Senior Contracts in Leeds

Senior
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Senior daily rate in Leeds is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 21 18
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 39 54 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 8.42% 6.86% 7.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.63% 7.42% 7.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 36 78
10th Percentile £350 £325 £425
25th Percentile £450 £422 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £508 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -15.42% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £688
90th Percentile £650 £688 £715
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £520 £575
% change year-on-year -3.85% -9.57% +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 452 728 1,251
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.62% 92.50% 98.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 457 905
10th Percentile £263 £313 £359
25th Percentile £375 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £625
90th Percentile £600 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 16 15
10th Percentile £31.53 £11.43 £12.00
25th Percentile £31.62 £12.13 £16.13
Median hourly rate £33.11 £13.02 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +154.40% -42.16% +0.45%
75th Percentile £66.51 £18.27 £66.88
90th Percentile £85.74 £48.75 £70.00
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £15.23 £21.50
% change year-on-year +45.37% -29.16% +17.81%

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 28 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 28 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 14 (35.90%) Security Cleared
1 14 (35.90%) AWS
2 13 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 13 (33.33%) Agile
3 10 (25.64%) CI/CD
4 7 (17.95%) Technical Leadership
4 7 (17.95%) Python
4 7 (17.95%) Migration
4 7 (17.95%) DevOps
4 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (15.38%) Terraform
5 6 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 6 (15.38%) Azure
5 6 (15.38%) Confluence
5 6 (15.38%) Incident Management
5 6 (15.38%) JIRA
5 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
6 5 (12.82%) Software Engineering
6 5 (12.82%) SQL
6 5 (12.82%) Jenkins
6 5 (12.82%) Docker
6 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (10.26%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 4 (10.26%) ScriptRunner
7 4 (10.26%) Serverless
7 4 (10.26%) GitLab
7 4 (10.26%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (10.26%) IaaS
7 4 (10.26%) Bash

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 6 (15.38%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Apache
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.56%) Moodle
2 1 (2.56%) nginx
2 1 (2.56%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.90%) AWS
2 6 (15.38%) Azure
3 4 (10.26%) IaaS
3 4 (10.26%) Serverless
4 3 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (5.13%) GitHub
5 2 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.56%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.56%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (2.56%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Stack
6 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.56%) GCP
6 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.56%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) DNS
1 2 (5.13%) Firewall
1 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.56%) HTTP
2 1 (2.56%) Network Security
2 1 (2.56%) NGFW
2 1 (2.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.13%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.56%) Big Data
3 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.56%) MySQL
3 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.56%) Power BI
3 1 (2.56%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) JIRA
2 5 (12.82%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.26%) GitLab
3 4 (10.26%) ScriptRunner
4 3 (7.69%) Cucumber
4 3 (7.69%) Selenium
5 2 (5.13%) Cypress.io
5 2 (5.13%) Git
5 2 (5.13%) JMeter
5 2 (5.13%) JUnit
5 2 (5.13%) Maven
5 2 (5.13%) Postman
5 2 (5.13%) REST Assured
5 2 (5.13%) TestNG
6 1 (2.56%) Jasmine
General
1 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.69%) Finance
3 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Banking
4 1 (2.56%) Digital Health
4 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Law
4 1 (2.56%) Legal
4 1 (2.56%) Military
4 1 (2.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) .NET
2 2 (5.13%) .NET Core
2 2 (5.13%) Node.js
2 2 (5.13%) Playwright
2 2 (5.13%) React
2 2 (5.13%) RESTful
3 1 (2.56%) Akka
3 1 (2.56%) cloud-init
3 1 (2.56%) EntireX
3 1 (2.56%) Kafka
3 1 (2.56%) Keycloak
3 1 (2.56%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (2.56%) OpenAPI
3 1 (2.56%) Play Framework
3 1 (2.56%) pytest
3 1 (2.56%) Spring
3 1 (2.56%) Spring Batch
3 1 (2.56%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.56%) Spring Security
3 1 (2.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (7.69%) NHS
2 1 (2.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (2.56%) EPoS
2 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.56%) PKI
2 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Linux
1 3 (7.69%) Windows
2 2 (5.13%) Mac OS
2 2 (5.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.56%) CentOS
3 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (33.33%) Agile
2 10 (25.64%) CI/CD
3 7 (17.95%) DevOps
3 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (17.95%) Migration
3 7 (17.95%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (15.38%) Incident Management
4 6 (15.38%) Mentoring
4 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (12.82%) Software Engineering
6 4 (10.26%) Cloud Security
6 4 (10.26%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (10.26%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (10.26%) TDD
6 4 (10.26%) Test Automation
6 4 (10.26%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 3 (7.69%) Containerisation
7 3 (7.69%) Decision-Making
7 3 (7.69%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.95%) Python
2 5 (12.82%) SQL
3 4 (10.26%) Bash
3 4 (10.26%) Groovy
4 3 (7.69%) C#
4 3 (7.69%) Java
4 3 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.13%) C++
5 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.56%) AppleScript
6 1 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.56%) Go
6 1 (2.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (35.90%) Security Cleared
2 13 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.56%) CCNP
4 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.56%) Degree
4 1 (2.56%) JNCIP
4 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
1 2 (5.13%) QA
1 2 (5.13%) WCAG
2 1 (2.56%) GDPR
2 1 (2.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (12.82%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Terraform
2 3 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.13%) Ansible
3 2 (5.13%) Grafana
3 2 (5.13%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.56%) Consul
4 1 (2.56%) HAProxy
4 1 (2.56%) Istio
4 1 (2.56%) Kibana
4 1 (2.56%) linkerd
4 1 (2.56%) Packer
4 1 (2.56%) Rancher
4 1 (2.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) Atlassian
2 2 (5.13%) Apple
2 2 (5.13%) Aruba
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.13%) Splunk
3 1 (2.56%) Cisco
3 1 (2.56%) ESET
3 1 (2.56%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (2.56%) Fortinet
3 1 (2.56%) Google
3 1 (2.56%) HP
3 1 (2.56%) IBM
3 1 (2.56%) Okta
3 1 (2.56%) SAP
3 1 (2.56%) Software AG
3 1 (2.56%) webMethods
3 1 (2.56%) Workday
3 1 (2.56%) Zscaler