Senior Software Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Software Engineer daily rate in England is £638 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 514 517
Rank change year-on-year +165 +3 -42
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 194 155 265
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.30% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.32% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 124 196
10th Percentile £425 £441 £500
25th Percentile £456 £486 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% -8.33% +17.07%
75th Percentile £675 £653 £700
90th Percentile £850 £767 £738
UK median daily rate £631 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +14.77% -8.33% +17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 4 9
10th Percentile £35.52 £39.88 £35.50
25th Percentile £46.91 £47.19 £41.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £56.05 £48.75
90th Percentile £83.75 £60.20 £60.29
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +23.81% +10.53% -

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 34,525 48,539 68,704
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.54% 95.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,000 34,387 48,854
10th Percentile £275 £308 £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 £644 £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 2,382 1,454 1,923
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.63 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.25 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -19.08% +94.12% -0.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.43 £61.73
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.88
% change year-on-year -22.22% +96.68% -0.52%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 18 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 +138 107 £650 +4.00% 146
South East +34 31 £521 +4.25% 51
North of England +41 21 £550 - 45
North West +28 16 £625 +21.83% 31
East of England +15 8 £550 -4.01% 35
Yorkshire +19 5 £280 -44.00% 7
South West +17 5 £488 -9.72% 43
Midlands +20 2 - - 27
West Midlands +17 2 - - 12
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 18 April 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.

1 192 (98.97%) Software Engineering
2 93 (47.94%) AWS
3 91 (46.91%) Agile
4 56 (28.87%) Java
5 55 (28.35%) Kubernetes
6 51 (26.29%) Python
7 49 (25.26%) Docker
8 42 (21.65%) User Experience
9 41 (21.13%) Finance
10 40 (20.62%) Kafka
11 39 (20.10%) JavaScript
12 38 (19.59%) C#
12 38 (19.59%) UX Design
12 38 (19.59%) Go
13 34 (17.53%) Fintech
14 33 (17.01%) User Research
14 33 (17.01%) UX Research
14 33 (17.01%) Apache Cassandra
14 33 (17.01%) Azure
15 30 (15.46%) CI/CD
15 30 (15.46%) Social Skills
15 30 (15.46%) TypeScript
15 30 (15.46%) React
16 29 (14.95%) Microservices
17 28 (14.43%) .NET
18 27 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
19 26 (13.40%) Pandas
20 25 (12.89%) Front Office
20 25 (12.89%) Asset Management
20 25 (12.89%) Derivative

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 23 (11.86%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (7.73%) Apache
3 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.52%) Drupal
3 1 (0.52%) MTS
3 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Simulink
1 2 (1.03%) Stateflow
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.52%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 93 (47.94%) AWS
2 33 (17.01%) Azure
3 16 (8.25%) GCP
4 14 (7.22%) dbt
5 13 (6.70%) Snowflake
6 8 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.09%) GitHub
8 5 (2.58%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.55%) Miro
9 3 (1.55%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.55%) Serverless
10 2 (1.03%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.03%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.03%) Datadog
10 2 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.03%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.52%) Firewall
1 1 (0.52%) NFC
1 1 (0.52%) PPP
1 1 (0.52%) RS-422
1 1 (0.52%) SNMP
1 1 (0.52%) VoIP
1 1 (0.52%) VPN
1 1 (0.52%) WAN
1 1 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (17.01%) Apache Cassandra
2 14 (7.22%) Amazon Athena
2 14 (7.22%) Apache Arrow
2 14 (7.22%) Apache Ignite
2 14 (7.22%) Dremio
3 13 (6.70%) Data Lake
4 12 (6.19%) SQL Server
5 9 (4.64%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.09%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.55%) MySQL
7 3 (1.55%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.03%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.52%) KDB
9 1 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.52%) Scylla
9 1 (0.52%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 15 (7.73%) Jenkins
2 12 (6.19%) GitLab
3 6 (3.09%) Git
3 6 (3.09%) JIRA
3 6 (3.09%) Selenium
3 6 (3.09%) SonarQube
4 5 (2.58%) Cucumber
4 5 (2.58%) REST Assured
4 5 (2.58%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.55%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.55%) Gradle
5 3 (1.55%) Maven
5 3 (1.55%) MSI
5 3 (1.55%) webpack
5 3 (1.55%) WiX
6 2 (1.03%) JUnit
6 2 (1.03%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.52%) CMake
7 1 (0.52%) GoogleTest
7 1 (0.52%) TestNG
General
1 41 (21.13%) Finance
2 30 (15.46%) Social Skills
3 25 (12.89%) Front Office
4 19 (9.79%) Banking
5 14 (7.22%) Investment Banking
6 12 (6.19%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.12%) Local Government
7 8 (4.12%) Retail
8 7 (3.61%) Aerospace
8 7 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (3.09%) Law
10 5 (2.58%) Automotive
10 5 (2.58%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.06%) Military
11 4 (2.06%) Police
12 3 (1.55%) Marketing
13 2 (1.03%) Electronics
13 2 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.03%) Tech for Good
13 2 (1.03%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (20.62%) Kafka
2 30 (15.46%) React
3 28 (14.43%) .NET
4 26 (13.40%) Pandas
5 24 (12.37%) gRPC
6 23 (11.86%) Protocol Buffers
7 20 (10.31%) REST
8 18 (9.28%) Node.js
8 18 (9.28%) NumPy
9 15 (7.73%) AngularJS
10 14 (7.22%) SciPy
11 12 (6.19%) RESTful
11 12 (6.19%) XML
12 11 (5.67%) Material-UI
12 11 (5.67%) Spring
13 10 (5.15%) Spring Boot
13 10 (5.15%) Vue
14 9 (4.64%) Java EE
15 8 (4.12%) .NET Core
15 8 (4.12%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.89%) Derivative
2 24 (12.37%) Fixed Income
2 24 (12.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 23 (11.86%) Equities
4 15 (7.73%) Hedge funds
5 9 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (4.12%) Algorithms
6 8 (4.12%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.06%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.55%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.55%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.55%) Web 2.0
9 2 (1.03%) Pricing Data
9 2 (1.03%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.03%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.52%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.25%) Linux
2 9 (4.64%) Windows
3 3 (1.55%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (1.03%) Android
5 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (98.97%) Software Engineering
2 91 (46.91%) Agile
3 42 (21.65%) User Experience
4 38 (19.59%) UX Design
5 34 (17.53%) Fintech
6 33 (17.01%) User Research
6 33 (17.01%) UX Research
7 30 (15.46%) CI/CD
8 29 (14.95%) Microservices
9 27 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (12.89%) Asset Management
11 24 (12.37%) DevOps
12 20 (10.31%) Mentoring
13 18 (9.28%) Design Patterns
14 17 (8.76%) Computer Science
14 17 (8.76%) Investment Management
14 17 (8.76%) OO
14 17 (8.76%) Scrum
15 15 (7.73%) Analytics
16 14 (7.22%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 56 (28.87%) Java
2 51 (26.29%) Python
3 39 (20.10%) JavaScript
4 38 (19.59%) C#
4 38 (19.59%) Go
5 30 (15.46%) TypeScript
6 22 (11.34%) C++
7 15 (7.73%) SQL
8 12 (6.19%) C
9 7 (3.61%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.09%) Rust
11 5 (2.58%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.58%) Scala
12 4 (2.06%) PHP
12 4 (2.06%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.55%) Clojure
13 3 (1.55%) Haskell
14 2 (1.03%) Bicep
14 2 (1.03%) Perl
14 2 (1.03%) VB
Qualifications
1 24 (12.37%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.82%) Degree
3 19 (9.79%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (4.64%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.55%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.52%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.15%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.52%) ISO 20022
2 1 (0.52%) ISO 26262
2 1 (0.52%) MiFID
2 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 49 (25.26%) Docker
2 5 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 55 (28.35%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.79%) Terraform
3 6 (3.09%) Ansible
4 5 (2.58%) Docker Swarm
4 5 (2.58%) Podman
5 1 (0.52%) Argo
5 1 (0.52%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (5.15%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.03%) Databricks
2 2 (1.03%) MathWorks
2 2 (1.03%) New Relic
2 2 (1.03%) NVIDIA
2 2 (1.03%) Oracle
2 2 (1.03%) SAP
2 2 (1.03%) Sitecore
3 1 (0.52%) Finsemble
3 1 (0.52%) Google
3 1 (0.52%) HP
3 1 (0.52%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.52%) Sonatype
3 1 (0.52%) Sparx
438 Senior Software Engineer jobs Nationwide