Senior Contract Job Trends in Welwyn Garden City

Senior
Hertfordshire > Welwyn Garden City

The median Senior daily rate in Welwyn Garden City is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 11 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Welwyn Garden City 9.38% 7.50% -
As % of the Job Titles category 9.68% 7.50% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £600 £513 £613
% change year-on-year +17.07% -16.33% -9.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Welwyn Garden City

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Welwyn Garden City. 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 Welwyn Garden City with a recognized job title 31 40 25
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.88% 100.00% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 10 6
10th Percentile £345 £239 £391
25th Percentile £463 £246 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £375 £600
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% -37.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £750 £447 £791
90th Percentile £830 £548 £838
Hertfordshire median daily rate £528 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +11.16% -5.00% -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £16.08 £15.51 £62.13
25th Percentile £16.86 £15.52 £63.44
Median hourly rate £19.29 £16.75 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year +15.17% -74.72% +20.45%
75th Percentile £22.08 £19.29 £68.44
90th Percentile £22.37 £20.42 £69.38
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £47.90 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -20.18% -7.69% +8.33%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Welwyn Garden City

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

Senior job vacancy trend in Welwyn Garden City

Senior
Daily Rate Trend in Welwyn Garden City

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Welwyn Garden City.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Welwyn Garden City

Senior
Hourly Rate Trend in Welwyn Garden City

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Welwyn Garden City.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Welwyn Garden City

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Welwyn Garden City

For the 6 months to 29 October 2025, 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 Welwyn Garden City region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Content Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Management
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Planview
2 1 (33.33%) Playwright
2 1 (33.33%) PMO
2 1 (33.33%) Power Automate

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Welwyn Garden City 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 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) TestRail
General
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Content Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Management
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Resource Management
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (33.33%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Planview