Senior Contracts in South Yorkshire

Senior
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Senior daily rate in South Yorkshire is £518, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 36 31
Rank change year-on-year +20 -5 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 35 20 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 9.38% 4.38% 4.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.32% 4.81% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 15 23
10th Percentile £425 £394 £575
25th Percentile £469 £413 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £538 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.72% -17.31% +25.00%
75th Percentile £625 £720 £700
90th Percentile £650 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £575
% change year-on-year - -13.04% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £17.72
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £24.87 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -60.21% +161.23%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 339 416 484
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.88% 91.03% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 261 343
10th Percentile £185 £235 £263
25th Percentile £375 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £556 £580 £658
90th Percentile £638 £638 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 5
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.10
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.63 £11.25
Median hourly rate £18.35 £13.60 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +34.99% -23.28% +0.45%
75th Percentile £18.50 £23.31 £22.50
90th Percentile £18.51 £23.75 £33.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £14.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +51.71% -36.36% +25.71%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in South Yorkshire

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in South Yorkshire

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in South Yorkshire

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in South Yorkshire

Senior
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Sheffield +17 32 £500 -6.98% 119
Doncaster - 1 £675 - 74
Senior
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 Yorkshire region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 17 (48.57%) Agile
2 14 (40.00%) Finance
3 10 (28.57%) Risk Management
3 10 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (20.00%) AWS
5 7 (20.00%) DevOps
5 7 (20.00%) JIRA
5 7 (20.00%) Project Management
6 6 (17.14%) Migration
6 6 (17.14%) Banking
6 6 (17.14%) Security Cleared
7 5 (14.29%) Network Security
7 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
7 5 (14.29%) Ansible
7 5 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (14.29%) Python
8 4 (11.43%) Incident Management
8 4 (11.43%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (11.43%) IaaS
8 4 (11.43%) Analytics
8 4 (11.43%) PCI DSS
8 4 (11.43%) Confluence
8 4 (11.43%) Groovy
8 4 (11.43%) Atlassian
8 4 (11.43%) Terraform
8 4 (11.43%) ScriptRunner
8 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (11.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 3 (8.57%) CI/CD

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 4 (11.43%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) Moodle
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.00%) AWS
2 4 (11.43%) IaaS
3 2 (5.71%) Azure
3 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (2.86%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.29%) Network Security
2 2 (5.71%) DNS
3 1 (2.86%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (2.86%) DWDM
3 1 (2.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (2.86%) LAN
3 1 (2.86%) SMTP
3 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.86%) VPN
3 1 (2.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) JIRA
2 4 (11.43%) ScriptRunner
3 2 (5.71%) GitLab
3 2 (5.71%) TestRail
4 1 (2.86%) Git
4 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.86%) Subversion
General
1 14 (40.00%) Finance
2 8 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (17.14%) Banking
4 3 (8.57%) Social Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.86%) Marketing
6 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) EntireX
1 1 (2.86%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) Agile
2 10 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (28.57%) Risk Management
3 7 (20.00%) DevOps
3 7 (20.00%) Project Management
4 6 (17.14%) Migration
5 5 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (11.43%) Analytics
6 4 (11.43%) Incident Management
6 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (11.43%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (11.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 3 (8.57%) CI/CD
7 3 (8.57%) Data Protection
7 3 (8.57%) Decision-Making
8 2 (5.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (5.71%) Data Analytics
8 2 (5.71%) Digital Analytics
8 2 (5.71%) Infographics
8 2 (5.71%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) Python
2 4 (11.43%) Groovy
3 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.71%) SQL
4 1 (2.86%) Bash
4 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) Degree
4 1 (2.86%) CCNP
4 1 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.71%) QA
3 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.86%) GDPR
3 1 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Ansible
2 4 (11.43%) Terraform
3 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Atlassian
2 2 (5.71%) Oracle
3 1 (2.86%) Arista
3 1 (2.86%) Cisco
3 1 (2.86%) F5
3 1 (2.86%) IBM
3 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.86%) Software AG
3 1 (2.86%) webMethods