Senior Contracts in the South West

Senior
England > South West

The median Senior daily rate in the South West is £500 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 36 31 37
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 148 191 200
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 4.55% 5.65% 5.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.92% 6.10% 5.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 141 153
10th Percentile £325 £435 £409
25th Percentile £463 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +11.63% +5.39%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £650
90th Percentile £638 £750 £745
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 7 2
10th Percentile £31.60 £17.72 £43.70
25th Percentile £50.00 £32.24 £43.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £45.96
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +19.67% -16.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 £83.75 £49.04
90th Percentile - £84.25 £49.62
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
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 3,011 3,132 3,497
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 92.58% 95.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,894 2,325 2,533
10th Percentile £213 £281 £225
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £600
90th Percentile £700 £719 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 440 250 210
10th Percentile £13.86 £17.72 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £50.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £64.15 £45.20
Median % change year-on-year -14.26% +41.91% +1.57%
75th Percentile £71.25 £74.69 £63.33
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.40 £68.38
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the South West

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in the South West

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior in the South West

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in the South West

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in the South West

Senior
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the South West 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
Bristol -5 54 £500 -16.67% 136
Wiltshire -20 26 £520 -14.05% 37
Gloucestershire +15 20 £588 -2.08% 43
Devon -4 19 £425 -29.17% 53
Somerset -7 9 £525 -23.02% 39
Cornwall +1 8 £230 - 5
Dorset +10 5 £525 -4.55% 20
Senior
England

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

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 South West region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 59 (39.86%) Security Cleared
2 49 (33.11%) Agile
3 42 (28.38%) SC Cleared
4 29 (19.59%) Social Skills
5 28 (18.92%) Public Sector
6 24 (16.22%) Finance
7 23 (15.54%) Project Management
8 20 (13.51%) DevOps
9 19 (12.84%) Azure
10 18 (12.16%) Terraform
11 17 (11.49%) CI/CD
12 15 (10.14%) DV Cleared
12 15 (10.14%) SQL
13 14 (9.46%) Python
13 14 (9.46%) Change Management
13 14 (9.46%) AWS
13 14 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (8.78%) Degree
14 13 (8.78%) Stakeholder Management
14 13 (8.78%) Microsoft
15 12 (8.11%) Windows
15 12 (8.11%) Linux
15 12 (8.11%) .NET
16 11 (7.43%) PRINCE2
16 11 (7.43%) JIRA
16 11 (7.43%) Docker
16 11 (7.43%) TypeScript
17 10 (6.76%) Ansible
17 10 (6.76%) AngularJS
17 10 (6.76%) Kubernetes

