Senior Contracts in the South East

Senior
England > South East

The median Senior daily rate in the South East is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 26 32
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 0
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 441 419 466
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 7.99% 7.36% 6.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.66% 7.77% 6.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 288 342
10th Percentile £413 £350 £363
25th Percentile £463 £425 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +7.84%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £698 £713
England median daily rate £563 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -6.25% +4.35% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 32 15
10th Percentile £36.14 - £16.41
25th Percentile £50.50 £42.50 £36.25
Median hourly rate £58.30 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.56% - -2.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.47 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.39 £72.83 £60.66
England median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% +29.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,092 5,390 7,322
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 94.71% 95.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,070 3,758 4,976
10th Percentile £213 £220 £201
25th Percentile £400 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £491
Median % change year-on-year - +1.83% +9.11%
75th Percentile £619 £605 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 483 243 323
10th Percentile £12.79 £16.57 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.44 £15.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £47.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +137.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £41.13
90th Percentile £77.40 £75.00 £57.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
% change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +3.00%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the South East

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Senior in the South East

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in the South East over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in the South East

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Senior in the South East

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in the South East over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in the South East

Senior
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Thames Valley +5 237 £513 +5.40% 234
Berkshire +13 195 £513 -1.44% 107
Hampshire +13 103 £615 +9.82% 101
Surrey +3 49 £525 +5.00% 78
Buckinghamshire -5 31 £550 +19.57% 57
West Sussex +6 28 £475 -30.81% 17
Kent +9 13 £540 +8.00% 44
Oxfordshire -1 12 £500 +11.11% 70
East Sussex +6 8 £475 -26.92% 24
Home Counties - 2 - -
Middlesex - 1 £425 -
Senior
England

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 12 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 South East region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 165 (37.41%) Security Cleared
2 81 (18.37%) Agile
3 77 (17.46%) Social Skills
4 75 (17.01%) Public Sector
5 73 (16.55%) DV Cleared
5 73 (16.55%) Finance
6 65 (14.74%) Windows
6 65 (14.74%) SC Cleared
7 64 (14.51%) Azure
8 55 (12.47%) Migration
9 54 (12.24%) Microsoft
9 54 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
10 51 (11.56%) Cisco
11 49 (11.11%) DevOps
12 48 (10.88%) Stakeholder Management
13 47 (10.66%) Project Management
14 39 (8.84%) Linux
15 38 (8.62%) Software Engineering
16 37 (8.39%) Degree
17 36 (8.16%) VMware
18 35 (7.94%) ITIL
18 35 (7.94%) Technical Leadership
19 34 (7.71%) Cisco Certification
20 32 (7.26%) Firewall
20 32 (7.26%) Active Directory
20 32 (7.26%) AWS
21 29 (6.58%) Continuous Improvement
22 28 (6.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
22 28 (6.35%) Project Delivery
22 28 (6.35%) Java

