Senior Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior daily rate in the UK excluding London is £520 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 28 29
Rank change year-on-year +6 +1 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 1,391 1,640 1,966
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.73% 6.81% 6.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.27% 7.23% 6.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 822 1,187 1,400
10th Percentile £350 £378 £363
25th Percentile £430 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £613 £633 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £567 £589 £575
% change year-on-year -3.78% +2.48% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 74 42
10th Percentile £23.00 £17.72 £17.75
25th Percentile £35.52 £21.94 £25.19
Median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £40.62
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +10.80% +31.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.88 £50.59
90th Percentile £75.00 £66.48 £63.13
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -3.05% +32.42% +12.63%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,146 22,670 29,649
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 94.17% 95.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,707 15,894 20,753
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £595 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,224 1,166 1,488
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.46 £12.04
25th Percentile £15.74 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.75 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% +117.95% +2.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.20
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
% change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the UK excluding London

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Senior in the UK excluding London

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in the UK excluding London

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior in the UK excluding London

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in the UK excluding London

Senior
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
South East +7 427 £525 +5.00% 545
North of England +3 354 £513 -6.82% 506
North West +7 252 £518 -1.43% 306
Scotland 0 207 £500 -0.99% 202
South West -3 151 £517 -13.88% 297
Midlands +7 140 £511 -4.97% 330
West Midlands +14 114 £511 -5.32% 206
Yorkshire -8 95 £508 -11.74% 148
East of England -18 86 £542 -9.67% 270
Wales +2 30 £600 +9.09% 91
East Midlands -8 24 £525 -2.33% 124
North East +1 20 £600 - 61
Northern Ireland -3 4 £435 -28.95% 41
Senior
UK

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 355 (25.52%) Security Cleared
2 335 (24.08%) Agile
3 303 (21.78%) Social Skills
4 268 (19.27%) Public Sector
5 209 (15.03%) SC Cleared
6 193 (13.87%) Finance
7 177 (12.72%) Microsoft
7 177 (12.72%) Azure
8 169 (12.15%) Problem-Solving
9 156 (11.21%) Project Management
10 155 (11.14%) Stakeholder Management
11 146 (10.50%) DevOps
12 140 (10.06%) SQL
13 134 (9.63%) Windows
14 131 (9.42%) Degree
15 129 (9.27%) AWS
16 117 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
17 110 (7.91%) Java
18 108 (7.76%) Software Engineering
19 100 (7.19%) ITIL
20 97 (6.97%) Python
21 96 (6.90%) JIRA
22 95 (6.83%) Linux
23 92 (6.61%) Continuous Improvement
24 91 (6.54%) DV Cleared
25 88 (6.33%) Migration
26 85 (6.11%) Cisco
26 85 (6.11%) Roadmaps
27 79 (5.68%) CI/CD
28 78 (5.61%) Project Delivery

