Senior Contracts in the South West

Senior
England > South West

The median Senior daily rate in the South West is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 28 34
Rank change year-on-year -9 +6 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 149 220 208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 4.53% 6.33% 5.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.90% 6.79% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 157 160
10th Percentile £401 £444 £412
25th Percentile £463 £519 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £663
90th Percentile £638 £775 £725
England median daily rate £550 £600 £585
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.56% +6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 8 3
10th Percentile £31.60 - £43.74
25th Percentile £51.88 £17.72 £43.84
Median hourly rate £70.00 £51.75 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.27% +10.11% +0.80%
75th Percentile £74.72 £83.75 £71.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £84.13 £84.80
England median hourly rate £47.50 £48.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -2.56% +8.33% +36.99%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 3,042 3,241 3,538
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 93.32% 95.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,916 2,350 2,560
10th Percentile £250 £300 £228
25th Percentile £405 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £723 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 459 254 225
10th Percentile £13.86 £17.56 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £47.00 £19.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.78 £48.27
Median % change year-on-year -12.39% +30.05% +7.27%
75th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.40 £69.93
England median hourly rate £39.55 £44.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -10.11% +76.00% +18.76%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -17 58 £538 -10.42% 79
Gloucestershire +7 21 £588 -2.08% 58
Wiltshire -26 21 £525 -13.22% 29
Devon -1 20 £445 -16.43% 27
Somerset -10 10 £450 -36.03% 28
Cornwall +1 7 £230 - 2
Dorset +10 4 £525 -8.70% 16
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 59 (39.60%) Security Cleared
2 45 (30.20%) Agile
3 37 (24.83%) SC Cleared
4 32 (21.48%) Social Skills
5 25 (16.78%) Public Sector
6 23 (15.44%) Project Management
7 22 (14.77%) DevOps
8 18 (12.08%) Azure
8 18 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (12.08%) Terraform
8 18 (12.08%) Finance
8 18 (12.08%) Change Management
8 18 (12.08%) SQL
8 18 (12.08%) Python
8 18 (12.08%) DV Cleared
8 18 (12.08%) CI/CD
9 16 (10.74%) Windows
9 16 (10.74%) Linux
10 15 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
11 14 (9.40%) Microsoft
11 14 (9.40%) Degree
12 13 (8.72%) JIRA
12 13 (8.72%) PowerShell
12 13 (8.72%) SAP
13 12 (8.05%) Performance Testing
13 12 (8.05%) Kubernetes
13 12 (8.05%) AWS
14 11 (7.38%) Ansible
14 11 (7.38%) Docker
14 11 (7.38%) Stakeholder Management

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 (3.36%) Confluence
2 4 (2.68%) Apache
2 4 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.67%) Anypoint
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.01%) SAP ERP
1 3 (2.01%) SAP Payroll
1 3 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.34%) NEC Housing
2 2 (1.34%) SAP HCM
2 2 (1.34%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.67%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.67%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 18 (12.08%) Azure
2 12 (8.05%) AWS
3 9 (6.04%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (5.37%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.36%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (3.36%) GCP
5 5 (3.36%) PaaS
5 5 (3.36%) SuccessFactors
6 4 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.68%) PowerApps
7 3 (2.01%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.01%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.34%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.34%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.34%) GitHub
8 2 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.34%) Serverless
8 2 (1.34%) Slack
9 1 (0.67%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.36%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.01%) DHCP
3 2 (1.34%) DNS
3 2 (1.34%) Network Security
3 2 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.67%) 4G
4 1 (0.67%) 5G
4 1 (0.67%) Firewall
4 1 (0.67%) HTTP
4 1 (0.67%) Internet
4 1 (0.67%) IPv4
4 1 (0.67%) IPv6
4 1 (0.67%) MQTT
4 1 (0.67%) Skype
4 1 (0.67%) SSL
4 1 (0.67%) VLAN
4 1 (0.67%) VPN
4 1 (0.67%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.67%) Wireless
4 1 (0.67%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.01%) Oracle Database
1 3 (2.01%) Power BI
1 3 (2.01%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.34%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.34%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (1.34%) Oracle ODI
2 2 (1.34%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.34%) Tableau
3 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.67%) CockroachDB
3 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.67%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.67%) Metadata
3 1 (0.67%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (8.72%) JIRA
2 8 (5.37%) Git
3 6 (4.03%) GitLab
3 6 (4.03%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.03%) NUnit
3 6 (4.03%) Postman
3 6 (4.03%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.68%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.68%) JMeter
4 4 (2.68%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.34%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.34%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.34%) JUnit
5 2 (1.34%) Selenium
5 2 (1.34%) Snyk
5 2 (1.34%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.67%) Oracle APEX
General
1 32 (21.48%) Social Skills
2 25 (16.78%) Public Sector
3 18 (12.08%) Finance
4 15 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.71%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.03%) Marketing
7 5 (3.36%) Aerospace
7 5 (3.36%) Electronics
7 5 (3.36%) Local Government
7 5 (3.36%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.01%) Banking
8 3 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Military
9 1 (0.67%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.71%) AngularJS
2 8 (5.37%) .NET
2 8 (5.37%) REST
3 7 (4.70%) GraphQL
4 5 (3.36%) Playwright
5 4 (2.68%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (2.01%) React
7 2 (1.34%) CSS
7 2 (1.34%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.34%) Fluent Bit
7 2 (1.34%) Loki
7 2 (1.34%) Middleware
7 2 (1.34%) Next.js
7 2 (1.34%) Node.js
7 2 (1.34%) Redux
7 2 (1.34%) SAML
7 2 (1.34%) Tailwind CSS
8 1 (0.67%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.67%) HTML
8 1 (0.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.68%) Management Information System
1 4 (2.68%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.34%) Algorithms
3 2 (1.34%) Housing Association
4 1 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.67%) IoT
4 1 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.67%) Mainframe
4 1 (0.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.67%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.67%) PKI
4 1 (0.67%) Replication
4 1 (0.67%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.74%) Linux
1 16 (10.74%) Windows
2 4 (2.68%) Unix
3 2 (1.34%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.67%) CentOS
4 1 (0.67%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.67%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (30.20%) Agile
2 23 (15.44%) Project Management
3 22 (14.77%) DevOps
4 18 (12.08%) Change Management
4 18 (12.08%) CI/CD
4 18 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (8.05%) Performance Testing
6 11 (7.38%) PRINCE2
6 11 (7.38%) Scrum
6 11 (7.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (6.71%) Acceptance Criteria
7 10 (6.71%) Project Delivery
8 9 (6.04%) Kanban
8 9 (6.04%) Software Engineering
8 9 (6.04%) TDD
8 9 (6.04%) Test Strategy
8 9 (6.04%) Waterfall
9 8 (5.37%) BDD
9 8 (5.37%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (5.37%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (12.08%) Python
1 18 (12.08%) SQL
2 13 (8.72%) PowerShell
3 10 (6.71%) TypeScript
4 7 (4.70%) Bash
5 6 (4.03%) C#
6 5 (3.36%) C
7 3 (2.01%) Bicep
7 3 (2.01%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.01%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.34%) Go
8 2 (1.34%) Java
9 1 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.67%) PL/1
9 1 (0.67%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 59 (39.60%) Security Cleared
2 37 (24.83%) SC Cleared
3 18 (12.08%) DV Cleared
4 14 (9.40%) Degree
5 4 (2.68%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.01%) CIPD
6 3 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.34%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.67%) CCNA
8 1 (0.67%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.67%) CISSP
8 1 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.67%) MCSE
8 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.67%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.03%) QA
2 5 (3.36%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.34%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.67%) NIST
4 1 (0.67%) PMO
4 1 (0.67%) SLA
4 1 (0.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (7.38%) Docker
2 6 (4.03%) VMware NSX
3 5 (3.36%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (3.36%) vSphere
4 2 (1.34%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.34%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.67%) KVM
5 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.67%) Xen
Systems Management
1 18 (12.08%) Terraform
2 12 (8.05%) Kubernetes
3 11 (7.38%) Ansible
4 4 (2.68%) Argo
4 4 (2.68%) Grafana
4 4 (2.68%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.01%) SCCM
6 2 (1.34%) Kustomize
6 2 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.34%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.67%) Puppet
7 1 (0.67%) vRealize
7 1 (0.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (9.40%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.72%) SAP
3 7 (4.70%) Oracle
3 7 (4.70%) VMware
4 5 (3.36%) Atlassian
4 5 (3.36%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.34%) Cadence
5 2 (1.34%) Google
5 2 (1.34%) NEC
5 2 (1.34%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.34%) SOTI
6 1 (0.67%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.67%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.67%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.67%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.67%) Pega
6 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.67%) Sparx
6 1 (0.67%) Splunk
6 1 (0.67%) Veeam