Software Engineer Contracts in East London

Software Engineer
London > East London

The median Software Engineer daily rate in East London is £606 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 31 31
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 4 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 1.81% 1.10% 1.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.02% 1.19% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile - £523 £559
25th Percentile £600 £556 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £613 £580
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% +5.60% +24.06%
75th Percentile £645 £669 £608
90th Percentile £693 £703 £657
London median daily rate £675 £625 £600
% change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in East London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in East London with a recognized job title 198 168 242
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.59% 92.31% 96.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 139 198
10th Percentile £320 £188 £236
25th Percentile £420 £339 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £590
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -15.25% +26.20%
75th Percentile £627 £722 £703
90th Percentile £770 £775 £766
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 8
10th Percentile £11.95 £20.64 -
25th Percentile £12.84 £23.20 £16.50
Median hourly rate £22.91 £27.47 £19.39
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% +41.65% -27.24%
75th Percentile £28.37 £31.73 £27.26
90th Percentile £38.28 £34.29 £44.42
London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.54% +1.43% +10.62%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in East London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in East London

Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in East London.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineer in East London

Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in East London.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineer in East London

Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the East London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Tower Hamlets -4 3 £600 -2.04%
Docklands, London - 1 £613 -
Software Engineer
London

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East London

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Software Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East London region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) RBAC
4 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (25.00%) SPML
4 1 (25.00%) IAG
4 1 (25.00%) SailPoint
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (25.00%) ACF2
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (25.00%) SDLC
4 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (25.00%) Degree
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) LDAP
4 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (25.00%) RACF
4 1 (25.00%) Middleware

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) JDBC
1 1 (25.00%) JSP
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
1 1 (25.00%) SailPoint
1 1 (25.00%) Servlets
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) SPML
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
1 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) RBAC
4 1 (25.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) ACF2
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) IAG
1 1 (25.00%) RACF
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (25.00%) Sybase