Senior Contracts in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior daily rate in London is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 1,807 2,577 3,808
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 10.24% 9.82% 9.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.97% 10.32% 10.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,288 1,935 2,883
10th Percentile £410 £430 £443
25th Percentile £481 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £720 £738 £717
90th Percentile £838 £830 £800
England median daily rate £563 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -6.25% +4.35% +7.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 26 40
10th Percentile £18.68 £18.93 -
25th Percentile £20.02 £32.13 -
Median hourly rate £35.96 £46.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -21.83% +79.13% -21.83%
75th Percentile £72.50 £63.31 £59.56
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.50 £70.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% +29.08%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,466 24,974 36,637
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 95.21% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,897 18,116 26,808
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £685 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 280 441
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.86 £22.68
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £46.48 £62.95 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.02 £80.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in London

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in London

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in London

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in London

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in London

Senior
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the London region over the 6 months to 10 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
Central London -1 225 £538 -14.68% 191
East London +3 39 £529 -29.50% 34
West London 0 33 £475 -15.93% 60
South London -3 32 £538 -2.27% 28
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 568 (31.43%) Agile
2 488 (27.01%) Finance
3 384 (21.25%) Social Skills
4 361 (19.98%) Azure
5 329 (18.21%) DevOps
6 313 (17.32%) Python
7 299 (16.55%) AWS
8 278 (15.38%) Java
9 257 (14.22%) C#
10 253 (14.00%) CI/CD
11 252 (13.95%) SQL
12 247 (13.67%) Microsoft
13 229 (12.67%) Software Engineering
14 207 (11.46%) JavaScript
15 199 (11.01%) Banking
16 190 (10.51%) Public Sector
17 186 (10.29%) .NET
18 170 (9.41%) Security Cleared
19 162 (8.97%) SQL Server
20 161 (8.91%) Scrum
20 161 (8.91%) Problem-Solving
21 152 (8.41%) React
22 149 (8.25%) TypeScript
23 145 (8.02%) Azure DevOps
24 140 (7.75%) Test Automation
25 139 (7.69%) PowerShell
26 137 (7.58%) SC Cleared
26 137 (7.58%) Degree
27 128 (7.08%) Stakeholder Management
27 128 (7.08%) Active Directory

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 42 (2.32%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (2.10%) Apache
3 34 (1.88%) Confluence
4 27 (1.49%) CMS
5 21 (1.16%) Apache Spark
6 15 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (0.83%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.33%) Appian
7 6 (0.33%) SAS
7 6 (0.33%) Skype for Business
7 6 (0.33%) WordPress
8 5 (0.28%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.28%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.22%) nginx
10 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.11%) CICS
10 2 (0.11%) GemFire
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (0.11%) ThingWorx
10 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 40 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.83%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.55%) Adobe Illustrator
6 10 (0.55%) Photoshop
7 8 (0.44%) InDesign
8 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.17%) Sketch
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.11%) InVision
11 2 (0.11%) Revit
11 2 (0.11%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.055%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.055%) Chatbot
12 1 (0.055%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 16 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.72%) Endur
4 12 (0.66%) NEC Housing
5 8 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.28%) Shopify
6 5 (0.28%) SimCorp Dimension
7 4 (0.22%) OPENHousing
7 4 (0.22%) RMDS
7 4 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.11%) ION MarketView
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.11%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.11%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.11%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.055%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 361 (19.98%) Azure
2 299 (16.55%) AWS
3 145 (8.02%) Azure DevOps
4 81 (4.48%) GCP
5 70 (3.87%) Serverless
6 66 (3.65%) Entra ID
7 51 (2.82%) Azure Service Bus
7 51 (2.82%) GitHub
8 49 (2.71%) AWS Lambda
8 49 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
9 45 (2.49%) SaaS
10 42 (2.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 42 (2.32%) dbt
11 40 (2.21%) Power Platform
11 40 (2.21%) Snowflake
12 34 (1.88%) Amazon S3
13 30 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
14 27 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
14 27 (1.49%) IaaS
14 27 (1.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 79 (4.37%) Firewall
2 34 (1.88%) Network Security
3 28 (1.55%) DNS
4 21 (1.16%) VPN
5 20 (1.11%) LAN
6 19 (1.05%) WAN
7 18 (1.00%) Internet
8 17 (0.94%) DHCP
9 14 (0.77%) BGP
10 13 (0.72%) OSPF
11 12 (0.66%) MPLS
12 11 (0.61%) Wireless
13 10 (0.55%) IPsec
13 10 (0.55%) SD-WAN
14 9 (0.50%) VLAN
14 9 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.44%) Cisco ASA
15 8 (0.44%) HSRP
15 8 (0.44%) TCP/IP
16 7 (0.39%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (8.97%) SQL Server
2 53 (2.93%) NoSQL
3 44 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (2.16%) Data Lake
5 37 (2.05%) Relational Database
6 36 (1.99%) Power BI
7 31 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
8 29 (1.60%) MongoDB
9 28 (1.55%) KDB
10 27 (1.49%) Big Data
11 26 (1.44%) Apache Arrow
11 26 (1.44%) Apache Ignite
11 26 (1.44%) Dremio
12 23 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
13 21 (1.16%) DynamoDB
14 20 (1.11%) Oracle Database
15 19 (1.05%) Redis
16 16 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
17 14 (0.77%) Tableau
18 12 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 111 (6.14%) Git
2 68 (3.76%) Jenkins
3 65 (3.60%) JIRA
4 34 (1.88%) SpecFlow
5 31 (1.72%) Mockito
6 28 (1.55%) Cypress.io
6 28 (1.55%) Postman
7 26 (1.44%) Selenium
8 23 (1.27%) Cucumber
9 21 (1.16%) JUnit
9 21 (1.16%) TeamCity
9 21 (1.16%) Visual Studio
10 18 (1.00%) GitLab
11 17 (0.94%) WebDriver
12 13 (0.72%) Bitbucket
13 12 (0.66%) Maven
14 11 (0.61%) git-flow
15 9 (0.50%) Appium
16 8 (0.44%) Artifactory
16 8 (0.44%) CircleCI
General
1 488 (27.01%) Finance
2 384 (21.25%) Social Skills
3 199 (11.01%) Banking
4 190 (10.51%) Public Sector
5 120 (6.64%) Analytical Skills
6 116 (6.42%) Front Office
7 85 (4.70%) Back Office
8 67 (3.71%) Investment Banking
9 60 (3.32%) Marketing
10 50 (2.77%) Local Government
11 48 (2.66%) Retail
12 47 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 47 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
13 31 (1.72%) Legal
14 27 (1.49%) Telecoms
15 22 (1.22%) Financial Institution
16 21 (1.16%) Advertising
16 21 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
17 20 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
17 20 (1.11%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (10.29%) .NET
2 152 (8.41%) React
3 100 (5.53%) XML
4 85 (4.70%) AngularJS
5 80 (4.43%) CSS
6 79 (4.37%) Node.js
7 77 (4.26%) HTML
8 65 (3.60%) Kafka
9 64 (3.54%) REST
10 62 (3.43%) .NET Core
11 57 (3.15%) Pandas
12 50 (2.77%) .NET Framework
