Senior Contracts in the North of England

Senior
England > North of England

The median Senior daily rate in the North of England is £500, 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 23 19 23
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 266 354 392
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 8.07% 7.42% 6.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.64% 7.97% 7.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 229 287
10th Percentile £382 £324 £400
25th Percentile £442 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -6.87% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £647
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
England median daily rate £550 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 40 11
10th Percentile £19.00 £22.38 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.63 £26.63 £24.63
Median hourly rate £32.19 £42.91 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.98% +7.28% +0.69%
75th Percentile £68.31 £48.38 £63.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £63.13 £66.69
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 of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the North of England

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in the North of England

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior in the North of England

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in the North of England

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in the North of England

Senior
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West -3 159 £500 -2.91% 1,148
Yorkshire +7 90 £500 - 765
North East +5 25 £550 -8.33% 249
Senior
England

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

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 of England region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 76 (28.57%) Security Cleared
1 76 (28.57%) AWS
2 67 (25.19%) Agile
2 67 (25.19%) CI/CD
3 65 (24.44%) Python
4 62 (23.31%) SC Cleared
5 49 (18.42%) Kubernetes
6 47 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (17.67%) Social Skills
6 47 (17.67%) Finance
7 46 (17.29%) DevOps
8 42 (15.79%) Public Sector
8 42 (15.79%) SQL
9 38 (14.29%) Software Engineering
9 38 (14.29%) Azure
9 38 (14.29%) Bash
10 36 (13.53%) Stakeholder Management
10 36 (13.53%) Containerisation
11 35 (13.16%) Docker
11 35 (13.16%) Linux
12 34 (12.78%) Terraform
13 32 (12.03%) GitLab
14 30 (11.28%) Continuous Integration
15 28 (10.53%) Microservices
16 27 (10.15%) Infrastructure as Code
16 27 (10.15%) Microsoft
16 27 (10.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 27 (10.15%) Jenkins
17 26 (9.77%) Java
18 25 (9.40%) Mentoring

