Senior Contracts in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior daily rate in London is £600 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 16 15 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 1,774 2,664 3,881
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 10.02% 9.84% 9.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.75% 10.32% 10.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,269 1,987 2,906
10th Percentile £410 £425 £444
25th Percentile £500 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £713 £738 £713
90th Percentile £825 £830 £800
England median daily rate £567 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -5.50% +3.45% +10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 27 41
10th Percentile £19.12 £18.93 -
25th Percentile £22.10 £33.09 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £48.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +86.92% -21.83%
75th Percentile £72.50 £63.75 £59.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £72.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +5.56% +28.57% +6.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,503 25,805 37,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.30% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,697 27,064
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 292 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £17.98 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.83 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in London

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in London

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior in London

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in London

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in London

Senior
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the London 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
Central London 0 222 £600 -6.98% 164
East London +4 40 £556 -25.83% 44
West London +1 33 £475 -15.93% 53
South London -2 29 £550 - 27
Senior
England

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

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 London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 527 (29.71%) Agile
2 457 (25.76%) Finance
3 374 (21.08%) Social Skills
4 344 (19.39%) Azure
5 307 (17.31%) Python
5 307 (17.31%) DevOps
6 299 (16.85%) AWS
7 263 (14.83%) Java
8 246 (13.87%) C#
9 244 (13.75%) SQL
10 236 (13.30%) Microsoft
11 231 (13.02%) CI/CD
12 214 (12.06%) Software Engineering
13 191 (10.77%) Banking
14 186 (10.48%) Public Sector
15 184 (10.37%) JavaScript
16 174 (9.81%) .NET
17 173 (9.75%) Security Cleared
18 156 (8.79%) Scrum
19 155 (8.74%) Problem-Solving
20 149 (8.40%) SQL Server
21 148 (8.34%) Degree
22 141 (7.95%) SC Cleared
23 133 (7.50%) React
24 131 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
24 131 (7.38%) PowerShell
25 128 (7.22%) TypeScript
26 127 (7.16%) User Experience
27 126 (7.10%) Analytics
28 125 (7.05%) Stakeholder Management

