Senior Software Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Software Engineer daily rate in England is £644 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 345 510 519
Rank change year-on-year +165 +9 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 195 153 266
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.53% 0.30% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.32% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 121 195
10th Percentile £425 £425 £495
25th Percentile £458 £475 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £644 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +17.05% -8.33% +17.07%
75th Percentile £688 £651 £700
90th Percentile £850 £749 £738
UK median daily rate £638 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +15.91% -8.33% +17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 4 9
10th Percentile £35.52 £39.88 £35.50
25th Percentile £46.91 £47.19 £41.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +11.70% -1.05%
75th Percentile £72.50 £56.05 £50.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £60.20 £60.29
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £47.00
% change year-on-year +23.81% +11.70% -1.05%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in England

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in England

Senior Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Software Engineer in England

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in England

Senior Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Software Engineer in England

Senior Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 27 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
London +131 109 £650 +6.56% 159
South East +36 30 £521 +4.25% 50
North of England +36 20 £588 +6.82% 42
North West +22 15 £625 +13.64% 26
East of England +19 9 £550 -4.01% 39
Yorkshire +21 5 £280 -44.00% 10
South West +20 5 £488 -13.72% 45
West Midlands +18 2 - - 14
Midlands +11 2 - - 26
Senior Software Engineer
UK

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Senior 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 England region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 193 (98.97%) Software Engineering
2 95 (48.72%) AWS
3 94 (48.21%) Agile
4 60 (30.77%) Java
5 53 (27.18%) Python
5 53 (27.18%) Kubernetes
6 48 (24.62%) Docker
7 44 (22.56%) Finance
8 42 (21.54%) User Experience
9 41 (21.03%) JavaScript
10 40 (20.51%) Kafka
11 38 (19.49%) UX Design
12 37 (18.97%) Go
13 36 (18.46%) C#
14 34 (17.44%) Fintech
15 33 (16.92%) User Research
15 33 (16.92%) UX Research
15 33 (16.92%) TypeScript
15 33 (16.92%) Apache Cassandra
16 31 (15.90%) Azure
17 30 (15.38%) Microservices
18 29 (14.87%) CI/CD
18 29 (14.87%) Social Skills
19 28 (14.36%) React
19 28 (14.36%) Pandas
20 27 (13.85%) Derivative
20 27 (13.85%) Front Office
20 27 (13.85%) Asset Management
21 26 (13.33%) Fixed Income
21 26 (13.33%) .NET

