Senior Contracts in South Yorkshire

Senior
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Senior daily rate in South Yorkshire is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 50 28
Rank change year-on-year +35 -22 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 43 14 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 10.57% 2.95% 5.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.72% 3.34% 6.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 7 24
10th Percentile £400 £378 -
25th Percentile £463 £401 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £650
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -34.62% +25.00%
75th Percentile £625 £509 £700
90th Percentile £650 £585 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £515 £582
% change year-on-year -3.88% -11.44% +5.73%
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 367 419 469
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.17% 88.40% 91.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 260 321
10th Percentile £215 £249 £225
25th Percentile £375 £411 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% -13.64% +12.82%
75th Percentile £553 £575 £663
90th Percentile £625 £615 £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 16 5
10th Percentile - £10.90 £13.60
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.26 £17.50
Median hourly rate £18.35 £13.23 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.72% -33.85% +5.26%
75th Percentile £18.50 £22.00 £22.75
90th Percentile £18.51 £23.75 £33.10
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £15.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +37.03% -27.91% +17.81%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +26 40 £495 +16.47% 448
Doncaster - 1 £675 - 388
Senior
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 24 (55.81%) Agile
2 19 (44.19%) Finance
3 12 (27.91%) DevOps
4 10 (23.26%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (23.26%) Ansible
4 10 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (23.26%) Risk Management
4 10 (23.26%) Python
5 9 (20.93%) AWS
6 8 (18.60%) JIRA
6 8 (18.60%) Migration
7 7 (16.28%) TCP/IP
7 7 (16.28%) Project Management
7 7 (16.28%) Security Cleared
7 7 (16.28%) Git
7 7 (16.28%) Jenkins
8 6 (13.95%) MuleSoft
8 6 (13.95%) Terraform
8 6 (13.95%) Postman
8 6 (13.95%) VMware Infrastructure
8 6 (13.95%) Puppet
8 6 (13.95%) Banking
8 6 (13.95%) Data Management
8 6 (13.95%) Linux
8 6 (13.95%) Configuration Management
8 6 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (13.95%) VMware
8 6 (13.95%) Firewall
9 5 (11.63%) Network Security
9 5 (11.63%) Confluence

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 5 (11.63%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) Moodle
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.93%) AWS
2 4 (9.30%) IaaS
3 2 (4.65%) Azure
3 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (2.33%) GitHub
4 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.28%) TCP/IP
2 6 (13.95%) Firewall
3 5 (11.63%) Network Security
4 2 (4.65%) DNS
5 1 (2.33%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (2.33%) DWDM
5 1 (2.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (2.33%) LAN
5 1 (2.33%) VPN
5 1 (2.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (18.60%) JIRA
2 7 (16.28%) Git
2 7 (16.28%) Jenkins
3 6 (13.95%) Postman
4 4 (9.30%) ScriptRunner
5 2 (4.65%) GitLab
5 2 (4.65%) TestRail
6 1 (2.33%) CircleCI
6 1 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.33%) Subversion
General
1 19 (44.19%) Finance
2 10 (23.26%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.95%) Banking
4 3 (6.98%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.33%) Marketing
6 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.33%) EntireX
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.33%) Derivative
2 1 (2.33%) Equities
2 1 (2.33%) Fixed Income
2 1 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.95%) Linux
2 3 (6.98%) AIX
2 3 (6.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (6.98%) Solaris
2 3 (6.98%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 3 (6.98%) Unix
2 3 (6.98%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (55.81%) Agile
2 12 (27.91%) DevOps
3 10 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (23.26%) Risk Management
4 8 (18.60%) Migration
5 7 (16.28%) Project Management
6 6 (13.95%) Configuration Management
6 6 (13.95%) Data Management
6 6 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (9.30%) Analytics
7 4 (9.30%) Incident Management
7 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (9.30%) Microservices
7 4 (9.30%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (9.30%) Problem Management
7 4 (9.30%) Translating Business Requirements
7 4 (9.30%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 3 (6.98%) CI/CD
8 3 (6.98%) Decision-Making
9 2 (4.65%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (23.26%) Python
2 4 (9.30%) Groovy
3 2 (4.65%) Java
3 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.65%) Kotlin
3 2 (4.65%) SQL
3 2 (4.65%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.63%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) CCNP
3 1 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.65%) QA
3 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.33%) GDPR
3 1 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (13.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (6.98%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (23.26%) Ansible
2 6 (13.95%) Puppet
2 6 (13.95%) Terraform
3 5 (11.63%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (6.98%) SCCM
5 1 (2.33%) Grafana
5 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) MuleSoft
1 6 (13.95%) VMware
2 4 (9.30%) Atlassian
2 4 (9.30%) Red Hat
3 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.65%) Oracle
5 1 (2.33%) Arista
5 1 (2.33%) Cisco
5 1 (2.33%) F5
5 1 (2.33%) IBM
5 1 (2.33%) Software AG
5 1 (2.33%) webMethods