Senior Contracts in Central London

Senior
London > Central London

The median Senior daily rate in Central London is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 16 14
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 223 348 508
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 9.20% 9.23% 11.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.65% 9.69% 11.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 250 433
10th Percentile £406 £440 £463
25th Percentile £450 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £638 £610
Median % change year-on-year -15.69% +4.51% +10.91%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £719
90th Percentile £788 £813 £800
London median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.50
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year - +169.23% -48.00%
75th Percentile - - £13.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £35.96 £44.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -18.27% +71.34% -21.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,311 3,591 4,259
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.30% 95.20% 94.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,647 2,455 3,245
10th Percentile £339 £325 £363
25th Percentile £440 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +4.89% +7.14%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £813 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 26 53
10th Percentile £20.19 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £22.13 £18.93 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.34% -5.41% +108.60%
75th Percentile £27.81 £57.50 £50.75
90th Percentile £40.38 £86.65 £65.10
London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% +2.14% +8.63%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Central London

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Central London

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Central London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Central London

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Central London

Senior
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Central London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
City of London +1 191 £600 -5.88% 158
Camden +4 6 £454 - 12
Southwark +2 2 £465 -13.49% 1
City of Westminster -2 2 £634 +5.63% 6
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 - - 4
Senior
London

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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 Central London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 63 (28.25%) Finance
2 59 (26.46%) Agile
3 58 (26.01%) Azure
4 53 (23.77%) DevOps
5 46 (20.63%) AWS
6 43 (19.28%) C#
7 38 (17.04%) .NET
7 38 (17.04%) Social Skills
8 32 (14.35%) SQL
9 31 (13.90%) Microsoft
10 30 (13.45%) Java
10 30 (13.45%) CI/CD
11 29 (13.00%) PowerShell
12 28 (12.56%) SQL Server
12 28 (12.56%) Python
13 25 (11.21%) Scrum
14 23 (10.31%) Banking
15 22 (9.87%) Test Automation
15 22 (9.87%) Azure DevOps
16 20 (8.97%) Public Sector
16 20 (8.97%) Stakeholder Management
16 20 (8.97%) Software Engineering
17 19 (8.52%) Migration
17 19 (8.52%) Active Directory
18 18 (8.07%) Product Ownership
19 16 (7.17%) Microservices
19 16 (7.17%) Cybersecurity
20 15 (6.73%) React
20 15 (6.73%) Security Cleared
20 15 (6.73%) XML

