Senior Software Developer Contracts in London

Senior Software Developer
England > London

The median Senior Software Developer daily rate in London is £548 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 468 502
Rank change year-on-year +144 +34 -61
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 69 31 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.39% 0.11% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.12% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 29 101
10th Percentile £439 £413 £463
25th Percentile £508 £513 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% - +2.13%
75th Percentile £750 £638 £694
90th Percentile £819 £788 £713
England median daily rate £548 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.75% - +10.60%

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 16,650 25,900 36,972
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.16% 95.31% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,044 18,722 26,970
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £469
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 341 298 455
10th Percentile £16.02 £17.99 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.63 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.78 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%

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 25 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 25 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 +51 9 £538 - 7
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 25 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 51 (73.91%) Azure
2 50 (72.46%) Agile
3 46 (66.67%) C#
4 45 (65.22%) PowerShell
5 41 (59.42%) SQL Server
6 40 (57.97%) DevOps
7 36 (52.17%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (50.72%) CI/CD
9 34 (49.28%) .NET
9 34 (49.28%) Microsoft
10 32 (46.38%) XML
10 32 (46.38%) Scrum
11 23 (33.33%) JavaScript
11 23 (33.33%) AngularJS
11 23 (33.33%) .NET Framework
12 22 (31.88%) Software Engineering
13 18 (26.09%) Product Ownership
14 17 (24.64%) Java
14 17 (24.64%) SQL
14 17 (24.64%) Python
15 16 (23.19%) Active Directory
16 14 (20.29%) B2C
16 14 (20.29%) Entra ID
17 13 (18.84%) AWS
18 12 (17.39%) Finance
18 12 (17.39%) Front Office
18 12 (17.39%) Public Sector
18 12 (17.39%) Project Delivery
18 12 (17.39%) Bicep
19 11 (15.94%) 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 10 (14.49%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.90%) Apache
2 2 (2.90%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.45%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Endur
1 1 (1.45%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 51 (73.91%) Azure
2 36 (52.17%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (20.29%) Entra ID
4 13 (18.84%) AWS
5 10 (14.49%) GCP
6 4 (5.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.90%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.90%) dbt
8 2 (2.90%) GitHub
8 2 (2.90%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.45%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.45%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.45%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.45%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (59.42%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.90%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (2.90%) Apache Arrow
2 2 (2.90%) Apache Ignite
2 2 (2.90%) Big Data
2 2 (2.90%) Dremio
2 2 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.90%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (11.59%) SpecFlow
2 2 (2.90%) Cypress.io
2 2 (2.90%) Git
General
1 12 (17.39%) Finance
1 12 (17.39%) Front Office
1 12 (17.39%) Public Sector
2 6 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.80%) Banking
3 4 (5.80%) Local Government
4 2 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.90%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.45%) Back Office
5 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.45%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (49.28%) .NET
2 32 (46.38%) XML
3 23 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 23 (33.33%) AngularJS
4 11 (15.94%) Pandas
5 10 (14.49%) gRPC
5 10 (14.49%) Protocol Buffers
5 10 (14.49%) React
6 8 (11.59%) ARM Templates
6 8 (11.59%) Material-UI
6 8 (11.59%) Vue
7 7 (10.14%) .NET Core
8 3 (4.35%) NumPy
8 3 (4.35%) SciPy
9 2 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (2.90%) Kafka
10 1 (1.45%) jQuery
10 1 (1.45%) OAuth
10 1 (1.45%) OAuth2
10 1 (1.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 18 (26.09%) Product Ownership
2 11 (15.94%) Derivative
3 10 (14.49%) Equities
3 10 (14.49%) Fixed Income
3 10 (14.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (11.59%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (7.25%) Contactless
6 3 (4.35%) Management Information System
6 3 (4.35%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.90%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.90%) Hedge funds
7 2 (2.90%) Market Risk
7 2 (2.90%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (72.46%) Agile
2 40 (57.97%) DevOps
3 35 (50.72%) CI/CD
4 32 (46.38%) Scrum
5 22 (31.88%) Software Engineering
6 14 (20.29%) B2C
7 12 (17.39%) Project Delivery
8 10 (14.49%) Analytics
8 10 (14.49%) Asset Management
9 9 (13.04%) Database Optimisation
10 8 (11.59%) Content Management
11 7 (10.14%) Design Patterns
12 6 (8.70%) SDLC
13 4 (5.80%) TDD
13 4 (5.80%) Test Automation
13 4 (5.80%) User Acceptance Testing
14 3 (4.35%) Microservices
14 3 (4.35%) Storyboarding
15 2 (2.90%) Clean Code
15 2 (2.90%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 46 (66.67%) C#
2 45 (65.22%) PowerShell
3 23 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 17 (24.64%) Java
4 17 (24.64%) Python
4 17 (24.64%) SQL
5 12 (17.39%) Bicep
6 11 (15.94%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.35%) Ruby
8 2 (2.90%) Bash
8 2 (2.90%) Perl
8 2 (2.90%) Scala
9 1 (1.45%) C++
9 1 (1.45%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (8.70%) Degree
2 2 (2.90%) DV Cleared
2 2 (2.90%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.70%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (23.19%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.25%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.90%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (49.28%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.45%) ION Trading
2 1 (1.45%) NEC
2 1 (1.45%) OpenLink
2 1 (1.45%) Virgin Media