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 36 (2.03%) Confluence
2 35 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (1.80%) Apache
4 28 (1.58%) CMS
5 19 (1.07%) Apache Spark
6 17 (0.96%) SharePoint
7 14 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.34%) Appian
8 6 (0.34%) Skype for Business
8 6 (0.34%) WordPress
9 5 (0.28%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.28%) SAS
10 4 (0.23%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.17%) Camunda
11 3 (0.17%) GemFire
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.11%) CICS
12 2 (0.11%) IBM Notes
12 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 45 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.85%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
6 10 (0.56%) Photoshop
7 8 (0.45%) InDesign
8 5 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.11%) Revit
10 2 (0.11%) Sketch
10 2 (0.11%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.056%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.056%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.056%) Final Cut Pro
11 1 (0.056%) InVision
Business Applications
1 15 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.68%) Endur
2 12 (0.68%) NEC Housing
3 10 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.23%) OPENHousing
5 4 (0.23%) Shopify
5 4 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
6 3 (0.17%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.17%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.11%) ION MarketView
7 2 (0.11%) Primavera
7 2 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.11%) RMDS
7 2 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
8 1 (0.056%) Aligne
8 1 (0.056%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.056%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.056%) thinkFolio
8 1 (0.056%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 344 (19.39%) Azure
2 299 (16.85%) AWS
3 131 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
4 80 (4.51%) GCP
5 63 (3.55%) Serverless
6 59 (3.33%) Entra ID
7 54 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
8 52 (2.93%) SaaS
9 50 (2.82%) GitHub
10 45 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
11 42 (2.37%) Power Platform
12 39 (2.20%) Azure Service Bus
13 38 (2.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 34 (1.92%) Amazon S3
14 34 (1.92%) dbt
15 33 (1.86%) Snowflake
16 28 (1.58%) Amazon EC2
16 28 (1.58%) IaaS
17 27 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
18 25 (1.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 84 (4.74%) Firewall
2 37 (2.09%) Network Security
3 28 (1.58%) DNS
4 25 (1.41%) VPN
5 21 (1.18%) Internet
5 21 (1.18%) LAN
5 21 (1.18%) WAN
6 18 (1.01%) DHCP
7 14 (0.79%) BGP
8 13 (0.73%) MPLS
8 13 (0.73%) OSPF
9 12 (0.68%) Wireless
10 11 (0.62%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.56%) IPsec
12 9 (0.51%) InfiniBand
12 9 (0.51%) VLAN
12 9 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (0.45%) Cisco ASA
13 8 (0.45%) HSRP
13 8 (0.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (8.40%) SQL Server
2 46 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
2 46 (2.59%) NoSQL
3 37 (2.09%) Power BI
4 32 (1.80%) Relational Database
5 28 (1.58%) Data Lake
6 27 (1.52%) MongoDB
7 25 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
8 24 (1.35%) Big Data
8 24 (1.35%) Oracle Database
9 23 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
9 23 (1.30%) KDB
10 18 (1.01%) Apache Arrow
10 18 (1.01%) Apache Ignite
10 18 (1.01%) Dremio
11 17 (0.96%) DynamoDB
12 16 (0.90%) Tableau
13 15 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
14 14 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
14 14 (0.79%) Redis
Development Applications
1 106 (5.98%) Git
2 70 (3.95%) JIRA
3 68 (3.83%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.75%) Mockito
4 31 (1.75%) SpecFlow
5 26 (1.47%) Cypress.io
6 25 (1.41%) Selenium
7 23 (1.30%) Cucumber
8 21 (1.18%) JUnit
9 20 (1.13%) Postman
10 19 (1.07%) Visual Studio
11 18 (1.01%) GitLab
11 18 (1.01%) TeamCity
12 14 (0.79%) WebDriver
13 11 (0.62%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.62%) Maven
14 10 (0.56%) git-flow
15 6 (0.34%) Appium
15 6 (0.34%) Artifactory
15 6 (0.34%) webpack
General
1 457 (25.76%) Finance
2 374 (21.08%) Social Skills
3 191 (10.77%) Banking
4 186 (10.48%) Public Sector
5 110 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
6 106 (5.98%) Front Office
7 67 (3.78%) Back Office
8 59 (3.33%) Investment Banking
9 58 (3.27%) Marketing
10 48 (2.71%) Local Government
11 47 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 45 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
13 44 (2.48%) Retail
14 31 (1.75%) Legal
15 27 (1.52%) Telecoms
16 21 (1.18%) Advertising
16 21 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
17 20 (1.13%) Financial Institution
17 20 (1.13%) Manufacturing
18 19 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (9.81%) .NET
2 133 (7.50%) React
3 88 (4.96%) XML
4 80 (4.51%) AngularJS
5 71 (4.00%) Node.js
6 69 (3.89%) CSS
7 68 (3.83%) Kafka
8 66 (3.72%) HTML
9 65 (3.66%) REST
