Senior Contract Job Trends in Derby

Senior
Derbyshire > Derby

The median Senior daily rate in Derby is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 21 19
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 4 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derby 3.81% 3.05% 5.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.08% 3.08% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £433 £563 -
25th Percentile £444 £581 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +19.05% -5.41%
75th Percentile £594 £689 £538
90th Percentile £658 £721 -
Derbyshire median daily rate £475 £588 £500
% change year-on-year -19.15% +17.50% -18.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Median hourly rate - £21.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - +21.84% -
Derbyshire median hourly rate - £21.59 £17.72
% change year-on-year - +21.84% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Derby

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Derby. 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 Derby with a recognized job title 98 130 102
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.33% 99.24% 93.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 71 68
10th Percentile £171 £200 £201
25th Percentile £355 £310 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £494
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -3.80% +23.44%
75th Percentile £623 £588 £619
90th Percentile £725 £613 £664
Derbyshire median daily rate £515 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +8.42% -2.56% +21.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 13 10
10th Percentile £25.04 - £15.25
25th Percentile £25.09 £17.00 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +16.49% +21.84% +1.26%
75th Percentile - £24.18 -
90th Percentile - - £20.00
Derbyshire median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.01% +20.90% +16.16%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Derby

Senior
Daily Rate Trend in Derby

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Derby.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Derby

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Derby

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Derby over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Derby

Senior
Hourly Rate Trend in Derby

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Derby.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Derby

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 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 Derby region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) React Native
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) SailPoint
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (25.00%) Docker
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) .NET

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derby 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 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Batch
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (25.00%) Jest
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) React Native
1 1 (25.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Monorepo
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft