Software Engineering Contracts in East London

Software Engineering
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 24 28
Rank change year-on-year +9 +4 +3
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 5 11 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 4.76% 4.76% 2.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.10% 5.09% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 5
10th Percentile - £418 £470
25th Percentile £250 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -27.80% +15.00% -27.54%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £700
90th Percentile £654 £640 £715
London median daily rate £675 £675 £650
% change year-on-year - +3.85% +7.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 98 216 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 93.33% 93.51% 88.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 187 129
10th Percentile £285 £360 £198
25th Percentile £415 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £647 £688
90th Percentile £675 £770 £755
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 11
10th Percentile £14.66 - -
25th Percentile £24.66 £11.95 £21.24
Median hourly rate £28.60 £23.32 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +22.64% +3.71% +14.49%
75th Percentile £37.00 £36.48 £23.73
90th Percentile £38.80 £38.28 -
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +10 3 £250 -58.33% 1
Docklands, London +9 1 £575 -6.12%
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (40.00%) Datadog
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Ant
2 1 (20.00%) JUnit
2 1 (20.00%) SoapUI
2 1 (20.00%) Toad
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Java Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Site Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Gen AI Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Rust Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Rust Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) EDI
2 1 (20.00%) IBM Integration Bus
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Android
2 1 (20.00%) AIX
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Unix
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Black-Box Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) API Management
3 1 (20.00%) Change Control
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (20.00%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Go
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) Korn
3 1 (20.00%) Perl
3 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Rust
3 1 (20.00%) Scala
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Perforce
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat