Senior Contracts in England

Senior
UK > England

The median Senior daily rate in England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 20 19
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 3,115 3,872 5,712
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.44% 8.16% 8.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.10% 8.63% 8.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,059 2,867 4,252
10th Percentile £400 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £598 £575
% change year-on-year -8.03% +4.00% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 86 95
10th Percentile £21.79 £17.72 £20.25
25th Percentile £31.60 £35.00 £25.68
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £43.36
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +14.17% +31.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.13
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.50 £76.39
UK median hourly rate £50.50 £54.56 £42.50
% change year-on-year -7.44% +28.38% +29.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,226 44,888 67,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,546 31,942 48,134
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,576 1,314 1,782
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.51
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.57 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in England

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in England

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in England

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in England

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in England

Senior
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
London +1 1,846 £600 -4.00% 1,786
South East +11 453 £525 +4.79% 584
North of England 0 335 £504 -10.40% 608
North West +6 240 £509 -3.00% 381
South West -5 148 £500 -16.67% 332
Midlands +10 139 £510 -2.86% 356
West Midlands +14 113 £510 -7.27% 249
East of England -17 94 £534 -7.13% 278
Yorkshire -7 82 £515 -11.44% 161
East Midlands -15 23 £550 +4.76% 108
North East +1 14 £500 -23.08% 68
Senior
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 England region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 870 (27.93%) Agile
2 705 (22.63%) Finance
3 625 (20.06%) Social Skills
4 528 (16.95%) Azure
5 501 (16.08%) Security Cleared
6 479 (15.38%) DevOps
7 440 (14.13%) AWS
8 431 (13.84%) Python
9 409 (13.13%) Microsoft
10 388 (12.46%) Java
11 379 (12.17%) Software Engineering
12 364 (11.69%) SQL
13 352 (11.30%) Public Sector
14 348 (11.17%) CI/CD
15 319 (10.24%) SC Cleared
16 293 (9.41%) Problem-Solving
17 288 (9.25%) C#
18 269 (8.64%) Stakeholder Management
19 264 (8.48%) JavaScript
20 259 (8.31%) Banking
21 243 (7.80%) Degree
22 227 (7.29%) Project Management
23 226 (7.26%) .NET
24 215 (6.90%) Scrum
25 206 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
25 206 (6.61%) React
26 204 (6.55%) Migration
27 203 (6.52%) TypeScript
28 197 (6.32%) Test Automation
29 193 (6.20%) SQL Server

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 58 (1.86%) Apache
2 57 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (1.41%) Confluence
4 41 (1.32%) SharePoint
5 37 (1.19%) CMS
6 32 (1.03%) Apache Spark
7 31 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
8 23 (0.74%) SAS
9 8 (0.26%) Documentum
9 8 (0.26%) Jupyter
10 7 (0.22%) WordPress
11 6 (0.19%) Appian
12 5 (0.16%) ArcGIS
12 5 (0.16%) nginx
12 5 (0.16%) Skype for Business
13 3 (0.096%) ThingWorx
13 3 (0.096%) WildFly
14 2 (0.064%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.064%) GemFire
14 2 (0.064%) Tomcat
Applications
1 58 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.55%) MS Visio
3 17 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
4 16 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.39%) Photoshop
6 11 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
7 9 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.29%) Revit
8 8 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 8 (0.26%) InDesign
9 6 (0.19%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.16%) SPSS
11 4 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
11 4 (0.13%) InVision
12 3 (0.096%) Adobe Premiere
12 3 (0.096%) Sketch
13 2 (0.064%) Simulink
13 2 (0.064%) Stateflow
13 2 (0.064%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 45 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.48%) Primavera
4 14 (0.45%) NEC Housing
5 13 (0.42%) Endur
6 12 (0.39%) Teamcenter
7 9 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.22%) SAP CO
8 7 (0.22%) SAP FI
8 7 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
8 7 (0.22%) SAP SD
9 5 (0.16%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.16%) Shopify
9 5 (0.16%) SimCorp Dimension
10 4 (0.13%) OPENHousing
10 4 (0.13%) RMDS
11 3 (0.096%) Payment Gateway
11 3 (0.096%) SAP EWM
11 3 (0.096%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 528 (16.95%) Azure
2 440 (14.13%) AWS
3 185 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
4 117 (3.76%) GCP
5 104 (3.34%) Power Platform
6 94 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
7 88 (2.83%) Serverless
8 75 (2.41%) Entra ID
9 72 (2.31%) GitHub
10 70 (2.25%) Snowflake
11 58 (1.86%) dbt
11 58 (1.86%) SaaS
12 57 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
13 53 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
14 46 (1.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 46 (1.48%) PaaS
15 36 (1.16%) Amazon S3
16 35 (1.12%) IaaS
17 31 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
17 31 (1.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 143 (4.59%) Firewall
2 57 (1.83%) DNS
3 55 (1.77%) Network Security
3 55 (1.77%) WAN
4 47 (1.51%) LAN
5 38 (1.22%) BGP
6 35 (1.12%) DHCP
7 34 (1.09%) VPN
8 27 (0.87%) DMZ
9 24 (0.77%) OSPF
10 23 (0.74%) Internet
10 23 (0.74%) MPLS
11 22 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
12 21 (0.67%) SAN
12 21 (0.67%) SD-WAN
13 19 (0.61%) Wireless
14 18 (0.58%) Cisco Firepower
14 18 (0.58%) IPsec
14 18 (0.58%) TCP/IP
15 17 (0.55%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (6.20%) SQL Server
2 84 (2.70%) Power BI
3 68 (2.18%) NoSQL
4 66 (2.12%) Data Lake
5 65 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
6 46 (1.48%) Apache Cassandra
6 46 (1.48%) Relational Database
7 44 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
8 40 (1.28%) MongoDB
9 39 (1.25%) Big Data
10 38 (1.22%) Apache Arrow
10 38 (1.22%) Apache Ignite
10 38 (1.22%) Dremio
11 35 (1.12%) Tableau
12 32 (1.03%) KDB
13 30 (0.96%) Oracle Database
14 23 (0.74%) MySQL
14 23 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
14 23 (0.74%) Redis
15 20 (0.64%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 158 (5.07%) Git
2 113 (3.63%) JIRA
3 110 (3.53%) Jenkins
4 53 (1.70%) Selenium
5 45 (1.44%) GitLab
6 44 (1.41%) Postman
7 40 (1.28%) Cucumber
8 33 (1.06%) SpecFlow
9 32 (1.03%) Mockito
10 29 (0.93%) Visual Studio
11 28 (0.90%) Cypress.io
12 27 (0.87%) JUnit
13 24 (0.77%) Bitbucket
14 23 (0.74%) TeamCity
15 20 (0.64%) JMeter
15 20 (0.64%) WebDriver
16 14 (0.45%) Maven
17 13 (0.42%) Artifactory
17 13 (0.42%) CircleCI
17 13 (0.42%) git-flow
General
1 705 (22.63%) Finance
2 625 (20.06%) Social Skills
3 352 (11.30%) Public Sector
4 259 (8.31%) Banking
5 206 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
6 129 (4.14%) Front Office
7 84 (2.70%) Back Office
8 83 (2.66%) Marketing
9 77 (2.47%) Investment Banking
10 73 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
11 68 (2.18%) Telecoms
12 64 (2.05%) Retail
13 62 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 60 (1.93%) Local Government
15 49 (1.57%) Manufacturing
16 43 (1.38%) Legal
17 41 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
18 36 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
19 30 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
20 22 (0.71%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (7.26%) .NET
2 206 (6.61%) React
3 112 (3.60%) XML
4 104 (3.34%) AngularJS
4 104 (3.34%) CSS
5 102 (3.27%) HTML
6 101 (3.24%) Node.js
7 100 (3.21%) Kafka
8 91 (2.92%) REST
9 71 (2.28%) Pandas
10 70 (2.25%) .NET Core
11 60 (1.93%) NumPy
11 60 (1.93%) Spring Boot
12 59 (1.89%) .NET Framework
13 55 (1.77%) Spring
14 54 (1.73%) SciPy
15 53 (1.70%) gRPC
16 51 (1.64%) RESTful
17 46 (1.48%) Web Services
18 44 (1.41%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 158 (5.07%) Product Ownership
