Senior Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior daily rate in Work from Home is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 18 20
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 1,339 2,080 3,721
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 8.90% 8.26% 8.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.52% 8.66% 8.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 914 1,474 2,771
10th Percentile £411 £413 £413
25th Percentile £475 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £663
90th Percentile £800 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £560 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -5.08% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 40 36
10th Percentile £23.60 £41.35 £31.85
25th Percentile £35.70 £42.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £44.74 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% -10.00% +56.62%
75th Percentile £62.50 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £69.35 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -9.52% +23.53% +29.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,070 24,019 42,133
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 95.35% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,440 16,961 30,444
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £721
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 547 600
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £23.32 £25.71 £19.19
Median hourly rate £45.00 £53.35 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +52.43% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.95 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.51 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%

Senior
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Senior.

Senior daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Senior daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Senior.

Senior hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Senior hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 12 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Senior in the job title.

1 378 (28.23%) Agile
2 317 (23.67%) Finance
3 282 (21.06%) Azure
4 273 (20.39%) Social Skills
5 227 (16.95%) AWS
6 209 (15.61%) DevOps
7 203 (15.16%) Security Cleared
8 201 (15.01%) Python
9 198 (14.79%) Java
10 192 (14.34%) Public Sector
11 173 (12.92%) SQL
12 171 (12.77%) Software Engineering
13 159 (11.87%) SC Cleared
14 148 (11.05%) Microsoft
15 139 (10.38%) Problem-Solving
16 138 (10.31%) CI/CD
17 128 (9.56%) JavaScript
18 127 (9.48%) C#
19 105 (7.84%) Migration
20 104 (7.77%) Banking
21 103 (7.69%) Project Management
22 100 (7.47%) Stakeholder Management
22 100 (7.47%) TypeScript
23 97 (7.24%) .NET
23 97 (7.24%) Degree
24 93 (6.95%) SQL Server
25 92 (6.87%) Windows
26 91 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
26 91 (6.80%) React
27 90 (6.72%) Front Office

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 38 (2.84%) Confluence
2 35 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (2.32%) Apache
4 21 (1.57%) SharePoint
5 12 (0.90%) CMS
6 11 (0.82%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.45%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.45%) WebSphere Application Server
8 5 (0.37%) IBM HTTP Server
8 5 (0.37%) WebSphere Portal
9 4 (0.30%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.22%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.22%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.15%) IIS
11 2 (0.15%) Mule
11 2 (0.15%) nginx
11 2 (0.15%) SAS
11 2 (0.15%) ThingWorx
11 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 16 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.60%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.30%) Revit
4 4 (0.30%) Trello
5 3 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.22%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
6 2 (0.15%) CINEMA 4D
6 2 (0.15%) InDesign
6 2 (0.15%) Simulink
6 2 (0.15%) Stateflow
7 1 (0.075%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.075%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.075%) InVision
7 1 (0.075%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 28 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.90%) Elite 3E
3 10 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.60%) Primavera
6 7 (0.52%) SAP SD
7 5 (0.37%) NEC Housing
7 5 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.37%) SimCorp Dimension
8 4 (0.30%) Endur
9 3 (0.22%) RMDS
10 2 (0.15%) SAP HCM
10 2 (0.15%) SAP HR
10 2 (0.15%) SAP WM
10 2 (0.15%) Shopify
10 2 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 1 (0.075%) Aladdin
11 1 (0.075%) Aligne
11 1 (0.075%) OPENHousing
11 1 (0.075%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 282 (21.06%) Azure
2 227 (16.95%) AWS
3 81 (6.05%) Azure DevOps
4 59 (4.41%) GCP
5 50 (3.73%) Power Platform
6 42 (3.14%) Serverless
7 41 (3.06%) GitHub
8 35 (2.61%) dbt
8 35 (2.61%) SaaS
9 34 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
10 33 (2.46%) Snowflake
11 30 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
12 24 (1.79%) PaaS
13 23 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
13 23 (1.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 22 (1.64%) Azure Service Bus
15 20 (1.49%) Amazon S3
16 19 (1.42%) Entra ID
17 16 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 16 (1.19%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 75 (5.60%) Firewall
2 32 (2.39%) Network Security
3 19 (1.42%) VPN
4 18 (1.34%) DNS
4 18 (1.34%) WAN
5 13 (0.97%) LAN
5 13 (0.97%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
6 11 (0.82%) DHCP
6 11 (0.82%) SD-WAN
7 10 (0.75%) BGP
7 10 (0.75%) HTTP
8 9 (0.67%) OSPF
8 9 (0.67%) SAN
9 7 (0.52%) 4G
9 7 (0.52%) 5G
9 7 (0.52%) Cisco Nexus
9 7 (0.52%) InfiniBand
9 7 (0.52%) IPsec
9 7 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (6.95%) SQL Server
2 42 (3.14%) Power BI
3 32 (2.39%) Data Lake
4 28 (2.09%) Amazon Athena
5 26 (1.94%) Apache Arrow
5 26 (1.94%) Apache Ignite
5 26 (1.94%) Dremio
6 22 (1.64%) Oracle Database
7 21 (1.57%) Apache Cassandra
7 21 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
8 20 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (1.42%) MongoDB
9 19 (1.42%) NoSQL
10 15 (1.12%) DynamoDB
10 15 (1.12%) MySQL
11 12 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (0.82%) Big Data
13 10 (0.75%) Relational Database
14 9 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
14 9 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 70 (5.23%) JIRA
2 64 (4.78%) Git
3 46 (3.44%) Jenkins
4 40 (2.99%) GitLab
5 27 (2.02%) Cucumber
6 25 (1.87%) Selenium
7 20 (1.49%) JUnit
8 17 (1.27%) Mockito
9 14 (1.05%) Bitbucket
9 14 (1.05%) Cypress.io
9 14 (1.05%) SpecFlow
10 12 (0.90%) Postman
11 11 (0.82%) git-flow
11 11 (0.82%) SonarQube
11 11 (0.82%) Visual Studio
12 10 (0.75%) JMeter
13 8 (0.60%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.52%) Maven
14 7 (0.52%) Rational DOORS
15 6 (0.45%) WebDriver
General
1 317 (23.67%) Finance
2 273 (20.39%) Social Skills
3 192 (14.34%) Public Sector
4 104 (7.77%) Banking
5 91 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
6 90 (6.72%) Front Office
7 45 (3.36%) Back Office
8 34 (2.54%) Marketing
9 33 (2.46%) Investment Banking
10 30 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
11 28 (2.09%) Telecoms
12 26 (1.94%) Retail
13 25 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 23 (1.72%) Manufacturing
15 22 (1.64%) Legal
16 16 (1.19%) Financial Institution
17 12 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
18 11 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
18 11 (0.82%) Law
19 10 (0.75%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (7.24%) .NET
2 91 (6.80%) React
3 57 (4.26%) XML
4 54 (4.03%) CSS
5 53 (3.96%) AngularJS
6 50 (3.73%) HTML
7 48 (3.58%) REST
8 44 (3.29%) Kafka
9 38 (2.84%) Node.js
9 38 (2.84%) Pandas
10 36 (2.69%) Spring Boot
11 33 (2.46%) gRPC
12 32 (2.39%) Protocol Buffers
13 29 (2.17%) NumPy
14 27 (2.02%) SciPy
15 25 (1.87%) Web Services
16 24 (1.79%) .NET Framework
16 24 (1.79%) RESTful
16 24 (1.79%) Spring
17 23 (1.72%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 63 (4.71%) Derivative
2 55 (4.11%) Hedge funds
3 48 (3.58%) Fixed Income
4 46 (3.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 45 (3.36%) Data Centre
6 42 (3.14%) Product Ownership
7 35 (2.61%) Equities
8 31 (2.32%) Management Information System
9 24 (1.79%) Replication
10 23 (1.72%) Mobile App
11 22 (1.64%) Algorithms
12 21 (1.57%) Onboarding
13 20 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
14 17 (1.27%) Cloud Native
14 17 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
15 16 (1.19%) NHS
16 15 (1.12%) Public Cloud
17 13 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
18 12 (0.90%) Credit Derivative
18 12 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 92 (6.87%) Windows
2 78 (5.83%) Linux
3 23 (1.72%) Unix
4 22 (1.64%) Android
5 12 (0.90%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.82%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.60%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.52%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.22%) Debian
10 3 (0.22%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.22%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.15%) Solaris
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.075%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (28.23%) Agile
2 209 (15.61%) DevOps
3 171 (12.77%) Software Engineering
4 139 (10.38%) Problem-Solving
5 138 (10.31%) CI/CD
6 105 (7.84%) Migration
7 103 (7.69%) Project Management
8 100 (7.47%) Stakeholder Management
9 90 (6.72%) Test Automation
10 89 (6.65%) Scrum
11 78 (5.83%) Analytics
12 76 (5.68%) User Experience
13 74 (5.53%) Mentoring
14 71 (5.30%) Asset Management
15 65 (4.85%) Roadmaps
16 61 (4.56%) SDLC
17 60 (4.48%) Business Intelligence
17 60 (4.48%) Project Delivery
18 58 (4.33%) Investment Management
19 57 (4.26%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 201 (15.01%) Python
2 198 (14.79%) Java
3 173 (12.92%) SQL
4 128 (9.56%) JavaScript
5 127 (9.48%) C#
6 100 (7.47%) TypeScript
7 75 (5.60%) PowerShell
8 34 (2.54%) Go
9 28 (2.09%) Bash
9 28 (2.09%) Bicep
10 21 (1.57%) C++
11 19 (1.42%) Kotlin
12 15 (1.12%) Scala
13 11 (0.82%) Perl
13 11 (0.82%) PHP
13 11 (0.82%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.67%) C
15 6 (0.45%) Ruby
15 6 (0.45%) Swift
16 5 (0.37%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 203 (15.16%) Security Cleared
2 159 (11.87%) SC Cleared
3 97 (7.24%) Degree
4 34 (2.54%) DV Cleared
5 27 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
7 19 (1.42%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.12%) CCNP
9 12 (0.90%) CCIE
10 10 (0.75%) CISSP
10 10 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (0.52%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 6 (0.45%) PMP
13 5 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 5 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.37%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 4 (0.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (2.32%) Data Quality
2 28 (2.09%) Accessibility
3 24 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (1.79%) PCI DSS
4 20 (1.49%) PMO
4 20 (1.49%) QA
5 10 (0.75%) GDPR
5 10 (0.75%) SLA
5 10 (0.75%) WCAG
6 8 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
6 8 (0.60%) NIST
7 5 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.15%) GRC
9 2 (0.15%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.15%) NCSC
9 2 (0.15%) P3O
System Software
1 69 (5.15%) Docker
2 66 (4.93%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.82%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.52%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.52%) vSphere
7 6 (0.45%) ACF2
7 6 (0.45%) IAG
7 6 (0.45%) RACF
8 4 (0.30%) Firmware
8 4 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.15%) Squid
10 2 (0.15%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.15%) XenApp
11 1 (0.075%) GridGain
11 1 (0.075%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 86 (6.42%) Kubernetes
2 69 (5.15%) Terraform
3 43 (3.21%) Ansible
4 20 (1.49%) Grafana
5 12 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.82%) Docker Swarm
7 9 (0.67%) Puppet
8 8 (0.60%) Podman
8 8 (0.60%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.60%) SCCM
9 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.37%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.37%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.30%) Functional Safety
11 4 (0.30%) Kibana
11 4 (0.30%) WSUS
12 3 (0.22%) Argo
12 3 (0.22%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.22%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.22%) VxRail
Vendors
1 148 (11.05%) Microsoft
2 54 (4.03%) SAP
3 51 (3.81%) Oracle
4 34 (2.54%) Cisco
5 31 (2.32%) VMware
6 28 (2.09%) Google
6 28 (2.09%) Palo Alto
7 20 (1.49%) ServiceNow
8 18 (1.34%) Atlassian
9 16 (1.19%) F5
10 15 (1.12%) IBM
10 15 (1.12%) Splunk
11 13 (0.97%) Databricks
12 11 (0.82%) Fortinet
12 11 (0.82%) Salesforce
13 10 (0.75%) Citrix
14 9 (0.67%) Red Hat
14 9 (0.67%) Sybase
15 6 (0.45%) NEC
15 6 (0.45%) SolarWinds