Senior Contracts in Northamptonshire

Senior
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The median Senior daily rate in Northamptonshire is £368, 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 22 17 26
Rank change year-on-year -5 +9 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 4 8 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 2.74% 4.08% 4.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.96% 4.32% 4.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 8
10th Percentile £367 £338 £204
25th Percentile £368 £375 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £400 £394
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +1.59% -29.69%
75th Percentile £411 £488 £544
90th Percentile £437 £578 £565
East Midlands median daily rate £483 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -3.50% -6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £18.44
25th Percentile - - £19.51
Median hourly rate - - £21.69
75th Percentile - - £24.26
90th Percentile - - £25.57
East Midlands median hourly rate £21.59 £26.12 £17.72
% change year-on-year -17.33% +47.38% -17.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Northamptonshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Northamptonshire. 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 Northamptonshire with a recognized job title 135 185 221
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.39% 91.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 138 171
10th Percentile £271 £265 £205
25th Percentile £358 £356 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £433 £400
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% +8.13% -11.11%
75th Percentile £488 £537 £500
90th Percentile £575 £621 £573
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £410 £450
% change year-on-year +9.02% -8.89% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 10
10th Percentile £16.88 £10.90 £14.19
25th Percentile £21.56 £12.37 £17.82
Median hourly rate £32.25 £14.00 £19.02
Median % change year-on-year +130.36% -26.37% -17.33%
75th Percentile £45.06 £35.00 £26.33
90th Percentile £51.03 £57.88 £35.30
East Midlands median hourly rate £23.21 £17.50 £20.36
% change year-on-year +32.60% -14.05% +19.03%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Northamptonshire

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Northamptonshire

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Northamptonshire

Senior
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Northamptonshire 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
Northampton -8 2 £368 -7.55% 85
Corby - 2 £454 -
Senior
East Midlands

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

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 Northamptonshire region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Unix
1 2 (50.00%) AIX
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
1 2 (50.00%) Validation
1 2 (50.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (50.00%) Scala
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (25.00%) Impala
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) AIX
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
1 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Data Security
2 1 (25.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Scala
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes