Senior Contracts in the South East

Senior
England > South East

The median Senior daily rate in the South East is £525 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 16 27 31
Rank change year-on-year +11 +4 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 436 411 464
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 7.99% 7.34% 6.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.66% 7.76% 6.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 287 341
10th Percentile £413 £350 £363
25th Percentile £463 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +7.58%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £699 £713
England median daily rate £560 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -6.67% +4.35% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 29 15
10th Percentile £34.68 - £16.41
25th Percentile £50.50 £42.50 £37.88
Median hourly rate £58.30 £49.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.99% +8.88% -2.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.39 £73.67 £60.66
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
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,035 5,299 7,324
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 94.63% 95.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,027 3,700 5,008
10th Percentile £214 £220 £205
25th Percentile £400 £390 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £619 £603 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 484 231 321
10th Percentile £12.79 £16.25 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.20 £21.97 £15.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +142.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £39.75
90th Percentile £77.35 £75.00 £58.38
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the South East

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in the South East

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior in the South East

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in the South East

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in the South East

Senior
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the South East 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
Thames Valley +6 237 £513 +5.67% 228
Berkshire +14 195 £513 +0.49% 105
Hampshire +12 96 £600 +9.09% 104
Surrey +2 51 £525 +3.45% 73
Buckinghamshire -2 32 £550 +19.57% 63
West Sussex +5 28 £475 -31.95% 12
Kent +13 14 £545 +9.00% 38
Oxfordshire -1 11 £494 +9.72% 60
East Sussex +6 8 £475 -26.92% 23
Home Counties - 2 - -
Middlesex - 1 £425 - 2
Senior
England

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

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 South East region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 161 (36.93%) Security Cleared
2 83 (19.04%) Agile
3 78 (17.89%) DV Cleared
4 76 (17.43%) Public Sector
5 75 (17.20%) Finance
6 73 (16.74%) Social Skills
7 66 (15.14%) Azure
8 65 (14.91%) Windows
9 60 (13.76%) SC Cleared
10 57 (13.07%) Microsoft
11 56 (12.84%) Migration
12 53 (12.16%) DevOps
13 52 (11.93%) Problem-Solving
14 50 (11.47%) Cisco
15 49 (11.24%) Stakeholder Management
16 48 (11.01%) Project Management
17 39 (8.94%) Linux
18 37 (8.49%) Software Engineering
18 37 (8.49%) Degree
19 34 (7.80%) Technical Leadership
20 33 (7.57%) AWS
20 33 (7.57%) VMware
20 33 (7.57%) Cisco Certification
21 32 (7.34%) ITIL
21 32 (7.34%) Firewall
22 31 (7.11%) Active Directory
23 29 (6.65%) Java
24 28 (6.42%) Project Delivery
25 27 (6.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
25 27 (6.19%) CheckPoint

