Senior Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior daily rate in the UK excluding London is £514 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 21 28 29
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 1,377 1,563 1,943
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.72% 6.66% 6.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.27% 7.06% 6.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 808 1,127 1,386
10th Percentile £350 £381 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £547 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.99% +4.19% +7.69%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £563 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -4.66% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 73 39
10th Percentile £23.09 £17.72 £19.28
25th Percentile £35.52 £24.00 £25.38
Median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £44.68
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +0.72% +44.83%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.75 £51.60
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.63 £58.75
UK median hourly rate £48.75 £50.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year -2.50% +29.03% +17.96%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,944 22,126 29,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,489 20,369
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,258 1,140 1,432
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.72 £17.86 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.07
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the UK excluding London

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Senior in the UK excluding London

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior in the UK excluding London

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior in the UK excluding London

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in the UK excluding London

Senior
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
South East +10 436 £525 +5.00% 580
North of England +1 345 £504 -10.40% 550
North West +11 249 £514 -4.42% 327
Scotland -1 190 £500 -0.99% 207
South West 0 153 £500 -16.67% 340
Midlands +12 134 £500 -7.41% 392
West Midlands +11 110 £500 -9.09% 249
East of England -14 92 £550 -8.33% 273
Yorkshire -8 90 £500 -13.04% 166
Wales +6 31 £600 +9.09% 83
East Midlands -7 22 £500 -6.98% 143
North East 0 19 £600 -1.03% 66
Northern Ireland -5 4 £435 -28.95% 47
Senior
UK

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

1 357 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 319 (23.17%) Agile
3 303 (22.00%) Social Skills
4 262 (19.03%) Public Sector
5 209 (15.18%) SC Cleared
6 192 (13.94%) Finance
7 171 (12.42%) Microsoft
8 170 (12.35%) Azure
9 166 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
10 158 (11.47%) Project Management
11 145 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
12 141 (10.24%) SQL
13 140 (10.17%) DevOps
14 132 (9.59%) Degree
15 126 (9.15%) Windows
16 118 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
17 117 (8.50%) AWS
18 108 (7.84%) Software Engineering
19 104 (7.55%) Java
20 97 (7.04%) Python
21 96 (6.97%) DV Cleared
22 95 (6.90%) ITIL
23 91 (6.61%) JIRA
24 89 (6.46%) Migration
25 88 (6.39%) Linux
25 88 (6.39%) Continuous Improvement
26 82 (5.95%) Cisco
27 81 (5.88%) CI/CD
27 81 (5.88%) Roadmaps
28 78 (5.66%) Project Delivery

