Senior Contracts in England

Senior
UK > England

The median Senior daily rate in England is £567 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 19 20 19
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 3,032 4,225 5,895
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.20% 8.36% 8.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.85% 8.83% 8.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,041 3,085 4,315
10th Percentile £400 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £567 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% +3.45% +10.48%
75th Percentile £675 £706 £688
90th Percentile £787 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £567 £589 £575
% change year-on-year -3.74% +2.43% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 96 85
10th Percentile £20.36 £17.72 £20.25
25th Percentile £32.50 £35.00 £25.68
Median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +28.57% +6.54%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £51.45
90th Percentile £75.00 £71.80 £69.35
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -4.04% +33.78% +12.63%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in England

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in England

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior in England

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in England

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in England

Senior
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
London -1 1,774 £600 -4.00% 1,574
South East +9 427 £525 +5.00% 544
North of England +2 354 £513 -6.82% 507
North West +6 252 £518 -1.43% 304
South West -2 151 £517 -13.88% 296
Midlands +6 139 £511 -4.97% 333
West Midlands +12 114 £511 -5.32% 207
Yorkshire -7 95 £508 -11.74% 150
East of England -18 86 £542 -9.67% 269
East Midlands -11 23 £525 -2.33% 126
North East +1 20 £600 - 63
Senior
UK

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 England region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 829 (27.34%) Agile
2 640 (21.11%) Finance
3 629 (20.75%) Social Skills
4 512 (16.89%) Azure
5 484 (15.96%) Security Cleared
6 450 (14.84%) DevOps
7 445 (14.68%) AWS
8 410 (13.52%) Python
9 383 (12.63%) Microsoft
10 378 (12.47%) Public Sector
11 352 (11.61%) Java
12 346 (11.41%) SQL
13 343 (11.31%) Software Engineering
14 315 (10.39%) CI/CD
15 313 (10.32%) SC Cleared
16 293 (9.66%) Problem-Solving
17 287 (9.47%) C#
18 265 (8.74%) Stakeholder Management
19 260 (8.58%) Degree
20 229 (7.55%) Banking
21 224 (7.39%) JavaScript
22 222 (7.32%) Project Management
23 213 (7.03%) .NET
24 209 (6.89%) Scrum
25 202 (6.66%) Windows
26 198 (6.53%) Migration
27 196 (6.46%) Analytical Skills
28 191 (6.30%) Active Directory
29 185 (6.10%) SQL Server
29 185 (6.10%) User Experience

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 56 (1.85%) Confluence
2 44 (1.45%) SharePoint
3 39 (1.29%) Apache
3 39 (1.29%) CMS
4 36 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
5 34 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 27 (0.89%) Apache Spark
7 14 (0.46%) SAS
8 6 (0.20%) Appian
8 6 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.20%) Skype for Business
8 6 (0.20%) WordPress
9 5 (0.16%) Documentum
9 5 (0.16%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.13%) Camunda
11 3 (0.099%) GemFire
12 2 (0.066%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.066%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.066%) nginx
12 2 (0.066%) Tomcat
Applications
1 57 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
5 16 (0.53%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
6 11 (0.36%) Photoshop
6 11 (0.36%) Revit
7 9 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 8 (0.26%) InDesign
8 8 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
9 7 (0.23%) AutoCAD
10 6 (0.20%) Windchill
11 5 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
11 5 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
12 4 (0.13%) SPSS
13 3 (0.099%) CINEMA 4D
13 3 (0.099%) InVision
14 2 (0.066%) Sketch
14 2 (0.066%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 35 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.59%) Primavera
4 14 (0.46%) NEC Housing
5 13 (0.43%) Teamcenter
6 12 (0.40%) Endur
7 8 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.16%) SAP SD
9 4 (0.13%) OPENHousing
9 4 (0.13%) Shopify
9 4 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
9 4 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 3 (0.099%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.099%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.099%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.099%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.099%) Workday HCM
11 2 (0.066%) SAP HR
11 2 (0.066%) SAP Payroll
11 2 (0.066%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 512 (16.89%) Azure
2 445 (14.68%) AWS
3 170 (5.61%) Azure DevOps
4 113 (3.73%) GCP
5 109 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
6 101 (3.33%) Power Platform
7 74 (2.44%) Serverless
8 66 (2.18%) SaaS
9 65 (2.14%) Entra ID
9 65 (2.14%) GitHub
10 48 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
11 45 (1.48%) Snowflake
12 42 (1.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 41 (1.35%) Azure Service Bus
14 38 (1.25%) IaaS
15 37 (1.22%) PaaS
16 35 (1.15%) Amazon S3
16 35 (1.15%) dbt
17 31 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
18 30 (0.99%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 153 (5.05%) Firewall
2 65 (2.14%) Network Security
3 61 (2.01%) DNS
4 57 (1.88%) WAN
5 50 (1.65%) LAN
6 41 (1.35%) DHCP
7 38 (1.25%) VPN
8 36 (1.19%) BGP
9 30 (0.99%) DMZ
10 28 (0.92%) OSPF
11 26 (0.86%) SAN
12 25 (0.82%) Internet
13 24 (0.79%) MPLS
14 23 (0.76%) Wireless
15 22 (0.73%) IPsec
15 22 (0.73%) TCP/IP
16 19 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
16 19 (0.63%) Cisco Firepower
16 19 (0.63%) SD-WAN
16 19 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (6.10%) SQL Server
2 85 (2.80%) Power BI
3 60 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (1.81%) NoSQL
5 48 (1.58%) MongoDB
6 47 (1.55%) Apache Cassandra
7 42 (1.39%) Relational Database
8 41 (1.35%) Data Lake
9 30 (0.99%) Big Data
10 29 (0.96%) Tableau
11 28 (0.92%) Oracle Database
12 25 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
13 23 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
13 23 (0.76%) KDB
13 23 (0.76%) MySQL
14 18 (0.59%) Apache Arrow
14 18 (0.59%) Apache Ignite
14 18 (0.59%) Dremio
14 18 (0.59%) DynamoDB
15 17 (0.56%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 141 (4.65%) Git
2 124 (4.09%) JIRA
3 105 (3.46%) Jenkins
4 51 (1.68%) GitLab
5 50 (1.65%) Selenium
6 38 (1.25%) Cucumber
7 33 (1.09%) Cypress.io
8 31 (1.02%) Mockito
8 31 (1.02%) SpecFlow
9 29 (0.96%) Postman
10 26 (0.86%) JUnit
11 25 (0.82%) Visual Studio
12 21 (0.69%) Bitbucket
13 18 (0.59%) JMeter
13 18 (0.59%) TeamCity
13 18 (0.59%) WebDriver
14 12 (0.40%) Maven
15 11 (0.36%) SonarQube
16 10 (0.33%) git-flow
16 10 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
General
1 640 (21.11%) Finance
2 629 (20.75%) Social Skills
3 378 (12.47%) Public Sector
4 229 (7.55%) Banking
5 196 (6.46%) Analytical Skills
6 108 (3.56%) Front Office
7 86 (2.84%) Marketing
8 70 (2.31%) Back Office
9 69 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
10 67 (2.21%) Telecoms
11 63 (2.08%) Local Government
12 59 (1.95%) Investment Banking
13 58 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 56 (1.85%) Retail
15 49 (1.62%) Manufacturing
16 48 (1.58%) Legal
17 42 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
18 40 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
19 39 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
20 26 (0.86%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (7.03%) .NET
2 175 (5.77%) React
3 101 (3.33%) AngularJS
3 101 (3.33%) Kafka
4 99 (3.27%) Node.js
5 98 (3.23%) CSS
5 98 (3.23%) XML
6 95 (3.13%) HTML
7 94 (3.10%) REST
8 68 (2.24%) .NET Core
9 58 (1.91%) .NET Framework
10 56 (1.85%) RESTful
10 56 (1.85%) Spring
10 56 (1.85%) Spring Boot
11 50 (1.65%) Pandas
12 47 (1.55%) Web Services
13 40 (1.32%) NumPy
14 37 (1.22%) ASP.NET
14 37 (1.22%) Redux
15 35 (1.15%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 128 (4.22%) Product Ownership
2 77 (2.54%) Derivative
3 70 (2.31%) Data Centre
4 64 (2.11%) Management Information System
5 62 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 59 (1.95%) Fixed Income
7 57 (1.88%) Onboarding
8 53 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
8 53 (1.75%) Mobile App
9 52 (1.72%) Hedge funds
10 48 (1.58%) Algorithms
11 44 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
12 42 (1.39%) Data Structures
13 36 (1.19%) Equities
14 35 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
15 34 (1.12%) Cloud Native
15 34 (1.12%) Public Cloud
16 30 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
16 30 (0.99%) NHS
17 24 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 202 (6.66%) Windows
2 165 (5.44%) Linux
3 68 (2.24%) Windows Server
4 63 (2.08%) Unix
5 48 (1.58%) Windows 10
6 41 (1.35%) Android
7 40 (1.32%) Apple iOS
8 20 (0.66%) Mac OS X
9 13 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 12 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
11 10 (0.33%) Mac OS
12 9 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (0.30%) Ubuntu
13 8 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
14 5 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
14 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (0.13%) Debian
15 4 (0.13%) Solaris
16 3 (0.099%) Windows 7
17 2 (0.066%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 829 (27.34%) Agile
2 450 (14.84%) DevOps
3 343 (11.31%) Software Engineering
4 315 (10.39%) CI/CD
5 293 (9.66%) Problem-Solving
6 265 (8.74%) Stakeholder Management
7 222 (7.32%) Project Management
8 209 (6.89%) Scrum
9 198 (6.53%) Migration
10 185 (6.10%) User Experience
11 178 (5.87%) Analytics
12 172 (5.67%) Test Automation
13 171 (5.64%) Mentoring
14 158 (5.21%) Microservices
15 156 (5.15%) Project Delivery
16 154 (5.08%) TDD
17 149 (4.91%) ITIL
18 144 (4.75%) Roadmaps
19 142 (4.68%) Business Intelligence
20 135 (4.45%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 410 (13.52%) Python
2 352 (11.61%) Java
3 346 (11.41%) SQL
4 287 (9.47%) C#
5 224 (7.39%) JavaScript
6 170 (5.61%) PowerShell
7 158 (5.21%) TypeScript
8 82 (2.70%) Go
9 59 (1.95%) C++
10 51 (1.68%) Bicep
11 45 (1.48%) Bash
11 45 (1.48%) Scala
12 36 (1.19%) Kotlin
13 32 (1.06%) C
14 21 (0.69%) Perl
15 15 (0.49%) Rust
16 14 (0.46%) PHP
16 14 (0.46%) Ruby
16 14 (0.46%) Shell Script
16 14 (0.46%) Swift
Qualifications
1 484 (15.96%) Security Cleared
2 313 (10.32%) SC Cleared
3 260 (8.58%) Degree
4 113 (3.73%) DV Cleared
5 90 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
6 55 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 53 (1.75%) Master's Degree
8 39 (1.29%) CCNP
9 36 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
10 34 (1.12%) CCNA
11 31 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
12 25 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
13 22 (0.73%) AWS Certification
13 22 (0.73%) CISSP
14 21 (0.69%) PMI Certification
15 20 (0.66%) PMP
16 16 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 15 (0.49%) Azure Certification
18 11 (0.36%) GIAC
19 10 (0.33%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (2.37%) Data Quality
2 65 (2.14%) Accessibility
2 65 (2.14%) QA
3 62 (2.04%) PMO
4 40 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 39 (1.29%) GDPR
6 38 (1.25%) PCI DSS
7 36 (1.19%) NIST
8 22 (0.73%) SLA
9 21 (0.69%) WCAG
10 11 (0.36%) GRC
11 10 (0.33%) NCSC
12 8 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.23%) HL7
14 5 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.16%) MiFID
14 5 (0.16%) NIST 800
15 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 4 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.099%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 191 (6.30%) Active Directory
2 147 (4.85%) Docker
3 40 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.89%) vSphere
5 25 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.43%) Firmware
6 13 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 12 (0.40%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.23%) XenApp
10 4 (0.13%) IAG
11 3 (0.099%) ACF2
11 3 (0.099%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 3 (0.099%) RACF
11 3 (0.099%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.099%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.066%) Embedded Firmware
12 2 (0.066%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 169 (5.57%) Kubernetes
2 151 (4.98%) Terraform
3 75 (2.47%) Ansible
4 25 (0.82%) Grafana
4 25 (0.82%) SCCM
5 22 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.43%) Puppet
8 12 (0.40%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (0.30%) SCOM
10 9 (0.30%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.26%) Kibana
11 8 (0.26%) Podman
11 8 (0.26%) SolarWinds Orion
12 7 (0.23%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.23%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.23%) WSUS
13 5 (0.16%) Endace
13 5 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 383 (12.63%) Microsoft
2 128 (4.22%) Cisco
3 125 (4.12%) SAP
4 92 (3.03%) VMware
5 89 (2.94%) Oracle
6 69 (2.28%) ServiceNow
7 56 (1.85%) Google
8 47 (1.55%) Citrix
9 45 (1.48%) Palo Alto
10 35 (1.15%) CheckPoint
10 35 (1.15%) Splunk
11 34 (1.12%) Adobe
12 30 (0.99%) Apple
12 30 (0.99%) Arista
12 30 (0.99%) Databricks
12 30 (0.99%) Salesforce
13 27 (0.89%) Juniper
14 26 (0.86%) F5
15 25 (0.82%) SolarWinds
16 21 (0.69%) IBM