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 25 (12.82%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (9.74%) Apache
3 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.51%) Drupal
3 1 (0.51%) MTS
3 1 (0.51%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Simulink
1 2 (1.03%) Stateflow
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.51%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 95 (48.72%) AWS
2 31 (15.90%) Azure
3 18 (9.23%) dbt
4 17 (8.72%) Snowflake
5 14 (7.18%) GCP
6 8 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.56%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.56%) GitHub
8 3 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.54%) Miro
8 3 (1.54%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.54%) Serverless
9 2 (1.03%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.03%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (1.03%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.03%) Datadog
9 2 (1.03%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.51%) Firewall
1 1 (0.51%) NFC
1 1 (0.51%) PPP
1 1 (0.51%) RS-422
1 1 (0.51%) SNMP
1 1 (0.51%) VPN
1 1 (0.51%) WAN
1 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (16.92%) Apache Cassandra
2 18 (9.23%) Amazon Athena
2 18 (9.23%) Apache Arrow
2 18 (9.23%) Apache Ignite
2 18 (9.23%) Dremio
3 17 (8.72%) Data Lake
4 11 (5.64%) SQL Server
5 8 (4.10%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.08%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.54%) MySQL
7 3 (1.54%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.03%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.51%) KDB
9 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.51%) Scylla
9 1 (0.51%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 14 (7.18%) Jenkins
2 12 (6.15%) GitLab
3 6 (3.08%) Cucumber
3 6 (3.08%) JIRA
3 6 (3.08%) Selenium
4 5 (2.56%) Git
4 5 (2.56%) REST Assured
4 5 (2.56%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.05%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.54%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.54%) Gradle
6 3 (1.54%) JUnit
6 3 (1.54%) Maven
6 3 (1.54%) MSI
6 3 (1.54%) webpack
6 3 (1.54%) WiX
7 2 (1.03%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.51%) CMake
8 1 (0.51%) GoogleTest
8 1 (0.51%) Valgrind
General
1 44 (22.56%) Finance
2 29 (14.87%) Social Skills
3 27 (13.85%) Front Office
4 23 (11.79%) Banking
5 18 (9.23%) Investment Banking
6 12 (6.15%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.10%) Local Government
7 8 (4.10%) Retail
8 7 (3.59%) Aerospace
9 6 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (3.08%) Law
10 5 (2.56%) Automotive
10 5 (2.56%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.05%) Military
11 4 (2.05%) Police
12 3 (1.54%) Marketing
13 2 (1.03%) Electronics
13 2 (1.03%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.03%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (20.51%) Kafka
2 28 (14.36%) Pandas
2 28 (14.36%) React
3 26 (13.33%) .NET
3 26 (13.33%) gRPC
4 25 (12.82%) Protocol Buffers
5 22 (11.28%) NumPy
6 20 (10.26%) Node.js
6 20 (10.26%) REST
7 18 (9.23%) SciPy
8 13 (6.67%) AngularJS
9 12 (6.15%) RESTful
9 12 (6.15%) XML
10 11 (5.64%) Spring
11 10 (5.13%) Spring Boot
12 9 (4.62%) Java EE
12 9 (4.62%) Material-UI
13 8 (4.10%) CSS
13 8 (4.10%) Vue
14 7 (3.59%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.85%) Derivative
2 26 (13.33%) Fixed Income
2 26 (13.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 25 (12.82%) Equities
4 19 (9.74%) Hedge funds
5 9 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (4.10%) Embedded Systems
7 7 (3.59%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.05%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.05%) Pricing Data
9 3 (1.54%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.54%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.54%) Web 2.0
10 2 (1.03%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.03%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.51%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.21%) Linux
2 8 (4.10%) Windows
3 3 (1.54%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (1.03%) Android
5 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (98.97%) Software Engineering
2 94 (48.21%) Agile
3 42 (21.54%) User Experience
4 38 (19.49%) UX Design
5 34 (17.44%) Fintech
6 33 (16.92%) User Research
6 33 (16.92%) UX Research
7 30 (15.38%) Microservices
8 29 (14.87%) CI/CD
9 27 (13.85%) Asset Management
10 26 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (11.79%) DevOps
12 21 (10.77%) Investment Management
13 20 (10.26%) Mentoring
14 17 (8.72%) Design Patterns
14 17 (8.72%) Scrum
15 16 (8.21%) Computer Science
15 16 (8.21%) OO
16 14 (7.18%) TDD
17 13 (6.67%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 60 (30.77%) Java
2 53 (27.18%) Python
3 41 (21.03%) JavaScript
4 37 (18.97%) Go
5 36 (18.46%) C#
6 33 (16.92%) TypeScript
7 20 (10.26%) C++
8 15 (7.69%) SQL
9 11 (5.64%) C
10 6 (3.08%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.08%) Rust
11 5 (2.56%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.56%) Scala
12 4 (2.05%) PHP
12 4 (2.05%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.54%) Clojure
13 3 (1.54%) Haskell
14 2 (1.03%) Bash
14 2 (1.03%) Perl
14 2 (1.03%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (12.31%) Security Cleared
2 20 (10.26%) Degree
3 19 (9.74%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.62%) Master's Degree
5 8 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.54%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.51%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.51%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.15%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.51%) ISO 20022
2 1 (0.51%) ISO 26262
2 1 (0.51%) MiFID
2 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 48 (24.62%) Docker
2 5 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.51%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 53 (27.18%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.74%) Terraform
3 5 (2.56%) Ansible
3 5 (2.56%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (2.56%) Podman
4 1 (0.51%) Argo
4 1 (0.51%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (4.62%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.03%) Databricks
2 2 (1.03%) MathWorks
2 2 (1.03%) New Relic
2 2 (1.03%) NVIDIA
2 2 (1.03%) SAP
2 2 (1.03%) Sitecore
3 1 (0.51%) Finsemble
3 1 (0.51%) Google
3 1 (0.51%) HP
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle
3 1 (0.51%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.51%) Sparx
436 Senior Software Engineer jobs Nationwide