Senior Contracts in Birmingham

Senior
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Senior daily rate in Birmingham is £475 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 30 26 19
Rank change year-on-year -4 -7 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 38 57 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.96% 6.35% 6.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.38% 6.59% 7.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 45 65
10th Percentile £259 £361 £407
25th Percentile £275 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +22.22%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £688
90th Percentile £587 £700 £730
West Midlands median daily rate £511 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -5.32% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £56.25 £24.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +134.38% - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £42.00 £17.72 £16.00
% change year-on-year +137.02% +10.75% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 706 865 1,265
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 96.33% 96.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 579 927
10th Percentile £250 £263 £207
25th Percentile £325 £376 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £586
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +17.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 35 22
10th Percentile £13.10 £11.40 £12.53
25th Percentile £17.75 £12.50 £14.08
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £17.49
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +14.35% -2.83%
75th Percentile £48.75 £24.94 £18.00
90th Percentile £57.91 £60.50 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.25 £19.50 £17.28
% change year-on-year +14.10% +12.85% +9.71%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Birmingham

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Birmingham

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Birmingham

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Birmingham

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

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 Birmingham region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 15 (39.47%) SQL
2 13 (34.21%) Social Skills
3 10 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (23.68%) Microsoft
4 9 (23.68%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (23.68%) Finance
4 9 (23.68%) Agile
5 8 (21.05%) Power Platform
5 8 (21.05%) Power BI
6 7 (18.42%) Rational Rhapsody
6 7 (18.42%) HL7
6 7 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (15.79%) Azure
8 5 (13.16%) CRM
8 5 (13.16%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (13.16%) CI/CD
8 5 (13.16%) DevOps
9 4 (10.53%) Mentoring
9 4 (10.53%) Coaching
9 4 (10.53%) User Stories
9 4 (10.53%) ETL
9 4 (10.53%) Project Management
9 4 (10.53%) Service Delivery
9 4 (10.53%) Visualisation
9 4 (10.53%) Telecoms
9 4 (10.53%) Data Analysis
10 3 (7.89%) TDD
10 3 (7.89%) Dynamics CRM
10 3 (7.89%) Taxonomies

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.63%) CMS
2 1 (2.63%) Moodle
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.63%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.05%) Power Platform
2 6 (15.79%) Azure
3 3 (7.89%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (5.26%) Apigee
4 2 (5.26%) AWS
4 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.26%) Azure Functions
4 2 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (5.26%) GCP
4 2 (5.26%) Power Automate
4 2 (5.26%) PowerApps
4 2 (5.26%) Serverless
5 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.63%) GitHub
5 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) DHCP
1 1 (2.63%) DNS
1 1 (2.63%) Firewall
1 1 (2.63%) LAN
1 1 (2.63%) VPN
1 1 (2.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.05%) Power BI
2 3 (7.89%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (7.89%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.26%) Data Mining
3 2 (5.26%) Power Query
3 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.63%) Big Data
4 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.63%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.63%) Presto
4 1 (2.63%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (18.42%) Rational Rhapsody
2 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.26%) JIRA
3 1 (2.63%) Ant
3 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.63%) GitLab
3 1 (2.63%) Gradle
3 1 (2.63%) JUnit
3 1 (2.63%) Maven
3 1 (2.63%) Selenium
3 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 13 (34.21%) Social Skills
2 10 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (23.68%) Finance
4 4 (10.53%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.26%) Legal
5 2 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.63%) Games
6 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) AngularJS
2 2 (5.26%) LDAP
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (5.26%) React
2 2 (5.26%) Spring
3 1 (2.63%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (7.89%) CMDB
2 3 (7.89%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (7.89%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.89%) Taxonomies
2 3 (7.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (5.26%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.63%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.63%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.63%) PKI
4 1 (2.63%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.63%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Linux
1 2 (5.26%) Windows
2 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (23.68%) Agile
1 9 (23.68%) Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (13.16%) CI/CD
3 5 (13.16%) CRM
3 5 (13.16%) DevOps
4 4 (10.53%) Coaching
4 4 (10.53%) Data Analysis
4 4 (10.53%) ETL
4 4 (10.53%) Mentoring
4 4 (10.53%) Project Management
4 4 (10.53%) Service Delivery
4 4 (10.53%) User Stories
4 4 (10.53%) Visualisation
5 3 (7.89%) Change Management
5 3 (7.89%) Computer Science
5 3 (7.89%) Data Modelling
5 3 (7.89%) Scrum
5 3 (7.89%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 15 (39.47%) SQL
2 3 (7.89%) Java
3 2 (5.26%) C++
3 2 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (5.26%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.26%) Python
4 1 (2.63%) C
4 1 (2.63%) Scala
4 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (7.89%) Degree
2 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.26%) Master's Degree
2 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.42%) HL7
2 2 (5.26%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.63%) Docker
1 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Terraform
2 1 (2.63%) Ansible
2 1 (2.63%) Packer
2 1 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (23.68%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.26%) Splunk
4 1 (2.63%) Citrix
4 1 (2.63%) Darktrace
4 1 (2.63%) FireEye
4 1 (2.63%) IBM
4 1 (2.63%) iManage
4 1 (2.63%) LogRhythm
4 1 (2.63%) Teradata
4 1 (2.63%) VMware