2 95 (3.05%) Derivative
3 93 (2.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 87 (2.79%) Fixed Income
5 69 (2.22%) Hedge funds
5 69 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 58 (1.86%) Data Centre
6 58 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
7 56 (1.80%) Mobile App
7 56 (1.80%) Onboarding
8 55 (1.77%) Equities
9 47 (1.51%) Algorithms
9 47 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
10 41 (1.32%) NHS
11 38 (1.22%) Data Structures
12 36 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
13 33 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
14 31 (1.00%) Public Cloud
15 25 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
16 24 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 192 (6.16%) Windows
2 161 (5.17%) Linux
3 62 (1.99%) Unix
4 53 (1.70%) Android
5 50 (1.61%) Apple iOS
5 50 (1.61%) Windows 10
6 48 (1.54%) Windows Server
7 20 (0.64%) Mac OS X
8 14 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
9 11 (0.35%) Mac OS
10 9 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 8 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (0.19%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.16%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
14 4 (0.13%) Solaris
14 4 (0.13%) VMS
15 2 (0.064%) Debian
15 2 (0.064%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 870 (27.93%) Agile
2 479 (15.38%) DevOps
3 379 (12.17%) Software Engineering
4 348 (11.17%) CI/CD
5 293 (9.41%) Problem-Solving
6 269 (8.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 227 (7.29%) Project Management
8 215 (6.90%) Scrum
9 204 (6.55%) Migration
10 197 (6.32%) Test Automation
11 173 (5.55%) Analytics
12 170 (5.46%) Project Delivery
13 169 (5.43%) TDD
14 168 (5.39%) User Experience
15 165 (5.30%) Mentoring
16 147 (4.72%) Roadmaps
16 147 (4.72%) SDLC
17 141 (4.53%) Business Intelligence
18 139 (4.46%) Microservices
19 135 (4.33%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 431 (13.84%) Python
2 388 (12.46%) Java
3 364 (11.69%) SQL
4 288 (9.25%) C#
5 264 (8.48%) JavaScript
6 203 (6.52%) TypeScript
7 182 (5.84%) PowerShell
8 80 (2.57%) Go
9 60 (1.93%) Bicep
10 59 (1.89%) C++
11 50 (1.61%) Kotlin
12 48 (1.54%) Bash
13 44 (1.41%) Scala
14 42 (1.35%) C
15 21 (0.67%) Swift
16 20 (0.64%) Perl
17 16 (0.51%) PHP
17 16 (0.51%) Shell Script
18 15 (0.48%) Rust
19 13 (0.42%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 501 (16.08%) Security Cleared
2 319 (10.24%) SC Cleared
3 243 (7.80%) Degree
4 133 (4.27%) DV Cleared
5 84 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
6 48 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 48 (1.54%) Master's Degree
7 37 (1.19%) CCNP
8 36 (1.16%) CCNA
9 32 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
11 21 (0.67%) Azure Certification
11 21 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
12 20 (0.64%) PMI Certification
13 18 (0.58%) AWS Certification
14 17 (0.55%) CISSP
15 16 (0.51%) PMP
16 15 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 10 (0.32%) PhD
18 9 (0.29%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (2.57%) Data Quality
2 71 (2.28%) QA
3 60 (1.93%) Accessibility
4 57 (1.83%) PMO
5 45 (1.44%) PCI DSS
6 34 (1.09%) GDPR
6 34 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (0.93%) NIST
8 25 (0.80%) SLA
9 22 (0.71%) WCAG
10 11 (0.35%) GRC
11 9 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.29%) NCSC
12 7 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.22%) HL7
13 6 (0.19%) ISO 20022
14 4 (0.13%) MiFID
15 3 (0.096%) ISO/IEC 12207
15 3 (0.096%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.096%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 192 (6.16%) Active Directory
2 168 (5.39%) Docker
3 29 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (0.80%) vSphere
5 11 (0.35%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.32%) Firmware
6 10 (0.32%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.22%) XenApp
9 6 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.096%) ACF2
11 3 (0.096%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 3 (0.096%) IAG
11 3 (0.096%) RACF
11 3 (0.096%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.096%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.096%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.064%) Squid
Systems Management
1 190 (6.10%) Kubernetes
2 158 (5.07%) Terraform
3 74 (2.38%) Ansible
4 33 (1.06%) Grafana
5 24 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
6 23 (0.74%) SCCM
7 21 (0.67%) Prometheus
8 17 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
9 11 (0.35%) Podman
10 10 (0.32%) Puppet
11 9 (0.29%) Kibana
12 8 (0.26%) NetIQ Identity Manager
12 8 (0.26%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.22%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.22%) SolarWinds Orion
13 7 (0.22%) VxRail
14 6 (0.19%) Argo
14 6 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (0.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 409 (13.13%) Microsoft
2 148 (4.75%) SAP
3 123 (3.95%) Cisco
4 96 (3.08%) Oracle
5 79 (2.54%) VMware
6 62 (1.99%) Google
7 51 (1.64%) ServiceNow
8 45 (1.44%) Palo Alto
9 38 (1.22%) Citrix
9 38 (1.22%) Salesforce
10 36 (1.16%) Databricks
11 35 (1.12%) CheckPoint
12 34 (1.09%) Splunk
13 32 (1.03%) Adobe
14 31 (1.00%) Apple
14 31 (1.00%) Juniper
15 25 (0.80%) Arista
15 25 (0.80%) F5
15 25 (0.80%) SolarWinds
16 23 (0.74%) IBM