Senior Contracts in Merseyside

Senior
North West > Merseyside

The median Senior daily rate in Merseyside is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 18 17
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 9 30 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 4.00% 9.20% 8.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.19% 9.58% 9.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 24 24
10th Percentile - £421 £224
25th Percentile £235 £470 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £519 £419
Median % change year-on-year -13.25% +23.88% -23.86%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £478
90th Percentile £628 £675 £546
North West median daily rate £513 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -4.65% +2.38% +5.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Merseyside

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 215 313 340
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.56% 96.01% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 229 241
10th Percentile £149 £233 £166
25th Percentile £233 £363 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £430
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +10.47% +16.22%
75th Percentile £494 £538 £538
90th Percentile £588 £627 £638
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 13 16
10th Percentile - - £9.23
25th Percentile £15.50 £10.09 £12.03
Median hourly rate £19.97 £16.37 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.96% +9.13% -6.25%
75th Percentile £34.80 £18.75 £18.75
90th Percentile £43.09 £26.59 £35.80
North West median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £20.31
% change year-on-year -23.83% +72.33% +13.46%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Merseyside

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Merseyside

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Merseyside over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Merseyside

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Merseyside

Senior
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 5 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
Liverpool -5 6 £525 +5.00% 16
St Helens - 3 £240 - 3
Senior
North West

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 Merseyside region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 3 (33.33%) Windows
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 3 (33.33%) SCCM
1 3 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 3 (33.33%) Node.js
1 3 (33.33%) Express.js
1 3 (33.33%) React
1 3 (33.33%) Windows 10
1 3 (33.33%) Vue
1 3 (33.33%) MERN Stack
2 1 (11.11%) Contract Management
2 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (11.11%) Test Planning
2 1 (11.11%) Coaching
2 1 (11.11%) Performance Management
2 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Market Research
2 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
2 1 (11.11%) Agile
2 1 (11.11%) Change Management
2 1 (11.11%) Wireless
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (11.11%) Information Security
2 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) MongoDB
General
1 1 (11.11%) Legal
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Express.js
1 3 (33.33%) MERN Stack
1 3 (33.33%) Node.js
1 3 (33.33%) React
1 3 (33.33%) Vue
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
1 3 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (11.11%) Agile
1 1 (11.11%) Change Management
1 1 (11.11%) Coaching
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
1 1 (11.11%) Contract Management
1 1 (11.11%) CRM
1 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
1 1 (11.11%) Information Security
1 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
1 1 (11.11%) Market Research
1 1 (11.11%) Performance Management
1 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
1 1 (11.11%) Project Management
1 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (11.11%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) SCCM