Senior Contracts in the City of London

Senior
Central London > City of London

The median Senior daily rate in the City of London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 14 16
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 157 193 325
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 8.98% 8.88% 9.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.66% 9.34% 9.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 138 235
10th Percentile £413 £400 £463
25th Percentile £481 £463 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £638
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +2.00%
75th Percentile £691 £725 £738
90th Percentile £803 £800 £813
Central London median daily rate £600 £550 £638
% change year-on-year +9.09% -13.73% +4.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - +169.23%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,626 2,066 3,434
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.02% 95.08% 95.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 1,469 2,338
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £590
% change year-on-year +4.55% -6.78% +5.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 23
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -5.41%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.64
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -28.57% -6.04%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the City of London

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Senior in the City of London

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in the City of London

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior in the City of London

Senior
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 5 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
London Bridge -1 1 £425 -15.00%
Senior
Central London

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 5 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 City of London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 55 (35.03%) Finance
2 52 (33.12%) Social Skills
3 39 (24.84%) AWS
4 37 (23.57%) Python
5 34 (21.66%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (19.75%) Agile
7 29 (18.47%) SQL
7 29 (18.47%) Azure
7 29 (18.47%) CI/CD
8 28 (17.83%) Banking
9 26 (16.56%) DevOps
10 24 (15.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 23 (14.65%) Analytical Skills
12 21 (13.38%) Kubernetes
13 18 (11.46%) Software Engineering
14 17 (10.83%) Microsoft
14 17 (10.83%) Security Cleared
15 16 (10.19%) Degree
15 16 (10.19%) Terraform
16 15 (9.55%) Java
17 14 (8.92%) Project Management
17 14 (8.92%) SC Cleared
18 13 (8.28%) Test Automation
18 13 (8.28%) Jenkins
19 12 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
19 12 (7.64%) Docker
19 12 (7.64%) JIRA
19 12 (7.64%) Artificial Intelligence
19 12 (7.64%) Investment Banking
20 11 (7.01%) Migration

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (1.91%) Apache
1 3 (1.91%) Confluence
2 2 (1.27%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.27%) nginx
2 2 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.64%) CMS
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.64%) SAS
3 1 (0.64%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (5.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.55%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.64%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.64%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.64%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.27%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.64%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.64%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.64%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.64%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.64%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.64%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 39 (24.84%) AWS
2 29 (18.47%) Azure
3 9 (5.73%) GCP
4 8 (5.10%) Power Platform
5 7 (4.46%) Entra ID
5 7 (4.46%) GitHub
6 6 (3.82%) SaaS
6 6 (3.82%) Serverless
7 5 (3.18%) IaaS
7 5 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.18%) OpenShift
8 4 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.55%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.55%) PaaS
9 3 (1.91%) dbt
9 3 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.27%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.27%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.55%) Firewall
2 2 (1.27%) DNS
2 2 (1.27%) Intranet
3 1 (0.64%) BIG-IP
3 1 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.64%) DHCP
3 1 (0.64%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (0.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (0.64%) PBX
3 1 (0.64%) PSTN
3 1 (0.64%) SAN
3 1 (0.64%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.64%) VoIP
3 1 (0.64%) Wireless
3 1 (0.64%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.10%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.46%) Power BI
3 6 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.18%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.55%) Big Data
5 4 (2.55%) Data Mining
6 3 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.27%) Airbyte
7 2 (1.27%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.27%) KDB
7 2 (1.27%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.64%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.64%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.64%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.64%) MySQL
8 1 (0.64%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.64%) Spotfire
8 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (8.28%) Jenkins
2 12 (7.64%) JIRA
3 9 (5.73%) Git
4 8 (5.10%) Selenium
5 7 (4.46%) Postman
6 6 (3.82%) REST Assured
7 5 (3.18%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.91%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.91%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (1.91%) Gradle
8 3 (1.91%) IntelliJ
8 3 (1.91%) JUnit
8 3 (1.91%) Maven
9 1 (0.64%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.64%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.64%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.64%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.64%) Xcode
General
1 55 (35.03%) Finance
2 52 (33.12%) Social Skills
3 28 (17.83%) Banking
4 23 (14.65%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.64%) Investment Banking
6 10 (6.37%) Front Office
7 6 (3.82%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.18%) Marketing
8 5 (3.18%) Retail
9 4 (2.55%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.55%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.91%) Back Office
10 3 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.64%) Billing
12 1 (0.64%) International Banking
12 1 (0.64%) Law
12 1 (0.64%) Local Government
12 1 (0.64%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.37%) .NET
1 10 (6.37%) REST
2 7 (4.46%) pytest
3 6 (3.82%) Spring
4 5 (3.18%) HTML
5 4 (2.55%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.55%) CSS
5 4 (2.55%) OAuth
5 4 (2.55%) RESTful
6 3 (1.91%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.91%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.91%) JMS
6 3 (1.91%) JPA
6 3 (1.91%) Kafka
6 3 (1.91%) LDAP
6 3 (1.91%) Middleware
6 3 (1.91%) Node.js
6 3 (1.91%) Pandas
6 3 (1.91%) PySpark
6 3 (1.91%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (3.18%) Algorithms
2 5 (3.18%) Market Risk
2 5 (3.18%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.55%) Equities
4 3 (1.91%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.91%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.91%) PMI
4 3 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.27%) Digital Media
5 2 (1.27%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.27%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.27%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.27%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.64%) Clustering
6 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.10%) Linux
2 7 (4.46%) Windows
3 5 (3.18%) Unix
3 5 (3.18%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.91%) Android
5 2 (1.27%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.64%) CentOS
6 1 (0.64%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.64%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (21.66%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (19.75%) Agile
3 29 (18.47%) CI/CD
4 26 (16.56%) DevOps
5 24 (15.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (11.46%) Software Engineering
7 14 (8.92%) Project Management
8 13 (8.28%) Test Automation
9 12 (7.64%) Artificial Intelligence
9 12 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (7.01%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (7.01%) Migration
10 11 (7.01%) Process Improvement
11 10 (6.37%) Analytics
11 10 (6.37%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (6.37%) Mentoring
12 9 (5.73%) Computer Science
12 9 (5.73%) Containerisation
12 9 (5.73%) Requirements Gathering
12 9 (5.73%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 37 (23.57%) Python
2 29 (18.47%) SQL
3 15 (9.55%) Java
4 9 (5.73%) C#
5 7 (4.46%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.82%) C++
6 6 (3.82%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.55%) Bash
7 4 (2.55%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.91%) Groovy
9 2 (1.27%) Bicep
9 2 (1.27%) Go
9 2 (1.27%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.27%) SPARQL
9 2 (1.27%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.27%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.27%) VBA
10 1 (0.64%) PHP
10 1 (0.64%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.64%) Rust
Qualifications
1 17 (10.83%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.19%) Degree
3 14 (8.92%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.55%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.27%) CFA
6 2 (1.27%) CISM
6 2 (1.27%) CISSP
6 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.27%) PMP
6 2 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.64%) ACCA
7 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.64%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.64%) CBAP
7 1 (0.64%) EnCE
7 1 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.37%) QA
2 7 (4.46%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.55%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.55%) GDPR
4 3 (1.91%) Basel II
5 2 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.27%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.27%) NIST
5 2 (1.27%) PMO
5 2 (1.27%) SLA
5 2 (1.27%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.64%) COBIT
6 1 (0.64%) GRC
6 1 (0.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (7.64%) Docker
2 7 (4.46%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.64%) Firmware
4 1 (0.64%) HDFS
4 1 (0.64%) Lustre
4 1 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (13.38%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.19%) Terraform
3 11 (7.01%) Ansible
4 4 (2.55%) Grafana
5 3 (1.91%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.64%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.64%) EnCase
6 1 (0.64%) FTK
6 1 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.64%) Karpenter
6 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.64%) OPNET
6 1 (0.64%) Podman
6 1 (0.64%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.64%) Puppet
6 1 (0.64%) QRadar
6 1 (0.64%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (10.83%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.82%) Oracle
2 6 (3.82%) Splunk
3 4 (2.55%) Adobe
3 4 (2.55%) SAP
3 4 (2.55%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.91%) Cisco
4 3 (1.91%) Databricks
4 3 (1.91%) Google
4 3 (1.91%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.91%) VMware
4 3 (1.91%) Workday
5 2 (1.27%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.27%) F5
5 2 (1.27%) Informatica
5 2 (1.27%) Murex
5 2 (1.27%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.27%) Trayport
6 1 (0.64%) Apple
6 1 (0.64%) CheckPoint