Developer/Software Engineer Contracts in England

Software Engineer/Developer
UK > England

The median Software Engineer/Developer daily rate in England is £725 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 397 539 417
Rank change year-on-year +142 -122 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Developer/Software Engineer 138 124 399
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.25% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.26% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 106 361
10th Percentile £538 £438 £488
25th Percentile £650 £478 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £800 £750 £700
90th Percentile £888 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £725 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +20.83% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Developer/Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Developer/Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Developer/Software Engineer in England

Developer/Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Developer/Software Engineer in England

Developer/Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer/Software Engineer in England

Developer/Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Developer/Software Engineer in England

Developer/Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +129 129 £725 +16.00% 6
East of England +20 7 £600 +20.00% 2
North of England +29 1 £350 -
South East +23 1 £675 +22.73%
Yorkshire - 1 £350 -
Developer/Software Engineer
UK

Developer/Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Developer/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 England region featuring Developer/Software Engineer in the job title.

1 136 (98.55%) Software Engineering
2 127 (92.03%) AWS
3 126 (91.30%) GCP
4 125 (90.58%) Finance
5 123 (89.13%) Front Office
5 123 (89.13%) Asset Management
5 123 (89.13%) TypeScript
6 119 (86.23%) Agile
7 117 (84.78%) Fixed Income
8 105 (76.09%) Investment Management
9 99 (71.74%) React
10 98 (71.01%) Python
11 87 (63.04%) Hedge funds
11 87 (63.04%) Protocol Buffers
11 87 (63.04%) gRPC
11 87 (63.04%) Apache Airflow
11 87 (63.04%) Redux
12 84 (60.87%) JavaScript
13 83 (60.14%) Full Stack Development
14 80 (57.97%) Apache Ignite
14 80 (57.97%) Apache
15 79 (57.25%) Azure
16 70 (50.72%) Banking
17 67 (48.55%) Equities
18 58 (42.03%) Material-UI
19 53 (38.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 53 (38.41%) Derivative
20 46 (33.33%) Fintech
21 44 (31.88%) Google
22 42 (30.43%) PostgreSQL

Developer/Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 87 (63.04%) Apache Airflow
2 80 (57.97%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 127 (92.03%) AWS
2 126 (91.30%) GCP
3 79 (57.25%) Azure
4 34 (24.64%) dbt
5 16 (11.59%) Snowflake
6 4 (2.90%) GitHub
7 2 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.45%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.45%) Serverless
8 1 (0.72%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.45%) Firewall
1 2 (1.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (57.97%) Apache Ignite
2 42 (30.43%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (24.64%) Amazon Athena
3 34 (24.64%) Apache Arrow
3 34 (24.64%) Dremio
4 16 (11.59%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.72%) Flink
Development Applications
1 27 (19.57%) Cypress.io
2 4 (2.90%) Git
3 3 (2.17%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.45%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.45%) REST Assured
4 2 (1.45%) Selenium
General
1 125 (90.58%) Finance
2 123 (89.13%) Front Office
3 70 (50.72%) Banking
4 29 (21.01%) Investment Banking
5 5 (3.62%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.72%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.72%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (71.74%) React
2 87 (63.04%) gRPC
2 87 (63.04%) Protocol Buffers
2 87 (63.04%) Redux
3 58 (42.03%) Material-UI
4 41 (29.71%) Pandas
5 34 (24.64%) NumPy
5 34 (24.64%) SciPy
6 29 (21.01%) .NET
7 24 (17.39%) Vue
8 23 (16.67%) AngularJS
9 21 (15.22%) Node.js
10 17 (12.32%) .NET Core
11 11 (7.97%) ASP.NET
11 11 (7.97%) ASP.NET Core
12 10 (7.25%) GraphQL
13 2 (1.45%) .NET Framework
13 2 (1.45%) CSS
13 2 (1.45%) HTML
14 1 (0.72%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 117 (84.78%) Fixed Income
2 87 (63.04%) Hedge funds
3 67 (48.55%) Equities
4 53 (38.41%) Derivative
4 53 (38.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (98.55%) Software Engineering
2 123 (89.13%) Asset Management
3 119 (86.23%) Agile
4 105 (76.09%) Investment Management
5 83 (60.14%) Full Stack Development
6 46 (33.33%) Fintech
7 41 (29.71%) Artificial Intelligence
7 41 (29.71%) Automated Trading
7 41 (29.71%) Machine Learning
8 31 (22.46%) Analytics
9 29 (21.01%) DevOps
9 29 (21.01%) TDD
10 20 (14.49%) Performance Attribution
11 16 (11.59%) Line Management
12 10 (7.25%) Data Architecture
12 10 (7.25%) Risk Analytics
13 8 (5.80%) Front End Development
14 5 (3.62%) Credit Risk Analysis
14 5 (3.62%) Test Automation
14 5 (3.62%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 123 (89.13%) TypeScript
2 98 (71.01%) Python
3 84 (60.87%) JavaScript
4 41 (29.71%) Java
5 30 (21.74%) C#
6 17 (12.32%) SQL
7 10 (7.25%) Kotlin
8 6 (4.35%) Ruby
8 6 (4.35%) Scala
9 3 (2.17%) Bash
10 1 (0.72%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (2.17%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.45%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.72%) Degree
3 1 (0.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (19.57%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.17%) zsh
2 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.72%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 44 (31.88%) Google
2 2 (1.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle