Senior Contracts in Brighton

Senior
East Sussex > Brighton

The median Senior daily rate in Brighton is £523, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 9 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 4 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Brighton 6.56% 7.69% 5.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.16% 7.84% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £439 £426 £660
25th Percentile £468 £458 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £475 £700
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -32.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £583 £481 £750
90th Percentile £616 £493 £780
East Sussex median daily rate £523 £475 £650
% change year-on-year +10.00% -26.92% +8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Brighton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Brighton. 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 Brighton with a recognized job title 49 51 93
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 80.33% 98.08% 98.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 43 60
10th Percentile £316 £306 £247
25th Percentile £435 £325 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +8.37%
75th Percentile £575 £548 £681
90th Percentile £638 £648 £820
East Sussex median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £16.89 - £52.38
25th Percentile £17.75 £23.63 £54.06
Median hourly rate £19.36 £25.25 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.34% -57.02% +167.05%
75th Percentile £20.82 £26.88 £64.06
90th Percentile £21.59 - £66.13
East Sussex median hourly rate £19.36 £25.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.34% -51.90% +138.64%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Brighton

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Brighton

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Brighton

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Brighton

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Brighton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Brighton over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Brighton

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Brighton

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Brighton

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Brighton region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) Qualys
2 1 (25.00%) Umbraco
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Rackspace
2 1 (25.00%) User Stories
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Brighton 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 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) User Stories
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Qualys
2 1 (25.00%) Rackspace