Senior Contracts in London

Senior
England > London

The median Senior daily rate in London is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 1,882 2,450 3,765
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 10.66% 9.69% 9.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.39% 10.19% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,332 1,865 2,867
10th Percentile £410 £430 £450
25th Percentile £481 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £725
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% +5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 25 38
10th Percentile £18.68 £18.93 -
25th Percentile £20.02 £31.17 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -14.77% +71.34% -21.83%
75th Percentile £72.50 £63.75 £59.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £69.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £48.75 £48.75 £43.36
% change year-on-year +0.01% +12.44% +27.51%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,524 24,032 37,170
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 95.09% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,907 17,532 27,346
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 279 413
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.88 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.57 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +6.54%
75th Percentile £46.68 £63.75 £49.84
90th Percentile £67.40 £80.45 £67.50
England median hourly rate £38.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -14.44% +88.21% +12.12%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in London

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior in London.

Daily rate trend for Senior in London

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in London over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in London

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior in London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior in London

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in London over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in London

Senior
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the London region over the 6 months to 7 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
Central London +1 238 £535 -17.69% 175
East London +2 35 £510 -32.00% 38
South London +1 34 £538 -2.27% 27
West London +11 31 £475 -17.75% 63
North London +2 1 £800 +23.08% 3
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 599 (31.83%) Agile
2 528 (28.06%) Finance
3 388 (20.62%) Social Skills
4 373 (19.82%) Azure
5 358 (19.02%) DevOps
6 339 (18.01%) Python
7 330 (17.53%) AWS
8 317 (16.84%) Java
9 277 (14.72%) CI/CD
10 274 (14.56%) SQL
11 268 (14.24%) Software Engineering
12 258 (13.71%) Microsoft
13 254 (13.50%) C#
14 237 (12.59%) JavaScript
15 216 (11.48%) Banking
16 199 (10.57%) Security Cleared
17 197 (10.47%) .NET
18 188 (9.99%) Public Sector
19 177 (9.40%) TypeScript
20 172 (9.14%) SQL Server
21 166 (8.82%) React
22 165 (8.77%) Problem-Solving
22 165 (8.77%) Scrum
22 165 (8.77%) SC Cleared
23 158 (8.40%) Azure DevOps
24 145 (7.70%) Test Automation
25 140 (7.44%) PowerShell
26 137 (7.28%) Degree
27 134 (7.12%) TDD
28 131 (6.96%) Stakeholder Management

