Senior Software Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Senior Software Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Software Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 164 179
Rank change year-on-year +43 +15 -33
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 6 12 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.27% 0.33% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.35% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 16
10th Percentile £428 - £631
25th Percentile £450 £463 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £675
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -22.22% +10.75%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £713
90th Percentile £705 £680 -
Central London median daily rate £450 £600 £675
% change year-on-year -25.00% -11.11% +12.50%

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 2,084 3,467 4,015
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.07% 95.12% 94.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,480 2,358 3,026
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £588 £560
% change year-on-year -6.38% +4.91% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 23 53
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.67% +111.42%
75th Percentile £27.25 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.64 £65.10
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -28.57% -6.67% +108.62%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

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

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

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

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

Senior Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

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

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in the City of London

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 2 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 City of London region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) .NET
3 3 (50.00%) C#
3 3 (50.00%) AWS
4 2 (33.33%) Java
4 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (33.33%) MySQL
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) REST
4 2 (33.33%) Docker
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (33.33%) .NET Core
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (33.33%) Azure
5 1 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (16.67%) http4s
5 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) Spinnaker
5 1 (16.67%) Playwright
5 1 (16.67%) React
5 1 (16.67%) SDLC
5 1 (16.67%) SDET
5 1 (16.67%) ISO 20022

Senior Software Engineer 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 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) Datadog
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) Scylla
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Gradle
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JUnit
1 1 (16.67%) Maven
1 1 (16.67%) Spinnaker
1 1 (16.67%) TestNG
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Local Government
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Core
2 2 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
3 1 (16.67%) http4s
3 1 (16.67%) Kafka
3 1 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (16.67%) Playwright
3 1 (16.67%) React
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) Spring
3 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Hedge funds
1 1 (16.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Fintech
3 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
3 1 (16.67%) Fund Management
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
3 1 (16.67%) Investment Management
3 1 (16.67%) Kanban
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) SDET
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Scala
3 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) New Relic