Senior Contract Job Trends in Devon

Senior
South West > Devon

The median Senior daily rate in Devon is £290, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 7 19
Rank change year-on-year -13 +12 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 7 39 18
As % of all contract jobs in Devon 4.14% 15.79% 8.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.34% 16.53% 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 20 13
10th Percentile - £568 -
25th Percentile £285 £600 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £620 £570
Median % change year-on-year -53.23% +8.77% -0.87%
75th Percentile £295 £686 £600
90th Percentile - £700 £700
South West median daily rate £549 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -0.23% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
South West median hourly rate £25.80 £65.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -60.61% +9.17% +50.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Devon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Devon. 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 Devon with a recognized job title 131 236 204
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 77.51% 95.55% 92.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 143 158
10th Percentile £173 £200 £300
25th Percentile £275 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -17.39% +9.52%
75th Percentile £503 £600 £667
90th Percentile £573 £685 £700
South West median daily rate £522 £513 £530
% change year-on-year +1.76% -3.30% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 16
10th Percentile £15.74 £16.90 £13.88
25th Percentile £19.35 £46.25 £20.13
Median hourly rate £22.84 £65.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -64.86% +67.74% +118.31%
75th Percentile £25.15 £72.50 £42.50
90th Percentile £51.70 - £53.13
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -61.31% +15.06% -8.15%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon.

Senior job vacancy trend in Devon

Senior
Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Devon

Senior
Hourly Rate Trend in Devon

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Devon

Senior
Contract Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Devon region over the 6 months to 2 November 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
Exeter +2 4 - - 7
Plymouth -7 2 - - 2
Senior
South West

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Devon

For the 6 months to 2 November 2025, Senior contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Devon region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) AWS
4 2 (28.57%) API Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Coaching
4 2 (28.57%) Cypress.io
4 2 (28.57%) Defect Management
4 2 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Load Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Minimum Viable Product
4 2 (28.57%) Postman
4 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 2 (28.57%) Service Management
4 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Test Planning
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (14.29%) API Development
5 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (14.29%) Business Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) Community of Practice
5 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
5 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Data Management
5 1 (14.29%) Data Science

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Devon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) PABX
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Cypress.io
1 2 (28.57%) Postman
General
1 6 (85.71%) Public Sector
2 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
3 4 (57.14%) Military
4 1 (14.29%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (14.29%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) API Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Coaching
2 2 (28.57%) Defect Management
2 2 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Load Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Minimum Viable Product
2 2 (28.57%) Service Management
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Test Planning
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
3 1 (14.29%) Data Science
3 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Prototyping
3 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow