Senior Contracts in Coventry

Senior
West Midlands > Coventry

The median Senior daily rate in Coventry is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 9 20
Rank change year-on-year +3 +11 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 13 20 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Coventry 13.40% 13.99% 7.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.61% 14.49% 7.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 12
10th Percentile £419 £425 £216
25th Percentile £459 £513 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.59% +21.67%
75th Percentile £634 £659 £631
90th Percentile £650 £688 £695
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £511 £540
% change year-on-year +7.58% -5.32% +2.86%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Coventry

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Coventry. 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 Coventry with a recognized job title 89 138 269
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.75% 96.50% 97.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 112 188
10th Percentile £200 £351 £222
25th Percentile £236 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £432 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% +9.38% +2.13%
75th Percentile £519 £616 £550
90th Percentile £635 £675 £666
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -0.77% -2.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.50
Median hourly rate - - £18.11
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.73%
75th Percentile - - £24.42
90th Percentile - - £26.57
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.07 £22.25 £19.50
% change year-on-year -18.81% +14.10% +12.85%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Coventry

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Coventry

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Coventry

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Coventry over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Coventry

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Coventry

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 Coventry region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 5 (38.46%) Retail
1 5 (38.46%) Artificial Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Polish Language
2 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (30.77%) Mobile Games
2 4 (30.77%) Games
2 4 (30.77%) TypeScript
2 4 (30.77%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 4 (30.77%) Unreal Engine
2 4 (30.77%) User Experience
2 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
2 4 (30.77%) Virtual Reality
2 4 (30.77%) Generative AI
3 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Firewall
3 3 (23.08%) Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Mitel
4 2 (15.38%) Network Design
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) Degree
4 2 (15.38%) Network Security
4 2 (15.38%) AWS
4 2 (15.38%) Aruba
4 2 (15.38%) Unified Communications
4 2 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (15.38%) LAN
4 2 (15.38%) VoIP
4 2 (15.38%) WAN
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Coventry 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Firewall
2 2 (15.38%) LAN
2 2 (15.38%) Network Security
2 2 (15.38%) SD-WAN
2 2 (15.38%) Unified Communications
2 2 (15.38%) VoIP
2 2 (15.38%) WAN
2 2 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 5 (38.46%) Retail
2 4 (30.77%) Games
2 4 (30.77%) Polish Language
3 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Finance
5 1 (7.69%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 4 (30.77%) Unreal Engine
2 1 (7.69%) Blazor
2 1 (7.69%) CSS
2 1 (7.69%) HTML
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Mobile Games
1 4 (30.77%) Virtual Reality
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (30.77%) Generative AI
2 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
2 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (30.77%) User Experience
3 3 (23.08%) Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Architecture Roadmap
4 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
4 2 (15.38%) Network Design
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (7.69%) API Design
5 1 (7.69%) API Development
5 1 (7.69%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (7.69%) Microservices
5 1 (7.69%) Preventative Maintenance
5 1 (7.69%) Quantitative Risk Management
5 1 (7.69%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) TypeScript
2 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) FortiGate
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) CASB
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Aruba
1 2 (15.38%) Cisco
1 2 (15.38%) Mitel
2 1 (7.69%) Bloomberg
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle