Senior Contracts in Essex

Senior
East of England > Essex

The median Senior daily rate in Essex is £318, 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 13 7 27
Rank change year-on-year -6 +20 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 7 34 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 5.60% 14.66% 7.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.79% 15.67% 7.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 19
10th Percentile £308 £209 £418
25th Percentile £312 £243 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £318 £535 £513
Median % change year-on-year -40.56% +4.39% +3.02%
75th Percentile £319 £575 £596
90th Percentile £320 £645 £650
East of England median daily rate £506 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.95% - +13.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £72.10 -
25th Percentile £40.75 £72.25 -
Median hourly rate £41.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -44.67% - -
75th Percentile £42.25 £78.50 -
90th Percentile - £79.10 -
East of England median hourly rate £35.00 £25.00 £31.85
% change year-on-year +40.00% -21.51% +135.93%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Essex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Essex. 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 Essex with a recognized job title 121 217 353
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.80% 93.53% 95.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 131 251
10th Percentile £180 £180 £133
25th Percentile £263 £298 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £319 £475 £473
Median % change year-on-year -32.84% +0.53% +11.18%
75th Percentile £450 £575 £550
90th Percentile £600 £600 £629
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 17 22
10th Percentile £20.75 £20.30 £12.26
25th Percentile £26.98 £20.50 £17.56
Median hourly rate £34.59 £50.00 £20.14
Median % change year-on-year -30.83% +148.26% -25.41%
75th Percentile £76.44 £76.00 £52.38
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.70 £76.43
East of England median hourly rate £47.50 £43.15 £19.81
% change year-on-year +10.08% +117.82% +41.50%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Essex

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Essex

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Essex

Senior
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Essex 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
Basildon +2 2 £320 +30.83%
Senior
East of England

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

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 Essex region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Master's Degree
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Law
2 3 (42.86%) Degree
3 2 (28.57%) Workflow Management
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Open Source
3 2 (28.57%) Data Security
3 2 (28.57%) Workflow
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Apache
3 2 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) Looker
3 2 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 2 (28.57%) BigQuery
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) NumPy
3 2 (28.57%) User Stories
3 2 (28.57%) Kafka
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) Pandas
3 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (28.57%) DataOps
3 2 (28.57%) dbt

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 (28.57%) Apache
1 2 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) dbt
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
1 2 (28.57%) GitHub
1 2 (28.57%) Vertex AI
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Extranet
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) BigQuery
1 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (28.57%) Looker
2 1 (14.29%) Metadata
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Law
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
1 2 (28.57%) NumPy
1 2 (28.57%) Pandas
1 2 (28.57%) PySpark
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) FPGA
1 1 (14.29%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Critical Thinking
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (28.57%) Data Science
2 2 (28.57%) Data Security
2 2 (28.57%) DataOps
2 2 (28.57%) ETL
2 2 (28.57%) Open Source
2 2 (28.57%) User Stories
2 2 (28.57%) Workflow
2 2 (28.57%) Workflow Management
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) Contract Management
3 1 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (14.29%) People Management
3 1 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
1 3 (42.86%) Master's Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Checkmarx
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco
1 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
1 1 (14.29%) Xilinx