Senior Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 19 20
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 1,398 1,982 3,680
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.47% 8.30% 8.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.13% 8.72% 8.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 945 1,428 2,733
10th Percentile £412 £413 £413
25th Percentile £475 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £674
90th Percentile £838 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +8.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 34 43
10th Percentile £24.30 £40.45 £32.48
25th Percentile £36.25 £42.50 £41.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £51.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +7.89% +56.43%
75th Percentile £61.25 £67.50 £69.38
90th Percentile £72.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £54.56 £43.36
% change year-on-year -8.36% +25.84% +31.98%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,801 22,740 41,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,147 30,496
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 528 563
10th Percentile £14.27 £16.98 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +25.00% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.56 £66.05 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Senior
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Senior.

Senior daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

Senior daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Senior.

Senior hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

Senior hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 20 June 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Senior in the job title.

1 398 (28.47%) Agile
2 342 (24.46%) Finance
3 292 (20.89%) Azure
4 262 (18.74%) Social Skills
5 250 (17.88%) AWS
6 226 (16.17%) Python
7 221 (15.81%) Java
8 219 (15.67%) DevOps
9 197 (14.09%) Software Engineering
10 188 (13.45%) Security Cleared
11 180 (12.88%) SQL
12 179 (12.80%) Public Sector
13 160 (11.44%) JavaScript
14 158 (11.30%) Microsoft
15 150 (10.73%) Problem-Solving
16 143 (10.23%) SC Cleared
17 135 (9.66%) CI/CD
18 129 (9.23%) TypeScript
19 126 (9.01%) C#
20 125 (8.94%) Banking
21 103 (7.37%) Migration
21 103 (7.37%) React
22 102 (7.30%) Stakeholder Management
22 102 (7.30%) .NET
23 101 (7.22%) Front Office
24 100 (7.15%) Project Management
25 97 (6.94%) SQL Server
25 97 (6.94%) Test Automation
26 96 (6.87%) Degree
27 93 (6.65%) Scrum