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 46 (3.34%) Confluence
2 35 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (1.09%) CMS
5 11 (0.80%) Apache
6 9 (0.65%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.65%) SAS
7 5 (0.36%) Documentum
7 5 (0.36%) IBM HTTP Server
7 5 (0.36%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.36%) WebSphere Application Server
7 5 (0.36%) WebSphere Portal
8 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.073%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.073%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.073%) FileNet
9 1 (0.073%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.073%) MTS
Applications
1 18 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 18 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.73%) Acrobat
3 8 (0.58%) Revit
3 8 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.44%) Windchill
5 5 (0.36%) AutoCAD
6 4 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.29%) SPSS
7 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.15%) CINEMA 4D
8 2 (0.15%) InVision
8 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.15%) Simulink
8 2 (0.15%) Stateflow
9 1 (0.073%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.073%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 23 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.23%) Primavera
3 10 (0.73%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.36%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.15%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.15%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.15%) SAP EWM
7 2 (0.15%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.15%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.15%) SAP WM
8 1 (0.073%) Maximo
8 1 (0.073%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.073%) PeopleSoft HRMS
8 1 (0.073%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.073%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.073%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.073%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 170 (12.35%) Azure
2 117 (8.50%) AWS
3 69 (5.01%) Power Platform
4 54 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
5 42 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (1.89%) GCP
7 21 (1.53%) Power Automate
8 17 (1.23%) PowerApps
9 16 (1.16%) SaaS
10 14 (1.02%) Serverless
11 13 (0.94%) PaaS
11 13 (0.94%) Snowflake
12 12 (0.87%) IaaS
13 10 (0.73%) OpenShift
14 9 (0.65%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (0.58%) Azure Sentinel
15 8 (0.58%) GitHub
15 8 (0.58%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.87%) Firewall
2 36 (2.61%) WAN
3 27 (1.96%) DNS
3 27 (1.96%) LAN
3 27 (1.96%) Network Security
4 25 (1.82%) DMZ
5 24 (1.74%) SAN
6 23 (1.67%) BGP
7 19 (1.38%) DHCP
8 15 (1.09%) Cisco Firepower
8 15 (1.09%) NetScaler
9 13 (0.94%) MPLS
9 13 (0.94%) OSPF
10 12 (0.87%) IPsec
10 12 (0.87%) TCP/IP
11 11 (0.80%) Cisco ASA
11 11 (0.80%) EIGRP
11 11 (0.80%) HTTP
11 11 (0.80%) VPN
11 11 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (4.28%) Power BI
2 48 (3.49%) SQL Server
3 31 (2.25%) MongoDB
4 18 (1.31%) Oracle Database
5 16 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (1.09%) Metadata
7 14 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (0.87%) Data Lake
8 12 (0.87%) Tableau
9 11 (0.80%) MySQL
10 9 (0.65%) Qlik Sense
10 9 (0.65%) Relational Database
11 8 (0.58%) Big Data
11 8 (0.58%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.51%) Ataccama
12 7 (0.51%) Data Mining
12 7 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (0.44%) Hadoop
13 6 (0.44%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 91 (6.61%) JIRA
2 46 (3.34%) Jenkins
3 44 (3.20%) Git
4 29 (2.11%) GitLab
5 27 (1.96%) Selenium
6 23 (1.67%) Cucumber
7 20 (1.45%) Postman
8 14 (1.02%) JUnit
9 13 (0.94%) JMeter
9 13 (0.94%) SonarQube
10 10 (0.73%) Oracle APEX
10 10 (0.73%) REST Assured
11 9 (0.65%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.65%) Rational DOORS
12 8 (0.58%) IntelliJ
12 8 (0.58%) Visual Studio
13 7 (0.51%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.51%) NUnit
13 7 (0.51%) Rational Rhapsody
13 7 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 303 (22.00%) Social Skills
2 262 (19.03%) Public Sector
3 192 (13.94%) Finance
4 118 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (3.85%) Banking
6 39 (2.83%) Telecoms
7 34 (2.47%) Marketing
8 26 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
8 26 (1.89%) Manufacturing
8 26 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
9 25 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
10 24 (1.74%) Local Government
11 23 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
12 18 (1.31%) Law
13 17 (1.23%) Legal
14 16 (1.16%) Automotive
15 15 (1.09%) Military
16 14 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 12 (0.87%) Aviation
17 12 (0.87%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (4.21%) React
2 48 (3.49%) .NET
3 40 (2.90%) REST
4 32 (2.32%) CSS
4 32 (2.32%) HTML
5 29 (2.11%) Spring
6 28 (2.03%) RESTful
7 26 (1.89%) Kafka
8 25 (1.82%) Spring Boot
9 24 (1.74%) Node.js
10 23 (1.67%) AngularJS
11 20 (1.45%) Web Services
12 18 (1.31%) GraphQL
13 16 (1.16%) J2EE
14 14 (1.02%) Middleware
15 12 (0.87%) Redux
15 12 (0.87%) Vue
16 11 (0.80%) Itk
16 11 (0.80%) XML
17 10 (0.73%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 42 (3.05%) Product Ownership
2 34 (2.47%) Management Information System
3 30 (2.18%) Data Centre
4 23 (1.67%) NHS
5 18 (1.31%) Onboarding
6 16 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
6 16 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (1.09%) Data Structures
8 14 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (0.94%) Public Cloud
9 13 (0.94%) Security Operations Centre
10 12 (0.87%) Algorithms
10 12 (0.87%) Cloud Native
11 11 (0.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 11 (0.80%) Life Science
12 10 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
12 10 (0.73%) Mobile App
12 10 (0.73%) Replication
13 9 (0.65%) Cyberattack
13 9 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 126 (9.15%) Windows
2 88 (6.39%) Linux
3 32 (2.32%) Windows 10
4 31 (2.25%) Windows Server
5 30 (2.18%) Unix
6 16 (1.16%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.80%) Android
7 11 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
9 9 (0.65%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
12 4 (0.29%) Debian
12 4 (0.29%) Mac OS X
12 4 (0.29%) Solaris
13 3 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
13 3 (0.22%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.15%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (23.17%) Agile
2 166 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
3 158 (11.47%) Project Management
4 145 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 140 (10.17%) DevOps
6 108 (7.84%) Software Engineering
7 95 (6.90%) ITIL
8 89 (6.46%) Migration
9 88 (6.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 81 (5.88%) CI/CD
10 81 (5.88%) Roadmaps
11 78 (5.66%) Project Delivery
12 73 (5.30%) Scrum
13 72 (5.23%) Business Intelligence
14 64 (4.65%) Cybersecurity
15 63 (4.58%) Decision-Making
16 61 (4.43%) Change Management
17 59 (4.28%) Mentoring
17 59 (4.28%) PRINCE2
18 57 (4.14%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 141 (10.24%) SQL
2 104 (7.55%) Java
3 97 (7.04%) Python
4 52 (3.78%) PowerShell
5 42 (3.05%) C#
6 41 (2.98%) JavaScript
7 32 (2.32%) TypeScript
8 30 (2.18%) C++
9 27 (1.96%) C
10 22 (1.60%) Bash
11 19 (1.38%) Scala
12 18 (1.31%) Perl
13 16 (1.16%) T-SQL
14 12 (0.87%) PL/SQL
15 10 (0.73%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.65%) Go
17 8 (0.58%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.58%) PHP
17 8 (0.58%) Tcl
18 7 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 357 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 209 (15.18%) SC Cleared
3 132 (9.59%) Degree
4 96 (6.97%) DV Cleared
5 59 (4.28%) Cisco Certification
6 33 (2.40%) ITIL Certification
7 30 (2.18%) Master's Degree
8 27 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (1.82%) CCNA
9 25 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (1.67%) CCNP
11 17 (1.23%) PMP
12 16 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
12 16 (1.16%) PMI Certification
13 12 (0.87%) CISSP
14 11 (0.80%) AWS Certification
15 9 (0.65%) ISTQB
15 9 (0.65%) MCSE
15 9 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 7 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (2.98%) PMO
2 34 (2.47%) Accessibility
3 33 (2.40%) QA
4 21 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (1.45%) Data Quality
6 19 (1.38%) Disclosure Scotland
6 19 (1.38%) GDPR
7 12 (0.87%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.80%) NIST
9 8 (0.58%) HL7
10 7 (0.51%) WCAG
11 6 (0.44%) GRC
11 6 (0.44%) NCSC
11 6 (0.44%) SLA
12 5 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 12207
14 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 65 (4.72%) Active Directory
2 43 (3.12%) Docker
3 27 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.38%) vSphere
5 13 (0.94%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.80%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.73%) Firmware
8 8 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (0.51%) XenApp
10 6 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.22%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 3 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.22%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.073%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.073%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.073%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 56 (4.07%) Terraform
2 47 (3.41%) Ansible
3 46 (3.34%) Kubernetes
4 20 (1.45%) SCCM
5 14 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.94%) Grafana
6 13 (0.94%) Kibana
7 8 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
7 8 (0.58%) Podman
8 7 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.51%) vCenter Server
9 6 (0.44%) WSUS
10 5 (0.36%) Endace
10 5 (0.36%) NetBackup
10 5 (0.36%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.29%) Data Guard
11 4 (0.29%) EMC NetWorker
11 4 (0.29%) Puppet
11 4 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 171 (12.42%) Microsoft
2 82 (5.95%) Cisco
3 70 (5.08%) SAP
4 68 (4.94%) VMware
5 41 (2.98%) Oracle
6 32 (2.32%) ServiceNow
7 29 (2.11%) CheckPoint
8 25 (1.82%) Arista
8 25 (1.82%) Atlassian
9 24 (1.74%) Juniper
9 24 (1.74%) Splunk
10 22 (1.60%) Citrix
11 19 (1.38%) Palo Alto
12 18 (1.31%) SolarWinds
13 16 (1.16%) Adobe
14 14 (1.02%) F5
14 14 (1.02%) Red Hat
15 13 (0.94%) Apple
16 11 (0.80%) Google
16 11 (0.80%) LogRhythm