Senior Software Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Software Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Software Engineer daily rate in London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 280 420 415
Rank change year-on-year +140 -5 -30
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 109 80 191
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.61% 0.29% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.31% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 68 150
10th Percentile £450 £449 £538
25th Percentile £481 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £618 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +2.92% +11.63%
75th Percentile £800 £725 £713
90th Percentile £850 £800 £739
England median daily rate £638 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +15.91% -8.33% +17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile - - £32.88
25th Percentile £81.25 - £33.44
Median hourly rate £82.50 £35.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +135.71% -3.45% -
75th Percentile £83.75 - £38.44
90th Percentile - - £38.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £47.00
% change year-on-year +23.81% +11.70% -1.05%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,601 25,897 37,041
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.32% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,001 18,738 27,022
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £442 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 299 448
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.02
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.10% +1.43% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.60 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in London

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in London

Senior Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Software Engineer in London

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in London

Senior Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 26 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
Central London +42 13 £450 -25.00% 13
South London - 4 - - 2
East London -8 1 - - 4
Senior Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 London region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 107 (98.17%) Software Engineering
2 61 (55.96%) AWS
3 52 (47.71%) Agile
4 42 (38.53%) Python
5 41 (37.61%) Finance
6 40 (36.70%) Java
7 37 (33.94%) JavaScript
8 32 (29.36%) TypeScript
9 28 (25.69%) Pandas
10 27 (24.77%) Kubernetes
10 27 (24.77%) C#
10 27 (24.77%) Front Office
10 27 (24.77%) Asset Management
10 27 (24.77%) Derivative
11 26 (23.85%) Fixed Income
11 26 (23.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 26 (23.85%) React
11 26 (23.85%) gRPC
12 25 (22.94%) Apache Airflow
12 25 (22.94%) Protocol Buffers
12 25 (22.94%) Equities
13 24 (22.02%) Docker
13 24 (22.02%) User Experience
14 22 (20.18%) Kafka
14 22 (20.18%) Banking
15 21 (19.27%) .NET
15 21 (19.27%) Azure
15 21 (19.27%) UX Design
15 21 (19.27%) Investment Management
15 21 (19.27%) NumPy

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (22.94%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (17.43%) Apache
3 1 (0.92%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.92%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.92%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (55.96%) AWS
2 21 (19.27%) Azure
3 18 (16.51%) dbt
4 17 (15.60%) Snowflake
5 11 (10.09%) GCP
6 5 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.59%) Entra ID
6 5 (4.59%) GitHub
7 3 (2.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.75%) Miro
7 3 (2.75%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.75%) Serverless
8 2 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.83%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (1.83%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.83%) Datadog
8 2 (1.83%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.51%) Amazon Athena
1 18 (16.51%) Apache Arrow
1 18 (16.51%) Apache Ignite
1 18 (16.51%) Dremio
2 17 (15.60%) Data Lake
3 16 (14.68%) Apache Cassandra
4 9 (8.26%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.75%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.75%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.83%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.83%) MySQL
7 1 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.92%) KDB
7 1 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.92%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 6 (5.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.75%) Cypress.io
2 3 (2.75%) Gradle
2 3 (2.75%) Maven
2 3 (2.75%) MSI
2 3 (2.75%) Visual Studio
2 3 (2.75%) webpack
2 3 (2.75%) WiX
3 2 (1.83%) JUnit
4 1 (0.92%) Babel
4 1 (0.92%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.92%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.92%) Git
4 1 (0.92%) GitLab
4 1 (0.92%) JMeter
4 1 (0.92%) Selenium
4 1 (0.92%) Spinnaker
4 1 (0.92%) TestNG
General
1 41 (37.61%) Finance
2 27 (24.77%) Front Office
3 22 (20.18%) Banking
4 18 (16.51%) Investment Banking
5 14 (12.84%) Social Skills
6 8 (7.34%) Local Government
6 8 (7.34%) Public Sector
6 8 (7.34%) Retail
7 4 (3.67%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.83%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.83%) Law
8 2 (1.83%) Marketing
9 1 (0.92%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (25.69%) Pandas
2 26 (23.85%) gRPC
2 26 (23.85%) React
3 25 (22.94%) Protocol Buffers
4 22 (20.18%) Kafka
5 21 (19.27%) .NET
5 21 (19.27%) NumPy
6 18 (16.51%) SciPy
7 14 (12.84%) REST
8 13 (11.93%) Node.js
9 11 (10.09%) AngularJS
10 10 (9.17%) Spring
11 9 (8.26%) Material-UI
12 8 (7.34%) Spring Boot
12 8 (7.34%) Vue
12 8 (7.34%) XML
13 6 (5.50%) CSS
14 5 (4.59%) GraphQL
15 4 (3.67%) Java EE
15 4 (3.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (24.77%) Derivative
2 26 (23.85%) Fixed Income
2 26 (23.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 25 (22.94%) Equities
4 19 (17.43%) Hedge funds
5 8 (7.34%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.67%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (3.67%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (3.67%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (3.67%) Pricing Data
7 3 (2.75%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.75%) Web 2.0
8 2 (1.83%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.83%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.83%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.92%) Machine to Machine
9 1 (0.92%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.75%) Windows
2 1 (0.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (98.17%) Software Engineering
2 52 (47.71%) Agile
3 27 (24.77%) Asset Management
4 24 (22.02%) User Experience
5 21 (19.27%) Investment Management
5 21 (19.27%) UX Design
6 20 (18.35%) Microservices
7 17 (15.60%) Fintech
8 16 (14.68%) CI/CD
8 16 (14.68%) User Research
8 16 (14.68%) UX Research
9 12 (11.01%) Analytics
9 12 (11.01%) Front End Development
9 12 (11.01%) Greeks
9 12 (11.01%) Mentoring
10 11 (10.09%) DevOps
10 11 (10.09%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (8.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (8.26%) TDD
12 7 (6.42%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (38.53%) Python
2 40 (36.70%) Java
3 37 (33.94%) JavaScript
4 32 (29.36%) TypeScript
5 27 (24.77%) C#
6 17 (15.60%) Go
7 9 (8.26%) SQL
8 6 (5.50%) C++
8 6 (5.50%) Rust
9 5 (4.59%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.67%) Scala
10 4 (3.67%) T-SQL
11 3 (2.75%) Clojure
11 3 (2.75%) Haskell
11 3 (2.75%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.83%) Bicep
12 2 (1.83%) PHP
12 2 (1.83%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (9.17%) Degree
2 7 (6.42%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.59%) Master's Degree
4 4 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.75%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.01%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.92%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.92%) ISO 20022
2 1 (0.92%) MiFID
System Software
1 24 (22.02%) Docker
2 5 (4.59%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (24.77%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.67%) Terraform
3 1 (0.92%) Argo
Vendors
1 6 (5.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.83%) Databricks
2 2 (1.83%) New Relic
3 1 (0.92%) Finsemble
3 1 (0.92%) Oracle
3 1 (0.92%) Salesforce