Senior Contracts in Central London

Senior
London > Central London

The median Senior daily rate in Central London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 15 16
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 177 225 355
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 8.86% 9.22% 9.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.55% 9.66% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 167 254
10th Percentile £413 £409 £443
25th Percentile £500 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £590 £638
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -7.45% +4.51%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £738
90th Percentile £793 £788 £813
London median daily rate £575 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
London median hourly rate £48.25 £37.50 £46.00
% change year-on-year +28.67% -18.48% +79.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,853 2,328 3,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 95.37% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,195 1,660 2,513
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
75th Percentile £675 £685 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 31 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.63 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -28.57% -6.04%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.81 £58.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £40.00 £86.65
London median hourly rate £34.33 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.82% -21.43% -

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 2 May 2025.

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 2 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
City of London -6 158 £600 - 159
West End of London - 8 £600 - 49
City of Westminster +2 3 £575 -9.27% 8
Camden -3 2 £527 +16.02% 5
Southwark -4 1 £425 -8.60% 1
Senior
London

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 Central London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 67 (37.85%) Finance
2 57 (32.20%) Social Skills
3 42 (23.73%) AWS
4 41 (23.16%) Azure
5 40 (22.60%) Python
6 37 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (20.34%) Agile
8 32 (18.08%) SQL
8 32 (18.08%) Banking
8 32 (18.08%) CI/CD
9 30 (16.95%) DevOps
10 28 (15.82%) Stakeholder Management
11 24 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
12 21 (11.86%) Kubernetes
13 18 (10.17%) Project Management
13 18 (10.17%) Microsoft
13 18 (10.17%) Software Engineering
13 18 (10.17%) Security Cleared
14 17 (9.60%) Terraform
15 16 (9.04%) Degree
16 15 (8.47%) Java
16 15 (8.47%) Investment Banking
16 15 (8.47%) Migration
16 15 (8.47%) SC Cleared
17 14 (7.91%) Ansible
18 13 (7.34%) Artificial Intelligence
18 13 (7.34%) Jenkins
18 13 (7.34%) Continuous Improvement
18 13 (7.34%) Test Automation
19 12 (6.78%) JIRA

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 (1.69%) Apache
1 3 (1.69%) Confluence
1 3 (1.69%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.13%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.13%) nginx
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.56%) CMS
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.56%) SAS
3 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.26%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.56%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.56%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.13%) Aladdin
1 2 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (1.13%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.56%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.56%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.56%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.56%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.56%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 42 (23.73%) AWS
2 41 (23.16%) Azure
3 9 (5.08%) Entra ID
3 9 (5.08%) GCP
4 8 (4.52%) Power Platform
5 7 (3.95%) GitHub
5 7 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.39%) SaaS
6 6 (3.39%) Serverless
7 5 (2.82%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.82%) IaaS
7 5 (2.82%) OpenShift
8 4 (2.26%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.26%) PaaS
9 3 (1.69%) dbt
9 3 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.13%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.13%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.95%) Firewall
2 3 (1.69%) DNS
3 2 (1.13%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (1.13%) Intranet
3 2 (1.13%) SAN
4 1 (0.56%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.56%) DHCP
4 1 (0.56%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (0.56%) IGMP
4 1 (0.56%) Multicast
4 1 (0.56%) PBX
4 1 (0.56%) PSTN
4 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.56%) VoIP
4 1 (0.56%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.56%) WAN
4 1 (0.56%) Wireless
4 1 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.21%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.95%) Power BI
3 6 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.82%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.26%) Big Data
5 4 (2.26%) Data Mining
6 3 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.13%) Airbyte
7 2 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.13%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.13%) KDB
7 2 (1.13%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.56%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.56%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.56%) Sqoop
8 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (7.34%) Jenkins
2 12 (6.78%) JIRA
3 10 (5.65%) Git
4 8 (4.52%) Selenium
5 7 (3.95%) Postman
6 6 (3.39%) REST Assured
7 5 (2.82%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.69%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.69%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (1.69%) Gradle
8 3 (1.69%) IntelliJ
8 3 (1.69%) JUnit
8 3 (1.69%) Maven
9 1 (0.56%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.56%) ChangeMan
9 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.56%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.56%) Xcode
General
1 67 (37.85%) Finance
2 57 (32.20%) Social Skills
3 32 (18.08%) Banking
4 24 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.47%) Investment Banking
6 10 (5.65%) Front Office
7 9 (5.08%) Retail
8 7 (3.95%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.82%) Marketing
10 4 (2.26%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.26%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.69%) Back Office
11 3 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.13%) Billing
12 2 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.13%) Law
12 2 (1.13%) Legal
12 2 (1.13%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.78%) .NET
2 10 (5.65%) REST
3 7 (3.95%) pytest
4 6 (3.39%) Spring
5 5 (2.82%) .NET Core
5 5 (2.82%) HTML
6 4 (2.26%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.26%) CSS
6 4 (2.26%) OAuth
6 4 (2.26%) RESTful
7 3 (1.69%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.69%) Entity Framework
7 3 (1.69%) FpML
7 3 (1.69%) JMS
7 3 (1.69%) JPA
7 3 (1.69%) Kafka
7 3 (1.69%) LDAP
7 3 (1.69%) Middleware
7 3 (1.69%) Node.js
7 3 (1.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (3.39%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.82%) Algorithms
3 5 (2.82%) Market Risk
4 4 (2.26%) Equities
4 4 (2.26%) Fixed Income
5 3 (1.69%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.69%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.69%) PMI
5 3 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.13%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.13%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.13%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.13%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.13%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.13%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.21%) Windows
2 9 (5.08%) Linux
3 8 (4.52%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.82%) Unix
5 3 (1.69%) Android
6 2 (1.13%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.56%) CentOS
7 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (20.34%) Agile
3 32 (18.08%) CI/CD
4 30 (16.95%) DevOps
5 28 (15.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (10.17%) Project Management
6 18 (10.17%) Software Engineering
7 15 (8.47%) Migration
8 13 (7.34%) Artificial Intelligence
8 13 (7.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (7.34%) Test Automation
9 11 (6.21%) Analytics
9 11 (6.21%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (6.21%) Mentoring
9 11 (6.21%) Process Improvement
10 10 (5.65%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (5.65%) ITIL
10 10 (5.65%) Requirements Gathering
11 9 (5.08%) Computer Science
11 9 (5.08%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 40 (22.60%) Python
2 32 (18.08%) SQL
3 15 (8.47%) Java
4 11 (6.21%) C#
5 9 (5.08%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.39%) C++
6 6 (3.39%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.82%) Bash
8 4 (2.26%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.69%) Groovy
10 2 (1.13%) Bicep
10 2 (1.13%) Go
10 2 (1.13%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.13%) SPARQL
10 2 (1.13%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.13%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.13%) VBA
11 1 (0.56%) C
11 1 (0.56%) PHP
11 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (10.17%) Security Cleared
2 16 (9.04%) Degree
3 15 (8.47%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.82%) PMI Certification
5 4 (2.26%) PMP
6 2 (1.13%) CCIE
6 2 (1.13%) CCNP
6 2 (1.13%) CFA
6 2 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.13%) CISM
6 2 (1.13%) CISSP
6 2 (1.13%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.56%) ACCA
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.56%) EnCE
7 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.65%) QA
2 7 (3.95%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.26%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.26%) GDPR
4 3 (1.69%) Basel II
5 2 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.13%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 2 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.13%) NIST
5 2 (1.13%) PMO
5 2 (1.13%) SLA
5 2 (1.13%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.56%) COBIT
6 1 (0.56%) GRC
6 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (6.78%) Docker
2 11 (6.21%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.26%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.56%) Firmware
5 1 (0.56%) HDFS
5 1 (0.56%) Lustre
5 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (11.86%) Kubernetes
2 17 (9.60%) Terraform
3 14 (7.91%) Ansible
4 4 (2.26%) Grafana
5 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.69%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.13%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.13%) Puppet
6 2 (1.13%) SCCM
7 1 (0.56%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.56%) EnCase
7 1 (0.56%) FTK
7 1 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.56%) Karpenter
7 1 (0.56%) OPNET
7 1 (0.56%) Podman
7 1 (0.56%) QRadar
Vendors
1 18 (10.17%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.39%) Cisco
2 6 (3.39%) Oracle
2 6 (3.39%) Splunk
3 5 (2.82%) F5
3 5 (2.82%) SAP
3 5 (2.82%) VMware
4 4 (2.26%) Adobe
4 4 (2.26%) CheckPoint
4 4 (2.26%) Murex
4 4 (2.26%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.69%) Databricks
5 3 (1.69%) Google
5 3 (1.69%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.69%) SolarWinds
5 3 (1.69%) Workday
6 2 (1.13%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.13%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.13%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.13%) Trayport