Senior Contracts in the South East

Senior
England > South East

The median Senior daily rate in the South East is £525 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 17 26 33
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 427 441 470
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 7.73% 7.57% 6.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.35% 8.00% 6.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 300 344
10th Percentile £413 £350 £363
25th Percentile £463 £425 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £527
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.03% +5.30%
75th Percentile £629 £596 £625
90th Percentile £688 £698 £698
England median daily rate £567 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -5.50% +3.45% +10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 33 13
10th Percentile £42.61 - £16.41
25th Percentile £51.01 £42.50 £35.50
Median hourly rate £58.91 £45.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.90% +5.88% -7.61%
75th Percentile £66.01 £62.96 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.39 £72.07 £62.21
England median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +5.56% +28.57% +6.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,114 5,511 7,446
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.54% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,065 3,843 5,039
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £615 £606 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 478 238 337
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.18 £15.63
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.45 £43.50
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the South East

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Senior in the South East

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior in the South East

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Senior in the South East

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in the South East

Senior
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Thames Valley 0 230 £513 +5.13% 248
Berkshire +13 190 £513 +2.50% 115
Hampshire +13 96 £600 +6.71% 99
Surrey +6 46 £525 +5.00% 79
Buckinghamshire -9 30 £536 +12.89% 56
West Sussex +1 28 £475 -18.10% 12
Kent +7 15 £540 +8.00% 30
Oxfordshire -5 11 £500 +11.11% 77
East Sussex +9 9 £475 -26.92% 21
Home Counties - 2 - -
Middlesex +3 1 £425 -34.62% 5
Senior
England

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

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 South East region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 157 (36.77%) Security Cleared
2 85 (19.91%) Agile
3 75 (17.56%) Social Skills
4 73 (17.10%) Public Sector
5 72 (16.86%) Finance
6 69 (16.16%) Windows
7 66 (15.46%) DV Cleared
8 63 (14.75%) SC Cleared
9 61 (14.29%) Azure
10 56 (13.11%) Microsoft
11 54 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
12 52 (12.18%) Cisco
13 50 (11.71%) Migration
14 47 (11.01%) DevOps
15 45 (10.54%) Stakeholder Management
16 43 (10.07%) Project Management
16 43 (10.07%) Linux
17 39 (9.13%) VMware
17 39 (9.13%) Software Engineering
18 38 (8.90%) Degree
18 38 (8.90%) ITIL
19 37 (8.67%) Active Directory
20 35 (8.20%) Cisco Certification
20 35 (8.20%) Technical Leadership
21 33 (7.73%) Firewall
22 30 (7.03%) AWS
23 28 (6.56%) Java
23 28 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
23 28 (6.56%) Continuous Improvement
24 27 (6.32%) CheckPoint

