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 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 20 22
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 263 343 370
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 8.00% 7.42% 6.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.54% 7.96% 6.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 215 268
10th Percentile £378 £325 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £560
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -8.48% +6.67%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £650
90th Percentile £686 £675 £700
England median daily rate £550 £561 £600
% change year-on-year -2.00% -6.46% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 41 11
10th Percentile £19.25 £23.00 £17.72
25th Percentile £27.58 £27.00 £19.49
Median hourly rate £49.00 £42.91 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.19% +22.60% -33.59%
75th Percentile £75.00 £52.78 £63.75
90th Percentile £84.50 £68.75 £66.69
England median hourly rate £52.00 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +9.47% +5.56% +5.88%

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 3,079 4,309 5,414
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.62% 93.21% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,037 2,698 3,808
10th Percentile £230 £263 £279
25th Percentile £365 £388 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £551 £582 £600
90th Percentile £645 £675 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.10% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 396 158
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.04 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.25 £12.53 £18.50
Median hourly rate £24.50 £20.76 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +18.04% -32.04% +58.69%
75th Percentile £49.69 £46.18 £49.48
90th Percentile £76.88 £62.50 £66.21
England median hourly rate £30.20 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -18.77% -17.38% +95.65%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -6 164 £497 -3.50% 872
Yorkshire +11 88 £500 -4.76% 470
North East -1 20 £534 -11.00% 155
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 70 (26.62%) Security Cleared
2 67 (25.48%) Agile
3 66 (25.10%) AWS
4 61 (23.19%) CI/CD
5 57 (21.67%) SC Cleared
5 57 (21.67%) Python
6 47 (17.87%) Finance
6 47 (17.87%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (16.73%) Social Skills
8 43 (16.35%) Kubernetes
9 40 (15.21%) Public Sector
10 39 (14.83%) SQL
10 39 (14.83%) Stakeholder Management
11 38 (14.45%) Software Engineering
12 37 (14.07%) DevOps
13 36 (13.69%) Containerisation
13 36 (13.69%) Azure
14 33 (12.55%) Docker
15 32 (12.17%) Bash
16 30 (11.41%) Java
17 28 (10.65%) Linux
17 28 (10.65%) Test Automation
18 27 (10.27%) Microservices
19 26 (9.89%) Terraform
19 26 (9.89%) JIRA
19 26 (9.89%) Microsoft
20 25 (9.51%) Node.js
20 25 (9.51%) GitLab
21 24 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
21 24 (9.13%) Continuous Integration

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 (5.32%) Confluence
2 6 (2.28%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.52%) CMS
3 4 (1.52%) Moodle
4 3 (1.14%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.76%) Apache
5 2 (0.76%) SAS
5 2 (0.76%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.38%) Camunda
6 1 (0.38%) CICS
6 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.38%) nginx
6 1 (0.38%) Traefik
Applications
1 8 (3.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.52%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.38%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 5 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.52%) 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 66 (25.10%) AWS
2 36 (13.69%) Azure
3 14 (5.32%) Serverless
4 12 (4.56%) GCP
5 11 (4.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (3.80%) GitHub
7 8 (3.04%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (3.04%) Power Platform
7 8 (3.04%) Slack
8 7 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (2.66%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (2.28%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.28%) dbt
9 6 (2.28%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.28%) IaaS
10 5 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (1.90%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.80%) Firewall
2 9 (3.42%) Network Security
3 6 (2.28%) DNS
3 6 (2.28%) VPN
4 5 (1.90%) HTTP
4 5 (1.90%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (1.52%) BGP
5 4 (1.52%) LAN
5 4 (1.52%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.52%) WAN
6 3 (1.14%) DWDM
6 3 (1.14%) EIGRP
6 3 (1.14%) HSRP
6 3 (1.14%) IPsec
6 3 (1.14%) OSPF
7 2 (0.76%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.76%) Internet
7 2 (0.76%) Intranet
7 2 (0.76%) MPLS
7 2 (0.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.60%) MongoDB
2 17 (6.46%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.56%) MySQL
4 11 (4.18%) Apache Cassandra
5 8 (3.04%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.04%) Power BI
6 6 (2.28%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.90%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (1.90%) Tableau
8 4 (1.52%) Airbyte
8 4 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.14%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.76%) Big Data
10 2 (0.76%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.76%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.76%) Metadata
10 2 (0.76%) ObjectStore
10 2 (0.76%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 26 (9.89%) JIRA
2 25 (9.51%) GitLab
3 22 (8.37%) Git
4 21 (7.98%) Jenkins
5 13 (4.94%) Cucumber
6 11 (4.18%) Jasmine
6 11 (4.18%) JUnit
7 5 (1.90%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.52%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.52%) ScriptRunner