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 53 (3.81%) Confluence
2 36 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.93%) CMS
5 10 (0.72%) SAS
6 9 (0.65%) Apache
7 8 (0.58%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.36%) Documentum
8 5 (0.36%) IBM HTTP Server
8 5 (0.36%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.36%) WebSphere Application Server
8 5 (0.36%) WebSphere Portal
9 2 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.14%) IIS
10 1 (0.072%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.072%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.072%) Drupal
10 1 (0.072%) FileNet
10 1 (0.072%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.072%) MTS
Applications
1 18 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.72%) Acrobat
4 9 (0.65%) Revit
5 8 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.43%) Windchill
7 5 (0.36%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.29%) SPSS
9 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.14%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.14%) InVision
10 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 2 (0.14%) Simulink
10 2 (0.14%) Stateflow
11 1 (0.072%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.072%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.072%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 23 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.15%) Primavera
3 10 (0.72%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.36%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.14%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.14%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.14%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.14%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.14%) SAP WM
8 1 (0.072%) Maximo
8 1 (0.072%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.072%) PeopleSoft HRMS
8 1 (0.072%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.072%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.072%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.072%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.072%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 177 (12.72%) Azure
2 129 (9.27%) AWS
3 65 (4.67%) Power Platform
4 62 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
5 44 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (2.01%) GCP
7 22 (1.58%) Power Automate
8 17 (1.22%) PowerApps
9 14 (1.01%) SaaS
9 14 (1.01%) Serverless
10 13 (0.93%) PaaS
11 12 (0.86%) IaaS
11 12 (0.86%) Snowflake
12 9 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (0.65%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (0.65%) OneDrive
12 9 (0.65%) OpenShift
13 8 (0.58%) GitHub
14 7 (0.50%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 71 (5.10%) Firewall
2 39 (2.80%) WAN
3 30 (2.16%) DNS
3 30 (2.16%) Network Security
4 29 (2.08%) LAN
5 26 (1.87%) SAN
6 25 (1.80%) DMZ
7 23 (1.65%) BGP
8 22 (1.58%) DHCP
9 16 (1.15%) OSPF
10 15 (1.08%) Cisco Firepower
10 15 (1.08%) NetScaler
11 13 (0.93%) IPsec
12 12 (0.86%) EIGRP
12 12 (0.86%) MPLS
12 12 (0.86%) TCP/IP
12 12 (0.86%) VPN
13 11 (0.79%) Cisco ASA
13 11 (0.79%) HTTP
13 11 (0.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (4.03%) Power BI
2 54 (3.88%) SQL Server
3 34 (2.44%) MongoDB
4 20 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (1.15%) Oracle Database
6 15 (1.08%) Metadata
7 14 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (0.86%) Data Lake
8 12 (0.86%) Tableau
9 11 (0.79%) MySQL
9 11 (0.79%) Relational Database
10 9 (0.65%) Qlik Sense
11 8 (0.58%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.50%) Ataccama
12 7 (0.50%) Big Data
12 7 (0.50%) Data Mining
13 6 (0.43%) SAP BW
13 6 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (0.36%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 96 (6.90%) JIRA
2 46 (3.31%) Jenkins
3 42 (3.02%) Git
4 30 (2.16%) GitLab
5 27 (1.94%) Selenium
6 23 (1.65%) Cucumber
7 18 (1.29%) Postman
8 14 (1.01%) JUnit
9 13 (0.93%) JMeter
9 13 (0.93%) SonarQube
10 10 (0.72%) Oracle APEX
10 10 (0.72%) Rational DOORS
10 10 (0.72%) REST Assured
11 9 (0.65%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.58%) IntelliJ
13 7 (0.50%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.50%) Rational Rhapsody
13 7 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 6 (0.43%) Visual Studio
14 6 (0.43%) WebDriver
General
1 303 (21.78%) Social Skills
2 268 (19.27%) Public Sector
3 193 (13.87%) Finance
4 117 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (3.74%) Banking
6 38 (2.73%) Telecoms
7 33 (2.37%) Marketing
8 28 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
9 26 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
9 26 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
9 26 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
10 25 (1.80%) Manufacturing
11 24 (1.73%) Local Government
12 21 (1.51%) Legal
13 19 (1.37%) Law
14 16 (1.15%) Automotive
15 14 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 14 (1.01%) Military
16 12 (0.86%) Aviation
16 12 (0.86%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (4.24%) React
2 47 (3.38%) .NET
3 43 (3.09%) REST
4 33 (2.37%) CSS
4 33 (2.37%) HTML
5 31 (2.23%) Spring
6 30 (2.16%) RESTful
7 26 (1.87%) Spring Boot
8 25 (1.80%) Node.js
9 24 (1.73%) Kafka
10 22 (1.58%) Web Services
11 21 (1.51%) AngularJS
