Senior Contracts in the North of England

Senior
England > North of England

The median Senior daily rate in the North of England is £513 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 20 23 23
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 0
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 343 363 510
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 7.39% 6.50% 7.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.92% 6.81% 7.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 264 370
10th Percentile £325 £400 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £563 £528
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +6.64% +5.50%
75th Percentile £601 £650 £598
90th Percentile £675 £700 £663
England median daily rate £563 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -6.25% +4.35% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 11 22
10th Percentile £23.00 £17.72 £25.80
25th Percentile £27.00 £19.49 £33.27
Median hourly rate £42.91 £35.00 £51.45
Median % change year-on-year +22.60% -31.97% +58.67%
75th Percentile £52.78 £63.75 £76.88
90th Percentile £68.75 £66.69 £80.65
England median hourly rate £47.50 £46.50 £43.36
% change year-on-year +2.15% +7.25% +31.68%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,330 5,332 6,905
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 95.44% 96.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,711 3,750 5,067
10th Percentile £263 £280 £200
25th Percentile £389 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £556
90th Percentile £675 £680 £640
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 399 155 290
10th Percentile £11.06 £14.10 £11.19
25th Percentile £12.53 £17.99 £14.40
Median hourly rate £20.77 £30.54 £19.35
Median % change year-on-year -31.99% +57.81% +8.11%
75th Percentile £46.18 £49.45 £34.89
90th Percentile £62.75 £66.41 £58.75
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
% change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the North of England

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in the North of England

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior in the North of England

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in the North of England

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in the North of England

Senior
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West +10 250 £520 -2.12% 354
Yorkshire -10 87 £515 -10.43% 175
North East +1 19 £600 -7.69% 65
Senior
England

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 North of England region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 68 (19.83%) Social Skills
2 63 (18.37%) Agile
3 50 (14.58%) Security Cleared
4 47 (13.70%) Public Sector
5 44 (12.83%) ITIL
6 39 (11.37%) AWS
7 37 (10.79%) SC Cleared
8 36 (10.50%) SAP
9 35 (10.20%) Finance
10 34 (9.91%) Microsoft
10 34 (9.91%) DevOps
11 33 (9.62%) Java
12 32 (9.33%) Python
13 31 (9.04%) CI/CD
14 30 (8.75%) Roadmaps
14 30 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (8.75%) Software Engineering
14 30 (8.75%) Azure
15 29 (8.45%) Degree
15 29 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
16 25 (7.29%) ServiceNow
17 23 (6.71%) Business Intelligence
18 22 (6.41%) SQL
18 22 (6.41%) Cisco Certification
18 22 (6.41%) Stakeholder Management
19 21 (6.12%) Data Analysis
19 21 (6.12%) CCNA
19 21 (6.12%) Test Automation
19 21 (6.12%) Microservices
20 20 (5.83%) MongoDB

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 7 (2.04%) Confluence
2 6 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.46%) SAS
4 4 (1.17%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.29%) Apache
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.29%) Drupal
5 1 (0.29%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.75%) Revit
3 5 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.17%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.58%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.29%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 10 (2.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.58%) SAP WM
2 2 (0.58%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.29%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.29%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.29%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.29%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.29%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 39 (11.37%) AWS
2 30 (8.75%) Azure
3 19 (5.54%) Power Platform
4 16 (4.66%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (2.92%) GCP
5 10 (2.92%) Snowflake
6 7 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.04%) SuccessFactors
7 5 (1.46%) Collibra
7 5 (1.46%) IaaS
7 5 (1.46%) PaaS
7 5 (1.46%) Power Automate
7 5 (1.46%) SaaS
8 3 (0.87%) Akamai
8 3 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (0.87%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (0.87%) Cloudflare
8 3 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (0.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.66%) Firewall
2 12 (3.50%) Network Security
3 9 (2.62%) BGP
3 9 (2.62%) Cisco ASA
3 9 (2.62%) Cisco Firepower
3 9 (2.62%) Cisco ISE
3 9 (2.62%) EIGRP
3 9 (2.62%) HSRP
3 9 (2.62%) IPsec
3 9 (2.62%) NetScaler
3 9 (2.62%) OSPF
4 8 (2.33%) DNS
4 8 (2.33%) SNMP
4 8 (2.33%) Spanning Tree
4 8 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (1.75%) WAN
6 4 (1.17%) HTTP
6 4 (1.17%) LAN
6 4 (1.17%) Wireless
6 4 (1.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.83%) MongoDB
2 19 (5.54%) Power BI
3 8 (2.33%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.75%) Data Lake
4 6 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.46%) Ataccama
5 5 (1.46%) MySQL
5 5 (1.46%) Qlik Sense
6 4 (1.17%) Big Data
6 4 (1.17%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.17%) Data Mining
6 4 (1.17%) Hadoop
6 4 (1.17%) SQLite
6 4 (1.17%) Tableau
7 3 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (0.87%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (0.87%) HBase
8 2 (0.58%) Metadata
8 2 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 13 (3.79%) JIRA
2 11 (3.21%) Git
2 11 (3.21%) Selenium
3 10 (2.92%) GitLab
4 8 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.33%) JMeter
5 7 (2.04%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.46%) Gatling
6 5 (1.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (1.17%) Postman
7 4 (1.17%) WebDriver
8 2 (0.58%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.58%) TestCafe
9 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.29%) Crashlytics
9 1 (0.29%) GoCD
9 1 (0.29%) Gradle
9 1 (0.29%) Pa11y
9 1 (0.29%) Storybook
9 1 (0.29%) Zephyr
General
1 68 (19.83%) Social Skills
2 47 (13.70%) Public Sector
3 35 (10.20%) Finance
4 29 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (4.37%) Pharmaceutical
6 11 (3.21%) Manufacturing
7 10 (2.92%) Banking
8 8 (2.33%) Legal
9 6 (1.75%) Retail
10 5 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.17%) Marketing
11 4 (1.17%) Military
12 3 (0.87%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (0.87%) Electronics
12 3 (0.87%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.87%) Law
13 2 (0.58%) Automotive
13 2 (0.58%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.58%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.25%) Node.js
2 17 (4.96%) RESTful
3 15 (4.37%) React
4 10 (2.92%) Web Services
5 9 (2.62%) Vue
6 8 (2.33%) Jinja
6 8 (2.33%) Kafka
7 7 (2.04%) .NET
7 7 (2.04%) CSS
7 7 (2.04%) HTML
7 7 (2.04%) Redux
8 5 (1.46%) .NET Framework
8 5 (1.46%) GraphQL
8 5 (1.46%) Next.js
8 5 (1.46%) Spring
9 4 (1.17%) ActiveMQ
9 4 (1.17%) XML
10 3 (0.87%) Express.js
10 3 (0.87%) MERN Stack
10 3 (0.87%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.37%) NHS
2 14 (4.08%) Product Ownership
3 9 (2.62%) Data Structures
4 8 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 6 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.75%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.17%) Life Science
6 4 (1.17%) Robotics
7 3 (0.87%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.87%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (0.58%) Industry 4.0
8 2 (0.58%) IoT
8 2 (0.58%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.58%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.25%) Windows
2 14 (4.08%) Windows 10
3 11 (3.21%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.75%) Android
4 6 (1.75%) Unix
5 5 (1.46%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.17%) Linux
6 4 (1.17%) Mac OS X
7 3 (0.87%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.58%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (18.37%) Agile
2 44 (12.83%) ITIL
3 34 (9.91%) DevOps
4 31 (9.04%) CI/CD
5 30 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (8.75%) Roadmaps
5 30 (8.75%) Software Engineering
6 23 (6.71%) Business Intelligence
7 22 (6.41%) Stakeholder Management
8 21 (6.12%) Data Analysis
8 21 (6.12%) Microservices
8 21 (6.12%) Test Automation
9 20 (5.83%) Change Management
10 19 (5.54%) Mentoring
10 19 (5.54%) Project Management
11 17 (4.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (4.96%) Data Modelling
11 17 (4.96%) Design Patterns
12 16 (4.66%) ITSM
12 16 (4.66%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (9.62%) Java
2 32 (9.33%) Python
3 22 (6.41%) SQL
4 12 (3.50%) JavaScript
5 11 (3.21%) Perl
5 11 (3.21%) Scala
6 10 (2.92%) PowerShell
7 9 (2.62%) Bash
8 8 (2.33%) Tcl
8 8 (2.33%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.04%) C#
9 7 (2.04%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.17%) Go
10 4 (1.17%) Groovy
10 4 (1.17%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.58%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.58%) PHP
12 2 (0.58%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 50 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 37 (10.79%) SC Cleared
3 29 (8.45%) Degree
4 22 (6.41%) Cisco Certification
5 21 (6.12%) CCNA
6 16 (4.66%) ITIL Certification
7 14 (4.08%) CCNP
7 14 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.75%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (1.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 5 (1.46%) MCSE
11 4 (1.17%) CISSP
11 4 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.17%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (0.87%) CISM
13 2 (0.58%) MCITP
13 2 (0.58%) RIBA
13 2 (0.58%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.37%) Accessibility
1 15 (4.37%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.21%) QA
3 10 (2.92%) GDPR
4 8 (2.33%) PMO
5 4 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.17%) WCAG
6 2 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.58%) GRC
6 2 (0.58%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.58%) SLA
7 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.29%) GxP
7 1 (0.29%) NIST
7 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (5.25%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.62%) Firmware
3 8 (2.33%) Docker
4 5 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.17%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.58%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.29%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.29%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.29%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (4.96%) Terraform
2 13 (3.79%) Kubernetes
3 11 (3.21%) Ansible
4 8 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.75%) SCCM
6 3 (0.87%) EMC NetWorker
6 3 (0.87%) Grafana
6 3 (0.87%) Kibana
6 3 (0.87%) VxRail
7 2 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.58%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (0.58%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.29%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.29%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.29%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.29%) Puppet
8 1 (0.29%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.29%) vMotion
8 1 (0.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 36 (10.50%) SAP
2 34 (9.91%) Microsoft
3 25 (7.29%) ServiceNow
4 20 (5.83%) Cisco
5 16 (4.66%) VMware
6 12 (3.50%) SolarWinds
7 11 (3.21%) Citrix
7 11 (3.21%) Palo Alto
8 6 (1.75%) Google
8 6 (1.75%) Oracle
9 5 (1.46%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.46%) Dataiku
9 5 (1.46%) Trillium
10 4 (1.17%) Ariba
10 4 (1.17%) Dell
11 3 (0.87%) F5
11 3 (0.87%) HP
11 3 (0.87%) Symantec
11 3 (0.87%) Veeam
12 2 (0.58%) Dell Compellent