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 61 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
2 54 (2.87%) Apache
3 34 (1.81%) Confluence
4 26 (1.38%) CMS
5 24 (1.28%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.69%) SharePoint
8 12 (0.64%) SAS
9 8 (0.43%) Jupyter
10 7 (0.37%) WordPress
11 6 (0.32%) Appian
12 5 (0.27%) ArcGIS
12 5 (0.27%) nginx
12 5 (0.27%) Skype for Business
13 3 (0.16%) ThingWorx
13 3 (0.16%) WildFly
14 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.11%) CICS
14 2 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.11%) GemFire
Applications
1 45 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.01%) MS Visio
4 17 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
6 10 (0.53%) Photoshop
7 8 (0.43%) InDesign
8 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.16%) Sketch
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.11%) InVision
11 2 (0.11%) Revit
11 2 (0.11%) SPSS
11 2 (0.11%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.053%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.053%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 22 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.69%) Endur
4 12 (0.64%) NEC Housing
5 8 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.27%) Shopify
7 5 (0.27%) SimCorp Dimension
8 4 (0.21%) OPENHousing
8 4 (0.21%) RMDS
9 3 (0.16%) ION MarketView
9 3 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.16%) SAP Payroll
10 2 (0.11%) Magento
10 2 (0.11%) SAP CO
10 2 (0.11%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.11%) SAP FI
10 2 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (0.11%) SAP SD
10 2 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 373 (19.82%) Azure
2 330 (17.53%) AWS
3 158 (8.40%) Azure DevOps
4 87 (4.62%) GCP
5 74 (3.93%) Serverless
6 70 (3.72%) Entra ID
7 61 (3.24%) Snowflake
8 60 (3.19%) dbt
9 57 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
10 56 (2.98%) GitHub
11 48 (2.55%) SaaS
12 47 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
12 47 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 40 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
14 39 (2.07%) PaaS
15 36 (1.91%) Power Platform
16 35 (1.86%) Amazon S3
17 32 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
18 29 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
18 29 (1.54%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 72 (3.83%) Firewall
2 30 (1.59%) DNS
3 29 (1.54%) Network Security
4 18 (0.96%) LAN
4 18 (0.96%) VPN
5 17 (0.90%) WAN
6 16 (0.85%) Internet
7 15 (0.80%) DHCP
8 14 (0.74%) BGP
9 12 (0.64%) OSPF
9 12 (0.64%) Wireless
10 10 (0.53%) VLAN
11 9 (0.48%) MPLS
11 9 (0.48%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (0.37%) Cisco ASA
13 7 (0.37%) EIGRP
13 7 (0.37%) HSRP
13 7 (0.37%) InfiniBand
13 7 (0.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (9.14%) SQL Server
2 62 (3.29%) NoSQL
3 61 (3.24%) Data Lake
4 52 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
5 47 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
6 42 (2.23%) Apache Arrow
6 42 (2.23%) Apache Ignite
6 42 (2.23%) Dremio
7 41 (2.18%) Relational Database
8 34 (1.81%) Big Data
9 33 (1.75%) Power BI
10 32 (1.70%) KDB
10 32 (1.70%) MongoDB
11 25 (1.33%) Oracle Database
12 24 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
13 22 (1.17%) Tableau
14 21 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
15 20 (1.06%) Redis
16 18 (0.96%) DynamoDB
17 15 (0.80%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 131 (6.96%) Git
2 74 (3.93%) Jenkins
3 68 (3.61%) JIRA
4 34 (1.81%) Postman
5 33 (1.75%) SpecFlow
6 31 (1.65%) Mockito
7 27 (1.43%) Visual Studio
8 25 (1.33%) Selenium
9 23 (1.22%) TeamCity
10 22 (1.17%) Cucumber
10 22 (1.17%) JUnit
11 21 (1.12%) Cypress.io
12 18 (0.96%) GitLab
13 16 (0.85%) WebDriver
14 15 (0.80%) Bitbucket
15 14 (0.74%) git-flow
16 11 (0.58%) Artifactory
17 10 (0.53%) CircleCI
18 9 (0.48%) Maven
19 8 (0.43%) Gradle
General
1 528 (28.06%) Finance
2 388 (20.62%) Social Skills
3 216 (11.48%) Banking
4 188 (9.99%) Public Sector
5 131 (6.96%) Front Office
6 124 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
7 83 (4.41%) Investment Banking
8 77 (4.09%) Back Office
9 57 (3.03%) Marketing
10 53 (2.82%) Retail
11 51 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 48 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
13 45 (2.39%) Local Government
14 29 (1.54%) Legal
15 25 (1.33%) Telecoms
16 22 (1.17%) Financial Institution
17 21 (1.12%) Manufacturing
18 19 (1.01%) Advertising
19 16 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
20 15 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (10.47%) .NET
2 166 (8.82%) React
3 100 (5.31%) XML
4 87 (4.62%) AngularJS
5 84 (4.46%) CSS
5 84 (4.46%) HTML
6 76 (4.04%) Pandas
7 71 (3.77%) Node.js
8 70 (3.72%) REST
9 64 (3.40%) Kafka
10 63 (3.35%) NumPy
11 60 (3.19%) .NET Core
12 59 (3.13%) SciPy