8 4 (1.52%) Selenium
9 3 (1.14%) Maven
10 2 (0.76%) ERwin
10 2 (0.76%) Grunt
10 2 (0.76%) gulp
10 2 (0.76%) Mocha
10 2 (0.76%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.76%) Subversion
10 2 (0.76%) TestRail
11 1 (0.38%) Postman
General
1 47 (17.87%) Finance
2 44 (16.73%) Social Skills
3 40 (15.21%) Public Sector
4 24 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.18%) Banking
6 9 (3.42%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.66%) Legal
7 7 (2.66%) Military
8 6 (2.28%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (2.28%) Retail
9 4 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.14%) Marketing
11 2 (0.76%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.76%) Digital Healthcare
11 2 (0.76%) Electronics
11 2 (0.76%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.76%) Law
11 2 (0.76%) Local Government
11 2 (0.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.51%) Node.js
2 20 (7.60%) RESTful
3 15 (5.70%) React
4 14 (5.32%) Spring Boot
5 13 (4.94%) Spring
6 11 (4.18%) Kafka
7 10 (3.80%) OpenAPI
7 10 (3.80%) Spring Batch
7 10 (3.80%) Spring Security
7 10 (3.80%) Swagger
8 8 (3.04%) .NET
8 8 (3.04%) cloud-init
8 8 (3.04%) REST
9 5 (1.90%) AWS CDK
9 5 (1.90%) GraphQL
9 5 (1.90%) Playwright
10 4 (1.52%) .NET Core
10 4 (1.52%) EntireX
10 4 (1.52%) HTML
10 4 (1.52%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.32%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.18%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (3.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 7 (2.66%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.28%) CMDB
5 6 (2.28%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.90%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.90%) Mobile App
6 5 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.52%) NHS
8 3 (1.14%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.76%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.76%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.76%) Life Science
9 2 (0.76%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.76%) PKI
9 2 (0.76%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.38%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.65%) Linux
2 20 (7.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (3.42%) Unix
4 8 (3.04%) CentOS
4 8 (3.04%) Windows
5 3 (1.14%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.14%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.38%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (25.48%) Agile
2 61 (23.19%) CI/CD
3 47 (17.87%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (14.83%) Stakeholder Management
5 38 (14.45%) Software Engineering
6 37 (14.07%) DevOps
7 36 (13.69%) Containerisation
8 28 (10.65%) Test Automation
9 27 (10.27%) Microservices
10 24 (9.13%) Continuous Integration
11 23 (8.75%) Infrastructure as Code
11 23 (8.75%) Mentoring
12 22 (8.37%) Risk Management
12 22 (8.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 22 (8.37%) Technical Leadership
13 19 (7.22%) Analytics
14 18 (6.84%) TDD
15 17 (6.46%) Continuous Improvement
15 17 (6.46%) Decision-Making
16 16 (6.08%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 57 (21.67%) Python
2 39 (14.83%) SQL
3 32 (12.17%) Bash
4 30 (11.41%) Java
5 23 (8.75%) JavaScript
6 20 (7.60%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.04%) Go
8 7 (2.66%) C#
9 5 (1.90%) Scala
10 4 (1.52%) Groovy
10 4 (1.52%) SPARQL
11 3 (1.14%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.76%) C++
12 2 (0.76%) Clojure
12 2 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.76%) R
13 1 (0.38%) C
13 1 (0.38%) Perl
13 1 (0.38%) PHP
13 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (26.62%) Security Cleared
2 57 (21.67%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.46%) Degree
4 5 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.90%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.14%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (0.76%) CCNP
7 2 (0.76%) CISM
7 2 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.76%) CRISC
7 2 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.38%) ACCA
8 1 (0.38%) CIMA
8 1 (0.38%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.38%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.80%) QA
2 5 (1.90%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.52%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.14%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.14%) GDPR
4 3 (1.14%) WCAG
5 2 (0.76%) NCSC
5 2 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.38%) GRC
6 1 (0.38%) PMO
System Software
1 33 (12.55%) Docker
2 5 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.38%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.38%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (16.35%) Kubernetes
2 26 (9.89%) Terraform
3 12 (4.56%) Ansible
4 10 (3.80%) Grafana
5 9 (3.42%) Packer
5 9 (3.42%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.14%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.76%) Consul
7 2 (0.76%) Istio
7 2 (0.76%) linkerd
7 2 (0.76%) Puppet
7 2 (0.76%) Rancher
7 2 (0.76%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.38%) Graylog
8 1 (0.38%) Kibana
8 1 (0.38%) SCSM
8 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (9.89%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.94%) Google
3 12 (4.56%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.80%) Cisco
4 10 (3.80%) SAP
5 8 (3.04%) Oracle
6 7 (2.66%) Databricks
7 5 (1.90%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.90%) IBM
8 4 (1.52%) Aruba
8 4 (1.52%) Software AG
8 4 (1.52%) webMethods
9 3 (1.14%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.14%) HP
9 3 (1.14%) PagerDuty
9 3 (1.14%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.14%) Splunk
9 3 (1.14%) Workday
10 2 (0.76%) Okta
10 2 (0.76%) Zscaler