Senior Contracts in the East of England

Senior
England > East of England

The median Senior daily rate in the East of England is £542 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 21 30
Rank change year-on-year -18 +9 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 86 156 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 4.54% 7.51% 6.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.07% 8.21% 7.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 104 111
10th Percentile £350 £413 £350
25th Percentile £488 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.67% +20.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £550
90th Percentile £710 £746 £613
England median daily rate £567 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -5.50% +3.45% +10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 7 4
10th Percentile £24.22 - £38.05
25th Percentile £35.50 £17.72 £47.34
Median hourly rate £36.05 £43.00 £59.31
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% -27.50% +155.53%
75th Percentile £42.64 £51.88 £68.40
90th Percentile - £53.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +5.56% +28.57% +6.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East of England. 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 the East of England with a recognized job title 1,697 1,900 2,393
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.50% 91.48% 93.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 774 1,160 1,379
10th Percentile £206 £185 £163
25th Percentile £313 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £541
90th Percentile £650 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 583 297 371
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £35.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% +125.81% -7.32%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £39.55
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the East of England

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Senior in the East of England

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in the East of England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in the East of England

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior in the East of England

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in the East of England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in the East of England

Senior
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Hertfordshire -22 31 £650 +6.12% 62
Essex +1 22 £534 +6.80% 25
Cambridgeshire -12 22 £525 +5.00% 135
Bedfordshire -4 6 £525 +0.96% 11
Norfolk +9 4 £392 -13.00% 23
Suffolk -3 1 £625 -3.85% 8
Senior
England

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 of England region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 23 (26.74%) Social Skills
2 16 (18.60%) Agile
3 15 (17.44%) Software Engineering
4 14 (16.28%) Degree
4 14 (16.28%) Security Cleared
5 13 (15.12%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (15.12%) CRM
6 12 (13.95%) SAP
7 11 (12.79%) Firewall
7 11 (12.79%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (11.63%) Security Operations
8 10 (11.63%) Security Operations Centre
8 10 (11.63%) Incident Response
8 10 (11.63%) Splunk
8 10 (11.63%) Automotive
8 10 (11.63%) Windows
8 10 (11.63%) Linux
8 10 (11.63%) HTML
9 9 (10.47%) Finance
9 9 (10.47%) LogRhythm
10 8 (9.30%) DevOps
10 8 (9.30%) React
10 8 (9.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 8 (9.30%) FireEye
10 8 (9.30%) Cyberattack
10 8 (9.30%) CMS
10 8 (9.30%) CSS
10 8 (9.30%) Decision-Making
10 8 (9.30%) SAP S/4HANA

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 8 (9.30%) CMS
2 2 (2.33%) IIS
3 1 (1.16%) Apache
3 1 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.16%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (6.98%) Windchill
2 2 (2.33%) Simulink
2 2 (2.33%) Stateflow
3 1 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (9.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (4.65%) SAP SD
3 2 (2.33%) Teamcenter
4 1 (1.16%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 3 (3.49%) Power Platform
2 2 (2.33%) Azure
3 1 (1.16%) AWS
3 1 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.16%) Collibra
3 1 (1.16%) dbt
3 1 (1.16%) GCP
3 1 (1.16%) Power Automate
3 1 (1.16%) PowerApps
3 1 (1.16%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.79%) Firewall
2 6 (6.98%) VPN
3 2 (2.33%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (2.33%) LAN
3 2 (2.33%) SD-WAN
3 2 (2.33%) WAN
3 2 (2.33%) WLAN
4 1 (1.16%) Network Security
4 1 (1.16%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.49%) MySQL
1 3 (3.49%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.33%) MariaDB
2 2 (2.33%) Power BI
2 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.16%) Ataccama
3 1 (1.16%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.16%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.16%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (1.16%) SAP BW
3 1 (1.16%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 23 (26.74%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.63%) Automotive
3 9 (10.47%) Finance
4 7 (8.14%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (6.98%) Local Government
5 6 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.65%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.65%) Military
7 3 (3.49%) Billing
7 3 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.49%) Marketing
8 2 (2.33%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.16%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.16%) Electronics
9 1 (1.16%) Retail
9 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.63%) HTML
2 8 (9.30%) CSS
2 8 (9.30%) React
3 5 (5.81%) Middleware
4 3 (3.49%) .NET
5 1 (1.16%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.16%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.16%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.16%) NumPy
5 1 (1.16%) SAP PI
5 1 (1.16%) Spring
5 1 (1.16%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.63%) Security Operations Centre
2 8 (9.30%) Cyberattack
2 8 (9.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (4.65%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.65%) Life Science
4 3 (3.49%) LIMS
4 3 (3.49%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.49%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.33%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.33%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.33%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.33%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.33%) Social Media
5 2 (2.33%) Video Editing
6 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.16%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.63%) Linux
1 10 (11.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (18.60%) Agile
2 15 (17.44%) Software Engineering
3 13 (15.12%) CRM
3 13 (15.12%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (12.79%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (11.63%) Incident Response
5 10 (11.63%) Security Operations
6 8 (9.30%) Decision-Making
6 8 (9.30%) DevOps
7 7 (8.14%) Full Stack Development
7 7 (8.14%) Project Management
8 6 (6.98%) Business Case
8 6 (6.98%) CI/CD
8 6 (6.98%) Configuration Management
8 6 (6.98%) Customer Requirements
8 6 (6.98%) Customer Service
8 6 (6.98%) Identity Management
8 6 (6.98%) Load Balancing
8 6 (6.98%) PLM
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.14%) Java
2 6 (6.98%) SQL
3 5 (5.81%) Python
3 5 (5.81%) TypeScript
4 4 (4.65%) C#
5 3 (3.49%) C
6 2 (2.33%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.33%) MATLAB
6 2 (2.33%) VB
7 1 (1.16%) C++
7 1 (1.16%) R
Qualifications
1 14 (16.28%) Degree
1 14 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.98%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.81%) Master's Degree
4 4 (4.65%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.16%) CISSP
6 1 (1.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.49%) GDPR
2 2 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.16%) GxP
3 1 (1.16%) ISO 26262
3 1 (1.16%) PMO
3 1 (1.16%) QA
3 1 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.16%) Docker
1 1 (1.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.16%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.16%) Nessus
1 1 (1.16%) Nmap
1 1 (1.16%) QRadar
Vendors
1 12 (13.95%) SAP
2 10 (11.63%) Splunk
3 9 (10.47%) LogRhythm
4 8 (9.30%) Darktrace
4 8 (9.30%) FireEye
5 6 (6.98%) Microsoft
6 5 (5.81%) Cisco
7 3 (3.49%) Ariba
8 2 (2.33%) Adobe
8 2 (2.33%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.33%) MathWorks
8 2 (2.33%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.16%) Alteryx
9 1 (1.16%) Avaya
9 1 (1.16%) Blue Prism
9 1 (1.16%) Dataiku
9 1 (1.16%) Genesys
9 1 (1.16%) Hyperion
9 1 (1.16%) Trillium
9 1 (1.16%) UiPath