Senior Contracts in the East of England

Senior
England > East of England

The median Senior daily rate in the East of England is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 36 21
Rank change year-on-year +12 -15 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 74 86 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 7.89% 4.50% 7.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.93% 5.03% 8.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 50 104
10th Percentile £318 £350 £413
25th Percentile £427 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £542 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.78% -9.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £675 £631 £650
90th Percentile £700 £710 £746
England median daily rate £550 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 15 7
10th Percentile £40.63 £24.22 -
25th Percentile £41.25 £35.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £43.75 £36.05 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.38% -16.17% -27.50%
75th Percentile £62.81 £42.64 £51.88
90th Percentile £75.63 - £53.75
England median hourly rate £52.00 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +9.47% +5.56% +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 829 1,710 1,891
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.38% 89.58% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 773 1,156
10th Percentile £200 £206 £185
25th Percentile £379 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £563 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 591 294
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.61 £16.30 £15.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £43.00 £35.40
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +21.47% +128.39%
75th Percentile £72.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
Hertfordshire +31 34 £650 - 301
Cambridgeshire +3 15 £408 -22.38% 338
Bedfordshire +7 11 £700 +33.33% 173
Essex 0 10 £318 -40.37% 288
Suffolk -4 4 £431 -31.00% 87
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 of England region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 25 (33.78%) Social Skills
2 18 (24.32%) Analytics
2 18 (24.32%) Security Cleared
3 17 (22.97%) Azure
3 17 (22.97%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (21.62%) AWS
4 16 (21.62%) SC Cleared
4 16 (21.62%) Python
5 15 (20.27%) Finance
6 14 (18.92%) Degree
7 13 (17.57%) Artificial Intelligence
7 13 (17.57%) Visualisation
7 13 (17.57%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (16.22%) PhD
8 12 (16.22%) SQL
8 12 (16.22%) Data Quality
8 12 (16.22%) Machine Learning
8 12 (16.22%) Agile
8 12 (16.22%) Hadoop
8 12 (16.22%) Data Science
8 12 (16.22%) Decision-Making
9 11 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (14.86%) LLM
9 11 (14.86%) Data Analytics
9 11 (14.86%) Algorithms
9 11 (14.86%) Computer Science
9 11 (14.86%) Tableau
9 11 (14.86%) Microsoft
10 10 (13.51%) Active Directory
10 10 (13.51%) NumPy

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 10 (13.51%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.05%) CMS
2 3 (4.05%) Confluence
2 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.05%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.70%) SAS
4 1 (1.35%) Apache
4 1 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.35%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (1.35%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (1.35%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Windchill
2 2 (2.70%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.35%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (1.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.35%) OmniGraffle
3 1 (1.35%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.35%) Sketch
3 1 (1.35%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 6 (8.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.70%) Primavera
3 1 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (1.35%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 17 (22.97%) Azure
2 16 (21.62%) AWS
3 5 (6.76%) GCP
3 5 (6.76%) Power Platform
3 5 (6.76%) SaaS
4 4 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.05%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (4.05%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.70%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.70%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.70%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.70%) Serverless
7 1 (1.35%) Akamai
7 1 (1.35%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (1.35%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.35%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.35%) PaaS
7 1 (1.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.46%) DNS
2 5 (6.76%) WAN
3 3 (4.05%) DHCP
3 3 (4.05%) LAN
3 3 (4.05%) SD-WAN
3 3 (4.05%) VPN
4 2 (2.70%) Firewall
4 2 (2.70%) HTTP
4 2 (2.70%) IP Telephony
4 2 (2.70%) SMTP
4 2 (2.70%) SSL
4 2 (2.70%) VLAN
4 2 (2.70%) VoIP
4 2 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (2.70%) Wireless
5 1 (1.35%) BGP
5 1 (1.35%) IGRP
5 1 (1.35%) IMAP
5 1 (1.35%) IPsec
5 1 (1.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.22%) Hadoop
2 11 (14.86%) Tableau
3 10 (13.51%) Big Data
4 5 (6.76%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (4.05%) Power BI
6 2 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.70%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (2.70%) Metadata
6 2 (2.70%) Text Mining
7 1 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.35%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.35%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.35%) GIS
7 1 (1.35%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Git
1 3 (4.05%) JIRA
2 2 (2.70%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.70%) TestRail
3 1 (1.35%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.35%) GitLab
3 1 (1.35%) MagicDraw
3 1 (1.35%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 25 (33.78%) Social Skills
2 17 (22.97%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (20.27%) Finance
4 6 (8.11%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (5.41%) Retail
6 3 (4.05%) Automotive
6 3 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.05%) Marketing
6 3 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.05%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.70%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.70%) Aviation
7 2 (2.70%) Electronics
7 2 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.70%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.35%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.51%) Matplotlib
1 10 (13.51%) NumPy
1 10 (13.51%) Pandas
1 10 (13.51%) PyTorch
1 10 (13.51%) scikit-learn
1 10 (13.51%) Seaborn
1 10 (13.51%) TensorFlow
2 3 (4.05%) PySpark
3 2 (2.70%) .NET
3 2 (2.70%) AWS CDK
3 2 (2.70%) React
4 1 (1.35%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.35%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.35%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.35%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.35%) HTML
4 1 (1.35%) LDAP
4 1 (1.35%) Node.js
4 1 (1.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.86%) Algorithms
2 5 (6.76%) Life Science
3 3 (4.05%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (4.05%) FMCG
3 3 (4.05%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.70%) FPGA
4 2 (2.70%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (2.70%) VHDL
5 1 (1.35%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.35%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.35%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.35%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.35%) Motion Graphics
5 1 (1.35%) PKI
5 1 (1.35%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.46%) Windows
2 4 (5.41%) Linux
3 2 (2.70%) AIX
3 2 (2.70%) Unix
3 2 (2.70%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (24.32%) Analytics
2 13 (17.57%) Artificial Intelligence
2 13 (17.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 13 (17.57%) Visualisation
3 12 (16.22%) Agile
3 12 (16.22%) Data Science
3 12 (16.22%) Decision-Making
3 12 (16.22%) Machine Learning
4 11 (14.86%) Computer Science
4 11 (14.86%) Data Analytics
4 11 (14.86%) LLM
4 11 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (13.51%) Data Analysis
5 10 (13.51%) Data Munging
5 10 (13.51%) Feature Engineering
5 10 (13.51%) Generative AI
5 10 (13.51%) Predictive Analytics
5 10 (13.51%) Reinforcement Learning
5 10 (13.51%) Statistical Modelling
5 10 (13.51%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 16 (21.62%) Python
2 12 (16.22%) SQL
3 10 (13.51%) R
4 2 (2.70%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.35%) Bash
5 1 (1.35%) Bicep
5 1 (1.35%) C
5 1 (1.35%) C#
5 1 (1.35%) C++
5 1 (1.35%) Java
5 1 (1.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (24.32%) Security Cleared
2 16 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 14 (18.92%) Degree
4 12 (16.22%) PhD
5 10 (13.51%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.70%) CISSP
6 2 (2.70%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.35%) CCDP
7 1 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.35%) CISM
7 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.35%) GCFE
7 1 (1.35%) GCIH
7 1 (1.35%) GIAC
7 1 (1.35%) GREM
7 1 (1.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.22%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.41%) GDPR
3 3 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.05%) NIST
3 3 (4.05%) QA
4 2 (2.70%) NIST 800
4 2 (2.70%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.70%) PMO
5 1 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.35%) GxP
5 1 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.35%) SLA
5 1 (1.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (13.51%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.05%) Firmware
2 3 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.35%) Docker
4 1 (1.35%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (1.35%) KVM
4 1 (1.35%) QEMU
4 1 (1.35%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (8.11%) Terraform
2 4 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.70%) AppManager
3 2 (2.70%) Avamar
3 2 (2.70%) EMC NetWorker
3 2 (2.70%) SCCM
3 2 (2.70%) VxRail
4 1 (1.35%) Ansible
4 1 (1.35%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.35%) PTC Integrity
4 1 (1.35%) vRealize
Vendors
1 11 (14.86%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.16%) SAP
3 6 (8.11%) VMware
4 4 (5.41%) LogRhythm
5 3 (4.05%) Darktrace
5 3 (4.05%) FireEye
5 3 (4.05%) Splunk
6 2 (2.70%) Ariba
6 2 (2.70%) Dell
6 2 (2.70%) Ivanti
6 2 (2.70%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.70%) Twitter
6 2 (2.70%) Xilinx
7 1 (1.35%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.35%) Blue Coat
7 1 (1.35%) Google
7 1 (1.35%) IronPort
7 1 (1.35%) PTC
7 1 (1.35%) Riverbed
7 1 (1.35%) SolarWinds