Senior Contracts in the North West

Senior
England > North West

The median Senior daily rate in the North West is £518 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 23 28
Rank change year-on-year +7 +5 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 252 212 284
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 9.12% 6.64% 7.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.67% 6.99% 7.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 151 210
10th Percentile £314 £400 £324
25th Percentile £425 £459 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £604 £644 £613
90th Percentile £675 £675 £663
England median daily rate £567 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -5.50% +4.35% +8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 6 11
10th Percentile £27.25 £24.63 £26.25
25th Percentile £39.96 £29.75 £29.23
Median hourly rate £44.74 £37.50 £39.73
Median % change year-on-year +19.31% -5.61% +16.85%
75th Percentile £52.78 £53.13 £44.22
90th Percentile £67.50 £62.10 £50.78
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 West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,607 3,031 3,927
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 94.87% 96.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,702 2,172 2,878
10th Percentile £280 £300 £207
25th Percentile £390 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £563
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 134 175
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.25 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.49
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% +49.05% +11.72%
75th Percentile £46.18 £47.38 £43.25
90th Percentile £64.00 £65.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the North West

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in the North West

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in the North West

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in the North West

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in the North West

Senior
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Manchester +8 146 £525 -2.92% 185
Cheshire +30 43 £500 +11.11% 56
Lancashire +7 27 £625 -7.41% 39
Cumbria -5 20 £513 - 19
Merseyside -1 9 £450 -13.25% 17
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 West region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 43 (17.06%) Social Skills
2 38 (15.08%) Agile
3 37 (14.68%) Security Cleared
4 34 (13.49%) Public Sector
5 33 (13.10%) AWS
6 30 (11.90%) ITIL
6 30 (11.90%) Python
7 29 (11.51%) SAP
7 29 (11.51%) Microsoft
8 28 (11.11%) Java
8 28 (11.11%) CI/CD
9 27 (10.71%) SC Cleared
9 27 (10.71%) DevOps
10 23 (9.13%) Azure
11 20 (7.94%) Cisco
11 20 (7.94%) Finance
11 20 (7.94%) Data Analysis
11 20 (7.94%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (7.54%) Software Engineering
12 19 (7.54%) Active Directory
12 19 (7.54%) Data Quality
13 18 (7.14%) Node.js
13 18 (7.14%) MongoDB
13 18 (7.14%) RESTful
13 18 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
13 18 (7.14%) Microservices
13 18 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
13 18 (7.14%) Roadmaps
14 17 (6.75%) SQL
14 17 (6.75%) VMware

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 7 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.98%) SAS
4 4 (1.59%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (2.38%) Revit
2 4 (1.59%) AutoCAD
3 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (5.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.79%) SAP WM
2 2 (0.79%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.40%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.40%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.40%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 33 (13.10%) AWS
2 23 (9.13%) Azure
3 18 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (6.35%) Power Platform
5 9 (3.57%) Snowflake
6 7 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.98%) Collibra
7 5 (1.98%) GCP
7 5 (1.98%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.19%) Serverless
9 2 (0.79%) BrowserStack
9 2 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.79%) Nutanix
9 2 (0.79%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.40%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.40%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.40%) Firebase
10 1 (0.40%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.37%) Firewall
2 10 (3.97%) Network Security
3 9 (3.57%) BGP
3 9 (3.57%) Cisco ASA
3 9 (3.57%) Cisco Firepower
3 9 (3.57%) Cisco ISE
3 9 (3.57%) EIGRP
3 9 (3.57%) HSRP
3 9 (3.57%) IPsec
3 9 (3.57%) NetScaler
3 9 (3.57%) OSPF
4 8 (3.17%) SNMP
4 8 (3.17%) Spanning Tree
4 8 (3.17%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (1.59%) DNS
5 4 (1.59%) SAN
5 4 (1.59%) Wireless
6 2 (0.79%) DHCP
6 2 (0.79%) HTTP
6 2 (0.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 16 (6.35%) Power BI
3 8 (3.17%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.38%) Data Lake
4 6 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.98%) Ataccama
5 5 (1.98%) Qlik Sense
6 4 (1.59%) Big Data
6 4 (1.59%) Data Mining
6 4 (1.59%) Hadoop
6 4 (1.59%) MySQL
6 4 (1.59%) SQLite
7 3 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.19%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (1.19%) HBase
8 2 (0.79%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.79%) Tableau
9 1 (0.40%) Navicat
9 1 (0.40%) Presto
9 1 (0.40%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (3.97%) GitLab
2 8 (3.17%) Git
3 5 (1.98%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.98%) JIRA
3 5 (1.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (1.59%) Cucumber
4 4 (1.59%) Selenium
5 3 (1.19%) Gatling
5 3 (1.19%) Postman
6 2 (0.79%) JMeter
6 2 (0.79%) TestCafe
6 2 (0.79%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.40%) Gradle
7 1 (0.40%) JUnit
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.40%) Pa11y
7 1 (0.40%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.40%) Storybook
7 1 (0.40%) Zephyr
General
1 43 (17.06%) Social Skills
2 34 (13.49%) Public Sector
3 20 (7.94%) Finance
4 18 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
5 17 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.97%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.17%) Legal
8 7 (2.78%) Banking
9 3 (1.19%) Digital Healthcare
9 3 (1.19%) Military
9 3 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.19%) Retail
10 2 (0.79%) Automotive
10 2 (0.79%) Electronics
10 2 (0.79%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Police
11 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.14%) Node.js
1 18 (7.14%) RESTful
2 16 (6.35%) React
3 10 (3.97%) Vue
4 8 (3.17%) Jinja
5 7 (2.78%) CSS
6 6 (2.38%) HTML
6 6 (2.38%) Kafka
6 6 (2.38%) Redux
7 5 (1.98%) GraphQL
7 5 (1.98%) Next.js
7 5 (1.98%) Spring
7 5 (1.98%) Web Services
8 4 (1.59%) .NET
8 4 (1.59%) XML
9 3 (1.19%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.19%) Express.js
9 3 (1.19%) OAuth
9 3 (1.19%) OAuth2
9 3 (1.19%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 9 (3.57%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.17%) Life Science
4 7 (2.78%) NHS
5 6 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.59%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.59%) Robotics
7 3 (1.19%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.19%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (0.79%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.79%) Derivative
8 2 (0.79%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.79%) Industry 4.0
8 2 (0.79%) IoT
8 2 (0.79%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.79%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.56%) Windows
2 12 (4.76%) Windows 10
3 8 (3.17%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.98%) Android
4 5 (1.98%) Unix
4 5 (1.98%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (1.19%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.19%) Linux
6 2 (0.79%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.79%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (15.08%) Agile
2 30 (11.90%) ITIL
3 28 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 27 (10.71%) DevOps
5 20 (7.94%) Data Analysis
5 20 (7.94%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (7.54%) Software Engineering
7 18 (7.14%) Microservices
7 18 (7.14%) Roadmaps
8 16 (6.35%) Business Intelligence
8 16 (6.35%) Project Management
8 16 (6.35%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (5.95%) Customer Experience
9 15 (5.95%) Design Patterns
9 15 (5.95%) Line Management
9 15 (5.95%) Test Automation
10 14 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (4.76%) Change Management
11 12 (4.76%) Data Modelling
12 11 (4.37%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 30 (11.90%) Python
2 28 (11.11%) Java
3 17 (6.75%) SQL
4 10 (3.97%) Perl
5 9 (3.57%) PowerShell
6 8 (3.17%) Tcl
7 7 (2.78%) Bash
8 6 (2.38%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.98%) C#
9 5 (1.98%) Go
9 5 (1.98%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.98%) Scala
9 5 (1.98%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.79%) Groovy
11 2 (0.79%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.40%) ABAP
12 1 (0.40%) C
12 1 (0.40%) C++
12 1 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 37 (14.68%) Security Cleared
2 27 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.35%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (5.95%) CCNA
4 15 (5.95%) Degree
5 13 (5.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (4.76%) CCNP
7 11 (4.37%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (2.38%) AWS Certification
8 6 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 5 (1.98%) MCSE
10 3 (1.19%) CISM
10 3 (1.19%) CISSP
11 2 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.79%) MCITP
11 2 (0.79%) RIBA
11 2 (0.79%) VCAP
12 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.54%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.97%) GDPR
2 10 (3.97%) QA
3 9 (3.57%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.79%) GRC
5 2 (0.79%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.79%) PMO
5 2 (0.79%) SLA
6 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.40%) GxP
6 1 (0.40%) NIST
6 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (7.54%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.57%) Firmware
3 7 (2.78%) Docker
4 6 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.19%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.79%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.79%) vSphere
7 1 (0.40%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 16 (6.35%) Terraform
2 10 (3.97%) Ansible
3 9 (3.57%) Kubernetes
4 8 (3.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (2.38%) SCCM
6 3 (1.19%) Grafana
6 3 (1.19%) Kibana
7 2 (0.79%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.40%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.40%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.40%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.40%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.40%) WSUS
Vendors
1 29 (11.51%) Microsoft
1 29 (11.51%) SAP
2 20 (7.94%) Cisco
3 17 (6.75%) VMware
4 15 (5.95%) ServiceNow
5 12 (4.76%) SolarWinds
6 11 (4.37%) Palo Alto
7 10 (3.97%) Citrix
8 8 (3.17%) Ariba
9 5 (1.98%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.98%) Dataiku
9 5 (1.98%) Trillium
10 4 (1.59%) Oracle
11 3 (1.19%) 3PAR
11 3 (1.19%) Dell
11 3 (1.19%) Veeam
12 2 (0.79%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.79%) Dell Compellent
12 2 (0.79%) HP
12 2 (0.79%) Nimble Storage