Senior Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior daily rate in Work from Home is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 18 20
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 1,325 2,064 3,739
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 8.78% 8.22% 8.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.39% 8.62% 8.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 906 1,459 2,783
10th Percentile £411 £413 £413
25th Percentile £475 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £656
90th Percentile £800 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £563 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -4.66% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 42 28
10th Percentile £24.00 £40.15 £31.75
25th Percentile £35.89 £42.50 £39.69
Median hourly rate £44.74 £45.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% -2.70% +40.15%
75th Percentile £62.50 £67.50 £60.06
90th Percentile £72.50 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -4.04% +31.99% +14.16%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,116 23,953 42,349
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.34% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,456 16,906 30,628
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 553 596
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.61 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.42 £25.71 £18.76
Median hourly rate £44.74 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.15% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Senior
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Senior.

Senior daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Senior daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Senior.

Senior hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Senior hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 8 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Senior in the job title.

1 375 (28.30%) Agile
2 308 (23.25%) Finance
3 283 (21.36%) Azure
4 266 (20.08%) Social Skills
5 224 (16.91%) AWS
6 208 (15.70%) DevOps
7 204 (15.40%) Security Cleared
8 202 (15.25%) Python
9 195 (14.72%) Public Sector
10 194 (14.64%) Java
11 173 (13.06%) SQL
12 169 (12.75%) Software Engineering
13 160 (12.08%) SC Cleared
14 149 (11.25%) Microsoft
15 141 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
16 137 (10.34%) CI/CD
17 129 (9.74%) C#
18 125 (9.43%) JavaScript
19 105 (7.92%) Migration
20 102 (7.70%) Banking
20 102 (7.70%) Project Management
21 100 (7.55%) .NET
22 97 (7.32%) TypeScript
23 96 (7.25%) Degree
24 95 (7.17%) Stakeholder Management
25 94 (7.09%) SQL Server
26 91 (6.87%) Windows
27 90 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
27 90 (6.79%) React
28 89 (6.72%) Test Automation

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 39 (2.94%) Confluence
2 33 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (2.19%) Apache
4 21 (1.58%) SharePoint
5 12 (0.91%) CMS
6 11 (0.83%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.45%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.45%) WebSphere Application Server
8 5 (0.38%) IBM HTTP Server
8 5 (0.38%) WebSphere Portal
9 4 (0.30%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.23%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.15%) IIS
11 2 (0.15%) Mule
11 2 (0.15%) SAS
11 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 16 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.60%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.38%) Revit
5 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.30%) Trello
6 3 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.23%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.15%) CINEMA 4D
7 2 (0.15%) InDesign
7 2 (0.15%) Simulink
7 2 (0.15%) Stateflow
8 1 (0.075%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.075%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.075%) InVision
8 1 (0.075%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 25 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.91%) Elite 3E
3 10 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.60%) Primavera
6 7 (0.53%) SAP SD
7 5 (0.38%) NEC Housing
7 5 (0.38%) SimCorp Dimension
8 4 (0.30%) Endur
8 4 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.15%) RMDS
9 2 (0.15%) SAP HCM
9 2 (0.15%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.15%) SAP WM
9 2 (0.15%) Shopify
9 2 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.075%) Aladdin
10 1 (0.075%) Aligne
10 1 (0.075%) OPENHousing
10 1 (0.075%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 283 (21.36%) Azure
2 224 (16.91%) AWS
3 82 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
4 59 (4.45%) GCP
5 51 (3.85%) Power Platform
6 41 (3.09%) GitHub
7 40 (3.02%) Serverless
8 35 (2.64%) SaaS
9 33 (2.49%) dbt
9 33 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
10 31 (2.34%) Snowflake
11 29 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
12 24 (1.81%) PaaS
13 23 (1.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 22 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
15 21 (1.58%) Azure Service Bus
16 20 (1.51%) Amazon S3
17 19 (1.43%) Entra ID
18 17 (1.28%) Miro
19 15 (1.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 75 (5.66%) Firewall
2 31 (2.34%) Network Security
3 19 (1.43%) VPN
4 18 (1.36%) DNS
4 18 (1.36%) WAN
5 14 (1.06%) TCP/IP
6 13 (0.98%) LAN
7 11 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
7 11 (0.83%) DHCP
7 11 (0.83%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.75%) BGP
8 10 (0.75%) HTTP
8 10 (0.75%) SAN
9 9 (0.68%) OSPF
10 7 (0.53%) 4G
10 7 (0.53%) 5G
10 7 (0.53%) Cisco Nexus
10 7 (0.53%) InfiniBand
10 7 (0.53%) IPsec
10 7 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (7.09%) SQL Server
2 43 (3.25%) Power BI
3 30 (2.26%) Data Lake
4 26 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
5 24 (1.81%) Apache Arrow
5 24 (1.81%) Apache Ignite
5 24 (1.81%) Dremio
6 22 (1.66%) Apache Cassandra
6 22 (1.66%) Oracle Database
7 21 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (1.43%) MongoDB
8 19 (1.43%) NoSQL
9 15 (1.13%) MySQL
10 14 (1.06%) DynamoDB
11 12 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (0.83%) Big Data
12 11 (0.83%) Relational Database
13 9 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
14 8 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 71 (5.36%) JIRA
2 64 (4.83%) Git
3 45 (3.40%) Jenkins
4 40 (3.02%) GitLab
5 27 (2.04%) Cucumber
6 25 (1.89%) Selenium
7 20 (1.51%) JUnit
8 17 (1.28%) Mockito
9 14 (1.06%) Bitbucket
9 14 (1.06%) Cypress.io
9 14 (1.06%) SpecFlow
10 11 (0.83%) git-flow
10 11 (0.83%) Postman
10 11 (0.83%) SonarQube
10 11 (0.83%) Visual Studio
11 10 (0.75%) JMeter
12 8 (0.60%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.53%) Maven
14 6 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
14 6 (0.45%) WebDriver
General
1 308 (23.25%) Finance
2 266 (20.08%) Social Skills
3 195 (14.72%) Public Sector
4 102 (7.70%) Banking
5 90 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
6 88 (6.64%) Front Office
7 42 (3.17%) Back Office
8 33 (2.49%) Marketing
9 32 (2.42%) Investment Banking
10 29 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
11 28 (2.11%) Telecoms
12 26 (1.96%) Retail
13 24 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 23 (1.74%) Manufacturing
15 22 (1.66%) Legal
16 16 (1.21%) Financial Institution
17 11 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (0.83%) Law
18 10 (0.75%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (7.55%) .NET
2 90 (6.79%) React
3 57 (4.30%) XML
4 55 (4.15%) CSS
5 53 (4.00%) AngularJS
6 50 (3.77%) HTML
6 50 (3.77%) REST
7 47 (3.55%) Kafka
8 36 (2.72%) Node.js
8 36 (2.72%) Pandas
8 36 (2.72%) Spring Boot
9 31 (2.34%) gRPC
10 30 (2.26%) Protocol Buffers
11 27 (2.04%) NumPy
12 25 (1.89%) .NET Framework
12 25 (1.89%) SciPy
12 25 (1.89%) Web Services
13 24 (1.81%) Spring
14 23 (1.74%) JSON
14 23 (1.74%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 61 (4.60%) Derivative
2 52 (3.92%) Hedge funds
3 45 (3.40%) Data Centre
3 45 (3.40%) Fixed Income
4 44 (3.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 41 (3.09%) Product Ownership
6 33 (2.49%) Equities
7 31 (2.34%) Management Information System
8 24 (1.81%) Replication
9 23 (1.74%) Mobile App
10 22 (1.66%) Algorithms
11 21 (1.58%) Onboarding
12 20 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
13 18 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (1.28%) Cloud Native
15 15 (1.13%) Public Cloud
16 14 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
16 14 (1.06%) NHS
