Senior Contracts in the City of London

Senior
Central London > City of London

The median Senior daily rate in the City of London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 15 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 193 321 474
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 8.94% 9.28% 11.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.40% 9.77% 11.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 236 392
10th Percentile £403 £463 £475
25th Percentile £459 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £725
90th Percentile £788 £813 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £650 £619
% change year-on-year -19.23% +5.05% +11.49%
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% -
75th Percentile - - £13.50
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £35.00 £13.00
% change year-on-year - +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 2,053 3,286 4,008
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.09% 94.97% 94.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,435 2,222 3,008
10th Percentile £346 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% +6.67% +5.14%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £788 £813 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 52
10th Percentile £14.90 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £20.02
Median hourly rate £22.75 £35.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% -3.45% +101.67%
75th Percentile £28.91 £58.75 £52.63
90th Percentile £40.00 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £26.78 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -23.49% -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 28 May 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 28 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
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 28 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 City of London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 62 (32.12%) Finance
2 52 (26.94%) Agile
3 48 (24.87%) Azure
3 48 (24.87%) DevOps
4 36 (18.65%) AWS
5 33 (17.10%) SQL
5 33 (17.10%) Social Skills
6 32 (16.58%) C#
7 30 (15.54%) Python
8 29 (15.03%) CI/CD
9 27 (13.99%) .NET
10 25 (12.95%) Java
11 24 (12.44%) SQL Server
11 24 (12.44%) Microsoft
11 24 (12.44%) Banking
11 24 (12.44%) PowerShell
12 22 (11.40%) Test Automation
13 20 (10.36%) Public Sector
14 19 (9.84%) Migration
14 19 (9.84%) Scrum
15 18 (9.33%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (8.81%) Product Ownership
17 16 (8.29%) Active Directory
18 15 (7.77%) Project Management
18 15 (7.77%) Kubernetes
18 15 (7.77%) Cybersecurity
19 14 (7.25%) Analytics
19 14 (7.25%) Security Cleared
19 14 (7.25%) SDLC
20 13 (6.74%) Problem-Solving

