Software Engineering Contract Job Trends in Hillingdon

Software Engineering
West London > Hillingdon

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - 14
Rank change year-on-year - - +22
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 2 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Hillingdon 1.48% - 5.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% - 6.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £450
25th Percentile - - £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.83%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
West London median daily rate £633 £405 £575
% change year-on-year +56.37% -29.65% -4.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hillingdon

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 Hillingdon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 128 61 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon 94.81% 85.92% 88.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 25 67
10th Percentile £363 £158 £311
25th Percentile £450 £263 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £716 £450 £592
90th Percentile £900 £505 £650
West London median daily rate £523 £414 £475
% change year-on-year +26.28% -12.89% -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 8
10th Percentile - £25.00 £14.90
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.04 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £25.15 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +9.34% -16.61% +9.67%
75th Percentile £28.75 - £34.25
90th Percentile - - £49.80
West London median hourly rate £28.55 £25.15 £30.16
% change year-on-year +13.52% -16.61% -53.60%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Hillingdon

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

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Hillingdon

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Hillingdon

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

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

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Hillingdon

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hillingdon citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Hillingdon

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 Hillingdon region over the 6 months to 1 July 2026. 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
West Drayton - 1 - - 1
Heathrow - 1 £450 -
Software Engineering
West London

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hillingdon 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Dagster
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) MLflow
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Data Scientist
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Scientist
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (50.00%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft