Senior Software Developer Contracts in the City of London

Senior Software Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Software Developer daily rate in the City of London is £681 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 168 -
Rank change year-on-year +41 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 6 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.27% 0.14% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £455 £456 -
25th Percentile £496 £480 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £681 £538 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.74% - -
75th Percentile £838 £572 -
90th Percentile - £581 -
Central London median daily rate £519 £538 -
% change year-on-year -3.49% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 2,116 3,524 4,055
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.06% 95.24% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,512 2,380 3,073
10th Percentile £350 £350 £369
25th Percentile £450 £467 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £788 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £560
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 29 50
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.74
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.04% +77.47%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £44.10 £85.66 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -24.11% -6.04% +77.47%

Senior Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Developer in the City of London

Senior Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Developer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Software Developer in the City of London

Senior Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Developer in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Software Developer in the City of London

Senior Software Developer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, Senior Software Developer 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 City of London region featuring Senior Software Developer in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) C#
2 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) XML
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Python
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) Java
4 2 (33.33%) Market Risk
4 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Banking
4 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) .NET
4 2 (33.33%) Contactless
4 2 (33.33%) Bicep
4 2 (33.33%) ARM Templates
5 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
5 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (16.67%) SpecFlow
5 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
5 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
5 1 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft

Senior Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) ARM Templates
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Contactless
1 2 (33.33%) Market Risk
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
4 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C#
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Bicep
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft