Senior Contracts in the Midlands

Senior
England > Midlands

The median Senior daily rate in the Midlands is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 June 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
6 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 27 40
Rank change year-on-year -12 +13 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 104 146 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.95% 5.18% 4.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.49% 5.62% 5.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 86 117
10th Percentile £400 £288 £324
25th Percentile £414 £425 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -1.19% -
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +3.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 13 4
10th Percentile - £13.50 -
25th Percentile £33.91 £15.65 £17.72
Median hourly rate £34.98 £42.00 £20.86
Median % change year-on-year -16.71% +101.34% -2.98%
75th Percentile £50.00 £56.25 £24.61
90th Percentile - £69.25 £25.71
England median hourly rate £52.00 £48.75 £49.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% -0.50% +13.01%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 1,895 2,598 3,041
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.15% 92.16% 94.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 1,742 2,148
10th Percentile £200 £213 £249
25th Percentile £350 £335 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £456 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% -3.95% -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £594
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.97% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 230 106
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.83 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.13 £14.64
Median hourly rate £21.20 £19.06 £20.55
Median % change year-on-year +11.19% -7.24% +14.17%
75th Percentile £30.30 £35.00 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £52.01 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.30 £38.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.89% -15.56% +88.21%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the Midlands

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in the Midlands

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in the Midlands over the 6 months to 6 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in the Midlands

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in the Midlands

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in the Midlands over the 6 months to 6 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in the Midlands

Senior
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 June 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
West Midlands -4 86 £525 +2.44% 356
East Midlands -2 16 £468 -15.00% 220
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 June 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 Midlands region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 30 (28.85%) Agile
2 28 (26.92%) SQL
2 28 (26.92%) Finance
3 27 (25.96%) Social Skills
4 20 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (18.27%) Python
6 18 (17.31%) Java
7 17 (16.35%) Security Cleared
8 15 (14.42%) Analytical Skills
9 14 (13.46%) Azure
9 14 (13.46%) AWS
9 14 (13.46%) Games
9 14 (13.46%) Migration
10 13 (12.50%) Analytics
10 13 (12.50%) Docker
10 13 (12.50%) Product Ownership
11 12 (11.54%) CI/CD
11 12 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (10.58%) Project Management
12 11 (10.58%) JavaScript
12 11 (10.58%) Oracle
13 10 (9.62%) HTML
13 10 (9.62%) Automotive
13 10 (9.62%) Django
13 10 (9.62%) JIRA
13 10 (9.62%) Git
13 10 (9.62%) DevOps
13 10 (9.62%) TypeScript
14 9 (8.65%) RESTful

