Senior Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior daily rate in Work from Home is £575 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 17 18 20
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 1,342 2,011 3,717
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.16% 8.23% 8.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.79% 8.64% 8.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 919 1,448 2,750
10th Percentile £413 £413 £413
25th Percentile £475 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £663
90th Percentile £825 £800 £743
UK median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 37 38
10th Percentile £24.15 £40.90 £31.85
25th Percentile £36.07 £42.50 £40.63
Median hourly rate £46.12 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.76% - +70.71%
75th Percentile £62.50 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £71.17 £77.50
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
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,707 23,282 42,199
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.29% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,257 16,477 30,548
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 561 537 589
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.17 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.35
Median hourly rate £44.74 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +50.00% +48.94%
75th Percentile £64.53 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £77.50 £68.17
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.44%

Senior
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Senior.

Senior daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Senior daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Senior.

Senior hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Senior hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Senior in the job title.

1 379 (28.24%) Agile
2 334 (24.89%) Finance
3 279 (20.79%) Azure
4 271 (20.19%) Social Skills
5 226 (16.84%) AWS
6 221 (16.47%) Python
7 213 (15.87%) DevOps
8 210 (15.65%) Java
9 198 (14.75%) Security Cleared
10 182 (13.56%) Public Sector
11 176 (13.11%) Software Engineering
12 172 (12.82%) SQL
13 153 (11.40%) SC Cleared
14 147 (10.95%) Microsoft
15 142 (10.58%) Problem-Solving
16 139 (10.36%) CI/CD
17 138 (10.28%) JavaScript
18 123 (9.17%) C#
19 115 (8.57%) Banking
20 110 (8.20%) TypeScript
21 102 (7.60%) Project Management
22 101 (7.53%) Migration
22 101 (7.53%) Stakeholder Management
23 98 (7.30%) Front Office
24 96 (7.15%) Degree
25 94 (7.00%) .NET
25 94 (7.00%) React
26 92 (6.86%) Test Automation
27 89 (6.63%) SQL Server
27 89 (6.63%) Windows

