Senior Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Senior
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Senior daily rate in Tyne and Wear is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 22 16
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 13 22 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 5.78% 8.21% 10.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.28% 8.43% 11.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 34
10th Percentile £425 £339 £370
25th Percentile £481 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £644 £513
Median % change year-on-year -22.33% +25.61% -6.82%
75th Percentile £631 £681 £569
90th Percentile £676 £835 £658
North East median daily rate £500 £650 £513
% change year-on-year -23.08% +26.83% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.25 - -
Median hourly rate £17.50 - -
75th Percentile £20.88 - -
90th Percentile £22.15 - -
North East median hourly rate £17.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Tyne and Wear

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear. 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 Tyne and Wear with a recognized job title 207 261 375
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 97.39% 96.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 197 288
10th Percentile £323 £261 £180
25th Percentile £379 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +5.50%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £600
90th Percentile £641 £740 £688
North East median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 0 10
10th Percentile £11.50 - £12.75
25th Percentile £12.13 - £14.05
Median hourly rate £15.75 - £16.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +28.85%
75th Percentile £48.75 - £18.44
90th Percentile £50.00 - £22.29
North East median hourly rate £13.99 £39.34 £16.50
% change year-on-year -64.44% +138.42% +26.92%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings that featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Tyne and Wear

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Senior in Tyne and Wear

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Tyne and Wear

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Tyne and Wear

Senior
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 31 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +6 12 £500 -23.08% 30
Sunderland - 1 £725 - 4
Senior
North East

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear

For the 6 months to 31 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 Tyne and Wear region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 6 (46.15%) PMO
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 3 (23.08%) Windows
3 3 (23.08%) Project Management
3 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
3 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 3 (23.08%) Project Delivery
4 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
4 2 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (15.38%) CCNP
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (15.38%) Degree
4 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
4 2 (15.38%) Agile
4 2 (15.38%) Windows 10
4 2 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (7.69%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (7.69%) Network Planning
5 1 (7.69%) Google
5 1 (7.69%) PKI
5 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
5 1 (7.69%) Meraki
5 1 (7.69%) Data Privacy
5 1 (7.69%) Coaching
5 1 (7.69%) GCP
5 1 (7.69%) vMotion

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
1 1 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DHCP
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
1 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
1 1 (7.69%) SMTP
1 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 2 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Clustering
1 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.69%) PKI
1 1 (7.69%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (7.69%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
1 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
2 2 (15.38%) Windows 10
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Project Delivery
1 3 (23.08%) Project Management
2 2 (15.38%) Agile
2 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
2 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
2 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (7.69%) Change Management
3 1 (7.69%) Coaching
3 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (7.69%) Data Privacy
3 1 (7.69%) High Availability
3 1 (7.69%) Information Security
3 1 (7.69%) Migration
3 1 (7.69%) Network Planning
3 1 (7.69%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (7.69%) Programme Management
3 1 (7.69%) Quality Management
3 1 (7.69%) Service Delivery
3 1 (7.69%) Software Deployment
3 1 (7.69%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (15.38%) CCNP
1 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) CCNA
2 1 (7.69%) CISSP
2 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) PMO
2 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) BitLocker
1 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (7.69%) Terminal Services
1 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) vCenter Server
1 1 (7.69%) vMotion
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco
2 1 (7.69%) Citrix
2 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) HP
2 1 (7.69%) Infoblox
2 1 (7.69%) Meraki
2 1 (7.69%) Symantec
2 1 (7.69%) VMware