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 21 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 15 15
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 158 192 327
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 9.16% 8.81% 9.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.83% 9.28% 9.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 135 241
10th Percentile £413 £400 £463
25th Percentile £500 £453 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £694 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £600 £525 £645
% change year-on-year +14.29% -18.60% +5.31%
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 1,607 2,070 3,363
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.21% 95.00% 94.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,004 1,459 2,286
10th Percentile £350 £350 £361
25th Percentile £462 £443 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.73%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £790 £820
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 23
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.58 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.59% -34.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £47.50 £28.44 £58.75
90th Percentile £89.13 £40.00 £87.64
Central London median hourly rate £28.61 £26.41 £35.00
% change year-on-year +8.35% -24.56% -5.41%

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

For the 6 months to 21 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 (34.81%) Social Skills
2 54 (34.18%) Finance
3 40 (25.32%) AWS
4 34 (21.52%) Python
4 34 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (20.89%) SQL
6 32 (20.25%) Agile
7 30 (18.99%) CI/CD
8 29 (18.35%) Banking
9 27 (17.09%) Stakeholder Management
10 25 (15.82%) DevOps
11 23 (14.56%) Azure
12 22 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
12 22 (13.92%) Kubernetes
13 19 (12.03%) Security Cleared
14 17 (10.76%) Java
14 17 (10.76%) Software Engineering
15 16 (10.13%) SC Cleared
15 16 (10.13%) Degree
15 16 (10.13%) Terraform
16 14 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
16 14 (8.86%) Project Management
17 13 (8.23%) Microsoft
17 13 (8.23%) Artificial Intelligence
17 13 (8.23%) Analytics
17 13 (8.23%) Jenkins
17 13 (8.23%) Infrastructure as Code
18 12 (7.59%) GCP
18 12 (7.59%) JIRA
18 12 (7.59%) Test Automation

