Senior Contracts in West London

Senior
London > West London

The median Senior daily rate in West London is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 13 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 32 59 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 8.99% 10.35% 10.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.50% 10.65% 11.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 28 48
10th Percentile £200 £368 £429
25th Percentile £300 £429 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% -6.25% +15.38%
75th Percentile £583 £650 £669
90th Percentile £612 £694 £696
London median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 2
10th Percentile - £58.00 £32.88
25th Percentile - £60.63 £33.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +72.41% -
75th Percentile - £67.50 £38.44
90th Percentile - £75.00 £38.63
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
West London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in West 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 West London with a recognized job title 337 554 575
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.66% 97.19% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 404 402
10th Percentile £200 £297 £200
25th Percentile £270 £430 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% +10.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 54 40
10th Percentile £16.25 £25.38 £15.73
25th Percentile £18.13 £40.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £64.00 £21.36
Median % change year-on-year -52.88% +199.59% -20.88%
75th Percentile £55.00 £75.00 £37.17
90th Percentile £65.00 £88.50 £42.02
London median hourly rate £27.25 £35.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.78% +2.14% +8.63%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in West London

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in West London

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in West London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in West London

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in West London

Senior
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 7 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
Hounslow -6 21 £340 -39.56% 10
Hillingdon +25 3 £518 -20.38% 11
Hammersmith +2 2 £200 -61.91% 3
Senior
London

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 West London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 11 (34.38%) Agile
3 8 (25.00%) Project Management
3 8 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (21.88%) TDD
4 7 (21.88%) Pair Programming
4 7 (21.88%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (21.88%) AWS
4 7 (21.88%) Jenkins
4 7 (21.88%) Go
5 6 (18.75%) DevOps
6 5 (15.63%) JavaScript
6 5 (15.63%) Migration
6 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
6 5 (15.63%) TypeScript
6 5 (15.63%) Node.js
6 5 (15.63%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (15.63%) Dashboard Development
6 5 (15.63%) Kotlin
7 4 (12.50%) Code Quality
7 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
7 4 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (12.50%) NoSQL
7 4 (12.50%) Docker
7 4 (12.50%) Git
7 4 (12.50%) Scrum
7 4 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 4 (12.50%) JIRA
7 4 (12.50%) Service Delivery
7 4 (12.50%) Firewall

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 2 (6.25%) Apache
1 2 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (6.25%) ArcGIS
1 2 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) AWS
2 2 (6.25%) Azure
2 2 (6.25%) GCP
2 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.13%) PowerApps
3 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) Firewall
2 2 (6.25%) Network Security
2 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.25%) WLAN
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (3.13%) DNS
3 1 (3.13%) HTTP
3 1 (3.13%) HTTPS
3 1 (3.13%) IPsec
3 1 (3.13%) MPLS
3 1 (3.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.25%) GIS
2 2 (6.25%) Power BI
2 2 (6.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.50%) Git
2 4 (12.50%) JIRA
3 2 (6.25%) Gatling
3 2 (6.25%) Mockito
3 2 (6.25%) ScalaTest
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Finance
2 3 (9.38%) Games
2 3 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Local Government
3 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Aviation
4 1 (3.13%) Legal
4 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) Node.js
2 3 (9.38%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 3 (9.38%) Unreal Engine
3 2 (6.25%) .NET
3 2 (6.25%) Akka
3 2 (6.25%) Hibernate
3 2 (6.25%) JPA
3 2 (6.25%) Play Framework
3 2 (6.25%) RESTful
3 2 (6.25%) spray
3 2 (6.25%) Spring
3 2 (6.25%) Spring MVC
3 2 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
1 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
1 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.13%) Life Science
2 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Agile
2 8 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (25.00%) Project Management
3 7 (21.88%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (21.88%) Pair Programming
3 7 (21.88%) TDD
4 6 (18.75%) DevOps
5 5 (15.63%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (15.63%) Dashboard Development
5 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
5 5 (15.63%) Migration
6 4 (12.50%) Code Quality
6 4 (12.50%) Scrum
6 4 (12.50%) Service Delivery
6 4 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (9.38%) Project Delivery
7 3 (9.38%) Psychology
8 2 (6.25%) Architectural Design
8 2 (6.25%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.88%) Go
2 5 (15.63%) JavaScript
2 5 (15.63%) Kotlin
2 5 (15.63%) TypeScript
3 4 (12.50%) Java
4 3 (9.38%) SQL
5 2 (6.25%) Python
5 2 (6.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.25%) Ansible
2 2 (6.25%) Grafana
2 2 (6.25%) Prometheus
2 2 (6.25%) Puppet
2 2 (6.25%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (9.38%) Cisco
2 2 (6.25%) Palo Alto
2 2 (6.25%) Progress
2 2 (6.25%) SAP
3 1 (3.13%) Ariba
3 1 (3.13%) Fortinet