Senior Contracts in the South West

Senior
England > South West

The median Senior daily rate in the South West is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 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
12 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 37 34
Rank change year-on-year +11 -3 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 111 152 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 6.57% 4.78% 5.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.15% 5.12% 5.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 85 148
10th Percentile £363 £325 £432
25th Percentile £400 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £675
90th Percentile £662 £660 £750
England median daily rate £550 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 23 7
10th Percentile £54.00 £31.60 £28.09
25th Percentile £58.75 £51.88 £40.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +27.27% +17.02%
75th Percentile £74.35 £75.00 £83.75
90th Percentile £79.22 - £84.25
England median hourly rate £52.00 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +9.47% +5.56% +5.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,553 2,966 3,260
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.89% 93.18% 92.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 990 1,885 2,442
10th Percentile £215 £210 £275
25th Percentile £382 £396 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £613 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £715
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 409 258
10th Percentile £18.51 £14.00 £17.92
25th Percentile £25.84 £27.50 £49.17
Median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 £64.57
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -14.82% +36.66%
75th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £72.98
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.60 £83.51
England median hourly rate £30.26 £37.50 £44.77
% change year-on-year -19.31% -16.23% +94.63%

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 12 May 2025.

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 12 May 2025.

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 12 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
Bristol +11 51 £440 -12.10% 181
Wiltshire +22 13 £600 +20.00% 33
Somerset +7 12 £555 +5.71% 31
Devon +6 12 £600 +29.03% 44
Gloucestershire +10 11 £613 +6.52% 153
Dorset +9 10 £494 -5.95% 22
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 West region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 41 (36.94%) Security Cleared
2 31 (27.93%) SC Cleared
3 30 (27.03%) SQL
4 27 (24.32%) Agile
5 25 (22.52%) Finance
6 20 (18.02%) Social Skills
7 16 (14.41%) CI/CD
7 16 (14.41%) Python
7 16 (14.41%) Azure
8 15 (13.51%) Data Protection
8 15 (13.51%) Logistics
8 15 (13.51%) Management Information System
9 14 (12.61%) GDPR
9 14 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (11.71%) Public Sector
10 13 (11.71%) Docker
10 13 (11.71%) DevOps
10 13 (11.71%) DV Cleared
11 12 (10.81%) AWS
11 12 (10.81%) Microsoft
11 12 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (10.81%) Machine Learning
12 11 (9.91%) Linux
13 10 (9.01%) Artificial Intelligence
13 10 (9.01%) Marketing
14 9 (8.11%) Service Management
14 9 (8.11%) Data Security
14 9 (8.11%) Scrum
14 9 (8.11%) Windows
14 9 (8.11%) AngularJS

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 (4.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.80%) Apache
2 2 (1.80%) Confluence
2 2 (1.80%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.90%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.90%) Moodle
Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.90%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (0.90%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.90%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (0.90%) CINEMA 4D
2 1 (0.90%) Final Cut Pro
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.90%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.90%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.41%) Azure
2 12 (10.81%) AWS
3 5 (4.50%) Matillion
3 5 (4.50%) Snowflake
4 4 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (3.60%) GCP
5 2 (1.80%) SaaS
6 1 (0.90%) Akamai
6 1 (0.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (0.90%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.90%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.90%) Figma
6 1 (0.90%) GitHub
6 1 (0.90%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.90%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.90%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.90%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (0.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (0.90%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.50%) Network Security
1 5 (4.50%) Skype
2 3 (2.70%) BGP
2 3 (2.70%) Firewall
3 2 (1.80%) Internet
4 1 (0.90%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.90%) DHCP
4 1 (0.90%) DNS
4 1 (0.90%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.90%) NAS
4 1 (0.90%) NGFW
4 1 (0.90%) SSH
4 1 (0.90%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.90%) VSAN
4 1 (0.90%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.90%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (1.80%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (1.80%) NoSQL
1 2 (1.80%) Oracle Database
1 2 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (1.80%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.90%) CockroachDB
2 1 (0.90%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.90%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.90%) Power BI
2 1 (0.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (6.31%) JIRA
2 5 (4.50%) Git
3 4 (3.60%) Bitbucket
3 4 (3.60%) GitLab
4 3 (2.70%) NUnit
5 2 (1.80%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.80%) Postman
5 2 (1.80%) Selenium
5 2 (1.80%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.90%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.90%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.90%) Subversion
General
1 25 (22.52%) Finance
2 20 (18.02%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.71%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (9.01%) Marketing
6 7 (6.31%) Manufacturing
7 6 (5.41%) Electronics
7 6 (5.41%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.60%) Local Government
9 3 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.70%) Legal
10 2 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.80%) Military
11 1 (0.90%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.11%) AngularJS
2 7 (6.31%) RESTful
3 5 (4.50%) .NET
3 5 (4.50%) CSS
3 5 (4.50%) HTML
4 4 (3.60%) React
5 3 (2.70%) jQuery
5 3 (2.70%) Node.js
5 3 (2.70%) Playwright
6 2 (1.80%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.80%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (1.80%) CSS3
6 2 (1.80%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.80%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.80%) HTML5
6 2 (1.80%) ModSecurity
6 2 (1.80%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.80%) Web Services
7 1 (0.90%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.90%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.51%) Management Information System
2 6 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.60%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.60%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.60%) PKI
4 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (1.80%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.80%) Replication
5 1 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.90%) Animation
5 1 (0.90%) Clustering
5 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.90%) Graphic Design
5 1 (0.90%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.90%) Motion Graphics
5 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.90%) Photography
5 1 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.90%) Social Media
5 1 (0.90%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.91%) Linux
2 9 (8.11%) Windows
3 4 (3.60%) Windows 10
3 4 (3.60%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.60%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.90%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (24.32%) Agile
2 16 (14.41%) CI/CD
3 15 (13.51%) Data Protection
3 15 (13.51%) Logistics
4 14 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (11.71%) DevOps
6 12 (10.81%) Machine Learning
7 10 (9.01%) Artificial Intelligence
8 9 (8.11%) Analytics
8 9 (8.11%) Data Security
8 9 (8.11%) Scrum
8 9 (8.11%) Service Management
9 7 (6.31%) Benchmarking
9 7 (6.31%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (6.31%) Containerisation
9 7 (6.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (6.31%) Test Automation
10 6 (5.41%) Customer Service
10 6 (5.41%) Mentoring
10 6 (5.41%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 30 (27.03%) SQL
2 16 (14.41%) Python
3 8 (7.21%) JavaScript
3 8 (7.21%) PowerShell
3 8 (7.21%) TypeScript
4 5 (4.50%) Bash
5 2 (1.80%) C#
5 2 (1.80%) Go
6 1 (0.90%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.90%) C
6 1 (0.90%) C++
6 1 (0.90%) Fortran
6 1 (0.90%) Perl
Qualifications
1 41 (36.94%) Security Cleared
2 31 (27.93%) SC Cleared
3 13 (11.71%) DV Cleared
4 8 (7.21%) Degree
5 4 (3.60%) MCSE
5 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.90%) ACCA
6 1 (0.90%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.90%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (0.90%) CIMA
6 1 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.90%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.90%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.61%) GDPR
2 7 (6.31%) Data Quality
3 6 (5.41%) QA
4 4 (3.60%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.60%) PMO
5 2 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.80%) NCSC
6 1 (0.90%) GRC
6 1 (0.90%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (11.71%) Docker
2 6 (5.41%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.90%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.90%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (6.31%) Kubernetes
1 7 (6.31%) Puppet
2 5 (4.50%) WSUS
3 4 (3.60%) Ansible
3 4 (3.60%) Terraform
4 2 (1.80%) Kibana
4 2 (1.80%) logstash
5 1 (0.90%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.90%) Grafana
5 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.90%) Nessus
5 1 (0.90%) PingFederate
5 1 (0.90%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.90%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.90%) SCCM
5 1 (0.90%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.90%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (10.81%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.31%) SAP
3 6 (5.41%) Oracle
4 4 (3.60%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.60%) VMware
5 2 (1.80%) IFS
6 1 (0.90%) Adobe
6 1 (0.90%) Cisco
6 1 (0.90%) Databricks
6 1 (0.90%) Dell
6 1 (0.90%) F5
6 1 (0.90%) Google
6 1 (0.90%) IBM
6 1 (0.90%) NEC
6 1 (0.90%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.90%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.90%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.90%) Software AG
6 1 (0.90%) webMethods
6 1 (0.90%) YouTube
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