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 (1.90%) Confluence
2 2 (1.27%) Apache
2 2 (1.27%) nginx
2 2 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.63%) CMS
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.63%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (6.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.53%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.63%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.63%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (3.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.27%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.63%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.63%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.63%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.63%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.63%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.63%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 40 (25.32%) AWS
2 23 (14.56%) Azure
3 12 (7.59%) GCP
4 10 (6.33%) Power Platform
5 8 (5.06%) GitHub
5 8 (5.06%) SaaS
6 6 (3.80%) Serverless
7 5 (3.16%) IaaS
8 4 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.53%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.53%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.53%) PaaS
9 3 (1.90%) dbt
9 3 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.90%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.27%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (1.27%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.90%) Firewall
2 2 (1.27%) Intranet
3 1 (0.63%) DNS
3 1 (0.63%) PBX
3 1 (0.63%) PSTN
3 1 (0.63%) SAN
3 1 (0.63%) VoIP
3 1 (0.63%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.70%) Power BI
2 8 (5.06%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.80%) Data Mining
3 6 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.16%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.53%) Big Data
6 3 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.90%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.27%) Airbyte
7 2 (1.27%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.27%) KDB
7 2 (1.27%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.63%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.63%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.63%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.63%) Spotfire
8 1 (0.63%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (8.23%) Jenkins
2 12 (7.59%) JIRA
3 9 (5.70%) Git
4 7 (4.43%) Postman
4 7 (4.43%) Selenium
5 6 (3.80%) REST Assured
6 5 (3.16%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.90%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.90%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (1.90%) Gradle
7 3 (1.90%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.90%) JUnit
7 3 (1.90%) Maven
8 1 (0.63%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.63%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.63%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.63%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.63%) Xcode
General
1 55 (34.81%) Social Skills
2 54 (34.18%) Finance
3 29 (18.35%) Banking
4 22 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.59%) Investment Banking
6 11 (6.96%) Front Office
7 7 (4.43%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.80%) Marketing
9 5 (3.16%) Back Office
9 5 (3.16%) Retail
10 4 (2.53%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.53%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.27%) Military
12 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.63%) Games
13 1 (0.63%) Law
13 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.63%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.96%) .NET
2 10 (6.33%) REST
3 7 (4.43%) pytest
4 6 (3.80%) Spring
5 5 (3.16%) HTML
5 5 (3.16%) RESTful
6 4 (2.53%) .NET Core
6 4 (2.53%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.53%) CSS
6 4 (2.53%) Kafka
6 4 (2.53%) Node.js
7 3 (1.90%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.90%) FpML
7 3 (1.90%) JMS
7 3 (1.90%) JPA
7 3 (1.90%) Middleware
7 3 (1.90%) Pandas
8 2 (1.27%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.27%) HTML5
8 2 (1.27%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (4.43%) Market Risk
3 5 (3.16%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.53%) Equities
5 3 (1.90%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.90%) Fixed Income
5 3 (1.90%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.27%) Derivative
6 2 (1.27%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.27%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.27%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.27%) PMI
6 2 (1.27%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.27%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.63%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.06%) Linux
2 6 (3.80%) Windows
3 5 (3.16%) Unix
3 5 (3.16%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.90%) Android
5 2 (1.27%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.63%) CentOS
6 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.63%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (20.25%) Agile
3 30 (18.99%) CI/CD
4 27 (17.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 25 (15.82%) DevOps
6 17 (10.76%) Software Engineering
7 14 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (8.86%) Project Management
8 13 (8.23%) Analytics
8 13 (8.23%) Artificial Intelligence
8 13 (8.23%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (7.59%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (7.59%) Migration
9 12 (7.59%) Test Automation
10 10 (6.33%) Data Modelling
10 10 (6.33%) Mentoring
11 9 (5.70%) Process Improvement
11 9 (5.70%) Requirements Gathering
11 9 (5.70%) SDLC
12 8 (5.06%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 34 (21.52%) Python
2 33 (20.89%) SQL
3 17 (10.76%) Java
4 10 (6.33%) C#
5 6 (3.80%) C++
6 5 (3.16%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.16%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.53%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.90%) Groovy
8 3 (1.90%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.90%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.27%) Bash
9 2 (1.27%) Bicep
9 2 (1.27%) Go
9 2 (1.27%) SPARQL
9 2 (1.27%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.27%) VBA
10 1 (0.63%) AppleScript
10 1 (0.63%) Rust
10 1 (0.63%) Swift
Qualifications
1 19 (12.03%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.13%) Degree
2 16 (10.13%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.90%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.27%) CFA
5 2 (1.27%) CISM
5 2 (1.27%) CISSP
5 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.27%) PMP
5 2 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.63%) ACCA
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.63%) CBAP
6 1 (0.63%) EnCE
6 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.70%) QA
2 8 (5.06%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.16%) Basel II
4 4 (2.53%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.53%) GDPR
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 (0.63%) COBIT
6 1 (0.63%) GRC
6 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (6.96%) Docker
2 4 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.63%) Firmware
4 1 (0.63%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 22 (13.92%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.13%) Terraform
3 7 (4.43%) Ansible
4 5 (3.16%) Grafana
5 4 (2.53%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.63%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.63%) EnCase
6 1 (0.63%) FTK
6 1 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.63%) Karpenter
6 1 (0.63%) Podman
6 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.63%) Puppet
6 1 (0.63%) QRadar
6 1 (0.63%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (8.23%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.80%) Google
2 6 (3.80%) Salesforce
2 6 (3.80%) Splunk
3 5 (3.16%) Adobe
3 5 (3.16%) Oracle
4 4 (2.53%) SAP
5 3 (1.90%) Cisco
5 3 (1.90%) Databricks
5 3 (1.90%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.90%) VMware
5 3 (1.90%) Workday
6 2 (1.27%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.27%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.27%) Informatica
6 2 (1.27%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.27%) Trayport
7 1 (0.63%) Apple
7 1 (0.63%) Murex
7 1 (0.63%) NetApp