Senior Contracts in the North East

Senior
England > North East

The median Senior daily rate in the North East is £550, 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 14 19 19
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 25 19 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 7.81% 5.62% 10.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.12% 6.23% 10.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 11 30
10th Percentile £355 - £458
25th Percentile £474 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £637 £720 £650
90th Percentile £773 - £708
England median daily rate £550 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £52.00 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +197.14% - -
England median hourly rate £52.00 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +9.47% +5.56% +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 North East with a recognized job title 308 305 414
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.25% 90.24% 97.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 140 319
10th Percentile £200 £190 £231
25th Percentile £344 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% -12.04% +13.68%
75th Percentile £558 £588 £625
90th Percentile £638 £653 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 63 2
10th Percentile - £10.42 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.50 £35.56
Median hourly rate £13.00 £13.99 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -65.67% +139.71%
75th Percentile £23.97 £34.50 £45.56
90th Percentile £49.73 £50.00 £47.93
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the North East

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in the North East

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in the North East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in the North East

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in the North East

Senior
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the North East 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
Tyne and Wear -2 20 £542 -9.67% 85
Durham - 1 £300 - 5
Senior
England

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

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 North East region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 10 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (36.00%) AWS
3 8 (32.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (32.00%) Azure
4 7 (28.00%) DevOps
4 7 (28.00%) Terraform
5 6 (24.00%) Prometheus
5 6 (24.00%) Grafana
5 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
5 6 (24.00%) GitLab
5 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
5 6 (24.00%) IaaS
5 6 (24.00%) Finance
5 6 (24.00%) Migration
5 6 (24.00%) Agile
6 5 (20.00%) Python
6 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 5 (20.00%) Incident Management
6 5 (20.00%) Atlassian
6 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
7 4 (16.00%) Docker
7 4 (16.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (16.00%) ScriptRunner
7 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (16.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 4 (16.00%) JIRA
7 4 (16.00%) Groovy
7 4 (16.00%) nginx
7 4 (16.00%) Performance Tuning

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 4 (16.00%) Confluence
1 4 (16.00%) nginx
2 2 (8.00%) Traefik
3 1 (4.00%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Chatbot
1 1 (4.00%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) AWS
2 8 (32.00%) Azure
3 6 (24.00%) IaaS
4 4 (16.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (8.00%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (8.00%) PaaS
6 2 (8.00%) SaaS
6 2 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (4.00%) Power Automate
7 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
7 1 (4.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) DNS
1 2 (8.00%) SSL
1 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.00%) Metadata
2 1 (4.00%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (4.00%) Power BI
2 1 (4.00%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) GitLab
2 4 (16.00%) JIRA
2 4 (16.00%) ScriptRunner
3 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (8.00%) Selenium
5 1 (4.00%) Git
5 1 (4.00%) LabVIEW
General
1 6 (24.00%) Finance
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Electronics
3 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.00%) Marketing
3 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) Kafka
2 2 (8.00%) cloud-init
2 2 (8.00%) Keycloak
2 2 (8.00%) pytest
2 2 (8.00%) REST
2 2 (8.00%) SOAP
3 1 (4.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) PKI
1 2 (8.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.00%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (8.00%) CentOS
3 2 (8.00%) Unix
4 1 (4.00%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (4.00%) Windows
4 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) DevOps
2 6 (24.00%) Agile
2 6 (24.00%) Migration
3 5 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (16.00%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (16.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 3 (12.00%) Cloud Security
5 3 (12.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (12.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (12.00%) Validation
6 2 (8.00%) Data Modelling
6 2 (8.00%) ETL
6 2 (8.00%) Identity Management
6 2 (8.00%) Information Security
6 2 (8.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) Python
2 4 (16.00%) Groovy
3 3 (12.00%) Bash
4 2 (8.00%) Go
5 1 (4.00%) C
5 1 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (32.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (8.00%) CISM
3 2 (8.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (8.00%) CRISC
3 2 (8.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) NCSC
1 2 (8.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) Terraform
2 6 (24.00%) Grafana
2 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (24.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (8.00%) Consul
3 2 (8.00%) HAProxy
3 2 (8.00%) Istio
3 2 (8.00%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (8.00%) linkerd
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.00%) Packer
3 2 (8.00%) Rancher
3 2 (8.00%) ZABBIX
4 1 (4.00%) Ansible
4 1 (4.00%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (4.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Atlassian
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Apple
2 2 (8.00%) ESET
2 2 (8.00%) Okta
2 2 (8.00%) SAP
2 2 (8.00%) Splunk
2 2 (8.00%) Workday
3 1 (4.00%) Ariba
3 1 (4.00%) Databricks
3 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow