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 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 14 15
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 176 230 353
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 9.33% 9.59% 9.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.01% 10.06% 10.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 169 257
10th Percentile £413 £406 £458
25th Percentile £503 £450 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -19.23% +5.05%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £738
90th Percentile £818 £777 £799
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 £35.96 £44.00
% change year-on-year +34.18% -18.27% +71.34%

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 1,759 2,286 3,517
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.22% 95.33% 95.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,139 1,612 2,395
10th Percentile £350 £340 £325
25th Percentile £450 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £788 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 26 24
10th Percentile £18.49 £20.07 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.44 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.30 £26.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -23.49% -5.41%
75th Percentile £33.76 £27.81 £55.00
90th Percentile £62.25 £40.00 £87.31
London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.66 £36.00
% change year-on-year +12.10% -23.18% +2.86%

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 29 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 29 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 -4 160 £600 +4.35% 216
West End of London +7 7 £600 +41.18% 56
City of Westminster +4 3 £575 -9.27% 14
Camden 0 1 £580 +27.68% 4
Senior
London

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 62 (35.23%) Finance
2 58 (32.95%) Social Skills
3 41 (23.30%) Agile
3 41 (23.30%) AWS
4 38 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (21.02%) Python
6 35 (19.89%) SQL
6 35 (19.89%) Azure
7 33 (18.75%) Banking
8 30 (17.05%) Stakeholder Management
9 28 (15.91%) DevOps
10 27 (15.34%) CI/CD
11 22 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
12 20 (11.36%) Kubernetes
13 18 (10.23%) Java
13 18 (10.23%) Analytics
14 17 (9.66%) Security Cleared
14 17 (9.66%) Project Management
14 17 (9.66%) Software Engineering
15 16 (9.09%) Investment Banking
15 16 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
16 15 (8.52%) Degree
16 15 (8.52%) Artificial Intelligence
16 15 (8.52%) Migration
16 15 (8.52%) Terraform
17 14 (7.95%) Infrastructure as Code
17 14 (7.95%) Business Intelligence
17 14 (7.95%) Microsoft
17 14 (7.95%) SC Cleared
18 13 (7.39%) Data Modelling

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 (1.70%) Confluence
1 3 (1.70%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.14%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.57%) CMS
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.57%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.27%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.57%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.57%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (2.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.70%) Workday HCM
3 2 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.57%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.57%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.57%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.57%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.57%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.57%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 41 (23.30%) AWS
2 35 (19.89%) Azure
3 12 (6.82%) GCP
3 12 (6.82%) Power Platform
4 9 (5.11%) SaaS
5 8 (4.55%) GitHub
6 6 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.41%) Entra ID
6 6 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.84%) IaaS
7 5 (2.84%) Serverless
8 4 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.27%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.27%) PaaS
9 3 (1.70%) Collibra
9 3 (1.70%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.14%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.41%) Firewall
2 2 (1.14%) DNS
2 2 (1.14%) Intranet
2 2 (1.14%) SAN
3 1 (0.57%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (0.57%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.57%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.57%) HTTP
3 1 (0.57%) IGMP
3 1 (0.57%) Multicast
3 1 (0.57%) PBX
3 1 (0.57%) PSTN
3 1 (0.57%) VoIP
3 1 (0.57%) VPN
3 1 (0.57%) VXLAN
3 1 (0.57%) WAN
3 1 (0.57%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.25%) Power BI
2 9 (5.11%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.98%) Data Mining
3 7 (3.98%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.27%) Big Data
5 4 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.70%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.70%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.14%) Airbyte
7 2 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.14%) KDB
7 2 (1.14%) Metadata
7 2 (1.14%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.57%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.57%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.57%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.57%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (5.68%) JIRA
2 9 (5.11%) Git
3 8 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.41%) Postman
4 6 (3.41%) Selenium
5 5 (2.84%) REST Assured
6 3 (1.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.70%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (1.70%) Gradle
6 3 (1.70%) IntelliJ
6 3 (1.70%) JUnit
6 3 (1.70%) Maven
6 3 (1.70%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.57%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.57%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.57%) GitLab
7 1 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.57%) Xcode
General
1 62 (35.23%) Finance
2 58 (32.95%) Social Skills
3 33 (18.75%) Banking
4 22 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (9.09%) Investment Banking
6 11 (6.25%) Front Office
7 9 (5.11%) Retail
8 8 (4.55%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.41%) Marketing
10 4 (2.27%) Law
10 4 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.27%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.70%) Back Office
11 3 (1.70%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.14%) Billing
12 2 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.14%) Legal
12 2 (1.14%) Local Government
12 2 (1.14%) Military
12 2 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.68%) .NET
1 10 (5.68%) REST
2 6 (3.41%) pytest
2 6 (3.41%) Spring
3 5 (2.84%) RESTful
4 4 (2.27%) AngularJS
4 4 (2.27%) Kafka
4 4 (2.27%) Node.js
4 4 (2.27%) Pandas
5 3 (1.70%) HTML
5 3 (1.70%) JMS
5 3 (1.70%) JPA
5 3 (1.70%) JSON
5 3 (1.70%) Middleware
5 3 (1.70%) PySpark
6 2 (1.14%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.14%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.14%) Azure Blueprints
6 2 (1.14%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 8 (4.55%) Market Risk
2 6 (3.41%) Algorithms
3 4 (2.27%) Equities
3 4 (2.27%) Fixed Income
3 4 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.70%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.70%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.14%) Derivative
5 2 (1.14%) Digital Media
5 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.14%) PMI
5 2 (1.14%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.14%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.57%) Motion Graphics
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.68%) Linux
2 9 (5.11%) Windows
3 7 (3.98%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.70%) Android
4 3 (1.70%) Unix
5 2 (1.14%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.57%) CentOS
6 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.57%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (23.30%) Agile
2 38 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (17.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 28 (15.91%) DevOps
5 27 (15.34%) CI/CD
6 18 (10.23%) Analytics
7 17 (9.66%) Project Management
7 17 (9.66%) Software Engineering
8 16 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (8.52%) Artificial Intelligence
9 15 (8.52%) Migration
10 14 (7.95%) Business Intelligence
10 14 (7.95%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (7.39%) Data Modelling
12 12 (6.82%) Scrum
13 11 (6.25%) Mentoring
13 11 (6.25%) SDLC
14 10 (5.68%) Data Analysis
15 9 (5.11%) Test Automation
15 9 (5.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 37 (21.02%) Python
2 35 (19.89%) SQL
3 18 (10.23%) Java
4 8 (4.55%) C#
5 6 (3.41%) C++
6 5 (2.84%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.70%) Bash
7 3 (1.70%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.70%) Kotlin
7 3 (1.70%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.70%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.70%) VBA
8 2 (1.14%) Bicep
8 2 (1.14%) Go
8 2 (1.14%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.57%) AppleScript
9 1 (0.57%) C
9 1 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.57%) Groovy
9 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (9.66%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.52%) Degree
3 14 (7.95%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.70%) CFA
5 3 (1.70%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (1.70%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.70%) PMP
6 2 (1.14%) CCIE
6 2 (1.14%) CCNP
6 2 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.14%) CISM
6 2 (1.14%) CISSP
6 2 (1.14%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.57%) ACCA
7 1 (0.57%) CBAP
7 1 (0.57%) EnCE
7 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.11%) Data Quality
1 9 (5.11%) QA
2 6 (3.41%) Basel II
3 5 (2.84%) GDPR
4 4 (2.27%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.14%) NIST
6 2 (1.14%) PMO
6 2 (1.14%) SLA
6 2 (1.14%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.57%) COBIT
7 1 (0.57%) GRC
7 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (5.68%) Docker
2 7 (3.98%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.27%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.57%) Firmware
5 1 (0.57%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 20 (11.36%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.52%) Terraform
3 8 (4.55%) Ansible
4 5 (2.84%) Grafana
5 4 (2.27%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.14%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.14%) Puppet
7 1 (0.57%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.57%) EnCase
7 1 (0.57%) FTK
7 1 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.57%) Karpenter
7 1 (0.57%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.57%) Podman
7 1 (0.57%) QRadar
7 1 (0.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (7.95%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.41%) Cisco
2 6 (3.41%) Google
2 6 (3.41%) Salesforce
3 5 (2.84%) Adobe
3 5 (2.84%) Databricks
3 5 (2.84%) Oracle
3 5 (2.84%) SAP
3 5 (2.84%) Splunk
4 4 (2.27%) F5
4 4 (2.27%) VMware
4 4 (2.27%) Workday
5 3 (1.70%) CheckPoint
5 3 (1.70%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.70%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.14%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.14%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.14%) Informatica
6 2 (1.14%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.14%) Trayport