Senior Contracts in Swindon

Senior
Wiltshire > Swindon

The median Senior daily rate in Swindon is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 21 17
Rank change year-on-year +11 -4 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 12 12 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Swindon 10.00% 5.31% 7.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.21% 5.33% 7.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 11
10th Percentile - £613 £413
25th Percentile - £625 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £510
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +27.45% -13.19%
75th Percentile £510 £694 £581
90th Percentile £516 £740 £750
Wiltshire median daily rate £510 £605 £530
% change year-on-year -15.70% +14.15% -7.87%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Swindon

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Swindon. 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 Swindon with a recognized job title 107 225 290
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.17% 99.56% 93.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 185 203
10th Percentile £143 £200 £231
25th Percentile £200 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £544 £588 £594
90th Percentile £712 £691 £672
Wiltshire median daily rate £550 £550 £520
% change year-on-year - +5.77% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile £14.25 - £15.18
25th Percentile £15.75 - £15.44
Median hourly rate £16.50 - £17.25
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.25%
75th Percentile £30.25 - £26.19
90th Percentile - - £30.73
Wiltshire median hourly rate £25.00 £65.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -61.83% +19.09% +22.22%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Swindon

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Swindon

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Swindon

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Swindon

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 Swindon region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 11 (91.67%) Agile
2 8 (66.67%) AWS
2 8 (66.67%) DevOps
2 8 (66.67%) Terraform
3 6 (50.00%) Cloud Native
3 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (50.00%) Business Case
3 6 (50.00%) Azure
3 6 (50.00%) Ansible
3 6 (50.00%) Database Tuning
3 6 (50.00%) Migration
3 6 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (50.00%) SQL
3 6 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (50.00%) Database Migration
4 4 (33.33%) Git
4 4 (33.33%) German Language
4 4 (33.33%) Database Security
4 4 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (25.00%) User Experience
6 2 (16.67%) JMeter
6 2 (16.67%) Finance
6 2 (16.67%) C#
6 2 (16.67%) LoadRunner
6 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (16.67%) Performance Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills

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

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (8.33%) InVision
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
2 6 (50.00%) Azure
3 4 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) JMeter
2 2 (16.67%) LoadRunner
General
1 4 (33.33%) German Language
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Agile
2 8 (66.67%) DevOps
3 6 (50.00%) Business Case
3 6 (50.00%) Database Migration
3 6 (50.00%) Database Tuning
3 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (50.00%) Migration
4 4 (33.33%) Database Security
5 3 (25.00%) User Experience
6 2 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (16.67%) Performance Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Performance Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (16.67%) SDLC
6 2 (16.67%) SIEM
6 2 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
7 1 (8.33%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) Terraform
2 6 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Adobe
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow