Senior Contracts in East London

Senior
London > East London

The median Senior daily rate in East London is £543, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 7 40 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 6.93% 17.39% 14.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.45% 19.42% 16.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 32 21
10th Percentile £243 £362 £500
25th Percentile £316 £423 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £529 £750
Median % change year-on-year +2.60% -29.50% +22.45%
75th Percentile £610 £725 £800
90th Percentile £634 £831 £950
London median daily rate £575 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Median hourly rate £28.60 £35.96 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -20.47% +89.96% -
London median hourly rate £48.25 £35.96 £44.00
% change year-on-year +34.18% -18.27% +71.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in East 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 East London with a recognized job title 94 206 162
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.07% 89.57% 92.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 177 134
10th Percentile £271 £320 £191
25th Percentile £400 £425 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% +8.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £697
90th Percentile £675 £770 £775
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 2
10th Percentile £14.66 £11.95 £20.64
25th Percentile £24.66 £12.84 £23.20
Median hourly rate £28.60 £22.91 £27.47
Median % change year-on-year +24.84% -16.58% +61.56%
75th Percentile £37.00 £28.37 £31.73
90th Percentile £38.80 £38.28 £34.29
London median hourly rate £34.33 £27.50 £35.25
% change year-on-year +24.82% -21.99% +0.71%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in East London

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in East London

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in East London over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in East London

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in East London

Senior
Contract Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the East London region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Tower Hamlets +3 3 £550 -21.43%
Havering +2 2 £245 -44.32% 2
Redbridge 0 1 - -
Senior
London

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 East London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 3 (42.86%) LAN
2 2 (28.57%) VoIP
2 2 (28.57%) WAN
2 2 (28.57%) DHCP
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) AppManager
2 2 (28.57%) OSPF
2 2 (28.57%) BGP
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) SCCM
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (28.57%) Multicast
2 2 (28.57%) OneDrive
2 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
2 2 (28.57%) VLAN
2 2 (28.57%) Ivanti
2 2 (28.57%) Arista
2 2 (28.57%) Data Science
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (14.29%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (28.57%) OneDrive
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) LAN
2 2 (28.57%) BGP
2 2 (28.57%) DHCP
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) Multicast
2 2 (28.57%) OSPF
2 2 (28.57%) VLAN
2 2 (28.57%) VoIP
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
2 2 (28.57%) WAN
2 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (14.29%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (14.29%) MPLS
3 1 (14.29%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (14.29%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Mining
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) Tableau
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) D3.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 2 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
1 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
1 2 (28.57%) Data Science
2 1 (14.29%) Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (14.29%) Database Optimisation
2 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) High Availability
2 1 (14.29%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (14.29%) Low Latency
2 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
2 1 (14.29%) Microservices
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (14.29%) Product Backlog
2 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (14.29%) User Stories
2 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) AppManager
1 2 (28.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Arista
1 2 (28.57%) Ivanti
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Foundry
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle