maximo
3 1 (0.74%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.74%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.74%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 21 (15.56%) Azure
2 16 (11.85%) Power Platform
3 7 (5.19%) AWS
3 7 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.96%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (2.22%) GCP
6 3 (2.22%) OneDrive
6 3 (2.22%) Serverless
7 2 (1.48%) Apigee
7 2 (1.48%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.48%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.48%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.74%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.74%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (0.74%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.22%) DNS
1 3 (2.22%) Intranet
1 3 (2.22%) NetScaler
2 2 (1.48%) SAN
2 2 (1.48%) SMS
2 2 (1.48%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.74%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (0.74%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.74%) LAN
3 1 (0.74%) MPLS
3 1 (0.74%) Network Security
3 1 (0.74%) PBX
3 1 (0.74%) VoIP
3 1 (0.74%) VPN
3 1 (0.74%) WAN
3 1 (0.74%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.85%) Power BI
2 5 (3.70%) SAP BW
3 4 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.22%) Big Data
4 3 (2.22%) Tableau
5 2 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.48%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.48%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.48%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.48%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.48%) Power Query
5 2 (1.48%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.48%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.74%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.74%) MySQL
6 1 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.74%) Presto
6 1 (0.74%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (5.19%) Rational Rhapsody
2 4 (2.96%) JIRA
3 3 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.48%) JUnit
5 1 (0.74%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.74%) Ant
5 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.74%) Gradle
5 1 (0.74%) Maven
5 1 (0.74%) Selenium
5 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (0.74%) Xcode
General
1 34 (25.19%) Social Skills
2 30 (22.22%) Finance
3 18 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.93%) Law
5 6 (4.44%) Legal
5 6 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.96%) Local Government
7 4 (2.96%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.96%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.22%) Automotive
8 3 (2.22%) Banking
8 3 (2.22%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.48%) Retail
10 1 (0.74%) Back Office
10 1 (0.74%) Games
10 1 (0.74%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.96%) AngularJS
1 4 (2.96%) React
2 3 (2.22%) REST
3 2 (1.48%) .NET
3 2 (1.48%) CSS
3 2 (1.48%) HTML
3 2 (1.48%) Kafka
3 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (1.48%) Spring
4 1 (0.74%) ADO
4 1 (0.74%) Apache Beam
4 1 (0.74%) Apollo GraphQL
4 1 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.74%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.74%) Jest
4 1 (0.74%) NestJS
4 1 (0.74%) Next.js
4 1 (0.74%) Redux
4 1 (0.74%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.74%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.44%) Product Ownership
1 6 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (2.96%) Algorithms
2 4 (2.96%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (2.96%) Data Centre
2 4 (2.96%) PMI
3 3 (2.22%) CMDB
3 3 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.22%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.22%) Operational Technology
3 3 (2.22%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.22%) Taxonomies
4 2 (1.48%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.48%) NHS
4 2 (1.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (0.74%) Cyberattack
5 1 (0.74%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.74%) Insider Threat
5 1 (0.74%) Online Banking
5 1 (0.74%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.41%) Linux
2 8 (5.93%) Windows
3 5 (3.70%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.22%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.48%) Debian
5 2 (1.48%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.74%) Android
6 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (28.15%) Agile
2 33 (24.44%) Project Management
3 29 (21.48%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (15.56%) Project Delivery
5 16 (11.85%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (11.11%) Change Management
6 15 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (10.37%) Decision-Making
8 13 (9.63%) Analytics
9 12 (8.89%) PRINCE2
10 11 (8.15%) DevOps
11 9 (6.67%) Coaching
11 9 (6.67%) Computer Science
11 9 (6.67%) ETL
11 9 (6.67%) Roadmaps
11 9 (6.67%) Visualisation
12 8 (5.93%) Data Analysis
12 8 (5.93%) Data Analytics
12 8 (5.93%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 22 (16.30%) SQL
2 12 (8.89%) Python
3 6 (4.44%) Java
4 4 (2.96%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.22%) Scala
6 2 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.48%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.48%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.74%) C
7 1 (0.74%) C++
7 1 (0.74%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.74%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.74%) R
7 1 (0.74%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (0.74%) Swift
Qualifications
1 19 (14.07%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.41%) Degree
4 8 (5.93%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 5 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.96%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.96%) PMP
7 3 (2.22%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.48%) CCIE
8 2 (1.48%) CIPD
8 2 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.48%) CISSP
8 2 (1.48%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.74%) CBAP
9 1 (0.74%) CCDP
9 1 (0.74%) CCNP
9 1 (0.74%) IIBA
9 1 (0.74%) ISEB
9 1 (0.74%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.41%) PMO
2 7 (5.19%) HL7
3 4 (2.96%) QA
4 3 (2.22%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.48%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.48%) GDPR
5 2 (1.48%) GRC
6 1 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.74%) COBIT
6 1 (0.74%) HAZOP
6 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 1 (0.74%) ISO17020
6 1 (0.74%) NIST
6 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.44%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.22%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 3 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (2.22%) XenApp
2 3 (2.22%) XenDesktop
3 1 (0.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.22%) SCCM
2 1 (0.74%) Ansible
2 1 (0.74%) Kibana
2 1 (0.74%) logstash
2 1 (0.74%) Packer
2 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.67%) SAP
3 4 (2.96%) Citrix
4 3 (2.22%) NetApp
4 3 (2.22%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.22%) Splunk
5 2 (1.48%) Cisco
5 2 (1.48%) NEC
5 2 (1.48%) Northgate
5 2 (1.48%) NVIDIA
5 2 (1.48%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.48%) VMware
6 1 (0.74%) Adobe
6 1 (0.74%) Capita
6 1 (0.74%) Darktrace
6 1 (0.74%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.74%) IBM
6 1 (0.74%) JDA
6 1 (0.74%) Sage
6 1 (0.74%) Teradata