Software Engineering Contracts in West London

Software Engineering
London > West London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 39 24
Rank change year-on-year +17 -15 +7
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 23 25 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 6.35% 4.38% 6.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.23% 4.68% 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 16 30
10th Percentile £450 £450 £425
25th Percentile £466 £513 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +14.29% +2.94%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £638
90th Percentile £625 - -
London median daily rate £650 £650 £605
% change year-on-year - +7.44% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 2
10th Percentile - £38.13 £32.88
25th Percentile - £63.44 £33.44
Median hourly rate - £85.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year - +134.48% -14.71%
75th Percentile - £90.00 £38.44
90th Percentile - - £38.63
London median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 318 534 565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 87.85% 93.52% 93.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 387 405
10th Percentile £210 £350 £213
25th Percentile £316 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +7.84% -1.45%
75th Percentile £576 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 51 27
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.00 £15.65
25th Percentile £16.86 £47.88 £17.27
Median hourly rate £30.16 £65.00 £21.93
Median % change year-on-year -53.60% +196.40% -18.78%
75th Percentile £46.50 £75.00 £41.51
90th Percentile £59.00 £90.00 £43.61
London median hourly rate £29.00 £39.00 £36.41
% change year-on-year -25.64% +7.11% +12.03%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in West London

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in West London

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in West London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in West London

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in West London

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Hounslow +2 9 £475 - 4
Richmond upon Thames - 8 £575 -
Hillingdon +18 6 £475 -20.83% 3
Software Engineering
London

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) AWS
2 10 (43.48%) Azure
3 2 (8.70%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.35%) GCP
4 1 (4.35%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) Couchbase
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.70%) Git
2 2 (8.70%) Maven
3 1 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (4.35%) Spock
3 1 (4.35%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Aviation
2 2 (8.70%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 17 (73.91%) Software Engineer
2 9 (39.13%) Developer
3 8 (34.78%) .NET Software Engineer
4 7 (30.43%) Development Engineer
4 7 (30.43%) Software Development Engineer
5 6 (26.09%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (26.09%) AWS Software Engineer
5 6 (26.09%) Java Engineer
5 6 (26.09%) Java Software Engineer
5 6 (26.09%) Principal Engineer
5 6 (26.09%) Principal Software Engineer
6 5 (21.74%) .NET Architect
6 5 (21.74%) Architect
6 5 (21.74%) AWS Architect
6 5 (21.74%) C++ Software Engineer
6 5 (21.74%) Lead
6 5 (21.74%) Lead Architect
6 5 (21.74%) Lead Software Architect
6 5 (21.74%) Lead Software Engineer
6 5 (21.74%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (39.13%) .NET
1 9 (39.13%) Kafka
2 7 (30.43%) .NET Core
3 6 (26.09%) React
4 5 (21.74%) CSS
4 5 (21.74%) Node.js
5 3 (13.04%) REST
6 2 (8.70%) .NET Framework
6 2 (8.70%) Drools
6 2 (8.70%) JSON
6 2 (8.70%) Swagger
7 1 (4.35%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (4.35%) Akka
7 1 (4.35%) Middleware
7 1 (4.35%) pytest
7 1 (4.35%) Redux
7 1 (4.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Agile
2 7 (30.43%) Feasibility Study
2 7 (30.43%) Product Management
2 7 (30.43%) Validation
3 6 (26.09%) Machine Learning
3 6 (26.09%) TDD
4 5 (21.74%) Analytics
4 5 (21.74%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
4 5 (21.74%) Code Quality
4 5 (21.74%) Data Governance
4 5 (21.74%) DevOps
4 5 (21.74%) LLM
4 5 (21.74%) Pair Programming
5 4 (17.39%) Computer Science
5 4 (17.39%) Continuous Delivery
5 4 (17.39%) Customer-Centric Approach
5 4 (17.39%) Customer-Centricity
5 4 (17.39%) Dashboard Development
5 4 (17.39%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) JavaScript
2 9 (39.13%) C#
2 9 (39.13%) TypeScript
3 8 (34.78%) SQL
4 7 (30.43%) C++
4 7 (30.43%) Java
5 5 (21.74%) T-SQL
6 4 (17.39%) Go
6 4 (17.39%) Kotlin
7 3 (13.04%) Groovy
8 1 (4.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Degree
2 4 (17.39%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.70%) Podman
2 1 (4.35%) Grafana
2 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) Splunk
3 1 (4.35%) Typelevel