Senior Contracts in Gloucestershire

Senior
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Senior daily rate in Gloucestershire is £588 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 37 52 40
Rank change year-on-year +15 -12 -22
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 20 9 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 4.52% 2.08% 3.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.95% 2.20% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 8 14
10th Percentile £425 £450 £302
25th Percentile £465 £518 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £519
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +15.66% +12.16%
75th Percentile £625 £652 £561
90th Percentile £650 £722 £626
South West median daily rate £500 £600 £530
% change year-on-year -16.67% +13.21% +3.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £44.00
Median hourly rate - - £47.00
75th Percentile - - £50.00
90th Percentile - - -
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
Gloucestershire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire. 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 Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 404 409 497
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.40% 94.68% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 260 400
10th Percentile £300 £313 £170
25th Percentile £425 £436 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +9.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £669 £650 £588
90th Percentile £725 £725 £650
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 42 14
10th Percentile £15.50 £35.00 £11.83
25th Percentile £15.89 £50.63 £12.81
Median hourly rate £40.00 £78.00 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year -48.72% +228.42% -52.50%
75th Percentile £71.50 £83.31 £42.83
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.40 £53.50
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 Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Gloucestershire

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Gloucestershire

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Gloucestershire

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Gloucestershire

Senior
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Gloucestershire 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
Cheltenham -3 6 £470 -27.80% 11
Gloucester +12 5 £600 +0.84% 4
Senior
South West

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

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 Gloucestershire region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
1 9 (45.00%) Terraform
2 8 (40.00%) Linux
3 7 (35.00%) Windows
3 7 (35.00%) Azure
3 7 (35.00%) Ansible
4 6 (30.00%) AWS
4 6 (30.00%) DV Cleared
4 6 (30.00%) Bash
4 6 (30.00%) Python
4 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
5 5 (25.00%) JIRA
5 5 (25.00%) C
5 5 (25.00%) Finance
5 5 (25.00%) Confluence
5 5 (25.00%) DevOps
5 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
5 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 4 (20.00%) GitOps
6 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (20.00%) Docker
6 4 (20.00%) Bitbucket
6 4 (20.00%) vSphere
6 4 (20.00%) PaaS
6 4 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
6 4 (20.00%) VMware NSX
6 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (20.00%) Argo
6 4 (20.00%) TCP/IP

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 5 (25.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP ERP
1 1 (5.00%) SAP HCM
1 1 (5.00%) SAP HR
1 1 (5.00%) SAP Payroll
1 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) AWS
3 4 (20.00%) PaaS
4 3 (15.00%) OpenShift
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (10.00%) Azure AKS
5 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (10.00%) GCP
5 2 (10.00%) GitHub
5 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (10.00%) Slack
5 2 (10.00%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle BI EE
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle ODI
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) JIRA
2 4 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.00%) Git
3 2 (10.00%) GitLab
3 2 (10.00%) Snyk
3 2 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Local Government
3 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Fluent Bit
1 2 (10.00%) Loki
2 1 (5.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Linux
2 7 (35.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) DevOps
2 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (20.00%) GitOps
2 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (10.00%) Analytics
4 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (10.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (10.00%) Data Analytics
4 2 (10.00%) Data Integration
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (10.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
4 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (10.00%) SDLC
4 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (10.00%) Static Application Security Testing
4 2 (10.00%) Task Automation
5 1 (5.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Bash
1 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
1 6 (30.00%) Python
2 5 (25.00%) C
3 2 (10.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
1 4 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (20.00%) VMware NSX
1 4 (20.00%) vSphere
2 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Terraform
2 7 (35.00%) Ansible
3 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 4 (20.00%) Argo
5 3 (15.00%) Grafana
5 3 (15.00%) Prometheus
6 2 (10.00%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) SAP
2 2 (10.00%) VMware
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft