Senior Contract Job Trends in Bolton

Senior
Manchester > Bolton

The median Senior daily rate in Bolton is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bolton 2.13% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.70% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median daily rate £500 £500 £505
% change year-on-year - -0.99% -10.62%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bolton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bolton. 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 Bolton with a recognized job title 37 12 38
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 78.72% 85.71% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 20
10th Percentile £272 £356 £400
25th Percentile £413 £420 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -6.25% +2.83%
75th Percentile £623 £491 -
90th Percentile £624 £498 £503
Manchester median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 4 4
10th Percentile £20.00 £32.63 -
25th Percentile £22.16 £35.44 £30.00
Median hourly rate £22.63 £68.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -66.96% +109.16% -49.81%
75th Percentile £55.49 £100.00 £39.69
90th Percentile £65.00 - £45.88
Manchester median hourly rate £22.32 £32.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -31.34% +66.67% -11.36%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Bolton

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

Senior job vacancy trend in Bolton

Senior
Daily Rate Trend in Bolton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Bolton

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

For the 6 months to 27 October 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 Bolton region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Laravel
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js

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

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Laravel
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google