13 49 (2.71%) Spring Boot
14 48 (2.66%) Spring
15 46 (2.55%) NumPy
16 42 (2.32%) SciPy
17 40 (2.21%) ASP.NET
17 40 (2.21%) RESTful
18 38 (2.10%) gRPC
19 32 (1.77%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 115 (6.36%) Product Ownership
2 85 (4.70%) Derivative
3 71 (3.93%) Fixed Income
4 68 (3.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 59 (3.27%) Hedge funds
6 47 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
6 47 (2.60%) Mobile App
7 44 (2.43%) Equities
8 42 (2.32%) Management Information System
8 42 (2.32%) Onboarding
9 35 (1.94%) Algorithms
10 33 (1.83%) Data Centre
11 29 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
12 26 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
13 25 (1.38%) Data Structures
14 22 (1.22%) Public Cloud
15 21 (1.16%) Cloud Native
15 21 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
16 16 (0.89%) Credit Derivative
16 16 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 78 (4.32%) Linux
1 78 (4.32%) Windows
2 36 (1.99%) Android
3 35 (1.94%) Unix
4 32 (1.77%) Windows Server
5 30 (1.66%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.89%) Mac OS X
6 16 (0.89%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.28%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.11%) zOS
10 1 (0.055%) CentOS
10 1 (0.055%) VMS
10 1 (0.055%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 568 (31.43%) Agile
2 329 (18.21%) DevOps
3 253 (14.00%) CI/CD
4 229 (12.67%) Software Engineering
5 161 (8.91%) Problem-Solving
5 161 (8.91%) Scrum
6 140 (7.75%) Test Automation
7 128 (7.08%) Stakeholder Management
8 126 (6.97%) User Experience
9 125 (6.92%) Analytics
9 125 (6.92%) TDD
10 115 (6.36%) SDLC
11 114 (6.31%) Migration
12 108 (5.98%) Microservices
13 105 (5.81%) Mentoring
14 90 (4.98%) Project Management
15 85 (4.70%) Asset Management
16 83 (4.59%) Data Modelling
17 82 (4.54%) Business Intelligence
17 82 (4.54%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 313 (17.32%) Python
2 278 (15.38%) Java
3 257 (14.22%) C#
4 252 (13.95%) SQL
5 207 (11.46%) JavaScript
6 149 (8.25%) TypeScript
7 139 (7.69%) PowerShell
8 56 (3.10%) Bicep
9 52 (2.88%) Go
10 33 (1.83%) Kotlin
11 29 (1.60%) C++
12 25 (1.38%) Scala
13 21 (1.16%) Bash
14 16 (0.89%) Swift
15 15 (0.83%) Rust
16 9 (0.50%) Ruby
16 9 (0.50%) T-SQL
17 7 (0.39%) C
17 7 (0.39%) PHP
18 5 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 170 (9.41%) Security Cleared
2 137 (7.58%) Degree
2 137 (7.58%) SC Cleared
3 31 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
4 25 (1.38%) DV Cleared
5 23 (1.27%) Master's Degree
6 14 (0.77%) CCNP
7 11 (0.61%) PMI Certification
8 10 (0.55%) Azure Certification
8 10 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (0.55%) CCNA
8 10 (0.55%) CISSP
9 8 (0.44%) AWS Certification
9 8 (0.44%) PMP
9 8 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 7 (0.39%) GIAC
10 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (0.33%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (2.71%) Data Quality
2 38 (2.10%) Accessibility
3 37 (2.05%) QA
4 33 (1.83%) PCI DSS
5 27 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (1.38%) PMO
7 21 (1.16%) NIST
8 18 (1.00%) GDPR
9 17 (0.94%) SLA
9 17 (0.94%) WCAG
10 6 (0.33%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.22%) GRC
11 4 (0.22%) MiFID
11 4 (0.22%) NCSC
12 3 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.17%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.11%) P3O
13 2 (0.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 128 (7.08%) Active Directory
2 93 (5.15%) Docker
3 13 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.39%) vSphere
5 2 (0.11%) ACF2
5 2 (0.11%) IAG
5 2 (0.11%) RACF
5 2 (0.11%) Squid
5 2 (0.11%) Terminal Services
5 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.055%) Firmware
6 1 (0.055%) GridGain
6 1 (0.055%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.055%) NFS
6 1 (0.055%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 102 (5.64%) Kubernetes
2 81 (4.48%) Terraform
3 28 (1.55%) Ansible
4 18 (1.00%) Grafana
5 16 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.50%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.39%) Puppet
7 7 (0.39%) SCCM
8 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.28%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (0.28%) Kibana
9 5 (0.28%) Opsgenie
9 5 (0.28%) SCOM
9 5 (0.28%) SolarWinds Orion
10 4 (0.22%) Functional Safety
10 4 (0.22%) VxRail
11 3 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.17%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.11%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 247 (13.67%) Microsoft
2 65 (3.60%) Oracle
3 61 (3.38%) SAP
4 46 (2.55%) Google
5 42 (2.32%) Cisco
6 32 (1.77%) ServiceNow
7 30 (1.66%) Databricks
8 25 (1.38%) Adobe
9 24 (1.33%) Salesforce
10 23 (1.27%) IBM
10 23 (1.27%) Palo Alto
11 22 (1.22%) VMware
12 21 (1.16%) Citrix
13 19 (1.05%) Apple
14 13 (0.72%) ION Trading
14 13 (0.72%) NEC
15 11 (0.61%) F5
15 11 (0.61%) Fortinet
15 11 (0.61%) New Relic
15 11 (0.61%) Splunk