Senior Software Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Software Engineer daily rate in England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 347 502
Rank change year-on-year -31 +155 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 107 197 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.44% 0.53% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.57% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 144 119
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £413 £461 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £825 £688 £652
90th Percentile £875 £850 £749
UK median daily rate £500 £638 £550
% change year-on-year -21.57% +15.91% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 27 4
10th Percentile £34.60 £35.52 £39.88
25th Percentile £41.13 £46.91 £47.19
Median hourly rate £52.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +23.81% +11.70%
75th Percentile £70.38 £72.50 £56.05
90th Percentile £81.40 £83.75 £60.20
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -13.85% +23.81% +11.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
London -15 58 £638 -1.92% 359
North of England +25 26 £450 -23.40% 135
North West +21 19 £438 -30.00% 78
South East +26 10 £500 -4.08% 169
Midlands +27 7 £438 - 63
Yorkshire +9 6 £475 +69.64% 38
East Midlands - 3 £490 - 27
South West +42 1 £425 -12.82% 54
West Midlands +13 1 - - 29
North East - 1 - - 20
Senior Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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.

1 106 (99.07%) Software Engineering
2 59 (55.14%) JavaScript
2 59 (55.14%) AWS
3 54 (50.47%) TypeScript
4 51 (47.66%) Agile
5 45 (42.06%) Python
6 36 (33.64%) Finance
7 34 (31.78%) Java
8 33 (30.84%) React
9 27 (25.23%) Banking
9 27 (25.23%) CI/CD
10 26 (24.30%) Front Office
11 25 (23.36%) Node.js
12 24 (22.43%) dbt
13 23 (21.50%) Fixed Income
14 22 (20.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 22 (20.56%) Investment Banking
14 22 (20.56%) SciPy
14 22 (20.56%) NumPy
14 22 (20.56%) Pandas
15 21 (19.63%) Protocol Buffers
15 21 (19.63%) Hedge funds
15 21 (19.63%) Data Lake
15 21 (19.63%) gRPC
15 21 (19.63%) Apache Airflow
15 21 (19.63%) Derivative
15 21 (19.63%) Equities
15 21 (19.63%) Apache
15 21 (19.63%) Asset Management
15 21 (19.63%) Amazon Athena

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 21 (19.63%) Apache
1 21 (19.63%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.93%) Confluence
2 1 (0.93%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) LabWindows
1 1 (0.93%) Oracle TCA
Cloud Services
1 59 (55.14%) AWS
2 24 (22.43%) dbt
3 21 (19.63%) Snowflake
4 20 (18.69%) Azure
5 16 (14.95%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (14.02%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (12.15%) Amazon EKS
7 13 (12.15%) GCP
8 9 (8.41%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (8.41%) Dagster
8 9 (8.41%) Serverless
9 7 (6.54%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (6.54%) GitHub
10 6 (5.61%) AWS CodeBuild
10 6 (5.61%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (1.87%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.87%) Apigee
12 2 (1.87%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) Firewall
1 1 (0.93%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (19.63%) Amazon Athena
1 21 (19.63%) Apache Arrow
1 21 (19.63%) Apache Iceberg
1 21 (19.63%) Apache Ignite
1 21 (19.63%) Data Lake
1 21 (19.63%) Dremio
2 13 (12.15%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (7.48%) SQL Server
4 7 (6.54%) MySQL
5 5 (4.67%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.74%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.80%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.93%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.93%) GIS
8 1 (0.93%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.93%) KDB
8 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (13.08%) Git
2 13 (12.15%) JIRA
3 12 (11.21%) Jenkins
4 9 (8.41%) Bitbucket
5 7 (6.54%) GoogleTest
5 7 (6.54%) Rational DOORS
5 7 (6.54%) TestRail
6 3 (2.80%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.80%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.87%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.87%) GitLab
7 2 (1.87%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.87%) Subversion
8 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.93%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.93%) JUnit
8 1 (0.93%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.93%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.93%) Selenium
8 1 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 36 (33.64%) Finance
2 27 (25.23%) Banking
3 26 (24.30%) Front Office
4 22 (20.56%) Investment Banking
5 12 (11.21%) Social Skills
6 6 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.74%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.87%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.93%) Automotive
9 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.93%) Games
9 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.93%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (30.84%) React
2 25 (23.36%) Node.js
3 22 (20.56%) NumPy
3 22 (20.56%) Pandas
3 22 (20.56%) SciPy
4 21 (19.63%) gRPC
4 21 (19.63%) Protocol Buffers
5 18 (16.82%) .NET
6 14 (13.08%) RESTful
7 9 (8.41%) PySpark
8 8 (7.48%) CSS
8 8 (7.48%) HTML
9 7 (6.54%) .NET Core
10 6 (5.61%) AngularJS
10 6 (5.61%) AWS CDK
11 5 (4.67%) Blazor
11 5 (4.67%) GraphQL
11 5 (4.67%) Vue
12 4 (3.74%) Kafka
13 3 (2.80%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (21.50%) Fixed Income
2 22 (20.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 21 (19.63%) Derivative
3 21 (19.63%) Equities
3 21 (19.63%) Hedge funds
4 12 (11.21%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (11.21%) Pricing Data
5 6 (5.61%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.80%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.80%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.80%) NHS
7 2 (1.87%) Digital Media
7 2 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.87%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.28%) Linux
2 7 (6.54%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.93%) Android
3 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (99.07%) Software Engineering
2 51 (47.66%) Agile
3 27 (25.23%) CI/CD
4 21 (19.63%) Asset Management
5 20 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (16.82%) Test Automation
7 14 (13.08%) Computer Science
7 14 (13.08%) Scrum
8 12 (11.21%) Clean Code
8 12 (11.21%) DevOps
8 12 (11.21%) Investment Management
9 11 (10.28%) Front End Development
10 10 (9.35%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (9.35%) Design Patterns
10 10 (9.35%) Microservices
10 10 (9.35%) OO
10 10 (9.35%) TDD
11 9 (8.41%) Containerisation
11 9 (8.41%) Migration
12 8 (7.48%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 59 (55.14%) JavaScript
2 54 (50.47%) TypeScript
3 45 (42.06%) Python
4 34 (31.78%) Java
5 19 (17.76%) C#
6 16 (14.95%) SQL
7 12 (11.21%) C++
8 5 (4.67%) Bash
8 5 (4.67%) T-SQL
9 4 (3.74%) C
10 2 (1.87%) Go
11 1 (0.93%) Clojure
11 1 (0.93%) Fortran
11 1 (0.93%) Haskell
11 1 (0.93%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.93%) PHP
11 1 (0.93%) Ruby
11 1 (0.93%) Rust
11 1 (0.93%) Scala
11 1 (0.93%) Swift
Qualifications
1 15 (14.02%) Degree
2 14 (13.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.61%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.67%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.87%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.54%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.87%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (0.93%) GDPR
3 1 (0.93%) MiFID
3 1 (0.93%) QA
3 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (12.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (10.28%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.74%) Terraform
3 3 (2.80%) Grafana
3 3 (2.80%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.93%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (10.28%) Google
2 7 (6.54%) Oracle
3 3 (2.80%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.87%) PagerDuty
5 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.93%) Hitachi
5 1 (0.93%) NVIDIA
5 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.93%) Xamarin
870 Senior Software Engineer jobs Nationwide