Senior Contract Job Trends in Solihull

Senior
West Midlands > Solihull

The median Senior daily rate in Solihull is £320, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 16 18
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 4 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Solihull 6.25% 3.57% 4.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.45% 3.64% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £302 £579 £563
25th Percentile £305 £584 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £613 £650
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% -5.77% -
75th Percentile £409 £634 £706
90th Percentile £456 £636 £718
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +6.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Solihull

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Solihull. 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 Solihull with a recognized job title 62 55 70
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.88% 98.21% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 36 28
10th Percentile £220 £333 £270
25th Percentile £358 £385 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £448 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -10.44% +17.71%
75th Percentile £575 £493 £625
90th Percentile £600 £544 £759
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £13.15
Median % change year-on-year - +21.67% -34.25%
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £21.80 £22.20
% change year-on-year +15.39% -1.80% +25.25%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Solihull.

Senior job vacancy trend in Solihull

Senior
Daily Rate Trend in Solihull

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Solihull.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Solihull

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Solihull

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Solihull over the 6 months to 23 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Solihull

Senior
Hourly Rate Trend in Solihull

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Solihull.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Solihull

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Solihull

For the 6 months to 23 October 2025, Senior contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Solihull region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Coaching
2 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) DataOps
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS KMS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Solihull by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) MPLS
1 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (25.00%) VoIP
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
1 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) Semantic Layer
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (25.00%) DbUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) jMock
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
1 1 (25.00%) Mockito
1 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (25.00%) JPA
1 1 (25.00%) PowerMock
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Batch
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Integration
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Coaching
2 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) DataOps
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Kanban
3 1 (25.00%) Master Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) Rapid Prototyping
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (25.00%) BT
1 1 (25.00%) CenturyLink
1 1 (25.00%) Jaspersoft
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto