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 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 20 19
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 3,055 3,921 5,762
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.39% 8.19% 8.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.04% 8.66% 8.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,048 2,888 4,261
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% +5.99%
75th Percentile £675 £706 £690
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 86 94
10th Percentile £20.88 £17.72 £20.25
25th Percentile £31.60 £32.13 £25.68
Median hourly rate £47.50 £46.50 £44.02
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% +5.64% +34.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.13
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.50 £77.45
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £53.53 £43.36
% change year-on-year -6.59% +23.47% +34.45%

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 33,784 45,257 67,201
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.58% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,405 32,145 47,943
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.27% +7.11%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £646
90th Percentile £750 £763 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,479 1,329 1,839
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.47 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.52
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +6.98%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.44%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 23 May 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 1,805 £600 -4.00% 1,620
South East +8 448 £525 +5.00% 556
North of England -1 324 £500 -11.11% 592
North West +7 232 £508 -3.33% 362
South West -3 152 £500 -16.67% 308
Midlands +11 137 £500 -6.98% 390
West Midlands +11 111 £488 -11.36% 265
East of England -13 92 £534 -7.13% 262
Yorkshire -9 81 £500 -13.04% 177
East Midlands -11 23 £550 +4.76% 126
North East -1 14 £500 -23.08% 59
Senior
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 job ads across the England region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 844 (27.63%) Agile
2 695 (22.75%) Finance
3 629 (20.59%) Social Skills
4 524 (17.15%) Azure
5 487 (15.94%) Security Cleared
6 475 (15.55%) DevOps
7 441 (14.44%) Python
8 423 (13.85%) AWS
9 394 (12.90%) Microsoft
10 379 (12.41%) Java
11 363 (11.88%) SQL
12 357 (11.69%) Software Engineering
12 357 (11.69%) Public Sector
13 341 (11.16%) CI/CD
14 306 (10.02%) SC Cleared
15 295 (9.66%) C#
16 287 (9.39%) Problem-Solving
17 263 (8.61%) Stakeholder Management
18 253 (8.28%) Banking
19 251 (8.22%) Degree
20 250 (8.18%) JavaScript
21 226 (7.40%) Project Management
22 224 (7.33%) .NET
23 215 (7.04%) Scrum
24 210 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
25 202 (6.61%) Migration
26 199 (6.51%) React
27 196 (6.42%) Windows
28 195 (6.38%) Test Automation
29 192 (6.28%) 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 54 (1.77%) Apache
2 53 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (1.54%) Confluence
4 41 (1.34%) SharePoint
5 37 (1.21%) CMS
6 33 (1.08%) Apache Spark
7 30 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
8 18 (0.59%) SAS
9 8 (0.26%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.20%) Appian
10 6 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.20%) Documentum
10 6 (0.20%) Skype for Business
10 6 (0.20%) WordPress
11 4 (0.13%) nginx
12 3 (0.098%) ThingWorx
13 2 (0.065%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.065%) GemFire
13 2 (0.065%) Oracle Coherence
13 2 (0.065%) Tomcat
Applications
1 57 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
4 18 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
6 11 (0.36%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.29%) Revit
8 8 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 8 (0.26%) InDesign
8 8 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.20%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
10 4 (0.13%) InVision
10 4 (0.13%) SPSS
11 3 (0.098%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.098%) Sketch
12 2 (0.065%) Simulink
12 2 (0.065%) Stateflow
12 2 (0.065%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 44 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.59%) Primavera
4 14 (0.46%) Endur
4 14 (0.46%) NEC Housing
5 12 (0.39%) Teamcenter
6 8 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.23%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.23%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
