Senior Contracts in Leeds

Senior
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Senior daily rate in Leeds is £550, 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 15 14 16
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 54 66 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 11.61% 8.26% 8.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.95% 8.97% 8.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 47 89
10th Percentile £348 £307 £425
25th Percentile £453 £419 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £678 £638 £675
90th Percentile £753 £720 £708
West Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £71.88
90th Percentile - - £76.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +135.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 452 736 1,303
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.20% 92.12% 97.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 458 948
10th Percentile £257 £300 £356
25th Percentile £352 £413 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.11% +7.65%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £619
90th Percentile £638 £675 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 11
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.24 £12.00
25th Percentile £31.47 £11.75 £16.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.53 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +227.21% -79.95% +179.02%
75th Percentile £98.56 £15.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £17.67 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.82 £14.34 £32.50
% change year-on-year +73.14% -55.89% +92.88%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Leeds

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Leeds

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Leeds

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Leeds

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

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 Leeds region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 23 (42.59%) Security Cleared
2 22 (40.74%) SC Cleared
3 20 (37.04%) AWS
3 20 (37.04%) Bash
3 20 (37.04%) CI/CD
4 19 (35.19%) Linux
5 18 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (27.78%) MongoDB
6 15 (27.78%) Python
7 13 (24.07%) SQL
7 13 (24.07%) Agile
7 13 (24.07%) Software Engineering
7 13 (24.07%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (24.07%) DevOps
7 13 (24.07%) Kubernetes
8 12 (22.22%) Terraform
8 12 (22.22%) JIRA
8 12 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
9 11 (20.37%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (20.37%) Mentoring
9 11 (20.37%) Confluence
10 10 (18.52%) BDD
10 10 (18.52%) Microservices
10 10 (18.52%) TDD
10 10 (18.52%) Cloud Security
11 9 (16.67%) Containerisation
11 9 (16.67%) Public Sector
11 9 (16.67%) cloud-init
11 9 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (16.67%) Spring

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 11 (20.37%) Confluence
2 4 (7.41%) nginx
2 4 (7.41%) Traefik
3 1 (1.85%) Apache
3 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.85%) Moodle
3 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.04%) AWS
2 9 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (11.11%) Azure
3 6 (11.11%) Slack
4 5 (9.26%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (9.26%) AWS Fargate
4 5 (9.26%) Entra ID
4 5 (9.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (7.41%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (7.41%) IaaS
6 3 (5.56%) Serverless
7 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.85%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.85%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.85%) GCP
8 1 (1.85%) GitHub
8 1 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.85%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.11%) DNS
2 5 (9.26%) HTTP
2 5 (9.26%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.70%) Firewall
4 1 (1.85%) DHCP
4 1 (1.85%) LAN
4 1 (1.85%) Network Security
4 1 (1.85%) NGFW
4 1 (1.85%) VLAN
4 1 (1.85%) VoIP
4 1 (1.85%) VPN
4 1 (1.85%) WAN
4 1 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (27.78%) MongoDB
2 9 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 9 (16.67%) MySQL
2 9 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.85%) Big Data
3 1 (1.85%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.85%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.85%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.85%) Power BI
3 1 (1.85%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 12 (22.22%) JIRA
2 9 (16.67%) GitLab
2 9 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 7 (12.96%) Cucumber
3 7 (12.96%) Git
3 7 (12.96%) Jasmine
3 7 (12.96%) JUnit
4 4 (7.41%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (1.85%) Selenium
General
1 9 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 8 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.26%) Finance
4 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.70%) Military
4 2 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.67%) cloud-init
1 9 (16.67%) Spring
1 9 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 8 (14.81%) RESTful
2 8 (14.81%) Spring Batch
2 8 (14.81%) Spring Security
3 6 (11.11%) OpenAPI
3 6 (11.11%) Swagger
4 5 (9.26%) Kafka
4 5 (9.26%) Keycloak
5 3 (5.56%) .NET
5 3 (5.56%) React
6 2 (3.70%) .NET Core
6 2 (3.70%) Node.js
7 1 (1.85%) Akka
7 1 (1.85%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.85%) Next.js
7 1 (1.85%) Play Framework
7 1 (1.85%) pytest
7 1 (1.85%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 5 (9.26%) PKI
3 3 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (5.56%) NHS
4 1 (1.85%) EPoS
4 1 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 19 (35.19%) Linux
2 18 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (16.67%) CentOS
3 9 (16.67%) Unix
4 4 (7.41%) Windows
5 2 (3.70%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.85%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (37.04%) CI/CD
2 13 (24.07%) Agile
2 13 (24.07%) Continuous Integration
2 13 (24.07%) DevOps
2 13 (24.07%) Software Engineering
3 12 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
4 11 (20.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (20.37%) Mentoring
5 10 (18.52%) BDD
5 10 (18.52%) Cloud Security
5 10 (18.52%) Microservices
5 10 (18.52%) TDD
6 9 (16.67%) Containerisation
7 7 (12.96%) Coaching
7 7 (12.96%) Continuous Delivery
7 7 (12.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (12.96%) Kernel Tuning
7 7 (12.96%) Migration
7 7 (12.96%) Test Automation
8 6 (11.11%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 20 (37.04%) Bash
2 15 (27.78%) Python
3 13 (24.07%) SQL
4 9 (16.67%) Go
4 9 (16.67%) Java
5 4 (7.41%) Groovy
6 3 (5.56%) C#
7 2 (3.70%) C++
7 2 (3.70%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.70%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.85%) AppleScript
8 1 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (42.59%) Security Cleared
2 22 (40.74%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.85%) CCNP
5 1 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.85%) Degree
5 1 (1.85%) JNCIP
5 1 (1.85%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) NCSC
2 1 (1.85%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.85%) GDPR
2 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 9 (16.67%) Docker
2 2 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (24.07%) Kubernetes
2 12 (22.22%) Terraform
3 9 (16.67%) Packer
4 6 (11.11%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (9.26%) Consul
5 5 (9.26%) Grafana
5 5 (9.26%) Istio
5 5 (9.26%) linkerd
5 5 (9.26%) Prometheus
5 5 (9.26%) Rancher
5 5 (9.26%) ZABBIX
6 4 (7.41%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.85%) AppManager
7 1 (1.85%) Kibana
7 1 (1.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (9.26%) Apple
1 5 (9.26%) Okta
1 5 (9.26%) Splunk
2 4 (7.41%) Atlassian
2 4 (7.41%) ESET
3 3 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.70%) Aruba
5 1 (1.85%) Cisco
5 1 (1.85%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (1.85%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.85%) Google
5 1 (1.85%) HP
5 1 (1.85%) IBM
5 1 (1.85%) Ivanti
5 1 (1.85%) SAP
5 1 (1.85%) Software AG
5 1 (1.85%) VMware
5 1 (1.85%) webMethods
5 1 (1.85%) Workday
5 1 (1.85%) Zscaler