Senior Contracts in the West Midlands

Senior
England > West Midlands

The median Senior daily rate in the West Midlands is £513 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 22 36 28
Rank change year-on-year +14 -8 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 120 119 225
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.99% 5.38% 6.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.54% 5.70% 6.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 87 161
10th Percentile £275 £354 £375
25th Percentile £425 £466 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £647 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £750
England median daily rate £550 £600 £578
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.81% +5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 1
10th Percentile £13.50 £18.35 -
25th Percentile £15.11 £19.29 -
Median hourly rate £44.75 £20.86 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.53% +30.38% -44.35%
75th Percentile £56.25 £22.43 -
90th Percentile £70.88 £23.37 -
England median hourly rate £48.75 £48.75 £43.36
% change year-on-year +0.01% +12.44% +31.68%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the West 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,835 2,087 3,458
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.52% 94.39% 96.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,236 1,422 2,497
10th Percentile £250 £263 £230
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.19% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 62 67
10th Percentile £12.16 £12.50 £12.60
25th Percentile £14.90 £14.63 £14.75
Median hourly rate £19.77 £20.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% +15.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £40.13 £28.56 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.88 £57.13 £24.05
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -12.22% +88.21% +13.59%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the West Midlands

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in the West Midlands

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in the West Midlands

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in the West Midlands

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in the West Midlands

Senior
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +4 48 £463 -15.91% 93
Warwickshire +14 25 £575 -24.59% 55
Coventry +7 18 £600 +9.09% 23
Staffordshire +11 10 £352 -40.09% 23
Shropshire - 5 £485 - 5
Worcestershire -6 3 £600 +14.29% 19
Herefordshire -11 2 - - 1
Senior
England

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

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 West Midlands region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 35 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 30 (25.00%) Finance
3 27 (22.50%) Project Management
4 24 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (19.17%) Stakeholder Management
5 23 (19.17%) Agile
6 20 (16.67%) SQL
6 20 (16.67%) Project Delivery
7 18 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (15.00%) Azure
8 16 (13.33%) Microsoft
9 15 (12.50%) Public Sector
10 14 (11.67%) Power Platform
10 14 (11.67%) Power BI
10 14 (11.67%) Security Cleared
11 13 (10.83%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (10.83%) Change Management
11 13 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (10.00%) Analytics
12 12 (10.00%) Decision-Making
13 11 (9.17%) Coaching
14 10 (8.33%) PRINCE2
15 9 (7.50%) Windows
15 9 (7.50%) SAP
15 9 (7.50%) SC Cleared
15 9 (7.50%) Degree
15 9 (7.50%) Roadmaps
16 8 (6.67%) Mentoring
16 8 (6.67%) DevOps
16 8 (6.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.67%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.83%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) Acrobat
2 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.83%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.67%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.67%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.67%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 2 (1.67%) SAP BPC
2 2 (1.67%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.67%) SAP GRC
2 2 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.83%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 18 (15.00%) Azure
2 14 (11.67%) Power Platform
3 6 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (4.17%) AWS
5 4 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (2.50%) GCP
6 3 (2.50%) OneDrive
6 3 (2.50%) PowerApps
6 3 (2.50%) Serverless
7 2 (1.67%) Apigee
7 2 (1.67%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.67%) OCI
7 2 (1.67%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.67%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.83%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (0.83%) Matillion
8 1 (0.83%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.50%) DNS
1 3 (2.50%) Intranet
1 3 (2.50%) NetScaler
2 2 (1.67%) LAN
2 2 (1.67%) WAN
2 2 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.83%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.83%) Firewall
3 1 (0.83%) MPLS
3 1 (0.83%) PBX
3 1 (0.83%) VoIP
3 1 (0.83%) VPN
3 1 (0.83%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.67%) Power BI
2 6 (5.00%) SAP BW
3 3 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.67%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.67%) Power Query
4 2 (1.67%) SAP HANA
4 2 (1.67%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.67%) Tableau
5 1 (0.83%) Big Data
5 1 (0.83%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.83%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.83%) Metadata
5 1 (0.83%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.83%) Presto
5 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (5.83%) Rational Rhapsody
2 3 (2.50%) JIRA
3 2 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.83%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.83%) Ant
4 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.83%) Gradle
4 1 (0.83%) JUnit
4 1 (0.83%) Maven
4 1 (0.83%) Selenium
4 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (0.83%) Xcode
General
1 35 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 30 (25.00%) Finance
3 18 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.67%) Law
6 7 (5.83%) Legal
7 6 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (3.33%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.50%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.83%) Automotive
12 1 (0.83%) Games
12 1 (0.83%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.17%) AngularJS
2 4 (3.33%) React
3 3 (2.50%) .NET
3 3 (2.50%) CSS
3 3 (2.50%) HTML
4 2 (1.67%) HTML5
4 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.67%) REST
4 2 (1.67%) SailPoint
4 2 (1.67%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (1.67%) Spring
4 2 (1.67%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 2 (1.67%) Vue
5 1 (0.83%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.83%) iOS SDK
5 1 (0.83%) Jetpack Compose
5 1 (0.83%) Node.js
5 1 (0.83%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.83%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (3.33%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.33%) PMI
3 3 (2.50%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.50%) CMDB
3 3 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.50%) NHS
3 3 (2.50%) Operational Technology
3 3 (2.50%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.50%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.50%) Taxonomies
4 2 (1.67%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (0.83%) Cyberattack
5 1 (0.83%) Life Science
5 1 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.83%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.83%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.50%) Windows
2 6 (5.00%) Windows 10
3 5 (4.17%) Linux
4 3 (2.50%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.83%) Android
5 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.83%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (22.50%) Project Management
2 24 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (19.17%) Agile
3 23 (19.17%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 13 (10.83%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (10.83%) Change Management
5 13 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (10.00%) Analytics
6 12 (10.00%) Decision-Making
7 11 (9.17%) Coaching
8 10 (8.33%) PRINCE2
9 9 (7.50%) Roadmaps
10 8 (6.67%) Computer Science
10 8 (6.67%) DevOps
10 8 (6.67%) Mentoring
11 7 (5.83%) CRM
11 7 (5.83%) Data Analysis
11 7 (5.83%) Target Operating Model
11 7 (5.83%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (16.67%) SQL
2 8 (6.67%) Python
3 3 (2.50%) Java
3 3 (2.50%) JavaScript
3 3 (2.50%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.83%) C
5 1 (0.83%) C#
5 1 (0.83%) C++
5 1 (0.83%) Kotlin
5 1 (0.83%) R
5 1 (0.83%) Scala
5 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.83%) Swift
5 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (11.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.50%) Degree
2 9 (7.50%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 4 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.33%) PMI Certification
4 4 (3.33%) PMP
5 3 (2.50%) CIPD
6 2 (1.67%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.83%) CCIE
7 1 (0.83%) CCIE Data Center
7 1 (0.83%) CCNP
7 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.83%) CISM
7 1 (0.83%) CISSP
7 1 (0.83%) CRISC
7 1 (0.83%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.83%) MCDST
7 1 (0.83%) MCP
7 1 (0.83%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.83%) HL7
1 7 (5.83%) PMO
2 3 (2.50%) GRC
3 2 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.67%) HAZOP
3 2 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.83%) COBIT
4 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.83%) GDPR
4 1 (0.83%) NIST
4 1 (0.83%) QA
System Software
1 6 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 3 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (2.50%) XenApp
2 3 (2.50%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (3.33%) SCCM
2 1 (0.83%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.83%) Kibana
2 1 (0.83%) logstash
2 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.50%) SAP
3 4 (3.33%) OutSystems
4 3 (2.50%) Citrix
4 3 (2.50%) NetApp
4 3 (2.50%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.67%) Aruba
5 2 (1.67%) Cisco
5 2 (1.67%) Concur
5 2 (1.67%) Hyperion
5 2 (1.67%) JD Edwards
5 2 (1.67%) NVIDIA
5 2 (1.67%) Oracle
5 2 (1.67%) PeopleSoft
5 2 (1.67%) Splunk
6 1 (0.83%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.83%) Darktrace
6 1 (0.83%) Databricks
6 1 (0.83%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.83%) Kenna
3,777 Senior jobs in England