17 12 (0.91%) Credit Derivative
17 12 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 91 (6.87%) Windows
2 78 (5.89%) Linux
3 21 (1.58%) Android
3 21 (1.58%) Unix
4 12 (0.91%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.60%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.60%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.30%) Debian
9 3 (0.23%) Mac OS X
9 3 (0.23%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.15%) Solaris
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.075%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (28.30%) Agile
2 208 (15.70%) DevOps
3 169 (12.75%) Software Engineering
4 141 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
5 137 (10.34%) CI/CD
6 105 (7.92%) Migration
7 102 (7.70%) Project Management
8 95 (7.17%) Stakeholder Management
9 89 (6.72%) Test Automation
10 88 (6.64%) Scrum
11 79 (5.96%) Analytics
11 79 (5.96%) User Experience
12 73 (5.51%) Mentoring
13 68 (5.13%) Asset Management
14 66 (4.98%) Roadmaps
15 61 (4.60%) Business Intelligence
15 61 (4.60%) Project Delivery
16 60 (4.53%) SDLC
17 57 (4.30%) ITIL
17 57 (4.30%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 202 (15.25%) Python
2 194 (14.64%) Java
3 173 (13.06%) SQL
4 129 (9.74%) C#
5 125 (9.43%) JavaScript
6 97 (7.32%) TypeScript
7 75 (5.66%) PowerShell
8 34 (2.57%) Go
9 28 (2.11%) Bash
9 28 (2.11%) Bicep
10 20 (1.51%) C++
11 16 (1.21%) Kotlin
12 15 (1.13%) Scala
13 11 (0.83%) Perl
13 11 (0.83%) PHP
13 11 (0.83%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.68%) C
15 6 (0.45%) Ruby
16 5 (0.38%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.38%) Swift
Qualifications
1 204 (15.40%) Security Cleared
2 160 (12.08%) SC Cleared
3 96 (7.25%) Degree
4 34 (2.57%) DV Cleared
5 27 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (1.36%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.13%) CCNP
9 11 (0.83%) CCIE
10 9 (0.68%) CISSP
10 9 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (0.53%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.53%) PMP
11 7 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 6 (0.45%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 5 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 4 (0.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (2.34%) Data Quality
2 28 (2.11%) Accessibility
3 24 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (1.66%) PCI DSS
5 19 (1.43%) PMO
6 18 (1.36%) QA
7 10 (0.75%) GDPR
7 10 (0.75%) SLA
7 10 (0.75%) WCAG
8 8 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
8 8 (0.60%) NIST
9 5 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.15%) GRC
11 2 (0.15%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.15%) MiFID
11 2 (0.15%) P3O
System Software
1 69 (5.21%) Docker
2 66 (4.98%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.83%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.53%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.53%) vSphere
7 6 (0.45%) ACF2
7 6 (0.45%) IAG
7 6 (0.45%) RACF
8 4 (0.30%) Firmware
8 4 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.15%) Squid
10 2 (0.15%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.15%) XenApp
11 1 (0.075%) GridGain
11 1 (0.075%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 87 (6.57%) Kubernetes
2 69 (5.21%) Terraform
3 43 (3.25%) Ansible
4 20 (1.51%) Grafana
5 12 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.83%) Docker Swarm
7 9 (0.68%) Puppet
8 8 (0.60%) Podman
8 8 (0.60%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.60%) SCCM
9 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.38%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.38%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.30%) Functional Safety
11 4 (0.30%) Kibana
11 4 (0.30%) WSUS
12 3 (0.23%) Argo
12 3 (0.23%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.23%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 149 (11.25%) Microsoft
2 52 (3.92%) Oracle
3 51 (3.85%) SAP
4 33 (2.49%) Cisco
5 32 (2.42%) VMware
6 28 (2.11%) Google
6 28 (2.11%) Palo Alto
7 19 (1.43%) ServiceNow
8 18 (1.36%) Atlassian
9 16 (1.21%) F5
10 15 (1.13%) IBM
10 15 (1.13%) Splunk
11 13 (0.98%) Databricks
12 11 (0.83%) Fortinet
13 10 (0.75%) Citrix
13 10 (0.75%) Red Hat
13 10 (0.75%) Salesforce
14 9 (0.68%) Sybase
15 6 (0.45%) NEC
15 6 (0.45%) SolarWinds