Senior Contracts in the North West

Senior
England > North West

The median Senior daily rate in the North West is £508 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 16 23 25
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 232 206 292
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 8.73% 6.75% 7.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.23% 7.10% 7.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 147 208
10th Percentile £305 £409 £325
25th Percentile £425 £453 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -0.47% +5.50%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £620
90th Percentile £656 £685 £663
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +5.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 5 19
10th Percentile £26.40 £19.13 £29.97
25th Percentile £39.96 £21.25 £43.18
Median hourly rate £44.74 £35.00 £54.47
Median % change year-on-year +27.83% -35.74% +60.21%
75th Percentile £61.25 £40.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £69.85 £56.01 £81.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £46.50 £44.02
% change year-on-year +2.15% +5.64% +34.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North 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 North West with a recognized job title 2,514 2,900 3,850
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.58% 95.02% 96.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,623 2,054 2,795
10th Percentile £273 £304 £213
25th Percentile £388 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +12.05%
75th Percentile £580 £586 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.27% +7.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 124 174
10th Percentile £11.09 £14.58 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £18.50 £15.06
Median hourly rate £31.81 £30.27 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year +5.08% +31.45% +28.65%
75th Percentile £47.06 £47.44 £50.52
90th Percentile £71.32 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +6.98%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the North West

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in the North West

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in the North West over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in the North West

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in the North West

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in the North West over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in the North West

Senior
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North West 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
Manchester +7 130 £513 -6.82% 216
Cheshire +19 36 £475 +8.57% 52
Lancashire +9 27 £593 -15.30% 51
Cumbria 0 24 £511 +13.56% 24
Merseyside -5 9 £450 -12.20% 19
Senior
England

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

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 North West region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 39 (16.81%) Social Skills
2 36 (15.52%) Security Cleared
3 31 (13.36%) Agile
3 31 (13.36%) SAP
4 29 (12.50%) Python
5 28 (12.07%) SC Cleared
6 27 (11.64%) DevOps
7 26 (11.21%) Microsoft
8 24 (10.34%) Public Sector
9 22 (9.48%) ITIL
9 22 (9.48%) Azure
9 22 (9.48%) AWS
10 21 (9.05%) Java
10 21 (9.05%) Finance
11 20 (8.62%) Cisco
11 20 (8.62%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (8.19%) Business Intelligence
12 19 (8.19%) SQL
12 19 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
13 18 (7.76%) Degree
13 18 (7.76%) Data Analysis
13 18 (7.76%) Power BI
13 18 (7.76%) Power Platform
13 18 (7.76%) Roadmaps
14 17 (7.33%) CI/CD
14 17 (7.33%) Active Directory
14 17 (7.33%) Project Management
15 16 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
15 16 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
16 15 (6.47%) React

