Software Engineer Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineer
Rank 162 193 228
Rank change year-on-year
+31 +35
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 41 25 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.643% 0.318% 0.174%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.696% 0.348% 0.189%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 13 12
Average daily rate £400 £425 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +30.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £276 £285 £301
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £518
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £310 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.83% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year
- +3.44%
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 5894 7192 8993
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.40% 91.44% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4333 5169 6545
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 186 197
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £133.00 £41.28 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Software Engineer
London

Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Software Engineer across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Software Engineer across the City of London region.

City of London Software Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Software Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Software Engineer across the City of London region.

City of London Software Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Software Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Software Engineer in their job title.

1 34 (49.28%) C#
2 29 (42.03%) Java
2 29 (42.03%) SQL
3 27 (39.13%) .NET
4 24 (34.78%) OO
5 23 (33.33%) SQL Server
6 22 (31.88%) Finance
6 22 (31.88%) Banking
7 21 (30.43%) Multithreading
8 18 (26.09%) TDD
9 17 (24.64%) Investment Banking
10 14 (20.29%) Derivative
10 14 (20.29%) C++
11 12 (17.39%) Microsoft
12 11 (15.94%) Windows
12 11 (15.94%) Computer Science
13 10 (14.49%) Front Office
13 10 (14.49%) Scrum
13 10 (14.49%) XML
14 9 (13.04%) Web Services
14 9 (13.04%) Mathematics
15 8 (11.59%) QA
15 8 (11.59%) WCF
15 8 (11.59%) E-Commerce
15 8 (11.59%) WinForms
16 7 (10.14%) Agile Software Development
16 7 (10.14%) TCP/IP
16 7 (10.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 7 (10.14%) BDD
17 6 (8.696%) DevExpress

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Software Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 27 (39.13%) .NET
2 10 (14.49%) XML
3 9 (13.04%) Web Services
4 8 (11.59%) WCF
4 8 (11.59%) WinForms
5 6 (8.696%) Spring
5 6 (8.696%) ASP.NET
5 6 (8.696%) HTML
6 4 (5.797%) .NET Framework
6 4 (5.797%) WPF
6 4 (5.797%) WF
6 4 (5.797%) Hibernate
6 4 (5.797%) CSS
7 3 (4.348%) ASP
8 2 (2.899%) RESTful
8 2 (2.899%) MapReduce
8 2 (2.899%) jQuery
8 2 (2.899%) LINQ
8 2 (2.899%) Swing
9 1 (1.449%) Raphaël
Application Platforms
1 4 (5.797%) Tomcat
2 3 (4.348%) Apache
3 2 (2.899%) Apache Pig
3 2 (2.899%) TIBCO EMS
3 2 (2.899%) IIS
4 1 (1.449%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.449%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.449%) Jetty
4 1 (1.449%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.449%) Windows Azure
4 1 (1.449%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 5 (7.246%) MS Office
2 4 (5.797%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.449%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.14%) TCP/IP
2 3 (4.348%) Intranet
2 3 (4.348%) Internet
2 3 (4.348%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.797%) Oracle 11g
3 3 (4.348%) DB2
3 3 (4.348%) RDBMS
3 3 (4.348%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.348%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.348%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (2.899%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.899%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (2.899%) Apache Hive
4 2 (2.899%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (2.899%) Mahout
4 2 (2.899%) HBase
4 2 (2.899%) Big Data
4 2 (2.899%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (2.899%) OLTP
4 2 (2.899%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.899%) Data Mining
4 2 (2.899%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (2.899%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 6 (8.696%) CruiseControl
1 6 (8.696%) NUnit
2 5 (7.246%) Visual Studio
3 4 (5.797%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (5.797%) WiX
3 4 (5.797%) MSBuild
3 4 (5.797%) MSI
4 3 (4.348%) Ant
4 3 (4.348%) InstallShield
4 3 (4.348%) WATIR
4 3 (4.348%) Selenium
4 3 (4.348%) Maven
4 3 (4.348%) Cucumber
4 3 (4.348%) Git (software)
5 2 (2.899%) Subversion
5 2 (2.899%) FitNesse
5 2 (2.899%) Eclipse
5 2 (2.899%) JUnit
5 2 (2.899%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.449%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 22 (31.88%) Finance
1 22 (31.88%) Banking
2 17 (24.64%) Investment Banking
3 10 (14.49%) Front Office
4 4 (5.797%) Retail
5 3 (4.348%) Games
6 1 (1.449%) Electronics
6 1 (1.449%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.449%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.449%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.29%) Derivative
2 11 (15.94%) Computer Science
3 9 (13.04%) Mathematics
4 7 (10.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (8.696%) Fixed Income
6 3 (4.348%) Physics
6 3 (4.348%) SWIFT
7 2 (2.899%) Open Source
7 2 (2.899%) Visualisation
7 2 (2.899%) Machine Learning
7 2 (2.899%) Social Network
7 2 (2.899%) Data Integration
7 2 (2.899%) Credit Risk
7 2 (2.899%) Market Risk
7 2 (2.899%) Equities
7 2 (2.899%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.449%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.449%) N-Tier
8 1 (1.449%) Grid Computing
8 1 (1.449%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.94%) Windows
2 6 (8.696%) Linux
3 5 (7.246%) UNIX
4 4 (5.797%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (2.899%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (2.899%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.449%) Debian
6 1 (1.449%) Android
6 1 (1.449%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.449%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (34.78%) OO
2 21 (30.43%) Multithreading
3 18 (26.09%) TDD
4 10 (14.49%) Scrum
5 8 (11.59%) E-Commerce
6 7 (10.14%) Agile Software Development
6 7 (10.14%) BDD
7 6 (8.696%) Electronic Trading
7 6 (8.696%) Workflow
8 5 (7.246%) Software Engineering
8 5 (7.246%) Unit Testing
8 5 (7.246%) Software Architecture
9 4 (5.797%) Waterfall
9 4 (5.797%) ITIL
9 4 (5.797%) OOD
10 3 (4.348%) ETL
10 3 (4.348%) Data Modelling
10 3 (4.348%) Pair Programming
10 3 (4.348%) Project Management
10 3 (4.348%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 34 (49.28%) C#
2 29 (42.03%) Java
2 29 (42.03%) SQL
3 14 (20.29%) C++
4 5 (7.246%) JavaScript
4 5 (7.246%) VB
5 4 (5.797%) C
5 4 (5.797%) PHP
6 3 (4.348%) PL/SQL
6 3 (4.348%) VBA
6 3 (4.348%) Perl
6 3 (4.348%) Ruby
7 2 (2.899%) Groovy
8 1 (1.449%) Assembly Language
8 1 (1.449%) Python
8 1 (1.449%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.449%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (8.696%) Degree
2 1 (1.449%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.59%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.449%) NDS
1 1 (1.449%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.449%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (4.348%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 12 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.696%) DevExpress
2 6 (8.696%) Syncfusion
2 6 (8.696%) Oracle
3 3 (4.348%) Sybase
3 3 (4.348%) TIBCO
3 3 (4.348%) Informatica
4 1 (1.449%) SAP
4 1 (1.449%) Sun
4 1 (1.449%) Intel
4 1 (1.449%) Citrix
4 1 (1.449%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.449%) JBoss
4 1 (1.449%) VMware
4 1 (1.449%) Apple
4 1 (1.449%) Google
Java / Scala - Software Engineer
City, London
Java/Scala developer required for a 6 month contract in Leeds/London. Essential skills: Java. Scala. Oracle. Rabbit MQ or exposure to message queuing... Nice to have: C#, ...
ReThink Recruitment
Rate: £0.00 per day + market rates
Posted: 17 May 2013
C# Data Programmer / Developer / Software Engineer
City, London
The right candidate will have strong experience in: C# .NET... Data Modelling and Database Modelling (Entity-Relationship Model) Entity Framework. OData / Open Data Protocol Microsoft SQL Server, WCF,...
ReThink Recruitment
Rate: £450.00 - £500.00 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Software Engineer - FX Electronic Trading C++ - Contract
City of London
The RoleThe FX Electronic Trading team is seeking for a technically strong, highlydriven individual with C++ programming skills. The successful candidate will beresponsible for technical integration between Bloomberg'...
Bloomberg
Rate: competitive
Posted: 24 May 2013
Software Development Engineer in Test - c# SQL
City of London
Experience with web technologies such as IIS and WCF and/or REST-based web services -Experience writing automated test cases using C# and Visual Studio test frameworks-Ability...
Rate: £30000 - £85000 per annum
Posted: 2 May 2013
Software Engineer - FX Electronic Trading C++ - Contract
City, London
The FX Electronic Trading team is seeking for a technically strong, highly driven individual with C++ programming skills. The successful candidate will be responsible for technical integration between...
Bloomberg LP
Rate: competitive
Posted: 14 May 2013
Software Release/Build Engineer
City of London
Knowledge of MSBuild, WebDeploy,Desirable Knowledge & Experience:*Knowledge of Microsoft technical implementation toolsets (Visual Studio, C# / ASP.NET 1.1 - 4.5)*Knowledge of IIS6 - 8*Knowledge of...
Argyll Scott International
Rate: £400 - £500 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
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