Senior Contract Job Trends in Stoke-on-Trent

Senior
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The median Senior daily rate in Stoke-on-Trent is £381, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 3 11
Rank change year-on-year -5 +8 0
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Stoke-on-Trent 4.44% 9.09% 5.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.90% 9.09% 6.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £318 - -
25th Percentile £336 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £625 £300
Median % change year-on-year -39.00% +108.33% -42.86%
75th Percentile £436 £638 -
90th Percentile £459 - -
Staffordshire median daily rate £475 £550 £300
% change year-on-year -13.64% +83.33% -42.86%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Stoke-on-Trent

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Stoke-on-Trent. 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 Stoke-on-Trent with a recognized job title 29 11 33
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 64.44% 100.00% 97.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 21
10th Percentile £183 £313 -
25th Percentile £344 £350 £110
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £298
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +51.01% -40.70%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £405
90th Percentile £598 £688 £476
Staffordshire median daily rate £450 £350 £363
% change year-on-year +28.57% -3.45% -27.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £13.10 £13.78 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.93% - -
Staffordshire median hourly rate £19.41 £30.00 £34.47
% change year-on-year -35.30% -12.96% +37.86%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent.

Senior job vacancy trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Senior
Daily Rate Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Stoke-on-Trent.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Stoke-on-Trent

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Stoke-on-Trent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Stoke-on-Trent over the 6 months to 18 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Stoke-on-Trent

Senior
Hourly Rate Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Stoke-on-Trent.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Stoke-on-Trent

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent

For the 6 months to 18 September 2026, Senior contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Stoke-on-Trent region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (50.00%) Logistics
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Logistics
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker