Senior Contracts in Yorkshire

Senior
England > Yorkshire

The median Senior daily rate in Yorkshire is £500, 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 20 27 20
Rank change year-on-year +7 -7 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 90 94 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 8.85% 5.57% 6.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.38% 6.08% 7.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 65 118
10th Percentile £360 £325 £379
25th Percentile £438 £400 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £655
90th Percentile £733 £720 £700
England median daily rate £550 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £23.92 £17.72
Median hourly rate - £24.87 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -60.21% +161.23%
75th Percentile - £25.83 £63.75
90th Percentile - - £73.50
England median hourly rate £52.00 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +9.47% +5.56% +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 959 1,546 2,201
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 91.53% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 962 1,502
10th Percentile £224 £233 £260
25th Percentile £358 £378 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £629 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 65 27
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.23 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.25 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.24 £14.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.71% -36.36% +25.71%
75th Percentile £22.14 £23.75 £54.07
90th Percentile £80.10 £51.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Yorkshire

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Yorkshire

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Yorkshire

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Yorkshire

Senior
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
West Yorkshire +4 56 £550 +4.76% 161
South Yorkshire +20 35 £518 -3.72% 56
North Yorkshire +10 4 £400 -13.51% 33
Senior
England

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 Yorkshire region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 26 (28.89%) Agile
2 25 (27.78%) Security Cleared
3 24 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 24 (26.67%) AWS
4 23 (25.56%) CI/CD
5 21 (23.33%) Bash
5 21 (23.33%) Finance
5 21 (23.33%) Linux
6 20 (22.22%) Python
6 20 (22.22%) DevOps
7 18 (20.00%) SQL
7 18 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 16 (17.78%) Kubernetes
8 16 (17.78%) Terraform
8 16 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (16.67%) JIRA
9 15 (16.67%) MongoDB
10 13 (14.44%) Software Engineering
10 13 (14.44%) Continuous Integration
10 13 (14.44%) Technical Leadership
11 12 (13.33%) Microservices
11 12 (13.33%) Social Skills
11 12 (13.33%) Risk Management
12 11 (12.22%) Confluence
12 11 (12.22%) Public Sector
12 11 (12.22%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (12.22%) Mentoring
12 11 (12.22%) GitLab
13 10 (11.11%) Cloud Security
13 10 (11.11%) Docker

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (12.22%) Confluence
2 4 (4.44%) nginx
2 4 (4.44%) Traefik
3 2 (2.22%) Moodle
3 2 (2.22%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.11%) Apache
4 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (26.67%) AWS
2 10 (11.11%) Azure
3 9 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (6.67%) Slack
5 5 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (5.56%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (4.44%) IaaS
7 3 (3.33%) Serverless
8 2 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.22%) GitHub
9 1 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.11%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.11%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.89%) DNS
2 6 (6.67%) Network Security
2 6 (6.67%) TCP/IP
3 5 (5.56%) HTTP
4 2 (2.22%) Firewall
4 2 (2.22%) LAN
4 2 (2.22%) VPN
4 2 (2.22%) WAN
5 1 (1.11%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.11%) DHCP
5 1 (1.11%) DWDM
5 1 (1.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (1.11%) NGFW
5 1 (1.11%) SMTP
5 1 (1.11%) VLAN
5 1 (1.11%) VoIP
5 1 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 10 (11.11%) MySQL
3 9 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 9 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.56%) Power BI
5 2 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.22%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.11%) Big Data
6 1 (1.11%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.11%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.11%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.11%) Power Query
6 1 (1.11%) QlikView
6 1 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (16.67%) JIRA
2 11 (12.22%) GitLab
3 10 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 8 (8.89%) Git
5 7 (7.78%) Cucumber
5 7 (7.78%) Jasmine
5 7 (7.78%) JUnit
6 4 (4.44%) ScriptRunner
7 2 (2.22%) TestRail
8 1 (1.11%) Selenium
8 1 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.11%) Subversion
General
1 21 (23.33%) Finance
2 12 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.22%) Public Sector
4 9 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.78%) Banking
6 3 (3.33%) Retail
7 2 (2.22%) Digital Healthcare
7 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.22%) Marketing
7 2 (2.22%) Military
7 2 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Electronics
8 1 (1.11%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.00%) cloud-init
1 9 (10.00%) Spring
1 9 (10.00%) Spring Boot
2 8 (8.89%) RESTful
2 8 (8.89%) Spring Batch
2 8 (8.89%) Spring Security
3 6 (6.67%) OpenAPI
3 6 (6.67%) Swagger
4 5 (5.56%) Kafka
4 5 (5.56%) Keycloak
5 3 (3.33%) .NET
5 3 (3.33%) React
6 2 (2.22%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.22%) EntireX
6 2 (2.22%) Node.js
7 1 (1.11%) Akka
7 1 (1.11%) Next.js
7 1 (1.11%) Play Framework
7 1 (1.11%) pytest
7 1 (1.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 5 (5.56%) PKI
3 3 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.33%) NHS
3 3 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.22%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.11%) EPoS
5 1 (1.11%) FMCG
5 1 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.11%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.11%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 21 (23.33%) Linux
2 18 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (10.00%) CentOS
3 9 (10.00%) Unix
4 5 (5.56%) Windows
5 2 (2.22%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (28.89%) Agile
2 23 (25.56%) CI/CD
3 20 (22.22%) DevOps
4 16 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (14.44%) Continuous Integration
5 13 (14.44%) Software Engineering
5 13 (14.44%) Technical Leadership
6 12 (13.33%) Microservices
6 12 (13.33%) Risk Management
7 11 (12.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (12.22%) Mentoring
8 10 (11.11%) BDD
8 10 (11.11%) Cloud Security
8 10 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (11.11%) TDD
9 9 (10.00%) Containerisation
9 9 (10.00%) Migration
9 9 (10.00%) Project Management
10 8 (8.89%) Test Automation
11 7 (7.78%) Kernel Tuning
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.33%) Bash
2 20 (22.22%) Python
3 18 (20.00%) SQL
4 9 (10.00%) Go
4 9 (10.00%) Java
5 5 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.44%) Groovy
7 3 (3.33%) C#
8 2 (2.22%) C++
8 2 (2.22%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.11%) AppleScript
9 1 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.11%) PHP
9 1 (1.11%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.11%) Scala
9 1 (1.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 24 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.44%) Degree
5 3 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.22%) CCNP
6 2 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.11%) JNCIP
7 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.56%) NCSC
2 4 (4.44%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.33%) QA
4 2 (2.22%) GDPR
5 1 (1.11%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (11.11%) Docker
2 3 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (17.78%) Kubernetes
1 16 (17.78%) Terraform
2 9 (10.00%) Packer
3 6 (6.67%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (5.56%) Ansible
4 5 (5.56%) Consul
4 5 (5.56%) Grafana
4 5 (5.56%) Istio
4 5 (5.56%) linkerd
4 5 (5.56%) Prometheus
4 5 (5.56%) Rancher
4 5 (5.56%) ZABBIX
5 4 (4.44%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.11%) AppManager
6 1 (1.11%) Kibana
6 1 (1.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (5.56%) Apple
1 5 (5.56%) Okta
1 5 (5.56%) Splunk
2 4 (4.44%) Atlassian
2 4 (4.44%) ESET
3 3 (3.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.22%) Aruba
4 2 (2.22%) Cisco
4 2 (2.22%) Databricks
4 2 (2.22%) IBM
4 2 (2.22%) Oracle
4 2 (2.22%) SAP
4 2 (2.22%) Software AG
4 2 (2.22%) webMethods
5 1 (1.11%) Arista
5 1 (1.11%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (1.11%) F5
5 1 (1.11%) Google
5 1 (1.11%) Workday
5 1 (1.11%) Zscaler