Senior Contracts in Wales

Senior
UK > Wales

The median Senior daily rate in Wales is £600 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 13 19 36
Rank change year-on-year +6 +17 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 31 48 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 8.47% 7.88% 4.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.51% 8.25% 4.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 40 28
10th Percentile £500 £446 £364
25th Percentile £550 £497 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +6.74% +13.99%
75th Percentile £625 £616 £588
90th Percentile £636 £653 £625
UK median daily rate £559 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -5.25% +2.61% +9.52%
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 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £53.53 £43.36
% change year-on-year -6.59% +23.47% +31.98%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 Wales with a recognized job title 326 582 926
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.07% 95.57% 96.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 446 677
10th Percentile £170 £180 £185
25th Percentile £328 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 32 37
10th Percentile £11.75 £13.13 £11.15
25th Percentile £12.52 £15.25 £12.24
Median hourly rate £19.00 £18.14 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% -8.89% +15.42%
75th Percentile £42.34 £19.98 £25.75
90th Percentile £86.90 £47.25 £47.09
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Wales

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Wales

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Wales

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Wales

Senior
Contract Job Locations in 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 Wales 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
South Wales +7 28 £600 +9.29% 58
Dyfed - 1 £1,000 -
Senior
UK

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

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 Wales region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 13 (41.94%) Security Cleared
2 12 (38.71%) SC Cleared
3 11 (35.48%) Microsoft
3 11 (35.48%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (29.03%) Local Government
4 9 (29.03%) Marketing
4 9 (29.03%) Acrobat
4 9 (29.03%) PMP
4 9 (29.03%) PMI Certification
4 9 (29.03%) Project Management
4 9 (29.03%) Adobe
4 9 (29.03%) SharePoint
4 9 (29.03%) PRINCE2
4 9 (29.03%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
4 9 (29.03%) Value Proposition
5 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (25.81%) Critical Thinking
5 8 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (25.81%) Degree
5 8 (25.81%) Psychology
5 8 (25.81%) Risk Management
6 5 (16.13%) SQL
6 5 (16.13%) T-SQL
6 5 (16.13%) Finance
6 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
7 4 (12.90%) RedGate
8 3 (9.68%) Windows
8 3 (9.68%) Linux
9 2 (6.45%) Dell

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (29.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (29.03%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.45%) Azure
1 2 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (3.23%) AWS
2 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (3.23%) GitHub
2 1 (3.23%) Heroku
2 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.23%) MySQL
2 1 (3.23%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Burp Suite
1 1 (3.23%) Git
1 1 (3.23%) GitLab
1 1 (3.23%) SonarQube
1 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (3.23%) tSQLt
General
1 9 (29.03%) Local Government
1 9 (29.03%) Marketing
1 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Finance
3 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.45%) Legal
5 1 (3.23%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (3.23%) FHIR
1 1 (3.23%) Flutter
1 1 (3.23%) Kafka
1 1 (3.23%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (3.23%) REST
1 1 (3.23%) RESTful
1 1 (3.23%) Visualforce
1 1 (3.23%) WPF
1 1 (3.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.23%) Clustering
1 1 (3.23%) FPGA
1 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
1 1 (3.23%) NHS
1 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
1 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
1 1 (3.23%) Replication
1 1 (3.23%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Linux
1 3 (9.68%) Windows
2 2 (6.45%) Data ONTAP
2 2 (6.45%) Unix
3 1 (3.23%) Android
3 1 (3.23%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (29.03%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (29.03%) PRINCE2
2 9 (29.03%) Project Management
2 9 (29.03%) Value Proposition
3 8 (25.81%) Critical Thinking
3 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (25.81%) Psychology
3 8 (25.81%) Risk Management
4 2 (6.45%) Bill of Materials
4 2 (6.45%) DevOps
4 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (6.45%) Migration
4 2 (6.45%) Work Breakdown Structure
5 1 (3.23%) Application Security
5 1 (3.23%) Budget Management
5 1 (3.23%) Containerisation
5 1 (3.23%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (3.23%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (3.23%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.13%) SQL
1 5 (16.13%) T-SQL
2 1 (3.23%) Apex Code
2 1 (3.23%) C#
2 1 (3.23%) C++
2 1 (3.23%) Dart
2 1 (3.23%) PHP
2 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (41.94%) Security Cleared
2 12 (38.71%) SC Cleared
3 9 (29.03%) PMI Certification
3 9 (29.03%) PMP
4 8 (25.81%) Degree
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.23%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) HL7
1 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.45%) NetBackup
2 1 (3.23%) Ansible
2 1 (3.23%) Grafana
2 1 (3.23%) Graylog
2 1 (3.23%) Nagios
2 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (35.48%) Microsoft
2 9 (29.03%) Adobe
3 4 (12.90%) RedGate
4 2 (6.45%) Ariba
4 2 (6.45%) Brocade
4 2 (6.45%) Cisco
4 2 (6.45%) Dell
4 2 (6.45%) NetApp
4 2 (6.45%) SAP
4 2 (6.45%) Veritas
5 1 (3.23%) Altera
5 1 (3.23%) Checkmarx
5 1 (3.23%) Microsemi
5 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.23%) Splunk
5 1 (3.23%) Xilinx