Senior Contracts in West Sussex

Senior
South East > West Sussex

The median Senior daily rate in West Sussex is £475 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 13 11 40
Rank change year-on-year -2 +29 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 28 34 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 10.94% 11.85% 3.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.38% 12.83% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 28 12
10th Percentile - £391 £508
25th Percentile £456 £413 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £580 £625
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% -7.20% +21.95%
75th Percentile £488 £698 £672
90th Percentile £498 £699 £775
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £528
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.30% +5.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £45.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +30.90% +5.88% -7.61%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Sussex

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in West Sussex. 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 Sussex with a recognized job title 246 265 416
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.09% 92.33% 97.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 209 311
10th Percentile £253 £181 £163
25th Percentile £400 £263 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £515 £588 £587
90th Percentile £588 £680 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 22
10th Percentile £13.69 £17.60 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.20 - £14.00
Median hourly rate £21.50 £22.16 £17.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.98% +24.85% -21.11%
75th Percentile £22.75 £22.64 £31.13
90th Percentile £28.53 £24.55 £57.28
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in West Sussex

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior in West Sussex.

Daily rate trend for Senior in West Sussex

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior in West Sussex.

Hourly rate trend for Senior in West Sussex

Senior
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex 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
Crawley +6 11 £475 -31.95% 2
East Grinstead 0 7 £475 +11.76%
Worthing -6 2 £475 -18.52%
Senior
South East

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex

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 West Sussex region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 14 (50.00%) VMware
1 14 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (42.86%) Windows
3 10 (35.71%) vSphere
4 9 (32.14%) NAS
4 9 (32.14%) Microsoft
4 9 (32.14%) Active Directory
4 9 (32.14%) SAN
4 9 (32.14%) Agile
5 7 (25.00%) Linux
5 7 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 6 (21.43%) Roadmaps
6 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (21.43%) ITIL
6 6 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (21.43%) Azure
7 5 (17.86%) Bash
7 5 (17.86%) PowerShell
7 5 (17.86%) PRINCE2
7 5 (17.86%) Python
7 5 (17.86%) Finance
7 5 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (17.86%) Project Management
7 5 (17.86%) PMO
8 4 (14.29%) Remediation Plan
8 4 (14.29%) Runbook
8 4 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (14.29%) Product Roadmap

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

Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) Azure
2 4 (14.29%) AWS
2 4 (14.29%) GCP
3 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (32.14%) NAS
1 9 (32.14%) SAN
2 3 (10.71%) DHCP
2 3 (10.71%) DNS
3 2 (7.14%) Firewall
4 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (3.57%) Couchbase
2 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) GitLab
2 2 (7.14%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.14%) JIRA
2 2 (7.14%) VersionOne
3 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Aviation
4 1 (3.57%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) REST
2 2 (7.14%) CSS
2 2 (7.14%) GraphQL
2 2 (7.14%) HTML
2 2 (7.14%) Middleware
2 2 (7.14%) React
2 2 (7.14%) Redux
3 1 (3.57%) .NET
3 1 (3.57%) DOM
3 1 (3.57%) JWT
3 1 (3.57%) OAuth
3 1 (3.57%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.14%) Tandem
3 1 (3.57%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (42.86%) Windows
2 7 (25.00%) Linux
3 3 (10.71%) Ubuntu
3 3 (10.71%) Unix
4 2 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (7.14%) Solaris
4 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (32.14%) Agile
3 7 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 6 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (21.43%) ITIL
4 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (21.43%) Roadmaps
5 5 (17.86%) PRINCE2
5 5 (17.86%) Project Management
5 5 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (14.29%) Budget Management
6 4 (14.29%) High Availability
6 4 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
6 4 (14.29%) Remediation Plan
6 4 (14.29%) Runbook
6 4 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (10.71%) Creative Thinking
7 3 (10.71%) TDD
8 2 (7.14%) Migration
8 2 (7.14%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) Bash
1 5 (17.86%) PowerShell
1 5 (17.86%) Python
2 3 (10.71%) SQL
3 2 (7.14%) Go
3 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.14%) VBScript
4 1 (3.57%) C#
4 1 (3.57%) C++
4 1 (3.57%) Perl
4 1 (3.57%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Degree
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) PMO
2 1 (3.57%) ISO 9001
2 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (35.71%) vSphere
2 9 (32.14%) Active Directory
3 6 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (10.71%) Hyper-V
4 3 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (7.14%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Ansible
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 2 (7.14%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (7.14%) SCCM
2 1 (3.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (50.00%) VMware
2 9 (32.14%) Microsoft
3 4 (14.29%) SolarWinds
4 2 (7.14%) Citrix
4 2 (7.14%) Google
4 2 (7.14%) Ivanti
4 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 2 (7.14%) Symantec