Senior Contracts in Cardiff

Senior
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Senior daily rate in Cardiff is £618 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 25 39
Rank change year-on-year +2 +14 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 12 21 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 5.63% 6.25% 3.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.06% 6.48% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 16 14
10th Percentile £463 £378 £365
25th Percentile £529 £409 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £640 £556 £584
90th Percentile £648 £638 £745
South Wales median daily rate £600 £549 £515
% change year-on-year +9.29% +6.55% +8.47%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 198 324 513
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 96.43% 96.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 259 396
10th Percentile £199 £185 £238
25th Percentile £369 £353 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £538
90th Percentile £620 £626 £638
South Wales median daily rate £450 £460 £475
% change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 5
10th Percentile £11.32 £13.00 £13.45
25th Percentile £11.75 £13.81 £15.25
Median hourly rate £13.50 £17.25 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.75% -7.99% +14.42%
75th Percentile £18.00 £22.34 £23.75
90th Percentile £39.45 £24.38 £24.95
South Wales median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £19.91
% change year-on-year +25.03% -8.89% +10.61%

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 28 April 2024.

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 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 Cardiff region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 5 (41.67%) SQL
1 5 (41.67%) T-SQL
1 5 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) RedGate
3 3 (25.00%) Windows
3 3 (25.00%) Linux
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (16.67%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (16.67%) Terraform
4 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (16.67%) Dell
4 2 (16.67%) SAN
4 2 (16.67%) NetApp
4 2 (16.67%) Veritas
4 2 (16.67%) NetBackup
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) Unix
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Azure
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (16.67%) Brocade
5 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Pipelines
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) MySQL
2 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Burp Suite
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (8.33%) tSQLt
General
1 5 (41.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (8.33%) FHIR
1 1 (8.33%) Flutter
1 1 (8.33%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (8.33%) REST
1 1 (8.33%) RESTful
1 1 (8.33%) Visualforce
1 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Clustering
1 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (8.33%) NHS
1 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
1 1 (8.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Data ONTAP
2 2 (16.67%) Unix
3 1 (8.33%) Android
3 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (16.67%) Agile
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (16.67%) Migration
2 2 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (8.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (8.33%) Dependency Management
3 1 (8.33%) High Availability
3 1 (8.33%) Line Management
3 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (8.33%) Mobile Development
3 1 (8.33%) OWASP
3 1 (8.33%) Refactoring
3 1 (8.33%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (8.33%) Resource Management
3 1 (8.33%) Security Testing
3 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (8.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
1 5 (41.67%) T-SQL
2 1 (8.33%) Apex Code
2 1 (8.33%) Dart
2 1 (8.33%) PHP
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
4 1 (8.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) HL7
1 1 (8.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) NetBackup
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Graylog
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Nagios
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) RedGate
2 2 (16.67%) Brocade
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco
2 2 (16.67%) Dell
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) NetApp
2 2 (16.67%) Veritas
3 1 (8.33%) Checkmarx
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk