Senior Contracts in England

Senior
UK > England

The median Senior daily rate in England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 20 19
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 3,166 3,846 5,746
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.51% 8.17% 8.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.17% 8.65% 8.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,080 2,846 4,259
10th Percentile £400 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £578
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.81% +5.09%
75th Percentile £675 £706 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 84 93
10th Percentile £21.89 £17.72 £20.88
25th Percentile £31.20 £35.00 £25.68
Median hourly rate £48.75 £48.75 £43.36
Median % change year-on-year +0.01% +12.44% +31.68%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.94 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £53.78 £42.93
% change year-on-year -5.17% +25.28% +30.68%

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 34,518 44,474 67,322
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,601 31,623 48,168
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.19% +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,625 1,324 1,768
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.38 £12.74
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +88.21% +13.59%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 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
London +1 1,874 £600 -4.00% 1,537
South East +12 456 £525 +0.96% 541
North of England -1 341 £500 -9.09% 608
North West +7 243 £504 -4.00% 395
South West -4 153 £500 -16.67% 333
Midlands +9 148 £525 - 359
West Midlands +14 120 £513 -6.82% 241
East of England -17 92 £534 -2.91% 272
Yorkshire -11 84 £508 -12.73% 160
East Midlands -10 25 £550 +5.26% 117
North East +2 15 £500 -22.33% 55
Senior
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 England region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 887 (28.02%) Agile
2 729 (23.03%) Finance
3 626 (19.77%) Social Skills
4 531 (16.77%) Azure
5 512 (16.17%) Security Cleared
6 493 (15.57%) DevOps
7 451 (14.25%) AWS
8 446 (14.09%) Python
9 422 (13.33%) Microsoft
10 403 (12.73%) Java
11 391 (12.35%) Software Engineering
12 378 (11.94%) SQL
13 362 (11.43%) Public Sector
14 355 (11.21%) CI/CD
15 327 (10.33%) SC Cleared
16 304 (9.60%) Problem-Solving
17 292 (9.22%) C#
18 279 (8.81%) JavaScript
19 272 (8.59%) Stakeholder Management
20 268 (8.46%) Banking
21 248 (7.83%) Degree
22 234 (7.39%) .NET
23 224 (7.08%) Project Management
24 223 (7.04%) Scrum
25 217 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
26 211 (6.66%) TypeScript
27 209 (6.60%) React
28 206 (6.51%) Migration
29 204 (6.44%) SQL Server
30 200 (6.32%) Test Automation

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 63 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
2 61 (1.93%) Apache
3 50 (1.58%) Confluence
4 41 (1.30%) SharePoint
5 36 (1.14%) CMS
6 33 (1.04%) Apache Spark
7 31 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
8 24 (0.76%) SAS
9 9 (0.28%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.25%) Documentum
11 7 (0.22%) WordPress
12 6 (0.19%) Appian
13 5 (0.16%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.16%) nginx
14 4 (0.13%) Skype for Business
15 3 (0.095%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.095%) ThingWorx
15 3 (0.095%) WildFly
16 2 (0.063%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 2 (0.063%) GemFire
Applications
1 60 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
2 58 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 19 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (0.38%) Photoshop
7 11 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
8 9 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
8 9 (0.28%) Revit
9 8 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 8 (0.25%) InDesign
10 6 (0.19%) AutoCAD
11 5 (0.16%) SPSS
12 4 (0.13%) InVision
13 3 (0.095%) Adobe After Effects
13 3 (0.095%) Sketch
14 2 (0.063%) Adobe Premiere
14 2 (0.063%) Simulink
14 2 (0.063%) Stateflow
14 2 (0.063%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 45 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.51%) NEC Housing
4 12 (0.38%) Endur
4 12 (0.38%) Primavera
5 11 (0.35%) Teamcenter
6 10 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.22%) SAP CO
8 7 (0.22%) SAP ERP
8 7 (0.22%) SAP FI
8 7 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
8 7 (0.22%) SAP SD
9 5 (0.16%) SAP Payroll
9 5 (0.16%) Shopify
9 5 (0.16%) SimCorp Dimension
10 4 (0.13%) OPENHousing
10 4 (0.13%) RMDS
11 3 (0.095%) Oracle ERP
11 3 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 531 (16.77%) Azure
2 451 (14.25%) AWS
3 194 (6.13%) Azure DevOps
4 117 (3.70%) GCP
5 102 (3.22%) Power Platform
6 99 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
7 93 (2.94%) Serverless
8 76 (2.40%) Snowflake
9 75 (2.37%) Entra ID
10 73 (2.31%) GitHub
11 63 (1.99%) dbt
12 62 (1.96%) SaaS
13 59 (1.86%) Azure Service Bus
14 53 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
15 51 (1.61%) PaaS
16 49 (1.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 36 (1.14%) Amazon S3
17 36 (1.14%) IaaS
18 32 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
18 32 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 137 (4.33%) Firewall
2 58 (1.83%) DNS
3 51 (1.61%) Network Security
4 50 (1.58%) WAN
5 44 (1.39%) LAN
6 37 (1.17%) BGP
7 33 (1.04%) DHCP
8 31 (0.98%) VPN
9 27 (0.85%) DMZ
10 22 (0.69%) MPLS
10 22 (0.69%) OSPF
11 21 (0.66%) Internet
11 21 (0.66%) SAN
12 19 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
13 18 (0.57%) SD-WAN
13 18 (0.57%) TCP/IP
13 18 (0.57%) Wireless
14 17 (0.54%) Cisco Firepower
14 17 (0.54%) EIGRP
14 17 (0.54%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (6.44%) SQL Server
2 81 (2.56%) Power BI
3 73 (2.31%) Data Lake
4 72 (2.27%) NoSQL
5 69 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
6 49 (1.55%) Relational Database
7 48 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
8 43 (1.36%) Apache Cassandra
9 42 (1.33%) Apache Arrow
9 42 (1.33%) Apache Ignite
9 42 (1.33%) Dremio
9 42 (1.33%) MongoDB
10 40 (1.26%) Big Data
11 38 (1.20%) Tableau
12 33 (1.04%) Oracle Database
13 32 (1.01%) KDB
14 27 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
15 24 (0.76%) MySQL
16 22 (0.69%) Redis
17 21 (0.66%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 167 (5.27%) Git
2 122 (3.85%) JIRA
3 114 (3.60%) Jenkins
4 54 (1.71%) Selenium
5 45 (1.42%) GitLab
5 45 (1.42%) Postman
6 39 (1.23%) Cucumber
7 35 (1.11%) Visual Studio
8 33 (1.04%) SpecFlow
9 31 (0.98%) Mockito
10 26 (0.82%) Bitbucket
10 26 (0.82%) JUnit
11 25 (0.79%) Cypress.io
12 23 (0.73%) JMeter
12 23 (0.73%) TeamCity
13 20 (0.63%) WebDriver
14 17 (0.54%) Maven
15 14 (0.44%) Artifactory
15 14 (0.44%) git-flow
16 13 (0.41%) CircleCI
General
1 729 (23.03%) Finance
2 626 (19.77%) Social Skills
3 362 (11.43%) Public Sector
4 268 (8.46%) Banking
5 217 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
6 132 (4.17%) Front Office
7 84 (2.65%) Marketing
8 83 (2.62%) Investment Banking
9 80 (2.53%) Back Office
10 74 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
11 71 (2.24%) Telecoms
12 68 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 66 (2.08%) Retail
14 63 (1.99%) Local Government
15 50 (1.58%) Manufacturing
16 45 (1.42%) Legal
17 36 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
17 36 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
18 28 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
19 26 (0.82%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 234 (7.39%) .NET
2 209 (6.60%) React
3 112 (3.54%) XML
4 110 (3.47%) HTML
5 108 (3.41%) AngularJS
5 108 (3.41%) CSS
6 98 (3.10%) Kafka
7 97 (3.06%) Node.js
8 95 (3.00%) REST
9 77 (2.43%) Pandas
10 69 (2.18%) .NET Core
11 66 (2.08%) .NET Framework
12 65 (2.05%) NumPy
13 60 (1.90%) Spring Boot
14 59 (1.86%) SciPy
15 58 (1.83%) gRPC
16 57 (1.80%) Spring
17 52 (1.64%) ASP.NET
17 52 (1.64%) RESTful
18 48 (1.52%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 157 (4.96%) Product Ownership
2 99 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 98 (3.10%) Derivative
4 94 (2.97%) Fixed Income
5 71 (2.24%) Management Information System
6 70 (2.21%) Hedge funds
7 60 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
7 60 (1.90%) Equities
8 57 (1.80%) Data Centre
9 56 (1.77%) Mobile App
10 53 (1.67%) Onboarding
11 49 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
12 48 (1.52%) Algorithms
13 41 (1.30%) NHS
14 40 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
15 39 (1.23%) Data Structures
16 30 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
17 29 (0.92%) Public Cloud
18 28 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
19 24 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 187 (5.91%) Windows
