Senior Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Senior
South East > Buckinghamshire

The median Senior daily rate in Buckinghamshire is £536 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 15 35
Rank change year-on-year -8 +20 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 30 93 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 6.28% 10.63% 5.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.67% 11.33% 5.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 82 37
10th Percentile £405 £233 £248
25th Percentile £457 £415 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.89% +5.56% -15.09%
75th Percentile £619 £536 £523
90th Percentile £643 £598 £610
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £528
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.30% +5.60%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Buckinghamshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 450 821 802
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.14% 93.83% 97.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 663 599
10th Percentile £225 £252 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.56%
75th Percentile £585 £575 £555
90th Percentile £680 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 3 41
10th Percentile £15.85 £10.23 -
25th Percentile £17.64 £11.33 £10.77
Median hourly rate £23.75 £13.16 £12.05
Median % change year-on-year +80.47% +9.21% -13.77%
75th Percentile £29.38 £28.46 £21.50
90th Percentile £48.75 £37.63 £27.00
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%

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 28 April 2024.

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 28 April 2024. 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 -7 25 £510 +10.87% 31
Buckingham - 1 - -
Senior
South East

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, 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 20 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 19 (63.33%) SC Cleared
3 11 (36.67%) Agile
4 10 (33.33%) VMware
5 9 (30.00%) Microsoft
6 8 (26.67%) ITIL
7 6 (20.00%) DV Cleared
7 6 (20.00%) NCSC
7 6 (20.00%) NIST
7 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
8 5 (16.67%) Finance
9 4 (13.33%) CCNP
9 4 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (13.33%) Python
9 4 (13.33%) Azure
9 4 (13.33%) AWS
9 4 (13.33%) Problem Management
9 4 (13.33%) Incident Management
9 4 (13.33%) Degree
9 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 3 (10.00%) Security Operations
10 3 (10.00%) IT Strategy
10 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (10.00%) Public Cloud
10 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
10 3 (10.00%) Business Case
10 3 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
10 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
10 3 (10.00%) Statistics

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (3.33%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.33%) AWS
1 4 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (6.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) DHCP
1 3 (10.00%) DNS
2 2 (6.67%) SAN
2 2 (6.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.33%) BGP
3 1 (3.33%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (3.33%) Firewall
3 1 (3.33%) MPLS
3 1 (3.33%) NX-OS
3 1 (3.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) Kafka
1 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.33%) .NET
2 1 (3.33%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (10.00%) PKI
1 3 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Debian
2 2 (6.67%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Agile
2 8 (26.67%) ITIL
3 4 (13.33%) Incident Management
3 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (13.33%) Problem Management
4 3 (10.00%) Business Case
4 3 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (10.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (10.00%) DevOps
4 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (10.00%) IT Strategy
4 3 (10.00%) Migration
4 3 (10.00%) Project Management
4 3 (10.00%) Security Operations
4 3 (10.00%) SIEM
4 3 (10.00%) Statistics
4 3 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
4 3 (10.00%) TOGAF
5 2 (6.67%) ERP
5 2 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.33%) Python
2 3 (10.00%) Java
3 2 (6.67%) Scala
4 1 (3.33%) R
4 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 19 (63.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (13.33%) CCNP
4 4 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (13.33%) Degree
5 3 (10.00%) MCSE
5 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (6.67%) ISEB
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
7 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (3.33%) CCIE
7 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
7 1 (3.33%) VCAP
7 1 (3.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) NCSC
1 6 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.33%) VMware NSX
2 1 (3.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Ansible
1 1 (3.33%) Netcool
1 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) VMware
2 9 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.67%) SAP
4 1 (3.33%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco
4 1 (3.33%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.33%) IBM
4 1 (3.33%) Infoblox
4 1 (3.33%) Juniper
4 1 (3.33%) LogRhythm
4 1 (3.33%) Nokia
4 1 (3.33%) Remedy
4 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.33%) TippingPoint
4 1 (3.33%) Trend Micro