Software Engineering Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Software Engineering
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 42 46
Rank change year-on-year -11 +4 -6
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 93 91 87
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.86% 5.31% 4.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 5.66% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 57 50
10th Percentile £456 £470 £462
25th Percentile £513 £552 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £660 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.88% +5.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £732 £800 £747
90th Percentile £775 £885 £875
Central London median daily rate £575 £660 £569
% change year-on-year -12.88% +16.04% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.81 - -
Median hourly rate £57.77 - -
75th Percentile £67.36 - -
90th Percentile £71.94 - -
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,067 1,608 1,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.70% 93.76% 90.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,386 1,023 1,365
10th Percentile £361 £355 £358
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 16 13
10th Percentile £17.53 £19.25 £19.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £20.22
Median hourly rate £23.16 £29.75 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -22.15% +13.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £60.78 £76.25 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.53% -20.54%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in the City of London

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Software Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the City of London over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in the City of London

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Software Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineering in the City of London over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in the City of London

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.15%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.08%) Apache
3 1 (1.08%) Camunda
Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.08%) Maya
Business Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.15%) Orchestrade
3 1 (1.08%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.08%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 26 (27.96%) Azure
2 25 (26.88%) AWS
3 17 (18.28%) GitHub
4 9 (9.68%) GCP
5 6 (6.45%) Anthropic Claude
5 6 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.38%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.30%) dbt
7 4 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.30%) Snowflake
8 3 (3.23%) Azure AKS
8 3 (3.23%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.23%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (3.23%) PaaS
9 2 (2.15%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.15%) Azure Stack
9 2 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.15%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.15%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.15%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.45%) NoSQL
1 6 (6.45%) Relational Database
2 5 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.23%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.23%) Pinecone
3 3 (3.23%) Power BI
3 3 (3.23%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.23%) Weaviate
4 2 (2.15%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.08%) Data Hub
5 1 (1.08%) Db2
5 1 (1.08%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 9 (9.68%) Git
2 4 (4.30%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.23%) CircleCI
3 3 (3.23%) Cypress.io
3 3 (3.23%) GitLab
3 3 (3.23%) Gradle
3 3 (3.23%) JUnit
3 3 (3.23%) Mockito
4 2 (2.15%) Claude Code
4 2 (2.15%) Liquibase
4 2 (2.15%) Mocha
4 2 (2.15%) webpack
5 1 (1.08%) CocoaPods
5 1 (1.08%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.08%) JIRA
5 1 (1.08%) Maven
5 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.08%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.08%) XCTest
5 1 (1.08%) XCUITest
General
1 32 (34.41%) Finance
2 18 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.83%) Banking
4 6 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.38%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.30%) Retail
7 3 (3.23%) Advertising
7 3 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.23%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.23%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.15%) Back Office
8 2 (2.15%) Legal
8 2 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.08%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.08%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.08%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.08%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (37.63%) Software Engineer
2 19 (20.43%) Developer
3 16 (17.20%) Senior
4 10 (10.75%) Lead
5 9 (9.68%) Senior Software Engineer
6 7 (7.53%) Architect
7 6 (6.45%) Data Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Technical Architect
8 5 (5.38%) Java Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.30%) .NET Software Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Java Developer
9 4 (4.30%) Technical Leader
10 3 (3.23%) Hardware Engineer
10 3 (3.23%) Integration Engineer
10 3 (3.23%) Junior
10 3 (3.23%) Senior Software Developer
10 3 (3.23%) Software Developer
10 3 (3.23%) Software Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.20%) React
2 15 (16.13%) Spring
3 13 (13.98%) REST
4 11 (11.83%) Kafka
4 11 (11.83%) Spring Boot
5 9 (9.68%) .NET
5 9 (9.68%) LangChain
6 7 (7.53%) LangGraph
7 6 (6.45%) GraphQL
7 6 (6.45%) Node.js
7 6 (6.45%) Playwright
8 4 (4.30%) AngularJS
8 4 (4.30%) Jest
8 4 (4.30%) React Native
8 4 (4.30%) RESTful
9 3 (3.23%) DOM
9 3 (3.23%) HTML
9 3 (3.23%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (3.23%) Web Services
10 2 (2.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.20%) Cloud Native
2 15 (16.13%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (9.68%) AI Agents
4 7 (7.53%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (4.30%) Life Science
6 3 (3.23%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.15%) Derivative
7 2 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.08%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (1.08%) Clustering
8 1 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.08%) Equities
8 1 (1.08%) Genomics
8 1 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.08%) NHS
8 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.30%) Linux
2 3 (3.23%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.15%) Android
3 2 (2.15%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (2.15%) Unix
4 1 (1.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (43.01%) CI/CD
2 29 (31.18%) AI
3 25 (26.88%) Agile
4 22 (23.66%) DevOps
5 21 (22.58%) Microservices
6 19 (20.43%) Full-Stack Development
7 18 (19.35%) Containerisation
7 18 (19.35%) Observability
8 14 (15.05%) Generative AI
8 14 (15.05%) Test Automation
9 12 (12.90%) LLM
10 11 (11.83%) Data Engineering
10 11 (11.83%) Data Science
10 11 (11.83%) Machine Learning
10 11 (11.83%) Platform Engineering
10 11 (11.83%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (10.75%) TDD
12 9 (9.68%) Analytics
12 9 (9.68%) Event-Driven
12 9 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 25 (26.88%) Java
2 24 (25.81%) SQL
3 19 (20.43%) Python
4 17 (18.28%) TypeScript
5 11 (11.83%) C#
6 7 (7.53%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.30%) C++
7 4 (4.30%) Ruby
8 3 (3.23%) Go
9 2 (2.15%) COBOL
10 1 (1.08%) Korn
10 1 (1.08%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.08%) Scala
10 1 (1.08%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.08%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 17 (18.28%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.45%) Degree
4 2 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.23%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.23%) GDPR
2 2 (2.15%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.15%) EMIR
2 2 (2.15%) MiFID
3 1 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.08%) NIST
3 1 (1.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (20.43%) Docker
2 2 (2.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (18.28%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.23%) Terraform
3 2 (2.15%) Grafana
4 1 (1.08%) Argo
4 1 (1.08%) Istio
4 1 (1.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (8.60%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.38%) Oracle
3 4 (4.30%) Google
3 4 (4.30%) IBM
4 1 (1.08%) Apple
4 1 (1.08%) Databricks
4 1 (1.08%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.08%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.08%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.08%) Pega
4 1 (1.08%) Remedy
4 1 (1.08%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.08%) Sybase