Senior Software Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Software Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Software Engineer daily rate in London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 424 409
Rank change year-on-year +132 -15 -36
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 108 78 190
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.60% 0.29% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.30% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 67 149
10th Percentile £450 £445 £538
25th Percentile £473 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £800 £725 £713
90th Percentile £850 £800 £740
England median daily rate £638 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +15.91% -8.33% +18.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile - - £32.88
25th Percentile £81.25 - £33.44
Median hourly rate £82.50 £35.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +135.71% -3.45% -
75th Percentile £83.75 - £38.44
90th Percentile - - £38.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +23.81% +10.53% -

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 16,628 25,954 37,220
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 95.32% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,036 18,763 27,151
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £442 £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 342 294 454
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £64.45 £77.48 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in London

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in London

Senior Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Software Engineer in London

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in London

Senior Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 24 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 +39 14 £450 -25.00% 13
South London - 4 - - 2
East London -7 1 - - 4
Senior Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 London region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 106 (98.15%) Software Engineering
2 60 (55.56%) AWS
3 50 (46.30%) Agile
4 41 (37.96%) Python
5 39 (36.11%) Finance
6 38 (35.19%) Java
7 36 (33.33%) JavaScript
8 30 (27.78%) TypeScript
9 28 (25.93%) Kubernetes
9 28 (25.93%) C#
10 27 (25.00%) React
10 27 (25.00%) Pandas
11 26 (24.07%) Front Office
11 26 (24.07%) Asset Management
11 26 (24.07%) Derivative
12 25 (23.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 25 (23.15%) Fixed Income
12 25 (23.15%) Docker
12 25 (23.15%) gRPC
13 24 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
13 24 (22.22%) User Experience
13 24 (22.22%) Protocol Buffers
13 24 (22.22%) Equities
14 22 (20.37%) .NET
14 22 (20.37%) Azure
14 22 (20.37%) Kafka
15 21 (19.44%) UX Design
16 20 (18.52%) Banking
17 19 (17.59%) Investment Management
17 19 (17.59%) NumPy

Senior Software Engineer 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 24 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (15.74%) Apache
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.93%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.93%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (55.56%) AWS
2 22 (20.37%) Azure
3 16 (14.81%) dbt
4 15 (13.89%) Snowflake
5 12 (11.11%) GCP
6 5 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.63%) Entra ID
6 5 (4.63%) GitHub
7 3 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.78%) Miro
7 3 (2.78%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.78%) Serverless
8 2 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.85%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (1.85%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.85%) Datadog
8 2 (1.85%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.81%) Amazon Athena
1 16 (14.81%) Apache Arrow
1 16 (14.81%) Apache Cassandra
1 16 (14.81%) Apache Ignite
1 16 (14.81%) Dremio
2 15 (13.89%) Data Lake
3 9 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.78%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.78%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.85%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.85%) MySQL
6 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.93%) KDB
6 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.93%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 6 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.78%) Cypress.io
2 3 (2.78%) Gradle
2 3 (2.78%) Maven
2 3 (2.78%) MSI
2 3 (2.78%) Visual Studio
2 3 (2.78%) webpack
2 3 (2.78%) WiX
3 2 (1.85%) JUnit
4 1 (0.93%) Babel
4 1 (0.93%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.93%) Git
4 1 (0.93%) GitLab
4 1 (0.93%) JMeter
4 1 (0.93%) Selenium
4 1 (0.93%) Spinnaker
4 1 (0.93%) TestNG
General
1 39 (36.11%) Finance
2 26 (24.07%) Front Office
3 20 (18.52%) Banking
4 16 (14.81%) Investment Banking
5 14 (12.96%) Social Skills
6 8 (7.41%) Local Government
6 8 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 8 (7.41%) Retail
7 4 (3.70%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.85%) Law
8 2 (1.85%) Marketing
9 1 (0.93%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.93%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (25.00%) Pandas
1 27 (25.00%) React
2 25 (23.15%) gRPC
3 24 (22.22%) Protocol Buffers
4 22 (20.37%) .NET
4 22 (20.37%) Kafka
5 19 (17.59%) NumPy
6 16 (14.81%) SciPy
7 14 (12.96%) REST
8 12 (11.11%) AngularJS
8 12 (11.11%) Node.js
9 10 (9.26%) Material-UI
9 10 (9.26%) Spring
10 9 (8.33%) Vue
11 8 (7.41%) Spring Boot
11 8 (7.41%) XML
12 6 (5.56%) CSS
13 5 (4.63%) .NET Core
13 5 (4.63%) GraphQL
14 4 (3.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 26 (24.07%) Derivative
2 25 (23.15%) Fixed Income
2 25 (23.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 24 (22.22%) Equities
4 17 (15.74%) Hedge funds
5 8 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.70%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (3.70%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.78%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.78%) Web 2.0
8 2 (1.85%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.85%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.85%) Pricing Data
8 2 (1.85%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.85%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.93%) Machine to Machine
9 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.78%) Windows
2 1 (0.93%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (98.15%) Software Engineering
2 50 (46.30%) Agile
3 26 (24.07%) Asset Management
4 24 (22.22%) User Experience
5 21 (19.44%) UX Design
6 19 (17.59%) Investment Management
6 19 (17.59%) Microservices
7 17 (15.74%) Fintech
8 16 (14.81%) CI/CD
8 16 (14.81%) User Research
8 16 (14.81%) UX Research
9 13 (12.04%) Analytics
10 12 (11.11%) Front End Development
10 12 (11.11%) Greeks
10 12 (11.11%) Mentoring
11 11 (10.19%) DevOps
11 11 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 9 (8.33%) TDD
13 7 (6.48%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (37.96%) Python
2 38 (35.19%) Java
3 36 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 30 (27.78%) TypeScript
5 28 (25.93%) C#
6 17 (15.74%) Go
7 9 (8.33%) SQL
8 6 (5.56%) C++
8 6 (5.56%) Rust
9 5 (4.63%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.70%) Scala
10 4 (3.70%) T-SQL
11 3 (2.78%) Clojure
11 3 (2.78%) Haskell
11 3 (2.78%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.85%) Bicep
12 2 (1.85%) PHP
12 2 (1.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (9.26%) Degree
2 7 (6.48%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.63%) Master's Degree
4 4 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.78%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.93%) ISO 20022
2 1 (0.93%) MiFID
System Software
1 25 (23.15%) Docker
2 5 (4.63%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (25.93%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.70%) Terraform
3 1 (0.93%) Argo
Vendors
1 6 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.85%) Databricks
2 2 (1.85%) New Relic
3 1 (0.93%) Finsemble
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle
3 1 (0.93%) Salesforce