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 14 (5.26%) Confluence
2 8 (3.01%) nginx
3 6 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.26%) Traefik
4 4 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.50%) CMS
4 4 (1.50%) Moodle
5 3 (1.13%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.75%) Apache
6 2 (0.75%) SAS
6 2 (0.75%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.38%) Camunda
7 1 (0.38%) CICS
7 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 10 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.13%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.38%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 5 (1.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.50%) SAP LE
3 1 (0.38%) LabWindows
3 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 76 (28.57%) AWS
2 38 (14.29%) Azure
3 17 (6.39%) AWS CloudFormation
4 15 (5.64%) Serverless
5 14 (5.26%) GCP
6 13 (4.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (4.14%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (3.38%) Entra ID
8 9 (3.38%) GitHub
9 8 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (3.01%) AWS Fargate
9 8 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (3.01%) Power Platform
9 8 (3.01%) Slack
9 8 (3.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (2.63%) Amazon S3
10 7 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (2.26%) dbt
11 6 (2.26%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.51%) DNS
2 11 (4.14%) Firewall
3 10 (3.76%) TCP/IP
4 9 (3.38%) Network Security
5 6 (2.26%) VPN
6 5 (1.88%) HTTP
6 5 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (1.50%) BGP
7 4 (1.50%) LAN
7 4 (1.50%) WAN
8 3 (1.13%) DWDM
8 3 (1.13%) EIGRP
8 3 (1.13%) HSRP
8 3 (1.13%) IPsec
8 3 (1.13%) OSPF
9 2 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.75%) Internet
9 2 (0.75%) Intranet
9 2 (0.75%) MPLS
9 2 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (9.40%) MongoDB
2 19 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.51%) MySQL
4 11 (4.14%) Apache Cassandra
5 8 (3.01%) Power BI
6 7 (2.63%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.26%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.26%) SQL Server
7 6 (2.26%) Tableau
8 5 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.50%) Airbyte
10 3 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.13%) Data Mining
10 3 (1.13%) Metadata
10 3 (1.13%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.75%) Big Data
11 2 (0.75%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.75%) ObjectStore
11 2 (0.75%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 32 (12.03%) GitLab
2 27 (10.15%) Jenkins
3 25 (9.40%) JIRA
4 21 (7.89%) Git
5 12 (4.51%) Cucumber
6 11 (4.14%) Jasmine
7 10 (3.76%) JUnit
8 4 (1.50%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.50%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (1.13%) Selenium
10 2 (0.75%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.75%) ERwin
10 2 (0.75%) Grunt
10 2 (0.75%) gulp
10 2 (0.75%) Maven
10 2 (0.75%) Mocha
10 2 (0.75%) Subversion
10 2 (0.75%) TestRail
11 1 (0.38%) Gatling
11 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 47 (17.67%) Finance
1 47 (17.67%) Social Skills
2 42 (15.79%) Public Sector
3 25 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (5.26%) Banking
5 9 (3.38%) Manufacturing
5 9 (3.38%) Military
6 8 (3.01%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (2.63%) Retail
8 6 (2.26%) Legal
9 3 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.13%) Marketing
9 3 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.75%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.75%) Digital Healthcare
10 2 (0.75%) Electronics
10 2 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.75%) Italian Language
10 2 (0.75%) Local Government
10 2 (0.75%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.65%) Node.js
2 21 (7.89%) Kafka
3 20 (7.52%) RESTful
4 15 (5.64%) cloud-init
4 15 (5.64%) React
5 14 (5.26%) Spring Boot
6 13 (4.89%) Spring
7 10 (3.76%) OpenAPI
7 10 (3.76%) REST
7 10 (3.76%) Spring Batch
7 10 (3.76%) Spring Security
7 10 (3.76%) Swagger
8 8 (3.01%) Keycloak
9 6 (2.26%) .NET
10 5 (1.88%) GraphQL
11 4 (1.50%) AWS CDK
11 4 (1.50%) EntireX
11 4 (1.50%) HTML
11 4 (1.50%) TensorFlow
12 3 (1.13%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.89%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.14%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (3.38%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 8 (3.01%) PKI
5 5 (1.88%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.88%) CMDB
5 5 (1.88%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.88%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.50%) NHS
7 3 (1.13%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.75%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.75%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.75%) Life Science
8 2 (0.75%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 35 (13.16%) Linux
2 27 (10.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (6.02%) Unix
4 15 (5.64%) CentOS
5 8 (3.01%) Windows
6 3 (1.13%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.13%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.38%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (25.19%) Agile
1 67 (25.19%) CI/CD
2 47 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (17.29%) DevOps
4 38 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 36 (13.53%) Containerisation
5 36 (13.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 30 (11.28%) Continuous Integration
7 28 (10.53%) Microservices
8 27 (10.15%) Infrastructure as Code
9 25 (9.40%) Mentoring
10 24 (9.02%) Test Automation
11 23 (8.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 22 (8.27%) Technical Leadership
13 21 (7.89%) Risk Management
14 18 (6.77%) Migration
15 17 (6.39%) Analytics
15 17 (6.39%) TDD
16 16 (6.02%) Continuous Improvement
16 16 (6.02%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (24.44%) Python
2 42 (15.79%) SQL
3 38 (14.29%) Bash
4 26 (9.77%) Java
5 21 (7.89%) JavaScript
6 20 (7.52%) TypeScript
7 15 (5.64%) Go
8 5 (1.88%) C#
8 5 (1.88%) Scala
9 4 (1.50%) Groovy
9 4 (1.50%) SPARQL
10 3 (1.13%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.75%) C++
11 2 (0.75%) Clojure
11 2 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.38%) C
12 1 (0.38%) JCL
12 1 (0.38%) Perl
12 1 (0.38%) PHP
12 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 62 (23.31%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.26%) Degree
4 9 (3.38%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.88%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.75%) CCNP
8 2 (0.75%) CISM
8 2 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.75%) CRISC
8 2 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.38%) APMG
9 1 (0.38%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.38%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.38%) QA
2 8 (3.01%) NCSC
3 4 (1.50%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.50%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.13%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.13%) GDPR
5 2 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.75%) WCAG
6 1 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.38%) GRC
6 1 (0.38%) PMO
System Software
1 35 (13.16%) Docker
2 5 (1.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.38%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.38%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (18.42%) Kubernetes
2 34 (12.78%) Terraform
3 16 (6.02%) Grafana
3 16 (6.02%) Packer
3 16 (6.02%) Prometheus
4 13 (4.89%) Ansible
5 9 (3.38%) Jamf Pro
6 8 (3.01%) Consul
6 8 (3.01%) Istio
6 8 (3.01%) linkerd
6 8 (3.01%) Rancher
6 8 (3.01%) ZABBIX
7 6 (2.26%) HAProxy
8 4 (1.50%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.75%) Puppet
10 2 (0.75%) WSUS
11 1 (0.38%) AppManager
11 1 (0.38%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.38%) SCCM
Vendors
1 27 (10.15%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.89%) Oracle
3 12 (4.51%) Google
4 10 (3.76%) Cisco
4 10 (3.76%) SAP
5 9 (3.38%) ServiceNow
5 9 (3.38%) Splunk
6 8 (3.01%) Databricks
6 8 (3.01%) Okta
7 7 (2.63%) Apple
8 6 (2.26%) ESET
9 5 (1.88%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.88%) IBM
10 4 (1.50%) Aruba
10 4 (1.50%) Software AG
10 4 (1.50%) webMethods
11 3 (1.13%) Ariba
11 3 (1.13%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.13%) HP
11 3 (1.13%) Workday