Senior Contracts in the South West

Senior
England > South West

The median Senior daily rate in the South West is £517 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 37 35 36
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 151 205 209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 4.77% 5.63% 5.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.11% 6.08% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 159 150
10th Percentile £329 £435 £412
25th Percentile £463 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.88% +14.29% +2.94%
75th Percentile £600 £691 £600
90th Percentile £671 £751 £713
England median daily rate £567 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -5.50% +3.45% +10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 8 4
10th Percentile £31.60 £29.83 £43.77
25th Percentile £50.94 £43.81 £43.92
Median hourly rate £70.00 £51.25 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +36.59% +5.13% -17.02%
75th Percentile £74.86 £62.19 £57.56
90th Percentile £75.00 £84.13 £68.03
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 West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,957 3,370 3,554
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.37% 92.56% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,895 2,526 2,536
10th Percentile £210 £263 £225
25th Percentile £381 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £713 £661
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 273 207
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.17 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £51.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £53.00 £65.00 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% +38.30% +9.30%
75th Percentile £70.66 £75.00 £63.05
90th Percentile £77.60 £85.00 £69.36
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the South West

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in the South West

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior in the South West

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in the South West

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in the South West

Senior
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol -3 49 £500 -13.04% 118
Wiltshire -25 31 £520 -20.00% 29
Gloucestershire +13 22 £575 -8.00% 35
Devon -5 20 £465 -22.50% 41
Cornwall 0 8 £230 - 3
Somerset -6 8 £450 -32.79% 30
Dorset +11 6 £525 -4.55% 33
Senior
England

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

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 West region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 61 (40.40%) Security Cleared
2 55 (36.42%) Agile
3 42 (27.81%) SC Cleared
4 31 (20.53%) Social Skills
5 28 (18.54%) Public Sector
6 27 (17.88%) Finance
7 25 (16.56%) DevOps
8 24 (15.89%) Terraform
8 24 (15.89%) AWS
9 23 (15.23%) Azure
10 21 (13.91%) Project Management
11 19 (12.58%) SQL
12 18 (11.92%) Microsoft
13 16 (10.60%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (9.27%) Python
14 14 (9.27%) DV Cleared
14 14 (9.27%) Degree
14 14 (9.27%) Ansible
14 14 (9.27%) Business Case
15 13 (8.61%) CI/CD
15 13 (8.61%) Problem-Solving
16 12 (7.95%) Windows
16 12 (7.95%) Linux
16 12 (7.95%) JIRA
16 12 (7.95%) Azure DevOps
17 11 (7.28%) Project Delivery
17 11 (7.28%) Test Strategy
17 11 (7.28%) Software Engineering
17 11 (7.28%) Business Intelligence
17 11 (7.28%) Change Management

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (3.31%) Confluence
1 5 (3.31%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.32%) Apache
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (1.32%) InVision
2 1 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) SAP HCM
1 2 (1.32%) SAP HR
1 2 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 24 (15.89%) AWS
2 23 (15.23%) Azure
3 12 (7.95%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (6.62%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (3.31%) GCP
5 5 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (2.65%) Power Automate
6 4 (2.65%) PowerApps
7 3 (1.99%) PaaS
7 3 (1.99%) Serverless
8 2 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.32%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.32%) GitHub
8 2 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.32%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.32%) SaaS
8 2 (1.32%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.66%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.31%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.32%) DHCP
2 2 (1.32%) Firewall
2 2 (1.32%) Internet
3 1 (0.66%) 4G
3 1 (0.66%) 5G
3 1 (0.66%) BGP
3 1 (0.66%) DNS
3 1 (0.66%) EIGRP
3 1 (0.66%) IGRP
3 1 (0.66%) LAN
3 1 (0.66%) MPLS
3 1 (0.66%) Network Security
3 1 (0.66%) OSPF
3 1 (0.66%) RIP
3 1 (0.66%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.66%) VoIP
3 1 (0.66%) WAN
3 1 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.30%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.97%) Power BI
3 4 (2.65%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (1.99%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.32%) CockroachDB
5 2 (1.32%) Oracle BI EE
5 2 (1.32%) Oracle ODI
5 2 (1.32%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.66%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.66%) Metadata
6 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (7.95%) JIRA
2 8 (5.30%) Git
3 4 (2.65%) Bitbucket
3 4 (2.65%) GitLab
3 4 (2.65%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.65%) NUnit
3 4 (2.65%) Postman
3 4 (2.65%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.99%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.32%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.32%) JMeter
5 2 (1.32%) JUnit
5 2 (1.32%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.32%) Selenium
5 2 (1.32%) Snyk
5 2 (1.32%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.66%) Oracle APEX
General
1 31 (20.53%) Social Skills
2 28 (18.54%) Public Sector
3 27 (17.88%) Finance
4 10 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.96%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.97%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.97%) Marketing
7 4 (2.65%) Electronics
7 4 (2.65%) German Language
7 4 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.99%) Publishing
9 2 (1.32%) Military
9 2 (1.32%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.66%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.66%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.62%) .NET
2 9 (5.96%) AngularJS
3 7 (4.64%) REST
4 4 (2.65%) GraphQL
4 4 (2.65%) React
5 3 (1.99%) ASP.NET
5 3 (1.99%) Playwright
6 2 (1.32%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (1.32%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.32%) CSS
6 2 (1.32%) Django
6 2 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.32%) Kafka
6 2 (1.32%) SAML
6 2 (1.32%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (1.32%) Web Services
7 1 (0.66%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.66%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (0.66%) Next.js
7 1 (0.66%) NgRx
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.97%) Cloud Native
1 6 (3.97%) Product Ownership
2 3 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (1.32%) Algorithms
3 2 (1.32%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.32%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.66%) IoT
4 1 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.66%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.95%) Linux
1 12 (7.95%) Windows
2 1 (0.66%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.66%) Unix
2 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (36.42%) Agile
2 25 (16.56%) DevOps
3 21 (13.91%) Project Management
4 16 (10.60%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (9.27%) Business Case
6 13 (8.61%) CI/CD
6 13 (8.61%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (7.28%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (7.28%) Change Management
7 11 (7.28%) Project Delivery
7 11 (7.28%) Software Engineering
7 11 (7.28%) Test Strategy
8 10 (6.62%) Migration
8 10 (6.62%) Performance Testing
8 10 (6.62%) PRINCE2
9 9 (5.96%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (5.96%) Scrum
9 9 (5.96%) TDD
10 8 (5.30%) Acceptance Criteria
10 8 (5.30%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (12.58%) SQL
2 14 (9.27%) Python
3 9 (5.96%) PowerShell
4 8 (5.30%) C#
4 8 (5.30%) TypeScript
5 5 (3.31%) Bash
5 5 (3.31%) C
5 5 (3.31%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.99%) Bicep
6 3 (1.99%) Go
6 3 (1.99%) Java
7 1 (0.66%) C++
7 1 (0.66%) PL/1
7 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (40.40%) Security Cleared
2 42 (27.81%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.27%) Degree
3 14 (9.27%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.64%) ISTQB
5 4 (2.65%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.65%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.32%) PMP
7 1 (0.66%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.30%) QA
2 6 (3.97%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.31%) PMO
4 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.66%) NIST
4 1 (0.66%) SLA
4 1 (0.66%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (4.64%) Docker
2 6 (3.97%) VMware NSX
2 6 (3.97%) vSphere
3 5 (3.31%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.32%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.32%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (15.89%) Terraform
2 14 (9.27%) Ansible
3 9 (5.96%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.99%) SCCM
5 2 (1.32%) Argo
5 2 (1.32%) Grafana
5 2 (1.32%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.32%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.66%) Puppet
6 1 (0.66%) vRealize
Vendors
1 18 (11.92%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.30%) SAP
2 8 (5.30%) VMware
3 6 (3.97%) Oracle
4 5 (3.31%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.32%) Adobe
5 2 (1.32%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.32%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.32%) SOTI
6 1 (0.66%) Cisco
6 1 (0.66%) Dell
6 1 (0.66%) Google
6 1 (0.66%) McAfee
6 1 (0.66%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.66%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.66%) Siemens
6 1 (0.66%) Sparx
6 1 (0.66%) Veeam