Senior Contracts in West Yorkshire

Senior
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Senior daily rate in West Yorkshire is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 16 20
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 70 133 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 6.99% 8.13% 8.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.53% 8.34% 8.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 103 106
10th Percentile £325 £425 £413
25th Percentile £425 £500 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +18.28%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £593
90th Percentile £720 £700 £644
Yorkshire median daily rate £508 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -11.74% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - £30.78 -
25th Percentile - £50.37 £25.75
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year - +135.85% -6.77%
75th Percentile - £67.81 £27.25
90th Percentile - £75.13 -
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
West Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in West 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 930 1,594 1,862
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.91% 97.49% 97.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 1,105 1,343
10th Percentile £275 £327 £250
25th Percentile £400 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £493
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +6.60% +9.44%
75th Percentile £576 £600 £560
90th Percentile £668 £700 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 15 53
10th Percentile £11.75 £12.46 £10.29
25th Percentile £12.25 £14.46 £12.00
Median hourly rate £15.17 £32.50 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year -53.32% +92.88% -22.49%
75th Percentile £22.75 £66.88 £21.50
90th Percentile £53.75 £70.00 £26.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.25 £22.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -35.23% +25.71% -7.89%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in West Yorkshire

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in West Yorkshire

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in West Yorkshire

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in West Yorkshire

Senior
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 29 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
Leeds +3 67 £525 -8.70% 68
Bradford -1 1 £600 -6.98% 4
Wakefield -6 1 £488 +116.67% 3
Senior
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 Yorkshire region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 24 (34.29%) Agile
2 18 (25.71%) Social Skills
3 17 (24.29%) ITIL
4 13 (18.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (18.57%) Public Sector
5 12 (17.14%) ServiceNow
5 12 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (12.86%) Security Cleared
7 8 (11.43%) Mentoring
7 8 (11.43%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (11.43%) Service Management
7 8 (11.43%) Finance
7 8 (11.43%) Software Engineering
7 8 (11.43%) Roadmaps
7 8 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (10.00%) Degree
8 7 (10.00%) Web Services
8 7 (10.00%) Service Design
8 7 (10.00%) SC Cleared
8 7 (10.00%) Scala
8 7 (10.00%) Azure
9 6 (8.57%) Analytics
9 6 (8.57%) Line Management
9 6 (8.57%) Service Delivery
9 6 (8.57%) ITSM
9 6 (8.57%) JavaScript
9 6 (8.57%) Microsoft
9 6 (8.57%) JIRA
9 6 (8.57%) User Research
9 6 (8.57%) User Experience

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 3 (4.29%) Confluence
2 2 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.43%) Drupal
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.43%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.43%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.43%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) SAP CRM
1 1 (1.43%) SAP IS-U
1 1 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.00%) Azure
2 5 (7.14%) AWS
3 4 (5.71%) IaaS
3 4 (5.71%) PaaS
3 4 (5.71%) SaaS
4 3 (4.29%) Akamai
4 3 (4.29%) Cloudflare
4 3 (4.29%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.86%) GCP
5 2 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.43%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.43%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.71%) DNS
2 2 (2.86%) HTTP
3 1 (1.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.86%) MongoDB
1 2 (2.86%) Tableau
2 1 (1.43%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (1.43%) GIS
2 1 (1.43%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.43%) Power BI
2 1 (1.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (8.57%) JIRA
2 3 (4.29%) Selenium
3 2 (2.86%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.86%) Gatling
3 2 (2.86%) Git
3 2 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.86%) JMeter
3 2 (2.86%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.43%) Dreamweaver
4 1 (1.43%) Postman
General
1 18 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.57%) Public Sector
3 12 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.43%) Finance
5 3 (4.29%) Retail
6 2 (2.86%) Law
6 2 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.86%) Spanish Language
7 1 (1.43%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.43%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Legal
7 1 (1.43%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.00%) Web Services
2 3 (4.29%) .NET
3 2 (2.86%) .NET Framework
3 2 (2.86%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (2.86%) CSS
3 2 (2.86%) HTML
3 2 (2.86%) jQuery
3 2 (2.86%) Kafka
4 1 (1.43%) Node.js
4 1 (1.43%) React
4 1 (1.43%) Redux
4 1 (1.43%) RESTful
4 1 (1.43%) Spring
4 1 (1.43%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 3 (4.29%) Product Ownership
1 3 (4.29%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (2.86%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (1.43%) CMDB
3 1 (1.43%) Genomics
3 1 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.43%) iPad
3 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.43%) mHealth
3 1 (1.43%) NHS
3 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.43%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.86%) Mac OS X
1 2 (2.86%) Unix
2 1 (1.43%) Android
2 1 (1.43%) Windows
2 1 (1.43%) Windows 10
2 1 (1.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (34.29%) Agile
2 17 (24.29%) ITIL
3 13 (18.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (11.43%) Mentoring
4 8 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (11.43%) Roadmaps
4 8 (11.43%) Service Management
4 8 (11.43%) Software Engineering
5 7 (10.00%) Service Design
6 6 (8.57%) Analytics
6 6 (8.57%) ITSM
6 6 (8.57%) Line Management
6 6 (8.57%) Service Delivery
6 6 (8.57%) User Experience
6 6 (8.57%) User Research
7 5 (7.14%) Asset Management
7 5 (7.14%) Change Management
7 5 (7.14%) Coaching
7 5 (7.14%) Incident Management
7 5 (7.14%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.00%) Scala
2 6 (8.57%) JavaScript
3 3 (4.29%) Java
3 3 (4.29%) SQL
3 3 (4.29%) TypeScript
4 2 (2.86%) C#
4 2 (2.86%) Groovy
4 2 (2.86%) Kotlin
4 2 (2.86%) MATLAB
4 2 (2.86%) Shell Script
4 2 (2.86%) VB.NET
4 2 (2.86%) VBA
5 1 (1.43%) PHP
5 1 (1.43%) Python
5 1 (1.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (12.86%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.43%) ITIL Certification
3 7 (10.00%) Degree
3 7 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.86%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.43%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (17.14%) ServiceNow
2 6 (8.57%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.14%) SAP
4 3 (4.29%) F5
5 2 (2.86%) Google
6 1 (1.43%) Brio
6 1 (1.43%) Oracle
6 1 (1.43%) Virgin Media