Senior Contract Job Trends in Blackpool

Senior
Lancashire > Blackpool

The median Senior daily rate in Blackpool is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2026.

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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 5 2 11
As % of all contract jobs in Blackpool 17.24% 50.00% 44.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 18.52% 50.00% 44.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £393 - £625
25th Percentile £456 - £665
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £720
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.86%
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median daily rate £575 £475 £625
% change year-on-year +21.05% -24.00% -7.41%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Blackpool

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Blackpool. 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 Blackpool with a recognized job title 27 4 25
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 16
10th Percentile £306 - £210
25th Percentile £360 - £576
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 - £638
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.84%
75th Percentile £569 - £720
90th Percentile £588 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £600 £530 £500
% change year-on-year +13.21% +6.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £11.00
75th Percentile £25.31 - -
90th Percentile £25.58 - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £46.80 £28.75 £42.91
% change year-on-year +62.78% -33.00% +3.72%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackpool

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

Senior job vacancy trend in Blackpool

Senior
Daily Rate Trend in Blackpool

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Blackpool

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Blackpool

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Blackpool over the 6 months to 1 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Blackpool

Senior
Hourly Rate Trend in Blackpool

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Blackpool

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2026, 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 Blackpool region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 3 (60.00%) Arista
2 3 (60.00%) Aruba
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) BGP
2 3 (60.00%) BIG-IP
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (60.00%) F5
2 3 (60.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (60.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (60.00%) Network Design
2 3 (60.00%) OCI
2 3 (60.00%) OSPF
2 3 (60.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) SaaS
2 3 (60.00%) SD-WAN
2 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) VXLAN
2 3 (60.00%) WAN

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Blackpool 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) OCI
2 3 (60.00%) SaaS
3 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) Google Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) BGP
1 3 (60.00%) BIG-IP
1 3 (60.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 3 (60.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) OSPF
1 3 (60.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (60.00%) VXLAN
1 3 (60.00%) WAN
1 3 (60.00%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (60.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (20.00%) Looker
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (60.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) High Availability
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (60.00%) Network Architecture
1 3 (60.00%) Network Design
1 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Data Privacy
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Service Design
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Arista
1 3 (60.00%) Aruba
1 3 (60.00%) F5
1 3 (60.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Google