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 6 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.16%) SAS
3 4 (1.72%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (2.59%) Revit
2 4 (1.72%) AutoCAD
3 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.86%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (3.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.86%) SAP WM
2 2 (0.86%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.43%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.43%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.43%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 22 (9.48%) AWS
1 22 (9.48%) Azure
2 18 (7.76%) Power Platform
3 16 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (3.88%) Snowflake
5 7 (3.02%) SuccessFactors
6 6 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.59%) GCP
7 5 (2.16%) Collibra
7 5 (2.16%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.29%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.29%) Serverless
9 2 (0.86%) BrowserStack
9 2 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.86%) GitHub
9 2 (0.86%) Nutanix
9 2 (0.86%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.43%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.43%) Commercetools
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.74%) Firewall
2 10 (4.31%) Network Security
3 9 (3.88%) BGP
3 9 (3.88%) Cisco ASA
3 9 (3.88%) Cisco Firepower
3 9 (3.88%) Cisco ISE
3 9 (3.88%) EIGRP
3 9 (3.88%) HSRP
3 9 (3.88%) IPsec
3 9 (3.88%) NetScaler
3 9 (3.88%) OSPF
4 8 (3.45%) SNMP
4 8 (3.45%) Spanning Tree
4 8 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (1.72%) DNS
5 4 (1.72%) Wireless
6 3 (1.29%) SAN
7 2 (0.86%) DHCP
7 2 (0.86%) HTTP
7 2 (0.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.76%) Power BI
2 8 (3.45%) MongoDB
2 8 (3.45%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.59%) Data Lake
3 6 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.16%) Ataccama
4 5 (2.16%) Qlik Sense
5 4 (1.72%) Big Data
5 4 (1.72%) Data Mining
5 4 (1.72%) Hadoop
5 4 (1.72%) MySQL
5 4 (1.72%) SQLite
6 3 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.29%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (1.29%) HBase
7 2 (0.86%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.86%) Tableau
8 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.43%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (3.45%) Git
2 6 (2.59%) JIRA
3 5 (2.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (1.72%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.72%) Selenium
5 3 (1.29%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.29%) Gatling
5 3 (1.29%) GitLab
5 3 (1.29%) Postman
6 2 (0.86%) JMeter
6 2 (0.86%) TestCafe
6 2 (0.86%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.43%) Gradle
7 1 (0.43%) JUnit
7 1 (0.43%) Mockito
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.43%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 39 (16.81%) Social Skills
2 24 (10.34%) Public Sector
3 21 (9.05%) Finance
4 19 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.03%) Pharmaceutical
6 10 (4.31%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.45%) Legal
8 7 (3.02%) Banking
9 3 (1.29%) Digital Healthcare
9 3 (1.29%) Electronics
9 3 (1.29%) Military
9 3 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.29%) Retail
10 2 (0.86%) Automotive
10 2 (0.86%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.86%) Marketing
10 2 (0.86%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.43%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.47%) React
2 9 (3.88%) Node.js
2 9 (3.88%) Vue
3 8 (3.45%) Jinja
4 7 (3.02%) Kafka
5 6 (2.59%) Redux
6 5 (2.16%) GraphQL
6 5 (2.16%) Next.js
7 4 (1.72%) .NET
7 4 (1.72%) HTML
7 4 (1.72%) RESTful
7 4 (1.72%) Spring
7 4 (1.72%) XML
8 3 (1.29%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.29%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (1.29%) CSS
8 3 (1.29%) Express.js
8 3 (1.29%) MERN Stack
9 2 (0.86%) Entity Framework
9 2 (0.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (3.88%) NHS
1 9 (3.88%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 6 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.72%) Life Science
4 4 (1.72%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.72%) Robotics
5 3 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.29%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (0.86%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.86%) Derivative
6 2 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.86%) Industry 4.0
6 2 (0.86%) IoT
6 2 (0.86%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.86%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.86%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.03%) Windows
2 12 (5.17%) Windows 10
3 8 (3.45%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.16%) Android
4 5 (2.16%) Unix
4 5 (2.16%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (1.72%) Linux
6 3 (1.29%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.29%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.86%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (13.36%) Agile
2 27 (11.64%) DevOps
3 22 (9.48%) ITIL
4 20 (8.62%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (8.19%) Business Intelligence
6 18 (7.76%) Data Analysis
6 18 (7.76%) Roadmaps
7 17 (7.33%) CI/CD
7 17 (7.33%) Project Management
8 15 (6.47%) Test Automation
9 14 (6.03%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (5.60%) Customer Experience
10 13 (5.60%) Software Engineering
11 12 (5.17%) Change Management
11 12 (5.17%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (4.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 11 (4.74%) Mentoring
13 10 (4.31%) Data Modelling
13 10 (4.31%) Line Management
13 10 (4.31%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 29 (12.50%) Python
2 21 (9.05%) Java
3 19 (8.19%) SQL
4 10 (4.31%) Perl
5 8 (3.45%) Tcl
6 6 (2.59%) Bash
6 6 (2.59%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.59%) PowerShell
6 6 (2.59%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.16%) C#
7 5 (2.16%) Kotlin
7 5 (2.16%) Scala
8 4 (1.72%) Go
9 3 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.86%) Groovy
10 2 (0.86%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.43%) ABAP
11 1 (0.43%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.43%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 36 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 28 (12.07%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.76%) Degree
4 16 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (6.47%) CCNA
6 12 (5.17%) CCNP
6 12 (5.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.59%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (2.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.72%) MCSE
9 3 (1.29%) CISM
9 3 (1.29%) CISSP
9 3 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.86%) MCITP
10 2 (0.86%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.86%) RIBA
10 2 (0.86%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.60%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.88%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.88%) QA
3 8 (3.45%) GDPR
4 4 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.86%) GRC
5 2 (0.86%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.86%) PMO
5 2 (0.86%) SLA
6 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.43%) GxP
6 1 (0.43%) NIST
6 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (7.33%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.88%) Docker
2 9 (3.88%) Firmware
3 5 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.29%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.86%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (4.31%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.88%) Ansible
2 9 (3.88%) Terraform
3 8 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (2.59%) SCCM
5 3 (1.29%) EMC NetWorker
5 3 (1.29%) Grafana
5 3 (1.29%) Kibana
5 3 (1.29%) VxRail
6 2 (0.86%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.43%) CA Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.43%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.43%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.43%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.43%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (13.36%) SAP
2 26 (11.21%) Microsoft
3 20 (8.62%) Cisco
4 14 (6.03%) VMware
5 12 (5.17%) SolarWinds
6 11 (4.74%) Palo Alto
7 10 (4.31%) Citrix
8 5 (2.16%) Alteryx
8 5 (2.16%) Dataiku
8 5 (2.16%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.16%) Trillium
9 4 (1.72%) Ariba
9 4 (1.72%) Dell
9 4 (1.72%) Oracle
10 3 (1.29%) Veeam
11 2 (0.86%) 3PAR
11 2 (0.86%) Apple
11 2 (0.86%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.86%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.86%) Salesforce