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (4.81%) Confluence
2 4 (3.85%) Moodle
3 3 (2.88%) Apache
3 3 (2.88%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.96%) Luigi
5 1 (0.96%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (7.69%) Maya
1 8 (7.69%) NUKE
2 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.92%) AutoCAD
3 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.92%) Revit
3 2 (1.92%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.96%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (2.88%) Oracle ERP
1 3 (2.88%) Oracle iProcurement
2 2 (1.92%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.92%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (1.92%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.92%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (1.92%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.92%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.96%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.96%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.96%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.96%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.96%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 14 (13.46%) AWS
1 14 (13.46%) Azure
2 7 (6.73%) Power Platform
3 4 (3.85%) Amazon S3
3 4 (3.85%) GCP
4 3 (2.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (2.88%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.88%) OCI
4 3 (2.88%) SaaS
4 3 (2.88%) Serverless
5 2 (1.92%) AWS CodeCommit
5 2 (1.92%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 2 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (1.92%) PaaS
5 2 (1.92%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.81%) Firewall
2 4 (3.85%) Network Security
2 4 (3.85%) WAN
3 3 (2.88%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.92%) DHCP
4 2 (1.92%) DNS
4 2 (1.92%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.92%) LAN
4 2 (1.92%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.92%) Wireless
5 1 (0.96%) BGP
5 1 (0.96%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.96%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.96%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.96%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.96%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.96%) MPLS
5 1 (0.96%) OSPF
5 1 (0.96%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (4.81%) Power BI
2 4 (3.85%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.88%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (2.88%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.96%) Big Data
5 1 (0.96%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.96%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.96%) Flink
5 1 (0.96%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.96%) Impala
5 1 (0.96%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.96%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.96%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (9.62%) Git
1 10 (9.62%) JIRA
2 5 (4.81%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.81%) JUnit
2 5 (4.81%) Postman
3 4 (3.85%) Maven
4 3 (2.88%) Mockito
4 3 (2.88%) PHPUnit
5 2 (1.92%) ScriptRunner
5 2 (1.92%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.92%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.92%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.96%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (0.96%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.96%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.96%) DbUnit
6 1 (0.96%) Gradle
6 1 (0.96%) jMock
6 1 (0.96%) Ranorex
General
1 28 (26.92%) Finance
2 27 (25.96%) Social Skills
3 15 (14.42%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (13.46%) Games
5 10 (9.62%) Automotive
6 8 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 7 (6.73%) Manufacturing
8 6 (5.77%) Aerospace
9 4 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (3.85%) Polish Language
10 3 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.88%) Law
11 2 (1.92%) Banking
11 2 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.92%) Legal
11 2 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.92%) Retail
12 1 (0.96%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.62%) Django
1 10 (9.62%) HTML
2 9 (8.65%) CSS
2 9 (8.65%) RESTful
3 6 (5.77%) .NET
4 5 (4.81%) REST
4 5 (4.81%) Spring
5 4 (3.85%) Hibernate
5 4 (3.85%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 4 (3.85%) Unreal Engine
5 4 (3.85%) XML
6 3 (2.88%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (2.88%) Behat
6 3 (2.88%) Bootstrap
6 3 (2.88%) JPA
6 3 (2.88%) JSON
6 3 (2.88%) SOAP
6 3 (2.88%) Spring Batch
6 3 (2.88%) Spring Integration
6 3 (2.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.69%) Animation
3 5 (4.81%) Mobile Games
3 5 (4.81%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.81%) Virtual Reality
4 3 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.88%) e-Learning
4 3 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.88%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.88%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.88%) VLE
5 2 (1.92%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.92%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.92%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.92%) Replication
6 1 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.96%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.96%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.92%) Android
1 2 (1.92%) Linux
1 2 (1.92%) Unix
2 1 (0.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (28.85%) Agile
2 20 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (13.46%) Migration
4 13 (12.50%) Analytics
5 12 (11.54%) CI/CD
5 12 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (10.58%) Project Management
7 10 (9.62%) DevOps
8 9 (8.65%) Data Modelling
8 9 (8.65%) Data Pipeline
8 9 (8.65%) Risk Management
9 8 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (7.69%) Data Strategy
9 8 (7.69%) Microservices
10 7 (6.73%) ETL
10 7 (6.73%) Mentoring
10 7 (6.73%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (6.73%) User Experience
10 7 (6.73%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 28 (26.92%) SQL
2 19 (18.27%) Python
3 18 (17.31%) Java
4 11 (10.58%) JavaScript
5 10 (9.62%) TypeScript
6 8 (7.69%) C++
6 8 (7.69%) Tcl
7 5 (4.81%) C#
8 4 (3.85%) PHP
8 4 (3.85%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.88%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.92%) Go
10 2 (1.92%) Groovy
10 2 (1.92%) R
10 2 (1.92%) Scala
10 2 (1.92%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.96%) Bash
11 1 (0.96%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.96%) Ruby
11 1 (0.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (16.35%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.81%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (4.81%) Degree
3 5 (4.81%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.88%) CCIE
4 3 (2.88%) CCNP
4 3 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.92%) CCIE Routing and Switching
5 2 (1.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (1.92%) RIBA
6 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.96%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.96%) CBAP
6 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.96%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.96%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.96%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.96%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.73%) PMO
2 7 (6.73%) QA
3 3 (2.88%) GDPR
4 2 (1.92%) SLA
5 1 (0.96%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.96%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.96%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.96%) Firmware
2 1 (0.96%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 7 (6.73%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.77%) Terraform
3 2 (1.92%) Kibana
3 2 (1.92%) logstash
3 2 (1.92%) OpenView
4 1 (0.96%) CASB
4 1 (0.96%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.96%) Grafana
4 1 (0.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (10.58%) Oracle
2 9 (8.65%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.81%) Cisco
4 4 (3.85%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.88%) Fortinet
5 3 (2.88%) Jaspersoft
5 3 (2.88%) SAP
6 2 (1.92%) F5
6 2 (1.92%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.96%) Aruba
7 1 (0.96%) Cognos
7 1 (0.96%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.96%) IBM
7 1 (0.96%) IFS
7 1 (0.96%) Meraki
7 1 (0.96%) Sage
7 1 (0.96%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.96%) Software AG
7 1 (0.96%) Splunk
7 1 (0.96%) webMethods