Senior Contracts in Birmingham

Senior
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Senior daily rate in Birmingham is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 25 19
Rank change year-on-year +1 -6 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 42 56 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 5.66% 6.29% 7.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.04% 6.51% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 42 72
10th Percentile £259 £379 £413
25th Percentile £267 £503 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £594
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -3.16% +31.94%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £700
90th Percentile £575 £700 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £56.25 £24.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +134.38% - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £44.75 £17.72 £16.00
% change year-on-year +152.54% +10.75% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 695 860 1,249
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 96.52% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 563 902
10th Percentile £250 £263 £225
25th Percentile £338 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £599
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £480 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 35 21
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.20 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.63 £13.10 £13.75
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £48.75 £24.94 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £60.50 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.98 £20.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +4.88% +17.65% +13.33%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Birmingham

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Birmingham

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Birmingham over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Birmingham

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 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 job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 16 (38.10%) SQL
2 12 (28.57%) Finance
2 12 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 10 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (23.81%) Power Platform
3 10 (23.81%) Power BI
4 9 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (21.43%) Microsoft
5 7 (16.67%) CRM
5 7 (16.67%) Agile
5 7 (16.67%) HL7
5 7 (16.67%) Azure
5 7 (16.67%) Rational Rhapsody
6 5 (11.90%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (11.90%) Analytics
6 5 (11.90%) Visualisation
6 5 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (9.52%) Service Delivery
7 4 (9.52%) Project Management
7 4 (9.52%) Data Modelling
7 4 (9.52%) ETL
7 4 (9.52%) Python
7 4 (9.52%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (9.52%) Data Analysis
7 4 (9.52%) Coaching
7 4 (9.52%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (9.52%) Roadmaps
8 3 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (7.14%) Product Ownership

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.38%) CMS
2 1 (2.38%) Moodle
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.38%) Maximo
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.38%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.81%) Power Platform
2 7 (16.67%) Azure
3 3 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (7.14%) PowerApps
4 2 (4.76%) Apigee
4 2 (4.76%) Azure Functions
4 2 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (4.76%) GCP
4 2 (4.76%) Power Automate
4 2 (4.76%) Serverless
5 1 (2.38%) AWS
5 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.38%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.38%) Firewall
2 1 (2.38%) LAN
2 1 (2.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.81%) Power BI
2 2 (4.76%) Data Mining
2 2 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.76%) Power Query
2 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (4.76%) Tableau
3 1 (2.38%) Big Data
3 1 (2.38%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.38%) Presto
3 1 (2.38%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) Rational Rhapsody
2 2 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.38%) Ant
3 1 (2.38%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.38%) Gradle
3 1 (2.38%) JIRA
3 1 (2.38%) JUnit
3 1 (2.38%) Maven
3 1 (2.38%) Selenium
3 1 (2.38%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 12 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 12 (28.57%) Finance
1 12 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.14%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (4.76%) Legal
3 2 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (4.76%) React
2 2 (4.76%) Spring
3 1 (2.38%) .NET
3 1 (2.38%) CSS
3 1 (2.38%) HTML
3 1 (2.38%) LDAP
3 1 (2.38%) Middleware
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (7.14%) CMDB
2 3 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (7.14%) NHS
2 3 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.14%) Taxonomies
3 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.76%) Operational Technology
3 2 (4.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.38%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.38%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.38%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (16.67%) Agile
3 7 (16.67%) CRM
4 5 (11.90%) Analytics
4 5 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (11.90%) Visualisation
5 4 (9.52%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (9.52%) Coaching
5 4 (9.52%) Data Analysis
5 4 (9.52%) Data Modelling
5 4 (9.52%) ETL
5 4 (9.52%) Project Management
5 4 (9.52%) Roadmaps
5 4 (9.52%) Service Delivery
6 3 (7.14%) Computer Science
6 3 (7.14%) ERP
6 3 (7.14%) ITIL
6 3 (7.14%) Scrum
6 3 (7.14%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 16 (38.10%) SQL
2 4 (9.52%) Python
3 3 (7.14%) Java
4 2 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.38%) C
5 1 (2.38%) C#
5 1 (2.38%) C++
5 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.38%) Scala
5 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (7.14%) CIPD
2 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.76%) Degree
2 2 (4.76%) Master's Degree
2 2 (4.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.67%) HL7
2 2 (4.76%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.38%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (2.38%) FortiGate
1 1 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.76%) Aruba
3 2 (4.76%) Splunk
4 1 (2.38%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.38%) Anaplan
4 1 (2.38%) Cisco
4 1 (2.38%) Darktrace
4 1 (2.38%) Databricks
4 1 (2.38%) F5
4 1 (2.38%) FireEye
4 1 (2.38%) Hyperion
4 1 (2.38%) IBM
4 1 (2.38%) JD Edwards
4 1 (2.38%) LogRhythm
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle
4 1 (2.38%) PeopleSoft
4 1 (2.38%) Teradata