Software Engineering Contracts in London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 3 months to 26 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Software Engineering England / London
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	75	90	109
Rank change year-on-year	+15	+19
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering	672	555	490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	3.24%	2.60%	2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	3.74%	3.04%	2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted	490	429	362
Median daily rate	£525	£500	£470
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.00%	+6.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£400	£360	£350
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£625	£600
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£400	£350
% change year-on-year	-	+14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted	14	6	16
Median hourly rate	£42.50	£40.50	£50.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+4.93%	-19.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£32.55	£24.49	£40.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.83	£42.50	£52.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£44.75	£42.25	£40.00
% change year-on-year	+5.91%	+5.62%

Software Engineering is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Contract Process & Methodology Skills London
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	17979	18242	19175
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London	86.61%	85.33%	82.14%
Number of daily rates quoted	12883	13341	13612
Median daily rate	£500	£475	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.26%	+5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£350	£325	£310
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£625	£630	£625
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£380
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted	188	156	254
Median hourly rate	£26.50	£21.00	£22.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+26.19%	-4.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£14.75	£12.50	£11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£51.25	£46.00	£55.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£34.00	£28.50	£30.00
% change year-on-year	+19.29%	-5.00%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in London citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Software Engineering in London.

Contractor daily rate trend for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Software Engineering in London over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering in London.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in London

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Software Engineering in London over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
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 Software Engineering within the London region over the 3 months to 26 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
City of London	+30	122	£550	+5.26%	75
Heathrow	0	7	£370	+9.62%
Bromley	+3	5	£375	-11.76%
New Malden	-	5	-	-	1
Canary Wharf	+4	3	£550	-15.38%
Croydon	-3	3	£435	+8.75%	1
Hammersmith	-	2	£425	-
Westminster	+3	1	£575	+30.68%
Osterley	-1	1	£284	-44.95%
Hayes	-1	1	£600	+76.47%
Greenwich	-	1	£410	-
Wimbledon	-	1	£550	-
Chiswick	-	1	£300	-
Mayfair	-	1	£800	-
Software Engineering England

Software Engineering
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in London

For the 6 months to 26 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Software Engineering also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the London region with a requirement for Software Engineering.

1	706 (56.57%)	Agile Software Development
2	514 (41.19%)	Java
3	403 (32.29%)	TDD
4	352 (28.21%)	JavaScript
5	304 (24.36%)	Scrum
6	273 (21.88%)	C#
7	263 (21.07%)	SQL
8	262 (20.99%)	Finance
9	251 (20.11%)	Continuous Integration
10	240 (19.23%)	.NET
11	239 (19.15%)	Linux
12	223 (17.87%)	DevOps
13	219 (17.55%)	Test Automation
13	219 (17.55%)	AngularJS
14	217 (17.39%)	Python

15	213 (17.07%)	HTML
16	208 (16.67%)	BDD
17	196 (15.71%)	Banking
17	196 (15.71%)	OO
18	182 (14.58%)	Amazon AWS
19	179 (14.34%)	CSS
20	176 (14.10%)	Microservices
21	168 (13.46%)	Git (software)
22	162 (12.98%)	C++
23	160 (12.82%)	React
24	147 (11.78%)	Web Services
24	147 (11.78%)	MVC
25	146 (11.70%)	HTML5
26	144 (11.54%)	Jenkins
27	143 (11.46%)	Pair Programming

Software Engineering
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	77 (6.17%)	Apache Spark
2	65 (5.21%)	Elasticsearch
3	40 (3.21%)	Apache
4	34 (2.72%)	Confluence
5	30 (2.40%)	Tomcat
6	22 (1.76%)	CMS
7	20 (1.60%)	Cloud Foundry
8	19 (1.52%)	WebSphere
9	16 (1.28%)	JBoss
10	15 (1.20%)	WebLogic
11	11 (0.88%)	Adobe Experience Manager
11	11 (0.88%)	Mule
12	9 (0.72%)	DataSynapse
13	8 (0.64%)	Apache Solr
13	8 (0.64%)	GlassFish
13	8 (0.64%)	SharePoint
14	6 (0.48%)	Drupal
14	6 (0.48%)	nginx
14	6 (0.48%)	NServiceBus
15	5 (0.40%)	Oracle Workflow

Applications
1	10 (0.80%)	Microsoft Excel
2	8 (0.64%)	Microsoft Office
3	7 (0.56%)	MS Visio
3	7 (0.56%)	Photoshop
4	4 (0.32%)	Doxygen
5	3 (0.24%)	OmniGraffle
6	2 (0.16%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
6	2 (0.16%)	Microsoft Project
7	1 (0.080%)	Adobe Creative Suite
7	1 (0.080%)	Simulink
7	1 (0.080%)	Spreadsheet
7	1 (0.080%)	TargetLink

Business Applications
1	4 (0.32%)	Salesforce.com CRM
2	3 (0.24%)	Oracle BPM
3	2 (0.16%)	NetSuite
3	2 (0.16%)	SAP Oil and Gas
4	1 (0.080%)	SAP Business One

Cloud Services
1	182 (14.58%)	Amazon AWS
2	86 (6.89%)	Microsoft Azure
3	42 (3.37%)	Amazon EC2
4	35 (2.80%)	GitHub
5	26 (2.08%)	PaaS
6	17 (1.36%)	Amazon SQS
6	17 (1.36%)	AWS Lambda
7	15 (1.20%)	OpenShift
7	15 (1.20%)	SaaS
7	15 (1.20%)	Twilio
8	13 (1.04%)	Cloud Computing
9	12 (0.96%)	IaaS
10	11 (0.88%)	Amazon S3
11	10 (0.80%)	Google Cloud Platform
12	9 (0.72%)	Bluemix
12	9 (0.72%)	IBM Cloud
13	8 (0.64%)	Amazon EMR
14	7 (0.56%)	Slack
15	6 (0.48%)	Salesforce Service Cloud
16	5 (0.40%)	AWS CloudFormation

Communications & Networking
1	42 (3.37%)	HTTP
2	30 (2.40%)	Internet
3	27 (2.16%)	TCP/IP
4	17 (1.36%)	Network Security
5	13 (1.04%)	DNS
6	12 (0.96%)	SSL
7	10 (0.80%)	LDAP
8	9 (0.72%)	Firewall
9	8 (0.64%)	SSH
10	5 (0.40%)	LAN
10	5 (0.40%)	WAN
11	4 (0.32%)	FTP
12	3 (0.24%)	DHCP
12	3 (0.24%)	HTTPS
12	3 (0.24%)	Wi-Fi
13	2 (0.16%)	BGP
13	2 (0.16%)	ICMP
13	2 (0.16%)	Intranet
13	2 (0.16%)	IPv4
13	2 (0.16%)	SMTP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	132 (10.58%)	NoSQL
2	125 (10.02%)	MongoDB
3	89 (7.13%)	SQL Server
4	82 (6.57%)	Big Data
5	78 (6.25%)	Relational Database
6	69 (5.53%)	Apache Cassandra
7	60 (4.81%)	Hadoop
8	56 (4.49%)	MySQL
9	42 (3.37%)	PostgreSQL
10	32 (2.56%)	Redis
11	27 (2.16%)	Apache Hive
12	26 (2.08%)	RDBMS
13	22 (1.76%)	Oracle Database
14	21 (1.68%)	Amazon DynamoDB
14	21 (1.68%)	RavenDB
15	17 (1.36%)	HBase
16	16 (1.28%)	SQL Server Integration Services
17	15 (1.20%)	OLTP
18	14 (1.12%)	CouchDB
19	13 (1.04%)	Neo4j

Development Applications
1	168 (13.46%)	Git (software)
2	144 (11.54%)	Jenkins
3	68 (5.45%)	TeamCity
4	64 (5.13%)	JIRA
5	53 (4.25%)	JUnit
5	53 (4.25%)	Maven
6	50 (4.01%)	Octopus Deploy
7	48 (3.85%)	Visual Studio
8	46 (3.69%)	Selenium
9	40 (3.21%)	Team Foundation Server
10	39 (3.13%)	Cucumber
11	34 (2.72%)	NUnit
12	30 (2.40%)	Grunt
13	28 (2.24%)	gulp
14	27 (2.16%)	Atlassian Bamboo
15	25 (2.00%)	Jasmine
16	23 (1.84%)	IntelliJ
17	22 (1.76%)	Eclipse
17	22 (1.76%)	SpecFlow
17	22 (1.76%)	WebDriver

General
1	262 (20.99%)	Finance
2	196 (15.71%)	Banking
3	94 (7.53%)	Front Office
4	74 (5.93%)	Investment Banking
5	43 (3.45%)	Retail
6	21 (1.68%)	Marketing
7	17 (1.36%)	Advertising
8	14 (1.12%)	Back Office
8	14 (1.12%)	Electronics
9	12 (0.96%)	Games
10	9 (0.72%)	Financial Institution
10	9 (0.72%)	Retail Banking
11	6 (0.48%)	Manufacturing
11	6 (0.48%)	Telecoms
12	5 (0.40%)	Corporate Banking
12	5 (0.40%)	Czech Language
12	5 (0.40%)	Publishing
13	3 (0.24%)	Aerospace
13	3 (0.24%)	General Ledger
13	3 (0.24%)	Multimedia

Job Titles
1	735 (58.89%)	Developer
2	268 (21.47%)	Software Engineer
3	212 (16.99%)	Java Developer
4	123 (9.86%)	C# Developer
5	117 (9.38%)	.NET Developer
6	84 (6.73%)	Agile Developer
7	81 (6.49%)	JavaScript Developer
8	80 (6.41%)	Senior Developer
9	78 (6.25%)	C++ Developer
10	74 (5.93%)	Developer/Software Engineer
11	71 (5.69%)	Full Stack Developer
12	68 (5.45%)	Architect
13	66 (5.29%)	C# .NET Developer
14	58 (4.65%)	DevOps Engineer
15	54 (4.33%)	Angular Developer
16	53 (4.25%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17	48 (3.85%)	Senior Software Engineer
18	45 (3.61%)	Software Developer
19	43 (3.45%)	Java Engineer
20	38 (3.04%)	Agile .NET Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	240 (19.23%)	.NET
2	219 (17.55%)	AngularJS
3	213 (17.07%)	HTML
4	179 (14.34%)	CSS
5	160 (12.82%)	React
6	147 (11.78%)	Web Services
7	146 (11.70%)	HTML5
8	143 (11.46%)	Spring
9	139 (11.14%)	REST
10	128 (10.26%)	Node.js
11	87 (6.97%)	RESTful
12	79 (6.33%)	ASP.NET
13	70 (5.61%)	ASP.NET Web API
14	68 (5.45%)	Kafka
15	61 (4.89%)	XML
16	59 (4.73%)	jQuery
17	57 (4.57%)	CSS3
17	57 (4.57%)	Spring Boot
18	54 (4.33%)	JSON
19	51 (4.09%)	Hibernate

Miscellaneous
1	102 (8.17%)	Analytical Skills
2	94 (7.53%)	Computer Science
2	94 (7.53%)	Greenfield Project
3	73 (5.85%)	User Experience
4	63 (5.05%)	Algorithms
5	58 (4.65%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
6	47 (3.77%)	Data Structures
7	44 (3.53%)	Fintech
8	41 (3.29%)	Derivative
9	40 (3.21%)	Fixed Income
9	40 (3.21%)	Mobile App
10	28 (2.24%)	Equity Derivative
11	24 (1.92%)	Virtual Team
12	23 (1.84%)	Enterprise Software
12	23 (1.84%)	Public Cloud
13	18 (1.44%)	Equities
14	15 (1.20%)	Linux Command Line
15	13 (1.04%)	Management Information System
15	13 (1.04%)	Online Banking
16	12 (0.96%)	Field-Programmable Gate Array

Operating Systems
1	239 (19.15%)	Linux
2	131 (10.50%)	Unix
3	91 (7.29%)	Windows
4	57 (4.57%)	Apple iOS
5	46 (3.69%)	Android
6	33 (2.64%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7	14 (1.12%)	Ubuntu
8	11 (0.88%)	CoreOS
9	9 (0.72%)	Solaris
10	8 (0.64%)	CentOS
10	8 (0.64%)	Windows Server
11	5 (0.40%)	Embedded Linux
11	5 (0.40%)	Windows Server 2008
12	4 (0.32%)	Mac OS
12	4 (0.32%)	Windows 7
12	4 (0.32%)	Windows Server 2012
13	3 (0.24%)	VMS
14	2 (0.16%)	Windows Embedded Compact
15	1 (0.080%)	Windows Mobile

Processes & Methodologies
1	706 (56.57%)	Agile Software Development
2	403 (32.29%)	TDD
3	304 (24.36%)	Scrum
4	251 (20.11%)	Continuous Integration
5	223 (17.87%)	DevOps
6	219 (17.55%)	Test Automation
7	208 (16.67%)	BDD
8	196 (15.71%)	OO
9	176 (14.10%)	Microservices
10	147 (11.78%)	MVC
11	143 (11.46%)	Pair Programming
12	122 (9.78%)	Open Source
13	119 (9.54%)	SDLC
14	111 (8.89%)	E-Commerce
15	103 (8.25%)	Front End Development
16	99 (7.93%)	Multithreading
17	98 (7.85%)	SOLID
18	92 (7.37%)	Web Development
19	88 (7.05%)	Continuous Improvement
20	79 (6.33%)	Unit Testing

Programming Languages
1	514 (41.19%)	Java
2	352 (28.21%)	JavaScript
3	273 (21.88%)	C#
4	263 (21.07%)	SQL
5	217 (17.39%)	Python
6	162 (12.98%)	C++
7	132 (10.58%)	Scala
8	79 (6.33%)	Ruby
9	64 (5.13%)	C
10	45 (3.61%)	Perl
11	38 (3.04%)	ES6
11	38 (3.04%)	Groovy
12	37 (2.96%)	PowerShell
13	33 (2.64%)	T-SQL
14	29 (2.32%)	Apple Swift
14	29 (2.32%)	PHP
15	25 (2.00%)	Bash Shell
15	25 (2.00%)	TypeScript
16	24 (1.92%)	Go
17	23 (1.84%)	Shell Script

Qualifications
1	112 (8.97%)	Degree
2	48 (3.85%)	Security Cleared
3	43 (3.45%)	Computer Science Degree
4	26 (2.08%)	SC Cleared
5	11 (0.88%)	ISTQB
6	10 (0.80%)	DV Cleared
7	9 (0.72%)	Master's Degree
8	7 (0.56%)	PMI Certification
8	7 (0.56%)	PMP
9	5 (0.40%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
9	5 (0.40%)	MBA
10	3 (0.24%)	BPSS Clearance
10	3 (0.24%)	CFA
11	2 (0.16%)	AWS Certification
11	2 (0.16%)	ISEB
11	2 (0.16%)	ISEB Practitioner
11	2 (0.16%)	Microsoft Certification
12	1 (0.080%)	CCIE
12	1 (0.080%)	MCP
12	1 (0.080%)	Numerate Degree

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	113 (9.05%)	QA
2	17 (1.36%)	MiFID
3	6 (0.48%)	Data Quality
4	4 (0.32%)	JSP 440
4	4 (0.32%)	MISRA
5	3 (0.24%)	PCI DSS
5	3 (0.24%)	SLA
6	2 (0.16%)	PMO
7	1 (0.080%)	Cyber Essentials
7	1 (0.080%)	Dodd-Frank
7	1 (0.080%)	EMIR
7	1 (0.080%)	ISO 26262
7	1 (0.080%)	ISO 9001

System Software
1	132 (10.58%)	Docker
2	9 (0.72%)	Active Directory
3	8 (0.64%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	6 (0.48%)	Apache ZooKeeper
4	6 (0.48%)	HDFS
5	5 (0.40%)	Firmware
6	4 (0.32%)	Virtual Machines
7	3 (0.24%)	Apache Flume
8	1 (0.080%)	iptables
8	1 (0.080%)	KVM
8	1 (0.080%)	Oracle RAC
8	1 (0.080%)	Platform Symphony
8	1 (0.080%)	vCloud
8	1 (0.080%)	Virtual Servers
8	1 (0.080%)	vSphere
8	1 (0.080%)	Xen

Systems Management
1	82 (6.57%)	Puppet
2	81 (6.49%)	Ansible
3	73 (5.85%)	Opscode Chef
4	48 (3.85%)	Kubernetes
5	35 (2.80%)	Terraform
6	30 (2.40%)	Kibana
7	15 (1.20%)	Mesos
8	11 (0.88%)	Rancher
9	10 (0.80%)	Grafana
10	9 (0.72%)	logstash
10	9 (0.72%)	Prometheus
11	8 (0.64%)	Graphite
12	7 (0.56%)	Hadoop YARN
12	7 (0.56%)	HockeyApp
12	7 (0.56%)	HP Quality Center
13	5 (0.40%)	Marathon
13	5 (0.40%)	Packer
14	4 (0.32%)	OpenAM
14	4 (0.32%)	OpenIDM
14	4 (0.32%)	rkt

Vendors
1	104 (8.33%)	Oracle
2	85 (6.81%)	Microsoft
3	33 (2.64%)	New Relic
4	30 (2.40%)	Red Hat
5	22 (1.76%)	Google
6	20 (1.60%)	Salesforce.com
7	19 (1.52%)	Sybase
8	18 (1.44%)	Splunk
9	15 (1.20%)	Adobe
9	15 (1.20%)	TIBCO
10	14 (1.12%)	VMware
11	10 (0.80%)	Apple
12	9 (0.72%)	AppDynamics
12	9 (0.72%)	Atlassian
12	9 (0.72%)	hybris
13	8 (0.64%)	Tableau
14	7 (0.56%)	SAP
15	6 (0.48%)	Bloomberg
15	6 (0.48%)	IBM
15	6 (0.48%)	TOWER Software