Software Engineering Contracts in the City of London

Software Engineering
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 37 30
Rank change year-on-year -8 -7 -6
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 90 198 279
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.15% 5.46% 6.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.58% 5.96% 7.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 106 215
10th Percentile £435 £463 £463
25th Percentile £500 £522 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £601 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% -3.92% +13.64%
75th Percentile £763 £750 £753
90th Percentile £875 £825 £813
Central London median daily rate £551 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -11.92% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - - £45.00
25th Percentile - £35.00 £46.13
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year - +16.16% +98.00%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £53.13
90th Percentile - - £54.40
Central London median hourly rate - £57.50 £49.50
% change year-on-year - +16.16% +98.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,967 3,321 3,899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.60% 91.59% 91.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,395 2,237 2,950
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £676
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.39% +9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 41
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.35 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +113.30%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the City of London

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in the City of London

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in the City of London

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in the City of London

Software Engineering
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 6 (6.67%) BizTalk Server
1 6 (6.67%) IIS
2 3 (3.33%) Confluence
3 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.11%) Tornado
Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (1.11%) Endur
1 1 (1.11%) Front Arena
Cloud Services
1 38 (42.22%) Azure
2 20 (22.22%) AWS
3 12 (13.33%) Serverless
4 10 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (10.00%) Azure Functions
6 8 (8.89%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (7.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (6.67%) Azure Storage
8 6 (6.67%) GitHub
9 5 (5.56%) GCP
9 5 (5.56%) Power Platform
10 4 (4.44%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (2.22%) Azure AKS
12 2 (2.22%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (2.22%) Azure Pipelines
12 2 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (2.22%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.67%) Internet
2 3 (3.33%) Firewall
3 1 (1.11%) DHCP
3 1 (1.11%) DNS
3 1 (1.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.11%) VLAN
3 1 (1.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.56%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.89%) NoSQL
3 7 (7.78%) MongoDB
4 6 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (5.56%) Power BI
6 3 (3.33%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.33%) MySQL
6 3 (3.33%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.22%) Big Data
7 2 (2.22%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.22%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.22%) KDB
7 2 (2.22%) Looker
7 2 (2.22%) Presto
7 2 (2.22%) Tableau
8 1 (1.11%) InfluxDB
8 1 (1.11%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 12 (13.33%) Git
2 7 (7.78%) JIRA
3 6 (6.67%) GitLab
4 4 (4.44%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.33%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.22%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.22%) JMeter
6 2 (2.22%) JUnit
6 2 (2.22%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.22%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.11%) Android Studio
7 1 (1.11%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.11%) Darcs
7 1 (1.11%) Gradle
7 1 (1.11%) Maven
7 1 (1.11%) Mercurial
7 1 (1.11%) Pylint
7 1 (1.11%) Selenium
7 1 (1.11%) TestNG
7 1 (1.11%) Travis CI
General
1 22 (24.44%) Finance
2 14 (15.56%) Banking
2 14 (15.56%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (3.33%) Investment Banking
4 3 (3.33%) Marketing
5 2 (2.22%) Front Office
5 2 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (2.22%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.22%) Retail
6 1 (1.11%) Advertising
6 1 (1.11%) Automotive
6 1 (1.11%) Legal
6 1 (1.11%) Local Government
6 1 (1.11%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (32.22%) Software Engineer
2 26 (28.89%) Developer
3 13 (14.44%) Senior
4 11 (12.22%) Full Stack Developer
5 6 (6.67%) Python Engineer
6 5 (5.56%) Analyst
6 5 (5.56%) Lead
6 5 (5.56%) Python Developer
6 5 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (4.44%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.44%) Java Developer
7 4 (4.44%) Python Software Engineer
8 3 (3.33%) Architect
8 3 (3.33%) C# Developer
8 3 (3.33%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.33%) Insurance Business Analyst
8 3 (3.33%) Java Engineer
8 3 (3.33%) Market Risk Developer
8 3 (3.33%) Project Manager
8 3 (3.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (25.56%) .NET
2 18 (20.00%) React
3 10 (11.11%) .NET Framework
4 9 (10.00%) .NET Core
4 9 (10.00%) ASP.NET
5 7 (7.78%) Kafka
5 7 (7.78%) Web Services
6 6 (6.67%) Blazor
6 6 (6.67%) HTML
6 6 (6.67%) Node.js
7 5 (5.56%) WebSockets
8 4 (4.44%) AngularJS
8 4 (4.44%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (4.44%) pytest
8 4 (4.44%) REST
8 4 (4.44%) Spring
9 3 (3.33%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (3.33%) CSS
9 3 (3.33%) FastAPI
9 3 (3.33%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.89%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.78%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.33%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.33%) Equities
4 3 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.33%) Market Risk
5 2 (2.22%) CMDB
5 2 (2.22%) Derivative
5 2 (2.22%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.22%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.11%) Digital Currency
6 1 (1.11%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.11%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.11%) IoT
6 1 (1.11%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.11%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.11%) PKI
6 1 (1.11%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 15 (16.67%) Windows
2 10 (11.11%) Linux
3 3 (3.33%) Unix
4 2 (2.22%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (36.67%) Agile
2 28 (31.11%) DevOps
2 28 (31.11%) SDLC
3 25 (27.78%) CI/CD
4 19 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (17.78%) Full Stack Development
5 16 (17.78%) Microservices
6 12 (13.33%) Front End Development
7 9 (10.00%) Computer Science
7 9 (10.00%) Mathematics
7 9 (10.00%) Visualisation
8 8 (8.89%) User Stories
9 7 (7.78%) Analytics
9 7 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (7.78%) Mentoring
9 7 (7.78%) Open Source
9 7 (7.78%) Scrum
9 7 (7.78%) Software Deployment
9 7 (7.78%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (6.67%) Data Development
Programming Languages
1 39 (43.33%) Python
2 33 (36.67%) SQL
3 26 (28.89%) Java
4 19 (21.11%) C#
5 17 (18.89%) JavaScript
6 9 (10.00%) C++
6 9 (10.00%) Go
7 8 (8.89%) PowerShell
8 7 (7.78%) T-SQL
9 6 (6.67%) PL/SQL
9 6 (6.67%) TypeScript
10 3 (3.33%) Scala
11 2 (2.22%) Kotlin
11 2 (2.22%) MATLAB
11 2 (2.22%) R
12 1 (1.11%) Bicep
12 1 (1.11%) C
12 1 (1.11%) Perl
12 1 (1.11%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (20.00%) Degree
2 4 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (4.44%) SC Cleared
2 4 (4.44%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.22%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.11%) ISO 20022
1 1 (1.11%) NIST
1 1 (1.11%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.11%) QA
System Software
1 10 (11.11%) Docker
2 2 (2.22%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (18.89%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.67%) Terraform
3 2 (2.22%) Argo
3 2 (2.22%) Grafana
4 1 (1.11%) Ansible
4 1 (1.11%) Kibana
4 1 (1.11%) logstash
4 1 (1.11%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.11%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.11%) Puppet
4 1 (1.11%) vRealize
4 1 (1.11%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 18 (20.00%) Oracle
2 11 (12.22%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.67%) Databricks
3 6 (6.67%) MuleSoft
4 5 (5.56%) Google
5 2 (2.22%) Bloomberg
5 2 (2.22%) Foundry
5 2 (2.22%) Palantir
5 2 (2.22%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.22%) SAP
5 2 (2.22%) Solace
5 2 (2.22%) TIBCO
5 2 (2.22%) VMware
6 1 (1.11%) Advent
6 1 (1.11%) Confluent
6 1 (1.11%) Eze Castle Integration
6 1 (1.11%) New Relic
6 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.11%) Splunk
6 1 (1.11%) Sybase