Senior Contracts in Essex

Senior
East of England > Essex

The median Senior daily rate in Essex is £318, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 8 16
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 10 22 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 12.66% 9.95% 9.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.16% 10.53% 9.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 7
10th Percentile £243 - £358
25th Percentile £280 £350 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £318 £534 £500
Median % change year-on-year -40.37% +6.80% -
75th Percentile £591 £557 £553
90th Percentile £653 £598 £609
East of England median daily rate £563 £542 £600
% change year-on-year +3.78% -9.67% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41.50
Median hourly rate - £35.65 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year - -17.09% -38.98%
75th Percentile - - £44.50
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £43.75 £36.05 £43.00
% change year-on-year +21.38% -16.17% -27.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Essex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Essex. 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 Essex with a recognized job title 76 209 222
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.20% 94.57% 93.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 108 134
10th Percentile £223 £250 £161
25th Percentile £315 £350 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -8.44%
75th Percentile £488 £556 £538
90th Percentile £539 £600 £621
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 53 16
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.86 £20.40
25th Percentile £14.44 £16.65 £24.09
Median hourly rate £26.25 £40.31 £43.32
Median % change year-on-year -34.88% -6.94% +80.48%
75th Percentile £67.50 £80.00 £63.31
90th Percentile £192.00 - £69.51
East of England median hourly rate £50.00 £43.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% +22.86% +125.81%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Essex

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Essex

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Essex over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Essex

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Essex

Senior
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Essex region over the 6 months to 2 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
Basildon +4 4 £318 -47.00% 37
Chelmsford - 2 £638 - 39
Senior
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 Essex region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) SQL
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (40.00%) User Stories
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (30.00%) PySpark
3 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (30.00%) GCP
3 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Data Security
3 3 (30.00%) Python
3 3 (30.00%) ETL
4 2 (20.00%) LAN
4 2 (20.00%) VoIP
4 2 (20.00%) WAN
4 2 (20.00%) DHCP
4 2 (20.00%) VPN
4 2 (20.00%) DNS
4 2 (20.00%) Windows
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (20.00%) Automotive
4 2 (20.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) VMware
4 2 (20.00%) VHDL
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) FPGA
4 2 (20.00%) Wi-Fi

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) GCP
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (20.00%) OneDrive
2 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DHCP
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) LAN
1 2 (20.00%) VLAN
1 2 (20.00%) VoIP
1 2 (20.00%) VPN
1 2 (20.00%) WAN
1 2 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (20.00%) Metadata
2 2 (20.00%) Power BI
3 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
1 2 (20.00%) TestRail
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Automotive
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) PySpark
2 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) FPGA
1 2 (20.00%) VHDL
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (40.00%) User Stories
2 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Data Security
2 3 (30.00%) ETL
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Scrum
3 2 (20.00%) Signal Processing
3 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) Use Case
3 2 (20.00%) User Experience
4 1 (10.00%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (20.00%) GDPR
1 2 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (20.00%) Firmware
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) AppManager
1 2 (20.00%) SCCM
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Ivanti
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) Xilinx
3 1 (10.00%) SAP