Senior Contracts in the West Midlands

Senior
England > West Midlands

The median Senior daily rate in the West Midlands is £511 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 22 34 41
Rank change year-on-year +12 +7 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 114 140 188
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.92% 5.88% 5.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.48% 6.19% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 105 133
10th Percentile £275 £369 £375
25th Percentile £412 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.32% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £628 £625 £638
90th Percentile £699 £700 £700
England median daily rate £567 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -5.50% +3.45% +10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 1
10th Percentile £13.50 - -
25th Percentile £15.65 - -
Median hourly rate £42.00 £17.72 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +137.02% +10.75% -
75th Percentile £56.25 £19.29 -
90th Percentile £69.25 £22.12 -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +5.56% +28.57% +6.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,758 2,260 3,434
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 94.96% 96.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,183 1,555 2,513
10th Percentile £259 £250 £213
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 66 83
10th Percentile £12.01 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.02 £14.16
Median hourly rate £22.25 £19.50 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year +14.10% +12.85% +9.71%
75th Percentile £42.31 £26.82 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.88 £55.63 £23.45
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the West Midlands

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in the West Midlands

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior in the West Midlands

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in the West Midlands

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in the West Midlands

Senior
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands 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
Birmingham -4 38 £475 -13.64% 87
Warwickshire +16 25 £563 +2.27% 25
Coventry +12 20 £600 +9.59% 20
Staffordshire +9 10 £352 -32.95% 27
Shropshire +25 8 £485 -10.02% 5
Worcestershire -5 3 £600 +14.29% 12
Herefordshire -7 2 - - 2
Senior
England

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

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 West Midlands region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 33 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 30 (26.32%) Agile
3 29 (25.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 28 (24.56%) Project Management
5 23 (20.18%) Finance
6 20 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (15.79%) Project Delivery
7 18 (15.79%) SQL
8 17 (14.91%) Azure
8 17 (14.91%) Public Sector
9 15 (13.16%) Microsoft
9 15 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
10 14 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (12.28%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (11.40%) Change Management
11 13 (11.40%) Power BI
11 13 (11.40%) Power Platform
11 13 (11.40%) Decision-Making
12 12 (10.53%) Security Cleared
13 11 (9.65%) SC Cleared
13 11 (9.65%) PRINCE2
13 11 (9.65%) DevOps
14 9 (7.89%) Analytics
14 9 (7.89%) Coaching
15 8 (7.02%) Law
15 8 (7.02%) SAP
15 8 (7.02%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 8 (7.02%) Mentoring
15 8 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (7.02%) PMO

