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 6 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
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 33 34
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 153 193 204
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 4.65% 5.72% 5.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.02% 6.18% 5.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 141 154
10th Percentile £325 £435 £409
25th Percentile £456 £513 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £541
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +10.91% +6.08%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £655
90th Percentile £638 £750 £743
England median daily rate £550 £600 £578
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.90% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 2
10th Percentile £31.60 - £43.70
25th Percentile £50.00 £17.72 £43.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £51.75 £45.96
Median % change year-on-year +35.27% +12.60% +1.01%
75th Percentile £75.00 £83.75 £49.04
90th Percentile - £84.13 £49.62
England median hourly rate £50.00 £48.50 £43.36
% change year-on-year +3.09% +11.87% +29.42%

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 3,048 3,125 3,507
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 92.62% 95.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,907 2,306 2,540
10th Percentile £214 £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 £531
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.68% +6.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 447 251 211
10th Percentile £13.85 £17.72 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £49.34 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £64.15 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.26% +39.45% +8.24%
75th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £63.05
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.40 £68.30
England median hourly rate £38.14 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -15.26% +88.21% +11.73%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -7 54 £500 -16.67% 124
Wiltshire -19 28 £510 -15.70% 27
Gloucestershire +17 21 £588 -2.08% 45
Devon -3 21 £445 -25.83% 58
Somerset -8 9 £525 -23.02% 43
Cornwall +1 8 £230 - 2
Dorset +9 5 £525 -4.55% 16
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 60 (39.22%) Security Cleared
2 53 (34.64%) Agile
3 41 (26.80%) SC Cleared
4 30 (19.61%) Public Sector
4 30 (19.61%) Social Skills
5 25 (16.34%) Finance
6 23 (15.03%) Project Management
7 20 (13.07%) DevOps
8 19 (12.42%) Azure
9 18 (11.76%) Terraform
10 17 (11.11%) CI/CD
10 17 (11.11%) SQL
11 16 (10.46%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (9.80%) Change Management
12 15 (9.80%) DV Cleared
13 14 (9.15%) AWS
13 14 (9.15%) Linux
13 14 (9.15%) Python
14 13 (8.50%) Microsoft
14 13 (8.50%) Stakeholder Management
14 13 (8.50%) Degree
15 12 (7.84%) Performance Testing
15 12 (7.84%) Windows
15 12 (7.84%) .NET
15 12 (7.84%) SAP
16 11 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
16 11 (7.19%) Docker
16 11 (7.19%) TypeScript
16 11 (7.19%) PRINCE2
16 11 (7.19%) Scrum

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 (3.27%) Confluence
2 4 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.31%) Apache
4 1 (0.65%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (1.31%) InVision
2 1 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.31%) NEC Housing
2 2 (1.31%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.31%) SAP HCM
2 2 (1.31%) SAP HR
2 2 (1.31%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.65%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.65%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 19 (12.42%) Azure
2 14 (9.15%) AWS
3 9 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (5.23%) Power Platform
5 6 (3.92%) GCP
6 5 (3.27%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (3.27%) PaaS
7 4 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.61%) PowerApps
7 4 (2.61%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (1.96%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.96%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.31%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.31%) GitHub
9 2 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.31%) Serverless
9 2 (1.31%) Slack
10 1 (0.65%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.65%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.27%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.31%) DHCP
2 2 (1.31%) Internet
2 2 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.65%) 4G
3 1 (0.65%) 5G
3 1 (0.65%) DNS
3 1 (0.65%) Network Security
3 1 (0.65%) SSL
3 1 (0.65%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.61%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.96%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.96%) Oracle Database
2 3 (1.96%) Power BI
3 2 (1.31%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (1.31%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.65%) CockroachDB
4 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.65%) Metadata
4 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (7.19%) JIRA
2 8 (5.23%) Git
3 6 (3.92%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.92%) NUnit
3 6 (3.92%) Postman
3 6 (3.92%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.61%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.61%) GitLab
4 4 (2.61%) JMeter
4 4 (2.61%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.31%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.31%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.31%) JUnit
5 2 (1.31%) Selenium
5 2 (1.31%) Snyk
5 2 (1.31%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle APEX
General
1 30 (19.61%) Public Sector
1 30 (19.61%) Social Skills
2 25 (16.34%) Finance
3 11 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.54%) Telecoms
5 7 (4.58%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.92%) Marketing
7 5 (3.27%) Electronics
8 4 (2.61%) Local Government
9 3 (1.96%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.96%) Banking
9 3 (1.96%) Publishing
10 2 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.31%) Military
10 2 (1.31%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.84%) .NET
2 10 (6.54%) AngularJS
3 7 (4.58%) GraphQL
4 6 (3.92%) REST
5 5 (3.27%) Playwright
6 4 (2.61%) React
7 3 (1.96%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.96%) CSS
8 2 (1.31%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (1.31%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.31%) Fluent Bit
8 2 (1.31%) HTML
8 2 (1.31%) Loki
8 2 (1.31%) Next.js
8 2 (1.31%) Node.js
8 2 (1.31%) Redux
8 2 (1.31%) SAML
8 2 (1.31%) Tailwind CSS
8 2 (1.31%) Web Services
9 1 (0.65%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.61%) Management Information System
1 4 (2.61%) Product Ownership
2 3 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.31%) Algorithms
3 2 (1.31%) Housing Association
3 2 (1.31%) IoT
4 1 (0.65%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.65%) Mainframe
4 1 (0.65%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.65%) Replication
4 1 (0.65%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.15%) Linux
2 12 (7.84%) Windows
3 3 (1.96%) Unix
4 1 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (34.64%) Agile
2 23 (15.03%) Project Management
3 20 (13.07%) DevOps
4 17 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 16 (10.46%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (9.80%) Change Management
7 13 (8.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (7.84%) Performance Testing
9 11 (7.19%) PRINCE2
9 11 (7.19%) Scrum
10 10 (6.54%) Acceptance Criteria
10 10 (6.54%) Project Delivery
10 10 (6.54%) TDD
11 9 (5.88%) BDD
11 9 (5.88%) Kanban
11 9 (5.88%) Software Engineering
11 9 (5.88%) Test Strategy
11 9 (5.88%) Waterfall
12 8 (5.23%) Mentoring
12 8 (5.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (11.11%) SQL
2 14 (9.15%) Python
3 11 (7.19%) TypeScript
4 10 (6.54%) PowerShell
5 8 (5.23%) C#
6 7 (4.58%) Bash
7 5 (3.27%) C
8 4 (2.61%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.96%) Bicep
9 3 (1.96%) Go
9 3 (1.96%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.31%) Java
11 1 (0.65%) C++
11 1 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.65%) PL/1
11 1 (0.65%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 60 (39.22%) Security Cleared
2 41 (26.80%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.80%) DV Cleared
4 13 (8.50%) Degree
5 4 (2.61%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.31%) CIPD
6 2 (1.31%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.65%) CCNA
7 1 (0.65%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.65%) CISSP
7 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.65%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.58%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.27%) PMO
3 4 (2.61%) QA
4 2 (1.31%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.65%) NIST
5 1 (0.65%) SLA
5 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (7.19%) Docker
2 6 (3.92%) VMware NSX
2 6 (3.92%) vSphere
3 5 (3.27%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.31%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (11.76%) Terraform
2 10 (6.54%) Ansible
2 10 (6.54%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.61%) Argo
3 4 (2.61%) Grafana
3 4 (2.61%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.96%) SCCM
5 2 (1.31%) Kustomize
5 2 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.31%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.65%) Puppet
6 1 (0.65%) vRealize
Vendors
1 13 (8.50%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.84%) SAP
3 8 (5.23%) VMware
4 6 (3.92%) Oracle
5 5 (3.27%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.31%) Adobe
6 2 (1.31%) Cadence
6 2 (1.31%) Google
6 2 (1.31%) NEC
6 2 (1.31%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.31%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.31%) SOTI
7 1 (0.65%) Dell
7 1 (0.65%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.65%) McAfee
7 1 (0.65%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.65%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.65%) Sparx
7 1 (0.65%) Splunk
7 1 (0.65%) Veeam