7 7 (0.23%) SAP SD
8 5 (0.16%) Shopify
8 5 (0.16%) SimCorp Dimension
9 4 (0.13%) OPENHousing
9 4 (0.13%) RMDS
10 3 (0.098%) ION MarketView
10 3 (0.098%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.098%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.098%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 524 (17.15%) Azure
2 423 (13.85%) AWS
3 185 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
4 111 (3.63%) GCP
5 101 (3.31%) Power Platform
6 95 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
7 80 (2.62%) Serverless
8 74 (2.42%) Entra ID
9 66 (2.16%) Snowflake
10 65 (2.13%) GitHub
11 62 (2.03%) SaaS
12 56 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
13 54 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
14 52 (1.70%) dbt
15 48 (1.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 47 (1.54%) PaaS
17 37 (1.21%) Amazon S3
17 37 (1.21%) IaaS
18 31 (1.01%) Azure Monitor
19 30 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 142 (4.65%) Firewall
2 60 (1.96%) Network Security
3 57 (1.87%) DNS
4 53 (1.73%) WAN
5 46 (1.51%) LAN
6 37 (1.21%) BGP
7 36 (1.18%) DHCP
8 31 (1.01%) VPN
9 27 (0.88%) DMZ
10 25 (0.82%) MPLS
11 24 (0.79%) OSPF
12 23 (0.75%) Internet
13 20 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
14 19 (0.62%) IPsec
14 19 (0.62%) SAN
14 19 (0.62%) SD-WAN
14 19 (0.62%) TCP/IP
14 19 (0.62%) Wireless
15 18 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
15 18 (0.59%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (6.28%) SQL Server
2 84 (2.75%) Power BI
3 66 (2.16%) NoSQL
4 63 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
5 62 (2.03%) Data Lake
6 44 (1.44%) Apache Cassandra
7 42 (1.37%) Relational Database
8 40 (1.31%) Amazon Athena
9 38 (1.24%) MongoDB
10 36 (1.18%) Big Data
11 34 (1.11%) Apache Arrow
11 34 (1.11%) Apache Ignite
11 34 (1.11%) Dremio
11 34 (1.11%) Tableau
12 32 (1.05%) KDB
13 26 (0.85%) Oracle Database
14 24 (0.79%) MySQL
15 23 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
16 22 (0.72%) DynamoDB
17 21 (0.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 154 (5.04%) Git
2 115 (3.76%) JIRA
3 108 (3.54%) Jenkins
4 53 (1.73%) Selenium
5 42 (1.37%) GitLab
5 42 (1.37%) Postman
6 39 (1.28%) Cucumber
7 33 (1.08%) SpecFlow
8 31 (1.01%) Mockito
9 30 (0.98%) Cypress.io
10 28 (0.92%) Visual Studio
11 26 (0.85%) JUnit
12 24 (0.79%) Bitbucket
13 23 (0.75%) TeamCity
14 20 (0.65%) JMeter
14 20 (0.65%) WebDriver
15 14 (0.46%) Maven
16 13 (0.43%) Artifactory
16 13 (0.43%) CircleCI
16 13 (0.43%) git-flow
General
1 695 (22.75%) Finance
2 629 (20.59%) Social Skills
3 357 (11.69%) Public Sector
4 253 (8.28%) Banking
5 210 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
6 127 (4.16%) Front Office
7 91 (2.98%) Marketing
8 88 (2.88%) Back Office
9 74 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
10 73 (2.39%) Investment Banking
11 69 (2.26%) Telecoms
12 61 (2.00%) Local Government
12 61 (2.00%) Retail
13 59 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 51 (1.67%) Manufacturing
15 43 (1.41%) Legal
16 42 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
17 37 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
18 33 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
19 25 (0.82%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (7.33%) .NET
2 199 (6.51%) React
3 112 (3.67%) XML
4 105 (3.44%) CSS
5 102 (3.34%) AngularJS
5 102 (3.34%) HTML
6 96 (3.14%) Kafka
7 90 (2.95%) Node.js
8 85 (2.78%) REST
9 73 (2.39%) .NET Core
10 67 (2.19%) Pandas
11 58 (1.90%) .NET Framework
11 58 (1.90%) Spring Boot
12 56 (1.83%) NumPy
13 55 (1.80%) Spring
14 50 (1.64%) SciPy
15 47 (1.54%) gRPC
16 46 (1.51%) RESTful
16 46 (1.51%) Web Services
17 44 (1.44%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 155 (5.07%) Product Ownership
2 94 (3.08%) Derivative
3 88 (2.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 83 (2.72%) Fixed Income
5 69 (2.26%) Management Information System
6 67 (2.19%) Hedge funds
7 59 (1.93%) Data Centre
8 58 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
8 58 (1.90%) Onboarding
9 54 (1.77%) Mobile App
10 52 (1.70%) Equities
11 48 (1.57%) Algorithms
12 47 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
13 39 (1.28%) Data Structures
13 39 (1.28%) NHS
14 35 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
15 34 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
16 33 (1.08%) Public Cloud
17 26 (0.85%) Cloud Native
18 23 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 196 (6.42%) Windows
2 164 (5.37%) Linux
3 65 (2.13%) Unix
4 53 (1.73%) Windows Server
5 52 (1.70%) Android
6 50 (1.64%) Windows 10
7 45 (1.47%) Apple iOS
8 20 (0.65%) Mac OS X
9 13 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 12 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
11 11 (0.36%) Mac OS
12 9 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 7 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
14 6 (0.20%) Ubuntu
15 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
16 4 (0.13%) Solaris
16 4 (0.13%) VMS
17 3 (0.098%) Windows 7
18 2 (0.065%) Alpine Linux
18 2 (0.065%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 844 (27.63%) Agile
2 475 (15.55%) DevOps
3 357 (11.69%) Software Engineering
4 341 (11.16%) CI/CD
5 287 (9.39%) Problem-Solving
6 263 (8.61%) Stakeholder Management
7 226 (7.40%) Project Management
8 215 (7.04%) Scrum
9 202 (6.61%) Migration
10 195 (6.38%) Test Automation
11 175 (5.73%) Analytics
12 170 (5.56%) User Experience
13 161 (5.27%) Project Delivery
14 158 (5.17%) Mentoring
15 157 (5.14%) TDD
16 147 (4.81%) SDLC
17 143 (4.68%) Business Intelligence
18 142 (4.65%) Roadmaps
19 141 (4.62%) Microservices
20 131 (4.29%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 441 (14.44%) Python
2 379 (12.41%) Java
3 363 (11.88%) SQL
4 295 (9.66%) C#
5 250 (8.18%) JavaScript
6 191 (6.25%) TypeScript
7 173 (5.66%) PowerShell
8 79 (2.59%) Go
9 60 (1.96%) Bicep
10 57 (1.87%) C++
11 49 (1.60%) Bash
12 48 (1.57%) Kotlin
13 44 (1.44%) Scala
14 39 (1.28%) C
15 21 (0.69%) Perl
16 17 (0.56%) Rust
16 17 (0.56%) Swift
17 13 (0.43%) PHP
18 11 (0.36%) R
18 11 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 487 (15.94%) Security Cleared
2 306 (10.02%) SC Cleared
3 251 (8.22%) Degree
4 134 (4.39%) DV Cleared
5 85 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
6 51 (1.67%) Master's Degree
7 49 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 37 (1.21%) CCNP
9 36 (1.18%) CCNA
10 31 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
11 26 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
12 20 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
13 19 (0.62%) PMI Certification
14 18 (0.59%) AWS Certification
14 18 (0.59%) Azure Certification
15 17 (0.56%) CISSP
16 15 (0.49%) PMP
16 15 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 11 (0.36%) PhD
18 9 (0.29%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (2.59%) Data Quality
2 72 (2.36%) QA
3 62 (2.03%) Accessibility
4 58 (1.90%) PMO
5 47 (1.54%) PCI DSS
6 36 (1.18%) GDPR
6 36 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (1.01%) NIST
8 25 (0.82%) SLA
9 23 (0.75%) WCAG
10 11 (0.36%) GRC
11 9 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.29%) NCSC
12 7 (0.23%) HL7
13 6 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.20%) ISO 20022
14 4 (0.13%) MiFID
14 4 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.098%) ISO/IEC 12207
15 3 (0.098%) NIST 800
System Software
1 192 (6.28%) Active Directory
2 159 (5.20%) Docker
3 30 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.82%) vSphere
6 11 (0.36%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.36%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.33%) Firmware
8 8 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.23%) XenApp
10 3 (0.098%) ACF2
10 3 (0.098%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 3 (0.098%) IAG
10 3 (0.098%) RACF
10 3 (0.098%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.098%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.098%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.098%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.065%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.065%) Squid
Systems Management
1 177 (5.79%) Kubernetes
2 151 (4.94%) Terraform
3 75 (2.45%) Ansible
4 30 (0.98%) Grafana
5 25 (0.82%) SCCM
6 24 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (0.56%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
9 11 (0.36%) Podman
9 11 (0.36%) Puppet
10 9 (0.29%) Kibana
11 8 (0.26%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (0.23%) NetIQ Identity Manager
12 7 (0.23%) SolarWinds Orion
12 7 (0.23%) VxRail
12 7 (0.23%) WSUS
13 6 (0.20%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.20%) SCOM
Vendors
1 394 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 146 (4.78%) SAP
3 118 (3.86%) Cisco
4 91 (2.98%) Oracle
5 78 (2.55%) VMware
6 58 (1.90%) Google
7 54 (1.77%) ServiceNow
8 42 (1.37%) Palo Alto
9 41 (1.34%) Citrix
10 36 (1.18%) Databricks
11 35 (1.15%) CheckPoint
12 34 (1.11%) Salesforce
13 33 (1.08%) Adobe
13 33 (1.08%) Splunk
14 32 (1.05%) Apple
15 31 (1.01%) Juniper
16 25 (0.82%) Arista
17 24 (0.79%) F5
17 24 (0.79%) SolarWinds
18 23 (0.75%) IBM