Senior Contracts in the North East

Senior
England > North East

The median Senior daily rate in the North East is £600 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 18 19 25
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 20 43 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 5.92% 10.14% 6.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.56% 10.36% 6.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 30 25
10th Percentile - £458 £291
25th Percentile £500 £550 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £720 £650 £600
90th Percentile - £708 £680
England median daily rate £567 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -5.50% +3.45% +10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.25 - -
Median hourly rate £17.50 - -
75th Percentile £20.88 - -
90th Percentile £22.15 - -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +5.56% +28.57% +6.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North East. 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 North East with a recognized job title 305 415 497
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.24% 97.88% 97.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 319 393
10th Percentile £190 £231 £146
25th Percentile £363 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +13.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £575
90th Percentile £650 £720 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 2 17
10th Percentile £10.42 £32.98 £12.16
25th Percentile £11.50 £35.56 £14.00
Median hourly rate £13.99 £40.75 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.67% +139.71% +16.96%
75th Percentile £34.50 £45.56 £19.91
90th Percentile £50.00 £47.93 £46.15
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the North East

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in the North East

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior in the North East

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in the North East

Senior
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the North East 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
Tyne and Wear +6 19 £600 - 44
Senior
England

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

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 North East region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 9 (45.00%) Public Sector
2 7 (35.00%) ServiceNow
3 6 (30.00%) PMO
3 6 (30.00%) ITIL
3 6 (30.00%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 4 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (20.00%) Line Management
5 4 (20.00%) Software Delivery
5 4 (20.00%) Windows
5 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (15.00%) Windows Server
7 2 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (10.00%) Project Management
7 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (10.00%) Windows 10
7 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
7 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (10.00%) Degree
7 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
8 1 (5.00%) CMDB
8 1 (5.00%) WCF
8 1 (5.00%) WPF
8 1 (5.00%) Network Security
8 1 (5.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
8 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
8 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
8 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) CTI
1 1 (5.00%) DHCP
1 1 (5.00%) DNS
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
1 1 (5.00%) Network Security
1 1 (5.00%) SMTP
1 1 (5.00%) VoIP
1 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 9 (45.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Military
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) .NET
1 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (5.00%) LDAP
1 1 (5.00%) WCF
1 1 (5.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Clustering
1 1 (5.00%) CMDB
1 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.00%) NHS
1 1 (5.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (10.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) ITIL
2 4 (20.00%) Line Management
2 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (20.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (10.00%) Project Management
4 1 (5.00%) Agile
4 1 (5.00%) Change Management
4 1 (5.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (5.00%) Digital Strategy
4 1 (5.00%) Information Security
4 1 (5.00%) ITSM
4 1 (5.00%) Knowledge Management
4 1 (5.00%) Network Planning
4 1 (5.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (5.00%) Programme Management
4 1 (5.00%) Quality Management
4 1 (5.00%) Service Management
4 1 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) C#
1 1 (5.00%) C++
1 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) CCNA
4 1 (5.00%) CCNP
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.00%) CISSP
4 1 (5.00%) DBS Check
4 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) PMO
2 2 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (5.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.00%) BitLocker
1 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (5.00%) Terminal Services
1 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (5.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Citrix
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) HP
3 1 (5.00%) Infoblox
3 1 (5.00%) Symantec
3 1 (5.00%) VMware