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 43 (3.20%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (2.98%) Apache
3 34 (2.53%) Confluence
4 22 (1.64%) SharePoint
5 13 (0.97%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.82%) CMS
7 10 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.45%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.45%) WebSphere Application Server
9 5 (0.37%) IBM HTTP Server
9 5 (0.37%) WebSphere Portal
10 4 (0.30%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.22%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.22%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.22%) SAS
12 2 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.15%) Mule
12 2 (0.15%) nginx
12 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.52%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.30%) Revit
5 4 (0.30%) Trello
6 3 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.22%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.15%) InDesign
7 2 (0.15%) Simulink
7 2 (0.15%) Stateflow
8 1 (0.075%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.075%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.075%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.075%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.075%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.075%) InVision
8 1 (0.075%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 28 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.89%) Elite 3E
3 10 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.60%) Primavera
5 8 (0.60%) SAP SD
6 6 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.37%) NEC Housing
7 5 (0.37%) SimCorp Dimension
8 4 (0.30%) Endur
9 3 (0.22%) RMDS
10 2 (0.15%) SAP HCM
10 2 (0.15%) SAP HR
10 2 (0.15%) SAP WM
10 2 (0.15%) Shopify
10 2 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 1 (0.075%) Oracle ERP
11 1 (0.075%) SAP CO
11 1 (0.075%) SAP FI/CO
11 1 (0.075%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 279 (20.79%) Azure
2 226 (16.84%) AWS
3 79 (5.89%) Azure DevOps
4 60 (4.47%) GCP
5 51 (3.80%) Power Platform
6 44 (3.28%) dbt
7 42 (3.13%) Snowflake
8 41 (3.06%) GitHub
9 40 (2.98%) Serverless
10 35 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
10 35 (2.61%) SaaS
11 29 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
12 27 (2.01%) PaaS
13 23 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
13 23 (1.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 23 (1.71%) Azure Service Bus
14 21 (1.56%) Amazon S3
15 19 (1.42%) Entra ID
16 17 (1.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 16 (1.19%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 74 (5.51%) Firewall
2 32 (2.38%) Network Security
3 19 (1.42%) VPN
4 18 (1.34%) WAN
5 17 (1.27%) DNS
6 13 (0.97%) LAN
6 13 (0.97%) SD-WAN
6 13 (0.97%) TCP/IP
7 11 (0.82%) DHCP
8 10 (0.75%) BGP
8 10 (0.75%) Cisco ASA
8 10 (0.75%) HTTP
9 9 (0.67%) OSPF
10 8 (0.60%) IPsec
10 8 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.52%) 4G
11 7 (0.52%) 5G
11 7 (0.52%) InfiniBand
11 7 (0.52%) Internet
11 7 (0.52%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (6.63%) SQL Server
2 42 (3.13%) Power BI
3 40 (2.98%) Data Lake
4 36 (2.68%) Amazon Athena
5 34 (2.53%) Apache Arrow
5 34 (2.53%) Apache Ignite
5 34 (2.53%) Dremio
6 22 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (1.64%) Oracle Database
7 21 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
8 20 (1.49%) Apache Cassandra
9 19 (1.42%) NoSQL
10 16 (1.19%) MySQL
11 14 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (1.04%) DynamoDB
11 14 (1.04%) MongoDB
12 12 (0.89%) Big Data
13 11 (0.82%) Tableau
14 10 (0.75%) Relational Database
15 9 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 69 (5.14%) Git
2 65 (4.84%) JIRA
3 48 (3.58%) Jenkins
4 35 (2.61%) GitLab
5 27 (2.01%) Cucumber
6 26 (1.94%) Selenium
7 19 (1.42%) JUnit
8 16 (1.19%) Mockito
9 15 (1.12%) Bitbucket
10 13 (0.97%) git-flow
10 13 (0.97%) SpecFlow
11 12 (0.89%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.82%) SonarQube
13 10 (0.75%) JMeter
13 10 (0.75%) Postman
14 9 (0.67%) Visual Studio
15 8 (0.60%) REST Assured
16 7 (0.52%) CircleCI
16 7 (0.52%) Maven
17 6 (0.45%) Storybook
General
1 334 (24.89%) Finance
2 271 (20.19%) Social Skills
3 182 (13.56%) Public Sector
4 115 (8.57%) Banking
5 98 (7.30%) Front Office
6 87 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
7 47 (3.50%) Back Office
8 41 (3.06%) Investment Banking
9 36 (2.68%) Marketing
10 31 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
11 28 (2.09%) Telecoms
12 27 (2.01%) Retail
13 25 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 25 (1.86%) Manufacturing
14 23 (1.71%) Legal
15 17 (1.27%) Financial Institution
16 12 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (0.82%) Law
18 10 (0.75%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (7.00%) .NET
1 94 (7.00%) React
2 56 (4.17%) CSS
3 55 (4.10%) XML
4 52 (3.87%) AngularJS
5 50 (3.73%) HTML
6 47 (3.50%) REST
7 46 (3.43%) Pandas
8 43 (3.20%) Kafka
9 41 (3.06%) gRPC
10 40 (2.98%) Protocol Buffers
11 38 (2.83%) Spring Boot
