Senior Contracts in West Yorkshire

Senior
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Senior daily rate in West Yorkshire is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 21 16
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 56 69 133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 10.22% 6.91% 8.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.65% 7.44% 8.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 50 103
10th Percentile £350 £321 £425
25th Percentile £450 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £669 £644 £644
90th Percentile £750 £720 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £575
% change year-on-year - -13.04% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £30.78
25th Percentile - - £50.37
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £67.81
90th Percentile - - £75.13
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £24.87 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -60.21% +161.23%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 526 928 1,593
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 92.89% 97.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 561 1,105
10th Percentile £255 £275 £327
25th Percentile £357 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +6.60%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £641 £656 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 24 15
10th Percentile £19.61 £11.75 £12.46
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.25 £14.46
Median hourly rate £24.82 £14.34 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +73.14% -55.89% +92.88%
75th Percentile £55.29 £29.25 £66.88
90th Percentile £100.28 £53.75 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £14.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +51.71% -36.36% +25.71%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in West Yorkshire

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in West Yorkshire

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in West Yorkshire

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in West Yorkshire

Senior
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Leeds -1 54 £550 +4.76% 209
Senior
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 Yorkshire region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 23 (41.07%) Security Cleared
2 22 (39.29%) SC Cleared
3 20 (35.71%) AWS
3 20 (35.71%) Bash
3 20 (35.71%) CI/CD
4 19 (33.93%) Linux
5 18 (32.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (26.79%) MongoDB
6 15 (26.79%) Python
7 14 (25.00%) SQL
8 13 (23.21%) Agile
8 13 (23.21%) Software Engineering
8 13 (23.21%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (23.21%) DevOps
8 13 (23.21%) Kubernetes
9 12 (21.43%) Terraform
9 12 (21.43%) JIRA
9 12 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
10 11 (19.64%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (19.64%) Mentoring
10 11 (19.64%) Confluence
11 10 (17.86%) BDD
11 10 (17.86%) Microservices
11 10 (17.86%) TDD
11 10 (17.86%) Cloud Security
12 9 (16.07%) Containerisation
12 9 (16.07%) Public Sector
12 9 (16.07%) Social Skills
12 9 (16.07%) cloud-init
12 9 (16.07%) PostgreSQL

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 11 (19.64%) Confluence
2 4 (7.14%) nginx
2 4 (7.14%) Traefik
3 2 (3.57%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.79%) Apache
4 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.79%) Moodle
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (35.71%) AWS
2 9 (16.07%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (10.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (10.71%) Azure
3 6 (10.71%) Slack
4 5 (8.93%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (8.93%) AWS Fargate
4 5 (8.93%) Entra ID
4 5 (8.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (7.14%) IaaS
6 3 (5.36%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.36%) Serverless
7 2 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.79%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.79%) GCP
8 1 (1.79%) GitHub
8 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.79%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.79%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.71%) DNS
2 5 (8.93%) HTTP
2 5 (8.93%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.57%) Firewall
4 1 (1.79%) DHCP
4 1 (1.79%) LAN
4 1 (1.79%) Network Security
4 1 (1.79%) NGFW
4 1 (1.79%) VLAN
4 1 (1.79%) VoIP
4 1 (1.79%) VPN
4 1 (1.79%) WAN
4 1 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (26.79%) MongoDB
2 9 (16.07%) Apache Cassandra
2 9 (16.07%) MySQL
2 9 (16.07%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.36%) Power BI
4 1 (1.79%) Big Data
4 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.79%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.79%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.79%) Power Query
4 1 (1.79%) QlikView
4 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (21.43%) JIRA
2 9 (16.07%) GitLab
2 9 (16.07%) Jenkins
3 7 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 7 (12.50%) Git
3 7 (12.50%) Jasmine
3 7 (12.50%) JUnit
4 4 (7.14%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (1.79%) Selenium
General
1 9 (16.07%) Public Sector
1 9 (16.07%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.93%) Finance
3 2 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (3.57%) Military
3 2 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.79%) Banking
4 1 (1.79%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.07%) cloud-init
1 9 (16.07%) Spring
1 9 (16.07%) Spring Boot
2 8 (14.29%) RESTful
2 8 (14.29%) Spring Batch
2 8 (14.29%) Spring Security
3 6 (10.71%) OpenAPI
3 6 (10.71%) Swagger
4 5 (8.93%) Kafka
4 5 (8.93%) Keycloak
5 3 (5.36%) .NET
5 3 (5.36%) React
6 2 (3.57%) .NET Core
6 2 (3.57%) Node.js
7 1 (1.79%) Akka
7 1 (1.79%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.79%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (1.79%) Next.js
7 1 (1.79%) pytest
7 1 (1.79%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 5 (8.93%) PKI
3 3 (5.36%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (5.36%) NHS
4 1 (1.79%) EPoS
4 1 (1.79%) FMCG
4 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.79%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 19 (33.93%) Linux
2 18 (32.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (16.07%) CentOS
3 9 (16.07%) Unix
4 4 (7.14%) Windows
5 2 (3.57%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.79%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (35.71%) CI/CD
2 13 (23.21%) Agile
2 13 (23.21%) Continuous Integration
2 13 (23.21%) DevOps
2 13 (23.21%) Software Engineering
3 12 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
4 11 (19.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (19.64%) Mentoring
5 10 (17.86%) BDD
5 10 (17.86%) Cloud Security
5 10 (17.86%) Microservices
5 10 (17.86%) TDD
6 9 (16.07%) Containerisation
7 7 (12.50%) Coaching
7 7 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
7 7 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (12.50%) Kernel Tuning
7 7 (12.50%) Migration
7 7 (12.50%) Test Automation
8 6 (10.71%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 20 (35.71%) Bash
2 15 (26.79%) Python
3 14 (25.00%) SQL
4 9 (16.07%) Go
4 9 (16.07%) Java
5 4 (7.14%) Groovy
6 3 (5.36%) C#
7 2 (3.57%) C++
7 2 (3.57%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.57%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.79%) AppleScript
8 1 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.79%) Scala
8 1 (1.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (41.07%) Security Cleared
2 22 (39.29%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.71%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.79%) CCNP
5 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.79%) Degree
5 1 (1.79%) JNCIP
5 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) NCSC
2 1 (1.79%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.79%) GDPR
2 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 9 (16.07%) Docker
2 2 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (23.21%) Kubernetes
2 12 (21.43%) Terraform
3 9 (16.07%) Packer
4 6 (10.71%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (8.93%) Consul
5 5 (8.93%) Grafana
5 5 (8.93%) Istio
5 5 (8.93%) linkerd
5 5 (8.93%) Prometheus
5 5 (8.93%) Rancher
5 5 (8.93%) ZABBIX
6 4 (7.14%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.79%) AppManager
7 1 (1.79%) Kibana
7 1 (1.79%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (8.93%) Apple
1 5 (8.93%) Okta
1 5 (8.93%) Splunk
2 4 (7.14%) Atlassian
2 4 (7.14%) ESET
3 3 (5.36%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.57%) Aruba
5 1 (1.79%) Cisco
5 1 (1.79%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (1.79%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.79%) Google
5 1 (1.79%) HP
5 1 (1.79%) IBM
5 1 (1.79%) Ivanti
5 1 (1.79%) SAP
5 1 (1.79%) Software AG
5 1 (1.79%) VMware
5 1 (1.79%) webMethods
5 1 (1.79%) Workday
5 1 (1.79%) Zscaler