Senior Contracts in East Sussex

Senior
South East > East Sussex

The median Senior daily rate in East Sussex is £523, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 10 18
Rank change year-on-year -6 +8 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 4 7 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East Sussex 3.54% 8.75% 5.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.80% 8.97% 5.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 5
10th Percentile £439 £430 £555
25th Percentile £468 - £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -26.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £583 £500 £700
90th Percentile £616 £688 £760
South East median daily rate £570 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +8.57% +5.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £51.00 -
South East median hourly rate £62.62 £58.60 £45.00
% change year-on-year +6.86% +30.23% +2.86%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Sussex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in East Sussex. 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 Sussex with a recognized job title 69 78 120
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 61.06% 97.50% 97.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 59 81
10th Percentile £310 £293 £203
25th Percentile £402 £333 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £700
90th Percentile £646 £733 £800
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +1.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 7
10th Percentile £16.89 £11.00 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.75 £15.38 £15.08
Median hourly rate £19.36 £25.25 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.34% -17.21% +38.64%
75th Percentile £20.82 £26.88 £55.63
90th Percentile £21.59 £51.50 £61.50
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +142.00%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in East Sussex

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in East Sussex

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in East Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in East Sussex over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in East Sussex

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East Sussex

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in East Sussex

Senior
Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 3 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
Brighton -1 4 £523 +10.00% 25
Senior
South East

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 Sussex region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) Qualys
2 1 (25.00%) Umbraco
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Rackspace
2 1 (25.00%) User Stories
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East Sussex 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 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) User Stories
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Qualys
2 1 (25.00%) Rackspace