Senior Contracts in South Wales

Senior
Wales > South Wales

The median Senior daily rate in South Wales is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 23 36
Rank change year-on-year +12 +13 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 30 32 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 9.17% 6.74% 4.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.24% 7.11% 4.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 28 27
10th Percentile £276 £403 £365
25th Percentile £500 £463 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £625 £616 £606
90th Percentile - £650 £698
Wales median daily rate £600 £549 £524
% change year-on-year +9.29% +4.77% +17.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £82.60 - -
25th Percentile £83.50 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - £25.00
75th Percentile £87.00 - -
90th Percentile £87.60 - -
Wales median hourly rate £85.00 - £25.00
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in South Wales. 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 293 450 825
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.60% 94.74% 96.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 346 612
10th Percentile £143 £182 £213
25th Percentile £288 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £638
Wales median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 26 29
10th Percentile £12.10 £13.00 £11.02
25th Percentile £15.48 £16.98 £12.24
Median hourly rate £20.35 £18.14 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% -8.89% +10.61%
75th Percentile £52.81 £21.50 £25.00
90th Percentile £86.54 £49.38 £46.98
Wales median hourly rate £19.17 £18.14 £19.91
% change year-on-year +5.68% -8.89% +17.12%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in South Wales

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in South Wales

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in South Wales over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in South Wales

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in South Wales

Senior
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Cardiff +6 14 £500 +5.26% 32
Newport +1 11 £600 +9.09% 5
Gwent - 5 - - 2
Senior
Wales

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 Wales region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 13 (43.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 9 (30.00%) Adobe
4 9 (30.00%) SharePoint
4 9 (30.00%) PRINCE2
4 9 (30.00%) PMP
4 9 (30.00%) PMI Certification
4 9 (30.00%) Acrobat
4 9 (30.00%) Project Management
4 9 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (30.00%) Marketing
4 9 (30.00%) Degree
4 9 (30.00%) Local Government
4 9 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (30.00%) Value Proposition
4 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
5 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (26.67%) Critical Thinking
5 8 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (26.67%) Psychology
5 8 (26.67%) Risk Management
6 7 (23.33%) Public Sector
7 4 (13.33%) SQL
7 4 (13.33%) T-SQL
8 3 (10.00%) Windows
8 3 (10.00%) Linux
8 3 (10.00%) Finance
8 3 (10.00%) RedGate
9 2 (6.67%) Brocade

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 9 (30.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (30.00%) Acrobat
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (3.33%) AWS
2 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (3.33%) Azure
2 1 (3.33%) GitHub
2 1 (3.33%) Heroku
2 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) MySQL
1 1 (3.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Burp Suite
1 1 (3.33%) Git
1 1 (3.33%) GitLab
1 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (30.00%) Local Government
1 9 (30.00%) Marketing
1 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (23.33%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.00%) Finance
5 2 (6.67%) Legal
6 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (3.33%) Flutter
1 1 (3.33%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (3.33%) Node.js
1 1 (3.33%) REST
1 1 (3.33%) RESTful
1 1 (3.33%) Visualforce
1 1 (3.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.33%) CMDB
1 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (3.33%) FPGA
1 1 (3.33%) Freedom of Information
1 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
1 1 (3.33%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
2 2 (6.67%) Data ONTAP
2 2 (6.67%) Unix
3 1 (3.33%) Android
3 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
1 9 (30.00%) PRINCE2
1 9 (30.00%) Project Management
1 9 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 9 (30.00%) Value Proposition
2 8 (26.67%) Critical Thinking
2 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (26.67%) Psychology
2 8 (26.67%) Risk Management
3 2 (6.67%) Bill of Materials
3 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (6.67%) Migration
3 2 (6.67%) Work Breakdown Structure
4 1 (3.33%) Architectural Design
4 1 (3.33%) Blue-Green Deployment
4 1 (3.33%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (3.33%) FPGA Design
4 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (3.33%) KYC
4 1 (3.33%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.33%) SQL
1 4 (13.33%) T-SQL
2 1 (3.33%) Apex Code
2 1 (3.33%) C#
2 1 (3.33%) C++
2 1 (3.33%) Dart
2 1 (3.33%) PHP
2 1 (3.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (43.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (30.00%) Degree
3 9 (30.00%) PMI Certification
3 9 (30.00%) PMP
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.33%) ISEB
4 1 (3.33%) ISEB Practitioner
4 1 (3.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) NetBackup
2 1 (3.33%) Ansible
2 1 (3.33%) Grafana
2 1 (3.33%) Graylog
2 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) Nagios
2 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (30.00%) Adobe
3 3 (10.00%) RedGate
4 2 (6.67%) Brocade
4 2 (6.67%) Cisco
4 2 (6.67%) Dell
4 2 (6.67%) NetApp
4 2 (6.67%) Veritas
5 1 (3.33%) Altera
5 1 (3.33%) Checkmarx
5 1 (3.33%) Microsemi
5 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.33%) Splunk
5 1 (3.33%) Xilinx