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 9 (2.11%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.17%) Documentum
4 4 (0.94%) Confluence
5 3 (0.70%) SAS
6 2 (0.47%) Apache
7 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.23%) MTS
Applications
1 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.70%) SPSS
4 2 (0.47%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (0.47%) Adobe Premiere
4 2 (0.47%) CINEMA 4D
4 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.23%) Revit
Business Applications
1 16 (3.75%) Primavera
2 6 (1.41%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.47%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.23%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.23%) PeopleSoft HRMS
4 1 (0.23%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.23%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 61 (14.29%) Azure
2 30 (7.03%) AWS
3 18 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (2.34%) Power Platform
5 7 (1.64%) GCP
6 6 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (0.94%) SaaS
8 3 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (0.70%) IaaS
8 3 (0.70%) OpenShift
8 3 (0.70%) WhatsApp
9 2 (0.47%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (0.47%) GitHub
9 2 (0.47%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.47%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.23%) Datadog
10 1 (0.23%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.23%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 33 (7.73%) Firewall
2 25 (5.85%) DMZ
3 24 (5.62%) WAN
4 18 (4.22%) LAN
5 17 (3.98%) SAN
6 15 (3.51%) DHCP
6 15 (3.51%) DNS
7 11 (2.58%) BGP
7 11 (2.58%) Network Security
8 9 (2.11%) MPLS
8 9 (2.11%) NAS
9 7 (1.64%) SSL
10 6 (1.41%) Cisco Firepower
11 5 (1.17%) 3G
11 5 (1.17%) 4G
11 5 (1.17%) 5G
11 5 (1.17%) Radio Access Network
11 5 (1.17%) Wireless
12 4 (0.94%) OSPF
12 4 (0.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.58%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.41%) Power BI
3 5 (1.17%) EDMS
4 3 (0.70%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.70%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.70%) Qlik Sense
4 3 (0.70%) Tableau
5 2 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.47%) Couchbase
5 2 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (0.47%) MariaDB
5 2 (0.47%) MySQL
5 2 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.23%) Ataccama
6 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.23%) GIS
6 1 (0.23%) IDMS
6 1 (0.23%) Metadata
6 1 (0.23%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 18 (4.22%) JIRA
2 17 (3.98%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.28%) GitLab
4 10 (2.34%) Rational DOORS
5 9 (2.11%) REST Assured
5 9 (2.11%) Selenium
5 9 (2.11%) SonarQube
6 8 (1.87%) Cucumber
6 8 (1.87%) Git
7 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.47%) JMeter
7 2 (0.47%) LabVIEW
7 2 (0.47%) VersionOne
7 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.23%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.23%) ClearQuest
8 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.23%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.23%) TestRail
8 1 (0.23%) Valgrind
General
1 75 (17.56%) Social Skills
2 73 (17.10%) Public Sector
3 72 (16.86%) Finance
4 26 (6.09%) Banking
5 24 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (4.45%) Telecoms
7 13 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (2.58%) Aviation
8 11 (2.58%) Marketing
9 9 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.87%) Police
11 7 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.64%) Law
12 6 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.70%) Local Government
13 3 (0.70%) Military
13 3 (0.70%) Retail
14 2 (0.47%) Front Office
14 2 (0.47%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.28%) REST
2 11 (2.58%) Itk
3 9 (2.11%) .NET
4 8 (1.87%) ARM Templates
4 8 (1.87%) Java EE
5 6 (1.41%) .NET Core
6 5 (1.17%) JSON
7 4 (0.94%) XML
8 3 (0.70%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.70%) Blazor
8 3 (0.70%) CSS
8 3 (0.70%) D3.js
8 3 (0.70%) HTML
8 3 (0.70%) Kafka
8 3 (0.70%) Razor View Engine
8 3 (0.70%) React
8 3 (0.70%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.47%) Entity Framework
9 2 (0.47%) GraphQL
9 2 (0.47%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.22%) Data Centre
2 10 (2.34%) Management Information System
3 8 (1.87%) Onboarding
4 7 (1.64%) PKI
5 5 (1.17%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.17%) Public Cloud
6 4 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (0.94%) NHS
6 4 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.70%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.47%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.47%) Motion Graphics
8 2 (0.47%) Photography
8 2 (0.47%) PMI
8 2 (0.47%) Replication
8 2 (0.47%) Tandem
8 2 (0.47%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.23%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 69 (16.16%) Windows
2 43 (10.07%) Linux
3 19 (4.45%) Unix
4 14 (3.28%) Windows 10
4 14 (3.28%) Windows Server
5 11 (2.58%) Apple iOS
6 10 (2.34%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (2.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (1.64%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.94%) Solaris
8 4 (0.94%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.47%) Android
9 2 (0.47%) Debian
9 2 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.47%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (19.91%) Agile
2 54 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (11.71%) Migration
4 47 (11.01%) DevOps
5 45 (10.54%) Stakeholder Management
6 43 (10.07%) Project Management
7 39 (9.13%) Software Engineering
8 38 (8.90%) ITIL
9 35 (8.20%) Technical Leadership
10 28 (6.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 26 (6.09%) Project Delivery
12 25 (5.85%) B2B
12 25 (5.85%) Roadmaps
13 24 (5.62%) Decision-Making
13 24 (5.62%) Scrum
14 22 (5.15%) Configuration Management
15 19 (4.45%) Collaborative Working
15 19 (4.45%) Risk Management
16 18 (4.22%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 28 (6.56%) Java
2 25 (5.85%) Python
3 24 (5.62%) C++
3 24 (5.62%) SQL
4 17 (3.98%) C
5 14 (3.28%) C#
6 11 (2.58%) PowerShell
7 10 (2.34%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.87%) Bash
9 5 (1.17%) Perl
10 4 (0.94%) PHP
10 4 (0.94%) R
10 4 (0.94%) Scala
10 4 (0.94%) VBScript
11 3 (0.70%) ActionScript
11 3 (0.70%) Go
12 2 (0.47%) AWK
12 2 (0.47%) Bourne shell
12 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 157 (36.77%) Security Cleared
2 66 (15.46%) DV Cleared
3 63 (14.75%) SC Cleared
4 38 (8.90%) Degree
5 35 (8.20%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (3.51%) ITIL Certification
6 15 (3.51%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.64%) CCNP
7 7 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.94%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.70%) ISEB
10 3 (0.70%) MCSE
11 2 (0.47%) CCIE
11 2 (0.47%) CCNA
11 2 (0.47%) PhD
11 2 (0.47%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.47%) PMP
11 2 (0.47%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.58%) PCI DSS
1 11 (2.58%) PMO
2 9 (2.11%) NIST
3 8 (1.87%) GDPR
4 7 (1.64%) QA
5 6 (1.41%) NCSC
6 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.47%) COBIT
7 2 (0.47%) GRC
7 2 (0.47%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (0.47%) SLA
8 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.23%) GxP
8 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (8.67%) Active Directory
2 17 (3.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (3.28%) Docker
4 12 (2.81%) vSphere
5 7 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.94%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.94%) XenApp
7 3 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.70%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 18 (4.22%) Kubernetes
2 17 (3.98%) Ansible
3 16 (3.75%) Terraform
4 9 (2.11%) SCCM
5 8 (1.87%) Docker Swarm
5 8 (1.87%) Podman
6 5 (1.17%) Endace
6 5 (1.17%) WSUS
7 4 (0.94%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (0.70%) EMC NetWorker
8 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.70%) SCOM
8 3 (0.70%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.47%) Cisco Prime
9 2 (0.47%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.47%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.47%) Puppet
9 2 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.47%) SolarWinds Orion
9 2 (0.47%) yum
Vendors
1 56 (13.11%) Microsoft
2 52 (12.18%) Cisco
3 39 (9.13%) VMware
4 27 (6.32%) CheckPoint
5 25 (5.85%) Arista
6 20 (4.68%) Juniper
7 12 (2.81%) F5
8 10 (2.34%) Apple
9 9 (2.11%) Splunk
10 8 (1.87%) Citrix
10 8 (1.87%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.87%) SAP
11 7 (1.64%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.17%) EMC
12 5 (1.17%) Oracle
12 5 (1.17%) Palo Alto
12 5 (1.17%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.94%) Ivanti
13 4 (0.94%) Symantec
13 4 (0.94%) Veritas