Senior Contracts in Yorkshire

Senior
England > Yorkshire

The median Senior daily rate in Yorkshire is £495, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 32 23
Rank change year-on-year +10 -9 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 84 80 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 7.73% 4.77% 6.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.21% 5.25% 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 49 107
10th Percentile £353 £325 £370
25th Percentile £444 £413 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £675
90th Percentile £650 £651 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
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 £50.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +15.33%

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 1,023 1,523 2,117
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.20% 90.76% 95.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 653 952 1,436
10th Percentile £243 £250 £233
25th Percentile £373 £400 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £608
90th Percentile £613 £650 £700
England median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 72 30
10th Percentile £14.39 £11.30 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.79 £12.46 £16.75
Median hourly rate £21.24 £15.37 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.24% -26.83% +15.07%
75th Percentile £22.14 £25.83 £47.86
90th Percentile £29.37 £53.75 £63.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% -16.67% +89.04%

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 31 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 31 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
South Yorkshire +35 43 £500 +17.65% 52
West Yorkshire 0 43 £500 -3.85% 191
North Yorkshire +11 2 - - 25
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 35 (41.67%) Agile
2 24 (28.57%) Finance
3 21 (25.00%) DevOps
4 19 (22.62%) AWS
5 17 (20.24%) Security Cleared
5 17 (20.24%) Python
6 15 (17.86%) SC Cleared
6 15 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (17.86%) CI/CD
7 14 (16.67%) Terraform
8 12 (14.29%) Jenkins
8 12 (14.29%) Risk Management
8 12 (14.29%) Ansible
9 11 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (13.10%) Migration
10 10 (11.90%) Azure
10 10 (11.90%) JIRA
10 10 (11.90%) Git
10 10 (11.90%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
11 9 (10.71%) Social Skills
11 9 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (10.71%) TCP/IP
11 9 (10.71%) SQL
11 9 (10.71%) Linux
12 8 (9.52%) Project Management
12 8 (9.52%) Firewall
12 8 (9.52%) Postman
12 8 (9.52%) Kubernetes
13 7 (8.33%) Microservices

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 7 (8.33%) Confluence
2 2 (2.38%) Moodle
3 1 (1.19%) nginx
3 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.19%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 19 (22.62%) AWS
2 10 (11.90%) Azure
3 4 (4.76%) GitHub
3 4 (4.76%) IaaS
3 4 (4.76%) Serverless
4 3 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (3.57%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.38%) SaaS
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.19%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.19%) Slack
6 1 (1.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.71%) TCP/IP
2 8 (9.52%) Firewall
3 6 (7.14%) Network Security
4 4 (4.76%) DNS
5 1 (1.19%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.19%) DWDM
5 1 (1.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (1.19%) HTTP
5 1 (1.19%) LAN
5 1 (1.19%) NGFW
5 1 (1.19%) SSL
5 1 (1.19%) VPN
5 1 (1.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.57%) MongoDB
1 3 (3.57%) Power BI
2 2 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.38%) DynamoDB
2 2 (2.38%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (2.38%) MySQL
2 2 (2.38%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.19%) Power Query
3 1 (1.19%) QlikView
3 1 (1.19%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 10 (11.90%) Git
2 10 (11.90%) JIRA
3 8 (9.52%) Postman
4 6 (7.14%) GitLab
5 4 (4.76%) ScriptRunner
6 3 (3.57%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.57%) Selenium
7 2 (2.38%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.38%) JMeter
7 2 (2.38%) JUnit
7 2 (2.38%) Maven
7 2 (2.38%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.38%) TestNG
7 2 (2.38%) TestRail
8 1 (1.19%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.19%) git-flow
8 1 (1.19%) Jasmine
8 1 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.19%) Subversion
General
1 24 (28.57%) Finance
2 11 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.71%) Social Skills
4 7 (8.33%) Banking
5 3 (3.57%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.38%) Digital Healthcare
6 2 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.19%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.19%) Law
7 1 (1.19%) Legal
7 1 (1.19%) Marketing
7 1 (1.19%) Military
7 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.95%) .NET
2 4 (4.76%) .NET Core
3 3 (3.57%) Node.js
4 2 (2.38%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.38%) EntireX
4 2 (2.38%) Playwright
4 2 (2.38%) React
4 2 (2.38%) RESTful
5 1 (1.19%) Akka
5 1 (1.19%) cloud-init
5 1 (1.19%) Kafka
5 1 (1.19%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.19%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (1.19%) Next.js
5 1 (1.19%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.19%) Spring
5 1 (1.19%) Spring Batch
5 1 (1.19%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.19%) Spring Security
5 1 (1.19%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.57%) NHS
2 2 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.19%) Derivative
3 1 (1.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.19%) EPoS
3 1 (1.19%) Equities
3 1 (1.19%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.19%) FMCG
3 1 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.19%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.19%) PKI
3 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.71%) Linux
2 6 (7.14%) Windows
3 5 (5.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.76%) Unix
5 3 (3.57%) AIX
5 3 (3.57%) Mac OS
5 3 (3.57%) Solaris
5 3 (3.57%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (1.19%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (41.67%) Agile
2 21 (25.00%) DevOps
3 15 (17.86%) CI/CD
3 15 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (14.29%) Risk Management
5 11 (13.10%) Migration
6 10 (11.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (9.52%) Project Management
9 7 (8.33%) Decision-Making
9 7 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (8.33%) Microservices
10 6 (7.14%) Analytics
10 6 (7.14%) Configuration Management
10 6 (7.14%) Data Management
10 6 (7.14%) Incident Management
10 6 (7.14%) Mentoring
11 5 (5.95%) Software Engineering
11 5 (5.95%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 17 (20.24%) Python
2 9 (10.71%) SQL
3 7 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.95%) C#
4 5 (5.95%) Java
4 5 (5.95%) TypeScript
5 4 (4.76%) Bash
5 4 (4.76%) Groovy
6 2 (2.38%) C++
6 2 (2.38%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.19%) AppleScript
7 1 (1.19%) Bicep
7 1 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.19%) Go
7 1 (1.19%) PHP
7 1 (1.19%) R
7 1 (1.19%) Scala
7 1 (1.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (20.24%) Security Cleared
2 15 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.57%) Degree
4 2 (2.38%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.38%) CCNP
4 2 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.19%) JNCIP
5 1 (1.19%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.76%) PCI DSS
1 4 (4.76%) QA
2 2 (2.38%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.38%) WCAG
3 1 (1.19%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.19%) GDPR
3 1 (1.19%) NCSC
3 1 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (7.14%) Docker
1 6 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.57%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (1.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (16.67%) Terraform
2 12 (14.29%) Ansible
3 8 (9.52%) Kubernetes
4 6 (7.14%) Puppet
5 3 (3.57%) Grafana
5 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (3.57%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.57%) SCCM
6 2 (2.38%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.19%) Consul
7 1 (1.19%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.19%) Istio
7 1 (1.19%) Kibana
7 1 (1.19%) linkerd
7 1 (1.19%) Packer
7 1 (1.19%) Rancher
7 1 (1.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.14%) MuleSoft
2 6 (7.14%) VMware
3 4 (4.76%) Atlassian
3 4 (4.76%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.38%) Apple
4 2 (2.38%) Aruba
4 2 (2.38%) Cisco
4 2 (2.38%) IBM
4 2 (2.38%) Oracle
4 2 (2.38%) Software AG
4 2 (2.38%) Splunk
4 2 (2.38%) webMethods
5 1 (1.19%) Arista
5 1 (1.19%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (1.19%) F5
5 1 (1.19%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.19%) HP
5 1 (1.19%) SAP
5 1 (1.19%) Workday