Software Engineering Contracts in the City of London

Software Engineering
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 50 41
Rank change year-on-year +14 -9 -7
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 100 83 175
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 5.67% 3.92% 5.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.05% 4.31% 5.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 50 93
10th Percentile £505 £462 £465
25th Percentile £555 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 £638 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -1.92% -
75th Percentile £800 £747 £750
90th Percentile £860 £875 £838
Central London median daily rate £660 £588 £650
% change year-on-year +12.34% -9.62% +4.00%

All Process and 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 1,653 1,927 3,152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.76% 91.07% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,058 1,337 2,114
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 24
10th Percentile £17.02 £20.04 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.43 £20.36 £16.33
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -22.86% -18.83%
75th Percentile £50.75 £40.92 £57.50
90th Percentile £66.25 £67.35 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the City of London

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in the City of London

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 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in the City of London

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in the City of London

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 4 (4.00%) Confluence
2 3 (3.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.00%) Apache
4 1 (1.00%) JBoss
4 1 (1.00%) Luigi
4 1 (1.00%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.00%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.00%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.00%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 34 (34.00%) AWS
2 24 (24.00%) Azure
3 9 (9.00%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (9.00%) Serverless
4 8 (8.00%) GCP
4 8 (8.00%) GitHub
5 7 (7.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (7.00%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (6.00%) Amazon S3
6 6 (6.00%) AWS Step Functions
7 5 (5.00%) Amazon Cognito
7 5 (5.00%) Amazon EventBridge
7 5 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (5.00%) Datadog
8 4 (4.00%) OpenShift
8 4 (4.00%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.00%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.00%) DNS
2 1 (1.00%) Modbus
2 1 (1.00%) MQTT
2 1 (1.00%) tcpdump
2 1 (1.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.00%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.00%) DynamoDB
4 5 (5.00%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.00%) MySQL
6 2 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.00%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.00%) CockroachDB
6 2 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.00%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.00%) Power BI
7 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.00%) Big Data
7 1 (1.00%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.00%) Looker
7 1 (1.00%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.00%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (9.00%) JIRA
2 8 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.00%) Git
3 7 (7.00%) JUnit
4 6 (6.00%) Gradle
5 5 (5.00%) GitLab
5 5 (5.00%) Maven
5 5 (5.00%) SonarQube
6 4 (4.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (4.00%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (4.00%) IntelliJ
7 3 (3.00%) TeamCity
8 2 (2.00%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.00%) Postman
9 1 (1.00%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.00%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.00%) Gatling
9 1 (1.00%) Hamcrest
9 1 (1.00%) MLflow
9 1 (1.00%) Serenity BDD
General
1 37 (37.00%) Finance
2 33 (33.00%) Social Skills
3 22 (22.00%) Banking
4 14 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (13.00%) Front Office
6 8 (8.00%) Investment Banking
7 5 (5.00%) Retail
8 4 (4.00%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (4.00%) Financial Institution
8 4 (4.00%) Retail Banking
9 3 (3.00%) Public Sector
9 3 (3.00%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.00%) Advertising
10 2 (2.00%) Back Office
11 1 (1.00%) Multimedia
11 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (38.00%) Software Engineer
2 27 (27.00%) Developer
3 18 (18.00%) Senior
4 11 (11.00%) Lead
5 9 (9.00%) Java Developer
6 7 (7.00%) Python Developer
6 7 (7.00%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.00%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (5.00%) Java Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Architect
9 4 (4.00%) C++ Software Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Engineering Manager
9 4 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.00%) Java Software Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Principal Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Python Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Software Design Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Software Developer
10 3 (3.00%) Algorithm Engineer
10 3 (3.00%) Angular Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.00%) .NET
2 14 (14.00%) React
3 13 (13.00%) AngularJS
4 11 (11.00%) Spring
5 9 (9.00%) Kafka
6 8 (8.00%) HTML
7 7 (7.00%) GraphQL
7 7 (7.00%) Node.js
7 7 (7.00%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (6.00%) CSS
8 6 (6.00%) REST
9 5 (5.00%) HTML5
9 5 (5.00%) Spring Boot
9 5 (5.00%) WebSockets
10 4 (4.00%) Blazor
10 4 (4.00%) JMS
10 4 (4.00%) JPA
10 4 (4.00%) JSON
10 4 (4.00%) RESTful
11 3 (3.00%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.00%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.00%) Derivative
3 5 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.00%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.00%) Fixed Income
5 3 (3.00%) Hedge funds
5 3 (3.00%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.00%) Reference Data
6 2 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.00%) Equities
6 2 (2.00%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 2 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.00%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.00%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.00%) Linux
2 4 (4.00%) Unix
3 1 (1.00%) Android
3 1 (1.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (33.00%) Agile
2 26 (26.00%) CI/CD
2 26 (26.00%) DevOps
3 22 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (18.00%) Microservices
5 16 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (15.00%) Computer Science
7 14 (14.00%) Event-Driven
7 14 (14.00%) Technical Leadership
8 13 (13.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 12 (12.00%) Mentoring
10 11 (11.00%) Scrum
10 11 (11.00%) TDD
11 10 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 10 (10.00%) Low Latency
11 10 (10.00%) Multithreading
12 9 (9.00%) Analytics
12 9 (9.00%) Code Quality
12 9 (9.00%) Front End Development
12 9 (9.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 41 (41.00%) Python
2 30 (30.00%) Java
3 21 (21.00%) SQL
4 18 (18.00%) C#
5 12 (12.00%) JavaScript
6 10 (10.00%) C++
7 9 (9.00%) TypeScript
8 6 (6.00%) Go
9 2 (2.00%) C
9 2 (2.00%) Rust
9 2 (2.00%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.00%) Ada
10 1 (1.00%) Bash
10 1 (1.00%) COBOL
10 1 (1.00%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.00%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.00%) RPG
10 1 (1.00%) Ruby
10 1 (1.00%) Scala
10 1 (1.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (17.00%) Degree
2 11 (11.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.00%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.00%) PhD
5 2 (2.00%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.00%) CFA
6 1 (1.00%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.00%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.00%) QA
2 2 (2.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.00%) EMIR
2 2 (2.00%) MiFID
3 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.00%) PMO
3 1 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (9.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.00%) Terraform
3 7 (7.00%) Prometheus
4 6 (6.00%) Ansible
5 2 (2.00%) Argo
6 1 (1.00%) Grafana
6 1 (1.00%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 12 (12.00%) Oracle
2 7 (7.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.00%) Splunk
4 2 (2.00%) Google
4 2 (2.00%) IBM
4 2 (2.00%) ION Trading
4 2 (2.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.00%) Avaloq
5 1 (1.00%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.00%) CQG
5 1 (1.00%) Ericsson
5 1 (1.00%) FNZ
5 1 (1.00%) Mavenir
5 1 (1.00%) Nokia
5 1 (1.00%) Planview
5 1 (1.00%) Reuters
5 1 (1.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.00%) Temenos
5 1 (1.00%) VMware
5 1 (1.00%) WSO2