Senior Contracts in Merseyside

Senior
North West > Merseyside

The median Senior daily rate in Merseyside is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 24 20
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 10 9 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 5.95% 3.95% 8.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.25% 4.15% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 24
10th Percentile £515 - £421
25th Percentile £575 £235 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £450 £519
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -13.25% +25.76%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile - £628 £675
North West median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Merseyside

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 160 217 330
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.24% 95.18% 96.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 117 242
10th Percentile £143 £151 £236
25th Percentile £203 £230 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -15.79% +10.47%
75th Percentile £538 £494 £550
90th Percentile £630 £588 £686
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 32 13
10th Percentile £13.28 - -
25th Percentile - £15.50 £10.09
Median hourly rate £17.44 £19.97 £16.37
Median % change year-on-year -12.65% +21.96% +9.13%
75th Percentile £20.00 £34.80 £18.75
90th Percentile £25.22 £43.09 £23.75
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
% change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Merseyside

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Merseyside

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Merseyside

Senior
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Liverpool +12 10 £625 +19.05% 101
Senior
North West

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 Merseyside region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (30.00%) Conceptual Models
2 3 (30.00%) Data Strategy
2 3 (30.00%) Data Science
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) Data Mining
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (30.00%) Banking
2 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (30.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) Data Architecture
2 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
2 3 (30.00%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (30.00%) Tableau
2 3 (30.00%) D3.js
2 3 (30.00%) GCP
2 3 (30.00%) Logical Data Model
2 3 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (30.00%) Database Optimisation
3 2 (20.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (20.00%) Talend
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) REST
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 1 (10.00%) Moodle
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) GCP
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub
2 2 (20.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) BGP
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (10.00%) DHCP
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) NGFW
1 1 (10.00%) SSH
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (10.00%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Data Mining
1 3 (30.00%) Tableau
2 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Military
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) D3.js
2 2 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) EntireX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (10.00%) Clustering
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (30.00%) Conceptual Models
2 3 (30.00%) Data Architecture
2 3 (30.00%) Data Science
2 3 (30.00%) Data Strategy
2 3 (30.00%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (30.00%) Database Optimisation
2 3 (30.00%) Logical Data Model
2 3 (30.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (20.00%) Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) ETL
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Coaching
4 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (10.00%) High Availability
4 1 (10.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) Perl
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Talend
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (10.00%) Software AG
3 1 (10.00%) webMethods