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 11 (2.52%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.61%) Documentum
3 4 (0.92%) Confluence
3 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.92%) SAS
4 2 (0.46%) Apache
5 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.23%) MTS
Applications
1 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.69%) SPSS
4 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.23%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (3.90%) Primavera
2 6 (1.38%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.46%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.23%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.23%) PeopleSoft HRMS
4 1 (0.23%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.23%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 66 (15.14%) Azure
2 33 (7.57%) AWS
3 15 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (2.75%) Power Platform
5 8 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (1.38%) GCP
7 5 (1.15%) OpenShift
7 5 (1.15%) SaaS
8 3 (0.69%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (0.69%) PaaS
8 3 (0.69%) PowerApps
8 3 (0.69%) WhatsApp
9 2 (0.46%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (0.46%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (0.46%) GitHub
9 2 (0.46%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.46%) IaaS
9 2 (0.46%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.46%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.34%) Firewall
2 25 (5.73%) DMZ
3 23 (5.28%) WAN
4 17 (3.90%) LAN
5 14 (3.21%) BGP
5 14 (3.21%) SAN
6 13 (2.98%) DHCP
6 13 (2.98%) DNS
6 13 (2.98%) MPLS
7 9 (2.06%) NAS
7 9 (2.06%) Network Security
8 6 (1.38%) SSL
9 5 (1.15%) 3G
9 5 (1.15%) 4G
9 5 (1.15%) 5G
9 5 (1.15%) Cisco Firepower
9 5 (1.15%) Radio Access Network
10 3 (0.69%) NetScaler
10 3 (0.69%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (0.69%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.52%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.61%) EDMS
3 6 (1.38%) Power BI
4 3 (0.69%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.69%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.69%) Qlik Sense
4 3 (0.69%) Tableau
5 2 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.46%) Couchbase
5 2 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (0.46%) MariaDB
5 2 (0.46%) MySQL
5 2 (0.46%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.46%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.23%) Ataccama
6 1 (0.23%) GIS
6 1 (0.23%) IDMS
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 21 (4.82%) JIRA
2 18 (4.13%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.21%) GitLab
4 9 (2.06%) Git
4 9 (2.06%) Rational DOORS
4 9 (2.06%) REST Assured
4 9 (2.06%) Selenium
4 9 (2.06%) SonarQube
5 8 (1.83%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.46%) JMeter
6 2 (0.46%) LabVIEW
6 2 (0.46%) VersionOne
7 1 (0.23%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.23%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.23%) ClearQuest
7 1 (0.23%) CMake
7 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.23%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 76 (17.43%) Public Sector
2 75 (17.20%) Finance
3 73 (16.74%) Social Skills
4 26 (5.96%) Banking
5 24 (5.50%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (4.82%) Telecoms
7 13 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (2.52%) Aviation
9 11 (2.52%) Marketing
10 9 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.61%) Law
11 7 (1.61%) Police
12 6 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.92%) Military
14 3 (0.69%) Local Government
14 3 (0.69%) Retail
15 2 (0.46%) Front Office
15 2 (0.46%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.75%) REST
2 11 (2.52%) Itk
3 9 (2.06%) .NET
4 8 (1.83%) ARM Templates
4 8 (1.83%) Java EE
5 6 (1.38%) .NET Core
6 4 (0.92%) JSON
6 4 (0.92%) Kafka
6 4 (0.92%) Spring Boot
7 3 (0.69%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.69%) Blazor
7 3 (0.69%) CSS
7 3 (0.69%) D3.js
7 3 (0.69%) HTML
7 3 (0.69%) Razor View Engine
7 3 (0.69%) React
7 3 (0.69%) XML
8 2 (0.46%) Fluent Bit
8 2 (0.46%) GraphQL
8 2 (0.46%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 17 (3.90%) Data Centre
2 10 (2.29%) Management Information System
3 8 (1.83%) Onboarding
4 6 (1.38%) PKI
5 4 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (0.92%) NHS
5 4 (0.92%) Product Ownership
5 4 (0.92%) Public Cloud
5 4 (0.92%) Replication
6 3 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (0.69%) Mobile App
6 3 (0.69%) PMI
7 2 (0.46%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.46%) Tandem
8 1 (0.23%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.23%) IoT
8 1 (0.23%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 65 (14.91%) Windows
2 39 (8.94%) Linux
3 19 (4.36%) Unix
4 11 (2.52%) Windows 10
4 11 (2.52%) Windows Server
5 10 (2.29%) Apple iOS
5 10 (2.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 10 (2.29%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.92%) Solaris
6 4 (0.92%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.92%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (0.46%) Android
7 2 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.46%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (19.04%) Agile
2 56 (12.84%) Migration
3 53 (12.16%) DevOps
4 52 (11.93%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (11.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 48 (11.01%) Project Management
7 37 (8.49%) Software Engineering
8 34 (7.80%) Technical Leadership
9 32 (7.34%) ITIL
10 28 (6.42%) Project Delivery
11 27 (6.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 26 (5.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (5.73%) B2B
13 25 (5.73%) Decision-Making
14 24 (5.50%) Configuration Management
14 24 (5.50%) Roadmaps
14 24 (5.50%) Scrum
15 19 (4.36%) Risk Management
16 18 (4.13%) Collaborative Working
17 17 (3.90%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 29 (6.65%) Java
2 26 (5.96%) Python
3 25 (5.73%) SQL
4 23 (5.28%) C++
5 19 (4.36%) C
6 13 (2.98%) C#
6 13 (2.98%) PowerShell
7 10 (2.29%) Bash
8 8 (1.83%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.38%) VBScript
10 5 (1.15%) Perl
10 5 (1.15%) R
11 4 (0.92%) PHP
11 4 (0.92%) Scala
12 3 (0.69%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.46%) Bourne shell
13 2 (0.46%) Go
13 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.46%) VB
13 2 (0.46%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 161 (36.93%) Security Cleared
2 78 (17.89%) DV Cleared
3 60 (13.76%) SC Cleared
4 37 (8.49%) Degree
5 33 (7.57%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (3.44%) ITIL Certification
7 14 (3.21%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.38%) CCNP
10 5 (1.15%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.69%) APMP
11 3 (0.69%) ISEB
11 3 (0.69%) MCSE
11 3 (0.69%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.46%) CCIE
12 2 (0.46%) CCNA
12 2 (0.46%) PhD
12 2 (0.46%) PMP
12 2 (0.46%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.52%) PCI DSS
2 10 (2.29%) PMO
3 9 (2.06%) QA
4 8 (1.83%) NIST
5 7 (1.61%) GDPR
6 6 (1.38%) NCSC
7 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 2 (0.46%) GRC
8 2 (0.46%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.46%) SLA
9 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.23%) COBIT
9 1 (0.23%) GxP
9 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (7.11%) Active Directory
2 15 (3.44%) Docker
3 14 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.75%) vSphere
5 6 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.92%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.92%) XenApp
7 3 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.46%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 21 (4.82%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.36%) Ansible
3 18 (4.13%) Terraform
4 8 (1.83%) Docker Swarm
4 8 (1.83%) Podman
5 5 (1.15%) Endace
5 5 (1.15%) NetIQ Identity Manager
5 5 (1.15%) SCCM
6 4 (0.92%) Grafana
6 4 (0.92%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (0.92%) WSUS
7 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.69%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.46%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.46%) Oracle ZFS
8 2 (0.46%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.46%) Puppet
8 2 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.46%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.46%) yum
Vendors
1 57 (13.07%) Microsoft
2 50 (11.47%) Cisco
3 33 (7.57%) VMware
4 27 (6.19%) CheckPoint
5 25 (5.73%) Arista
6 24 (5.50%) Juniper
7 11 (2.52%) Apple
8 10 (2.29%) F5
8 10 (2.29%) SAP
9 8 (1.83%) NetIQ
10 7 (1.61%) Oracle
10 7 (1.61%) Splunk
11 6 (1.38%) Citrix
11 6 (1.38%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.38%) SolarWinds
12 4 (0.92%) Ivanti
12 4 (0.92%) Symantec
13 3 (0.69%) EMC
13 3 (0.69%) Palo Alto
13 3 (0.69%) ServiceNow