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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 39 36
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 -12
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 985 1,561 2,539
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 5.51% 5.72% 6.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.24% 6.28% 7.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 748 1,140 2,039
10th Percentile £460 £463 £463
25th Percentile £525 £525 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £800 £750 £713
90th Percentile £875 £838 £800
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 33 34
10th Percentile £47.81 £35.00 £33.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.42 £40.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.98% +19.44%
75th Percentile £83.75 £62.68 £60.94
90th Percentile - £79.20 £78.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £64.15 £55.00
% change year-on-year -2.56% +16.63% +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 15,796 24,868 36,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.41% 91.10% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,308 17,810 26,281
10th Percentile £338 £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 £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 284 428
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.96 £22.72 £23.91
Median hourly rate £29.00 £39.00 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.64% +9.09% +10.96%
75th Percentile £47.50 £62.13 £50.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £78.35 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 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 -3 111 £563 -13.46% 69
West London +17 18 £475 -11.63% 21
East London -3 11 £575 +15.00% 33
South London -17 6 £550 - 11
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
1 144 (14.62%) Apache Airflow
2 135 (13.71%) Apache
3 14 (1.42%) Confluence
4 13 (1.32%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.22%) CMS
6 8 (0.81%) BizTalk Server
6 8 (0.81%) IIS
7 6 (0.61%) Tornado
8 5 (0.51%) nginx
9 4 (0.41%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.41%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.30%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.30%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.20%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.20%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.10%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.10%) JBoss
12 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (1.32%) Chatbot
2 10 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.61%) Simulink
4 6 (0.61%) Stateflow
5 4 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.51%) Endur
2 3 (0.30%) FLEXCUBE
2 3 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.20%) Shopify
3 2 (0.20%) WebTrends
4 1 (0.10%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.10%) Front Arena
Cloud Services
1 386 (39.19%) AWS
2 344 (34.92%) Azure
3 209 (21.22%) GCP
4 83 (8.43%) dbt
5 68 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
6 65 (6.60%) Snowflake
7 53 (5.38%) Serverless
8 43 (4.37%) GitHub
9 38 (3.86%) Azure Service Bus
10 31 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
11 27 (2.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 25 (2.54%) npm
12 25 (2.54%) PaaS
13 22 (2.23%) Azure Logic Apps
13 22 (2.23%) SaaS
14 20 (2.03%) Azure Functions
15 19 (1.93%) Azure Key Vault
16 18 (1.83%) Azure API Management
16 18 (1.83%) Azure Storage
16 18 (1.83%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.02%) Internet
2 8 (0.81%) DNS
2 8 (0.81%) Firewall
3 7 (0.71%) Network Security
4 5 (0.51%) DHCP
4 5 (0.51%) HTTP
5 4 (0.41%) VPN
5 4 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.30%) IPv4
7 2 (0.20%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.10%) 5G
8 1 (0.10%) Broadband
8 1 (0.10%) FTP
8 1 (0.10%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.10%) SMS
8 1 (0.10%) SNMP
8 1 (0.10%) SSL
8 1 (0.10%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.10%) VLAN
8 1 (0.10%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (12.69%) Apache Ignite
2 82 (8.32%) Amazon Athena
2 82 (8.32%) Apache Arrow
2 82 (8.32%) Dremio
3 72 (7.31%) SQL Server
4 68 (6.90%) Data Lake
5 57 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
6 51 (5.18%) NoSQL
7 26 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
8 19 (1.93%) Apache Cassandra
8 19 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
9 18 (1.83%) MySQL
9 18 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 17 (1.73%) MongoDB
10 17 (1.73%) Relational Database
11 16 (1.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 13 (1.32%) Big Data
13 9 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (0.91%) Oracle Database
14 8 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 87 (8.83%) Git
2 56 (5.69%) JIRA
3 48 (4.87%) Cypress.io
4 43 (4.37%) Jenkins
5 26 (2.64%) webpack
6 21 (2.13%) Postman
7 19 (1.93%) GitLab
8 18 (1.83%) Maven
9 17 (1.73%) TeamCity
10 16 (1.62%) Selenium
11 15 (1.52%) Visual Studio
12 8 (0.81%) JMeter
12 8 (0.81%) JUnit
13 7 (0.71%) git-flow
14 6 (0.61%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.61%) SonarQube
15 5 (0.51%) Artifactory
15 5 (0.51%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.51%) MSI
15 5 (0.51%) WiX
General
1 411 (41.73%) Finance
2 274 (27.82%) Front Office
3 215 (21.83%) Banking
4 202 (20.51%) Social Skills
5 93 (9.44%) Investment Banking
6 65 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
7 35 (3.55%) Public Sector
8 31 (3.15%) Retail
9 30 (3.05%) Marketing
10 16 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (1.32%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.12%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.02%) Electronics
14 9 (0.91%) Automotive
15 8 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 8 (0.81%) Local Government
15 8 (0.81%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.71%) Legal
16 7 (0.71%) Retail Banking
17 6 (0.61%) Games
Job Titles
1 429 (43.55%) Developer
2 417 (42.34%) Software Engineer
3 212 (21.52%) Senior
4 131 (13.30%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 122 (12.39%) Python Developer
6 108 (10.96%) Python Engineer
7 106 (10.76%) Senior Software Engineer
8 99 (10.05%) Python Software Engineer
9 97 (9.85%) Lead
10 72 (7.31%) React Developer
10 72 (7.31%) Senior Developer
11 69 (7.01%) Software Developer
12 67 (6.80%) Full Stack Developer
13 59 (5.99%) .NET Developer
13 59 (5.99%) C# Developer
14 53 (5.38%) Full Stack Engineer
15 52 (5.28%) .NET Software Engineer
16 50 (5.08%) Finance Manager
17 49 (4.97%) AWS Engineer
17 49 (4.97%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (26.50%) React
2 184 (18.68%) .NET
3 141 (14.31%) gRPC
4 136 (13.81%) Protocol Buffers
5 121 (12.28%) Pandas
6 112 (11.37%) Redux
7 106 (10.76%) NumPy
8 89 (9.04%) REST
9 87 (8.83%) Node.js
10 86 (8.73%) SciPy
11 81 (8.22%) AngularJS
12 76 (7.72%) Kafka
13 74 (7.51%) HTML
14 68 (6.90%) Material-UI
15 64 (6.50%) .NET Core
16 52 (5.28%) CSS
17 49 (4.97%) WebSockets
18 39 (3.96%) Spring
19 38 (3.86%) GraphQL
20 37 (3.76%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 203 (20.61%) Fixed Income
2 153 (15.53%) Hedge funds
3 143 (14.52%) Equities
4 136 (13.81%) Derivative
5 116 (11.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 44 (4.47%) Distributed Systems
7 39 (3.96%) Greenfield Project
8 32 (3.25%) Algorithms
9 21 (2.13%) Cloud Native
10 19 (1.93%) Product Ownership
11 18 (1.83%) Management Information System
12 17 (1.73%) Renewable Energy
13 16 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
15 14 (1.42%) Data Structures
15 14 (1.42%) Mobile App
16 11 (1.12%) Client/Server
17 10 (1.02%) Public Cloud
17 10 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
18 9 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 56 (5.69%) Linux
2 39 (3.96%) Windows
3 18 (1.83%) Android
4 15 (1.52%) Apple iOS
5 12 (1.22%) Unix
6 3 (0.30%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.20%) VMS
8 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.10%) tvOS
8 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.10%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (44.16%) Agile
2 218 (22.13%) DevOps
3 205 (20.81%) Asset Management
4 185 (18.78%) CI/CD
5 170 (17.26%) Full Stack Development
6 167 (16.95%) Investment Management
7 117 (11.88%) Fintech
8 116 (11.78%) TDD
9 105 (10.66%) SDLC
10 103 (10.46%) Analytics
11 98 (9.95%) Computer Science
12 95 (9.64%) Microservices
13 90 (9.14%) Problem-Solving
14 85 (8.63%) Scrum
15 81 (8.22%) Artificial Intelligence
16 79 (8.02%) Design Patterns
17 78 (7.92%) Front End Development
18 76 (7.72%) Test Automation
19 74 (7.51%) Machine Learning
20 62 (6.29%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 399 (40.51%) Python
2 322 (32.69%) JavaScript
3 304 (30.86%) Java
4 275 (27.92%) TypeScript
5 263 (26.70%) C#
6 249 (25.28%) SQL
7 63 (6.40%) Go
8 58 (5.89%) C++
9 52 (5.28%) PowerShell
10 32 (3.25%) Scala
11 27 (2.74%) Rust
11 27 (2.74%) T-SQL
12 26 (2.64%) Kotlin
13 22 (2.23%) Ruby
14 20 (2.03%) C
15 18 (1.83%) R
16 14 (1.42%) PL/SQL
17 13 (1.32%) Bicep
17 13 (1.32%) PHP
18 8 (0.81%) Perl
Qualifications
1 162 (16.45%) Degree
2 67 (6.80%) Security Cleared
3 58 (5.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 47 (4.77%) SC Cleared
5 38 (3.86%) Master's Degree
6 22 (2.23%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.51%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.41%) PhD
9 3 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.20%) MBA
10 2 (0.20%) PgMP
10 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.20%) PMP
10 2 (0.20%) SANS
11 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.10%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.10%) CHECK Team Leader
11 1 (0.10%) CISSP
11 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (5.79%) QA
2 30 (3.05%) Data Quality
3 15 (1.52%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.51%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.41%) SEPA
6 3 (0.30%) WCAG
7 2 (0.20%) MiFID
7 2 (0.20%) NIST
8 1 (0.10%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.10%) EMIR
8 1 (0.10%) GRC
8 1 (0.10%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.10%) JTAG
System Software
1 100 (10.15%) Docker
2 26 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.51%) ACF2
5 5 (0.51%) IAG
5 5 (0.51%) RACF
6 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 123 (12.49%) Kubernetes
2 58 (5.89%) Terraform
3 15 (1.52%) Ansible
4 13 (1.32%) Grafana
5 9 (0.91%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.51%) Argo
6 5 (0.51%) Kubeflow
6 5 (0.51%) Packer
7 4 (0.41%) Puppet
7 4 (0.41%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 3 (0.30%) Consul
9 2 (0.20%) Podman
10 1 (0.10%) Bugsnag
10 1 (0.10%) Kibana
10 1 (0.10%) logstash
10 1 (0.10%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.10%) systemd
10 1 (0.10%) vRealize
Vendors
1 72 (7.31%) Microsoft
2 68 (6.90%) Oracle
3 61 (6.19%) Google
4 27 (2.74%) Databricks
5 20 (2.03%) SAP
6 16 (1.62%) Bloomberg
6 16 (1.62%) Salesforce
7 14 (1.42%) MuleSoft
8 13 (1.32%) PayPal
9 11 (1.12%) Virgin Media
10 8 (0.81%) Optimizely
10 8 (0.81%) ServiceNow
10 8 (0.81%) Splunk
10 8 (0.81%) VMware
11 7 (0.71%) Sybase
12 6 (0.61%) Adobe
13 5 (0.51%) Confluent
13 5 (0.51%) Foundry
13 5 (0.51%) IBM
13 5 (0.51%) Palantir