Senior Contracts in the Thames Valley

Senior
South East > Thames Valley

The median Senior daily rate in the Thames Valley is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 16 22
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 111 247 242
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.58% 9.36% 8.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.17% 10.10% 8.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 129 172
10th Percentile £395 £383 £350
25th Percentile £480 £450 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £483
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +6.16% -7.95%
75th Percentile £630 £611 £551
90th Percentile £713 £650 £636
South East median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 25 15
10th Percentile £33.13 £55.83 £55.11
25th Percentile £60.31 £56.50 £60.47
Median hourly rate £63.75 £58.49 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.98% -11.38% +1.54%
75th Percentile £80.11 £61.60 £74.13
90th Percentile £88.87 £73.30 £76.11
South East median hourly rate £63.75 £58.30 £54.56
% change year-on-year +9.34% +6.85% +21.24%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,358 2,445 2,694
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 92.68% 94.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 1,377 1,835
10th Percentile £290 £213 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 191 82
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.85 £17.11
25th Percentile £15.13 £19.25 £21.16
Median hourly rate £32.05 £47.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.53% -4.04% +182.86%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £85.65 £78.97
South East median hourly rate £33.47 £48.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -30.28% -4.00% +143.90%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the Thames Valley

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Senior in the Thames Valley

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in the Thames Valley

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Senior in the Thames Valley

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in the Thames Valley

Senior
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 30 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
Berkshire -12 91 £588 +14.63% 1,362
Buckinghamshire 0 18 £543 -1.36% 527
Oxfordshire -6 2 - - 333
Senior
South East

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 30 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 Thames Valley region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 49 (44.14%) Security Cleared
2 33 (29.73%) Social Skills
3 27 (24.32%) DV Cleared
4 22 (19.82%) SC Cleared
4 22 (19.82%) Agile
5 21 (18.92%) SQL
5 21 (18.92%) Azure
6 19 (17.12%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (17.12%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 18 (16.22%) Security Architecture
7 18 (16.22%) Public Sector
8 16 (14.41%) Microsoft
8 16 (14.41%) Risk Management
8 16 (14.41%) Telecoms
9 15 (13.51%) Information Security
10 14 (12.61%) CISM
10 14 (12.61%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (12.61%) Management Information System
10 14 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (12.61%) Cybersecurity
11 13 (11.71%) ITIL
12 12 (10.81%) Web Services
12 12 (10.81%) Test Automation
12 12 (10.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 12 (10.81%) DevOps
12 12 (10.81%) Decision-Making
13 11 (9.91%) AWS
13 11 (9.91%) Process Improvement
13 11 (9.91%) Finance
13 11 (9.91%) Risk Assessment

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (2.70%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.90%) Anypoint
2 1 (0.90%) Apache
2 1 (0.90%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.90%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.90%) Primavera
2 1 (0.90%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.90%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 21 (18.92%) Azure
2 11 (9.91%) AWS
3 4 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (3.60%) Power Platform
3 4 (3.60%) SaaS
3 4 (3.60%) Tricentis Tosca
4 3 (2.70%) GCP
4 3 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.80%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (1.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (1.80%) Serverless
6 1 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.90%) Azure Stack
6 1 (0.90%) Collibra
6 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (0.90%) npm
6 1 (0.90%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.01%) Firewall
2 7 (6.31%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (4.50%) VLAN
4 4 (3.60%) MPLS
4 4 (3.60%) Radio Access Network
4 4 (3.60%) VPN
5 3 (2.70%) 5G
5 3 (2.70%) 802.11
5 3 (2.70%) BGP
5 3 (2.70%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (2.70%) NGFW
5 3 (2.70%) OSPF
5 3 (2.70%) SD-WAN
5 3 (2.70%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.70%) VSAN
5 3 (2.70%) WAN
5 3 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (2.70%) Wireless
6 2 (1.80%) SIGTRAN
6 2 (1.80%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.31%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (5.41%) Relational Database
3 5 (4.50%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.60%) Big Data
4 4 (3.60%) Power BI
4 4 (3.60%) Power Query
5 3 (2.70%) Metadata
5 3 (2.70%) MS Access
6 2 (1.80%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.80%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.90%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.90%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (1.80%) ERwin
1 2 (1.80%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.80%) JIRA
1 2 (1.80%) JMeter
1 2 (1.80%) JUnit
1 2 (1.80%) Mockito
1 2 (1.80%) PowerDesigner
2 1 (0.90%) Git
General
1 33 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.12%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (16.22%) Public Sector
4 16 (14.41%) Telecoms
5 11 (9.91%) Finance
6 7 (6.31%) Military
7 6 (5.41%) Retail
8 5 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (4.50%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.80%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.80%) Law
11 1 (0.90%) Electronics
11 1 (0.90%) Games
11 1 (0.90%) Legal
11 1 (0.90%) Local Government
11 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.90%) Marketing
11 1 (0.90%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.81%) Web Services
2 7 (6.31%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (5.41%) JBoss Seam
4 5 (4.50%) HTML
5 3 (2.70%) .NET
5 3 (2.70%) 802.1X
5 3 (2.70%) CSS
5 3 (2.70%) Middleware
5 3 (2.70%) REST
5 3 (2.70%) SOAP
5 3 (2.70%) XML
6 2 (1.80%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (1.80%) Apache Camel
6 2 (1.80%) Hibernate
6 2 (1.80%) jQuery
6 2 (1.80%) JSON
6 2 (1.80%) Spring
6 2 (1.80%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.80%) WireMock
7 1 (0.90%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.61%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.70%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.70%) PKI
3 3 (2.70%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.80%) CESG
4 2 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.80%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.90%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.90%) CMDB
5 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.90%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.90%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.90%) SCADA
5 1 (0.90%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.41%) Windows
2 4 (3.60%) Unix
3 2 (1.80%) Linux
4 1 (0.90%) Android
4 1 (0.90%) VMS
4 1 (0.90%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (19.82%) Agile
2 19 (17.12%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 18 (16.22%) Security Architecture
4 16 (14.41%) Risk Management
5 15 (13.51%) Information Security
6 14 (12.61%) Cybersecurity
6 14 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (12.61%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (11.71%) ITIL
8 12 (10.81%) Decision-Making
8 12 (10.81%) DevOps
8 12 (10.81%) Test Automation
9 11 (9.91%) Process Improvement
9 11 (9.91%) Risk Assessment
10 8 (7.21%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (7.21%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (7.21%) Microservices
10 8 (7.21%) Roadmaps
10 8 (7.21%) Validation
10 8 (7.21%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 21 (18.92%) SQL
2 7 (6.31%) Python
3 5 (4.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.70%) Java
4 3 (2.70%) VBA
5 2 (1.80%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.80%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.90%) ActionScript
6 1 (0.90%) Bicep
6 1 (0.90%) C#
6 1 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.90%) DataWeave
6 1 (0.90%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.90%) R
6 1 (0.90%) Scala
6 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.90%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.90%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 49 (44.14%) Security Cleared
2 27 (24.32%) DV Cleared
3 22 (19.82%) SC Cleared
4 14 (12.61%) CISM
5 9 (8.11%) CISSP
6 8 (7.21%) Degree
7 5 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.70%) ACCA
8 3 (2.70%) APMP
8 3 (2.70%) ISEB
8 3 (2.70%) MCSE
8 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 3 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.80%) CCNP
9 2 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.90%) CCNA
10 1 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.90%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (7.21%) NCSC
3 5 (4.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (3.60%) QA
4 4 (3.60%) SLA
5 3 (2.70%) NIST
6 2 (1.80%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.80%) IFRS
System Software
1 4 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (3.60%) VMware NSX
2 3 (2.70%) Docker
3 2 (1.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.70%) HP ALM
1 3 (2.70%) HP Quality Center
1 3 (2.70%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.80%) Kibana
3 1 (0.90%) CloudHub
3 1 (0.90%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (0.90%) CSIRT
3 1 (0.90%) NSN NetAct
3 1 (0.90%) Puppet
3 1 (0.90%) SCCM
3 1 (0.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (14.41%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.91%) Oracle
3 7 (6.31%) Cisco
3 7 (6.31%) Darktrace
4 5 (4.50%) SAP
5 4 (3.60%) HP
5 4 (3.60%) Palo Alto
5 4 (3.60%) Snow
5 4 (3.60%) VMware
6 3 (2.70%) AirMagnet
6 3 (2.70%) Aruba
6 3 (2.70%) Citrix
6 3 (2.70%) Databricks
6 3 (2.70%) Ekahau
6 3 (2.70%) Extreme Networks
6 3 (2.70%) Juniper
6 3 (2.70%) Meraki
6 3 (2.70%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.80%) Splunk
7 2 (1.80%) Virgin Media