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 10 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.36%) Documentum
3 4 (0.91%) Confluence
3 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.68%) SAS
5 2 (0.45%) Apache
6 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.23%) MTS
Applications
1 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.68%) SPSS
4 2 (0.45%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (0.45%) Adobe Premiere
4 2 (0.45%) CINEMA 4D
4 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (3.85%) Primavera
2 6 (1.36%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.45%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.23%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.23%) PeopleSoft HRMS
4 1 (0.23%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.23%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 64 (14.51%) Azure
2 32 (7.26%) AWS
3 15 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (2.27%) Power Platform
5 7 (1.59%) GCP
6 6 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.13%) SaaS
8 3 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (0.68%) IaaS
8 3 (0.68%) OpenShift
8 3 (0.68%) WhatsApp
9 2 (0.45%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (0.45%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (0.45%) GitHub
9 2 (0.45%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.45%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.23%) Datadog
10 1 (0.23%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.23%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.26%) Firewall
2 25 (5.67%) DMZ
3 24 (5.44%) WAN
4 18 (4.08%) LAN
5 15 (3.40%) SAN
6 14 (3.17%) BGP
6 14 (3.17%) DHCP
6 14 (3.17%) DNS
7 12 (2.72%) MPLS
8 9 (2.04%) NAS
8 9 (2.04%) Network Security
9 6 (1.36%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (1.36%) SSL
10 5 (1.13%) 3G
10 5 (1.13%) 4G
10 5 (1.13%) 5G
10 5 (1.13%) Radio Access Network
11 4 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 4 (0.91%) Wireless
12 3 (0.68%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.49%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.36%) EDMS
2 6 (1.36%) Power BI
3 3 (0.68%) Data Lake
3 3 (0.68%) NoSQL
3 3 (0.68%) Qlik Sense
3 3 (0.68%) Tableau
4 2 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (0.45%) Couchbase
4 2 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (0.45%) MariaDB
4 2 (0.45%) MySQL
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.23%) Ataccama
5 1 (0.23%) Metadata
5 1 (0.23%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 21 (4.76%) JIRA
2 17 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.17%) GitLab
4 10 (2.27%) Rational DOORS
5 9 (2.04%) REST Assured
5 9 (2.04%) Selenium
5 9 (2.04%) SonarQube
6 8 (1.81%) Cucumber
6 8 (1.81%) Git
7 2 (0.45%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.45%) JMeter
7 2 (0.45%) LabVIEW
7 2 (0.45%) VersionOne
7 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.23%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.23%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.23%) CMake
8 1 (0.23%) GoogleTest
8 1 (0.23%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.23%) TestRail
General
1 77 (17.46%) Social Skills
2 75 (17.01%) Public Sector
3 73 (16.55%) Finance
4 26 (5.90%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (5.90%) Banking
5 20 (4.54%) Telecoms
6 13 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (2.49%) Aviation
8 11 (2.49%) Marketing
9 9 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.59%) Law
10 7 (1.59%) Police
11 6 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.91%) Military
13 3 (0.68%) Local Government
13 3 (0.68%) Retail
14 2 (0.45%) Front Office
14 2 (0.45%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.95%) REST
2 11 (2.49%) Itk
3 8 (1.81%) .NET
3 8 (1.81%) ARM Templates
3 8 (1.81%) Java EE
4 6 (1.36%) .NET Core
5 5 (1.13%) JSON
6 4 (0.91%) Kafka
6 4 (0.91%) Spring Boot
6 4 (0.91%) XML
7 3 (0.68%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.68%) Blazor
7 3 (0.68%) CSS
7 3 (0.68%) D3.js
7 3 (0.68%) HTML
7 3 (0.68%) Razor View Engine
7 3 (0.68%) React
8 2 (0.45%) LAMP
8 2 (0.45%) LDAP
8 2 (0.45%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 17 (3.85%) Data Centre
2 10 (2.27%) Management Information System
3 8 (1.81%) Onboarding
4 6 (1.36%) PKI
5 5 (1.13%) Public Cloud
6 4 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (0.91%) NHS
6 4 (0.91%) Product Ownership
6 4 (0.91%) Replication
6 4 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.68%) Mobile App
7 3 (0.68%) PMI
8 2 (0.45%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.45%) Motion Graphics
8 2 (0.45%) Photography
8 2 (0.45%) Tandem
8 2 (0.45%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.23%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 65 (14.74%) Windows
2 39 (8.84%) Linux
3 19 (4.31%) Unix
4 12 (2.72%) Windows Server
5 11 (2.49%) Windows 10
6 10 (2.27%) Apple iOS
6 10 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (1.36%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.91%) Solaris
8 4 (0.91%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.45%) Android
9 2 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.45%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.23%) Debian
10 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (18.37%) Agile
2 55 (12.47%) Migration
3 54 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (11.11%) DevOps
5 48 (10.88%) Stakeholder Management
6 47 (10.66%) Project Management
7 38 (8.62%) Software Engineering
8 35 (7.94%) ITIL
8 35 (7.94%) Technical Leadership
9 29 (6.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (6.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 28 (6.35%) Project Delivery
11 25 (5.67%) B2B
11 25 (5.67%) Decision-Making
11 25 (5.67%) Roadmaps
12 23 (5.22%) Scrum
13 22 (4.99%) Configuration Management
14 19 (4.31%) Collaborative Working
14 19 (4.31%) Risk Management
15 17 (3.85%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (6.35%) Java
2 24 (5.44%) C++
2 24 (5.44%) SQL
3 23 (5.22%) Python
4 17 (3.85%) C
5 14 (3.17%) C#
6 11 (2.49%) PowerShell
7 9 (2.04%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.81%) Bash
9 5 (1.13%) Perl
10 4 (0.91%) PHP
10 4 (0.91%) R
10 4 (0.91%) Scala
10 4 (0.91%) VBScript
11 3 (0.68%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.45%) AWK
12 2 (0.45%) Bourne shell
12 2 (0.45%) Korn
12 2 (0.45%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 165 (37.41%) Security Cleared
2 73 (16.55%) DV Cleared
3 65 (14.74%) SC Cleared
4 37 (8.39%) Degree
5 34 (7.71%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (3.40%) ITIL Certification
6 15 (3.40%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.59%) CCNP
9 6 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.13%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.68%) APMP
11 3 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.68%) ISEB
11 3 (0.68%) MCSE
11 3 (0.68%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.45%) Chartered Engineer
12 2 (0.45%) PhD
12 2 (0.45%) PMP
12 2 (0.45%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.49%) PCI DSS
2 10 (2.27%) PMO
3 8 (1.81%) NIST
4 7 (1.59%) GDPR
4 7 (1.59%) QA
5 6 (1.36%) NCSC
6 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.45%) GRC
7 2 (0.45%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (0.45%) SLA
8 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.23%) COBIT
8 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.23%) GxP
8 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (7.26%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.95%) Docker
4 12 (2.72%) vSphere
5 7 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.91%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.91%) XenApp
7 3 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.68%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 19 (4.31%) Kubernetes
2 17 (3.85%) Ansible
3 16 (3.63%) Terraform
4 8 (1.81%) Docker Swarm
4 8 (1.81%) Podman
5 5 (1.13%) Endace
5 5 (1.13%) SCCM
5 5 (1.13%) WSUS
6 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.91%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (0.68%) NetIQ Identity Manager
7 3 (0.68%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.45%) Grafana
8 2 (0.45%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.45%) Oracle ZFS
8 2 (0.45%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.45%) Puppet
8 2 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.45%) yum
9 1 (0.23%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 54 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 51 (11.56%) Cisco
3 36 (8.16%) VMware
4 27 (6.12%) CheckPoint
5 25 (5.67%) Arista
6 23 (5.22%) Juniper
7 11 (2.49%) Apple
7 11 (2.49%) F5
8 8 (1.81%) SAP
9 7 (1.59%) Oracle
9 7 (1.59%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.59%) Splunk
10 6 (1.36%) Citrix
10 6 (1.36%) NetIQ
10 6 (1.36%) SolarWinds
11 4 (0.91%) Ivanti
11 4 (0.91%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.91%) Symantec
11 4 (0.91%) Veritas
12 3 (0.68%) ServiceNow