Senior Software Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Software Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 255 366 486
Rank change year-on-year +111 +120 -50
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 92 100 136
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.61% 0.40% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.42% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 65 101
10th Percentile £450 £419 £493
25th Percentile £506 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -20.00% +28.21%
75th Percentile £850 £660 £713
90th Percentile - £765 £750
UK median daily rate £650 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile - £38.25 -
25th Percentile £35.52 £43.13 £46.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.60 - -
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
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,071 23,886 42,024
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 95.33% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,442 16,861 30,355
10th Percentile £325 £361 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 544 603
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.66 £13.38
25th Percentile £23.32 £25.71 £19.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.95 £67.81 £57.44
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.18 £68.16
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Senior Software Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Senior Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Software Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Senior Software Engineer.

Senior Software Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Software Engineer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Senior Software Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Senior Software Engineer.

Senior Software Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Software Engineer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Senior Software Engineer hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 10 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 92 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 64 (69.57%) AWS
3 49 (53.26%) Agile
4 42 (45.65%) Java
5 40 (43.48%) Python
6 38 (41.30%) JavaScript
7 33 (35.87%) TypeScript
8 32 (34.78%) Protocol Buffers
8 32 (34.78%) Pandas
8 32 (34.78%) Apache Airflow
8 32 (34.78%) gRPC
8 32 (34.78%) Asset Management
8 32 (34.78%) Fixed Income
8 32 (34.78%) Equities
8 32 (34.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 32 (34.78%) Front Office
8 32 (34.78%) Finance
8 32 (34.78%) Derivative
9 26 (28.26%) Banking
9 26 (28.26%) Apache
9 26 (28.26%) Investment Management
9 26 (28.26%) Investment Banking
9 26 (28.26%) Amazon Athena
9 26 (28.26%) Apache Ignite
9 26 (28.26%) Dremio
9 26 (28.26%) dbt
9 26 (28.26%) SciPy
9 26 (28.26%) NumPy
9 26 (28.26%) Hedge funds
9 26 (28.26%) Apache Arrow

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 32 (34.78%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (28.26%) Apache
3 1 (1.09%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Simulink
1 2 (2.17%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 4 (4.35%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 64 (69.57%) AWS
2 26 (28.26%) dbt
3 24 (26.09%) Snowflake
4 18 (19.57%) Azure
5 9 (9.78%) GCP
6 6 (6.52%) Serverless
7 5 (5.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (5.43%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (4.35%) Amazon S3
8 4 (4.35%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (2.17%) AWS IoT
9 2 (2.17%) Miro
10 1 (1.09%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (1.09%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.09%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.09%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.09%) Datadog
10 1 (1.09%) GitHub
10 1 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) NFC
1 1 (1.09%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (28.26%) Amazon Athena
1 26 (28.26%) Apache Arrow
1 26 (28.26%) Apache Ignite
1 26 (28.26%) Dremio
2 24 (26.09%) Data Lake
3 16 (17.39%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (4.35%) DynamoDB
4 4 (4.35%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.26%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.09%) MySQL
6 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.09%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 8 (8.70%) GitLab
1 8 (8.70%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.52%) JIRA
3 5 (5.43%) Cucumber
3 5 (5.43%) REST Assured
3 5 (5.43%) Selenium
3 5 (5.43%) SonarQube
4 4 (4.35%) CircleCI
4 4 (4.35%) Git
4 4 (4.35%) Visual Studio
5 3 (3.26%) MSI
5 3 (3.26%) WiX
6 1 (1.09%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.09%) CMake
6 1 (1.09%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.09%) GoogleTest
6 1 (1.09%) JMeter
6 1 (1.09%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (1.09%) TestRail
6 1 (1.09%) Valgrind
General
1 32 (34.78%) Finance
1 32 (34.78%) Front Office
2 26 (28.26%) Banking
2 26 (28.26%) Investment Banking
3 15 (16.30%) Social Skills
4 7 (7.61%) Retail
5 5 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.35%) Law
6 4 (4.35%) Police
7 3 (3.26%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.17%) Automotive
8 2 (2.17%) Military
8 2 (2.17%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (34.78%) gRPC
1 32 (34.78%) Pandas
1 32 (34.78%) Protocol Buffers
2 26 (28.26%) NumPy
2 26 (28.26%) SciPy
3 21 (22.83%) Kafka
4 13 (14.13%) Node.js
5 12 (13.04%) REST
6 10 (10.87%) React
7 8 (8.70%) AngularJS
7 8 (8.70%) Java EE
8 7 (7.61%) RESTful
9 6 (6.52%) Material-UI
9 6 (6.52%) Vue
10 5 (5.43%) .NET
10 5 (5.43%) ARM Templates
10 5 (5.43%) XML
11 4 (4.35%) ASP.NET
11 4 (4.35%) CSS
11 4 (4.35%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 32 (34.78%) Derivative
1 32 (34.78%) Equities
1 32 (34.78%) Fixed Income
1 32 (34.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 26 (28.26%) Hedge funds
3 8 (8.70%) Pricing Data
4 5 (5.43%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.26%) Client/Server
6 3 (3.26%) IoT
6 3 (3.26%) Web 2.0
7 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.09%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.09%) Machine to Machine
7 1 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.09%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.78%) Linux
2 7 (7.61%) Windows
3 2 (2.17%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.09%) Android
4 1 (1.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 49 (53.26%) Agile
3 32 (34.78%) Asset Management
4 26 (28.26%) Investment Management
5 20 (21.74%) User Experience
6 16 (17.39%) Fintech
6 16 (17.39%) Greeks
6 16 (17.39%) User Research
6 16 (17.39%) UX Design
6 16 (17.39%) UX Research
7 15 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (11.96%) DevOps
9 9 (9.78%) Analytics
9 9 (9.78%) CI/CD
9 9 (9.78%) Design Patterns
9 9 (9.78%) Microservices
10 8 (8.70%) Configuration Management
11 7 (7.61%) Artificial Intelligence
11 7 (7.61%) Clean Code
11 7 (7.61%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 42 (45.65%) Java
2 40 (43.48%) Python
3 38 (41.30%) JavaScript
4 33 (35.87%) TypeScript
5 17 (18.48%) Go
6 10 (10.87%) SQL
7 8 (8.70%) C#
8 4 (4.35%) C++
8 4 (4.35%) PHP
9 3 (3.26%) Perl
9 3 (3.26%) Scala
9 3 (3.26%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.17%) Bash
10 2 (2.17%) Kotlin
10 2 (2.17%) MATLAB
10 2 (2.17%) Ruby
11 1 (1.09%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.09%) Rust
11 1 (1.09%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (9.78%) Degree
2 6 (6.52%) SC Cleared
2 6 (6.52%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.26%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.39%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.09%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (26.09%) Docker
2 1 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (27.17%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.87%) Terraform
3 5 (5.43%) Ansible
3 5 (5.43%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (5.43%) Podman
4 1 (1.09%) Argo
4 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (4.35%) Salesforce
2 2 (2.17%) MathWorks
2 2 (2.17%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.17%) NVIDIA
3 1 (1.09%) Google
3 1 (1.09%) New Relic