13 57 (3.03%) .NET Framework
14 55 (2.92%) gRPC
15 54 (2.87%) Spring Boot
16 49 (2.60%) Spring
17 48 (2.55%) ASP.NET
17 48 (2.55%) Protocol Buffers
18 46 (2.44%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 121 (6.43%) Product Ownership
2 96 (5.10%) Derivative
3 94 (4.99%) Fixed Income
4 91 (4.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 70 (3.72%) Hedge funds
6 60 (3.19%) Equities
7 50 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
8 47 (2.50%) Management Information System
9 45 (2.39%) Mobile App
10 36 (1.91%) Algorithms
11 33 (1.75%) Onboarding
11 33 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
12 27 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
13 26 (1.38%) Data Centre
13 26 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
14 22 (1.17%) Data Structures
14 22 (1.17%) Public Cloud
15 18 (0.96%) Cloud Native
16 17 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
17 16 (0.85%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 76 (4.04%) Linux
2 74 (3.93%) Windows
3 43 (2.28%) Android
4 38 (2.02%) Apple iOS
4 38 (2.02%) Unix
5 23 (1.22%) Windows Server
6 15 (0.80%) Mac OS X
6 15 (0.80%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.27%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.21%) VMS
9 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.11%) zOS
10 1 (0.053%) CentOS
10 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 599 (31.83%) Agile
2 358 (19.02%) DevOps
3 277 (14.72%) CI/CD
4 268 (14.24%) Software Engineering
5 165 (8.77%) Problem-Solving
5 165 (8.77%) Scrum
6 145 (7.70%) Test Automation
7 134 (7.12%) TDD
8 131 (6.96%) Stakeholder Management
9 128 (6.80%) Analytics
10 122 (6.48%) SDLC
11 119 (6.32%) Migration
12 115 (6.11%) User Experience
13 114 (6.06%) Microservices
14 105 (5.58%) Mentoring
15 96 (5.10%) Asset Management
16 90 (4.78%) Data Modelling
17 89 (4.73%) Continuous Integration
18 87 (4.62%) Project Management
19 85 (4.52%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 339 (18.01%) Python
2 317 (16.84%) Java
3 274 (14.56%) SQL
4 254 (13.50%) C#
5 237 (12.59%) JavaScript
6 177 (9.40%) TypeScript
7 140 (7.44%) PowerShell
8 57 (3.03%) Bicep
9 52 (2.76%) Go
10 37 (1.97%) Kotlin
11 36 (1.91%) C++
12 31 (1.65%) Scala
13 25 (1.33%) Bash
14 20 (1.06%) Swift
15 16 (0.85%) T-SQL
16 15 (0.80%) Rust
17 12 (0.64%) C
17 12 (0.64%) Ruby
18 11 (0.58%) VB.NET
19 10 (0.53%) PHP
Qualifications
1 199 (10.57%) Security Cleared
2 165 (8.77%) SC Cleared
3 137 (7.28%) Degree
4 34 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
5 25 (1.33%) DV Cleared
6 24 (1.28%) Master's Degree
7 15 (0.80%) CCNP
8 14 (0.74%) Azure Certification
9 12 (0.64%) PMI Certification
10 11 (0.58%) CCNA
11 10 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.48%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.43%) CISSP
13 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.43%) PMP
14 7 (0.37%) GIAC
14 7 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 6 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (0.32%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 38 (2.02%) QA
3 37 (1.97%) Accessibility
4 31 (1.65%) PCI DSS
5 22 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (1.17%) PMO
6 18 (0.96%) NIST
6 18 (0.96%) WCAG
7 17 (0.90%) SLA
8 15 (0.80%) GDPR
9 6 (0.32%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.21%) GRC
11 4 (0.21%) IFRS
11 4 (0.21%) MiFID
11 4 (0.21%) NCSC
12 3 (0.16%) IFRS 17
12 3 (0.16%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.11%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 131 (6.96%) Active Directory
2 110 (5.84%) Docker
3 16 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.32%) vSphere
6 5 (0.27%) Firmware
7 2 (0.11%) ACF2
7 2 (0.11%) IAG
7 2 (0.11%) RACF
7 2 (0.11%) Squid
7 2 (0.11%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.053%) GridGain
8 1 (0.053%) HDFS
8 1 (0.053%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.053%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 126 (6.70%) Kubernetes
2 105 (5.58%) Terraform
3 29 (1.54%) Ansible
4 20 (1.06%) Grafana
5 17 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (0.69%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (0.27%) Kibana
8 5 (0.27%) Opsgenie
8 5 (0.27%) SCCM
8 5 (0.27%) SCOM
8 5 (0.27%) SolarWinds Orion
9 4 (0.21%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.21%) Functional Safety
9 4 (0.21%) Puppet
9 4 (0.21%) VxRail
10 3 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.16%) Podman
Vendors
1 258 (13.71%) Microsoft
2 77 (4.09%) Oracle
3 60 (3.19%) SAP
4 50 (2.66%) Google
5 33 (1.75%) Cisco
6 32 (1.70%) Databricks
7 29 (1.54%) ServiceNow
8 28 (1.49%) Salesforce
9 24 (1.28%) Adobe
10 22 (1.17%) Palo Alto
11 21 (1.12%) IBM
12 18 (0.96%) VMware
13 17 (0.90%) Citrix
14 16 (0.85%) Apple
15 14 (0.74%) ION Trading
16 13 (0.69%) NEC
17 12 (0.64%) Dell
17 12 (0.64%) New Relic
18 10 (0.53%) Northgate
18 10 (0.53%) TIBCO