Senior Contracts in Bristol

Senior
South West > Bristol

The median Senior daily rate in Bristol is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 30 37
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 49 82 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 4.68% 6.53% 5.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.93% 7.25% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 67 63
10th Percentile £445 £413 £413
25th Percentile £475 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £590 £529
Median % change year-on-year -15.18% +11.54% +7.86%
75th Percentile £590 £655 £594
90th Percentile £632 £730 £709
South West median daily rate £517 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -13.88% +14.29% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 0
10th Percentile £53.75 £24.65 -
25th Percentile £69.72 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £48.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +54.64% - -
75th Percentile - £53.75 -
90th Percentile - £71.75 -
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £51.25 £48.75
% change year-on-year +36.59% +5.13% -17.02%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 994 1,131 1,349
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.03% 90.12% 95.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 540 805 924
10th Percentile £249 £300 £267
25th Percentile £363 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £575
90th Percentile £688 £713 £650
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 142 114
10th Percentile £36.25 £30.97 -
25th Percentile £45.00 £57.25 £15.90
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +55.95% -1.18%
75th Percentile £73.92 £75.00 £63.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £86.23 £65.53
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £47.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +38.30% +9.94%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Bristol

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Bristol

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Bristol over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Bristol

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Bristol

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in Bristol over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in Bristol

Senior
Contract Job Locations in Bristol

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Bristol region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Avonmouth - 1 £410 -
Senior
South West

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 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 Bristol region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 23 (46.94%) Security Cleared
2 18 (36.73%) SC Cleared
3 11 (22.45%) Agile
4 10 (20.41%) DevOps
5 9 (18.37%) CI/CD
5 9 (18.37%) Azure
5 9 (18.37%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (16.33%) SQL
6 8 (16.33%) Social Skills
6 8 (16.33%) Power Platform
6 8 (16.33%) Test Strategy
7 7 (14.29%) .NET
7 7 (14.29%) Project Management
7 7 (14.29%) QA
8 6 (12.24%) Risk Analysis
8 6 (12.24%) Marketing
8 6 (12.24%) SAP
8 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
8 6 (12.24%) Finance
8 6 (12.24%) Scrum
8 6 (12.24%) Programme Management
8 6 (12.24%) TypeScript
8 6 (12.24%) Terraform
8 6 (12.24%) Public Sector
9 5 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (10.20%) Power BI
9 5 (10.20%) Kubernetes
9 5 (10.20%) AngularJS
9 5 (10.20%) Manufacturing
9 5 (10.20%) Telecoms

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 3 (6.12%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.08%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.37%) Azure
2 8 (16.33%) Power Platform
3 5 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.12%) AWS
4 3 (6.12%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (6.12%) GCP
4 3 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (6.12%) Power Automate
4 3 (6.12%) PowerApps
5 2 (4.08%) SaaS
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Service Fabric
6 1 (2.04%) PaaS
6 1 (2.04%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (2.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) DHCP
1 1 (2.04%) DNS
1 1 (2.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) Power BI
2 2 (4.08%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Git
1 3 (6.12%) JIRA
1 3 (6.12%) NUnit
1 3 (6.12%) Postman
1 3 (6.12%) Visual Studio
2 2 (4.08%) Artifactory
2 2 (4.08%) GitLab
3 1 (2.04%) Cypress.io
General
1 8 (16.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.24%) Finance
2 6 (12.24%) Marketing
2 6 (12.24%) Public Sector
3 5 (10.20%) Manufacturing
3 5 (10.20%) Telecoms
4 4 (8.16%) Electronics
5 3 (6.12%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Tech for Good
7 1 (2.04%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.29%) .NET
2 5 (10.20%) AngularJS
3 4 (8.16%) GraphQL
4 3 (6.12%) Playwright
4 3 (6.12%) REST
5 2 (4.08%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (4.08%) ASP.NET
5 2 (4.08%) React
5 2 (4.08%) Web Services
6 1 (2.04%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.04%) Next.js
6 1 (2.04%) NgRx
6 1 (2.04%) Redux
6 1 (2.04%) SAML
6 1 (2.04%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (4.08%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.04%) IoT
3 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.12%) Windows
2 2 (4.08%) Linux
3 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.04%) Unix
3 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.45%) Agile
2 10 (20.41%) DevOps
3 9 (18.37%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (18.37%) CI/CD
4 8 (16.33%) Test Strategy
5 7 (14.29%) Project Management
6 6 (12.24%) Programme Management
6 6 (12.24%) Risk Analysis
6 6 (12.24%) Scrum
7 5 (10.20%) BDD
7 5 (10.20%) Software Engineering
7 5 (10.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (10.20%) TDD
7 5 (10.20%) Test Automation
8 4 (8.16%) Acceptance Criteria
8 4 (8.16%) Digital Marketing
8 4 (8.16%) Kanban
8 4 (8.16%) Manual Testing
8 4 (8.16%) Performance Testing
8 4 (8.16%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.33%) SQL
2 6 (12.24%) TypeScript
3 5 (10.20%) C#
4 4 (8.16%) Python
5 3 (6.12%) Go
5 3 (6.12%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.04%) Bash
6 1 (2.04%) Bicep
6 1 (2.04%) Java
6 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 23 (46.94%) Security Cleared
2 18 (36.73%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.20%) DV Cleared
3 5 (10.20%) ISTQB
4 4 (8.16%) Degree
5 2 (4.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.29%) QA
2 3 (6.12%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.04%) NIST
3 1 (2.04%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (8.16%) Docker
2 2 (4.08%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (12.24%) Terraform
2 5 (10.20%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.12%) Ansible
4 2 (4.08%) SCCM
5 1 (2.04%) Grafana
5 1 (2.04%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.04%) Puppet
5 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.04%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.04%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
1 6 (12.24%) SAP
2 3 (6.12%) VMware
3 2 (4.08%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.04%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.04%) Dell
4 1 (2.04%) Google
4 1 (2.04%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.04%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.04%) Veeam