Senior Contracts in West End of London

Senior
Central London > West End of London

The median Senior daily rate in West End of London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 - 13
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 8 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West End of London 11.94% - 7.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.79% - 7.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £527 - £583
25th Percentile £585 - £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £625
75th Percentile - - £644
90th Percentile £694 - £648
Central London median daily rate £600 £590 £638
% change year-on-year +1.69% -7.45% +4.51%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West End of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West End of 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 West End of London with a recognized job title 58 49 76
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.57% 94.23% 96.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 28 51
10th Percentile £281 £238 £225
25th Percentile £450 £356 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% +1.00% -5.39%
75th Percentile £585 £541 £553
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.10 - -
Median hourly rate £18.19 - -
75th Percentile £18.29 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -28.57% -6.04%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in West End of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in West End of London

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West End of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior in West End of London.

Daily rate trend for Senior in West End of London

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in West End of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in West End of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in West End of London

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West End of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior in West End of London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior in West End of London

Senior
Contract Job Locations in West End of 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 West End of London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Holborn - 2 £527 - 5
Senior
Central London

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West End of London

For the 6 months to 2 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 West End of London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
3 4 (50.00%) Banking
3 4 (50.00%) Windows
4 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
4 3 (37.50%) Python
4 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
4 3 (37.50%) Hyper-V
4 3 (37.50%) Investment Banking
4 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 3 (37.50%) Firewall
4 3 (37.50%) AWS
4 3 (37.50%) Ansible
4 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Server Management
5 2 (25.00%) Arista
5 2 (25.00%) SolarWinds
5 2 (25.00%) Low Latency
5 2 (25.00%) F5
5 2 (25.00%) VMware
5 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
5 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (25.00%) CheckPoint
5 2 (25.00%) Cisco
5 2 (25.00%) CCIE
5 2 (25.00%) CCNP
6 1 (12.50%) VPN
6 1 (12.50%) DNS

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West End of 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (12.50%) Route 53
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (12.50%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) ChangeMan
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Banking
3 3 (37.50%) Investment Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (37.50%) Migration
1 3 (37.50%) Server Management
2 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (25.00%) Low Latency
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (12.50%) LLM
3 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (12.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) REXX
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) CCIE
1 2 (25.00%) CCNP
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
1 3 (37.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
2 1 (12.50%) Puppet
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Arista
1 2 (25.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco
1 2 (25.00%) F5
1 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (25.00%) SolarWinds
1 2 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Micro Focus