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 30 May 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
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 1,836 2,453 3,751
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 10.52% 9.64% 9.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.25% 10.13% 10.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,305 1,862 2,856
10th Percentile £410 £438 £443
25th Percentile £481 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £725
90th Percentile £850 £837 £800
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 24 40
10th Percentile £18.90 £18.93 -
25th Percentile £21.06 £29.10 -
Median hourly rate £36.73 £44.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -16.52% +71.34% -21.83%
75th Percentile £72.50 £63.75 £59.56
90th Percentile £83.75 £69.63 £70.00
England median hourly rate £50.00 £50.00 £43.36
% change year-on-year - +15.33% +31.98%

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 16,323 24,226 36,863
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.20% 95.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,797 17,667 27,074
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 276 415
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.99 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.72 £23.12
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £46.48 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.03 £82.38 £67.16
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -16.67% +89.04% +10.72%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +2 231 £525 -19.23% 174
East London 0 35 £510 -32.00% 26
West London +9 33 £475 -15.93% 47
South London +2 33 £525 -4.55% 19
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 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.

1 585 (31.86%) Agile
2 507 (27.61%) Finance
3 385 (20.97%) Social Skills
4 364 (19.83%) Azure
5 342 (18.63%) DevOps
6 330 (17.97%) Python
7 316 (17.21%) AWS
8 305 (16.61%) Java
9 271 (14.76%) CI/CD
10 264 (14.38%) SQL
11 259 (14.11%) Software Engineering
12 251 (13.67%) Microsoft
13 249 (13.56%) C#
14 222 (12.09%) JavaScript
15 210 (11.44%) Banking
16 188 (10.24%) .NET
17 184 (10.02%) Security Cleared
18 183 (9.97%) Public Sector
19 163 (8.88%) TypeScript
19 163 (8.88%) SQL Server
20 162 (8.82%) React
21 161 (8.77%) Scrum
22 159 (8.66%) Problem-Solving
23 149 (8.12%) SC Cleared
24 148 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
25 144 (7.84%) Test Automation
26 142 (7.73%) PowerShell
27 135 (7.35%) Degree
28 133 (7.24%) TDD
28 133 (7.24%) Active Directory

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 55 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
2 51 (2.78%) Apache
3 29 (1.58%) Confluence
4 26 (1.42%) CMS
5 24 (1.31%) Apache Spark
6 15 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
7 14 (0.76%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.54%) SAS
9 7 (0.38%) Jupyter
9 7 (0.38%) WordPress
10 6 (0.33%) Appian
10 6 (0.33%) Skype for Business
11 5 (0.27%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.27%) nginx
12 3 (0.16%) ThingWorx
12 3 (0.16%) WildFly
13 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.11%) CICS
13 2 (0.11%) GemFire
13 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 41 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (0.71%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
5 10 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
5 10 (0.54%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.44%) InDesign
7 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.16%) Sketch
10 2 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.11%) InVision
10 2 (0.11%) Revit
10 2 (0.11%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.054%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.054%) Final Cut Pro
11 1 (0.054%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
1 16 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.71%) Endur
3 12 (0.65%) NEC Housing
4 8 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.27%) Shopify
6 5 (0.27%) SimCorp Dimension
7 4 (0.22%) OPENHousing
7 4 (0.22%) RMDS
8 3 (0.16%) ION MarketView
