Senior Contracts in Central London

Senior
London > Central London

The median Senior daily rate in Central London is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 15 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 222 357 513
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 9.06% 9.26% 11.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.52% 9.71% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 255 437
10th Percentile £410 £450 £463
25th Percentile £459 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £645 £605
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +6.61% +10.00%
75th Percentile £713 £738 £713
90th Percentile £788 £813 £800
London median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - £12.50
Median hourly rate £72.50 £35.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.14% +169.23% -48.00%
75th Percentile £73.75 - £13.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £37.50 £48.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -21.88% +86.92% -21.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,332 3,675 4,281
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.22% 95.33% 94.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,657 2,520 3,256
10th Percentile £343 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £586 £560
Median % change year-on-year -6.18% +4.69% +6.67%
75th Percentile £683 £725 £675
90th Percentile £789 £813 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 27 51
10th Percentile £19.23 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £21.44 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.34% -5.41% +105.84%
75th Percentile £27.81 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £48.30 £86.32 £62.50
London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +11.13%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Central London

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Central London

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Central London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Central London

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Central London

Senior
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Central London region over the 6 months to 27 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
City of London +1 193 £607 -5.89% 138
Camden +5 6 £454 - 6
Southwark +2 2 £465 -13.49% 2
City of Westminster -1 2 £634 +1.40%
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 - - 1
Senior
London

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 Central London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 63 (28.38%) Finance
2 54 (24.32%) Azure
3 53 (23.87%) Agile
4 50 (22.52%) DevOps
5 46 (20.72%) AWS
6 41 (18.47%) C#
7 37 (16.67%) .NET
7 37 (16.67%) Social Skills
8 34 (15.32%) Java
9 31 (13.96%) SQL
10 30 (13.51%) Python
11 28 (12.61%) Microsoft
11 28 (12.61%) CI/CD
12 26 (11.71%) PowerShell
13 25 (11.26%) Banking
14 24 (10.81%) SQL Server
15 23 (10.36%) Scrum
16 20 (9.01%) Stakeholder Management
16 20 (9.01%) Software Engineering
16 20 (9.01%) Azure DevOps
17 19 (8.56%) Public Sector
17 19 (8.56%) Test Automation
18 18 (8.11%) Active Directory
19 17 (7.66%) Microservices
20 16 (7.21%) Cybersecurity
20 16 (7.21%) Security Cleared
20 16 (7.21%) Migration
21 15 (6.76%) Project Management
21 15 (6.76%) Mentoring
21 15 (6.76%) Product Ownership

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (1.35%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.90%) Confluence
2 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.45%) Appian
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.45%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 11 (4.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.70%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.70%) NEC Housing
2 5 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.25%) Endur
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.45%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.45%) SAP Business ByDesign
4 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 54 (24.32%) Azure
2 46 (20.72%) AWS
3 20 (9.01%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (4.50%) GCP
5 8 (3.60%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (2.70%) SaaS
7 5 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.25%) GitHub
7 5 (2.25%) Serverless
8 4 (1.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (1.80%) WhatsApp
9 3 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.35%) Azure Pipelines
9 3 (1.35%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.35%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.95%) Firewall
2 3 (1.35%) Internet
2 3 (1.35%) VoIP
3 2 (0.90%) LAN
3 2 (0.90%) Network Security
3 2 (0.90%) PBX
3 2 (0.90%) PSTN
4 1 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.45%) DNS
4 1 (0.45%) MGCP
4 1 (0.45%) MPLS
4 1 (0.45%) Multicast
4 1 (0.45%) SCCP
4 1 (0.45%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.45%) VPN
4 1 (0.45%) WAN
4 1 (0.45%) WebEx
4 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.45%) Wireless
4 1 (0.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.60%) NoSQL
2 8 (3.60%) Oracle Database
3 7 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.70%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.80%) Big Data
5 4 (1.80%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.35%) Tableau
7 2 (0.90%) KDB
7 2 (0.90%) Metadata
7 2 (0.90%) MySQL
7 2 (0.90%) Power BI
7 2 (0.90%) Redis
8 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.45%) DB2
8 1 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.45%) Parquet
8 1 (0.45%) Scylla
8 1 (0.45%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 8 (3.60%) TeamCity
2 7 (3.15%) Selenium
2 7 (3.15%) SpecFlow
3 6 (2.70%) Git
4 5 (2.25%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.80%) JIRA
5 4 (1.80%) Postman
6 2 (0.90%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.90%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.90%) Mockito
6 2 (0.90%) TestComplete
6 2 (0.90%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.90%) WebDriver
6 2 (0.90%) XCUITest
7 1 (0.45%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.45%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.45%) Moq
7 1 (0.45%) MSTest
7 1 (0.45%) TestNG
General
1 63 (28.38%) Finance
2 37 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 25 (11.26%) Banking
4 19 (8.56%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.95%) Local Government
6 10 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (4.05%) Investment Banking
8 8 (3.60%) Back Office
9 7 (3.15%) Legal
10 6 (2.70%) Billing
10 6 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.25%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.35%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.35%) Front Office
13 3 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.35%) Retail
14 2 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.90%) Law
14 2 (0.90%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (16.67%) .NET
2 14 (6.31%) React
3 13 (5.86%) XML
4 12 (5.41%) REST
5 10 (4.50%) .NET Core
6 7 (3.15%) AngularJS
6 7 (3.15%) ASP.NET
6 7 (3.15%) Kafka
7 6 (2.70%) .NET Framework
7 6 (2.70%) HTML
8 5 (2.25%) CSS
8 5 (2.25%) Node.js
8 5 (2.25%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (2.25%) Spring
8 5 (2.25%) WCF
8 5 (2.25%) WinForms
9 4 (1.80%) Playwright
9 4 (1.80%) Spring Boot
10 3 (1.35%) ASP.NET Core
10 3 (1.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.76%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (2.25%) NHS
3 4 (1.80%) Cloud Native
3 4 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (1.80%) Hedge funds
3 4 (1.80%) Mobile App
3 4 (1.80%) PMI
4 3 (1.35%) Contactless
4 3 (1.35%) Derivative
4 3 (1.35%) Equities
4 3 (1.35%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.35%) Market Risk
4 3 (1.35%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.35%) Reinsurance
4 3 (1.35%) Social Media
5 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (0.90%) Public Cloud
5 2 (0.90%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.15%) Apple iOS
2 6 (2.70%) Linux
2 6 (2.70%) Windows
3 5 (2.25%) Mac OS X
3 5 (2.25%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.80%) Unix
5 3 (1.35%) Android
6 2 (0.90%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (23.87%) Agile
2 50 (22.52%) DevOps
3 28 (12.61%) CI/CD
4 23 (10.36%) Scrum
5 20 (9.01%) Software Engineering
5 20 (9.01%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (8.56%) Test Automation
7 17 (7.66%) Microservices
8 16 (7.21%) Cybersecurity
8 16 (7.21%) Migration
9 15 (6.76%) Mentoring
9 15 (6.76%) Project Management
10 14 (6.31%) Front End Development
10 14 (6.31%) SDLC
10 14 (6.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (5.86%) Analytics
11 13 (5.86%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (5.41%) Roadmaps
13 10 (4.50%) Data Modelling
13 10 (4.50%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 41 (18.47%) C#
2 34 (15.32%) Java
3 31 (13.96%) SQL
4 30 (13.51%) Python
5 26 (11.71%) PowerShell
6 14 (6.31%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.60%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.15%) Bicep
9 6 (2.70%) Swift
10 4 (1.80%) Rust
11 3 (1.35%) Go
11 3 (1.35%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.35%) Scala
12 2 (0.90%) C++
12 2 (0.90%) Clojure
12 2 (0.90%) Haskell
12 2 (0.90%) PHP
12 2 (0.90%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.45%) Bash
13 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (7.21%) Security Cleared
2 11 (4.95%) Degree
2 11 (4.95%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.80%) DV Cleared
4 4 (1.80%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.45%) CCSK
5 1 (0.45%) CISA
5 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.45%) CISSP
5 1 (0.45%) CRISC
5 1 (0.45%) FFIEC
5 1 (0.45%) GIAC
5 1 (0.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.15%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.80%) NIST
2 4 (1.80%) PMO
2 4 (1.80%) QA
3 3 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.35%) WCAG
4 2 (0.90%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.90%) GDPR
5 1 (0.45%) GAAP
5 1 (0.45%) IFRS
5 1 (0.45%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.45%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.45%) MiFID
5 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.45%) Solvency II
System Software
1 18 (8.11%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.70%) Docker
3 2 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.90%) vSphere
4 1 (0.45%) IAG
Systems Management
1 11 (4.95%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.60%) Terraform
3 3 (1.35%) Ansible
3 3 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.45%) Grafana
5 1 (0.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (12.61%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.95%) Oracle
3 7 (3.15%) NEC
4 6 (2.70%) Google
4 6 (2.70%) Northgate
5 4 (1.80%) OpenLink
6 3 (1.35%) Brandwatch
6 3 (1.35%) Cisco
6 3 (1.35%) SAP
6 3 (1.35%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.90%) Apple
7 2 (0.90%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.90%) Charles River
7 2 (0.90%) Databricks
7 2 (0.90%) eFront
7 2 (0.90%) Okta
7 2 (0.90%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.90%) VMware
7 2 (0.90%) Workday
8 1 (0.45%) Genesys