Senior Contracts in Bristol

Senior
South West > Bristol

The median Senior daily rate in Bristol is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 25 37
Rank change year-on-year -4 +12 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 54 82 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 5.05% 7.13% 4.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.30% 7.92% 4.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 68 57
10th Percentile £434 £413 £410
25th Percentile £463 £508 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £530
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +13.21% +11.58%
75th Percentile £590 £660 £638
90th Percentile £621 £749 £721
South West median daily rate £500 £600 £530
% change year-on-year -16.67% +13.21% +3.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 0
10th Percentile £53.75 - -
25th Percentile £65.00 £17.72 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £48.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +54.64% - -
75th Percentile - £83.75 -
90th Percentile £77.40 - -
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £45.96
% change year-on-year +27.27% +19.67% -16.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 1,018 1,036 1,342
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.23% 90.09% 94.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 753 921
10th Percentile £258 £300 £281
25th Percentile £375 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £588
90th Percentile £688 £713 £650
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 127 122
10th Percentile £27.50 £28.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £44.94 £55.63 £16.04
Median hourly rate £66.25 £65.00 £42.54
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% +52.82% +0.08%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.30 £64.65
90th Percentile £80.00 £83.75 £65.75
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £64.57 £45.17
% change year-on-year -14.82% +42.95% +1.51%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Bristol

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Bristol

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Bristol over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Bristol

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Bristol

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in Bristol over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in Bristol

Senior
Contract Job Locations in Bristol

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Bristol region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
Avonmouth - 1 £410 -
Senior
South West

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 Bristol region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 21 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 17 (31.48%) SC Cleared
3 13 (24.07%) Agile
4 12 (22.22%) DevOps
5 11 (20.37%) CI/CD
6 10 (18.52%) Azure
6 10 (18.52%) SQL
7 9 (16.67%) .NET
7 9 (16.67%) Project Management
7 9 (16.67%) TypeScript
8 7 (12.96%) Social Skills
8 7 (12.96%) Power Platform
8 7 (12.96%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (12.96%) GraphQL
8 7 (12.96%) BDD
8 7 (12.96%) AngularJS
8 7 (12.96%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (12.96%) Microsoft
8 7 (12.96%) Finance
8 7 (12.96%) TDD
9 6 (11.11%) Marketing
9 6 (11.11%) Test Automation
9 6 (11.11%) Waterfall
9 6 (11.11%) Kanban
9 6 (11.11%) Scrum
9 6 (11.11%) SAP
9 6 (11.11%) Test Strategy
9 6 (11.11%) Docker
9 6 (11.11%) Terraform
9 6 (11.11%) Customer Requirements

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 3 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.70%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 10 (18.52%) Azure
2 7 (12.96%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (12.96%) Power Platform
3 4 (7.41%) AWS
3 4 (7.41%) GCP
4 3 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (5.56%) Power Automate
4 3 (5.56%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.70%) Serverless
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Service Fabric
6 1 (1.85%) PaaS
6 1 (1.85%) SaaS
6 1 (1.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) DHCP
1 1 (1.85%) DNS
1 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.56%) Power BI
2 2 (3.70%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Git
1 5 (9.26%) NUnit
1 5 (9.26%) Postman
1 5 (9.26%) Visual Studio
2 3 (5.56%) JIRA
3 2 (3.70%) Artifactory
3 2 (3.70%) GitLab
4 1 (1.85%) Cypress.io
General
1 7 (12.96%) Finance
1 7 (12.96%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.11%) Marketing
3 5 (9.26%) Manufacturing
3 5 (9.26%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.26%) Telecoms
4 4 (7.41%) Electronics
5 2 (3.70%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.85%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Banking
6 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.67%) .NET
2 7 (12.96%) AngularJS
2 7 (12.96%) GraphQL
3 5 (9.26%) Playwright
4 3 (5.56%) React
4 3 (5.56%) REST
5 2 (3.70%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (3.70%) ASP.NET
5 2 (3.70%) Next.js
5 2 (3.70%) Node.js
5 2 (3.70%) Redux
5 2 (3.70%) Web Services
6 1 (1.85%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.85%) CSS
6 1 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.85%) HTML
6 1 (1.85%) NgRx
6 1 (1.85%) SAML
6 1 (1.85%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (3.70%) IoT
3 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.56%) Windows
2 2 (3.70%) Linux
3 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.85%) Unix
3 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (24.07%) Agile
2 12 (22.22%) DevOps
3 11 (20.37%) CI/CD
4 9 (16.67%) Project Management
5 7 (12.96%) BDD
5 7 (12.96%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (12.96%) TDD
6 6 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
6 6 (11.11%) Kanban
6 6 (11.11%) Scrum
6 6 (11.11%) Test Automation
6 6 (11.11%) Test Strategy
6 6 (11.11%) Waterfall
7 5 (9.26%) Acceptance Criteria
7 5 (9.26%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (9.26%) Load Testing
7 5 (9.26%) Manual Testing
7 5 (9.26%) Performance Testing
7 5 (9.26%) Security Testing
7 5 (9.26%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.52%) SQL
2 9 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 5 (9.26%) C#
4 4 (7.41%) Python
5 3 (5.56%) Go
5 3 (5.56%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.85%) Bash
6 1 (1.85%) Bicep
6 1 (1.85%) Java
6 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 21 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 17 (31.48%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.26%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.56%) Degree
5 1 (1.85%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.41%) QA
3 1 (1.85%) NIST
3 1 (1.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (11.11%) Docker
2 2 (3.70%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (11.11%) Terraform
2 5 (9.26%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.56%) Ansible
4 2 (3.70%) SCCM
5 1 (1.85%) Grafana
5 1 (1.85%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.85%) Puppet
5 1 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.85%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.85%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (12.96%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.11%) SAP
3 3 (5.56%) VMware
4 2 (3.70%) Google
4 2 (3.70%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.85%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.85%) Dell
5 1 (1.85%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.85%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.85%) Veeam