Senior Contracts in Hertfordshire

Senior
East of England > Hertfordshire

The median Senior daily rate in Hertfordshire is £531, 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 29 37 28
Rank change year-on-year +8 -9 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 19 41 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 3.94% 5.46% 6.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.21% 5.86% 7.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 32 43
10th Percentile £460 £276 £438
25th Percentile £489 £519 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £613 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.27% -2.00% +40.85%
75th Percentile £591 £633 £731
90th Percentile £600 £698 £738
East of England median daily rate £506 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.95% - +13.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £17.72 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +97.52% - -55.14%
75th Percentile £40.00 £21.36 -
90th Percentile £43.00 £23.54 -
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
Hertfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hertfordshire. 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 Hertfordshire with a recognized job title 451 700 767
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 93.21% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 398 478
10th Percentile £263 £263 £225
25th Percentile £331 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.35% -4.72% +16.61%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £650
90th Percentile £625 £739 £738
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 150 128
10th Percentile £15.34 £17.75 £16.11
25th Percentile £36.70 £42.31 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +147.42%
75th Percentile £66.00 £70.00 £65.82
90th Percentile £74.25 £90.00 £70.75
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 Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Hertfordshire

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Hertfordshire

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Hertfordshire

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Hertfordshire

Senior
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Hertfordshire 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
Stevenage +10 6 - - 11
Hemel Hempstead +15 3 £588 -28.79% 6
Hatfield -4 3 £500 -13.04% 3
Welwyn Garden City - 3 - - 1
Watford +1 2 £600 +65.52% 13
Hitchin - 2 £513 - 1
Senior
East of England

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

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 Hertfordshire region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 11 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
2 7 (36.84%) SMTP
2 7 (36.84%) FTP
2 7 (36.84%) HTTP
3 5 (26.32%) DNS
3 5 (26.32%) SSL
3 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
3 5 (26.32%) WAN
3 5 (26.32%) LDAP
3 5 (26.32%) Splunk
3 5 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (26.32%) Incident Response
4 4 (21.05%) Azure
4 4 (21.05%) Process Improvement
4 4 (21.05%) DV Cleared
4 4 (21.05%) Retail
4 4 (21.05%) LAN
4 4 (21.05%) Internet
5 3 (15.79%) CMS
5 3 (15.79%) Symantec
5 3 (15.79%) Configuration Management
5 3 (15.79%) Windows
5 3 (15.79%) Linux
5 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
5 3 (15.79%) PLM
5 3 (15.79%) Windchill
5 3 (15.79%) Marketing
5 3 (15.79%) IronPort
5 3 (15.79%) Cybersecurity

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (15.79%) CMS
2 2 (10.53%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (10.53%) Exchange Server 2013
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (10.53%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Windchill
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (5.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) AWS
3 2 (10.53%) Akamai
3 2 (10.53%) Cohesity
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (36.84%) FTP
1 7 (36.84%) HTTP
1 7 (36.84%) SMTP
2 5 (26.32%) DNS
2 5 (26.32%) SSL
2 5 (26.32%) WAN
3 4 (21.05%) Internet
3 4 (21.05%) LAN
4 3 (15.79%) SD-WAN
5 2 (10.53%) DMVPN
5 2 (10.53%) GLBP
5 2 (10.53%) IMAP
5 2 (10.53%) IPsec
5 2 (10.53%) Multicast
5 2 (10.53%) NetScaler
5 2 (10.53%) SAN
5 2 (10.53%) Skype
5 2 (10.53%) SNMP
5 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
5 2 (10.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (5.26%) Couchbase
1 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
General
1 5 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Retail
3 3 (15.79%) Marketing
3 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Electronics
4 2 (10.53%) Finance
4 2 (10.53%) Legal
4 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
4 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.26%) Law
5 1 (5.26%) Military
5 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) LDAP
2 2 (10.53%) 802.1X
2 2 (10.53%) HTML
2 2 (10.53%) XML
3 1 (5.26%) Kafka
3 1 (5.26%) Micronaut
3 1 (5.26%) Spring
3 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Cyberattack
1 3 (15.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 3 (15.79%) FMCG
1 3 (15.79%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (10.53%) Blackberry
2 2 (10.53%) Client/Server
2 2 (10.53%) CMDB
2 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
1 3 (15.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Incident Response
2 4 (21.05%) Process Improvement
3 3 (15.79%) Configuration Management
3 3 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
3 3 (15.79%) PLM
3 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (15.79%) Security Operations
4 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (10.53%) Coaching
4 2 (10.53%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 2 (10.53%) Due Diligence
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (10.53%) Network Management
4 2 (10.53%) PDM
4 2 (10.53%) Presales
4 2 (10.53%) Programme Management
4 2 (10.53%) Systems Engineering
4 2 (10.53%) The Twelve-Factor App
4 2 (10.53%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Bash
1 2 (10.53%) C++
1 2 (10.53%) Perl
1 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
1 2 (10.53%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) C#
2 1 (5.26%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
3 4 (21.05%) DV Cleared
4 2 (10.53%) CCDP
4 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (10.53%) OSCP
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.26%) CISM
5 1 (5.26%) CISSP
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (5.26%) GDPR
1 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.26%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) HAProxy
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
1 5 (26.32%) Splunk
2 3 (15.79%) Darktrace
2 3 (15.79%) FireEye
2 3 (15.79%) IronPort
2 3 (15.79%) LogRhythm
2 3 (15.79%) Symantec
3 2 (10.53%) Arista
3 2 (10.53%) Blue Coat
3 2 (10.53%) Cisco
3 2 (10.53%) Citrix
3 2 (10.53%) F5
3 2 (10.53%) Juniper
3 2 (10.53%) NetApp
3 2 (10.53%) Riverbed
3 2 (10.53%) SAP
3 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
3 2 (10.53%) VMware
3 2 (10.53%) Zscaler
4 1 (5.26%) Workday