Senior Contracts in Leeds

Senior
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Senior daily rate in Leeds is £515 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 21 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 -6 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 55 96 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 6.97% 7.74% 8.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.53% 7.87% 9.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 78 100
10th Percentile £325 £425 £462
25th Percentile £425 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +9.09% +7.00%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £600
90th Percentile £680 £715 £664
West Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £61.25 £25.75
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year - +135.85% -6.77%
75th Percentile - £71.88 £27.25
90th Percentile - £76.75 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £62.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year - +135.85% -6.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 730 1,220 1,488
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 98.39% 97.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 884 1,111
10th Percentile £300 £355 £263
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 22
10th Percentile £11.56 £12.00 £15.16
25th Percentile £12.25 £15.94 £18.25
Median hourly rate £13.50 £22.00 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year -38.64% +3.53% -0.56%
75th Percentile £41.13 £61.81 £26.50
90th Percentile £48.75 £68.13 £28.60
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.50 £20.75 £18.00
% change year-on-year -25.30% +15.28% -15.29%

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 2 June 2024.

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 2 June 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 Leeds region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 21 (38.18%) Agile
2 15 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 11 (20.00%) ITIL
4 9 (16.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (16.36%) Mentoring
4 9 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (14.55%) Software Engineering
5 8 (14.55%) Security Cleared
6 7 (12.73%) Degree
6 7 (12.73%) Service Management
6 7 (12.73%) Web Services
6 7 (12.73%) SC Cleared
6 7 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (12.73%) Public Sector
6 7 (12.73%) Service Design
7 6 (10.91%) User Research
7 6 (10.91%) Scala
7 6 (10.91%) User Experience
7 6 (10.91%) JavaScript
7 6 (10.91%) Service Delivery
8 5 (9.09%) Finance
8 5 (9.09%) ITSM
8 5 (9.09%) JIRA
8 5 (9.09%) Incident Management
8 5 (9.09%) Coaching
8 5 (9.09%) ServiceNow
8 5 (9.09%) Azure
8 5 (9.09%) AWS
9 4 (7.27%) SaaS
9 4 (7.27%) PaaS

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 3 (5.45%) Confluence
2 1 (1.82%) Apache
2 1 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.82%) Drupal
2 1 (1.82%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.82%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.82%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.09%) AWS
1 5 (9.09%) Azure
2 4 (7.27%) IaaS
2 4 (7.27%) PaaS
2 4 (7.27%) SaaS
3 3 (5.45%) Akamai
3 3 (5.45%) Cloudflare
3 3 (5.45%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (1.82%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.82%) GCP
4 1 (1.82%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.82%) Serverless
4 1 (1.82%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.82%) Tricentis Tosca
4 1 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.45%) DNS
2 2 (3.64%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.64%) MongoDB
1 2 (3.64%) Tableau
2 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.82%) MySQL
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (9.09%) JIRA
2 3 (5.45%) Git
2 3 (5.45%) Selenium
3 2 (3.64%) Cucumber
3 2 (3.64%) Gatling
3 2 (3.64%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.64%) JMeter
3 2 (3.64%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.82%) Dreamweaver
4 1 (1.82%) Postman
General
1 15 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.73%) Public Sector
4 5 (9.09%) Finance
5 3 (5.45%) Retail
6 2 (3.64%) Law
6 2 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Spanish Language
7 1 (1.82%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.82%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.73%) Web Services
2 3 (5.45%) .NET
3 2 (3.64%) .NET Framework
3 2 (3.64%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (3.64%) CSS
3 2 (3.64%) HTML
3 2 (3.64%) jQuery
3 2 (3.64%) Kafka
3 2 (3.64%) Node.js
4 1 (1.82%) React
4 1 (1.82%) Redux
4 1 (1.82%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 3 (5.45%) Product Ownership
1 3 (5.45%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (1.82%) Genomics
2 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.82%) mHealth
2 1 (1.82%) NHS
2 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.82%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.64%) Mac OS X
1 2 (3.64%) Unix
2 1 (1.82%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (38.18%) Agile
2 11 (20.00%) ITIL
3 9 (16.36%) Mentoring
3 9 (16.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (14.55%) Software Engineering
5 7 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (12.73%) Service Design
5 7 (12.73%) Service Management
6 6 (10.91%) Service Delivery
6 6 (10.91%) User Experience
6 6 (10.91%) User Research
7 5 (9.09%) Coaching
7 5 (9.09%) Incident Management
7 5 (9.09%) ITSM
8 4 (7.27%) Asset Management
8 4 (7.27%) Decision-Making
8 4 (7.27%) Interaction Design
8 4 (7.27%) IT Asset Management
8 4 (7.27%) Operations Management
8 4 (7.27%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.91%) JavaScript
1 6 (10.91%) Scala
2 3 (5.45%) SQL
2 3 (5.45%) TypeScript
3 2 (3.64%) C#
3 2 (3.64%) Groovy
3 2 (3.64%) Java
3 2 (3.64%) Kotlin
3 2 (3.64%) MATLAB
3 2 (3.64%) Python
3 2 (3.64%) Shell Script
3 2 (3.64%) VB.NET
3 2 (3.64%) VBA
4 1 (1.82%) Bash
4 1 (1.82%) PHP
4 1 (1.82%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (14.55%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.73%) Degree
2 7 (12.73%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.64%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.82%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (5.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 4 (7.27%) SAP
3 3 (5.45%) F5
3 3 (5.45%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.64%) Google
5 1 (1.82%) Brio
5 1 (1.82%) Informatica
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle
5 1 (1.82%) Virgin Media