Senior Contracts in South London

Senior
London > South London

The median Senior daily rate in South London is £925, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 16 33 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 9.20% 14.29% 13.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.06% 14.67% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 43
10th Percentile £380 £430 £413
25th Percentile £731 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £925 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +68.18% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £938 £575 £663
90th Percentile - £583 £945
London median daily rate £575 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £82.50 -
London median hourly rate £44.50 £35.96 £44.00
% change year-on-year +23.75% -18.27% +71.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South London. 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 South London with a recognized job title 159 225 350
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.38% 97.40% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 155 273
10th Percentile £213 £244 £213
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £742 £630 £758
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.39% +0.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 15 14
10th Percentile £22.49 £17.10 £16.13
25th Percentile £24.41 £21.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.61 £23.50 £36.94
Median % change year-on-year +17.47% -36.38% -21.97%
75th Percentile £30.80 £79.38 £50.42
90th Percentile £32.72 £83.75 £54.94
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.93% -22.86% -

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in South London

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in South London

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in South London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in South London

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in South London

Senior
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 22 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
Croydon -7 4 £380 -30.91% 4
Bromley - 2 - - 19
Sutton - 1 - -
Senior
London

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 South London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 11 (68.75%) Finance
1 11 (68.75%) Python
2 10 (62.50%) Front Office
3 9 (56.25%) Banking
3 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
4 8 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (50.00%) OO
5 6 (37.50%) Java
6 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
7 4 (25.00%) XML
7 4 (25.00%) Shell Script
7 4 (25.00%) RDBMS
7 4 (25.00%) REST
7 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
7 4 (25.00%) Relational Database
8 3 (18.75%) AWS
8 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
8 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
8 3 (18.75%) Workflow
8 3 (18.75%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (18.75%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (18.75%) Microservices
8 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
9 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
9 2 (12.50%) SDLC
9 2 (12.50%) API Testing
9 2 (12.50%) SDET
9 2 (12.50%) Dynatrace
9 2 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
9 2 (12.50%) Low Latency

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 2 (12.50%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (18.75%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (12.50%) Serverless
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (6.25%) AWS KMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 4 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 2 (12.50%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) JMeter
2 2 (12.50%) JUnit
2 2 (12.50%) Mockito
2 2 (12.50%) Postman
2 2 (12.50%) REST Assured
2 2 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 11 (68.75%) Finance
2 10 (62.50%) Front Office
3 9 (56.25%) Banking
3 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) REST
1 4 (25.00%) XML
2 2 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (12.50%) Apache Camel
2 2 (12.50%) Hibernate
2 2 (12.50%) HTML
2 2 (12.50%) jQuery
2 2 (12.50%) JSON
2 2 (12.50%) Middleware
2 2 (12.50%) Rendezvous
2 2 (12.50%) Spring
2 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 2 (12.50%) Swing
2 2 (12.50%) Web Services
2 2 (12.50%) WireMock
3 1 (6.25%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (12.50%) Client/Server
2 2 (12.50%) Distributed Applications
2 2 (12.50%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (12.50%) Fixed Income
2 2 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) OO
2 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 3 (18.75%) Microservices
3 3 (18.75%) Workflow
4 2 (12.50%) Agile
4 2 (12.50%) API Testing
4 2 (12.50%) BDD
4 2 (12.50%) Design Patterns
4 2 (12.50%) High Availability
4 2 (12.50%) Low Latency
4 2 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (12.50%) Process Management
4 2 (12.50%) SDET
4 2 (12.50%) SDLC
4 2 (12.50%) TDD
4 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 2 (12.50%) Test Scripting
4 2 (12.50%) Test Strategy
5 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Python
2 6 (37.50%) Java
3 4 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (12.50%) SQL
5 1 (6.25%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Kibana
3 1 (6.25%) Grafana
3 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Dynatrace
1 2 (12.50%) IBM
1 2 (12.50%) Splunk
1 2 (12.50%) Sybase
1 2 (12.50%) TIBCO