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (1.35%) Confluence
2 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.45%) Appian
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.45%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 11 (4.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.69%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.69%) NEC Housing
2 5 (2.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.24%) Endur
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.45%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.45%) SAP Business ByDesign
4 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 58 (26.01%) Azure
2 46 (20.63%) AWS
3 22 (9.87%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (4.93%) GCP
5 9 (4.04%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.69%) Azure Service Bus
6 6 (2.69%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (2.69%) SaaS
6 6 (2.69%) Serverless
7 5 (2.24%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.24%) GitHub
8 4 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (1.79%) WhatsApp
9 3 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.35%) Azure Pipelines
9 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.04%) Firewall
2 3 (1.35%) Internet
2 3 (1.35%) VoIP
3 2 (0.90%) Multicast
3 2 (0.90%) Network Security
3 2 (0.90%) PBX
3 2 (0.90%) PSTN
4 1 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.45%) DNS
4 1 (0.45%) LAN
4 1 (0.45%) MGCP
4 1 (0.45%) MPLS
4 1 (0.45%) SCCP
4 1 (0.45%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.45%) WAN
4 1 (0.45%) WebEx
4 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.56%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.04%) NoSQL
3 8 (3.59%) Oracle Database
4 7 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.69%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.79%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.35%) Big Data
7 3 (1.35%) KDB
7 3 (1.35%) Power BI
7 3 (1.35%) Redis
7 3 (1.35%) Tableau
8 2 (0.90%) Metadata
8 2 (0.90%) MySQL
9 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.45%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (3.59%) SpecFlow
1 8 (3.59%) TeamCity
2 7 (3.14%) Git
2 7 (3.14%) Selenium
3 6 (2.69%) Postman
4 5 (2.24%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.24%) JIRA
5 3 (1.35%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.35%) WebDriver
6 2 (0.90%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.90%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.90%) JMeter
6 2 (0.90%) Maven
6 2 (0.90%) Mockito
6 2 (0.90%) TestComplete
6 2 (0.90%) XCUITest
7 1 (0.45%) GitLab
7 1 (0.45%) Gradle
7 1 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.45%) Pylint
General
1 63 (28.25%) Finance
2 38 (17.04%) Social Skills
3 23 (10.31%) Banking
4 20 (8.97%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.38%) Back Office
6 11 (4.93%) Local Government
7 10 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (4.04%) Investment Banking
9 7 (3.14%) Legal
9 7 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.69%) Billing
10 6 (2.69%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.24%) Front Office
12 4 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.35%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.35%) Retail
14 2 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.90%) Law
14 2 (0.90%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (17.04%) .NET
2 15 (6.73%) React
2 15 (6.73%) XML
3 11 (4.93%) REST
4 10 (4.48%) .NET Core
5 8 (3.59%) ASP.NET
6 7 (3.14%) .NET Framework
6 7 (3.14%) HTML
6 7 (3.14%) Kafka
7 6 (2.69%) AngularJS
7 6 (2.69%) CSS
7 6 (2.69%) Spring
8 5 (2.24%) Node.js
8 5 (2.24%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (2.24%) Spring Boot
8 5 (2.24%) WCF
8 5 (2.24%) WinForms
9 4 (1.79%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (1.79%) Playwright
10 3 (1.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.07%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (2.24%) Mobile App
2 5 (2.24%) NHS
3 4 (1.79%) Derivative
3 4 (1.79%) Equities
3 4 (1.79%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.79%) PMI
4 3 (1.35%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.35%) Contactless
4 3 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.35%) Market Risk
4 3 (1.35%) Reinsurance
4 3 (1.35%) Social Media
5 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.90%) Hedge funds
5 2 (0.90%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.90%) Public Cloud
5 2 (0.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.14%) Apple iOS
1 7 (3.14%) Linux
2 6 (2.69%) Windows
3 5 (2.24%) Android
3 5 (2.24%) Mac OS X
3 5 (2.24%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.79%) Unix
5 2 (0.90%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (26.46%) Agile
2 53 (23.77%) DevOps
3 30 (13.45%) CI/CD
4 25 (11.21%) Scrum
5 22 (9.87%) Test Automation
6 20 (8.97%) Software Engineering
6 20 (8.97%) Stakeholder Management
7 19 (8.52%) Migration
8 16 (7.17%) Cybersecurity
8 16 (7.17%) Microservices
9 14 (6.28%) Front End Development
9 14 (6.28%) Mentoring
9 14 (6.28%) SDLC
9 14 (6.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (5.83%) Analytics
10 13 (5.83%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (5.83%) Project Management
11 12 (5.38%) Roadmaps
12 10 (4.48%) Data Modelling
13 9 (4.04%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (19.28%) C#
2 32 (14.35%) SQL
3 30 (13.45%) Java
4 29 (13.00%) PowerShell
5 28 (12.56%) Python
6 13 (5.83%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.04%) Bicep
7 9 (4.04%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.69%) Swift
9 5 (2.24%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.79%) Rust
11 3 (1.35%) C++
11 3 (1.35%) Go
11 3 (1.35%) Scala
12 2 (0.90%) Clojure
12 2 (0.90%) Haskell
12 2 (0.90%) PHP
13 1 (0.45%) Bash
13 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (6.73%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.48%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.59%) Degree
4 5 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.79%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.35%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.24%) Accessibility
1 5 (2.24%) QA
2 3 (1.35%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.35%) NIST
2 3 (1.35%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.35%) WCAG
3 2 (0.90%) GDPR
3 2 (0.90%) ISO 20022
3 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.90%) PMO
4 1 (0.45%) GAAP
4 1 (0.45%) IFRS
4 1 (0.45%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.45%) Solvency II
System Software
1 19 (8.52%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.69%) Docker
3 2 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.90%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (4.93%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.59%) Terraform
3 3 (1.35%) Ansible
3 3 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.45%) Grafana
5 1 (0.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (13.90%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.93%) Oracle
3 7 (3.14%) Google
3 7 (3.14%) NEC
4 6 (2.69%) Northgate
5 4 (1.79%) OpenLink
5 4 (1.79%) SAP
6 3 (1.35%) Brandwatch
6 3 (1.35%) Cisco
6 3 (1.35%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.90%) Apple
7 2 (0.90%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.90%) Charles River
7 2 (0.90%) Databricks
7 2 (0.90%) eFront
7 2 (0.90%) Okta
7 2 (0.90%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.90%) VMware
7 2 (0.90%) Workday
8 1 (0.45%) ION Trading