Senior Contracts in West Yorkshire

Senior
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Senior daily rate in West Yorkshire is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 August 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
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 25 20
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 -1
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Senior 67 51 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 8.98% 5.86% 6.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.33% 6.33% 6.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 35 73
10th Percentile £383 £386 £377
25th Percentile £446 £444 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £628 £621 £688
90th Percentile £675 £725 £716
Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% +4.55%

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 718 806 1,333
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.25% 92.54% 97.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 517 896
10th Percentile £300 £334 £322
25th Percentile £400 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £625
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 29 19
10th Percentile - £15.64 £12.00
25th Percentile £22.14 £18.50 £13.17
Median hourly rate £50.00 £24.18 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +106.78% +37.07% -11.80%
75th Percentile £81.25 £48.75 £21.31
90th Percentile - - £23.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £20.87 £20.00
% change year-on-year +6.09% +4.35% +5.26%

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
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in West Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies 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 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in West Yorkshire

Senior
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in West Yorkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in West Yorkshire

Senior
DemandTrendContract 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 27 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds +4 56 £525 +1.94% 124
Bradford +1 7 £435 +10.91% 14
Huddersfield - 2 £525 - 3
Senior
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 27 August 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 24 (35.82%) Agile
2 20 (29.85%) AWS
3 17 (25.37%) Python
4 16 (23.88%) Security Cleared
4 16 (23.88%) Terraform
5 15 (22.39%) SC Cleared
6 14 (20.90%) Test Automation
7 12 (17.91%) DevOps
7 12 (17.91%) Microsoft
8 11 (16.42%) Java
8 11 (16.42%) Social Skills
9 10 (14.93%) Public Sector
9 10 (14.93%) Incident Management
10 9 (13.43%) TDD
10 9 (13.43%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (13.43%) Microservices
10 9 (13.43%) Bash
10 9 (13.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 8 (11.94%) CI/CD
11 8 (11.94%) MongoDB
11 8 (11.94%) Azure
11 8 (11.94%) SQL
12 7 (10.45%) Linux
12 7 (10.45%) Migration
12 7 (10.45%) BDD
12 7 (10.45%) Kafka
12 7 (10.45%) Continuous Deployment
13 6 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (8.96%) JAX-RS
13 6 (8.96%) Analytics

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 6 (8.96%) Confluence
2 1 (1.49%) Apache
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.49%) CMS
2 1 (1.49%) Drupal
2 1 (1.49%) Moodle
2 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.49%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (1.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.99%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 20 (29.85%) AWS
2 8 (11.94%) Azure
3 5 (7.46%) Entra ID
3 5 (7.46%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.97%) IaaS
4 4 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.48%) SaaS
6 2 (2.99%) GCP
6 2 (2.99%) GitHub
6 2 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.99%) Serverless
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (1.49%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Stack
7 1 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.49%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.97%) SD-WAN
2 3 (4.48%) Ethernet
2 3 (4.48%) Wireshark
3 2 (2.99%) Firewall
4 1 (1.49%) DNS
4 1 (1.49%) SSL
4 1 (1.49%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.49%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.94%) MongoDB
2 5 (7.46%) Power BI
3 3 (4.48%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.99%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.99%) DataStage
4 2 (2.99%) Delta Lake
4 2 (2.99%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.99%) Power Query
4 2 (2.99%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.99%) Tableau
5 1 (1.49%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.49%) Looker
5 1 (1.49%) PowerPivot
5 1 (1.49%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (8.96%) JIRA
1 6 (8.96%) Mockito
2 5 (7.46%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.97%) GitLab
3 4 (5.97%) ScriptRunner
3 4 (5.97%) Selenium
4 2 (2.99%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.99%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.99%) Git
4 2 (2.99%) JMeter
4 2 (2.99%) Maven
4 2 (2.99%) Postman
4 2 (2.99%) REST Assured
4 2 (2.99%) TestNG
5 1 (1.49%) JUnit
General
1 11 (16.42%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.93%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.48%) Finance
4 3 (4.48%) Retail
5 2 (2.99%) Legal
5 2 (2.99%) Marketing
6 1 (1.49%) Banking
6 1 (1.49%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.45%) Kafka
2 6 (8.96%) ActiveMQ
2 6 (8.96%) JAX-RS
3 3 (4.48%) .NET
3 3 (4.48%) Playwright
3 3 (4.48%) PySpark
4 2 (2.99%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.99%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.99%) Node.js
4 2 (2.99%) React
5 1 (1.49%) Django
5 1 (1.49%) EntireX
5 1 (1.49%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (1.49%) Micronaut
5 1 (1.49%) pytest
5 1 (1.49%) RESTful
5 1 (1.49%) Spring
5 1 (1.49%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.96%) NHS
2 1 (1.49%) EPoS
2 1 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.45%) Linux
2 6 (8.96%) Mac OS X
2 6 (8.96%) Unix
3 5 (7.46%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.99%) Windows
5 1 (1.49%) Android
5 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (35.82%) Agile
2 14 (20.90%) Test Automation
3 12 (17.91%) DevOps
4 10 (14.93%) Incident Management
5 9 (13.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (13.43%) Microservices
5 9 (13.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (13.43%) TDD
6 8 (11.94%) CI/CD
7 7 (10.45%) BDD
7 7 (10.45%) Continuous Deployment
7 7 (10.45%) Migration
8 6 (8.96%) Analytics
8 6 (8.96%) Mentoring
8 6 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (8.96%) User Experience
8 6 (8.96%) Visualisation
9 5 (7.46%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (7.46%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (7.46%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 17 (25.37%) Python
2 11 (16.42%) Java
3 9 (13.43%) Bash
4 8 (11.94%) SQL
5 4 (5.97%) C#
5 4 (5.97%) Groovy
6 3 (4.48%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.48%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.99%) Scala
8 1 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.49%) Go
8 1 (1.49%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (23.88%) Security Cleared
2 15 (22.39%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.97%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.99%) Degree
5 1 (1.49%) CISSP
5 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.49%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.46%) QA
2 3 (4.48%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.99%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.99%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.99%) WCAG
4 1 (1.49%) P3O
4 1 (1.49%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (7.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (23.88%) Terraform
2 6 (8.96%) Ansible
3 4 (5.97%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (4.48%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.49%) Grafana
5 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (17.91%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.97%) Apple
2 4 (5.97%) Atlassian
2 4 (5.97%) Cisco
3 3 (4.48%) Databricks
3 3 (4.48%) Juniper
3 3 (4.48%) Meraki
3 3 (4.48%) Nokia
4 2 (2.99%) Google
4 2 (2.99%) Informatica
4 2 (2.99%) SAP
4 2 (2.99%) Talend
5 1 (1.49%) Aruba
5 1 (1.49%) DocuSign
5 1 (1.49%) HP
5 1 (1.49%) IBM
5 1 (1.49%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.49%) Software AG
5 1 (1.49%) Splunk
5 1 (1.49%) webMethods