Senior Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Senior
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Senior daily rate in Tyne and Wear is £534, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 18 23
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 15 13 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 6.28% 5.80% 8.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.64% 6.31% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 12
10th Percentile £359 £425 £339
25th Percentile £470 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £500 £644
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% -22.33% +25.61%
75th Percentile £569 £631 £681
90th Percentile £650 £676 £835
North East median daily rate £534 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +6.80% -23.08% +26.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £52.00 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +197.14% - -
North East median hourly rate £52.00 £17.50 -
% change year-on-year +197.14% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Tyne and Wear

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. 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 Tyne and Wear with a recognized job title 226 206 264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.56% 91.96% 97.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 94 201
10th Percentile £224 £321 £263
25th Percentile £363 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £564 £588 £650
90th Percentile £629 £642 £738
North East median daily rate £460 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -3.16% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 40 0
10th Percentile £11.60 £11.50 -
25th Percentile £12.50 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £13.00 £15.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.43% - -
75th Percentile £20.30 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £48.75 £50.00 -
North East median hourly rate £13.00 £13.99 £39.34
% change year-on-year -7.08% -64.44% +138.42%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings that featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Tyne and Wear

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Senior in Tyne and Wear

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Tyne and Wear

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Tyne and Wear

Senior
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 31 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +1 15 £534 +6.80% 41
Senior
North East

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear

For the 6 months to 31 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 Tyne and Wear region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 7 (46.67%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (40.00%) IaaS
3 5 (33.33%) AWS
3 5 (33.33%) Confluence
3 5 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 5 (33.33%) JIRA
3 5 (33.33%) Atlassian
3 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 4 (26.67%) Groovy
4 4 (26.67%) Migration
4 4 (26.67%) Azure
4 4 (26.67%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (26.67%) ScriptRunner
4 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (26.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
5 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (20.00%) DevOps
5 3 (20.00%) Terraform
5 3 (20.00%) Python
5 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (13.33%) Information Security
6 2 (13.33%) CISM
6 2 (13.33%) Finance
6 2 (13.33%) Web Analytics
6 2 (13.33%) CRISC
6 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (13.33%) SaaS

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Chatbot
1 1 (6.67%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) IaaS
2 5 (33.33%) AWS
3 4 (26.67%) Azure
4 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (13.33%) PaaS
4 2 (13.33%) SaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
5 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (6.67%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
1 1 (6.67%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
2 4 (26.67%) ScriptRunner
3 2 (13.33%) Git
4 1 (6.67%) GitLab
4 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (6.67%) LabVIEW
4 1 (6.67%) Selenium
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
1 1 (6.67%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (26.67%) Migration
3 4 (26.67%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (26.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 3 (20.00%) DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (13.33%) Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (13.33%) Data Strategy
5 2 (13.33%) Digital Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) Infographics
5 2 (13.33%) Information Security
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (13.33%) Remediation Plan
5 2 (13.33%) Storytelling
5 2 (13.33%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (13.33%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Groovy
2 3 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) Bash
4 1 (6.67%) C
4 1 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (6.67%) Go
4 1 (6.67%) Perl
4 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (13.33%) CISM
3 2 (13.33%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (13.33%) CRISC
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (6.67%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (6.67%) Grafana
3 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace