Senior Contracts in the North West

Senior
England > North West

The median Senior daily rate in the North West is £520 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 15 25 25
Rank change year-on-year +10 0 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 250 200 294
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 9.37% 6.51% 7.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.90% 6.86% 7.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 140 211
10th Percentile £316 £406 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £531 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.12% +1.19% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £617
90th Percentile £675 £678 £663
England median daily rate £563 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -6.25% +4.35% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 6 20
10th Percentile £27.38 £19.49 £27.83
25th Percentile £39.96 £22.94 £41.68
Median hourly rate £44.74 £32.00 £53.59
Median % change year-on-year +39.81% -40.28% +57.60%
75th Percentile £59.13 £38.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £70.68 £53.35 £81.00
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 West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,525 2,915 3,889
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 94.95% 96.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,640 2,070 2,834
10th Percentile £276 £300 £213
25th Percentile £390 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +13.10%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £569
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 124 179
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.58 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.50 £19.22 £15.51
Median hourly rate £27.75 £30.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.14% +22.16% +38.45%
75th Percentile £46.91 £48.91 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.70 £66.00 £75.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the North West

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in the North West

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior in the North West

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in the North West

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in the North West

Senior
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +11 141 £525 -4.55% 210
Cheshire +21 35 £475 +8.57% 55
Lancashire +16 35 £625 -10.71% 50
Cumbria 0 23 £511 +13.56% 23
Merseyside -4 9 £450 -13.25% 20
Senior
England

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

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 West region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 40 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 39 (15.60%) Security Cleared
3 38 (15.20%) Agile
4 35 (14.00%) Public Sector
5 31 (12.40%) AWS
6 30 (12.00%) SAP
6 30 (12.00%) ITIL
7 29 (11.60%) Python
7 29 (11.60%) SC Cleared
8 28 (11.20%) DevOps
9 27 (10.80%) Microsoft
9 27 (10.80%) CI/CD
10 25 (10.00%) Java
11 24 (9.60%) Roadmaps
12 23 (9.20%) Azure
13 21 (8.40%) Finance
14 20 (8.00%) Cisco
14 20 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
15 19 (7.60%) Business Intelligence
15 19 (7.60%) SQL
15 19 (7.60%) Software Engineering
15 19 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
16 18 (7.20%) Microservices
16 18 (7.20%) MongoDB
16 18 (7.20%) Data Analysis
16 18 (7.20%) Power BI
16 18 (7.20%) Power Platform
17 17 (6.80%) Active Directory
17 17 (6.80%) Project Management
17 17 (6.80%) Node.js

