Senior Contracts in Portsmouth

Senior
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The median Senior daily rate in Portsmouth is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 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
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 27 35
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 3 16 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 2.21% 5.76% 3.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.33% 6.18% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - - £556
25th Percentile £563 £67 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £184 £588
Median % change year-on-year +213.33% -68.76% +56.67%
75th Percentile £588 £419 £616
90th Percentile - £588 £629
Hampshire median daily rate £488 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -18.75% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 2
10th Percentile - £24.32 £46.55
25th Percentile - £47.53 £47.93
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £53.95
Median % change year-on-year - +20.48% -1.52%
75th Percentile - - £60.31
90th Percentile - £67.02 £61.90
Hampshire median hourly rate - £47.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year - -17.39% +228.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Portsmouth

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Portsmouth. 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 Portsmouth with a recognized job title 129 259 231
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 93.17% 93.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 99 145
10th Percentile £200 £270 £202
25th Percentile £329 £440 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.52% +15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £594 £658 £550
90th Percentile £660 £850 £600
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -8.70% +12.20% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 105 19
10th Percentile £24.95 £51.06 £41.35
25th Percentile £32.94 £53.40 £51.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.86% +49.13%
75th Percentile £60.06 £70.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £64.25 £78.74 £72.02
Hampshire median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £53.75
% change year-on-year -4.10% +6.70% +150.00%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Portsmouth

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Portsmouth

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Portsmouth

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 Portsmouth region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) Ruby
1 2 (66.67%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Release Management
1 2 (66.67%) Atlassian
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
1 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) React
1 2 (66.67%) API Development
1 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
1 2 (66.67%) Vue
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (66.67%) Serverless
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (66.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
1 2 (66.67%) React
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
1 2 (66.67%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (66.67%) Vue
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) NumPy
2 1 (33.33%) Pandas
2 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CUDA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) API Development
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Release Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Signal Processing
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Signal Processing
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) Ruby
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Atlassian