Senior Contracts in Leeds

Senior
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Senior daily rate in Leeds is £525 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 14 14 19
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 67 114 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 8.49% 8.61% 8.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.22% 8.79% 9.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 91 94
10th Percentile £312 £425 £450
25th Percentile £422 £513 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +13.52%
75th Percentile £631 £668 £600
90th Percentile £720 £700 £646
West Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £61.25 £25.75
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year - +135.85% -6.77%
75th Percentile - £71.88 £27.25
90th Percentile - £76.75 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £62.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year - +135.85% -6.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 727 1,297 1,539
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 97.96% 97.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 943 1,118
10th Percentile £300 £351 £275
25th Percentile £413 £454 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £525 £494
% change year-on-year -6.67% +6.33% +9.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 22
10th Percentile £11.30 £12.75 £15.50
25th Percentile £11.88 £17.24 £18.25
Median hourly rate £12.53 £54.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -76.80% +141.07% +3.04%
75th Percentile £15.25 £70.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £18.27 - £28.60
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.17 £32.50 £16.85
% change year-on-year -53.32% +92.88% -22.49%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Leeds

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Leeds

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Leeds

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Leeds

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

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 Leeds region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 23 (34.33%) Agile
2 17 (25.37%) ITIL
2 17 (25.37%) Social Skills
3 13 (19.40%) Public Sector
4 12 (17.91%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (17.91%) ServiceNow
4 12 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (13.43%) Security Cleared
6 8 (11.94%) Software Engineering
6 8 (11.94%) Service Management
6 8 (11.94%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (11.94%) Mentoring
7 7 (10.45%) SC Cleared
7 7 (10.45%) Scala
7 7 (10.45%) Service Design
7 7 (10.45%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (10.45%) Web Services
7 7 (10.45%) Degree
7 7 (10.45%) Roadmaps
8 6 (8.96%) User Research
8 6 (8.96%) JIRA
8 6 (8.96%) Finance
8 6 (8.96%) Service Delivery
8 6 (8.96%) ITSM
8 6 (8.96%) Microsoft
8 6 (8.96%) JavaScript
8 6 (8.96%) Azure
8 6 (8.96%) User Experience
9 5 (7.46%) Line Management
9 5 (7.46%) Analytics

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 (4.48%) Confluence
2 2 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.49%) Drupal
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.49%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.49%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.49%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.96%) Azure
2 5 (7.46%) AWS
3 4 (5.97%) IaaS
3 4 (5.97%) PaaS
3 4 (5.97%) SaaS
4 3 (4.48%) Akamai
4 3 (4.48%) Cloudflare
4 3 (4.48%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.99%) GCP
5 2 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.49%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.49%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.97%) DNS
2 2 (2.99%) HTTP
3 1 (1.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.99%) MongoDB
1 2 (2.99%) Tableau
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.49%) Power BI
2 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (8.96%) JIRA
2 3 (4.48%) Selenium
3 2 (2.99%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.99%) Gatling
3 2 (2.99%) Git
3 2 (2.99%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.99%) JMeter
3 2 (2.99%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.49%) Dreamweaver
4 1 (1.49%) Postman
General
1 17 (25.37%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.40%) Public Sector
3 12 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.96%) Finance
5 3 (4.48%) Retail
6 2 (2.99%) Law
6 2 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.99%) Spanish Language
7 1 (1.49%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.49%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Legal
7 1 (1.49%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.45%) Web Services
2 3 (4.48%) .NET
3 2 (2.99%) .NET Framework
3 2 (2.99%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (2.99%) CSS
3 2 (2.99%) HTML
3 2 (2.99%) jQuery
3 2 (2.99%) Kafka
4 1 (1.49%) Node.js
4 1 (1.49%) React
4 1 (1.49%) Redux
4 1 (1.49%) RESTful
4 1 (1.49%) Spring
4 1 (1.49%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 3 (4.48%) Product Ownership
1 3 (4.48%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (2.99%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (1.49%) CMDB
3 1 (1.49%) Genomics
3 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.49%) iPad
3 1 (1.49%) mHealth
3 1 (1.49%) NHS
3 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.49%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.99%) Mac OS X
1 2 (2.99%) Unix
2 1 (1.49%) Android
2 1 (1.49%) Windows
2 1 (1.49%) Windows 10
2 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (34.33%) Agile
2 17 (25.37%) ITIL
3 12 (17.91%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (11.94%) Mentoring
4 8 (11.94%) Service Management
4 8 (11.94%) Software Engineering
5 7 (10.45%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (10.45%) Roadmaps
5 7 (10.45%) Service Design
6 6 (8.96%) ITSM
6 6 (8.96%) Service Delivery
6 6 (8.96%) User Experience
6 6 (8.96%) User Research
7 5 (7.46%) Analytics
7 5 (7.46%) Customer Service
7 5 (7.46%) Incident Management
7 5 (7.46%) Line Management
7 5 (7.46%) Software Delivery
7 5 (7.46%) TDD
8 4 (5.97%) Interaction Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.45%) Scala
2 6 (8.96%) JavaScript
3 3 (4.48%) Java
3 3 (4.48%) SQL
3 3 (4.48%) TypeScript
4 2 (2.99%) C#
4 2 (2.99%) Groovy
4 2 (2.99%) Kotlin
4 2 (2.99%) MATLAB
4 2 (2.99%) Shell Script
4 2 (2.99%) VB.NET
4 2 (2.99%) VBA
5 1 (1.49%) PHP
5 1 (1.49%) Python
5 1 (1.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (13.43%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.94%) ITIL Certification
3 7 (10.45%) Degree
3 7 (10.45%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.99%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.49%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.49%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.49%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.97%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (17.91%) ServiceNow
2 6 (8.96%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.97%) SAP
4 3 (4.48%) F5
5 2 (2.99%) Google
6 1 (1.49%) Brio
6 1 (1.49%) Oracle
6 1 (1.49%) Virgin Media