Senior Contracts in the North of England

Senior
England > North of England

The median Senior daily rate in the North of England is £504 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 21 21 25
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 335 361 499
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 7.07% 6.55% 7.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.60% 6.87% 7.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 266 366
10th Percentile £325 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £563 £535
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +5.14% +4.09%
75th Percentile £593 £650 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £663
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 11 21
10th Percentile £23.13 £17.72 £25.75
25th Percentile £25.88 £19.49 £41.68
Median hourly rate £42.91 £40.00 £52.70
Median % change year-on-year +7.28% -24.10% +70.83%
75th Percentile £51.31 £63.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £65.63 £66.69 £81.00
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
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,410 5,258 6,892
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.02% 95.43% 96.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,721 3,683 5,047
10th Percentile £263 £270 £204
25th Percentile £386 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £598 £563
90th Percentile £670 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 163 272
10th Percentile £11.09 £14.05 £11.35
25th Percentile £13.00 £17.72 £14.61
Median hourly rate £22.50 £28.70 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.60% +45.32% +11.99%
75th Percentile £47.50 £45.62 £33.96
90th Percentile £66.61 £65.60 £62.70
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 the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the North of England

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in the North of England

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior in the North of England

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in the North of England

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in the North of England

Senior
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West +6 240 £509 -3.00% 381
Yorkshire -7 82 £515 -11.44% 161
North East +1 14 £500 -23.08% 68
Senior
England

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 North of England region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 68 (20.30%) Social Skills
2 61 (18.21%) Agile
3 44 (13.13%) Security Cleared
4 40 (11.94%) Finance
5 37 (11.04%) SAP
6 35 (10.45%) Microsoft
7 34 (10.15%) SC Cleared
7 34 (10.15%) DevOps
8 32 (9.55%) Public Sector
8 32 (9.55%) AWS
9 31 (9.25%) Python
9 31 (9.25%) ITIL
10 30 (8.96%) Azure
10 30 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
11 29 (8.66%) Degree
12 28 (8.36%) Java
13 26 (7.76%) Software Engineering
14 23 (6.87%) SQL
14 23 (6.87%) Business Intelligence
14 23 (6.87%) CI/CD
14 23 (6.87%) Roadmaps
15 22 (6.57%) Mentoring
15 22 (6.57%) Project Management
15 22 (6.57%) Cisco Certification
15 22 (6.57%) Stakeholder Management
16 21 (6.27%) Change Management
16 21 (6.27%) Data Analysis
16 21 (6.27%) Cisco
16 21 (6.27%) Power Platform

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 7 (2.09%) Confluence
1 7 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (2.09%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.49%) SAS
3 4 (1.19%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.30%) Apache
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.30%) Drupal
4 1 (0.30%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.79%) Revit
3 5 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.19%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 9 (2.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.60%) SAP WM
2 2 (0.60%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.30%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.30%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.30%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.30%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 32 (9.55%) AWS
2 30 (8.96%) Azure
3 21 (6.27%) Power Platform
4 17 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (2.99%) GCP
5 10 (2.99%) Snowflake
6 9 (2.69%) SuccessFactors
7 7 (2.09%) Serverless
8 6 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (1.79%) SaaS
9 5 (1.49%) Collibra
9 5 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.49%) IaaS
9 5 (1.49%) PaaS
9 5 (1.49%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.90%) Akamai
10 3 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (0.90%) Cloudflare
10 3 (0.90%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.78%) Firewall
2 10 (2.99%) Network Security
3 9 (2.69%) BGP
3 9 (2.69%) Cisco ASA
3 9 (2.69%) Cisco Firepower
3 9 (2.69%) Cisco ISE
3 9 (2.69%) EIGRP
3 9 (2.69%) HSRP
3 9 (2.69%) IPsec
3 9 (2.69%) NetScaler
3 9 (2.69%) OSPF
4 8 (2.39%) DNS
4 8 (2.39%) SNMP
4 8 (2.39%) Spanning Tree
4 8 (2.39%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (1.79%) WAN
6 4 (1.19%) HTTP
6 4 (1.19%) LAN
6 4 (1.19%) SAN
6 4 (1.19%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.67%) Power BI
2 10 (2.99%) MongoDB
3 8 (2.39%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.79%) Data Lake
4 6 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.49%) Ataccama
5 5 (1.49%) MySQL
5 5 (1.49%) Qlik Sense
6 4 (1.19%) Big Data
6 4 (1.19%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.19%) Data Mining
6 4 (1.19%) Hadoop
6 4 (1.19%) SQLite
6 4 (1.19%) Tableau
7 3 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (0.90%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.90%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (0.90%) HBase
8 2 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 13 (3.88%) JIRA
2 11 (3.28%) Git
3 10 (2.99%) Selenium
4 7 (2.09%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.09%) JMeter
5 6 (1.79%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.49%) Gatling
6 5 (1.49%) GitLab
6 5 (1.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (1.19%) Postman
7 4 (1.19%) WebDriver
8 2 (0.60%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.60%) TestCafe
9 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.30%) Crashlytics
9 1 (0.30%) GoCD
9 1 (0.30%) Gradle
9 1 (0.30%) Pa11y
9 1 (0.30%) Storybook
9 1 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 68 (20.30%) Social Skills
2 40 (11.94%) Finance
3 32 (9.55%) Public Sector
4 30 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.18%) Pharmaceutical
6 13 (3.88%) Banking
7 11 (3.28%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.39%) Legal
9 6 (1.79%) Retail
10 5 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.19%) Marketing
11 4 (1.19%) Military
12 3 (0.90%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (0.90%) Electronics
12 3 (0.90%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.60%) Automotive
13 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.37%) React
2 16 (4.78%) Node.js
3 9 (2.69%) Kafka
3 9 (2.69%) Vue
3 9 (2.69%) Web Services
4 8 (2.39%) Jinja
5 7 (2.09%) HTML
5 7 (2.09%) Redux
6 6 (1.79%) .NET
6 6 (1.79%) CSS
7 5 (1.49%) .NET Framework
7 5 (1.49%) ActiveMQ
7 5 (1.49%) GraphQL
7 5 (1.49%) Next.js
8 4 (1.19%) RESTful
8 4 (1.19%) XML
9 3 (0.90%) Express.js
9 3 (0.90%) MERN Stack
9 3 (0.90%) Spring
10 2 (0.60%) Jetpack Compose
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.78%) NHS
2 14 (4.18%) Product Ownership
3 9 (2.69%) Data Structures
4 7 (2.09%) Data Centre
5 6 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.79%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.19%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (1.19%) Robotics
7 3 (0.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (0.90%) Life Science
7 3 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.90%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (0.60%) Derivative
8 2 (0.60%) Industry 4.0
8 2 (0.60%) PKI
8 2 (0.60%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.67%) Windows
2 14 (4.18%) Windows 10
3 11 (3.28%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.09%) Unix
5 6 (1.79%) Android
6 5 (1.49%) Linux
6 5 (1.49%) Mac OS X
6 5 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.90%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (18.21%) Agile
2 34 (10.15%) DevOps
3 31 (9.25%) ITIL
4 30 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (7.76%) Software Engineering
6 23 (6.87%) Business Intelligence
6 23 (6.87%) CI/CD
6 23 (6.87%) Roadmaps
7 22 (6.57%) Mentoring
7 22 (6.57%) Project Management
7 22 (6.57%) Stakeholder Management
8 21 (6.27%) Change Management
8 21 (6.27%) Data Analysis
9 20 (5.97%) Test Automation
10 17 (5.07%) Data Modelling
11 16 (4.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (4.48%) E-Commerce
12 15 (4.48%) ITSM
12 15 (4.48%) Migration
13 14 (4.18%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (9.25%) Python
2 28 (8.36%) Java
3 23 (6.87%) SQL
4 15 (4.48%) JavaScript
5 11 (3.28%) Perl
5 11 (3.28%) Scala
6 10 (2.99%) TypeScript
7 9 (2.69%) PowerShell
8 8 (2.39%) Tcl
9 7 (2.09%) Bash
9 7 (2.09%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.79%) C#
11 4 (1.19%) Go
11 4 (1.19%) Groovy
11 4 (1.19%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.60%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.60%) PHP
13 2 (0.60%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.60%) VBA
Qualifications
1 44 (13.13%) Security Cleared
2 34 (10.15%) SC Cleared
3 29 (8.66%) Degree
4 22 (6.57%) Cisco Certification
5 20 (5.97%) CCNA
6 14 (4.18%) CCNP
7 13 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 5 (1.49%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.19%) CISSP
10 4 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.19%) MCSE
10 4 (1.19%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (0.90%) CISM
11 3 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.90%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.60%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.48%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.88%) Accessibility
3 11 (3.28%) QA
4 10 (2.99%) GDPR
5 9 (2.69%) PMO
6 4 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.90%) WCAG
8 2 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.60%) GRC
8 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.60%) SLA
9 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (5.67%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.99%) Docker
3 9 (2.69%) Firmware
4 5 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.19%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.60%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.30%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.30%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (3.88%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.58%) Ansible
3 11 (3.28%) Terraform
4 8 (2.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.79%) SCCM
6 3 (0.90%) EMC NetWorker
6 3 (0.90%) Grafana
6 3 (0.90%) Kibana
6 3 (0.90%) VxRail
7 2 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.60%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (0.60%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.30%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.30%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.30%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.30%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.30%) Puppet
8 1 (0.30%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.30%) vMotion
8 1 (0.30%) WSUS
Vendors
1 37 (11.04%) SAP
2 35 (10.45%) Microsoft
3 21 (6.27%) Cisco
4 17 (5.07%) VMware
5 13 (3.88%) ServiceNow
6 12 (3.58%) Citrix
6 12 (3.58%) SolarWinds
7 11 (3.28%) Palo Alto
8 6 (1.79%) Google
8 6 (1.79%) Oracle
9 5 (1.49%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.49%) Dataiku
9 5 (1.49%) Trillium
10 4 (1.19%) Ariba
10 4 (1.19%) Dell
11 3 (0.90%) F5
11 3 (0.90%) HP
11 3 (0.90%) Symantec
11 3 (0.90%) Veeam
12 2 (0.60%) 3PAR