Senior Contract Job Trends in Tower Hamlets

Senior
East London > Tower Hamlets

The median Senior daily rate in Tower Hamlets is £495, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 11 4 9
As % of all contract jobs in Tower Hamlets 15.49% 6.90% 8.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.92% 7.55% 9.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 9
10th Percentile - £569 £582
25th Percentile £445 £597 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £625 £770
Median % change year-on-year -20.80% -18.83% -3.75%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £838
90th Percentile £775 - -
East London median daily rate £560 £620 £588
% change year-on-year -9.68% +5.53% -21.67%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Tower Hamlets

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Tower Hamlets. 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 Tower Hamlets with a recognized job title 65 53 96
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.55% 91.38% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 49 93
10th Percentile £385 £350 £460
25th Percentile £432 £495 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £594
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -3.20% -3.02%
75th Percentile £659 £600 £650
90th Percentile £736 £645 £770
East London median daily rate £450 £540 £540
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year - +111.30% -
East London median hourly rate £24.03 £28.60 £22.50
% change year-on-year -15.98% +27.11% -10.00%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

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

Senior job vacancy trend in Tower Hamlets

Senior
Daily Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Tower Hamlets.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Tower Hamlets

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Tower Hamlets

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Tower Hamlets over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Tower Hamlets

Senior
Hourly Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Tower Hamlets.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Tower Hamlets

Senior
Contract Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Tower Hamlets region over the 6 months to 19 April 2026. 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
Canary Wharf +3 11 £495 -20.80%
Senior
East London

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 Tower Hamlets region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
2 4 (36.36%) Playwright
2 4 (36.36%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) QA
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
3 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (27.27%) Cypress.io
3 3 (27.27%) Data Governance
3 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
3 3 (27.27%) ISTQB
3 3 (27.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) Azure
4 2 (18.18%) Code Quality
4 2 (18.18%) Culture Change
4 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 2 (18.18%) Oracle
4 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
4 2 (18.18%) Salesforce
4 2 (18.18%) SAP
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (9.09%) ADO
5 1 (9.09%) AI
5 1 (9.09%) Anaplan
5 1 (9.09%) ArchiMate
5 1 (9.09%) Ariba

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tower Hamlets 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) BrowserStack
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (9.09%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
1 1 (9.09%) Metadata
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Cypress.io
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Legal
4 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Playwright
2 1 (9.09%) ADO
2 1 (9.09%) CSS
2 1 (9.09%) CSS3
2 1 (9.09%) HTML
2 1 (9.09%) HTML5
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) Middleware
2 1 (9.09%) React
2 1 (9.09%) Redux
2 1 (9.09%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
1 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
2 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (27.27%) Data Governance
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) Code Quality
3 2 (18.18%) Culture Change
3 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
3 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
3 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (9.09%) Budgeting
4 1 (9.09%) Data Modelling
4 1 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (9.09%) ERP
4 1 (9.09%) ETL
4 1 (9.09%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (9.09%) PRINCE2
4 1 (9.09%) Project Management
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (9.09%) UML
4 1 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
2 4 (36.36%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) ISTQB
2 3 (27.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
3 1 (9.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) QA
2 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
3 1 (9.09%) GDPR
3 1 (9.09%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
1 2 (18.18%) Salesforce
1 2 (18.18%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Anaplan
2 1 (9.09%) Ariba
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Workday