Senior Contracts in the City of London

Senior
Central London > City of London

The median Senior daily rate in the City of London is £607 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 16 13
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 193 329 482
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 8.76% 9.05% 11.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.23% 9.50% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 237 407
10th Percentile £410 £463 £473
25th Percentile £463 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £607 £645 £613
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% +5.31% +11.36%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £713
90th Percentile £800 £818 £800
Central London median daily rate £600 £645 £605
% change year-on-year -6.98% +6.61% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - £12.50
Median hourly rate £72.50 £35.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.14% +169.23% -
75th Percentile £73.75 - £13.50
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £72.50 £35.00 £13.00
% change year-on-year +107.14% +169.23% -48.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 2,091 3,462 4,000
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.96% 95.19% 94.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,484 2,355 3,014
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £791 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £586 £560
% change year-on-year -6.18% +4.69% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 23 51
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £17.56 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -5.41% +105.84%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £44.10 £87.64 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -26.34% -5.41% +105.84%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the City of London

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Senior in the City of London

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in the City of London

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior in the City of London

Senior
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 27 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
London Bridge -1 1 £500 -6.98%
Senior
Central London

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 27 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 City of London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 61 (31.61%) Finance
2 48 (24.87%) Agile
3 47 (24.35%) Azure
4 45 (23.32%) DevOps
5 36 (18.65%) Social Skills
6 34 (17.62%) AWS
7 31 (16.06%) C#
8 30 (15.54%) Python
9 29 (15.03%) Java
10 27 (13.99%) .NET
11 25 (12.95%) SQL
11 25 (12.95%) Banking
11 25 (12.95%) CI/CD
12 24 (12.44%) Microsoft
13 23 (11.92%) PowerShell
14 21 (10.88%) SQL Server
15 20 (10.36%) Scrum
16 19 (9.84%) Test Automation
17 18 (9.33%) Public Sector
18 17 (8.81%) Azure DevOps
19 16 (8.29%) Security Cleared
20 15 (7.77%) Cybersecurity
20 15 (7.77%) Project Management
20 15 (7.77%) Migration
20 15 (7.77%) Active Directory
21 14 (7.25%) JavaScript
21 14 (7.25%) SDLC
22 13 (6.74%) Analytics
22 13 (6.74%) Software Engineering
23 12 (6.22%) Stakeholder Management

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (1.55%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.04%) Confluence
2 2 (1.04%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.52%) Appian
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.52%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.59%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (2.59%) Endur
2 2 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.52%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.52%) SAP Business ByDesign
3 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 47 (24.35%) Azure
2 34 (17.62%) AWS
3 17 (8.81%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (5.18%) GCP
5 6 (3.11%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (3.11%) SaaS
6 5 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (2.59%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (2.59%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.59%) GitHub
6 5 (2.59%) Serverless
7 4 (2.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (2.07%) WhatsApp
8 3 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.55%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.55%) Azure Pipelines
8 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (1.55%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.04%) dbt
9 2 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.18%) Firewall
2 3 (1.55%) VoIP
3 2 (1.04%) LAN
3 2 (1.04%) Network Security
3 2 (1.04%) PBX
3 2 (1.04%) PSTN
4 1 (0.52%) DNS
4 1 (0.52%) MGCP
4 1 (0.52%) MPLS
4 1 (0.52%) Multicast
4 1 (0.52%) SCCP
4 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.52%) VPN
4 1 (0.52%) WAN
4 1 (0.52%) WebEx
4 1 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.52%) Wireless
4 1 (0.52%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.88%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.15%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.11%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.07%) Big Data
4 4 (2.07%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.55%) Tableau
6 2 (1.04%) KDB
6 2 (1.04%) Metadata
6 2 (1.04%) MySQL
6 2 (1.04%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.04%) Power BI
6 2 (1.04%) Redis
7 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.52%) DB2
7 1 (0.52%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.52%) Parquet
7 1 (0.52%) Scylla
7 1 (0.52%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 8 (4.15%) TeamCity
2 7 (3.63%) Selenium
2 7 (3.63%) SpecFlow
3 6 (3.11%) Git
4 5 (2.59%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.07%) JIRA
5 4 (2.07%) Postman
6 2 (1.04%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.04%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.04%) Mockito
6 2 (1.04%) TestComplete
6 2 (1.04%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.04%) WebDriver
6 2 (1.04%) XCUITest
7 1 (0.52%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.52%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.52%) Moq
7 1 (0.52%) MSTest
7 1 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 61 (31.61%) Finance
2 36 (18.65%) Social Skills
3 25 (12.95%) Banking
4 18 (9.33%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.66%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.66%) Investment Banking
6 7 (3.63%) Back Office
6 7 (3.63%) Legal
7 6 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.59%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.55%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.55%) Front Office
10 3 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.55%) Retail
11 2 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.04%) Law
11 2 (1.04%) Marketing
12 1 (0.52%) Advertising
12 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (13.99%) .NET
2 10 (5.18%) XML
3 8 (4.15%) .NET Core
3 8 (4.15%) REST
4 7 (3.63%) ASP.NET
4 7 (3.63%) Kafka
4 7 (3.63%) React
5 6 (3.11%) AngularJS
5 6 (3.11%) HTML
6 5 (2.59%) .NET Framework
6 5 (2.59%) CSS
6 5 (2.59%) Node.js
6 5 (2.59%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (2.59%) WCF
6 5 (2.59%) WinForms
7 4 (2.07%) Playwright
8 3 (1.55%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (1.55%) Web Services
9 2 (1.04%) XML Schema
9 2 (1.04%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.22%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (2.59%) NHS
3 4 (2.07%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.07%) PMI
4 3 (1.55%) Derivative
4 3 (1.55%) Equities
4 3 (1.55%) Hedge funds
4 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.55%) Market Risk
4 3 (1.55%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.55%) Reinsurance
4 3 (1.55%) Social Media
5 2 (1.04%) Contactless
5 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.04%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.04%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.04%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.11%) Linux
1 6 (3.11%) Windows
2 5 (2.59%) Mac OS X
2 5 (2.59%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.07%) Unix
4 3 (1.55%) Android
4 3 (1.55%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.04%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (24.87%) Agile
2 45 (23.32%) DevOps
3 25 (12.95%) CI/CD
4 20 (10.36%) Scrum
5 19 (9.84%) Test Automation
6 15 (7.77%) Cybersecurity
6 15 (7.77%) Migration
6 15 (7.77%) Project Management
7 14 (7.25%) SDLC
8 13 (6.74%) Analytics
8 13 (6.74%) Software Engineering
9 12 (6.22%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (6.22%) Roadmaps
9 12 (6.22%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (5.18%) Data Modelling
10 10 (5.18%) Microservices
11 9 (4.66%) Computer Science
11 9 (4.66%) Configuration Management
11 9 (4.66%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (4.66%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 31 (16.06%) C#
2 30 (15.54%) Python
3 29 (15.03%) Java
4 25 (12.95%) SQL
5 23 (11.92%) PowerShell
6 14 (7.25%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.15%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.59%) Bicep
9 4 (2.07%) Rust
10 3 (1.55%) Go
10 3 (1.55%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.55%) Scala
11 2 (1.04%) C++
11 2 (1.04%) Clojure
11 2 (1.04%) Haskell
11 2 (1.04%) PHP
11 2 (1.04%) Swift
11 2 (1.04%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.52%) BeanShell
12 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (8.29%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.70%) Degree
2 11 (5.70%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.07%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.07%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.52%) CCSK
5 1 (0.52%) CISA
5 1 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.52%) CISSP
5 1 (0.52%) CRISC
5 1 (0.52%) FFIEC
5 1 (0.52%) GIAC
5 1 (0.52%) PMP
5 1 (0.52%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.63%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.07%) PMO
2 4 (2.07%) QA
3 3 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.55%) NIST
3 3 (1.55%) WCAG
4 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.52%) GAAP
4 1 (0.52%) GDPR
4 1 (0.52%) IFRS
4 1 (0.52%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.52%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.52%) MiFID
4 1 (0.52%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.52%) Solvency II
System Software
1 15 (7.77%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.11%) Docker
3 2 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.04%) vSphere
4 1 (0.52%) IAG
4 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (5.70%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.15%) Terraform
3 3 (1.55%) Ansible
3 3 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.52%) Grafana
5 1 (0.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (12.44%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.11%) Google
3 5 (2.59%) Oracle
4 4 (2.07%) OpenLink
5 3 (1.55%) Brandwatch
5 3 (1.55%) SAP
5 3 (1.55%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.04%) Apple
6 2 (1.04%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.04%) Charles River
6 2 (1.04%) Cisco
6 2 (1.04%) Databricks
6 2 (1.04%) eFront
6 2 (1.04%) Okta
6 2 (1.04%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.04%) VMware
6 2 (1.04%) Workday
7 1 (0.52%) Ariba
7 1 (0.52%) Cerner
7 1 (0.52%) Genesys