Software Engineering Contracts in the City of London

Software Engineering
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 37 33
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 91 188 262
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.20% 5.33% 6.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 5.82% 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 98 201
10th Percentile £438 £471 £463
25th Percentile £491 £539 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.58% - +18.18%
75th Percentile £747 £759 £756
90th Percentile £856 £825 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -15.35% +4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £45.00
25th Percentile - £35.00 £46.13
Median hourly rate - £46.25 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year - -6.57% +98.00%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £53.13
90th Percentile - - £54.40
Central London median hourly rate - £46.25 £49.50
% change year-on-year - -6.57% +98.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,957 3,232 3,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.39% 91.64% 92.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,377 2,186 2,938
10th Percentile £350 £356 £385
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £688
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 26 43
10th Percentile £19.95 £14.75 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £17.08 £22.63
Median hourly rate £25.63 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.79% -13.58% +125.31%
75th Percentile £40.00 £57.50 £55.50
90th Percentile £41.65 £88.30 £65.10
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

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 18 May 2024.

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 6 (6.59%) BizTalk Server
1 6 (6.59%) IIS
2 4 (4.40%) Confluence
3 2 (2.20%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.10%) Tornado
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (1.10%) Endur
1 1 (1.10%) Front Arena
Cloud Services
1 41 (45.05%) Azure
2 22 (24.18%) AWS
3 14 (15.38%) Serverless
4 10 (10.99%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (10.99%) Azure Functions
5 9 (9.89%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 7 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
6 7 (7.69%) Azure Storage
7 6 (6.59%) GitHub
8 4 (4.40%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (4.40%) GCP
8 4 (4.40%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.20%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.20%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (2.20%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.20%) Azure Pipelines
10 2 (2.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (2.20%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.59%) Internet
2 3 (3.30%) Firewall
3 1 (1.10%) DHCP
3 1 (1.10%) DNS
3 1 (1.10%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.10%) VLAN
3 1 (1.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.79%) NoSQL
3 7 (7.69%) MongoDB
4 6 (6.59%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.30%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.30%) MySQL
5 3 (3.30%) Power BI
5 3 (3.30%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.20%) Big Data
6 2 (2.20%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.20%) KDB
6 2 (2.20%) Presto
7 1 (1.10%) CouchDB
7 1 (1.10%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.10%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.10%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (14.29%) Git
2 8 (8.79%) JIRA
3 7 (7.69%) GitLab
4 5 (5.49%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.30%) Cypress.io
5 3 (3.30%) JMeter
5 3 (3.30%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.20%) JUnit
6 2 (2.20%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.20%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.10%) Android Studio
7 1 (1.10%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.10%) Darcs
7 1 (1.10%) Gradle
7 1 (1.10%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.10%) Mercurial
7 1 (1.10%) Postman
7 1 (1.10%) Pylint
7 1 (1.10%) Spinnaker
7 1 (1.10%) Travis CI
General
1 23 (25.27%) Finance
2 15 (16.48%) Banking
3 13 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 10 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.30%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.20%) Front Office
6 2 (2.20%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.20%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.20%) Retail
7 1 (1.10%) Advertising
7 1 (1.10%) Automotive
7 1 (1.10%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.10%) Legal
7 1 (1.10%) Local Government
7 1 (1.10%) Marketing
7 1 (1.10%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (31.87%) Developer
1 29 (31.87%) Software Engineer
2 13 (14.29%) Senior
3 12 (13.19%) Full Stack Developer
4 5 (5.49%) Analyst
4 5 (5.49%) Java Developer
4 5 (5.49%) Lead
4 5 (5.49%) Python Developer
4 5 (5.49%) Python Engineer
4 5 (5.49%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (4.40%) Architect
5 4 (4.40%) Business Analyst
5 4 (4.40%) Python Software Engineer
6 3 (3.30%) .NET Developer
6 3 (3.30%) Data Analyst
6 3 (3.30%) Data Business Analyst
6 3 (3.30%) Insurance Business Analyst
6 3 (3.30%) Java Engineer
6 3 (3.30%) Market Risk Developer
6 3 (3.30%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (27.47%) .NET
2 18 (19.78%) React
3 10 (10.99%) .NET Core
3 10 (10.99%) .NET Framework
4 9 (9.89%) ASP.NET
5 8 (8.79%) Kafka
6 7 (7.69%) Blazor
6 7 (7.69%) HTML
6 7 (7.69%) Web Services
7 6 (6.59%) Node.js
8 5 (5.49%) WebSockets
9 4 (4.40%) AngularJS
9 4 (4.40%) FastAPI
9 4 (4.40%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (4.40%) Flask
9 4 (4.40%) pytest
9 4 (4.40%) REST
9 4 (4.40%) Spring
10 3 (3.30%) Middleware
10 3 (3.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.89%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.30%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.30%) Equities
4 3 (3.30%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.30%) Market Risk
5 2 (2.20%) CMDB
5 2 (2.20%) Derivative
5 2 (2.20%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.10%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.10%) Digital Currency
6 1 (1.10%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.10%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.10%) IoT
6 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.10%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.10%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.68%) Windows
2 10 (10.99%) Linux
3 3 (3.30%) Unix
4 2 (2.20%) Android
4 2 (2.20%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (37.36%) Agile
2 27 (29.67%) DevOps
3 26 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 26 (28.57%) SDLC
4 19 (20.88%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (18.68%) Full Stack Development
6 16 (17.58%) Microservices
7 13 (14.29%) Front End Development
8 9 (9.89%) Computer Science
9 8 (8.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (8.79%) Scrum
9 8 (8.79%) Software Deployment
10 7 (7.69%) Mathematics
10 7 (7.69%) Mentoring
10 7 (7.69%) Multithreading
10 7 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (7.69%) User Stories
10 7 (7.69%) Visualisation
11 6 (6.59%) Analytics
11 6 (6.59%) Data Development
Programming Languages
1 37 (40.66%) Python
2 31 (34.07%) SQL
3 28 (30.77%) Java
4 19 (20.88%) JavaScript
5 18 (19.78%) C#
6 9 (9.89%) Go
7 8 (8.79%) C++
7 8 (8.79%) PowerShell
8 7 (7.69%) T-SQL
9 6 (6.59%) PL/SQL
9 6 (6.59%) TypeScript
10 3 (3.30%) Scala
11 2 (2.20%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.10%) Bicep
12 1 (1.10%) C
12 1 (1.10%) Perl
12 1 (1.10%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (20.88%) Degree
2 4 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (4.40%) SC Cleared
2 4 (4.40%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.20%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.10%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.20%) QA
2 1 (1.10%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.10%) NIST
2 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (10.99%) Docker
2 2 (2.20%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (18.68%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.59%) Terraform
3 2 (2.20%) Argo
3 2 (2.20%) Grafana
4 1 (1.10%) Ansible
4 1 (1.10%) Kibana
4 1 (1.10%) logstash
4 1 (1.10%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.10%) Puppet
4 1 (1.10%) vRealize
4 1 (1.10%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 18 (19.78%) Oracle
2 14 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.69%) Databricks
4 6 (6.59%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.30%) Google
5 3 (3.30%) SAP
6 2 (2.20%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.20%) Foundry
6 2 (2.20%) Palantir
6 2 (2.20%) Solace
6 2 (2.20%) TIBCO
6 2 (2.20%) VMware
7 1 (1.10%) Advent
7 1 (1.10%) Confluent
7 1 (1.10%) Eze Castle Integration
7 1 (1.10%) New Relic
7 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.10%) Splunk
7 1 (1.10%) Sybase