Senior Contract Job Trends in Sutton

Senior
South London > Sutton

The median Senior daily rate in Sutton is £530, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2026.

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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 3 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sutton 50.00% 9.09% -
As % of the Job Titles category 57.14% 50.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £474 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - -
75th Percentile £545 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median daily rate £530 £925 £550
% change year-on-year -42.70% +68.18% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Sutton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sutton. 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 Sutton with a recognized job title 7 2 2
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.50% 18.18% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile £251 - £193
25th Percentile £391 - £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £600 £325
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% +84.62% +22.64%
75th Percentile £545 - £413
90th Percentile - - £458
South London median daily rate £513 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +3.54% -1.00% -4.76%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Sutton

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

Senior job vacancy trend in Sutton

Senior
Daily Rate Trend in Sutton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Sutton.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Sutton

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Sutton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Sutton over the 6 months to 5 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Sutton

Senior
Hourly Rate Trend in Sutton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Sutton.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Sutton

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sutton

For the 6 months to 5 May 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 Sutton region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
1 3 (75.00%) Grafana
1 3 (75.00%) IaaS
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (75.00%) Kafka
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) PagerDuty
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (75.00%) Puppet
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sutton 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SAP HCM
1 1 (25.00%) SAP Payroll
1 1 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (75.00%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Time Management
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Grafana
1 3 (75.00%) Puppet
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) PagerDuty
2 1 (25.00%) SAP