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 53 (3.79%) Apache Airflow
2 51 (3.65%) Apache
3 29 (2.07%) Confluence
4 21 (1.50%) SharePoint
5 14 (1.00%) Apache Spark
6 12 (0.86%) CMS
7 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.43%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.43%) WebSphere Application Server
9 5 (0.36%) IBM HTTP Server
9 5 (0.36%) WebSphere Portal
10 4 (0.29%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.29%) SAS
11 3 (0.21%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.21%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.14%) Mule
12 2 (0.14%) nginx
12 2 (0.14%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 15 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.57%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.29%) Revit
5 4 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.29%) Trello
6 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.14%) InDesign
7 2 (0.14%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.14%) Simulink
7 2 (0.14%) Stateflow
8 1 (0.072%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.072%) Elementor
8 1 (0.072%) EngageOne
8 1 (0.072%) InVision
8 1 (0.072%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 28 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.93%) Elite 3E
3 12 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.57%) SAP SD
5 7 (0.50%) NEC Housing
5 7 (0.50%) Primavera
6 6 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.36%) SimCorp Dimension
8 4 (0.29%) Endur
8 4 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.21%) PeopleSoft HCM
9 3 (0.21%) RMDS
10 2 (0.14%) SAP HCM
10 2 (0.14%) SAP HR
10 2 (0.14%) SAP WM
10 2 (0.14%) Shopify
10 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 1 (0.072%) Aligne
11 1 (0.072%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 292 (20.89%) Azure
2 250 (17.88%) AWS
3 84 (6.01%) Azure DevOps
4 62 (4.43%) GCP
5 55 (3.93%) Serverless
6 54 (3.86%) dbt
6 54 (3.86%) Snowflake
7 49 (3.51%) GitHub
7 49 (3.51%) Power Platform
8 39 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
9 31 (2.22%) SaaS
10 28 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
11 27 (1.93%) PaaS
12 26 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
13 25 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
14 24 (1.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 21 (1.50%) Entra ID
15 21 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (1.43%) Amazon S3
17 16 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.79%) Firewall
2 29 (2.07%) Network Security
3 19 (1.36%) VPN
4 17 (1.22%) DNS
5 14 (1.00%) WAN
6 12 (0.86%) TCP/IP
7 11 (0.79%) HTTP
7 11 (0.79%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (0.64%) BGP
9 9 (0.64%) DHCP
9 9 (0.64%) SAN
10 8 (0.57%) Internet
10 8 (0.57%) LAN
11 7 (0.50%) 4G
11 7 (0.50%) 5G
11 7 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
11 7 (0.50%) InfiniBand
11 7 (0.50%) IPsec
11 7 (0.50%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (6.94%) SQL Server
2 51 (3.65%) Data Lake
3 46 (3.29%) Amazon Athena
4 44 (3.15%) Apache Arrow
4 44 (3.15%) Apache Ignite
4 44 (3.15%) Dremio
5 40 (2.86%) Power BI
6 26 (1.86%) Oracle Database
7 24 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
8 21 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (1.29%) NoSQL
10 17 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
10 17 (1.22%) MySQL
11 15 (1.07%) Big Data
11 15 (1.07%) Relational Database
12 14 (1.00%) Tableau
13 13 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
13 13 (0.93%) MongoDB
14 12 (0.86%) DynamoDB
15 9 (0.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 79 (5.65%) Git
2 62 (4.43%) JIRA
3 47 (3.36%) Jenkins
4 34 (2.43%) GitLab
5 27 (1.93%) Selenium
6 25 (1.79%) Cucumber
7 18 (1.29%) JUnit
8 16 (1.14%) Bitbucket
9 15 (1.07%) Mockito
10 14 (1.00%) git-flow
10 14 (1.00%) SpecFlow
11 13 (0.93%) JMeter
12 12 (0.86%) SonarQube
12 12 (0.86%) Visual Studio
13 11 (0.79%) Postman
14 8 (0.57%) REST Assured
15 7 (0.50%) CircleCI
15 7 (0.50%) Maven
15 7 (0.50%) TeamCity
16 6 (0.43%) Cypress.io
General
1 342 (24.46%) Finance
2 262 (18.74%) Social Skills
3 179 (12.80%) Public Sector
4 125 (8.94%) Banking
5 101 (7.22%) Front Office
6 88 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
7 51 (3.65%) Investment Banking
8 40 (2.86%) Back Office
9 36 (2.58%) Marketing
10 32 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 29 (2.07%) Telecoms
12 28 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
12 28 (2.00%) Retail
13 27 (1.93%) Legal
14 24 (1.72%) Manufacturing
15 14 (1.00%) Financial Institution
16 12 (0.86%) Law
17 11 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (0.79%) Local Government
18 9 (0.64%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (7.37%) React
2 102 (7.30%) .NET
3 63 (4.51%) CSS
4 59 (4.22%) HTML
5 57 (4.08%) AngularJS
5 57 (4.08%) Pandas
6 55 (3.93%) REST
6 55 (3.93%) XML
7 52 (3.72%) gRPC
8 50 (3.58%) Protocol Buffers
9 48 (3.43%) NumPy
10 46 (3.29%) SciPy
11 42 (3.00%) Node.js
12 40 (2.86%) Kafka
13 37 (2.65%) Spring Boot
14 28 (2.00%) .NET Framework
15 25 (1.79%) Spring
16 24 (1.72%) .NET Core
16 24 (1.72%) ASP.NET
17 23 (1.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 74 (5.29%) Derivative
2 71 (5.08%) Fixed Income
3 69 (4.94%) Hedge funds
4 67 (4.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 54 (3.86%) Equities
6 45 (3.22%) Product Ownership
7 42 (3.00%) Data Centre
8 34 (2.43%) Management Information System
9 25 (1.79%) Mobile App
9 25 (1.79%) Replication
10 22 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (1.50%) Algorithms
11 21 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
12 19 (1.36%) Onboarding
13 18 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (1.22%) NHS
15 16 (1.14%) Pricing Data
16 14 (1.00%) Public Cloud
17 13 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
17 13 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 83 (5.94%) Windows
2 76 (5.44%) Linux
3 25 (1.79%) Android
4 23 (1.65%) Unix
5 14 (1.00%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.50%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.43%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.36%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.21%) Mac OS X
9 3 (0.21%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.14%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.14%) Debian
10 2 (0.14%) Solaris
10 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.072%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.072%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (28.47%) Agile
2 219 (15.67%) DevOps
3 197 (14.09%) Software Engineering
4 150 (10.73%) Problem-Solving
5 135 (9.66%) CI/CD
6 103 (7.37%) Migration
7 102 (7.30%) Stakeholder Management
8 100 (7.15%) Project Management
9 97 (6.94%) Test Automation
10 93 (6.65%) Scrum
11 86 (6.15%) Asset Management
12 81 (5.79%) Analytics
13 75 (5.36%) Roadmaps
14 73 (5.22%) Mentoring
14 73 (5.22%) User Experience
15 70 (5.01%) Investment Management
16 67 (4.79%) SDLC
17 62 (4.43%) Project Delivery
18 58 (4.15%) Business Intelligence
19 57 (4.08%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 226 (16.17%) Python
2 221 (15.81%) Java
3 180 (12.88%) SQL
4 160 (11.44%) JavaScript
5 129 (9.23%) TypeScript
6 126 (9.01%) C#
7 74 (5.29%) PowerShell
8 31 (2.22%) Bash
9 30 (2.15%) Go
10 28 (2.00%) Bicep
11 24 (1.72%) C++
12 20 (1.43%) Kotlin
13 14 (1.00%) Scala
14 12 (0.86%) PHP
15 11 (0.79%) C
15 11 (0.79%) Perl
16 10 (0.72%) T-SQL
17 7 (0.50%) Ruby
17 7 (0.50%) Swift
18 6 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 188 (13.45%) Security Cleared
2 143 (10.23%) SC Cleared
3 96 (6.87%) Degree
4 34 (2.43%) DV Cleared
5 23 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (1.14%) CCNP
8 15 (1.07%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.79%) CCIE
10 10 (0.72%) AWS Certification
10 10 (0.72%) CISSP
10 10 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 5 (0.36%) Azure Certification
13 5 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.36%) CCNA
13 5 (0.36%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.36%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (3.29%) Data Quality
2 26 (1.86%) Accessibility
3 25 (1.79%) PCI DSS
4 22 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (1.57%) QA
5 17 (1.22%) PMO
6 12 (0.86%) SLA
7 10 (0.72%) GDPR
7 10 (0.72%) WCAG
8 9 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
9 7 (0.50%) NIST
10 5 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.14%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.14%) GRC
12 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.14%) P3O
System Software
1 70 (5.01%) Docker
2 61 (4.36%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.72%) VMware NSX
6 8 (0.57%) vSphere
7 6 (0.43%) ACF2
7 6 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.43%) IAG
7 6 (0.43%) RACF
8 5 (0.36%) Firmware
8 5 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.14%) Squid
10 2 (0.14%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.14%) XenApp
11 1 (0.072%) GridGain
11 1 (0.072%) HDFS
11 1 (0.072%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 88 (6.29%) Kubernetes
2 79 (5.65%) Terraform
3 46 (3.29%) Ansible
4 21 (1.50%) Grafana
5 13 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
6 11 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.72%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.57%) Podman
8 8 (0.57%) Puppet
9 6 (0.43%) SCCM
10 5 (0.36%) Argo
11 4 (0.29%) Functional Safety
11 4 (0.29%) Kibana
11 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.21%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.21%) Kustomize
12 3 (0.21%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.21%) VxRail
13 2 (0.14%) CASB
13 2 (0.14%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 158 (11.30%) Microsoft
2 59 (4.22%) Oracle
3 57 (4.08%) SAP
4 33 (2.36%) Cisco
5 29 (2.07%) VMware
6 26 (1.86%) Palo Alto
7 25 (1.79%) ServiceNow
8 24 (1.72%) Google
9 17 (1.22%) Salesforce
10 16 (1.14%) Atlassian
11 14 (1.00%) F5
11 14 (1.00%) Pega
11 14 (1.00%) Splunk
12 13 (0.93%) Databricks
13 12 (0.86%) Fortinet
14 11 (0.79%) IBM
15 10 (0.72%) Citrix
16 9 (0.64%) NEC
16 9 (0.64%) Sybase
17 7 (0.50%) Dell