Senior Contracts in Cardiff

Senior
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Senior daily rate in Cardiff is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 23 24
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 15 16 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 6.98% 5.56% 5.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.50% 5.73% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 18
10th Percentile £127 £378 £365
25th Percentile £201 £431 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -11.63% +13.16%
75th Percentile £605 £549 £588
90th Percentile £623 £640 £769
South Wales median daily rate £600 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +14.29% +0.10% +19.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 200 279 510
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.02% 96.88% 96.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 215 384
10th Percentile £143 £184 £231
25th Percentile £356 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £539
90th Percentile £611 £644 £638
South Wales median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 7
10th Percentile £11.53 £13.00 £14.05
25th Percentile £12.13 £14.61 £15.38
Median hourly rate £18.57 £18.06 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.82% -9.70% +42.55%
75th Percentile £21.67 £22.88 £23.75
90th Percentile - £24.25 £24.55
South Wales median hourly rate £20.35 £18.14 £19.91
% change year-on-year +12.20% -8.89% +10.61%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Cardiff

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Cardiff

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Cardiff over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Cardiff

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Cardiff

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 Cardiff region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 8 (53.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) T-SQL
3 3 (20.00%) Windows
3 3 (20.00%) Linux
3 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) RedGate
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (13.33%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (13.33%) Migration
4 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (13.33%) Brocade
4 2 (13.33%) Dell
4 2 (13.33%) SAN
4 2 (13.33%) NetApp
4 2 (13.33%) Veritas
4 2 (13.33%) NetBackup
4 2 (13.33%) Unix
4 2 (13.33%) Cisco
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
5 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
5 1 (6.67%) PHP
5 1 (6.67%) MySQL
5 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
5 1 (6.67%) ITIL
5 1 (6.67%) Python
5 1 (6.67%) E-Commerce
5 1 (6.67%) Data Modelling
5 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) GitHub
2 1 (6.67%) Heroku
2 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) MySQL
1 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Burp Suite
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
1 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (53.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (6.67%) Flutter
1 1 (6.67%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (6.67%) Node.js
1 1 (6.67%) REST
1 1 (6.67%) RESTful
1 1 (6.67%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) CMDB
1 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (6.67%) Freedom of Information
1 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
1 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Data ONTAP
2 2 (13.33%) Unix
3 1 (6.67%) Android
3 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (13.33%) Migration
2 1 (6.67%) Application Security
2 1 (6.67%) Blue-Green Deployment
2 1 (6.67%) Change Control
2 1 (6.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (6.67%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (6.67%) Dependency Management
2 1 (6.67%) DevOps
2 1 (6.67%) Full Stack Development
2 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (6.67%) KYC
2 1 (6.67%) Line Management
2 1 (6.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (6.67%) Mobile Application Development
2 1 (6.67%) Mobile Development
2 1 (6.67%) Product Strategy
2 1 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (6.67%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (6.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
1 4 (26.67%) T-SQL
2 1 (6.67%) Apex Code
2 1 (6.67%) Dart
2 1 (6.67%) PHP
2 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) ISEB
3 1 (6.67%) ISEB Practitioner
3 1 (6.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) NetBackup
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
2 1 (6.67%) Graylog
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Nagios
2 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) RedGate
2 2 (13.33%) Brocade
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco
2 2 (13.33%) Dell
2 2 (13.33%) NetApp
2 2 (13.33%) Veritas
3 1 (6.67%) Checkmarx
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk