Software Engineering Contracts in London

Software Engineering
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 36 36
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -13
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 1,015 1,498 2,499
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 5.74% 5.70% 6.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.47% 6.27% 7.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 782 1,101 1,994
10th Percentile £458 £463 £463
25th Percentile £525 £525 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £613
Median % change year-on-year - +6.12% +11.36%
75th Percentile £800 £750 £713
90th Percentile £875 £825 £800
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 30 39
10th Percentile £48.44 £35.00 £32.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.42 £40.12
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +10.58% +14.29%
75th Percentile £82.50 £71.88 £60.63
90th Percentile £83.75 £90.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,694 23,906 35,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.70% 90.95% 92.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,256 17,189 26,035
10th Percentile £340 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 270 421
10th Percentile £15.97 £18.45 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +6.85% +11.11%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.19 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.30 £80.23 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineering in London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
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 Software Engineering within the London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Central London -7 105 £551 -11.92% 74
West London +15 25 £488 -18.75% 35
East London +2 11 £548 +9.50% 38
South London -16 6 £550 - 12
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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
1 173 (17.04%) Apache Airflow
2 165 (16.26%) Apache
3 15 (1.48%) Confluence
4 13 (1.28%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.28%) CMS
5 8 (0.79%) BizTalk Server
5 8 (0.79%) IIS
5 8 (0.79%) nginx
6 6 (0.59%) Tornado
7 4 (0.39%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.39%) Headless CMS
7 4 (0.39%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.20%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.20%) SAS
8 2 (0.20%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.099%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.099%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.099%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.099%) JBoss
9 1 (0.099%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 13 (1.28%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.59%) Simulink
4 6 (0.59%) Stateflow
5 4 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Endur
2 4 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.30%) FLEXCUBE
3 3 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
4 2 (0.20%) Shopify
4 2 (0.20%) WebTrends
5 1 (0.099%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.099%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.099%) Front Arena
Cloud Services
1 418 (41.18%) AWS
2 365 (35.96%) Azure
3 228 (22.46%) GCP
4 96 (9.46%) dbt
5 83 (8.18%) Snowflake
6 68 (6.70%) Azure DevOps
7 57 (5.62%) Serverless
8 41 (4.04%) GitHub
9 38 (3.74%) Azure Service Bus
10 35 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
11 30 (2.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 23 (2.27%) npm
12 23 (2.27%) PaaS
13 21 (2.07%) Azure Logic Apps
13 21 (2.07%) SaaS
14 20 (1.97%) Azure Functions
15 19 (1.87%) Azure Key Vault
15 19 (1.87%) Entra ID
16 18 (1.77%) Amazon S3
16 18 (1.77%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.89%) Internet
2 8 (0.79%) DNS
3 7 (0.69%) Firewall
4 5 (0.49%) DHCP
4 5 (0.49%) Network Security
5 4 (0.39%) HTTP
5 4 (0.39%) VPN
5 4 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.30%) IPv4
7 2 (0.20%) AMQP
8 1 (0.099%) 5G
8 1 (0.099%) Broadband
8 1 (0.099%) FTP
8 1 (0.099%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.099%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.099%) SNMP
8 1 (0.099%) SSL
8 1 (0.099%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.099%) VLAN
8 1 (0.099%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (15.27%) Apache Ignite
2 95 (9.36%) Amazon Athena
2 95 (9.36%) Apache Arrow
2 95 (9.36%) Dremio
3 87 (8.57%) Data Lake
4 76 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
5 73 (7.19%) SQL Server
6 54 (5.32%) NoSQL
7 27 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
8 21 (2.07%) MongoDB
8 21 (2.07%) Relational Database
9 19 (1.87%) Apache Cassandra
9 19 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 18 (1.77%) MySQL
11 17 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 13 (1.28%) Big Data
13 12 (1.18%) Oracle Database
14 9 (0.89%) Couchbase
15 8 (0.79%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 89 (8.77%) Git
2 64 (6.31%) Cypress.io
3 53 (5.22%) JIRA
4 39 (3.84%) Jenkins
5 22 (2.17%) webpack
6 21 (2.07%) Postman
7 20 (1.97%) GitLab
8 19 (1.87%) Maven
9 14 (1.38%) Selenium
9 14 (1.38%) TeamCity
10 12 (1.18%) Visual Studio
11 10 (0.99%) JMeter
12 9 (0.89%) JUnit
13 8 (0.79%) git-flow
14 7 (0.69%) Cucumber
15 6 (0.59%) MLflow
15 6 (0.59%) SonarQube
16 5 (0.49%) Bitbucket
16 5 (0.49%) SpecFlow
16 5 (0.49%) WiX
General
1 442 (43.55%) Finance
2 296 (29.16%) Front Office
3 248 (24.43%) Banking
4 201 (19.80%) Social Skills
5 107 (10.54%) Investment Banking
6 58 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
7 32 (3.15%) Retail
8 31 (3.05%) Public Sector
9 27 (2.66%) Marketing
10 16 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (1.28%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.08%) Telecoms
13 9 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (0.79%) Automotive
14 8 (0.79%) Local Government
14 8 (0.79%) Retail Banking
15 7 (0.69%) Games
15 7 (0.69%) Legal
16 6 (0.59%) Electronics
16 6 (0.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 440 (43.35%) Developer
2 434 (42.76%) Software Engineer
3 228 (22.46%) Senior
4 142 (13.99%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 137 (13.50%) Python Developer
6 128 (12.61%) Python Engineer
7 119 (11.72%) Python Software Engineer
8 113 (11.13%) Senior Software Engineer
9 107 (10.54%) Lead
10 88 (8.67%) React Developer
11 74 (7.29%) Senior Developer
12 73 (7.19%) Full Stack Developer
13 71 (7.00%) Software Developer
14 60 (5.91%) C# Developer
15 57 (5.62%) Full Stack Engineer
16 55 (5.42%) Architect
16 55 (5.42%) Java Engineer
17 54 (5.32%) .NET Developer
18 53 (5.22%) .NET Software Engineer
19 52 (5.12%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (27.39%) React
2 183 (18.03%) .NET
3 171 (16.85%) gRPC
4 164 (16.16%) Protocol Buffers
5 132 (13.00%) Pandas
6 129 (12.71%) Redux
7 119 (11.72%) NumPy
8 99 (9.75%) SciPy
9 90 (8.87%) Node.js
10 82 (8.08%) Material-UI
10 82 (8.08%) REST
11 81 (7.98%) Kafka
12 80 (7.88%) AngularJS
13 75 (7.39%) HTML
14 63 (6.21%) .NET Core
15 59 (5.81%) CSS
16 47 (4.63%) WebSockets
17 39 (3.84%) GraphQL
18 37 (3.65%) Web Services
19 36 (3.55%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 233 (22.96%) Fixed Income
2 187 (18.42%) Hedge funds
3 167 (16.45%) Equities
4 151 (14.88%) Derivative
5 127 (12.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 46 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
7 39 (3.84%) Greenfield Project
8 34 (3.35%) Algorithms
9 22 (2.17%) Product Ownership
10 20 (1.97%) Cloud Native
11 19 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
12 18 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
12 18 (1.77%) Management Information System
13 17 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
14 14 (1.38%) Mobile App
15 13 (1.28%) Data Structures
