Software Engineering Contract Job Trends in East London

Software Engineering
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East London requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 18 36
Rank change year-on-year +1 +18 -3
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 8 10 4
As % of all contract jobs in East London 7.21% 7.09% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.69% 7.46% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 3
10th Percentile £415 £397 £503
25th Percentile £500 £421 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £528 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.90% +0.48% -9.48%
75th Percentile £831 £593 £675
90th Percentile £925 £597 £758
London median daily rate £625 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
London median hourly rate £65.00 £64.47 £56.25
% change year-on-year +0.83% +14.60% +15.57%

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 104 134 255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 93.69% 95.04% 91.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 113 222
10th Percentile £190 £300 £267
25th Percentile £313 £400 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £495 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -10.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £650
90th Percentile £925 £659 £750
London median daily rate £543 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.36% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 4
10th Percentile £23.33 - -
25th Percentile £24.70 - £14.18
Median hourly rate £33.25 £21.09 £15.52
Median % change year-on-year +57.65% +35.93% -79.71%
75th Percentile £56.88 - £17.37
90th Percentile £75.89 - £18.31
London median hourly rate £30.50 £37.79 £39.42
% change year-on-year -19.28% -4.15% +5.12%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East London.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in East London

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Software Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in East London over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in East London

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in East London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Software Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Software Engineering

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 19 October 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 -2 3 £585 +10.90%
Docklands, London - 2 £900 -
Software Engineering
London

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Chatbot
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (25.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure AI
2 2 (25.00%) Azure API Management
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) HTTP
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Database 10g
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Ant
1 2 (25.00%) JUnit
1 2 (25.00%) SoapUI
1 2 (25.00%) Toad
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Financial Institution
2 2 (25.00%) Front Office
2 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Integration Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Backend Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) EDI
1 2 (25.00%) IBM Integration Bus
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
1 2 (25.00%) Middleware
1 2 (25.00%) SOAP
1 2 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (12.50%) Hugging Face
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (25.00%) PKI
1 2 (25.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (12.50%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) AIX
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Computer Science
2 4 (50.00%) Data Science
3 3 (37.50%) AI
3 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Algorithmic Trading
4 2 (25.00%) Change Control
4 2 (25.00%) Conversational UI
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 2 (25.00%) Electronic Trading
4 2 (25.00%) Ethical Hacking
4 2 (25.00%) FX Algorithmic Trading
4 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (25.00%) Low Latency
4 2 (25.00%) Multithreading
4 2 (25.00%) OWASP
4 2 (25.00%) Secure Coding
4 2 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Korn
2 2 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (25.00%) Perl
2 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
2 3 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
1 2 (25.00%) SEPA
1 2 (25.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) IBM
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
1 2 (25.00%) Perforce