2 167 (5.27%) Linux
3 65 (2.05%) Unix
4 56 (1.77%) Android
5 49 (1.55%) Apple iOS
5 49 (1.55%) Windows 10
6 48 (1.52%) Windows Server
7 20 (0.63%) Mac OS X
8 14 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (0.32%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (0.19%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.16%) Windows 7
12 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
13 4 (0.13%) Solaris
13 4 (0.13%) VMS
14 2 (0.063%) Alpine Linux
14 2 (0.063%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 887 (28.02%) Agile
2 493 (15.57%) DevOps
3 391 (12.35%) Software Engineering
4 355 (11.21%) CI/CD
5 304 (9.60%) Problem-Solving
6 272 (8.59%) Stakeholder Management
7 224 (7.08%) Project Management
8 223 (7.04%) Scrum
9 206 (6.51%) Migration
10 200 (6.32%) Test Automation
11 179 (5.65%) Analytics
12 170 (5.37%) TDD
13 168 (5.31%) Project Delivery
14 167 (5.27%) Mentoring
15 166 (5.24%) User Experience
16 152 (4.80%) Roadmaps
17 149 (4.71%) SDLC
18 144 (4.55%) Microservices
19 139 (4.39%) Business Intelligence
20 137 (4.33%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 446 (14.09%) Python
2 403 (12.73%) Java
3 378 (11.94%) SQL
4 292 (9.22%) C#
5 279 (8.81%) JavaScript
6 211 (6.66%) TypeScript
7 180 (5.69%) PowerShell
8 78 (2.46%) Go
9 61 (1.93%) C++
10 60 (1.90%) Bicep
11 50 (1.58%) Kotlin
12 48 (1.52%) Bash
13 47 (1.48%) Scala
14 42 (1.33%) C
15 21 (0.66%) Swift
16 19 (0.60%) Perl
17 18 (0.57%) Rust
17 18 (0.57%) Shell Script
18 17 (0.54%) T-SQL
19 16 (0.51%) PHP
Qualifications
1 512 (16.17%) Security Cleared
2 327 (10.33%) SC Cleared
3 248 (7.83%) Degree
4 130 (4.11%) DV Cleared
5 81 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
6 50 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 50 (1.58%) Master's Degree
7 36 (1.14%) CCNA
8 34 (1.07%) CCNP
9 30 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
11 21 (0.66%) PMI Certification
12 20 (0.63%) Azure Certification
13 19 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
14 17 (0.54%) AWS Certification
15 16 (0.51%) CISSP
15 16 (0.51%) PMP
16 15 (0.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 10 (0.32%) PhD
18 8 (0.25%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (2.72%) Data Quality
2 70 (2.21%) QA
3 60 (1.90%) Accessibility
4 56 (1.77%) PMO
5 45 (1.42%) PCI DSS
6 34 (1.07%) GDPR
7 33 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 26 (0.82%) NIST
9 23 (0.73%) SLA
10 22 (0.69%) WCAG
11 11 (0.35%) GRC
12 10 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.22%) HL7
13 7 (0.22%) NCSC
14 6 (0.19%) ISO 20022
15 4 (0.13%) IFRS
15 4 (0.13%) MiFID
16 3 (0.095%) ISO/IEC 12207
16 3 (0.095%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 186 (5.87%) Active Directory
2 170 (5.37%) Docker
3 27 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (0.79%) vSphere
5 14 (0.44%) Firmware
6 11 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.32%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.22%) XenApp
10 6 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
11 4 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.095%) ACF2
12 3 (0.095%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 3 (0.095%) IAG
12 3 (0.095%) RACF
12 3 (0.095%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.095%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.063%) Squid
Systems Management
1 196 (6.19%) Kubernetes
2 166 (5.24%) Terraform
3 74 (2.34%) Ansible
4 33 (1.04%) Grafana
5 24 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
6 22 (0.69%) SCCM
7 21 (0.66%) Prometheus
8 15 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
9 11 (0.35%) Podman
10 10 (0.32%) NetIQ Identity Manager
11 9 (0.28%) Kibana
12 8 (0.25%) Puppet
13 7 (0.22%) SolarWinds Orion
13 7 (0.22%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.22%) VxRail
14 6 (0.19%) Argo
14 6 (0.19%) Data Guard
14 6 (0.19%) FortiGate
15 5 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 422 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 152 (4.80%) SAP
3 116 (3.66%) Cisco
4 100 (3.16%) Oracle
5 74 (2.34%) VMware
6 62 (1.96%) Google
7 51 (1.61%) ServiceNow
8 44 (1.39%) Palo Alto
9 37 (1.17%) Salesforce
10 36 (1.14%) Citrix
11 35 (1.11%) CheckPoint
11 35 (1.11%) Databricks
12 31 (0.98%) Adobe
12 31 (0.98%) Juniper
13 30 (0.95%) Splunk
14 28 (0.88%) Apple
15 25 (0.79%) Arista
15 25 (0.79%) SolarWinds
16 23 (0.73%) F5
17 22 (0.69%) IBM