8 3 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.11%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.11%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
9 2 (0.11%) SAP SD
9 2 (0.11%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 364 (19.83%) Azure
2 316 (17.21%) AWS
3 148 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
4 86 (4.68%) GCP
5 71 (3.87%) Serverless
6 70 (3.81%) Entra ID
7 55 (3.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 55 (3.00%) Snowflake
8 54 (2.94%) dbt
9 52 (2.83%) GitHub
10 49 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
11 45 (2.45%) SaaS
12 44 (2.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 42 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
14 37 (2.02%) Power Platform
15 35 (1.91%) Amazon S3
16 33 (1.80%) PaaS
17 28 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
17 28 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
18 27 (1.47%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (4.08%) Firewall
2 32 (1.74%) Network Security
3 29 (1.58%) DNS
4 20 (1.09%) LAN
4 20 (1.09%) VPN
4 20 (1.09%) WAN
5 18 (0.98%) Internet
6 16 (0.87%) DHCP
7 15 (0.82%) BGP
8 13 (0.71%) OSPF
8 13 (0.71%) Wireless
9 11 (0.60%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.54%) MPLS
10 10 (0.54%) VLAN
11 9 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.44%) Cisco ASA
12 8 (0.44%) TCP/IP
13 7 (0.38%) Cisco Nexus
13 7 (0.38%) EIGRP
13 7 (0.38%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (8.88%) SQL Server
2 58 (3.16%) NoSQL
3 54 (2.94%) Data Lake
4 48 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
5 43 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
6 39 (2.12%) Relational Database
7 38 (2.07%) Apache Arrow
7 38 (2.07%) Apache Ignite
7 38 (2.07%) Dremio
8 34 (1.85%) Power BI
9 32 (1.74%) Big Data
9 32 (1.74%) KDB
10 30 (1.63%) MongoDB
11 24 (1.31%) Oracle Database
12 23 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
13 21 (1.14%) Redis
14 20 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
15 19 (1.03%) DynamoDB
15 19 (1.03%) Tableau
16 14 (0.76%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 125 (6.81%) Git
2 73 (3.98%) Jenkins
3 63 (3.43%) JIRA
4 33 (1.80%) Postman
4 33 (1.80%) SpecFlow
5 31 (1.69%) Mockito
6 25 (1.36%) Selenium
7 23 (1.25%) Cypress.io
7 23 (1.25%) TeamCity
8 22 (1.20%) Cucumber
8 22 (1.20%) JUnit
9 21 (1.14%) Visual Studio
10 18 (0.98%) GitLab
11 16 (0.87%) WebDriver
12 15 (0.82%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.71%) git-flow
14 10 (0.54%) Artifactory
14 10 (0.54%) CircleCI
15 9 (0.49%) Maven
16 8 (0.44%) Appium
General
1 507 (27.61%) Finance
2 385 (20.97%) Social Skills
3 210 (11.44%) Banking
4 183 (9.97%) Public Sector
5 127 (6.92%) Front Office
6 116 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
7 81 (4.41%) Back Office
8 76 (4.14%) Investment Banking
9 55 (3.00%) Marketing
10 52 (2.83%) Retail
11 48 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
12 47 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 46 (2.51%) Local Government
14 26 (1.42%) Legal
15 24 (1.31%) Telecoms
16 21 (1.14%) Manufacturing
17 20 (1.09%) Advertising
17 20 (1.09%) Financial Institution
18 18 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
19 16 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (10.24%) .NET
2 162 (8.82%) React
3 100 (5.45%) XML
4 84 (4.58%) AngularJS
5 81 (4.41%) CSS
6 77 (4.19%) HTML
7 73 (3.98%) Node.js
8 70 (3.81%) Pandas
9 67 (3.65%) REST
10 66 (3.59%) Kafka
11 59 (3.21%) .NET Core
12 58 (3.16%) NumPy
13 54 (2.94%) SciPy
14 53 (2.89%) Spring Boot
15 51 (2.78%) gRPC
16 49 (2.67%) .NET Framework
17 48 (2.61%) Spring
18 44 (2.40%) Protocol Buffers
18 44 (2.40%) RESTful
19 40 (2.18%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 124 (6.75%) Product Ownership
2 93 (5.07%) Derivative
3 87 (4.74%) Fixed Income
4 86 (4.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 69 (3.76%) Hedge funds
6 55 (3.00%) Equities
7 48 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
8 46 (2.51%) Management Information System
8 46 (2.51%) Mobile App
9 36 (1.96%) Onboarding
10 35 (1.91%) Algorithms
11 32 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
12 27 (1.47%) Data Centre
