Senior Contracts in the West Midlands

Senior
England > West Midlands

The median Senior daily rate in the West Midlands is £500 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 22 38 35
Rank change year-on-year +16 -3 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 110 122 203
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.82% 5.39% 5.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.35% 5.70% 5.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 89 141
10th Percentile £275 £375 £363
25th Percentile £400 £513 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £750
England median daily rate £563 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -6.25% +4.35% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 1
10th Percentile £13.50 - -
25th Percentile £15.11 - -
Median hourly rate £44.75 £17.72 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +152.54% +10.75% -
75th Percentile £56.25 £19.29 -
90th Percentile £70.88 £22.12 -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £46.50 £43.36
% change year-on-year +2.15% +7.25% +31.68%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,731 2,140 3,429
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.59% 94.56% 96.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,172 1,464 2,489
10th Percentile £259 £250 £228
25th Percentile £363 £381 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% +5.26% +14.99%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £713 £700 £673
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 65 76
10th Percentile £12.08 £12.50 £12.44
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £14.88
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £17.14
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +16.69% +10.76%
75th Percentile £40.81 £28.00 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.63 £56.00 £23.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
% change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the West Midlands

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Senior in the West Midlands

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior in the West Midlands

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Senior in the West Midlands

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in the West Midlands

Senior
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham +3 36 £425 -29.17% 100
Warwickshire +17 23 £525 -4.55% 44
Coventry +15 20 £600 +9.09% 28
Staffordshire +10 10 £352 -45.85% 35
Shropshire +13 8 £485 -9.85% 9
Worcestershire -2 3 £600 +14.29% 19
Herefordshire -8 2 - - 4
Senior
England

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 31 (28.18%) Social Skills
2 28 (25.45%) Project Management
3 27 (24.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 27 (24.55%) Agile
4 24 (21.82%) Finance
5 20 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (17.27%) Project Delivery
7 17 (15.45%) SQL
8 16 (14.55%) Public Sector
8 16 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
9 15 (13.64%) Azure
10 14 (12.73%) Power BI
10 14 (12.73%) Power Platform
11 13 (11.82%) Decision-Making
11 13 (11.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (11.82%) Change Management
11 13 (11.82%) Business Intelligence
12 12 (10.91%) Microsoft
13 11 (10.00%) PRINCE2
13 11 (10.00%) Security Cleared
14 10 (9.09%) SC Cleared
14 10 (9.09%) Analytics
15 9 (8.18%) DevOps
16 8 (7.27%) Law
16 8 (7.27%) Windows
16 8 (7.27%) SAP
16 8 (7.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 8 (7.27%) PMO
16 8 (7.27%) Roadmaps
17 7 (6.36%) Target Operating Model

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.82%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.91%) CMS
4 1 (0.91%) Confluence
4 1 (0.91%) Moodle
Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.91%) Acrobat
2 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.91%) Revit
2 1 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.91%) Maximo
2 1 (0.91%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.91%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.91%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (13.64%) Azure
2 14 (12.73%) Power Platform
3 7 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.64%) AWS
4 4 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.73%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (2.73%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.82%) Apigee
6 2 (1.82%) Azure Functions
6 2 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.82%) GCP
6 2 (1.82%) Power Automate
6 2 (1.82%) PowerApps
6 2 (1.82%) Serverless
7 1 (0.91%) GitHub
7 1 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.91%) Matillion
7 1 (0.91%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.91%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.73%) DNS
1 3 (2.73%) Intranet
1 3 (2.73%) NetScaler
2 1 (0.91%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (0.91%) LAN
2 1 (0.91%) MPLS
2 1 (0.91%) PBX
2 1 (0.91%) VoIP
2 1 (0.91%) VPN
2 1 (0.91%) WAN
2 1 (0.91%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.73%) Power BI
2 5 (4.55%) SAP BW
3 3 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.82%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.82%) Power Query
4 2 (1.82%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.91%) Big Data
5 1 (0.91%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.91%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.91%) Metadata
5 1 (0.91%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (0.91%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.91%) Presto
5 1 (0.91%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.91%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (6.36%) Rational Rhapsody
2 4 (3.64%) JIRA
3 2 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.91%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.91%) Ant
4 1 (0.91%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.91%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.91%) Gradle
4 1 (0.91%) JUnit
4 1 (0.91%) Maven
4 1 (0.91%) Selenium
4 1 (0.91%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (0.91%) Xcode
General
1 31 (28.18%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.82%) Finance
3 16 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (14.55%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.27%) Law
5 6 (5.45%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (4.55%) Legal
7 4 (3.64%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (3.64%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.73%) Automotive
8 3 (2.73%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.91%) Games
10 1 (0.91%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.73%) AngularJS
2 2 (1.82%) .NET
2 2 (1.82%) CSS
2 2 (1.82%) HTML
2 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (1.82%) React
2 2 (1.82%) REST
2 2 (1.82%) Spring
3 1 (0.91%) ADO
3 1 (0.91%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (0.91%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.91%) iOS SDK
3 1 (0.91%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (0.91%) LDAP
3 1 (0.91%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.91%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.91%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (3.64%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.64%) PMI
2 4 (3.64%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.73%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.73%) CMDB
3 3 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.73%) Operational Technology
3 3 (2.73%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.73%) Taxonomies
4 2 (1.82%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.82%) NHS
4 2 (1.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (0.91%) Cyberattack
5 1 (0.91%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.91%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.91%) Infotainment
5 1 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.91%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.27%) Windows
2 5 (4.55%) Linux
2 5 (4.55%) Windows 10
3 3 (2.73%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.91%) Android
4 1 (0.91%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.91%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (25.45%) Project Management
2 27 (24.55%) Agile
2 27 (24.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 20 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (17.27%) Project Delivery
5 13 (11.82%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (11.82%) Change Management
5 13 (11.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (11.82%) Decision-Making
6 11 (10.00%) PRINCE2
7 10 (9.09%) Analytics
8 9 (8.18%) DevOps
9 8 (7.27%) Roadmaps
10 7 (6.36%) Coaching
10 7 (6.36%) Data Analysis
10 7 (6.36%) Target Operating Model
10 7 (6.36%) Visualisation
11 6 (5.45%) Computer Science
11 6 (5.45%) CRM
11 6 (5.45%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 17 (15.45%) SQL
2 6 (5.45%) Python
3 4 (3.64%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.73%) Java
5 2 (1.82%) C++
5 2 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.91%) C
6 1 (0.91%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.91%) Scala
6 1 (0.91%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.91%) Swift
6 1 (0.91%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 6 (5.45%) Degree
5 4 (3.64%) PMI Certification
5 4 (3.64%) PMP
6 2 (1.82%) CIPD
6 2 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.82%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.91%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.91%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.91%) CCIE
7 1 (0.91%) CCIE Data Center
7 1 (0.91%) CCNP
7 1 (0.91%) CISM
7 1 (0.91%) CRISC
7 1 (0.91%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.91%) MCDST
7 1 (0.91%) MCP
7 1 (0.91%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.27%) PMO
2 7 (6.36%) HL7
3 2 (1.82%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.82%) GRC
4 1 (0.91%) COBIT
4 1 (0.91%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.91%) GDPR
4 1 (0.91%) HAZOP
4 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 1 (0.91%) ISO17020
4 1 (0.91%) NIST
4 1 (0.91%) QA
4 1 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (5.45%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.73%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 3 (2.73%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (2.73%) XenApp
2 3 (2.73%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (2.73%) SCCM
2 1 (0.91%) Ansible
2 1 (0.91%) Kibana
2 1 (0.91%) logstash
2 1 (0.91%) Packer
2 1 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.91%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (10.91%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.27%) SAP
3 4 (3.64%) Citrix
4 3 (2.73%) NetApp
4 3 (2.73%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.82%) NVIDIA
5 2 (1.82%) Splunk
6 1 (0.91%) Adobe
6 1 (0.91%) Anaplan
6 1 (0.91%) Cisco
6 1 (0.91%) Concur
6 1 (0.91%) Darktrace
6 1 (0.91%) FireEye
6 1 (0.91%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.91%) IBM
6 1 (0.91%) LogRhythm
6 1 (0.91%) Teradata