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 6 (2.40%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.00%) SAS
3 4 (1.60%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.20%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (2.40%) Revit
2 4 (1.60%) AutoCAD
3 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (3.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.80%) SAP WM
2 2 (0.80%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.40%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.40%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.40%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 31 (12.40%) AWS
2 23 (9.20%) Azure
3 18 (7.20%) Power Platform
4 16 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (3.60%) Snowflake
6 7 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.40%) SuccessFactors
8 5 (2.00%) Collibra
8 5 (2.00%) GCP
8 5 (2.00%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (1.20%) Serverless
10 2 (0.80%) BrowserStack
10 2 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.80%) Nutanix
10 2 (0.80%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.40%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.40%) Commercetools
11 1 (0.40%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.40%) Firewall
2 10 (4.00%) Network Security
3 9 (3.60%) BGP
3 9 (3.60%) Cisco ASA
3 9 (3.60%) Cisco Firepower
3 9 (3.60%) Cisco ISE
3 9 (3.60%) EIGRP
3 9 (3.60%) HSRP
3 9 (3.60%) IPsec
3 9 (3.60%) NetScaler
3 9 (3.60%) OSPF
4 8 (3.20%) SNMP
4 8 (3.20%) Spanning Tree
4 8 (3.20%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (1.60%) DNS
5 4 (1.60%) Wireless
6 3 (1.20%) SAN
7 2 (0.80%) DHCP
7 2 (0.80%) HTTP
7 2 (0.80%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.20%) MongoDB
1 18 (7.20%) Power BI
2 8 (3.20%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.40%) Data Lake
3 6 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.00%) Ataccama
4 5 (2.00%) Qlik Sense
5 4 (1.60%) Big Data
5 4 (1.60%) Data Mining
5 4 (1.60%) Hadoop
5 4 (1.60%) MySQL
5 4 (1.60%) SQLite
6 3 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.20%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (1.20%) HBase
7 2 (0.80%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.80%) Tableau
8 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.40%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (4.00%) GitLab
2 8 (3.20%) Git
3 6 (2.40%) JIRA
4 5 (2.00%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (1.60%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.60%) Selenium
6 3 (1.20%) Gatling
6 3 (1.20%) Postman
7 2 (0.80%) JMeter
7 2 (0.80%) TestCafe
7 2 (0.80%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.40%) Crashlytics
8 1 (0.40%) GoCD
8 1 (0.40%) Gradle
8 1 (0.40%) JUnit
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.40%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.40%) Zephyr
General
1 40 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 35 (14.00%) Public Sector
3 21 (8.40%) Finance
4 19 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.60%) Pharmaceutical
6 10 (4.00%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.20%) Legal
8 7 (2.80%) Banking
9 3 (1.20%) Digital Healthcare
9 3 (1.20%) Electronics
9 3 (1.20%) Military
9 3 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.20%) Retail
10 2 (0.80%) Automotive
10 2 (0.80%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.80%) Marketing
10 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.40%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.80%) Node.js
2 16 (6.40%) RESTful
3 14 (5.60%) React
4 9 (3.60%) Vue
5 8 (3.20%) Jinja
6 6 (2.40%) Kafka
6 6 (2.40%) Redux
7 5 (2.00%) GraphQL
7 5 (2.00%) Next.js
7 5 (2.00%) Spring
8 4 (1.60%) .NET
8 4 (1.60%) CSS
8 4 (1.60%) HTML
8 4 (1.60%) XML
9 3 (1.20%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.20%) Express.js
9 3 (1.20%) MERN Stack
9 3 (1.20%) Web Services
10 2 (0.80%) Entity Framework
10 2 (0.80%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (3.60%) NHS
1 9 (3.60%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.20%) Data Structures
3 6 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.60%) Life Science
4 4 (1.60%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.60%) Robotics
5 3 (1.20%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (0.80%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.80%) Derivative
6 2 (0.80%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.80%) Industry 4.0
6 2 (0.80%) IoT
6 2 (0.80%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.80%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.60%) Windows
2 12 (4.80%) Windows 10
3 8 (3.20%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.00%) Android
4 5 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (1.60%) Unix
6 3 (1.20%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.20%) Linux
7 2 (0.80%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.80%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (15.20%) Agile
2 30 (12.00%) ITIL
3 28 (11.20%) DevOps
4 27 (10.80%) CI/CD
5 24 (9.60%) Roadmaps
6 20 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (7.60%) Business Intelligence
7 19 (7.60%) Software Engineering
8 18 (7.20%) Data Analysis
8 18 (7.20%) Microservices
9 17 (6.80%) Project Management
10 15 (6.00%) Design Patterns
10 15 (6.00%) Line Management
11 14 (5.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (5.60%) Test Automation
12 13 (5.20%) Customer Experience
13 12 (4.80%) Change Management
13 12 (4.80%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (4.40%) Mentoring
15 10 (4.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 29 (11.60%) Python
2 25 (10.00%) Java
3 19 (7.60%) SQL
4 10 (4.00%) Perl
5 8 (3.20%) Tcl
6 7 (2.80%) Bash
6 7 (2.80%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.00%) C#
7 5 (2.00%) Kotlin
7 5 (2.00%) Scala
7 5 (2.00%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.60%) Go
8 4 (1.60%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.80%) Groovy
10 2 (0.80%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.40%) ABAP
11 1 (0.40%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.40%) Bicep
11 1 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 39 (15.60%) Security Cleared
2 29 (11.60%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.80%) Degree
4 16 (6.40%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (6.00%) CCNA
6 13 (5.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (4.80%) CCNP
8 11 (4.40%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.40%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (2.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 5 (2.00%) MCSE
12 3 (1.20%) CISM
12 3 (1.20%) CISSP
13 2 (0.80%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.80%) MCITP
13 2 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.80%) RIBA
13 2 (0.80%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.20%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.60%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.60%) QA
3 8 (3.20%) GDPR
4 4 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.80%) GRC
5 2 (0.80%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.80%) PMO
5 2 (0.80%) SLA
6 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.40%) GxP
6 1 (0.40%) NIST
6 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (6.80%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.60%) Firmware
3 7 (2.80%) Docker
4 5 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.20%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.80%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.40%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (6.40%) Terraform
2 9 (3.60%) Ansible
2 9 (3.60%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (2.40%) SCCM
5 3 (1.20%) EMC NetWorker
5 3 (1.20%) Grafana
5 3 (1.20%) Kibana
5 3 (1.20%) VxRail
6 2 (0.80%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.40%) CA Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.40%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.40%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.40%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.40%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (12.00%) SAP
2 27 (10.80%) Microsoft
3 20 (8.00%) Cisco
4 15 (6.00%) ServiceNow
5 14 (5.60%) VMware
6 12 (4.80%) SolarWinds
7 11 (4.40%) Palo Alto
8 10 (4.00%) Citrix
9 5 (2.00%) Alteryx
9 5 (2.00%) Dataiku
9 5 (2.00%) Trillium
10 4 (1.60%) Ariba
10 4 (1.60%) Dell
10 4 (1.60%) Oracle
11 3 (1.20%) Veeam
12 2 (0.80%) 3PAR
12 2 (0.80%) Apple
12 2 (0.80%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.80%) CheckPoint
12 2 (0.80%) Salesforce