Senior Software Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Software Engineer daily rate in England is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 507 510
Rank change year-on-year +166 +3 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 204 139 266
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.55% 0.28% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.30% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 107 189
10th Percentile £425 £425 £495
25th Percentile £466 £463 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +17.07%
75th Percentile £740 £659 £713
90th Percentile £850 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £650 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 4 8
10th Percentile £35.52 £39.88 £35.13
25th Percentile £46.91 £47.19 £42.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £47.25
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +11.11% -0.53%
75th Percentile £72.50 £56.05 £51.51
90th Percentile £83.75 £60.20 £62.42
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £47.25
% change year-on-year +23.81% +11.11% -0.53%

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 34,087 46,245 67,040
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.62% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,605 32,838 47,758
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £761 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,370 1,849
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.49 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.23% +94.63% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.80
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in England

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in England

Senior Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Software Engineer in England

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in England

Senior Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Software Engineer in England

Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 11 May 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 +142 116 £650 +8.33% 160
South East +28 30 £521 +4.25% 48
North of England +42 21 £588 +17.50% 44
North West +24 16 £625 +13.64% 27
East of England +14 11 £600 -6.25% 36
Yorkshire +19 5 £280 -37.78% 14
South West +10 5 £488 -13.72% 43
Midlands +23 2 - - 21
West Midlands +10 2 - - 13
Senior Software Engineer
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Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 11 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 England region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 202 (99.02%) Software Engineering
2 103 (50.49%) Agile
2 103 (50.49%) AWS
3 69 (33.82%) Java
4 60 (29.41%) Python
5 52 (25.49%) JavaScript
5 52 (25.49%) Finance
6 51 (25.00%) Kubernetes
7 46 (22.55%) Docker
8 42 (20.59%) TypeScript
9 40 (19.61%) User Experience
10 38 (18.63%) C#
10 38 (18.63%) Kafka
11 36 (17.65%) UX Design
12 35 (17.16%) Pandas
12 35 (17.16%) Go
13 34 (16.67%) CI/CD
13 34 (16.67%) Derivative
13 34 (16.67%) Front Office
13 34 (16.67%) Asset Management
14 33 (16.18%) Fixed Income
14 33 (16.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 33 (16.18%) gRPC
15 32 (15.69%) Apache Airflow
15 32 (15.69%) Fintech
15 32 (15.69%) Equities
15 32 (15.69%) Protocol Buffers
16 31 (15.20%) Azure
16 31 (15.20%) Apache Cassandra
16 31 (15.20%) Banking

Senior 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 32 (15.69%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (13.24%) Apache
3 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.49%) Drupal
3 1 (0.49%) MTS
3 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Simulink
1 2 (0.98%) Stateflow
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.96%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.49%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 103 (50.49%) AWS
2 31 (15.20%) Azure
3 26 (12.75%) dbt
4 25 (12.25%) Snowflake
5 13 (6.37%) GCP
6 9 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (2.94%) Entra ID
7 6 (2.94%) Serverless
8 5 (2.45%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.45%) GitHub
9 4 (1.96%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (1.96%) Miro
10 3 (1.47%) OpenShift
11 2 (0.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (0.98%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.98%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.98%) RS-485
2 1 (0.49%) Firewall
2 1 (0.49%) NFC
2 1 (0.49%) PPP
2 1 (0.49%) RS-422
2 1 (0.49%) SNMP
2 1 (0.49%) VPN
2 1 (0.49%) WAN
2 1 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (15.20%) Apache Cassandra
2 26 (12.75%) Amazon Athena
2 26 (12.75%) Apache Arrow
2 26 (12.75%) Apache Ignite
2 26 (12.75%) Dremio
3 25 (12.25%) Data Lake
4 12 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.92%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.94%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.45%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.47%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.98%) MySQL
10 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.49%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.49%) KDB
10 1 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.49%) Redis
10 1 (0.49%) Scylla
10 1 (0.49%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 14 (6.86%) Jenkins
2 12 (5.88%) GitLab
3 6 (2.94%) Cucumber
3 6 (2.94%) JIRA
3 6 (2.94%) Selenium
4 5 (2.45%) Git
4 5 (2.45%) REST Assured
4 5 (2.45%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.96%) CircleCI
5 4 (1.96%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.47%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.47%) Gradle
6 3 (1.47%) JUnit
6 3 (1.47%) Maven
6 3 (1.47%) MSI
6 3 (1.47%) webpack
6 3 (1.47%) WiX
7 2 (0.98%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.49%) Babel
8 1 (0.49%) Spinnaker
General
1 52 (25.49%) Finance
2 34 (16.67%) Front Office
3 31 (15.20%) Banking
4 30 (14.71%) Social Skills
5 26 (12.75%) Investment Banking
6 13 (6.37%) Public Sector
7 9 (4.41%) Retail
8 8 (3.92%) Local Government
9 7 (3.43%) Aerospace
9 7 (3.43%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (2.94%) Law
10 6 (2.94%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.45%) Automotive
12 4 (1.96%) Electronics
12 4 (1.96%) Marketing
12 4 (1.96%) Military
12 4 (1.96%) Police
13 3 (1.47%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.98%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (18.63%) Kafka
2 35 (17.16%) Pandas
3 33 (16.18%) gRPC
4 32 (15.69%) Protocol Buffers
5 30 (14.71%) NumPy
6 28 (13.73%) React
7 26 (12.75%) .NET
7 26 (12.75%) SciPy
8 24 (11.76%) Node.js
9 21 (10.29%) REST
10 15 (7.35%) RESTful
11 13 (6.37%) XML
12 12 (5.88%) AngularJS
13 11 (5.39%) Spring
14 10 (4.90%) Java EE
14 10 (4.90%) Spring Boot
15 9 (4.41%) CSS
16 8 (3.92%) .NET Core
16 8 (3.92%) Material-UI
17 7 (3.43%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 34 (16.67%) Derivative
2 33 (16.18%) Fixed Income
2 33 (16.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 32 (15.69%) Equities
4 27 (13.24%) Hedge funds
5 9 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.92%) Embedded Systems
6 8 (3.92%) Pricing Data
7 7 (3.43%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.45%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.47%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.47%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.47%) Web 2.0
12 2 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.98%) FPGA
12 2 (0.98%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.82%) Linux
2 8 (3.92%) Windows
3 3 (1.47%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.98%) Android
5 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (99.02%) Software Engineering
2 103 (50.49%) Agile
3 40 (19.61%) User Experience
4 36 (17.65%) UX Design
5 34 (16.67%) Asset Management
5 34 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 32 (15.69%) Fintech
7 31 (15.20%) User Research
7 31 (15.20%) UX Research
8 30 (14.71%) Microservices
9 29 (14.22%) Investment Management
10 27 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (11.76%) DevOps
12 19 (9.31%) Computer Science
12 19 (9.31%) Mentoring
13 18 (8.82%) Scrum
14 17 (8.33%) Design Patterns
15 16 (7.84%) Greeks
15 16 (7.84%) OO
15 16 (7.84%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 69 (33.82%) Java
2 60 (29.41%) Python
3 52 (25.49%) JavaScript
4 42 (20.59%) TypeScript
5 38 (18.63%) C#
6 35 (17.16%) Go
7 20 (9.80%) C++
8 18 (8.82%) SQL
9 11 (5.39%) C
10 8 (3.92%) Rust
11 7 (3.43%) PowerShell
12 5 (2.45%) Kotlin
12 5 (2.45%) Scala
13 4 (1.96%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.47%) Bicep
14 3 (1.47%) Clojure
14 3 (1.47%) Haskell
15 2 (0.98%) Bash
15 2 (0.98%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.98%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 23 (11.27%) Degree
3 19 (9.31%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.39%) Master's Degree
5 9 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.47%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.47%) PhD
7 2 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.49%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.84%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.49%) ISO 20022
2 1 (0.49%) ISO 26262
2 1 (0.49%) MiFID
2 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (22.55%) Docker
2 6 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.49%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 51 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.31%) Terraform
3 5 (2.45%) Ansible
3 5 (2.45%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (2.45%) Podman
4 1 (0.49%) Argo
4 1 (0.49%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (4.90%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.96%) Salesforce
3 3 (1.47%) SAP
4 2 (0.98%) Databricks
4 2 (0.98%) MathWorks
4 2 (0.98%) New Relic
4 2 (0.98%) NVIDIA
4 2 (0.98%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.49%) Finsemble
5 1 (0.49%) Google
5 1 (0.49%) HP
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle
5 1 (0.49%) Sparx
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