Senior Contracts in South Yorkshire

Senior
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Senior daily rate in South Yorkshire is £538 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 37 30 33
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 20 25 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 4.39% 4.75% 4.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.81% 5.22% 4.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 22 19
10th Percentile £394 £575 £300
25th Percentile £413 £600 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £655 £520
Median % change year-on-year -17.94% +25.96% +8.05%
75th Percentile £720 £700 £540
90th Percentile - - £670
Yorkshire median daily rate £508 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -11.74% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.04
Median hourly rate - £17.72 £21.35
Median % change year-on-year - -17.00% +1.38%
75th Percentile - - £22.67
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.87 £62.50 £23.93
% change year-on-year -60.21% +161.23% -3.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 416 479 491
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.23% 91.06% 96.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 337 387
10th Percentile £249 £260 £263
25th Percentile £407 £450 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% +18.75%
75th Percentile £582 £650 £550
90th Percentile £639 £700 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 29
10th Percentile £10.90 £11.10 £10.94
25th Percentile £12.63 £11.25 £12.00
Median hourly rate £13.60 £17.72 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -23.28% +0.45% +10.25%
75th Percentile £23.31 £22.50 £22.67
90th Percentile £23.75 £33.00 £24.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.50 £22.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -34.09% +25.71% -7.89%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in South Yorkshire

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in South Yorkshire

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior in South Yorkshire

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in South Yorkshire

Senior
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield -6 19 £538 -17.94% 23
Senior
Yorkshire

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

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 South Yorkshire region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 8 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 7 (35.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (30.00%) ITIL Certification
3 6 (30.00%) ITIL
3 6 (30.00%) Agile
3 6 (30.00%) DevOps
4 5 (25.00%) Java
4 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 4 (20.00%) JMeter
5 4 (20.00%) Selenium
5 4 (20.00%) Line Management
5 4 (20.00%) User Stories
5 4 (20.00%) Software Delivery
6 3 (15.00%) AWS
6 3 (15.00%) Analytics
6 3 (15.00%) Test Scripting
6 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (15.00%) CMDB
6 3 (15.00%) WCAG
6 3 (15.00%) Finance
6 3 (15.00%) Service Management
6 3 (15.00%) ITSM
6 3 (15.00%) CRM
6 3 (15.00%) Data Modelling
6 3 (15.00%) Accessibility
6 3 (15.00%) Acceptance Criteria
7 2 (10.00%) Degree
7 2 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) GitHub
2 1 (5.00%) PaaS
2 1 (5.00%) SaaS
2 1 (5.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Network Security
1 1 (5.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) JMeter
1 4 (20.00%) Selenium
2 2 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (35.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
4 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Marketing
5 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (5.00%) CSS
1 1 (5.00%) HTML
1 1 (5.00%) JWT
1 1 (5.00%) LDAP
1 1 (5.00%) Node.js
1 1 (5.00%) OAuth
1 1 (5.00%) OpenID
1 1 (5.00%) REST
1 1 (5.00%) RESTful
1 1 (5.00%) Spring
1 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) CMDB
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Agile
1 6 (30.00%) DevOps
1 6 (30.00%) ITIL
2 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 4 (20.00%) Line Management
3 4 (20.00%) Software Delivery
3 4 (20.00%) User Stories
4 3 (15.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (15.00%) Analytics
4 3 (15.00%) CRM
4 3 (15.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (15.00%) ITSM
4 3 (15.00%) Service Management
4 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (15.00%) Test Scripting
5 2 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (10.00%) Data Lineage
5 2 (10.00%) Data Strategy
5 2 (10.00%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) Perl
3 1 (5.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) CCNA
3 1 (5.00%) CCNP
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (15.00%) WCAG
2 1 (5.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (5.00%) Puppet
2 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.00%) EMC
2 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Symantec
2 1 (5.00%) Veritas
2 1 (5.00%) VMware