10 54 (3.04%) .NET Core
11 49 (2.76%) Pandas
12 48 (2.71%) .NET Framework
12 48 (2.71%) Spring Boot
13 46 (2.59%) Spring
14 38 (2.14%) NumPy
15 35 (1.97%) RESTful
16 34 (1.92%) SciPy
17 32 (1.80%) ASP.NET
18 29 (1.63%) JSON
19 28 (1.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 95 (5.36%) Product Ownership
2 75 (4.23%) Derivative
3 59 (3.33%) Fixed Income
4 57 (3.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 52 (2.93%) Hedge funds
6 45 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
7 43 (2.42%) Mobile App
8 42 (2.37%) Management Information System
9 39 (2.20%) Onboarding
10 37 (2.09%) Data Centre
11 36 (2.03%) Equities
12 35 (1.97%) Algorithms
13 28 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
14 26 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
15 24 (1.35%) Cloud Native
16 23 (1.30%) Data Structures
17 21 (1.18%) Public Cloud
18 20 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
19 18 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
20 16 (0.90%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 78 (4.40%) Windows
2 76 (4.28%) Linux
3 36 (2.03%) Unix
3 36 (2.03%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.52%) Android
5 25 (1.41%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.90%) Mac OS X
7 15 (0.85%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.28%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.11%) zOS
10 1 (0.056%) CentOS
10 1 (0.056%) VMS
10 1 (0.056%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 527 (29.71%) Agile
2 307 (17.31%) DevOps
3 231 (13.02%) CI/CD
4 214 (12.06%) Software Engineering
5 156 (8.79%) Scrum
6 155 (8.74%) Problem-Solving
7 127 (7.16%) User Experience
8 126 (7.10%) Analytics
9 125 (7.05%) Stakeholder Management
10 123 (6.93%) Test Automation
11 119 (6.71%) TDD
12 114 (6.43%) Migration
13 113 (6.37%) Microservices
14 110 (6.20%) SDLC
15 107 (6.03%) Mentoring
16 94 (5.30%) Project Management
17 84 (4.74%) Data Modelling
18 81 (4.57%) Project Delivery
19 80 (4.51%) Computer Science
20 79 (4.45%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 307 (17.31%) Python
2 263 (14.83%) Java
3 246 (13.87%) C#
4 244 (13.75%) SQL
5 184 (10.37%) JavaScript
6 131 (7.38%) PowerShell
7 128 (7.22%) TypeScript
8 51 (2.87%) Go
9 47 (2.65%) Bicep
10 28 (1.58%) C++
11 26 (1.47%) Scala
12 23 (1.30%) Kotlin
13 21 (1.18%) Bash
14 15 (0.85%) Rust
15 13 (0.73%) Swift
16 12 (0.68%) Ruby
17 10 (0.56%) T-SQL
18 8 (0.45%) PHP
19 6 (0.34%) PL/SQL
19 6 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 173 (9.75%) Security Cleared
2 148 (8.34%) Degree
3 141 (7.95%) SC Cleared
4 38 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (1.41%) Master's Degree
7 23 (1.30%) DV Cleared
8 16 (0.90%) CCNP
8 16 (0.90%) CISSP
9 13 (0.73%) PMI Certification
10 10 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 10 (0.56%) CCNA
10 10 (0.56%) GIAC
10 10 (0.56%) PMP
11 9 (0.51%) Azure Certification
11 9 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (0.45%) AWS Certification
12 8 (0.45%) CCSK
12 8 (0.45%) CISA
12 8 (0.45%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (2.42%) Data Quality
2 39 (2.20%) Accessibility
3 33 (1.86%) QA
4 28 (1.58%) PMO
5 26 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (1.35%) NIST
7 23 (1.30%) PCI DSS
8 18 (1.01%) GDPR
9 16 (0.90%) WCAG
10 14 (0.79%) SLA
11 5 (0.28%) GRC
11 5 (0.28%) MiFID
11 5 (0.28%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 4 (0.23%) NCSC
13 2 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.11%) P3O
13 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.056%) GAAP
14 1 (0.056%) GxP
System Software
1 118 (6.65%) Active Directory
2 90 (5.07%) Docker
3 13 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.39%) vSphere
5 3 (0.17%) IAG
6 2 (0.11%) ACF2
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.11%) RACF
6 2 (0.11%) Squid
6 2 (0.11%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.056%) Firmware
7 1 (0.056%) GridGain
7 1 (0.056%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.056%) NFS
7 1 (0.056%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 100 (5.64%) Kubernetes
2 78 (4.40%) Terraform
3 28 (1.58%) Ansible
4 15 (0.85%) Grafana
4 15 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.51%) Puppet
6 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.34%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.34%) SCCM
6 6 (0.34%) SCOM
7 5 (0.28%) FortiGate
7 5 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (0.28%) SolarWinds Orion
8 4 (0.23%) Functional Safety
8 4 (0.23%) Kibana
8 4 (0.23%) Opsgenie
8 4 (0.23%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.23%) VxRail
9 3 (0.17%) Consul
9 3 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 236 (13.30%) Microsoft
2 68 (3.83%) Oracle
3 49 (2.76%) SAP
4 46 (2.59%) Cisco
5 43 (2.42%) Google
6 33 (1.86%) ServiceNow
7 26 (1.47%) Adobe
7 26 (1.47%) Databricks
8 24 (1.35%) Citrix
9 23 (1.30%) Palo Alto
9 23 (1.30%) Salesforce
10 22 (1.24%) VMware
11 19 (1.07%) IBM
12 18 (1.01%) Apple
13 13 (0.73%) NEC
14 12 (0.68%) Virgin Media
15 11 (0.62%) F5
15 11 (0.62%) Splunk
16 10 (0.56%) ION Trading
16 10 (0.56%) New Relic