Senior Contracts in South London

Senior
London > South London

The median Senior daily rate in South London is £550 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 11 11 30
Rank change year-on-year 0 +19 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 33 54 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 13.69% 13.95% 6.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.04% 15.08% 7.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 47 19
10th Percentile £429 £413 £402
25th Percentile £479 £486 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -2.22%
75th Percentile £575 £663 £638
90th Percentile £579 £935 £735
London median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.25 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £83.75 - -
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
South London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in South 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 South London with a recognized job title 235 358 353
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.51% 92.51% 96.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 281 271
10th Percentile £235 £213 £225
25th Percentile £413 £425 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +1.49%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £638
90th Percentile £632 £775 £713
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 14
10th Percentile £17.00 £16.13 £39.43
25th Percentile £20.25 £19.06 £40.70
Median hourly rate £23.50 £36.94 £46.82
Median % change year-on-year -36.38% -21.09% +1.77%
75th Percentile £77.19 £50.42 £48.59
90th Percentile £83.75 £54.94 £54.08
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 South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in South London

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in South London

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior in South London

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in South London

Senior
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South 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
Croydon -5 18 £550 - 8
Kingston Upon Thames -1 5 - - 8
Merton 0 2 £500 +17.65% 10
Senior
London

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 South London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 22 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 18 (54.55%) SC Cleared
3 13 (39.39%) Agile
4 12 (36.36%) DevOps
5 9 (27.27%) AWS
5 9 (27.27%) CI/CD
6 8 (24.24%) JIRA
7 6 (18.18%) Python
7 6 (18.18%) Confluence
7 6 (18.18%) Git
7 6 (18.18%) Jenkins
7 6 (18.18%) Terraform
7 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
8 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
8 5 (15.15%) Docker
8 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes
8 5 (15.15%) React
8 5 (15.15%) Bash
8 5 (15.15%) .NET
8 5 (15.15%) Scrum
9 4 (12.12%) Software Engineering
9 4 (12.12%) Supplier Management
9 4 (12.12%) Computer Science
9 4 (12.12%) Requirements Management
9 4 (12.12%) Degree
9 4 (12.12%) Oracle
9 4 (12.12%) Unix
9 4 (12.12%) UML
9 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
9 4 (12.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 6 (18.18%) Confluence
2 2 (6.06%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 9 (27.27%) AWS
2 4 (12.12%) Amazon S3
2 4 (12.12%) OCI
3 3 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (9.09%) Azure
3 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (6.06%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (6.06%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (6.06%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (6.06%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.06%) GitHub
4 2 (6.06%) Serverless
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.06%) GIS
2 2 (6.06%) Redis
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (24.24%) JIRA
2 6 (18.18%) Git
2 6 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.06%) Postman
4 1 (3.03%) GitLab
4 1 (3.03%) SoapUI
General
1 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
3 4 (12.12%) Aerospace
4 3 (9.09%) Finance
4 3 (9.09%) Local Government
5 2 (6.06%) Back Office
5 2 (6.06%) Front Office
6 1 (3.03%) Military
6 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) .NET
1 5 (15.15%) React
2 4 (12.12%) .NET Core
3 3 (9.09%) Hibernate
3 3 (9.09%) JPA
3 3 (9.09%) REST
3 3 (9.09%) Spring
3 3 (9.09%) Spring Boot
3 3 (9.09%) Spring Security
4 2 (6.06%) ASP.NET
4 2 (6.06%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (6.06%) CSS
4 2 (6.06%) HTML
4 2 (6.06%) XML
5 1 (3.03%) OAuth
5 1 (3.03%) OAuth2
5 1 (3.03%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Embedded Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (12.12%) Onboarding
1 4 (12.12%) Public Cloud
2 2 (6.06%) Algorithms
2 2 (6.06%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.06%) Mobile Payment
3 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Unix
2 1 (3.03%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) Agile
2 12 (36.36%) DevOps
3 9 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 5 (15.15%) Scrum
5 4 (12.12%) Code Quality
5 4 (12.12%) Computer Science
5 4 (12.12%) Design Patterns
5 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (12.12%) Requirements Management
5 4 (12.12%) Software Engineering
5 4 (12.12%) Supplier Management
5 4 (12.12%) UML
6 3 (9.09%) Observability
6 3 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (9.09%) TDD
7 2 (6.06%) B2C
7 2 (6.06%) Microservices
7 2 (6.06%) Software Testing
7 2 (6.06%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.18%) Python
2 5 (15.15%) Bash
3 4 (12.12%) Go
4 3 (9.09%) Bicep
4 3 (9.09%) C#
4 3 (9.09%) Java
5 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.03%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 22 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 18 (54.55%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.12%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (12.12%) Degree
3 4 (12.12%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.03%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) QA
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) Docker
2 3 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) Terraform
2 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.03%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
1 4 (12.12%) Oracle
2 1 (3.03%) NEC