12 37 (2.76%) NumPy
13 35 (2.61%) SciPy
14 32 (2.38%) Node.js
15 23 (1.71%) .NET Core
15 23 (1.71%) .NET Framework
15 23 (1.71%) Spring
16 22 (1.64%) Web Services
17 21 (1.56%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 70 (5.22%) Derivative
2 64 (4.77%) Hedge funds
3 58 (4.32%) Fixed Income
4 55 (4.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 47 (3.50%) Product Ownership
6 43 (3.20%) Data Centre
6 43 (3.20%) Equities
7 31 (2.31%) Management Information System
8 24 (1.79%) Replication
9 23 (1.71%) Mobile App
10 21 (1.56%) Algorithms
10 21 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
11 18 (1.34%) Onboarding
12 17 (1.27%) NHS
12 17 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
13 16 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (1.12%) Cloud Native
15 14 (1.04%) Public Cloud
16 12 (0.89%) Credit Derivative
16 12 (0.89%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 89 (6.63%) Windows
2 76 (5.66%) Linux
3 24 (1.79%) Android
3 24 (1.79%) Unix
4 13 (0.97%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.67%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.52%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.37%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.22%) Mac OS X
8 3 (0.22%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (0.15%) Debian
9 2 (0.15%) Solaris
9 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.075%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.075%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (28.24%) Agile
2 213 (15.87%) DevOps
3 176 (13.11%) Software Engineering
4 142 (10.58%) Problem-Solving
5 139 (10.36%) CI/CD
6 102 (7.60%) Project Management
7 101 (7.53%) Migration
7 101 (7.53%) Stakeholder Management
8 92 (6.86%) Test Automation
9 88 (6.56%) Scrum
10 81 (6.04%) Asset Management
11 78 (5.81%) Analytics
12 75 (5.59%) User Experience
13 74 (5.51%) Mentoring
14 68 (5.07%) SDLC
15 66 (4.92%) Investment Management
15 66 (4.92%) Roadmaps
16 62 (4.62%) Project Delivery
17 57 (4.25%) Business Intelligence
18 55 (4.10%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 221 (16.47%) Python
2 210 (15.65%) Java
3 172 (12.82%) SQL
4 138 (10.28%) JavaScript
5 123 (9.17%) C#
6 110 (8.20%) TypeScript
7 73 (5.44%) PowerShell
8 34 (2.53%) Go
9 32 (2.38%) Bash
10 28 (2.09%) Bicep
11 23 (1.71%) C++
12 19 (1.42%) Kotlin
13 14 (1.04%) Scala
14 12 (0.89%) C
15 11 (0.82%) Perl
15 11 (0.82%) PHP
16 10 (0.75%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.45%) Ruby
17 6 (0.45%) Swift
17 6 (0.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 198 (14.75%) Security Cleared
2 153 (11.40%) SC Cleared
3 96 (7.15%) Degree
4 37 (2.76%) DV Cleared
5 26 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (1.34%) Master's Degree
8 16 (1.19%) CCNP
9 11 (0.82%) CCIE
10 10 (0.75%) CISSP
11 8 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.52%) AWS Certification
12 7 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 5 (0.37%) CCNA
14 5 (0.37%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.37%) PMP
15 4 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.30%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (2.76%) Data Quality
2 26 (1.94%) Accessibility
3 25 (1.86%) PCI DSS
4 22 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (1.56%) QA
6 19 (1.42%) PMO
7 10 (0.75%) GDPR
7 10 (0.75%) SLA
8 9 (0.67%) WCAG
9 8 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
9 8 (0.60%) NIST
10 5 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.15%) GRC
12 2 (0.15%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 17025
12 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.15%) NCSC
12 2 (0.15%) P3O
System Software
1 70 (5.22%) Docker
2 62 (4.62%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.75%) VMware NSX
5 7 (0.52%) vSphere
6 6 (0.45%) ACF2
6 6 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.45%) IAG
6 6 (0.45%) RACF
7 4 (0.30%) Firmware
7 4 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.15%) Squid
9 2 (0.15%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.15%) XenApp
10 1 (0.075%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 89 (6.63%) Kubernetes
2 74 (5.51%) Terraform
3 47 (3.50%) Ansible
4 22 (1.64%) Grafana
5 12 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.82%) Docker Swarm
7 10 (0.75%) Prometheus
8 9 (0.67%) Puppet
9 8 (0.60%) Podman
10 6 (0.45%) SCCM
11 5 (0.37%) Argo
11 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.37%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.30%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.30%) Functional Safety
12 4 (0.30%) Kibana
13 3 (0.22%) Kustomize
13 3 (0.22%) VxRail
13 3 (0.22%) WSUS
14 2 (0.15%) CASB
Vendors
1 147 (10.95%) Microsoft
2 56 (4.17%) SAP
3 51 (3.80%) Oracle
4 33 (2.46%) Cisco
5 27 (2.01%) Google
5 27 (2.01%) VMware
6 25 (1.86%) Palo Alto
7 19 (1.42%) ServiceNow
8 17 (1.27%) Atlassian
9 16 (1.19%) F5
10 15 (1.12%) Splunk
11 13 (0.97%) IBM
11 13 (0.97%) Salesforce
12 12 (0.89%) Databricks
12 12 (0.89%) Fortinet
13 9 (0.67%) Citrix
13 9 (0.67%) Sybase
14 7 (0.52%) NEC
15 6 (0.45%) BT
15 6 (0.45%) Red Hat