Senior Contracts in the East Midlands

Senior
England > East Midlands

The median Senior daily rate in the East Midlands is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 29 36
Rank change year-on-year -16 +7 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 23 54 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.83% 5.37% 4.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.00% 5.65% 4.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 44 41
10th Percentile £374 £345 £375
25th Percentile £463 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +9.09%
75th Percentile - £653 £585
90th Percentile £578 £700 £650
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +5.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £18.44 £20.08
25th Percentile - £19.51 £20.19
Median hourly rate £21.73 £21.69 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.18% +0.88% -26.32%
75th Percentile - £24.26 £22.75
90th Percentile - £25.57 -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £43.36
% change year-on-year -4.04% +14.17% +31.68%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 767 956 1,325
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.34% 95.03% 94.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 747 992
10th Percentile £169 £216 £180
25th Percentile £269 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +8.82% +11.84%
75th Percentile £542 £588 £515
90th Percentile £622 £700 £600
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 49 82
10th Percentile £11.83 £11.80 £9.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.61
Median hourly rate £17.60 £21.67 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.78% +8.35% +36.94%
75th Percentile £26.15 £40.25 £30.97
90th Percentile £51.91 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the East Midlands

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in the East Midlands

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in the East Midlands

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in the East Midlands

Senior
Contract Job Locations in the East 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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
Northamptonshire 0 7 £436 -5.68% 20
Derbyshire -2 4 £525 +5.00% 7
Nottinghamshire -3 4 - - 35
Lincolnshire +12 3 - - 15
Leicestershire +2 1 £550 +46.67% 26
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 East Midlands region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 11 (47.83%) Agile
2 8 (34.78%) SC Cleared
2 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
3 7 (30.43%) Azure
4 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
5 5 (21.74%) Project Management
5 5 (21.74%) SQL
5 5 (21.74%) Linux
5 5 (21.74%) Python
5 5 (21.74%) Data Modelling
5 5 (21.74%) DV Cleared
6 4 (17.39%) AWS
6 4 (17.39%) Waterfall
6 4 (17.39%) Finance
6 4 (17.39%) Data Engineering
6 4 (17.39%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (13.04%) Threat Modelling
7 3 (13.04%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (13.04%) Power BI
7 3 (13.04%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 3 (13.04%) Cyber Intelligence
7 3 (13.04%) Threat Intelligence
7 3 (13.04%) Power Platform
7 3 (13.04%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
7 3 (13.04%) Data Collection
7 3 (13.04%) Customer Service
7 3 (13.04%) Onboarding
7 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (13.04%) Tableau

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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 2 (8.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) NEC Housing
2 1 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) AWS
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (13.04%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.70%) dbt
4 2 (8.70%) Fivetran
4 2 (8.70%) GitHub
4 2 (8.70%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) SAN
1 2 (8.70%) SMS
1 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.35%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (4.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (13.04%) Power BI
1 3 (13.04%) Tableau
2 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.70%) Snowflake Schema
2 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.70%) Star Schema
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Hive
3 1 (4.35%) Big Data
3 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.35%) JUnit
General
1 4 (17.39%) Finance
2 3 (13.04%) Local Government
3 2 (8.70%) Banking
3 2 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.70%) Retail
3 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Back Office
4 1 (4.35%) Legal
4 1 (4.35%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) Kafka
1 2 (8.70%) React
2 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.35%) Apollo GraphQL
2 1 (4.35%) GraphQL
2 1 (4.35%) Jest
2 1 (4.35%) NestJS
2 1 (4.35%) Next.js
2 1 (4.35%) Node.js
2 1 (4.35%) Redux
2 1 (4.35%) REST
2 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (13.04%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.35%) Insider Threat
4 1 (4.35%) Online Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Debian
2 2 (8.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Agile
2 5 (21.74%) Data Modelling
2 5 (21.74%) Project Management
3 4 (17.39%) Data Engineering
3 4 (17.39%) Waterfall
4 3 (13.04%) Analytics
4 3 (13.04%) Business Analysis
4 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
4 3 (13.04%) Customer Service
4 3 (13.04%) Cyber Intelligence
4 3 (13.04%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 3 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (13.04%) Data Collection
4 3 (13.04%) Machine Learning
4 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (13.04%) Threat Intelligence
4 3 (13.04%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (8.70%) Configuration Management
5 2 (8.70%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) Python
1 5 (21.74%) SQL
2 2 (8.70%) Java
3 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.35%) R
3 1 (4.35%) Scala
3 1 (4.35%) Search Processing Language
3 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) SC Cleared
1 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 5 (21.74%) DV Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) Degree
4 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.70%) DBS Check
5 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.35%) CBAP
5 1 (4.35%) CCDP
5 1 (4.35%) CCIE
5 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.35%) CISSP
5 1 (4.35%) IIBA
5 1 (4.35%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) NEC
2 2 (8.70%) Northgate
2 2 (8.70%) Red Hat
2 2 (8.70%) Salesforce
2 2 (8.70%) VMware
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco
3 1 (4.35%) Sage
3 1 (4.35%) SAP
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk