Senior Contracts in the East of England

Senior
England > East of England

The median Senior daily rate in the East of England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 30 23
Rank change year-on-year +3 -7 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 66 93 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 6.83% 4.89% 7.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.80% 5.50% 8.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 54 97
10th Percentile £318 £350 £420
25th Percentile £431 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £542 £588
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% -7.74% +17.50%
75th Percentile £675 £647 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £715
England median daily rate £550 £561 £600
% change year-on-year -2.00% -6.46% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 8
10th Percentile £40.50 £23.85 £17.72
25th Percentile £41.25 £35.50 £35.56
Median hourly rate £42.50 £36.02 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +17.98% -29.71% -6.82%
75th Percentile £45.00 £42.64 £59.31
90th Percentile £67.50 - £77.05
England median hourly rate £52.00 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +9.47% +5.56% +5.88%

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 846 1,690 1,822
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.49% 88.95% 91.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 443 755 1,099
10th Percentile £200 £204 £199
25th Percentile £375 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.10% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 597 280
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.30 £15.25
Median hourly rate £47.44 £43.00 £41.91
Median % change year-on-year +10.33% +2.61% +166.23%
75th Percentile £73.13 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.03
England median hourly rate £30.20 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -18.77% -17.38% +95.65%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +26 32 £650 - 163
Cambridgeshire -1 13 £454 -13.52% 252
Bedfordshire -4 9 £700 +33.33% 37
Essex -2 8 £318 -40.45% 111
Suffolk -2 4 £431 -31.00% 26
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 21 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 16 (24.24%) Security Cleared
3 15 (22.73%) Azure
3 15 (22.73%) AWS
3 15 (22.73%) Python
3 15 (22.73%) Analytics
4 14 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (21.21%) SC Cleared
5 13 (19.70%) Degree
6 12 (18.18%) Finance
6 12 (18.18%) Agile
6 12 (18.18%) Visualisation
7 11 (16.67%) Hadoop
7 11 (16.67%) Machine Learning
7 11 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
7 11 (16.67%) PhD
7 11 (16.67%) SQL
7 11 (16.67%) Data Science
7 11 (16.67%) Decision-Making
8 10 (15.15%) Microsoft
8 10 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (15.15%) Computer Science
8 10 (15.15%) Data Analytics
8 10 (15.15%) Data Quality
8 10 (15.15%) Tableau
9 9 (13.64%) R
9 9 (13.64%) Matplotlib
9 9 (13.64%) NumPy
9 9 (13.64%) Data Analysis
9 9 (13.64%) Predictive Analytics

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 9 (13.64%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.55%) CMS
2 3 (4.55%) Confluence
2 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.55%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.03%) SAS
4 1 (1.52%) Apache
4 1 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.52%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (1.52%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (1.52%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Windchill
2 2 (3.03%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.52%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.52%) OmniGraffle
3 1 (1.52%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.52%) Sketch
3 1 (1.52%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 4 (6.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.03%) Primavera
3 1 (1.52%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.52%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 15 (22.73%) AWS
1 15 (22.73%) Azure
2 5 (7.58%) GCP
2 5 (7.58%) SaaS
3 4 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (4.55%) Entra ID
4 3 (4.55%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.03%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.03%) OneDrive
5 2 (3.03%) Serverless
6 1 (1.52%) Akamai
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.52%) IaaS
6 1 (1.52%) PaaS
6 1 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.61%) DNS
2 5 (7.58%) WAN
3 3 (4.55%) DHCP
3 3 (4.55%) LAN
3 3 (4.55%) SD-WAN
3 3 (4.55%) VPN
4 2 (3.03%) Firewall
4 2 (3.03%) HTTP
4 2 (3.03%) IP Telephony
4 2 (3.03%) SMTP
4 2 (3.03%) SSL
4 2 (3.03%) VLAN
4 2 (3.03%) VoIP
4 2 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (3.03%) Wireless
5 1 (1.52%) IGRP
5 1 (1.52%) IMAP
5 1 (1.52%) IPsec
5 1 (1.52%) Network Security
5 1 (1.52%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.67%) Hadoop
2 10 (15.15%) Tableau
3 9 (13.64%) Big Data
4 4 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.03%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (3.03%) Metadata
5 2 (3.03%) Power BI
5 2 (3.03%) Text Mining
6 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.52%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.52%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.52%) GIS
6 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (4.55%) JIRA
2 2 (3.03%) Git
2 2 (3.03%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.03%) TestRail
3 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.52%) GitLab
General
1 21 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 14 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (18.18%) Finance
4 4 (6.06%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (6.06%) Retail
5 3 (4.55%) Automotive
5 3 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.55%) Marketing
5 3 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.03%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.03%) Aviation
6 2 (3.03%) Electronics
6 2 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.03%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.52%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.64%) Matplotlib
1 9 (13.64%) NumPy
1 9 (13.64%) Pandas
1 9 (13.64%) PyTorch
1 9 (13.64%) scikit-learn
1 9 (13.64%) Seaborn
1 9 (13.64%) TensorFlow
2 3 (4.55%) PySpark
3 2 (3.03%) .NET
3 2 (3.03%) AWS CDK
3 2 (3.03%) React
4 1 (1.52%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.52%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.52%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.52%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.52%) HTML
4 1 (1.52%) LDAP
4 1 (1.52%) Node.js
4 1 (1.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.64%) Algorithms
2 3 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (4.55%) FMCG
2 3 (4.55%) Life Science
2 3 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.52%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (1.52%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.52%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.52%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.52%) Motion Graphics
4 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.52%) PCIe
4 1 (1.52%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.61%) Windows
2 4 (6.06%) Linux
3 2 (3.03%) AIX
3 2 (3.03%) Unix
3 2 (3.03%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (22.73%) Analytics
2 12 (18.18%) Agile
2 12 (18.18%) Visualisation
3 11 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 11 (16.67%) Data Science
3 11 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 11 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 10 (15.15%) Computer Science
4 10 (15.15%) Data Analytics
4 10 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (13.64%) Data Analysis
5 9 (13.64%) Data Munging
5 9 (13.64%) Feature Engineering
5 9 (13.64%) Generative AI
5 9 (13.64%) LLM
5 9 (13.64%) Predictive Analytics
5 9 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (13.64%) Reinforcement Learning
5 9 (13.64%) Statistical Modelling
5 9 (13.64%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 15 (22.73%) Python
2 11 (16.67%) SQL
3 9 (13.64%) R
4 2 (3.03%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.52%) Bash
5 1 (1.52%) Bicep
5 1 (1.52%) C
5 1 (1.52%) C#
5 1 (1.52%) C++
5 1 (1.52%) Java
5 1 (1.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 14 (21.21%) SC Cleared
3 13 (19.70%) Degree
4 11 (16.67%) PhD
5 9 (13.64%) Master's Degree
6 2 (3.03%) CISSP
6 2 (3.03%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.52%) CCDP
7 1 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.52%) CISM
7 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.52%) GCFE
7 1 (1.52%) GCIH
7 1 (1.52%) GIAC
7 1 (1.52%) GREM
7 1 (1.52%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.15%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.55%) GDPR
2 3 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.55%) NIST
2 3 (4.55%) QA
3 2 (3.03%) NIST 800
3 2 (3.03%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.03%) PMO
4 1 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.52%) GxP
4 1 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.52%) SLA
4 1 (1.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.03%) Firmware
3 2 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.52%) Docker
4 1 (1.52%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (1.52%) KVM
4 1 (1.52%) QEMU
4 1 (1.52%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.52%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (9.09%) Terraform
2 3 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (3.03%) AppManager
3 2 (3.03%) Avamar
3 2 (3.03%) EMC NetWorker
3 2 (3.03%) SCCM
3 2 (3.03%) VxRail
4 1 (1.52%) Ansible
4 1 (1.52%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.52%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.61%) SAP
3 6 (9.09%) VMware
4 4 (6.06%) LogRhythm
5 3 (4.55%) Darktrace
5 3 (4.55%) FireEye
5 3 (4.55%) Splunk
6 2 (3.03%) Dell
6 2 (3.03%) Ivanti
6 2 (3.03%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.03%) Twitter
7 1 (1.52%) Adobe
7 1 (1.52%) Arista
7 1 (1.52%) Citrix
7 1 (1.52%) Databricks
7 1 (1.52%) Instagram
7 1 (1.52%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.52%) Spotify
7 1 (1.52%) TikTok
7 1 (1.52%) Zscaler