12 16 (1.15%) GraphQL
12 16 (1.15%) J2EE
13 14 (1.01%) Middleware
14 12 (0.86%) Redux
14 12 (0.86%) Vue
15 11 (0.79%) .NET Core
15 11 (0.79%) Itk
15 11 (0.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (3.45%) Product Ownership
2 34 (2.44%) Management Information System
3 32 (2.30%) Data Centre
4 19 (1.37%) Data Structures
4 19 (1.37%) NHS
5 16 (1.15%) Onboarding
5 16 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (1.08%) Cloud Native
7 14 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (1.01%) Life Science
7 14 (1.01%) Public Cloud
8 13 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (0.93%) Security Operations Centre
9 12 (0.86%) Algorithms
9 12 (0.86%) PKI
10 11 (0.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 10 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
11 10 (0.72%) Mobile App
12 9 (0.65%) Cyberattack
12 9 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 134 (9.63%) Windows
2 95 (6.83%) Linux
3 36 (2.59%) Windows Server
4 34 (2.44%) Unix
5 33 (2.37%) Windows 10
6 17 (1.22%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.79%) Android
7 11 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
9 9 (0.65%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
10 6 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
12 4 (0.29%) Debian
12 4 (0.29%) Mac OS X
12 4 (0.29%) Solaris
13 3 (0.22%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.14%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (24.08%) Agile
2 169 (12.15%) Problem-Solving
3 156 (11.21%) Project Management
4 155 (11.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 146 (10.50%) DevOps
6 108 (7.76%) Software Engineering
7 100 (7.19%) ITIL
8 92 (6.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 88 (6.33%) Migration
10 85 (6.11%) Roadmaps
11 79 (5.68%) CI/CD
12 78 (5.61%) Project Delivery
13 76 (5.46%) Scrum
14 69 (4.96%) Business Intelligence
15 64 (4.60%) Decision-Making
15 64 (4.60%) Mentoring
16 63 (4.53%) Cybersecurity
17 62 (4.46%) Change Management
18 61 (4.39%) PRINCE2
19 60 (4.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 140 (10.06%) SQL
2 110 (7.91%) Java
3 97 (6.97%) Python
4 58 (4.17%) PowerShell
5 43 (3.09%) JavaScript
6 41 (2.95%) C#
7 34 (2.44%) C++
8 31 (2.23%) TypeScript
9 27 (1.94%) C
10 23 (1.65%) Bash
11 19 (1.37%) Scala
12 18 (1.29%) T-SQL
13 17 (1.22%) Perl
14 12 (0.86%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.79%) Go
16 10 (0.72%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.58%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.58%) PHP
17 8 (0.58%) Tcl
18 7 (0.50%) R
Qualifications
1 355 (25.52%) Security Cleared
2 209 (15.03%) SC Cleared
3 131 (9.42%) Degree
4 91 (6.54%) DV Cleared
5 60 (4.31%) Cisco Certification
6 34 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
7 29 (2.08%) Master's Degree
8 25 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (1.73%) CCNA
9 24 (1.73%) CCNP
10 17 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (1.22%) PMP
11 15 (1.08%) PMI Certification
12 14 (1.01%) AWS Certification
13 11 (0.79%) CISSP
14 9 (0.65%) ISTQB
14 9 (0.65%) MCSE
14 9 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 7 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (3.02%) PMO
2 33 (2.37%) Accessibility
3 31 (2.23%) QA
4 28 (2.01%) Data Quality
5 23 (1.65%) Disclosure Scotland
5 23 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.51%) GDPR
7 13 (0.93%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.86%) NIST
9 8 (0.58%) HL7
10 7 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 6 (0.43%) GRC
11 6 (0.43%) NCSC
11 6 (0.43%) SLA
11 6 (0.43%) WCAG
12 5 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.22%) COBIT
13 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 12207
14 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 73 (5.25%) Active Directory
2 43 (3.09%) Docker
3 29 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.51%) vSphere
5 15 (1.08%) Hyper-V
6 12 (0.86%) Firmware
7 11 (0.79%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.50%) XenApp
10 3 (0.22%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 3 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.22%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.072%) NFS
12 1 (0.072%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.072%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 63 (4.53%) Terraform
2 50 (3.59%) Ansible
3 46 (3.31%) Kubernetes
4 22 (1.58%) SCCM
5 14 (1.01%) Grafana
6 13 (0.93%) Kibana
6 13 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
7 8 (0.58%) Podman
7 8 (0.58%) vCenter Server
8 7 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.43%) WSUS
10 5 (0.36%) Endace
10 5 (0.36%) NetBackup
10 5 (0.36%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.29%) Data Guard
11 4 (0.29%) Puppet
11 4 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (0.22%) SCOM
12 3 (0.22%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 177 (12.72%) Microsoft
2 85 (6.11%) Cisco
3 74 (5.32%) VMware
4 69 (4.96%) SAP
5 39 (2.80%) Oracle
6 35 (2.52%) ServiceNow
7 30 (2.16%) CheckPoint
8 26 (1.87%) Arista
8 26 (1.87%) Atlassian
8 26 (1.87%) Splunk
9 25 (1.80%) Citrix
10 22 (1.58%) Juniper
11 21 (1.51%) Palo Alto
12 20 (1.44%) SolarWinds
13 16 (1.15%) Adobe
13 16 (1.15%) F5
14 14 (1.01%) Red Hat
15 12 (0.86%) Apple
15 12 (0.86%) Google
16 11 (0.79%) LogRhythm