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (3.38%) Confluence
2 4 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.35%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (1.35%) InVision
2 1 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.35%) SAP HCM
2 2 (1.35%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.68%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.68%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.68%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.68%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 19 (12.84%) Azure
2 14 (9.46%) AWS
3 9 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (6.08%) Power Platform
4 6 (4.05%) GCP
5 5 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (3.38%) PaaS
6 4 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.70%) PowerApps
7 3 (2.03%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.03%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.03%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.35%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.35%) GitHub
8 2 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.35%) Serverless
8 2 (1.35%) Slack
9 1 (0.68%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.68%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.38%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.35%) DHCP
2 2 (1.35%) Internet
2 2 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.68%) 4G
3 1 (0.68%) 5G
3 1 (0.68%) DNS
3 1 (0.68%) Network Security
3 1 (0.68%) SSL
3 1 (0.68%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.70%) Power BI
2 3 (2.03%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.35%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (1.35%) Oracle ODI
3 2 (1.35%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.68%) CockroachDB
4 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.68%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.68%) Metadata
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (7.43%) JIRA
2 8 (5.41%) Git
3 6 (4.05%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.05%) NUnit
3 6 (4.05%) Postman
3 6 (4.05%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.70%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.70%) GitLab
5 2 (1.35%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.35%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.35%) JMeter
5 2 (1.35%) JUnit
5 2 (1.35%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.35%) Selenium
5 2 (1.35%) Snyk
5 2 (1.35%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle APEX
General
1 29 (19.59%) Social Skills
2 28 (18.92%) Public Sector
3 24 (16.22%) Finance
4 10 (6.76%) Telecoms
5 9 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.73%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.05%) Marketing
8 5 (3.38%) Electronics
9 3 (2.03%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.03%) Publishing
10 2 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.35%) Military
10 2 (1.35%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.68%) Banking
11 1 (0.68%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.11%) .NET
2 10 (6.76%) AngularJS
3 7 (4.73%) GraphQL
4 6 (4.05%) REST
5 5 (3.38%) Playwright
6 4 (2.70%) React
7 3 (2.03%) ASP.NET
7 3 (2.03%) CSS
8 2 (1.35%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.35%) Fluent Bit
8 2 (1.35%) HTML
8 2 (1.35%) Loki
8 2 (1.35%) Next.js
8 2 (1.35%) Node.js
8 2 (1.35%) Redux
8 2 (1.35%) SAML
8 2 (1.35%) Tailwind CSS
8 2 (1.35%) Web Services
9 1 (0.68%) NgRx
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.70%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (1.35%) Algorithms
3 2 (1.35%) IoT
3 2 (1.35%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.68%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.68%) Replication
4 1 (0.68%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.11%) Linux
1 12 (8.11%) Windows
2 1 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.68%) Unix
2 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (33.11%) Agile
2 23 (15.54%) Project Management
3 20 (13.51%) DevOps
4 17 (11.49%) CI/CD
5 14 (9.46%) Change Management
5 14 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (8.78%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (7.43%) PRINCE2
8 10 (6.76%) Performance Testing
8 10 (6.76%) Project Delivery
8 10 (6.76%) TDD
9 9 (6.08%) Acceptance Criteria
9 9 (6.08%) BDD
9 9 (6.08%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (6.08%) Kanban
9 9 (6.08%) Scrum
9 9 (6.08%) Software Engineering
9 9 (6.08%) Test Strategy
9 9 (6.08%) Waterfall
10 8 (5.41%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (10.14%) SQL
2 14 (9.46%) Python
3 11 (7.43%) TypeScript
4 10 (6.76%) PowerShell
5 8 (5.41%) C#
6 7 (4.73%) Bash
7 5 (3.38%) C
8 4 (2.70%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.03%) Bicep
9 3 (2.03%) Go
10 2 (1.35%) Java
11 1 (0.68%) C++
11 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.68%) PL/1
11 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.68%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 59 (39.86%) Security Cleared
2 42 (28.38%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.14%) DV Cleared
4 13 (8.78%) Degree
5 4 (2.70%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.03%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.68%) CCNA
7 1 (0.68%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (0.68%) CIPD
7 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.68%) CISSP
7 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.68%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.73%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.38%) PMO
2 5 (3.38%) QA
3 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.68%) NIST
3 1 (0.68%) SLA
3 1 (0.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (7.43%) Docker
2 6 (4.05%) VMware NSX
2 6 (4.05%) vSphere
3 5 (3.38%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.35%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (12.16%) Terraform
2 10 (6.76%) Ansible
2 10 (6.76%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.70%) Argo
3 4 (2.70%) Grafana
3 4 (2.70%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.03%) SCCM
5 2 (1.35%) Kustomize
5 2 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.35%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.68%) Puppet
6 1 (0.68%) vRealize
Vendors
1 13 (8.78%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.76%) SAP
3 8 (5.41%) VMware
4 5 (3.38%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.70%) Oracle
6 2 (1.35%) Adobe
6 2 (1.35%) Google
6 2 (1.35%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.35%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.35%) SOTI
7 1 (0.68%) Dell
7 1 (0.68%) McAfee
7 1 (0.68%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.68%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.68%) Sparx
7 1 (0.68%) Splunk
7 1 (0.68%) Veeam