Senior Software Engineer Contracts in Central London

Senior Software Engineer
London > Central London

The median Senior Software Engineer daily rate in Central London is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 158 179
Rank change year-on-year +38 +21 -24
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 13 14 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.54% 0.36% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.38% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 16
10th Percentile - - £631
25th Percentile - £463 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £481 £650 £713
90th Percentile £665 £665 -
London median daily rate £650 £625 £600
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,302 3,663 4,303
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.32% 95.27% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,641 2,508 3,274
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £560
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +4.91% +6.67%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £813 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 27 51
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £21.63 £19.36 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -5.41% +105.84%
75th Percentile £27.81 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £40.00 £86.32 £65.75
London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.54% +1.43% +9.38%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in Central London

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in Central London

Senior Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Software Engineer in Central London

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in Central London

Senior Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 4 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
City of London +44 6 £550 +4.76% 9
Senior Software Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Senior Software Engineer 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 Central London region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (92.31%) Software Engineering
2 11 (84.62%) .NET
3 10 (76.92%) C#
3 10 (76.92%) AWS
4 9 (69.23%) Microservices
4 9 (69.23%) Mentoring
5 8 (61.54%) React
5 8 (61.54%) Front End Development
5 8 (61.54%) Local Government
6 7 (53.85%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (53.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (15.38%) Docker
7 2 (15.38%) DevOps
7 2 (15.38%) REST
7 2 (15.38%) Azure
7 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
7 2 (15.38%) Agile
7 2 (15.38%) Java
7 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
7 2 (15.38%) MySQL
7 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
7 2 (15.38%) .NET Core
7 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
8 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
8 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (7.69%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (7.69%) Spinnaker
8 1 (7.69%) Playwright
8 1 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (7.69%) Datadog
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) Scylla
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
1 1 (7.69%) Gradle
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) JUnit
1 1 (7.69%) Maven
1 1 (7.69%) Spinnaker
1 1 (7.69%) TestNG
General
1 8 (61.54%) Local Government
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (84.62%) .NET
2 8 (61.54%) React
3 2 (15.38%) .NET Core
3 2 (15.38%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
4 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
4 1 (7.69%) http4s
4 1 (7.69%) Kafka
4 1 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (7.69%) Playwright
4 1 (7.69%) RESTful
4 1 (7.69%) Spring
4 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Hedge funds
1 1 (7.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Software Engineering
2 9 (69.23%) Mentoring
2 9 (69.23%) Microservices
3 8 (61.54%) Front End Development
4 7 (53.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 7 (53.85%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (15.38%) Agile
5 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (7.69%) Fintech
6 1 (7.69%) Fund Management
6 1 (7.69%) Identity Management
6 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (7.69%) Scrum
6 1 (7.69%) SDET
6 1 (7.69%) SDLC
6 1 (7.69%) Software Architecture
6 1 (7.69%) Software Testing
6 1 (7.69%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) C#
2 2 (15.38%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) Kotlin
3 1 (7.69%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) Scala
3 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) New Relic