Senior Software Developer Contracts in London

Senior Software Developer
England > London

The median Senior Software Developer daily rate in London is £545 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 471 500
Rank change year-on-year +147 +29 -64
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 70 30 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.40% 0.11% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.12% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 28 96
10th Percentile £430 £413 £463
25th Percentile £504 £511 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% - -
75th Percentile £744 £633 £695
90th Percentile £815 £788 £713
England median daily rate £545 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -9.17% - +7.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,505 25,769 37,084
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 95.30% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,930 18,667 27,033
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 289 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%

Senior Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Developer in London

Senior Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Developer in London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Software Developer in London

Senior Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Developer in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Software Developer in London

Senior Software Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Developer in London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Software Developer in London

Senior Software Developer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Central London +41 9 £538 - 6
East London - 8 £538 - 1
South London - 1 - -
Senior Software Developer
England

Senior Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Senior Software Developer 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 London region featuring Senior Software Developer in the job title.

1 52 (74.29%) Agile
2 51 (72.86%) Azure
3 47 (67.14%) C#
4 46 (65.71%) PowerShell
5 42 (60.00%) SQL Server
6 41 (58.57%) DevOps
7 37 (52.86%) Azure DevOps
7 37 (52.86%) CI/CD
8 35 (50.00%) .NET
8 35 (50.00%) Microsoft
9 33 (47.14%) XML
9 33 (47.14%) Scrum
10 24 (34.29%) .NET Framework
11 22 (31.43%) AngularJS
11 22 (31.43%) JavaScript
12 21 (30.00%) Software Engineering
13 18 (25.71%) Java
13 18 (25.71%) SQL
13 18 (25.71%) Product Ownership
14 16 (22.86%) Python
14 16 (22.86%) Active Directory
15 14 (20.00%) B2C
15 14 (20.00%) Public Sector
15 14 (20.00%) Entra ID
16 13 (18.57%) AWS
17 12 (17.14%) Project Delivery
17 12 (17.14%) Bicep
18 11 (15.71%) Finance
18 11 (15.71%) Front Office
19 10 (14.29%) Derivative

Senior Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 9 (12.86%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.86%) Apache
2 2 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.43%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Endur
1 1 (1.43%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 51 (72.86%) Azure
2 37 (52.86%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 13 (18.57%) AWS
5 9 (12.86%) GCP
6 4 (5.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (4.29%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (4.29%) GitHub
7 3 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.86%) dbt
8 2 (2.86%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.43%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.43%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.43%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.43%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (2.86%) Apache Arrow
2 2 (2.86%) Apache Ignite
2 2 (2.86%) Big Data
2 2 (2.86%) Dremio
2 2 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.86%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.43%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (12.86%) SpecFlow
2 3 (4.29%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.86%) Git
4 1 (1.43%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.43%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.43%) Selenium
General
1 14 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 11 (15.71%) Finance
2 11 (15.71%) Front Office
3 6 (8.57%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.71%) Banking
4 4 (5.71%) Local Government
5 2 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.86%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.43%) Back Office
6 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.43%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (50.00%) .NET
2 33 (47.14%) XML
3 24 (34.29%) .NET Framework
4 22 (31.43%) AngularJS
5 10 (14.29%) Pandas
6 9 (12.86%) gRPC
6 9 (12.86%) Protocol Buffers
6 9 (12.86%) React
7 8 (11.43%) ARM Templates
8 7 (10.00%) .NET Core
8 7 (10.00%) Material-UI
8 7 (10.00%) Vue
9 3 (4.29%) NumPy
9 3 (4.29%) SciPy
10 2 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (2.86%) Kafka
11 1 (1.43%) ASP.NET MVC
11 1 (1.43%) OAuth
11 1 (1.43%) OAuth2
11 1 (1.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.71%) Product Ownership
2 10 (14.29%) Derivative
3 9 (12.86%) Equities
3 9 (12.86%) Fixed Income
3 9 (12.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (11.43%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (7.14%) Contactless
6 3 (4.29%) Management Information System
6 3 (4.29%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.86%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.86%) Hedge funds
7 2 (2.86%) Market Risk
7 2 (2.86%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (74.29%) Agile
2 41 (58.57%) DevOps
3 37 (52.86%) CI/CD
4 33 (47.14%) Scrum
5 21 (30.00%) Software Engineering
6 14 (20.00%) B2C
7 12 (17.14%) Project Delivery
8 9 (12.86%) Analytics
8 9 (12.86%) Asset Management
8 9 (12.86%) Database Optimisation
9 8 (11.43%) Content Management
10 7 (10.00%) Design Patterns
11 6 (8.57%) SDLC
12 4 (5.71%) Microservices
12 4 (5.71%) TDD
12 4 (5.71%) Test Automation
12 4 (5.71%) User Acceptance Testing
13 3 (4.29%) Storyboarding
14 2 (2.86%) Containerisation
14 2 (2.86%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 47 (67.14%) C#
2 46 (65.71%) PowerShell
3 22 (31.43%) JavaScript
4 18 (25.71%) Java
4 18 (25.71%) SQL
5 16 (22.86%) Python
6 12 (17.14%) Bicep
7 10 (14.29%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.29%) Ruby
9 2 (2.86%) Bash
9 2 (2.86%) Perl
9 2 (2.86%) Scala
10 1 (1.43%) C++
10 1 (1.43%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (8.57%) Degree
2 3 (4.29%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.86%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.43%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.57%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (22.86%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.43%) ION Trading
2 1 (1.43%) NEC
2 1 (1.43%) OpenLink
2 1 (1.43%) Virgin Media