16 11 (1.08%) Client/Server
17 10 (0.99%) Public Cloud
18 9 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
18 9 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 58 (5.71%) Linux
2 37 (3.65%) Windows
3 18 (1.77%) Android
4 15 (1.48%) Apple iOS
5 12 (1.18%) Unix
6 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.20%) VMS
6 2 (0.20%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.099%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.099%) tvOS
7 1 (0.099%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.099%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 467 (46.01%) Agile
2 229 (22.56%) Asset Management
3 220 (21.67%) DevOps
4 192 (18.92%) Investment Management
5 188 (18.52%) CI/CD
6 183 (18.03%) Full Stack Development
7 117 (11.53%) Fintech
8 114 (11.23%) TDD
9 111 (10.94%) SDLC
10 103 (10.15%) Artificial Intelligence
11 100 (9.85%) Microservices
12 98 (9.66%) Computer Science
13 97 (9.56%) Analytics
14 93 (9.16%) Machine Learning
15 88 (8.67%) Problem-Solving
16 86 (8.47%) Scrum
17 76 (7.49%) Design Patterns
18 75 (7.39%) Front End Development
18 75 (7.39%) Test Automation
19 66 (6.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 425 (41.87%) Python
2 338 (33.30%) JavaScript
3 318 (31.33%) Java
4 305 (30.05%) TypeScript
5 268 (26.40%) C#
6 259 (25.52%) SQL
7 65 (6.40%) Go
8 59 (5.81%) C++
9 55 (5.42%) PowerShell
10 31 (3.05%) Scala
11 29 (2.86%) T-SQL
12 27 (2.66%) Rust
13 26 (2.56%) Kotlin
14 22 (2.17%) Ruby
15 20 (1.97%) C
16 18 (1.77%) R
17 16 (1.58%) Bicep
18 14 (1.38%) PL/SQL
19 10 (0.99%) PHP
20 8 (0.79%) Perl
Qualifications
1 163 (16.06%) Degree
2 61 (6.01%) Security Cleared
3 57 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 44 (4.33%) SC Cleared
5 37 (3.65%) Master's Degree
6 20 (1.97%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.30%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.30%) CISSP
7 3 (0.30%) PhD
8 2 (0.20%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.20%) CISA
8 2 (0.20%) CISM
8 2 (0.20%) MBA
8 2 (0.20%) PgMP
8 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.20%) PMP
9 1 (0.099%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.099%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.099%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (5.62%) QA
2 37 (3.65%) Data Quality
3 16 (1.58%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.49%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.39%) SEPA
6 3 (0.30%) MiFID
6 3 (0.30%) WCAG
7 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.099%) EMIR
8 1 (0.099%) GRC
8 1 (0.099%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.099%) JTAG
8 1 (0.099%) NIST
System Software
1 99 (9.75%) Docker
2 27 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.49%) ACF2
4 5 (0.49%) IAG
4 5 (0.49%) RACF
4 5 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
5 2 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 122 (12.02%) Kubernetes
2 58 (5.71%) Terraform
3 15 (1.48%) Ansible
4 13 (1.28%) Grafana
5 10 (0.99%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.59%) Kubeflow
7 5 (0.49%) Argo
7 5 (0.49%) Packer
8 4 (0.39%) Puppet
8 4 (0.39%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 3 (0.30%) Consul
10 2 (0.20%) Kibana
10 2 (0.20%) logstash
10 2 (0.20%) Podman
11 1 (0.099%) Bugsnag
11 1 (0.099%) Netcool
11 1 (0.099%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.099%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.099%) systemd
11 1 (0.099%) vRealize
Vendors
1 76 (7.49%) Google
2 75 (7.39%) Oracle
3 71 (7.00%) Microsoft
4 28 (2.76%) Databricks
5 19 (1.87%) Salesforce
6 18 (1.77%) SAP
7 16 (1.58%) Bloomberg
8 14 (1.38%) MuleSoft
9 13 (1.28%) PayPal
10 12 (1.18%) Virgin Media
11 8 (0.79%) ServiceNow
11 8 (0.79%) Splunk
12 7 (0.69%) Sybase
12 7 (0.69%) VMware
13 6 (0.59%) Adobe
13 6 (0.59%) Optimizely
14 5 (0.49%) Confluent
14 5 (0.49%) IBM
14 5 (0.49%) Palantir
14 5 (0.49%) Red Hat