Senior Contracts in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior daily rate in London is £600 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 14 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 1,846 2,462 3,725
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 10.54% 9.68% 9.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.27% 10.17% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,310 1,875 2,845
10th Percentile £410 £431 £443
25th Percentile £480 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £725
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 24 40
10th Percentile £18.90 £18.93 -
25th Percentile £21.06 £29.10 -
Median hourly rate £36.73 £44.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -16.52% +71.34% -21.83%
75th Percentile £72.50 £63.75 £59.56
90th Percentile £83.75 £69.63 £70.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £43.36
% change year-on-year -4.04% +14.17% +31.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,385 24,202 36,842
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,830 17,663 27,089
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in London

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in London

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior in London

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in London

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in London

Senior
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the London 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
Central London +1 231 £525 -18.92% 160
East London +1 35 £510 -32.00% 28
West London +8 33 £475 -15.93% 54
South London 0 33 £525 -4.55% 22
Senior
England

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

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 London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 587 (31.80%) Agile
2 508 (27.52%) Finance
3 385 (20.86%) Social Skills
4 364 (19.72%) Azure
5 346 (18.74%) DevOps
6 329 (17.82%) Python
7 318 (17.23%) AWS
8 305 (16.52%) Java
9 270 (14.63%) CI/CD
10 264 (14.30%) SQL
11 258 (13.98%) Software Engineering
12 249 (13.49%) Microsoft
13 248 (13.43%) C#
14 222 (12.03%) JavaScript
15 211 (11.43%) Banking
16 189 (10.24%) Security Cleared
17 187 (10.13%) .NET
18 184 (9.97%) Public Sector
19 166 (8.99%) TypeScript
20 163 (8.83%) SQL Server
21 161 (8.72%) Scrum
21 161 (8.72%) React
22 160 (8.67%) Problem-Solving
23 154 (8.34%) SC Cleared
24 149 (8.07%) Azure DevOps
25 143 (7.75%) Test Automation
26 142 (7.69%) PowerShell
27 134 (7.26%) Degree
28 133 (7.20%) TDD
28 133 (7.20%) Active Directory

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 55 (2.98%) Apache Airflow
2 51 (2.76%) Apache
3 29 (1.57%) Confluence
4 26 (1.41%) CMS
5 24 (1.30%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.70%) SharePoint
8 12 (0.65%) SAS
9 7 (0.38%) Jupyter
9 7 (0.38%) WordPress
10 6 (0.33%) Appian
11 5 (0.27%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.27%) nginx
11 5 (0.27%) Skype for Business
12 3 (0.16%) ThingWorx
12 3 (0.16%) WildFly
13 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.11%) CICS
13 2 (0.11%) GemFire
13 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 41 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (0.76%) MS Visio
4 13 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
6 10 (0.54%) Photoshop
7 8 (0.43%) InDesign
8 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.16%) Sketch
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.11%) InVision
11 2 (0.11%) Revit
11 2 (0.11%) SPSS
11 2 (0.11%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.054%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.054%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 17 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.70%) Endur
4 12 (0.65%) NEC Housing
5 8 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.27%) Shopify
7 5 (0.27%) SimCorp Dimension
8 4 (0.22%) OPENHousing
8 4 (0.22%) RMDS
9 3 (0.16%) ION MarketView
9 3 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
10 2 (0.11%) Magento
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (0.11%) SAP CO
10 2 (0.11%) SAP FI
10 2 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
10 2 (0.11%) SAP SD
10 2 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 364 (19.72%) Azure
2 318 (17.23%) AWS
3 149 (8.07%) Azure DevOps
4 87 (4.71%) GCP
5 71 (3.85%) Serverless
6 70 (3.79%) Entra ID
7 55 (2.98%) Azure Service Bus
7 55 (2.98%) dbt
7 55 (2.98%) GitHub
7 55 (2.98%) Snowflake
8 49 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
9 45 (2.44%) SaaS
10 44 (2.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 40 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
12 37 (2.00%) Power Platform
13 35 (1.90%) Amazon S3
14 34 (1.84%) PaaS
15 31 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
16 28 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
17 27 (1.46%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (4.06%) Firewall
2 31 (1.68%) Network Security
3 29 (1.57%) DNS
4 20 (1.08%) LAN
4 20 (1.08%) VPN
4 20 (1.08%) WAN
5 18 (0.98%) Internet
6 16 (0.87%) DHCP
7 15 (0.81%) BGP
8 13 (0.70%) OSPF
8 13 (0.70%) Wireless
9 11 (0.60%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.54%) MPLS
10 10 (0.54%) VLAN
11 9 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.43%) Cisco ASA
13 7 (0.38%) EIGRP
13 7 (0.38%) InfiniBand
13 7 (0.38%) IPsec
13 7 (0.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (8.83%) SQL Server
2 58 (3.14%) NoSQL
3 54 (2.93%) Data Lake
4 49 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
5 43 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
6 39 (2.11%) Relational Database
7 38 (2.06%) Apache Arrow
7 38 (2.06%) Apache Ignite
7 38 (2.06%) Dremio
8 34 (1.84%) Power BI
9 33 (1.79%) Big Data
10 32 (1.73%) KDB
11 30 (1.63%) MongoDB
12 24 (1.30%) Oracle Database
13 23 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
14 21 (1.14%) Redis
15 20 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
16 19 (1.03%) DynamoDB
16 19 (1.03%) Tableau
17 14 (0.76%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 125 (6.77%) Git
2 73 (3.95%) Jenkins
3 63 (3.41%) JIRA
4 33 (1.79%) Postman
4 33 (1.79%) SpecFlow
5 31 (1.68%) Mockito
6 25 (1.35%) Selenium
7 23 (1.25%) Cypress.io
7 23 (1.25%) TeamCity
8 22 (1.19%) Cucumber
8 22 (1.19%) JUnit
9 21 (1.14%) Visual Studio
10 18 (0.98%) GitLab
11 16 (0.87%) WebDriver
12 15 (0.81%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.70%) git-flow
14 10 (0.54%) Artifactory
14 10 (0.54%) CircleCI
15 9 (0.49%) Maven
16 8 (0.43%) Gradle
General
1 508 (27.52%) Finance
2 385 (20.86%) Social Skills
3 211 (11.43%) Banking
4 184 (9.97%) Public Sector
5 127 (6.88%) Front Office
6 117 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
7 81 (4.39%) Back Office
8 77 (4.17%) Investment Banking
9 55 (2.98%) Marketing
10 52 (2.82%) Retail
11 48 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
12 47 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 45 (2.44%) Local Government
14 26 (1.41%) Legal
15 24 (1.30%) Telecoms
16 21 (1.14%) Manufacturing
17 20 (1.08%) Advertising
18 19 (1.03%) Financial Institution
19 18 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
20 16 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (10.13%) .NET
2 161 (8.72%) React
3 100 (5.42%) XML
4 84 (4.55%) AngularJS
5 81 (4.39%) CSS
6 77 (4.17%) HTML
7 73 (3.95%) Node.js
8 70 (3.79%) Pandas
9 67 (3.63%) REST
10 66 (3.58%) Kafka
11 59 (3.20%) .NET Core
12 58 (3.14%) NumPy
13 54 (2.93%) SciPy
14 53 (2.87%) Spring Boot
