Senior Contract Job Trends in Malvern

Senior
Worcestershire > Malvern

The median Senior daily rate in Malvern is £609, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 6 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 22 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Malvern 31.43% 12.50% 4.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 32.84% 12.50% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £609 £700 £620
Median % change year-on-year -13.07% +12.90% +3.33%
75th Percentile £700 - £655
90th Percentile - - -
Worcestershire median daily rate £600 £694 £598
% change year-on-year -13.51% +16.11% +10.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Malvern

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Malvern. 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 Malvern with a recognized job title 67 8 24
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.71% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 7 19
10th Percentile £525 £440 £519
25th Percentile £538 £531 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £738 - £667
90th Percentile £750 - £685
Worcestershire median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
Worcestershire median hourly rate £18.23 £21.59 £17.72
% change year-on-year -15.59% +21.84% +0.06%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Malvern

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Malvern.

Senior job vacancy trend in Malvern

Senior
Daily Rate Trend in Malvern

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Malvern.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Malvern

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Malvern

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Malvern over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Malvern

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Malvern

For the 6 months to 9 December 2025, Senior contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Malvern region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 17 (77.27%) Azure
1 17 (77.27%) Azure Certification
2 16 (72.73%) Security Cleared
3 15 (68.18%) DevOps
3 15 (68.18%) SC Cleared
4 11 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (50.00%) Batch Processing
4 11 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 11 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 11 (50.00%) DataOps
4 11 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (50.00%) ETL
4 11 (50.00%) Go
4 11 (50.00%) Kafka
4 11 (50.00%) Keycloak
4 11 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (50.00%) Python
5 10 (45.45%) Containerisation
5 10 (45.45%) Data Architecture
5 10 (45.45%) Docker
5 10 (45.45%) GitHub
5 10 (45.45%) Kubernetes
6 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (27.27%) Azure Stack
7 6 (27.27%) Entra ID
7 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Management
7 6 (27.27%) Network+ Certification
8 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
8 4 (18.18%) Clean Code
8 4 (18.18%) JavaScript

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Malvern by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 17 (77.27%) Azure
2 11 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 10 (45.45%) GitHub
4 6 (27.27%) Azure Stack
4 6 (27.27%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) DNS
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
1 1 (4.55%) Multicast
1 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 11 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (50.00%) Kafka
1 11 (50.00%) Keycloak
2 4 (18.18%) Node.js
2 4 (18.18%) React
Miscellaneous
1 16 (72.73%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
1 1 (4.55%) Unix
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) DevOps
2 11 (50.00%) Batch Processing
2 11 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 11 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 11 (50.00%) DataOps
2 11 (50.00%) ETL
3 10 (45.45%) Containerisation
3 10 (45.45%) Data Architecture
4 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Management
6 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 4 (18.18%) Clean Code
6 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (4.55%) Agile
7 1 (4.55%) Security Hardening
7 1 (4.55%) Server Patching
7 1 (4.55%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Go
1 11 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 4 (18.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (77.27%) Azure Certification
2 16 (72.73%) Security Cleared
3 15 (68.18%) SC Cleared
4 6 (27.27%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 10 (45.45%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) Terminal Services
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Nessus
2 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) Cisco
1 1 (4.55%) Dell
1 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds
1 1 (4.55%) Veeam
1 1 (4.55%) VMware