Software Engineering Contract Job Trends in Bromley

Software Engineering
South London > Bromley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bromley requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 13 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 -6 +4
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 2 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Bromley 4.08% 13.89% 5.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.55% 15.15% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £608 -
25th Percentile - £675 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £725 £750
Median % change year-on-year -18.62% -3.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile - £741 £800
90th Percentile - £746 -
South London median daily rate £530 £725 £625
% change year-on-year -26.90% +16.00% +13.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bromley

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bromley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 44 33 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bromley 89.80% 91.67% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 14 17
10th Percentile £413 £387 £185
25th Percentile £447 £416 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +17.50% -
75th Percentile £656 £738 £600
90th Percentile £750 £749 £660
South London median daily rate £511 £511 £500
% change year-on-year - +2.25% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.00 - -
South London median hourly rate £61.22 £34.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year +80.05% +44.68% -46.72%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Bromley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bromley.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Bromley

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Bromley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bromley citing Software Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bromley citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bromley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Gen AI Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Fintech
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible