Software Engineering Contracts in Central London

Software Engineering
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 37 28
Rank change year-on-year -9 -9 +3
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 106 205 304
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.39% 5.35% 6.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.84% 5.86% 7.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 112 238
10th Percentile £425 £463 £459
25th Percentile £453 £522 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.92% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £759 £741 £750
90th Percentile £875 £825 £813
London median daily rate £650 £650 £605
% change year-on-year - +7.44% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - - £45.00
25th Percentile - £35.00 £46.13
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year - +16.16% +98.00%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £53.13
90th Percentile - - £54.40
London median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £52.00
% change year-on-year -4.35% +10.58% +15.56%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,190 3,501 4,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.61% 91.34% 91.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,562 2,371 3,191
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 30 42
10th Percentile £20.01 £15.23 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.38 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%
75th Percentile £29.11 £57.50 £54.38
90th Percentile £41.29 £88.30 £65.43
London median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +6.12% +12.47%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Central London

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Central London

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Central London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Central London

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Central London

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 5 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
City of London -9 90 £588 -2.16% 50
West End of London - 2 - - 2
City of Westminster - 1 £1,000 - 1
Software Engineering
London

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 6 (5.66%) BizTalk Server
1 6 (5.66%) IIS
2 3 (2.83%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.83%) Confluence
3 2 (1.89%) Apache
4 1 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.94%) Tornado
Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.94%) Endur
1 1 (0.94%) Front Arena
Cloud Services
1 40 (37.74%) Azure
2 28 (26.42%) AWS
3 12 (11.32%) Serverless
4 10 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (8.49%) Azure Functions
6 8 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (6.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (5.66%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (5.66%) Azure Storage
8 6 (5.66%) GCP
8 6 (5.66%) GitHub
9 5 (4.72%) Power Platform
10 4 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (3.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (2.83%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.89%) Azure AKS
12 2 (1.89%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (1.89%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.60%) Internet
2 3 (2.83%) Firewall
3 1 (0.94%) 5G
3 1 (0.94%) Broadband
3 1 (0.94%) DHCP
3 1 (0.94%) DNS
3 1 (0.94%) Network Security
3 1 (0.94%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.94%) VLAN
3 1 (0.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.21%) SQL Server
2 10 (9.43%) NoSQL
3 8 (7.55%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (6.60%) MongoDB
5 6 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (4.72%) Data Lake
6 5 (4.72%) Power BI
6 5 (4.72%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.83%) MySQL
9 2 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.89%) Big Data
9 2 (1.89%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.89%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.89%) KDB
9 2 (1.89%) Looker
9 2 (1.89%) Parquet
9 2 (1.89%) Presto
9 2 (1.89%) Tableau
10 1 (0.94%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 12 (11.32%) Git
2 7 (6.60%) JIRA
3 6 (5.66%) GitLab
4 4 (3.77%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.83%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.89%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.89%) Deequ
6 2 (1.89%) JMeter
6 2 (1.89%) JUnit
6 2 (1.89%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.89%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.94%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.94%) Gradle
7 1 (0.94%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.94%) Maven
7 1 (0.94%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.94%) Selenium
7 1 (0.94%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.94%) TestNG
7 1 (0.94%) Travis CI
General
1 23 (21.70%) Finance
2 16 (15.09%) Social Skills
3 14 (13.21%) Banking
4 10 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.55%) Local Government
6 3 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.83%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.83%) Marketing
7 2 (1.89%) Front Office
7 2 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.89%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.89%) Retail
8 1 (0.94%) Advertising
8 1 (0.94%) Automotive
8 1 (0.94%) Legal
8 1 (0.94%) Publishing
8 1 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (34.91%) Software Engineer
2 29 (27.36%) Developer
3 20 (18.87%) Senior
4 12 (11.32%) Senior Software Engineer
5 11 (10.38%) Full Stack Developer
6 7 (6.60%) Lead
7 6 (5.66%) Python Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) Analyst
8 5 (4.72%) Python Developer
9 4 (3.77%) Business Analyst
9 4 (3.77%) Data Engineer
9 4 (3.77%) Java Developer
9 4 (3.77%) Project Manager
9 4 (3.77%) Python Software Engineer
9 4 (3.77%) Quantitative Developer
10 3 (2.83%) Data Business Analyst
10 3 (2.83%) Full Stack Engineer
10 3 (2.83%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 3 (2.83%) Java Engineer
10 3 (2.83%) Market Risk Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (29.25%) .NET
2 28 (26.42%) React
3 11 (10.38%) .NET Framework
4 9 (8.49%) .NET Core
4 9 (8.49%) ASP.NET
5 8 (7.55%) Kafka
6 7 (6.60%) HTML
6 7 (6.60%) Web Services
7 6 (5.66%) Blazor
7 6 (5.66%) Node.js
8 5 (4.72%) WebSockets
9 4 (3.77%) AngularJS
9 4 (3.77%) ARM Templates
9 4 (3.77%) CSS
9 4 (3.77%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (3.77%) PySpark
9 4 (3.77%) pytest
9 4 (3.77%) REST
9 4 (3.77%) Spring
10 3 (2.83%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.55%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.60%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.77%) Equities
3 4 (3.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.83%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.83%) Derivative
4 3 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.83%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.83%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.89%) CMDB
5 2 (1.89%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.89%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.89%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.89%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.94%) Digital Currency
6 1 (0.94%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.94%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.94%) PKI
6 1 (0.94%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.15%) Windows
2 10 (9.43%) Linux
3 3 (2.83%) Unix
4 2 (1.89%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.94%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (33.02%) Agile
2 30 (28.30%) SDLC
3 28 (26.42%) DevOps
4 27 (25.47%) CI/CD
5 23 (21.70%) Microservices
6 20 (18.87%) Front End Development
6 20 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (16.04%) Full Stack Development
8 14 (13.21%) Mentoring
8 14 (13.21%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (9.43%) Analytics
9 10 (9.43%) Visualisation
10 9 (8.49%) Computer Science
10 9 (8.49%) Mathematics
10 9 (8.49%) Scrum
11 8 (7.55%) User Stories
12 7 (6.60%) Migration
12 7 (6.60%) Multithreading
12 7 (6.60%) Open Source
12 7 (6.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 43 (40.57%) Python
2 35 (33.02%) SQL
3 27 (25.47%) Java
4 26 (24.53%) C#
5 21 (19.81%) JavaScript
6 10 (9.43%) C++
7 9 (8.49%) Go
7 9 (8.49%) T-SQL
8 8 (7.55%) PowerShell
8 8 (7.55%) TypeScript
9 6 (5.66%) PL/SQL
10 4 (3.77%) Scala
11 2 (1.89%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.89%) MATLAB
11 2 (1.89%) R
12 1 (0.94%) Bicep
12 1 (0.94%) C
12 1 (0.94%) Perl
12 1 (0.94%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (18.87%) Degree
2 4 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (3.77%) SC Cleared
2 4 (3.77%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.89%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.94%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.89%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.94%) ISO 20022
2 1 (0.94%) NIST
2 1 (0.94%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.94%) QA
System Software
1 10 (9.43%) Docker
2 2 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (16.04%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.60%) Terraform
3 2 (1.89%) Argo
3 2 (1.89%) Grafana
4 1 (0.94%) Ansible
4 1 (0.94%) Kibana
4 1 (0.94%) logstash
4 1 (0.94%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.94%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.94%) Puppet
4 1 (0.94%) vRealize
4 1 (0.94%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 18 (16.98%) Oracle
2 12 (11.32%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.55%) Databricks
4 6 (5.66%) MuleSoft
5 5 (4.72%) Google
6 2 (1.89%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.89%) Foundry
6 2 (1.89%) Palantir
6 2 (1.89%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.89%) SAP
6 2 (1.89%) Solace
6 2 (1.89%) TIBCO
6 2 (1.89%) VMware
7 1 (0.94%) Advent
7 1 (0.94%) Confluent
7 1 (0.94%) Eze Castle Integration
7 1 (0.94%) New Relic
7 1 (0.94%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.94%) Splunk
7 1 (0.94%) Sybase