Senior Contracts in Cardiff

Senior
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Senior daily rate in Cardiff is £438, 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 10 23 25
Rank change year-on-year +13 +2 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 20 12 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 12.50% 5.66% 6.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.99% 6.09% 6.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 16
10th Percentile £213 £463 £378
25th Percentile £241 £529 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £618 £475
Median % change year-on-year -29.15% +30.00% -5.00%
75th Percentile £522 £640 £556
90th Percentile £614 £648 £638
South Wales median daily rate £450 £600 £549
% change year-on-year -25.00% +9.29% +6.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 154 197 325
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.25% 92.92% 96.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 160 259
10th Percentile £184 £199 £185
25th Percentile £257 £377 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £490 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +8.89% -
75th Percentile £492 £550 £550
90th Percentile £619 £620 £626
South Wales median daily rate £400 £460 £460
% change year-on-year -13.04% - -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 6
10th Percentile £12.21 £11.32 £13.00
25th Percentile £13.79 £11.75 £13.81
Median hourly rate £20.51 £13.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.89% -21.75% -7.99%
75th Percentile £23.75 £18.00 £22.34
90th Percentile £38.75 £39.45 £24.38
South Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £22.68 £18.14
% change year-on-year -0.79% +25.03% -8.89%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Cardiff

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Cardiff

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Cardiff

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Cardiff

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

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 Cardiff region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 6 (30.00%) Migration
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (25.00%) Node.js
2 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 5 (25.00%) Firewall
2 5 (25.00%) TDD
2 5 (25.00%) VPN
2 5 (25.00%) Cisco
2 5 (25.00%) CCIE
2 5 (25.00%) CCNP
2 5 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (20.00%) CSS
3 4 (20.00%) Windows
3 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (20.00%) React
3 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (15.00%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (15.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Jest
4 3 (15.00%) Puppeteer
4 3 (15.00%) Degree
4 3 (15.00%) IPsec

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 (5.00%) Confluence
1 1 (5.00%) Moodle
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (10.00%) PaaS
4 1 (5.00%) AWS
4 1 (5.00%) dbt
4 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) IaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
4 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 5 (25.00%) Firewall
1 5 (25.00%) VPN
2 3 (15.00%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (15.00%) DHCP
2 3 (15.00%) DNS
2 3 (15.00%) IPsec
3 2 (10.00%) BGP
3 2 (10.00%) IPv4
3 2 (10.00%) OSPF
3 2 (10.00%) Wireless
4 1 (5.00%) HTTP
4 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Big Data
1 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.00%) Metadata
1 1 (5.00%) Metadata Repository
1 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Multimedia
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Node.js
2 4 (20.00%) CSS
2 4 (20.00%) React
3 3 (15.00%) Jest
3 3 (15.00%) Puppeteer
4 1 (5.00%) EntireX
4 1 (5.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (10.00%) NHS
1 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Migration
2 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (25.00%) TDD
2 5 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (10.00%) User Experience
5 1 (5.00%) Code Quality
5 1 (5.00%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (5.00%) Design Patterns
5 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (5.00%) Project Delivery
5 1 (5.00%) Roadmaps
5 1 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (5.00%) User Research
5 1 (5.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.00%) C
2 1 (5.00%) Go
2 1 (5.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) CCIE
1 5 (25.00%) CCNP
1 5 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (15.00%) Degree
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Cisco
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) Ekahau
3 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (10.00%) VMware
4 1 (5.00%) Cloudera
4 1 (5.00%) Databricks
4 1 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) IBM
4 1 (5.00%) Remedy
4 1 (5.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.00%) Software AG
4 1 (5.00%) TOWER Software
4 1 (5.00%) webMethods