Senior Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Senior
South East > Buckinghamshire

The median Senior daily rate in Buckinghamshire is £553, 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 13 25 15
Rank change year-on-year +12 -10 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 26 30 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 11.02% 6.30% 10.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.61% 6.71% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 28 82
10th Percentile £375 £405 £233
25th Percentile £495 £457 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £536 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +12.89% +3.26%
75th Percentile £629 £619 £536
90th Percentile £630 £643 £598
South East median daily rate £575 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -6.98%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Buckinghamshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Buckinghamshire. 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 Buckinghamshire with a recognized job title 224 447 820
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 93.91% 93.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 315 662
10th Percentile £266 £225 £252
25th Percentile £394 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £665 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 43 3
10th Percentile - £15.85 £10.23
25th Percentile £14.20 £17.64 £11.33
Median hourly rate £14.42 £23.75 £13.16
Median % change year-on-year -39.28% +80.47% +11.20%
75th Percentile £53.75 £29.38 £28.46
90th Percentile £65.50 £48.75 £37.63
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Buckinghamshire

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Buckinghamshire

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Buckinghamshire

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Buckinghamshire

Senior
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes +12 24 £545 +6.86% 109
Bletchley - 1 - - 5
Senior
South East

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

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 Buckinghamshire region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 18 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 15 (57.69%) SC Cleared
3 12 (46.15%) ITIL
4 11 (42.31%) Cisco
4 11 (42.31%) TOGAF
4 11 (42.31%) VMware
4 11 (42.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (42.31%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (42.31%) Microservices
4 11 (42.31%) Palo Alto
4 11 (42.31%) VMware NSX
4 11 (42.31%) DevSecOps
5 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (38.46%) NCSC
5 10 (38.46%) NIST
5 10 (38.46%) CI/CD
5 10 (38.46%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (38.46%) VSAN
5 10 (38.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 10 (38.46%) PKI
5 10 (38.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (38.46%) MCSE
6 9 (34.62%) Zachman Framework
6 9 (34.62%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (34.62%) Continuous Delivery
6 9 (34.62%) Containerisation
7 8 (30.77%) Public Sector
7 8 (30.77%) Use Case
7 8 (30.77%) SaaS
7 8 (30.77%) PaaS

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) IaaS
1 8 (30.77%) PaaS
1 8 (30.77%) SaaS
2 7 (26.92%) Azure
3 3 (11.54%) AWS
3 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (38.46%) VSAN
2 4 (15.38%) VPN
3 3 (11.54%) BGP
3 3 (11.54%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (11.54%) MPLS
3 3 (11.54%) NGFW
3 3 (11.54%) OSPF
3 3 (11.54%) SD-WAN
3 3 (11.54%) TCP/IP
3 3 (11.54%) WAN
4 2 (7.69%) DNS
4 2 (7.69%) VLAN
5 1 (3.85%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (3.85%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (7.69%) Big Data
1 2 (7.69%) Data Lake
1 2 (7.69%) MS Access
1 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 8 (30.77%) Public Sector
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Law
4 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Middleware
1 2 (7.69%) PySpark
1 2 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (42.31%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (38.46%) PKI
3 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
3 3 (11.54%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) CESG
4 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Windows
2 2 (7.69%) Unix
3 1 (3.85%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) ITIL
2 11 (42.31%) DevSecOps
2 11 (42.31%) Microservices
2 11 (42.31%) TOGAF
3 10 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (34.62%) Containerisation
4 9 (34.62%) Continuous Delivery
4 9 (34.62%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (34.62%) Zachman Framework
5 8 (30.77%) Use Case
6 6 (23.08%) Agile
6 6 (23.08%) IT Strategy
6 6 (23.08%) Requirements Management
6 6 (23.08%) Technology Strategy
7 5 (19.23%) Matrix Organization
7 5 (19.23%) Virtual Environments
8 4 (15.38%) PRINCE2
9 3 (11.54%) Project Management
9 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (15.38%) SQL
2 2 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 15 (57.69%) SC Cleared
3 10 (38.46%) MCSE
3 10 (38.46%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (38.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 6 (23.08%) DV Cleared
5 3 (11.54%) APMP
5 3 (11.54%) ISEB
5 3 (11.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (7.69%) CISSP
6 2 (7.69%) Degree
7 1 (3.85%) CCNP
7 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (3.85%) CISM
7 1 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (3.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (38.46%) Cyber Essentials
1 10 (38.46%) NCSC
1 10 (38.46%) NIST
2 2 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.85%) QA
3 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (42.31%) VMware Infrastructure
1 11 (42.31%) VMware NSX
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Cisco
1 11 (42.31%) Palo Alto
1 11 (42.31%) VMware
2 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.69%) Citrix
3 2 (7.69%) Databricks
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle
4 1 (3.85%) HP
4 1 (3.85%) McAfee
4 1 (3.85%) Snow