Senior Contracts in East London

Senior
London > East London

The median Senior daily rate in East London is £520 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 7 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 38 26 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 17.12% 14.69% 19.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 19.10% 15.95% 20.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 21 48
10th Percentile £358 £500 £288
25th Percentile £421 £700 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £750 £613
Median % change year-on-year -30.67% +22.45% +13.95%
75th Percentile £706 £800 £638
90th Percentile £838 £950 £750
London median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £33.65 - -
Median hourly rate £35.96 £18.93 -
Median % change year-on-year +89.96% - -
75th Percentile £38.28 - -
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
East London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in East 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 East London with a recognized job title 199 163 246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.64% 92.09% 96.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 135 202
10th Percentile £320 £188 £240
25th Percentile £420 £324 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £585
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -14.53% +23.16%
75th Percentile £629 £694 £700
90th Percentile £770 £775 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 9
10th Percentile £11.95 £20.64 -
25th Percentile £12.84 £23.20 £16.50
Median hourly rate £22.91 £27.47 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% +61.56% -36.21%
75th Percentile £28.37 £31.73 £25.48
90th Percentile £38.28 £34.29 £40.48
London median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +9.38%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in East London

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in East London

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in East London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in East London

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in East London

Senior
Contract Job Locations in East 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 East London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Greenwich +2 15 £475 -13.64% 1
Tower Hamlets -8 9 £700 -12.50% 3
Lewisham - 3 - -
Docklands, London -4 2 £775 +3.33%
Redbridge - 2 £281 -
Havering - 1 £440 -
Dagenham - 1 £440 -
Senior
London

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 East London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 21 (55.26%) Agile
2 13 (34.21%) C#
3 12 (31.58%) Azure
4 11 (28.95%) Microsoft
5 10 (26.32%) Finance
5 10 (26.32%) PowerShell
6 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
7 8 (21.05%) SQL Server
7 8 (21.05%) SQL
7 8 (21.05%) Degree
7 8 (21.05%) Project Delivery
7 8 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (21.05%) DevOps
8 7 (18.42%) SDLC
8 7 (18.42%) .NET
9 6 (15.79%) JavaScript
9 6 (15.79%) Scrum
9 6 (15.79%) .NET Framework
9 6 (15.79%) CI/CD
9 6 (15.79%) Product Ownership
10 5 (13.16%) Public Sector
10 5 (13.16%) User Acceptance Testing
10 5 (13.16%) TDD
10 5 (13.16%) Java
10 5 (13.16%) XML
10 5 (13.16%) Management Information System
10 5 (13.16%) Active Directory
11 4 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
11 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
11 4 (10.53%) Software Engineering

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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 (7.89%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.63%) CMS
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (7.89%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (5.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.63%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 12 (31.58%) Azure
2 8 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (7.89%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.26%) SaaS
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.63%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) Firewall
2 2 (5.26%) DMZ
2 2 (5.26%) IPsec
2 2 (5.26%) VPN
2 2 (5.26%) Wireshark
3 1 (2.63%) DHCP
3 1 (2.63%) DNS
3 1 (2.63%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.63%) Network Security
3 1 (2.63%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.05%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.26%) Power BI
3 1 (2.63%) Big Data
3 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.63%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) SpecFlow
2 1 (2.63%) Appium
2 1 (2.63%) ERwin
2 1 (2.63%) Git
2 1 (2.63%) LoadRunner
2 1 (2.63%) Postman
2 1 (2.63%) Rational Performance Tester
2 1 (2.63%) Selenium
2 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.63%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (26.32%) Finance
2 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.16%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.53%) Local Government
4 4 (10.53%) Social Housing
5 3 (7.89%) Back Office
5 3 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.26%) Banking
6 2 (5.26%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Publishing
7 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.42%) .NET
2 6 (15.79%) .NET Framework
3 5 (13.16%) XML
4 3 (7.89%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.63%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.63%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.63%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (2.63%) CSS
5 1 (2.63%) HTML
5 1 (2.63%) jQuery
5 1 (2.63%) JSON
5 1 (2.63%) JSON Schema
5 1 (2.63%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Product Ownership
2 5 (13.16%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.26%) Credit Risk
4 2 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.26%) Mobile App
4 2 (5.26%) Reference Data
5 1 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.63%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (2.63%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (2.63%) IVR
5 1 (2.63%) NHS
5 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Windows
2 1 (2.63%) Android
2 1 (2.63%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.63%) Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Unix
2 1 (2.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (55.26%) Agile
2 8 (21.05%) DevOps
2 8 (21.05%) Project Delivery
3 7 (18.42%) SDLC
4 6 (15.79%) CI/CD
4 6 (15.79%) Scrum
5 5 (13.16%) TDD
5 5 (13.16%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (10.53%) Software Engineering
6 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (7.89%) B2C
7 3 (7.89%) Content Management
7 3 (7.89%) Information Security
7 3 (7.89%) Migration
7 3 (7.89%) Non-Functional Testing
7 3 (7.89%) Project Management
7 3 (7.89%) Risk Management
7 3 (7.89%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 13 (34.21%) C#
2 10 (26.32%) PowerShell
3 8 (21.05%) SQL
4 6 (15.79%) JavaScript
5 5 (13.16%) Java
6 4 (10.53%) Scala
7 2 (5.26%) MATLAB
7 2 (5.26%) Python
7 2 (5.26%) VBA
8 1 (2.63%) Bicep
8 1 (2.63%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) Degree
2 2 (5.26%) CFA
2 2 (5.26%) Master's Degree
2 2 (5.26%) MBA
2 2 (5.26%) Postgraduate
3 1 (2.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (2.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.26%) PMO
2 2 (5.26%) QA
3 1 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.63%) GDPR
3 1 (2.63%) NIST
3 1 (2.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (13.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (28.95%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) Cisco
3 2 (5.26%) Arista
3 2 (5.26%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.63%) Capita
4 1 (2.63%) HP
4 1 (2.63%) IBM
4 1 (2.63%) Northgate
4 1 (2.63%) Progress