15 51 (2.76%) gRPC
16 49 (2.65%) .NET Framework
17 48 (2.60%) Spring
18 44 (2.38%) Protocol Buffers
18 44 (2.38%) RESTful
19 40 (2.17%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 124 (6.72%) Product Ownership
2 93 (5.04%) Derivative
3 87 (4.71%) Fixed Income
4 86 (4.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 69 (3.74%) Hedge funds
6 55 (2.98%) Equities
7 48 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
7 48 (2.60%) Management Information System
8 46 (2.49%) Mobile App
9 36 (1.95%) Onboarding
10 35 (1.90%) Algorithms
11 31 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
12 27 (1.46%) Data Centre
13 25 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
14 24 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
15 22 (1.19%) Data Structures
16 21 (1.14%) Public Cloud
17 17 (0.92%) Cloud Native
17 17 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
18 16 (0.87%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 77 (4.17%) Linux
2 76 (4.12%) Windows
3 40 (2.17%) Android
4 37 (2.00%) Apple iOS
5 36 (1.95%) Unix
6 23 (1.25%) Windows Server
7 15 (0.81%) Mac OS X
7 15 (0.81%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.27%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.22%) VMS
10 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.11%) zOS
11 1 (0.054%) CentOS
11 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 587 (31.80%) Agile
2 346 (18.74%) DevOps
3 270 (14.63%) CI/CD
4 258 (13.98%) Software Engineering
5 161 (8.72%) Scrum
6 160 (8.67%) Problem-Solving
7 143 (7.75%) Test Automation
8 133 (7.20%) TDD
9 128 (6.93%) Stakeholder Management
10 126 (6.83%) Analytics
11 119 (6.45%) Migration
12 118 (6.39%) SDLC
13 117 (6.34%) User Experience
14 107 (5.80%) Microservices
15 102 (5.53%) Mentoring
16 95 (5.15%) Asset Management
17 89 (4.82%) Project Management
18 87 (4.71%) Data Modelling
18 87 (4.71%) Project Delivery
19 85 (4.60%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 329 (17.82%) Python
2 305 (16.52%) Java
3 264 (14.30%) SQL
4 248 (13.43%) C#
5 222 (12.03%) JavaScript
6 166 (8.99%) TypeScript
7 142 (7.69%) PowerShell
8 57 (3.09%) Bicep
9 53 (2.87%) Go
10 37 (2.00%) Kotlin
11 34 (1.84%) C++
12 29 (1.57%) Scala
13 25 (1.35%) Bash
14 20 (1.08%) Swift
15 13 (0.70%) Rust
16 11 (0.60%) C
16 11 (0.60%) Ruby
17 10 (0.54%) PHP
17 10 (0.54%) T-SQL
18 8 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 189 (10.24%) Security Cleared
2 154 (8.34%) SC Cleared
3 134 (7.26%) Degree
4 32 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
5 25 (1.35%) DV Cleared
6 22 (1.19%) Master's Degree
7 15 (0.81%) Azure Certification
7 15 (0.81%) CCNP
8 11 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (0.60%) CCNA
8 11 (0.60%) PMI Certification
9 10 (0.54%) AWS Certification
10 9 (0.49%) CISSP
11 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.43%) PMP
12 7 (0.38%) GIAC
12 7 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 6 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.33%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (3.30%) Data Quality
2 38 (2.06%) QA
3 37 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 31 (1.68%) PCI DSS
5 23 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (1.25%) PMO
6 18 (0.98%) NIST
6 18 (0.98%) WCAG
7 17 (0.92%) SLA
8 15 (0.81%) GDPR
9 6 (0.33%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.22%) GRC
10 4 (0.22%) MiFID
11 3 (0.16%) NCSC
11 3 (0.16%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.11%) IFRS
12 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 133 (7.20%) Active Directory
2 109 (5.90%) Docker
3 15 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.33%) vSphere
6 2 (0.11%) ACF2
6 2 (0.11%) IAG
6 2 (0.11%) RACF
6 2 (0.11%) Squid
6 2 (0.11%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.054%) Firmware
7 1 (0.054%) GridGain
7 1 (0.054%) HDFS
7 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.054%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 120 (6.50%) Kubernetes
2 101 (5.47%) Terraform
3 32 (1.73%) Ansible
4 21 (1.14%) Grafana
5 17 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (0.70%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.33%) Puppet
8 5 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (0.27%) Kibana
8 5 (0.27%) Opsgenie
8 5 (0.27%) SCCM
8 5 (0.27%) SCOM
8 5 (0.27%) SolarWinds Orion
9 4 (0.22%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.22%) Functional Safety
9 4 (0.22%) VxRail
10 3 (0.16%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.16%) Podman
Vendors
1 249 (13.49%) Microsoft
2 74 (4.01%) Oracle
3 60 (3.25%) SAP
4 50 (2.71%) Google
5 38 (2.06%) Cisco
6 33 (1.79%) Databricks
7 29 (1.57%) Salesforce
7 29 (1.57%) ServiceNow
8 25 (1.35%) Adobe
9 23 (1.25%) Palo Alto
10 21 (1.14%) IBM
11 19 (1.03%) VMware
12 18 (0.98%) Citrix
13 17 (0.92%) Apple
14 14 (0.76%) ION Trading
15 13 (0.70%) NEC
16 12 (0.65%) Dell
16 12 (0.65%) New Relic
17 11 (0.60%) F5
17 11 (0.60%) Splunk