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%) Confluence
2 2 (1.04%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.04%) Jupyter
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 6 (3.11%) 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 S/4HANA
3 1 (0.52%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 48 (24.87%) Azure
2 36 (18.65%) AWS
3 18 (9.33%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (5.18%) GCP
5 8 (4.15%) SaaS
6 6 (3.11%) Entra ID
6 6 (3.11%) GitHub
6 6 (3.11%) Serverless
7 5 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (2.59%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.59%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (2.59%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (2.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.07%) WhatsApp
9 3 (1.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (1.55%) Azure Pipelines
9 3 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.55%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.55%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.66%) Firewall
2 3 (1.55%) Network Security
2 3 (1.55%) VoIP
3 2 (1.04%) DNS
3 2 (1.04%) Multicast
3 2 (1.04%) PBX
3 2 (1.04%) PSTN
3 2 (1.04%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.04%) WAN
4 1 (0.52%) BGP
4 1 (0.52%) DHCP
4 1 (0.52%) LAN
4 1 (0.52%) MGCP
4 1 (0.52%) MPLS
4 1 (0.52%) OSPF
4 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.52%) VPN
4 1 (0.52%) WebEx
4 1 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.44%) SQL Server
2 13 (6.74%) NoSQL
3 7 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (3.11%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.59%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.59%) Tableau
6 3 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.55%) Big Data
6 3 (1.55%) KDB
6 3 (1.55%) Power BI
7 2 (1.04%) Metadata
7 2 (1.04%) MySQL
7 2 (1.04%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.04%) Redis
8 1 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.52%) GIS
8 1 (0.52%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (5.18%) Git
2 8 (4.15%) TeamCity
3 7 (3.63%) Selenium
3 7 (3.63%) SpecFlow
4 6 (3.11%) Postman
5 5 (2.59%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.07%) JIRA
7 3 (1.55%) Maven
7 3 (1.55%) Mockito
7 3 (1.55%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.55%) WebDriver
8 2 (1.04%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.04%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.04%) Gradle
8 2 (1.04%) JMeter
8 2 (1.04%) JUnit
8 2 (1.04%) TestComplete
8 2 (1.04%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.52%) Pylint
9 1 (0.52%) Spinnaker
General
1 62 (32.12%) Finance
2 33 (17.10%) Social Skills
3 24 (12.44%) Banking
4 20 (10.36%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.22%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (5.70%) Back Office
7 9 (4.66%) Investment Banking
8 7 (3.63%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (3.11%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.59%) Front Office
10 5 (2.59%) Legal
10 5 (2.59%) Marketing
11 4 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.07%) Retail
12 3 (1.55%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.52%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.52%) Social Science
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (13.99%) .NET
2 11 (5.70%) XML
3 8 (4.15%) Kafka
3 8 (4.15%) React
4 7 (3.63%) .NET Core
4 7 (3.63%) ASP.NET
4 7 (3.63%) HTML
4 7 (3.63%) REST
5 6 (3.11%) CSS
6 5 (2.59%) .NET Framework
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%) AngularJS
7 4 (2.07%) Pandas
7 4 (2.07%) Playwright
8 3 (1.55%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (1.55%) JAX-RS
8 3 (1.55%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.81%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (2.59%) NHS
3 4 (2.07%) Derivative
3 4 (2.07%) Equities
3 4 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (2.07%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.07%) PMI
4 3 (1.55%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.55%) Reinsurance
5 2 (1.04%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.04%) Contactless
5 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.04%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.04%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.04%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.04%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.04%) Social Media
5 2 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.63%) Linux
2 6 (3.11%) Windows
3 5 (2.59%) Android
3 5 (2.59%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.07%) Mac OS X
4 4 (2.07%) Unix
5 3 (1.55%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (26.94%) Agile
2 48 (24.87%) DevOps
3 29 (15.03%) CI/CD
4 22 (11.40%) Test Automation
5 19 (9.84%) Migration
5 19 (9.84%) Scrum
6 15 (7.77%) Cybersecurity
6 15 (7.77%) Project Management
7 14 (7.25%) Analytics
7 14 (7.25%) SDLC
8 13 (6.74%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (6.22%) Roadmaps
10 11 (5.70%) Software Engineering
10 11 (5.70%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (4.66%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (4.66%) Customer Experience
11 9 (4.66%) Data Modelling
11 9 (4.66%) Microservices
11 9 (4.66%) TDD
12 8 (4.15%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 33 (17.10%) SQL
2 32 (16.58%) C#
3 30 (15.54%) Python
4 25 (12.95%) Java
5 24 (12.44%) PowerShell
6 12 (6.22%) JavaScript
7 10 (5.18%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.63%) Bicep
9 5 (2.59%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.07%) Rust
11 3 (1.55%) Bash
11 3 (1.55%) C++
11 3 (1.55%) Go
11 3 (1.55%) Scala
12 2 (1.04%) Clojure
12 2 (1.04%) Haskell
12 2 (1.04%) PHP
12 2 (1.04%) Swift
13 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.52%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 14 (7.25%) Security Cleared
2 9 (4.66%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.11%) Degree
4 4 (2.07%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.55%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.04%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.52%) CCIE
7 1 (0.52%) CCNA
7 1 (0.52%) CCNP
7 1 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.52%) PhD
7 1 (0.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.63%) QA
2 5 (2.59%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.07%) PMO
3 4 (2.07%) WCAG
4 2 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.04%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.04%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.04%) NIST
4 2 (1.04%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.52%) GDPR
5 1 (0.52%) IFRS
5 1 (0.52%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.52%) Solvency II
System Software
1 16 (8.29%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.66%) Docker
3 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (7.77%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.66%) 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%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (12.44%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.63%) Google
2 7 (3.63%) Oracle
3 4 (2.07%) Databricks
3 4 (2.07%) OpenLink
4 3 (1.55%) Brandwatch
4 3 (1.55%) Cisco
4 3 (1.55%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.55%) SAP
5 2 (1.04%) Charles River
5 2 (1.04%) eFront
5 2 (1.04%) New Relic
5 2 (1.04%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.04%) Workday
6 1 (0.52%) Confluent
6 1 (0.52%) CyberSource
6 1 (0.52%) F5
6 1 (0.52%) Meraki
6 1 (0.52%) Okta
6 1 (0.52%) Palo Alto