Senior Contract Job Trends in Derbyshire

Senior
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The median Senior daily rate in Derbyshire is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 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
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 19 17
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 4 8 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derbyshire 3.05% 4.73% 5.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.42% 4.79% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £433 £512 -
25th Percentile £444 £536 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £588 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.15% +17.50% -18.70%
75th Percentile £594 £663 £519
90th Percentile £658 £710 £530
East Midlands median daily rate £471 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -10.24% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Median hourly rate - £21.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - +21.84% -
East Midlands median hourly rate - £21.59 £17.72
% change year-on-year - +21.84% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Derbyshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Derbyshire. 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 Derbyshire with a recognized job title 117 167 144
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.31% 98.82% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 77 91
10th Percentile £154 £200 £213
25th Percentile £325 £322 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -2.56% +21.88%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £619
90th Percentile £730 £628 £664
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -8.89% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 19 18
10th Percentile £25.04 £17.00 £16.98
25th Percentile £25.09 £18.65 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% +20.90% +16.16%
75th Percentile - £50.00 £47.81
90th Percentile - £51.00 £54.00
East Midlands median hourly rate £21.32 £21.59 £20.00
% change year-on-year -1.25% +7.95% +13.90%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Derbyshire

Senior
Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Derbyshire

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Derbyshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Derbyshire over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Derbyshire

Senior
Hourly Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Derbyshire

Senior
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Derby +3 4 £475 -24.00% 12
Senior
East Midlands

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 Derbyshire 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 Derbyshire 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