Senior Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Senior
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Senior daily rate in Birmingham is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 20 15
Rank change year-on-year -12 -5 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 42 60 66
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 5.77% 8.75% 9.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.46% 9.24% 9.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 29 50
10th Percentile £451 £378 £398
25th Percentile £513 £450 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £581
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +3.23% +5.68%
75th Percentile £688 £750 £688
90th Percentile £892 £765 £746
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £48.75 -
25th Percentile - £50.63 £62.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £55.00 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.55% -16.98% -
75th Percentile - £58.13 £69.06
90th Percentile - £59.25 £69.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £21.59 £65.00
% change year-on-year +131.59% -66.78% +266.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 650 649 681
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.29% 94.61% 93.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 445 464
10th Percentile £213 £190 £255
25th Percentile £363 £363 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £461
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.40% -2.89%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £588
90th Percentile £638 £731 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 15 20
10th Percentile £12.62 £17.33 £14.05
25th Percentile £13.09 £23.78 £15.41
Median hourly rate £17.85 £30.45 £43.02
Median % change year-on-year -41.40% -29.22% +126.42%
75th Percentile £25.00 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £32.63 £56.45 £67.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £23.82 £22.29
% change year-on-year +5.58% +6.86% +25.79%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Senior job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Senior
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Birmingham.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Birmingham

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Birmingham over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Birmingham

Senior
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Birmingham.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Birmingham

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 20 December 2025, Senior contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 18 (42.86%) Python
2 16 (38.10%) AWS
2 16 (38.10%) CI/CD
2 16 (38.10%) DevOps
3 15 (35.71%) Agile
3 15 (35.71%) Docker
4 13 (30.95%) Jenkins
4 13 (30.95%) Terraform
5 12 (28.57%) Kubernetes
5 12 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
6 11 (26.19%) Ansible
6 11 (26.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (26.19%) REST
7 10 (23.81%) Containerisation
7 10 (23.81%) GitLab
7 10 (23.81%) Mentoring
8 9 (21.43%) Security Cleared
9 8 (19.05%) Azure
9 8 (19.05%) Degree
9 8 (19.05%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (19.05%) GCP
9 8 (19.05%) Go
9 8 (19.05%) Grafana
9 8 (19.05%) High Availability
9 8 (19.05%) NoSQL
9 8 (19.05%) Splunk
9 8 (19.05%) SQL
10 7 (16.67%) Computer Science
10 7 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (16.67%) Cryptography

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.38%) Apache
1 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.38%) OpenStack
1 1 (2.38%) SAS
1 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 16 (38.10%) AWS
2 8 (19.05%) Azure
2 8 (19.05%) GCP
3 7 (16.67%) Serverless
4 4 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (9.52%) Amazon ELB
4 4 (9.52%) Amazon S3
4 4 (9.52%) GitHub
4 4 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.76%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.76%) Azure API Management
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.38%) dbt
7 1 (2.38%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.38%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.29%) Firewall
2 5 (11.90%) Network Security
3 4 (9.52%) DNS
3 4 (9.52%) SSL
3 4 (9.52%) TCP/IP
3 4 (9.52%) VPN
4 1 (2.38%) LAN
4 1 (2.38%) MPLS
4 1 (2.38%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.38%) VoIP
4 1 (2.38%) WAN
4 1 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.05%) NoSQL
2 3 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.76%) Data Hub
4 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.38%) Power BI
4 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (30.95%) Jenkins
2 10 (23.81%) GitLab
3 7 (16.67%) Liquibase
4 6 (14.29%) Git
5 2 (4.76%) CircleCI
5 2 (4.76%) Selenium
6 1 (2.38%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.38%) JIRA
6 1 (2.38%) Postman
General
1 16 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.81%) Finance
3 6 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (14.29%) Banking
4 5 (11.90%) Financial Institution
5 4 (9.52%) Telecoms
6 3 (7.14%) Marketing
6 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.76%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.38%) Military
8 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.38%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.19%) REST
2 8 (19.05%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (16.67%) RESTful
4 3 (7.14%) SOAP
5 2 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (2.38%) .NET
6 1 (2.38%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (2.38%) Kafka
6 1 (2.38%) Playwright
6 1 (2.38%) pytest
6 1 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 7 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 6 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (9.52%) Product Ownership
4 3 (7.14%) Taxonomies
5 2 (4.76%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (4.76%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.38%) EPoS
6 1 (2.38%) FMCG
6 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (38.10%) CI/CD
1 16 (38.10%) DevOps
2 15 (35.71%) Agile
3 12 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
4 11 (26.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (23.81%) Containerisation
5 10 (23.81%) Mentoring
6 8 (19.05%) High Availability
7 7 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 7 (16.67%) Cryptography
7 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
7 7 (16.67%) Microservices
7 7 (16.67%) Software Engineering
8 6 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
8 6 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (14.29%) Incident Response
8 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (11.90%) Change Management
9 5 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 18 (42.86%) Python
2 8 (19.05%) Go
2 8 (19.05%) SQL
3 4 (9.52%) Bash
4 2 (4.76%) Java
4 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.38%) C#
5 1 (2.38%) Scala
5 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 8 (19.05%) Degree
3 7 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 5 (11.90%) AWS Certification
5 5 (11.90%) Master's Degree
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) QA
2 2 (4.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (30.95%) Terraform
2 12 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 11 (26.19%) Ansible
4 8 (19.05%) Grafana
5 7 (16.67%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.38%) Argo
6 1 (2.38%) QRadar
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) Splunk
2 7 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.90%) Palo Alto
4 4 (9.52%) CheckPoint
4 4 (9.52%) F5
5 3 (7.14%) Pega
6 2 (4.76%) Google
6 2 (4.76%) Oracle
7 1 (2.38%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.38%) BT
7 1 (2.38%) CenturyLink
7 1 (2.38%) Databricks
7 1 (2.38%) Rockwell
7 1 (2.38%) SAP
7 1 (2.38%) Siemens