13 25 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
14 24 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
15 23 (1.25%) Data Structures
16 21 (1.14%) Public Cloud
17 18 (0.98%) Cloud Native
18 17 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
19 16 (0.87%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 77 (4.19%) Linux
2 76 (4.14%) Windows
3 40 (2.18%) Android
4 38 (2.07%) Apple iOS
5 36 (1.96%) Unix
6 23 (1.25%) Windows Server
7 16 (0.87%) Windows 10
8 15 (0.82%) Mac OS X
9 5 (0.27%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.22%) VMS
11 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.11%) zOS
12 1 (0.054%) CentOS
12 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 585 (31.86%) Agile
2 342 (18.63%) DevOps
3 271 (14.76%) CI/CD
4 259 (14.11%) Software Engineering
5 161 (8.77%) Scrum
6 159 (8.66%) Problem-Solving
7 144 (7.84%) Test Automation
8 133 (7.24%) TDD
9 129 (7.03%) Stakeholder Management
10 126 (6.86%) Analytics
11 119 (6.48%) Migration
12 118 (6.43%) SDLC
13 117 (6.37%) User Experience
14 108 (5.88%) Microservices
15 101 (5.50%) Mentoring
16 95 (5.17%) Asset Management
17 90 (4.90%) Project Management
18 87 (4.74%) Data Modelling
19 86 (4.68%) Project Delivery
20 85 (4.63%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 330 (17.97%) Python
2 305 (16.61%) Java
3 264 (14.38%) SQL
4 249 (13.56%) C#
5 222 (12.09%) JavaScript
6 163 (8.88%) TypeScript
7 142 (7.73%) PowerShell
8 57 (3.10%) Bicep
9 52 (2.83%) Go
10 37 (2.02%) Kotlin
11 34 (1.85%) C++
12 29 (1.58%) Scala
13 25 (1.36%) Bash
14 20 (1.09%) Swift
15 13 (0.71%) Rust
16 11 (0.60%) C
16 11 (0.60%) Ruby
17 10 (0.54%) T-SQL
18 9 (0.49%) PHP
19 8 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 184 (10.02%) Security Cleared
2 149 (8.12%) SC Cleared
3 135 (7.35%) Degree
4 32 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
5 25 (1.36%) DV Cleared
6 23 (1.25%) Master's Degree
7 15 (0.82%) Azure Certification
7 15 (0.82%) CCNP
8 11 (0.60%) CCNA
8 11 (0.60%) PMI Certification
9 10 (0.54%) AWS Certification
9 10 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (0.49%) CISSP
11 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.44%) PMP
12 7 (0.38%) GIAC
12 7 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 6 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.33%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (3.32%) Data Quality
2 38 (2.07%) QA
3 36 (1.96%) Accessibility
4 32 (1.74%) PCI DSS
5 24 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (1.25%) PMO
7 18 (0.98%) NIST
7 18 (0.98%) WCAG
8 17 (0.93%) SLA
9 16 (0.87%) GDPR
10 6 (0.33%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.22%) GRC
11 4 (0.22%) MiFID
12 3 (0.16%) NCSC
12 3 (0.16%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.11%) IFRS
13 2 (0.11%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 133 (7.24%) Active Directory
2 109 (5.94%) Docker
3 15 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.33%) vSphere
6 2 (0.11%) ACF2
6 2 (0.11%) IAG
6 2 (0.11%) RACF
6 2 (0.11%) Squid
6 2 (0.11%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.054%) Firmware
7 1 (0.054%) GridGain
7 1 (0.054%) HDFS
7 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.054%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 118 (6.43%) Kubernetes
2 98 (5.34%) Terraform
3 32 (1.74%) Ansible
4 21 (1.14%) Grafana
5 17 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (0.71%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.33%) Puppet
8 5 (0.27%) Kibana
8 5 (0.27%) Opsgenie
8 5 (0.27%) SCCM
8 5 (0.27%) SCOM
8 5 (0.27%) SolarWinds Orion
9 4 (0.22%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.22%) Functional Safety
9 4 (0.22%) VxRail
10 3 (0.16%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.16%) Podman
Vendors
1 251 (13.67%) Microsoft
2 74 (4.03%) Oracle
3 60 (3.27%) SAP
4 49 (2.67%) Google
5 38 (2.07%) Cisco
6 33 (1.80%) Databricks
7 30 (1.63%) ServiceNow
8 29 (1.58%) Salesforce
9 25 (1.36%) Adobe
10 23 (1.25%) Palo Alto
11 21 (1.14%) IBM
12 19 (1.03%) Citrix
13 18 (0.98%) Apple
14 17 (0.93%) VMware
15 14 (0.76%) ION Trading
16 13 (0.71%) NEC
17 12 (0.65%) New Relic
18 11 (0.60%) F5
18 11 (0.60%) Splunk
19 10 (0.54%) Northgate