Software Engineering Contract Job Trends in Greenwich

Software Engineering
East London > Greenwich

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Greenwich requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 - 8
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Greenwich 33.33% - 26.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 33.33% - 26.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile - - £415
25th Percentile £575 - £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £435
75th Percentile £625 - £467
90th Percentile - - £472
East London median daily rate £600 £585 £456
% change year-on-year +2.56% +28.29% -13.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Greenwich

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 Greenwich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6 1 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Greenwich 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 18
10th Percentile £533 - £400
25th Percentile £563 - £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £445
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +12.36% +78.00%
75th Percentile £625 - £488
90th Percentile £685 - £580
East London median daily rate £549 £516 £520
% change year-on-year +6.30% -0.72% -4.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.92 - -
Median hourly rate £14.17 - -
75th Percentile £14.42 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East London median hourly rate £17.00 £33.25 £21.09
% change year-on-year -48.87% +57.65% +35.93%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Greenwich

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

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Greenwich

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Greenwich

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Greenwich citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Greenwich 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker