Senior Contracts in Dorset

Senior
South West > Dorset

The median Senior daily rate in Dorset is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 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
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 34 4
Rank change year-on-year +23 -30 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 8 6 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 7.41% 2.20% 15.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.92% 2.24% 16.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 31
10th Percentile - £398 -
25th Percentile £456 £431 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +35.59%
75th Percentile £469 £556 £550
90th Percentile - £583 £688
South West median daily rate £550 £600 £556
% change year-on-year -8.33% +7.87% +11.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.66 -
South West median hourly rate £65.50 £60.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year +9.17% -9.09% +46.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Dorset

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Dorset. 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 Dorset with a recognized job title 101 268 200
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 98.17% 94.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 151 154
10th Percentile £223 £172 £200
25th Percentile £450 £357 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +6.06% +13.14%
75th Percentile £634 £638 £552
90th Percentile £721 £675 £688
South West median daily rate £513 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -4.65% +2.38% +14.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 63 18
10th Percentile £14.41 £14.52 £12.28
25th Percentile £14.71 £17.57 £15.16
Median hourly rate £15.62 £56.49 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -72.35% +169.00% -57.96%
75th Percentile £22.79 £59.66 £55.08
90th Percentile £43.84 £68.89 £59.53
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £56.49 £61.50
% change year-on-year +15.06% -8.15% +29.47%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Dorset

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Dorset

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Dorset

Senior
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Bournemouth +7 2 - - 6
Senior
South West

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

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

1 8 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) Blue Coat
2 6 (75.00%) ProxySG
2 6 (75.00%) IIS
2 6 (75.00%) Cisco
2 6 (75.00%) CheckPoint
2 6 (75.00%) Firewall
2 6 (75.00%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (75.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 6 (75.00%) F5
3 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
3 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (25.00%) SDLC
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (25.00%) Community of Practice
3 2 (25.00%) Operational Stability
3 2 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Confluence
3 2 (25.00%) Information Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 6 (75.00%) IIS
2 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco ASA
1 6 (75.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 6 (75.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Community of Practice
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) Information Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) Kanban
2 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (25.00%) Microservices
2 2 (25.00%) Operational Stability
2 2 (25.00%) Scrum
2 2 (25.00%) SDLC
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Blue Coat
1 6 (75.00%) CheckPoint
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco
1 6 (75.00%) F5
2 2 (25.00%) Atlassian