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.75%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.75%) Confluence
4 1 (0.88%) CMS
4 1 (0.88%) Moodle
Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Revit
2 1 (0.88%) Acrobat
2 1 (0.88%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) MicroStation
2 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.88%) Maximo
2 1 (0.88%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.88%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.88%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (14.91%) Azure
2 13 (11.40%) Power Platform
3 8 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (6.14%) AWS
5 4 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (2.63%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.75%) Apigee
7 2 (1.75%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.75%) GCP
7 2 (1.75%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.75%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.75%) Serverless
8 1 (0.88%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.88%) GitHub
8 1 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.88%) Matillion
8 1 (0.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.51%) DNS
2 3 (2.63%) Intranet
2 3 (2.63%) NetScaler
3 2 (1.75%) Bluetooth
3 2 (1.75%) LAN
3 2 (1.75%) VPN
3 2 (1.75%) WAN
3 2 (1.75%) Wireless
4 1 (0.88%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.88%) DHCP
4 1 (0.88%) Firewall
4 1 (0.88%) MPLS
4 1 (0.88%) PBX
4 1 (0.88%) VoIP
4 1 (0.88%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.40%) Power BI
2 5 (4.39%) SAP BW
3 4 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.63%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.75%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.75%) Power Query
5 2 (1.75%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.88%) Big Data
6 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.88%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.88%) Metadata
6 1 (0.88%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.88%) Presto
6 1 (0.88%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (6.14%) Rational Rhapsody
2 6 (5.26%) JIRA
3 2 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.88%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.88%) Ant
4 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.88%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.88%) GitLab
4 1 (0.88%) Gradle
4 1 (0.88%) JUnit
4 1 (0.88%) Maven
4 1 (0.88%) Selenium
4 1 (0.88%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (0.88%) Xcode
General
1 33 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 23 (20.18%) Finance
3 17 (14.91%) Public Sector
4 15 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.02%) Law
6 6 (5.26%) Legal
6 6 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.39%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.51%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.63%) Automotive
9 3 (2.63%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.88%) Aviation
11 1 (0.88%) Games
11 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.88%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.63%) AngularJS
1 3 (2.63%) REST
2 2 (1.75%) .NET
2 2 (1.75%) ADO
2 2 (1.75%) CSS
2 2 (1.75%) HTML
2 2 (1.75%) LDAP
2 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (1.75%) React
2 2 (1.75%) Spring
2 2 (1.75%) Yocto
3 1 (0.88%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.88%) iOS SDK
3 1 (0.88%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (0.88%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.88%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (4.39%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.51%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.51%) PMI
4 3 (2.63%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.63%) CMDB
4 3 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.63%) Operational Technology
4 3 (2.63%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.63%) Taxonomies
4 3 (2.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (1.75%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.75%) Device Driver
5 2 (1.75%) Life Science
6 1 (0.88%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.88%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.88%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.88%) PKI
6 1 (0.88%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.88%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.14%) Linux
1 7 (6.14%) Windows
2 4 (3.51%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.63%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.75%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.88%) Android
5 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.88%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (26.32%) Agile
2 29 (25.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 28 (24.56%) Project Management
4 20 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (15.79%) Project Delivery
6 14 (12.28%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (11.40%) Change Management
7 13 (11.40%) Decision-Making
8 11 (9.65%) DevOps
8 11 (9.65%) PRINCE2
9 9 (7.89%) Analytics
9 9 (7.89%) Coaching
10 8 (7.02%) Mentoring
10 8 (7.02%) Roadmaps
11 7 (6.14%) Data Analysis
11 7 (6.14%) Target Operating Model
12 6 (5.26%) Computer Science
12 6 (5.26%) Software Engineering
12 6 (5.26%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 18 (15.79%) SQL
2 7 (6.14%) Python
3 5 (4.39%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.51%) C++
5 3 (2.63%) Java
6 2 (1.75%) Bash
6 2 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.88%) C
7 1 (0.88%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.88%) Scala
7 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.88%) Swift
7 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.65%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.02%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 7 (6.14%) Degree
5 4 (3.51%) PMI Certification
5 4 (3.51%) PMP
6 2 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.75%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.88%) CCIE
7 1 (0.88%) CCIE Data Center
7 1 (0.88%) CCNP
7 1 (0.88%) CISSP
7 1 (0.88%) CRISC
7 1 (0.88%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.88%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.02%) PMO
2 7 (6.14%) HL7
3 2 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.75%) GRC
4 1 (0.88%) COBIT
4 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.88%) HAZOP
4 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 1 (0.88%) ISO17020
4 1 (0.88%) NIST
4 1 (0.88%) QA
4 1 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (6.14%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.63%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 3 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (2.63%) XenApp
2 3 (2.63%) XenDesktop
3 2 (1.75%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (1.75%) Firmware
4 1 (0.88%) Docker
4 1 (0.88%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.75%) Terraform
2 1 (0.88%) Ansible
2 1 (0.88%) Kibana
2 1 (0.88%) logstash
2 1 (0.88%) Packer
2 1 (0.88%) SCCM
2 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.02%) SAP
3 4 (3.51%) Citrix
4 3 (2.63%) NetApp
4 3 (2.63%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.75%) NVIDIA
5 2 (1.75%) Splunk
6 1 (0.88%) Adobe
6 1 (0.88%) Cadence
6 1 (0.88%) Cisco
6 1 (0.88%) Concur
6 1 (0.88%) Darktrace
6 1 (0.88%) FireEye
6 1 (0.88%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.88%) IBM
6 1 (0.88%) iManage
6 1 (0.88%) LogRhythm
6 1 (0.88%) Teradata
6 1 (0.88%) VMware