Software Developer Contracts in the City of London

Software Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Software Developer daily rate in the City of London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 141 176
Rank change year-on-year +36 +35 -38
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 20 31 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.91% 0.85% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 0.90% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 13
10th Percentile £418 £475 £354
25th Percentile £451 £519 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £595 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.97% +25.26% -
75th Percentile £616 £675 £613
90th Percentile £838 £738 £745
Central London median daily rate £500 £595 £473
% change year-on-year -15.97% +25.93% -0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £57.50 -

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 2,091 3,462 4,000
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.96% 95.19% 94.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,484 2,355 3,014
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £791 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £586 £560
% change year-on-year -6.18% +4.69% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 23 51
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £17.56 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -5.41% +105.84%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £44.10 £87.64 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -26.34% -5.41% +105.84%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in the City of London

Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Developer in the City of London

Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Developer in the City of London

Software Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Developer in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 12 (60.00%) Azure
2 10 (50.00%) AWS
3 8 (40.00%) Python
4 7 (35.00%) Java
4 7 (35.00%) SQL
4 7 (35.00%) SQL Server
5 6 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 6 (30.00%) Agile
5 6 (30.00%) C#
5 6 (30.00%) NoSQL
6 5 (25.00%) DevOps
6 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
6 5 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (20.00%) Quantitative Trading
7 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 4 (20.00%) .NET
7 4 (20.00%) XML
8 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
8 3 (15.00%) .NET Framework
8 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
9 2 (10.00%) REST Assured
9 2 (10.00%) Cucumber
9 2 (10.00%) Contactless
9 2 (10.00%) SDET
9 2 (10.00%) Front End Development
9 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (10.00%) Serverless
9 2 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
9 2 (10.00%) Bicep

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) Azure
2 10 (50.00%) AWS
3 5 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (10.00%) Serverless
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (30.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (10.00%) REST Assured
1 2 (10.00%) Selenium
1 2 (10.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.00%) Banking
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) .NET
1 4 (20.00%) XML
2 3 (15.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (10.00%) ARM Templates
3 2 (10.00%) Node.js
4 1 (5.00%) ADO
4 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.00%) Blazor
4 1 (5.00%) Entity Framework
4 1 (5.00%) NumPy
4 1 (5.00%) Pandas
4 1 (5.00%) SciPy
4 1 (5.00%) Spring
4 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Contactless
1 2 (10.00%) Derivative
1 2 (10.00%) Market Risk
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Agile
1 6 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
1 6 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 5 (25.00%) DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (20.00%) Quantitative Trading
4 2 (10.00%) Front End Development
4 2 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (10.00%) Microservices
4 2 (10.00%) Performance Testing
4 2 (10.00%) Scrum
4 2 (10.00%) SDET
4 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (10.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (5.00%) B2B
5 1 (5.00%) CRM
5 1 (5.00%) Fintech
5 1 (5.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Python
2 7 (35.00%) Java
2 7 (35.00%) SQL
3 6 (30.00%) C#
4 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (10.00%) Bicep
6 1 (5.00%) C++
6 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.00%) Rust
6 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle