Senior Contracts in Sheffield

Senior
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Senior daily rate in Sheffield is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 29 34
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 19 25 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 5.01% 5.57% 4.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.57% 5.68% 5.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 22 17
10th Percentile £394 £575 £300
25th Percentile £413 £600 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £655 £520
Median % change year-on-year -17.94% +25.96% +8.05%
75th Percentile £720 £700 £550
90th Percentile - - £690
South Yorkshire median daily rate £538 £655 £520
% change year-on-year -17.94% +25.96% +8.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £17.72 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £17.72 £21.35
% change year-on-year - -17.00% +1.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Sheffield. 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 Sheffield with a recognized job title 341 440 371
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.97% 98.00% 96.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 305 299
10th Percentile £360 £363 £300
25th Percentile £413 £473 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £563
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 12
10th Percentile £10.90 £11.10 £9.74
25th Percentile £11.33 £11.25 £12.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £17.72 £16.38
Median % change year-on-year +24.15% +8.21% +20.83%
75th Percentile £23.75 £22.50 £18.11
90th Percentile - £33.00 £23.55
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.60 £17.72 £17.64
% change year-on-year -23.28% +0.45% +10.25%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Sheffield

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Sheffield

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Sheffield over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Sheffield

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Sheffield

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 Sheffield region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 8 (42.11%) ServiceNow
2 7 (36.84%) Public Sector
3 6 (31.58%) ITIL
3 6 (31.58%) ITIL Certification
3 6 (31.58%) Agile
3 6 (31.58%) DevOps
4 5 (26.32%) Java
4 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (26.32%) Roadmaps
5 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
5 4 (21.05%) JMeter
5 4 (21.05%) Line Management
5 4 (21.05%) User Stories
5 4 (21.05%) Software Delivery
5 4 (21.05%) Selenium
6 3 (15.79%) AWS
6 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
6 3 (15.79%) Test Scripting
6 3 (15.79%) Analytics
6 3 (15.79%) WCAG
6 3 (15.79%) CMDB
6 3 (15.79%) Finance
6 3 (15.79%) Service Management
6 3 (15.79%) ITSM
6 3 (15.79%) CRM
6 3 (15.79%) Data Modelling
6 3 (15.79%) Accessibility
6 3 (15.79%) Acceptance Criteria
7 2 (10.53%) Data Lineage
7 2 (10.53%) Influencing Skills

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) GitHub
2 1 (5.26%) PaaS
2 1 (5.26%) SaaS
2 1 (5.26%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
1 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) JMeter
1 4 (21.05%) Selenium
2 2 (10.53%) JIRA
3 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (36.84%) Public Sector
2 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Finance
4 2 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Marketing
5 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
1 1 (5.26%) CSS
1 1 (5.26%) HTML
1 1 (5.26%) JWT
1 1 (5.26%) LDAP
1 1 (5.26%) Node.js
1 1 (5.26%) OAuth
1 1 (5.26%) OpenID
1 1 (5.26%) REST
1 1 (5.26%) RESTful
1 1 (5.26%) Spring
1 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
1 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) CMDB
2 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Agile
1 6 (31.58%) DevOps
1 6 (31.58%) ITIL
2 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (26.32%) Roadmaps
3 4 (21.05%) Line Management
3 4 (21.05%) Software Delivery
3 4 (21.05%) User Stories
4 3 (15.79%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (15.79%) Analytics
4 3 (15.79%) CRM
4 3 (15.79%) Data Modelling
4 3 (15.79%) ITSM
4 3 (15.79%) Service Management
4 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
4 3 (15.79%) Test Scripting
5 2 (10.53%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (10.53%) Data Lineage
5 2 (10.53%) Data Strategy
5 2 (10.53%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) Java
2 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
2 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.26%) Bash
3 1 (5.26%) Perl
3 1 (5.26%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Accessibility
1 3 (15.79%) WCAG
2 1 (5.26%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) NetBackup
2 1 (5.26%) Puppet
2 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.26%) EMC
2 1 (5.26%) MuleSoft
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) Symantec
2 1 (5.26%) Veritas
2 1 (5.26%) VMware