Senior Contracts in England

Senior
UK > England

The median Senior daily rate in England is £563 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 20 19
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 3,071 3,946 5,803
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.44% 8.19% 8.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.10% 8.66% 8.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,063 2,908 4,281
10th Percentile £400 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +4.35% +6.98%
75th Percentile £675 £706 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £559 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -5.25% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 88 97
10th Percentile £20.02 £17.72 £20.25
25th Percentile £32.38 £34.04 £25.68
Median hourly rate £47.50 £46.50 £43.36
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% +7.25% +31.68%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.85 £77.39
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £53.53 £43.36
% change year-on-year -6.59% +23.47% +31.98%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,742 45,591 67,107
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,367 32,416 47,845
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,431 1,343 1,853
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.39 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in England

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in England

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in England

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in England

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in England

Senior
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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
London +1 1,817 £600 -4.00% 1,582
South East +7 436 £525 +5.00% 580
North of England +3 343 £513 -8.89% 584
North West +10 250 £520 -2.12% 354
South West 0 148 £500 -16.67% 344
Midlands +11 136 £500 -7.41% 398
West Midlands +16 110 £500 -9.09% 275
East of England -13 92 £534 -9.11% 262
Yorkshire -10 87 £515 -10.43% 174
East Midlands -11 23 £525 - 124
North East +1 19 £600 -7.69% 63
Senior
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 England region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 853 (27.78%) Agile
2 685 (22.31%) Finance
3 636 (20.71%) Social Skills
4 522 (17.00%) Azure
5 488 (15.89%) Security Cleared
6 474 (15.43%) DevOps
7 436 (14.20%) AWS
8 424 (13.81%) Python
9 385 (12.54%) Microsoft
10 377 (12.28%) Public Sector
11 370 (12.05%) Java
12 359 (11.69%) SQL
13 355 (11.56%) Software Engineering
14 340 (11.07%) CI/CD
15 311 (10.13%) SC Cleared
16 295 (9.61%) C#
17 294 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
18 266 (8.66%) Stakeholder Management
19 248 (8.08%) Banking
19 248 (8.08%) Degree
20 244 (7.95%) JavaScript
21 224 (7.29%) .NET
21 224 (7.29%) Project Management
22 215 (7.00%) Scrum
23 206 (6.71%) Analytical Skills
24 199 (6.48%) Migration
25 197 (6.41%) Windows
26 194 (6.32%) React
27 192 (6.25%) SQL Server
28 190 (6.19%) Active Directory

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 53 (1.73%) Confluence
2 50 (1.63%) Apache
3 49 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
4 40 (1.30%) SharePoint
5 38 (1.24%) CMS
6 31 (1.01%) Apache Spark
7 30 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
8 16 (0.52%) SAS
9 6 (0.20%) Appian
9 6 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.20%) Documentum
9 6 (0.20%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.20%) Skype for Business
9 6 (0.20%) WordPress
10 4 (0.13%) nginx
11 3 (0.098%) ThingWorx
12 2 (0.065%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.065%) Drupal
12 2 (0.065%) GemFire
12 2 (0.065%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 57 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
2 53 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
4 18 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.49%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
6 11 (0.36%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.29%) Revit
8 8 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 8 (0.26%) InDesign
8 8 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.20%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
10 4 (0.13%) InVision
10 4 (0.13%) SPSS
10 4 (0.13%) Windchill
11 3 (0.098%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.098%) Sketch
12 2 (0.065%) Simulink
12 2 (0.065%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 44 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.59%) Primavera
4 14 (0.46%) NEC Housing
5 13 (0.42%) Endur
6 12 (0.39%) Teamcenter
7 8 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.23%) SAP CO
8 7 (0.23%) SAP FI
8 7 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
8 7 (0.23%) SAP SD
9 5 (0.16%) Shopify
9 5 (0.16%) SimCorp Dimension
10 4 (0.13%) OPENHousing
10 4 (0.13%) RMDS
11 3 (0.098%) ION MarketView
11 3 (0.098%) SAP EWM
12 2 (0.065%) SAP Business One
12 2 (0.065%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 522 (17.00%) Azure
2 436 (14.20%) AWS
3 184 (5.99%) Azure DevOps
4 111 (3.61%) GCP
5 103 (3.35%) Power Platform
6 91 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
7 78 (2.54%) Serverless
8 71 (2.31%) Entra ID
9 65 (2.12%) GitHub
10 62 (2.02%) SaaS
11 58 (1.89%) Snowflake
12 53 (1.73%) Azure Service Bus
13 52 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
14 47 (1.53%) dbt
15 46 (1.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 44 (1.43%) PaaS
17 36 (1.17%) IaaS
18 35 (1.14%) Amazon S3
19 32 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
20 30 (0.98%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 143 (4.66%) Firewall
2 61 (1.99%) Network Security
3 57 (1.86%) DNS
4 52 (1.69%) WAN
5 46 (1.50%) LAN
6 36 (1.17%) BGP
6 36 (1.17%) DHCP
7 31 (1.01%) VPN
8 28 (0.91%) DMZ
9 24 (0.78%) Internet
9 24 (0.78%) MPLS
9 24 (0.78%) OSPF
10 20 (0.65%) SAN
11 19 (0.62%) IPsec
11 19 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (0.62%) Wireless
12 18 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
12 18 (0.59%) Cisco Firepower
12 18 (0.59%) TCP/IP
13 17 (0.55%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 86 (2.80%) Power BI
3 63 (2.05%) NoSQL
4 60 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
5 57 (1.86%) Data Lake
6 48 (1.56%) MongoDB
7 45 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
8 43 (1.40%) Relational Database
9 36 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
10 35 (1.14%) Big Data
11 30 (0.98%) Apache Arrow
11 30 (0.98%) Apache Ignite
11 30 (0.98%) Dremio
11 30 (0.98%) KDB
12 29 (0.94%) Tableau
13 26 (0.85%) Oracle Database
14 22 (0.72%) MySQL
14 22 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
15 21 (0.68%) DynamoDB
15 21 (0.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 151 (4.92%) Git
2 121 (3.94%) JIRA
3 107 (3.48%) Jenkins
4 50 (1.63%) Selenium
5 49 (1.60%) GitLab
6 38 (1.24%) Postman
7 36 (1.17%) Cucumber
8 33 (1.07%) SpecFlow
9 32 (1.04%) Cypress.io
10 30 (0.98%) Mockito
11 27 (0.88%) Visual Studio
12 25 (0.81%) JUnit
13 23 (0.75%) Bitbucket
14 22 (0.72%) TeamCity
15 20 (0.65%) WebDriver
16 18 (0.59%) JMeter
17 12 (0.39%) Artifactory
17 12 (0.39%) CircleCI
17 12 (0.39%) git-flow
18 11 (0.36%) SonarQube
General
1 685 (22.31%) Finance
2 636 (20.71%) Social Skills
3 377 (12.28%) Public Sector
4 248 (8.08%) Banking
5 206 (6.71%) Analytical Skills
6 124 (4.04%) Front Office
7 93 (3.03%) Marketing
8 87 (2.83%) Back Office
9 73 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
10 71 (2.31%) Investment Banking
11 69 (2.25%) Telecoms
12 65 (2.12%) Local Government
13 60 (1.95%) Retail
14 59 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 50 (1.63%) Manufacturing
16 46 (1.50%) Legal
17 43 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
18 38 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
19 36 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
20 24 (0.78%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (7.29%) .NET
2 194 (6.32%) React
3 111 (3.61%) XML
4 105 (3.42%) CSS
5 104 (3.39%) AngularJS
6 103 (3.35%) Node.js
7 102 (3.32%) HTML
8 97 (3.16%) Kafka
9 86 (2.80%) REST
10 74 (2.41%) .NET Core
11 62 (2.02%) Pandas
12 59 (1.92%) .NET Framework
12 59 (1.92%) RESTful
13 57 (1.86%) Spring Boot
14 56 (1.82%) Spring
15 52 (1.69%) NumPy
16 46 (1.50%) SciPy
17 45 (1.47%) Web Services
18 44 (1.43%) ASP.NET
19 42 (1.37%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 145 (4.72%) Product Ownership
2 90 (2.93%) Derivative
3 81 (2.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 77 (2.51%) Fixed Income
5 66 (2.15%) Management Information System
6 63 (2.05%) Hedge funds
7 62 (2.02%) Data Centre
8 59 (1.92%) Onboarding
9 57 (1.86%) Mobile App
10 56 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
11 48 (1.56%) Algorithms
11 48 (1.56%) Equities
12 45 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
13 39 (1.27%) Data Structures
14 38 (1.24%) NHS
15 34 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
15 34 (1.11%) Public Cloud
16 32 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
17 27 (0.88%) Cloud Native
18 21 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 197 (6.41%) Windows
2 164 (5.34%) Linux
3 62 (2.02%) Unix
4 57 (1.86%) Windows Server
5 51 (1.66%) Android
6 48 (1.56%) Windows 10
7 45 (1.47%) Apple iOS
8 20 (0.65%) Mac OS X
9 13 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 12 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
11 10 (0.33%) Mac OS
11 10 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 7 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
13 6 (0.20%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (0.13%) Solaris
16 3 (0.098%) Windows 7
17 2 (0.065%) Alpine Linux
17 2 (0.065%) Embedded Linux
17 2 (0.065%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 853 (27.78%) Agile
2 474 (15.43%) DevOps
3 355 (11.56%) Software Engineering
4 340 (11.07%) CI/CD
5 294 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
6 266 (8.66%) Stakeholder Management
7 224 (7.29%) Project Management
8 215 (7.00%) Scrum
9 199 (6.48%) Migration
10 190 (6.19%) Test Automation
11 178 (5.80%) Analytics
12 177 (5.76%) User Experience
13 160 (5.21%) Mentoring
13 160 (5.21%) Project Delivery
14 157 (5.11%) TDD
15 148 (4.82%) Microservices
16 147 (4.79%) Business Intelligence
17 146 (4.75%) Roadmaps
18 142 (4.62%) SDLC
19 141 (4.59%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 424 (13.81%) Python
2 370 (12.05%) Java
3 359 (11.69%) SQL
4 295 (9.61%) C#
5 244 (7.95%) JavaScript
6 185 (6.02%) TypeScript
7 175 (5.70%) PowerShell
8 79 (2.57%) Go
9 60 (1.95%) Bicep
10 57 (1.86%) C++
11 47 (1.53%) Bash
12 46 (1.50%) Kotlin
13 43 (1.40%) Scala
14 38 (1.24%) C
15 21 (0.68%) Perl
16 17 (0.55%) Rust
16 17 (0.55%) Swift
17 13 (0.42%) PHP
18 11 (0.36%) R
18 11 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 488 (15.89%) Security Cleared
2 311 (10.13%) SC Cleared
3 248 (8.08%) Degree
4 126 (4.10%) DV Cleared
5 83 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
6 51 (1.66%) Master's Degree
7 48 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (1.17%) CCNP
8 36 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
9 35 (1.14%) CCNA
10 31 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
11 26 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (0.62%) AWS Certification
12 19 (0.62%) PMI Certification
13 17 (0.55%) Azure Certification
13 17 (0.55%) CISSP
14 16 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 15 (0.49%) PMP
16 10 (0.33%) PhD
17 9 (0.29%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (2.38%) Data Quality
1 73 (2.38%) QA
2 64 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 60 (1.95%) PMO
4 47 (1.53%) PCI DSS
5 38 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (1.20%) GDPR
7 31 (1.01%) NIST
8 25 (0.81%) SLA
9 23 (0.75%) WCAG
10 10 (0.33%) GRC
10 10 (0.33%) NCSC
11 7 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.23%) HL7
12 6 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.20%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.13%) MiFID
13 4 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.098%) GxP
14 3 (0.098%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 190 (6.19%) Active Directory
2 151 (4.92%) Docker
3 34 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
4 26 (0.85%) vSphere
5 12 (0.39%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.36%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.33%) Firmware
8 8 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.23%) XenApp
10 3 (0.098%) ACF2
10 3 (0.098%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 3 (0.098%) IAG
10 3 (0.098%) RACF
10 3 (0.098%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.098%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.098%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.098%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.065%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.065%) Squid
Systems Management
1 172 (5.60%) Kubernetes
2 153 (4.98%) Terraform
3 74 (2.41%) Ansible
4 30 (0.98%) Grafana
5 24 (0.78%) SCCM
6 23 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (0.55%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
9 11 (0.36%) Puppet
10 9 (0.29%) Kibana
11 8 (0.26%) Podman
11 8 (0.26%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.23%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.23%) SolarWinds Orion
12 7 (0.23%) VxRail
12 7 (0.23%) WSUS
13 6 (0.20%) Argo
13 6 (0.20%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.20%) SCOM
Vendors
1 385 (12.54%) Microsoft
2 145 (4.72%) SAP
3 118 (3.84%) Cisco
4 89 (2.90%) Oracle
5 82 (2.67%) VMware
6 66 (2.15%) ServiceNow
7 58 (1.89%) Google
8 42 (1.37%) Citrix
9 41 (1.34%) Palo Alto
10 35 (1.14%) CheckPoint
10 35 (1.14%) Databricks
11 33 (1.07%) Apple
11 33 (1.07%) Salesforce
12 32 (1.04%) Adobe
12 32 (1.04%) Splunk
13 30 (0.98%) Juniper
14 27 (0.88%) Arista
15 24 (0.78%) F5
15 24 (0.78%) SolarWinds
16 22 (0.72%) IBM