Software Engineering Contract Job Trends in Canary Wharf

Software Engineering
Tower Hamlets > Canary Wharf

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Canary Wharf requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 14 22
Rank change year-on-year -2 +8 -7
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 4 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Canary Wharf 5.97% 5.36% 2.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.15% 5.88% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £541 - -
25th Percentile £543 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £250 £600
Median % change year-on-year +118.00% -58.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £666 £474 £663
90th Percentile £739 £608 £700
Tower Hamlets median daily rate £545 £250 £600
% change year-on-year +118.00% -58.33% -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Canary Wharf

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 Canary Wharf.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 65 51 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Canary Wharf 97.01% 91.07% 97.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 47 105
10th Percentile £395 - £450
25th Percentile £445 £495 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £585 £585
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% - +6.36%
75th Percentile £675 £630 £650
90th Percentile £741 £653 £770
Tower Hamlets median daily rate £498 £585 £590
% change year-on-year -14.96% -0.76% +2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
Tower Hamlets median hourly rate - £40.00 -

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Canary Wharf

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

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Canary Wharf

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Canary Wharf

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Canary Wharf citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Canary Wharf

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Canary Wharf over the 6 months to 27 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Canary Wharf

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Canary Wharf 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Functions
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Run
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
1 2 (50.00%) Google Compute Engine
1 2 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (50.00%) GCP Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Principal Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Principal Security Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) OAuth
1 2 (50.00%) OpenID
1 2 (50.00%) SAML
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) NumPy
2 1 (25.00%) Pandas
2 1 (25.00%) Plotly
2 1 (25.00%) Polars
2 1 (25.00%) pytest
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Compliance Audit
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (50.00%) Key Management
3 1 (25.00%) Business Case
3 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Assurance
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Register
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google