Software Engineering Contracts in East London

Software Engineering
London > East London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 25 29
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 -14
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 11 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 4.74% 2.66% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.07% 3.01% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 6
10th Percentile £418 £470 £565
25th Percentile £425 - £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £690
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -27.54% +38.00%
75th Percentile £613 £700 £698
90th Percentile £640 £715 £702
London median daily rate £650 £650 £605
% change year-on-year - +7.44% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £24.69
Median hourly rate - - £25.09
75th Percentile - - £25.48
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.98% +19.44%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 217 166 229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 93.53% 88.30% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 131 185
10th Percentile £362 £200 £249
25th Percentile £450 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £580
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -9.48% +18.97%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £690
90th Percentile £770 £750 £750
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £11.95 £21.24 £16.50
Median hourly rate £23.32 £22.49 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.71% +32.26% -36.21%
75th Percentile £36.48 £23.73 £24.01
90th Percentile £38.28 - £32.60
London median hourly rate £30.00 £39.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +9.86% +10.18%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in East London

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in East London

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in East London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in East London

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in East London

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the East London region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Greenwich - 6 £450 -
Tower Hamlets -7 3 £600 -14.29% 3
Docklands, London - 1 £613 -
Hackney - 1 - -
Software Engineering
London

Software Engineering
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 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Back Office
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
1 5 (45.45%) Software Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
3 3 (27.27%) Backend Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (18.18%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Principal Software Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Software Developer
5 1 (9.09%) .NET Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) C# Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior C# Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (9.09%) HTML
2 1 (9.09%) JDBC
2 1 (9.09%) JSP
2 1 (9.09%) LDAP
2 1 (9.09%) Middleware
2 1 (9.09%) React
2 1 (9.09%) SailPoint
2 1 (9.09%) Servlets
2 1 (9.09%) SOAP
2 1 (9.09%) SPML
2 1 (9.09%) Web Services
2 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Content Management
2 5 (45.45%) Database Optimisation
2 5 (45.45%) Design Patterns
3 4 (36.36%) SDLC
4 3 (27.27%) Front End Development
5 2 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (18.18%) Microservices
5 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
6 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
6 1 (9.09%) OO
6 1 (9.09%) OOP
6 1 (9.09%) RBAC
6 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) JavaScript
2 8 (72.73%) Java
3 7 (63.64%) C#
3 7 (63.64%) SQL
4 5 (45.45%) PowerShell
5 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) ACF2
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) IAG
1 1 (9.09%) RACF
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle
1 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
1 1 (9.09%) Sybase