Senior Software Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Software Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £521 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 317 388 445
Rank change year-on-year +71 +57 -64
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 71 65 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.28% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.29% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 44 39
10th Percentile £285 £425 £443
25th Percentile £425 £470 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £538 £517
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% +4.06% +14.89%
75th Percentile £606 £611 £644
90th Percentile £625 £651 £778
UK median daily rate £650 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 3 4
10th Percentile £35.52 - £44.20
25th Percentile £46.91 £51.25 £44.51
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £50.89
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +3.16% +7.14%
75th Percentile £67.02 £58.36 £61.35
90th Percentile £72.30 £61.12 £70.93
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £47.25
% change year-on-year +23.81% +11.11% -0.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,947 22,165 29,135
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,483 20,411
10th Percentile £213 £225 £202
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,261 1,134 1,449
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.31
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +2.56%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.03
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
South East +29 30 £521 +4.25% 49
North of England +31 21 £588 +20.39% 41
North West +28 16 £625 +21.83% 26
East of England +9 11 £600 -6.25% 40
Yorkshire +23 5 £280 -37.78% 12
South West +11 5 £488 -13.72% 43
Scotland +41 2 - - 23
Midlands +24 2 - - 21
West Midlands +11 2 - - 13
Wales +19 1 - - 8
Senior Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 71 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 29 (40.85%) Agile
3 19 (26.76%) Java
4 17 (23.94%) Linux
4 17 (23.94%) Security Cleared
4 17 (23.94%) AWS
5 16 (22.54%) SC Cleared
6 15 (21.13%) C++
7 14 (19.72%) Degree
7 14 (19.72%) Computer Science
7 14 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (19.72%) Social Skills
7 14 (19.72%) CI/CD
8 13 (18.31%) Terraform
8 13 (18.31%) Python
8 13 (18.31%) Scrum
9 11 (15.49%) OO
9 11 (15.49%) C
9 11 (15.49%) C#
9 11 (15.49%) Kanban
9 11 (15.49%) Azure
9 11 (15.49%) GitLab
10 10 (14.08%) DevOps
10 10 (14.08%) Microservices
10 10 (14.08%) Design Patterns
11 9 (12.68%) Kubernetes
12 8 (11.27%) Mentoring
12 8 (11.27%) Node.js
12 8 (11.27%) Jenkins
12 8 (11.27%) MongoDB

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (1.41%) Drupal
1 1 (1.41%) MTS
Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Simulink
1 2 (2.82%) Stateflow
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (1.41%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 17 (23.94%) AWS
2 11 (15.49%) Azure
3 3 (4.23%) GCP
4 2 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.82%) RS-485
2 1 (1.41%) Firewall
2 1 (1.41%) NFC
2 1 (1.41%) PPP
2 1 (1.41%) RS-422
2 1 (1.41%) SNMP
2 1 (1.41%) VPN
2 1 (1.41%) WAN
2 1 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.27%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.82%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.82%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.41%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (1.41%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 11 (15.49%) GitLab
2 8 (11.27%) Jenkins
3 6 (8.45%) JIRA
4 5 (7.04%) Cucumber
4 5 (7.04%) REST Assured
4 5 (7.04%) Selenium
4 5 (7.04%) SonarQube
5 4 (5.63%) Git
6 2 (2.82%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (1.41%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.41%) ClearCase
7 1 (1.41%) ClearQuest
7 1 (1.41%) CMake
7 1 (1.41%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.41%) GoogleTest
7 1 (1.41%) JUnit
7 1 (1.41%) LabVIEW
7 1 (1.41%) TestRail
7 1 (1.41%) Valgrind
7 1 (1.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (19.72%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.45%) Manufacturing
3 5 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.04%) Automotive
3 5 (7.04%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.63%) Electronics
4 4 (5.63%) Law
4 4 (5.63%) Military
4 4 (5.63%) Police
5 3 (4.23%) Aerospace
5 3 (4.23%) Finance
5 3 (4.23%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.82%) Marketing
6 2 (2.82%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.27%) Node.js
1 8 (11.27%) RESTful
2 6 (8.45%) REST
3 5 (7.04%) ARM Templates
3 5 (7.04%) Java EE
4 4 (5.63%) XML
5 3 (4.23%) .NET
6 2 (2.82%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.82%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.82%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.82%) CSS
6 2 (2.82%) HTML
6 2 (2.82%) jQuery
6 2 (2.82%) React
6 2 (2.82%) Web Services
7 1 (1.41%) CNTK
7 1 (1.41%) Kafka
7 1 (1.41%) PyTorch
7 1 (1.41%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.41%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.04%) Algorithms
2 4 (5.63%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (4.23%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.23%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.82%) FPGA
4 2 (2.82%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.41%) IoT
5 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.41%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 17 (23.94%) Linux
2 5 (7.04%) Windows
3 3 (4.23%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (2.82%) Android
5 1 (1.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 29 (40.85%) Agile
3 14 (19.72%) CI/CD
3 14 (19.72%) Computer Science
3 14 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (18.31%) Scrum
5 11 (15.49%) Kanban
5 11 (15.49%) OO
6 10 (14.08%) Design Patterns
6 10 (14.08%) DevOps
6 10 (14.08%) Microservices
7 8 (11.27%) Mentoring
8 7 (9.86%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (9.86%) Systems Engineering
9 6 (8.45%) Clean Code
9 6 (8.45%) Software Architecture
9 6 (8.45%) Test Automation
10 5 (7.04%) Containerisation
10 5 (7.04%) Customer Service
10 5 (7.04%) QMS
Programming Languages
1 19 (26.76%) Java
2 15 (21.13%) C++
3 13 (18.31%) Python
4 11 (15.49%) C
4 11 (15.49%) C#
5 7 (9.86%) SQL
6 4 (5.63%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.63%) Perl
6 4 (5.63%) Rust
7 2 (2.82%) Bash
7 2 (2.82%) Go
7 2 (2.82%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.82%) MATLAB
7 2 (2.82%) PHP
7 2 (2.82%) VB
8 1 (1.41%) Embedded C
8 1 (1.41%) Scala
8 1 (1.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (23.94%) Security Cleared
2 16 (22.54%) SC Cleared
3 14 (19.72%) Degree
4 6 (8.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (8.45%) Master's Degree
5 3 (4.23%) PhD
6 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.41%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.41%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 6 (8.45%) Docker
2 1 (1.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (18.31%) Terraform
2 9 (12.68%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.04%) Ansible
3 5 (7.04%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (7.04%) Podman
4 1 (1.41%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (4.23%) SAP
2 2 (2.82%) MathWorks
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.82%) NVIDIA
2 2 (2.82%) Sitecore
3 1 (1.41%) Google
3 1 (1.41%) HP
3 1 (1.41%) Sparx