Senior Contracts in the Thames Valley

Senior
South East > Thames Valley

The median Senior daily rate in the Thames Valley is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 20 34
Rank change year-on-year +3 +14 0
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 244 240 198
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.30% 8.44% 5.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.04% 8.93% 5.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 172 147
10th Percentile £362 £350 £370
25th Percentile £444 £413 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £478 £523
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -8.56% +3.47%
75th Percentile £609 £550 £600
90th Percentile £650 £625 £702
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% +5.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 14 1
10th Percentile £55.94 £54.97 -
25th Percentile £56.58 £58.21 £62.50
Median hourly rate £58.30 £66.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +1.54% +36.84%
75th Percentile £66.00 £73.90 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.27 £76.33 -
South East median hourly rate £58.30 £54.56 £45.00
% change year-on-year +6.85% +21.24% -3.74%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,430 2,688 3,377
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 94.51% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,384 1,845 2,323
10th Percentile £213 £300 £205
25th Percentile £371 £403 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 79 100
10th Percentile £15.59 £17.11 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.33 £12.81
Median hourly rate £45.00 £48.40 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +176.57% -16.86%
75th Percentile £62.13 £66.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £85.53 £79.19 £62.76
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.04% +147.50% -20.00%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the Thames Valley

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Senior in the Thames Valley

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in the Thames Valley

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Senior in the Thames Valley

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in the Thames Valley

Senior
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 23 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
Berkshire +14 201 £513 +2.50% 105
Buckinghamshire -3 33 £550 +17.02% 52
Oxfordshire -2 11 £494 +9.72% 63
Senior
South East

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 23 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 Thames Valley region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 114 (46.72%) Security Cleared
2 63 (25.82%) DV Cleared
3 52 (21.31%) Social Skills
4 50 (20.49%) Public Sector
5 44 (18.03%) Microsoft
6 41 (16.80%) SC Cleared
6 41 (16.80%) Azure
7 40 (16.39%) Agile
7 40 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (15.57%) Migration
9 33 (13.52%) Stakeholder Management
9 33 (13.52%) Cisco
10 32 (13.11%) DevOps
11 31 (12.70%) Finance
12 26 (10.66%) Windows
13 25 (10.25%) Project Management
14 22 (9.02%) Cisco Certification
15 21 (8.61%) AWS
16 20 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
16 20 (8.20%) Telecoms
16 20 (8.20%) Decision-Making
17 19 (7.79%) Firewall
18 18 (7.38%) Juniper
18 18 (7.38%) CheckPoint
19 17 (6.97%) DMZ
19 17 (6.97%) B2B
19 17 (6.97%) Primavera
19 17 (6.97%) PLM
19 17 (6.97%) Banking
19 17 (6.97%) Arista

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (1.64%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.23%) SAS
3 1 (0.41%) Confluence
3 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.23%) SPSS
3 1 (0.41%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (0.41%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (0.41%) CINEMA 4D
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (6.97%) Primavera
2 6 (2.46%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.41%) PeopleSoft HRMS
3 1 (0.41%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.41%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.41%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 41 (16.80%) Azure
2 21 (8.61%) AWS
3 9 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (2.46%) Power Platform
5 4 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.23%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.23%) SaaS
6 3 (1.23%) WhatsApp
7 2 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (0.82%) GCP
7 2 (0.82%) IaaS
7 2 (0.82%) PaaS
7 2 (0.82%) Power Automate
7 2 (0.82%) PowerApps
7 2 (0.82%) Slack
8 1 (0.41%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.41%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.41%) Figma
8 1 (0.41%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.79%) Firewall
2 17 (6.97%) DMZ
3 15 (6.15%) LAN
3 15 (6.15%) WAN
4 7 (2.87%) Network Security
5 6 (2.46%) BGP
5 6 (2.46%) MPLS
6 5 (2.05%) 3G
6 5 (2.05%) 4G
6 5 (2.05%) 5G
6 5 (2.05%) DHCP
6 5 (2.05%) DNS
6 5 (2.05%) Radio Access Network
7 3 (1.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (1.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 3 (1.23%) NetScaler
8 2 (0.82%) Broadband
8 2 (0.82%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.23%) Qlik Sense
1 3 (1.23%) Tableau
2 2 (0.82%) Oracle Database
2 2 (0.82%) Oracle Database 11g
2 2 (0.82%) Power BI
3 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.41%) GIS
3 1 (0.41%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (6.15%) JIRA
2 11 (4.51%) Jenkins
2 11 (4.51%) Selenium
3 10 (4.10%) Cucumber
4 9 (3.69%) GitLab
4 9 (3.69%) REST Assured
5 8 (3.28%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.64%) Git
6 4 (1.64%) JMeter
7 2 (0.82%) Maven
8 1 (0.41%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.41%) CMake
8 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.41%) Spinnaker
General
1 52 (21.31%) Social Skills
2 50 (20.49%) Public Sector
3 31 (12.70%) Finance
4 20 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.20%) Telecoms
5 17 (6.97%) Banking
6 10 (4.10%) Aviation
7 8 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.87%) Law
8 7 (2.87%) Police
9 5 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.05%) Military
9 5 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.23%) Local Government
11 2 (0.82%) Retail
12 1 (0.41%) Advertising
12 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Legal
12 1 (0.41%) Marketing
12 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.51%) Itk
2 8 (3.28%) ARM Templates
2 8 (3.28%) Java EE
2 8 (3.28%) REST
3 4 (1.64%) JSON
4 3 (1.23%) D3.js
4 3 (1.23%) Kafka
4 3 (1.23%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.82%) Fluent Bit
5 2 (0.82%) Gherkin
5 2 (0.82%) Loki
5 2 (0.82%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.41%) CNTK
6 1 (0.41%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.41%) JSON Schema
6 1 (0.41%) OpenVINO
6 1 (0.41%) PySpark
6 1 (0.41%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.41%) React
6 1 (0.41%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (2.46%) Data Centre
1 6 (2.46%) Onboarding
1 6 (2.46%) Product Ownership
2 3 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (1.23%) Management Information System
2 3 (1.23%) PKI
2 3 (1.23%) PMI
2 3 (1.23%) Public Cloud
3 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (0.82%) NHS
3 2 (0.82%) Replication
4 1 (0.41%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.41%) Graphic Design
4 1 (0.41%) Housing Association
4 1 (0.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.41%) IoT
4 1 (0.41%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.41%) Photography
4 1 (0.41%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (0.41%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 26 (10.66%) Windows
2 14 (5.74%) Linux
3 10 (4.10%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.87%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (2.87%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (1.23%) Unix
6 2 (0.82%) Android
7 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (16.39%) Agile
1 40 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (15.57%) Migration
3 33 (13.52%) Stakeholder Management
4 32 (13.11%) DevOps
5 25 (10.25%) Project Management
6 20 (8.20%) Decision-Making
7 17 (6.97%) B2B
7 17 (6.97%) PLM
7 17 (6.97%) Portfolio Management
8 16 (6.56%) Configuration Management
8 16 (6.56%) Roadmaps
9 15 (6.15%) Change Management
9 15 (6.15%) Project Delivery
10 13 (5.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (5.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (5.33%) Technical Leadership
11 12 (4.92%) Containerisation
11 12 (4.92%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (4.92%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (6.56%) Java
2 13 (5.33%) Python
3 10 (4.10%) SQL
4 9 (3.69%) C
5 6 (2.46%) C++
6 5 (2.05%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.64%) R
8 3 (1.23%) ActionScript
8 3 (1.23%) C#
9 2 (0.82%) Bash
9 2 (0.82%) PHP
9 2 (0.82%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.82%) Scala
10 1 (0.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 114 (46.72%) Security Cleared
2 63 (25.82%) DV Cleared
3 41 (16.80%) SC Cleared
4 22 (9.02%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (2.87%) Degree
6 5 (2.05%) CCNP
7 4 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.23%) APMP
8 3 (1.23%) MCSE
8 3 (1.23%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.82%) ACCA
9 2 (0.82%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.82%) CIMA
9 2 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.82%) ISEB
9 2 (0.82%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.41%) ACSP
10 1 (0.41%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.28%) NIST
2 6 (2.46%) NCSC
3 3 (1.23%) GDPR
3 3 (1.23%) PMO
3 3 (1.23%) QA
4 2 (0.82%) GRC
4 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.41%) COBIT
5 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (4.92%) Docker
2 6 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.23%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (6.15%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.92%) Ansible
2 12 (4.92%) Terraform
3 8 (3.28%) Docker Swarm
3 8 (3.28%) Podman
4 4 (1.64%) Grafana
5 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.23%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.82%) Argo
6 2 (0.82%) Kustomize
6 2 (0.82%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.82%) WSUS
7 1 (0.41%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.41%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.41%) Istio
7 1 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.41%) Netcool
7 1 (0.41%) SCCM
7 1 (0.41%) SCOM
Vendors
1 44 (18.03%) Microsoft
2 33 (13.52%) Cisco
3 18 (7.38%) CheckPoint
3 18 (7.38%) Juniper
4 17 (6.97%) Arista
5 12 (4.92%) VMware
6 7 (2.87%) Oracle
7 6 (2.46%) Splunk
8 4 (1.64%) SAP
9 3 (1.23%) Apple
9 3 (1.23%) F5
10 2 (0.82%) Citrix
10 2 (0.82%) Fujitsu
10 2 (0.82%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.41%) Databricks
11 1 (0.41%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.41%) Infoblox
11 1 (0.41%) LogRhythm
11 1 (0.41%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.41%) TippingPoint