Software Engineering Contracts in London

Software Engineering
England > 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 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 36 36
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -13
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 1,010 1,534 2,517
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 5.67% 5.74% 6.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.39% 6.31% 7.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 775 1,131 2,012
10th Percentile £458 £463 £463
25th Percentile £525 £525 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £650 £610
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% +6.56% +10.91%
75th Percentile £800 £750 £713
90th Percentile £883 £835 £800
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 32 39
10th Percentile £48.44 £35.88 £32.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.42 £40.12
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +10.58% +15.56%
75th Percentile £82.50 £70.63 £60.63
90th Percentile £83.75 £89.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £64.57 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.21% +17.40% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,808 24,326 35,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.69% 90.98% 92.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,340 17,488 26,268
10th Percentile £338 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 276 422
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.50 £17.28
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.48 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.75 £39.00 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.28% +6.12% +12.47%
75th Percentile £47.95 £63.81 £51.00
90th Percentile £65.53 £80.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineering in London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

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 6 months to 6 May 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 -7 106 £551 -11.92% 61
West London +22 23 £488 -18.75% 32
East London +1 12 £548 +9.50% 38
South London -14 6 £550 - 13
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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
1 164 (16.24%) Apache Airflow
2 157 (15.54%) Apache
3 14 (1.39%) Apache Spark
3 14 (1.39%) Confluence
4 13 (1.29%) CMS
5 8 (0.79%) BizTalk Server
5 8 (0.79%) IIS
6 7 (0.69%) nginx
7 6 (0.59%) Tornado
8 4 (0.40%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.40%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.40%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.20%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.20%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.099%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.099%) EPiServer
10 1 (0.099%) JBoss
10 1 (0.099%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.099%) SAS
10 1 (0.099%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (1.29%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.59%) Simulink
4 6 (0.59%) Stateflow
5 4 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Endur
2 4 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.30%) FLEXCUBE
3 3 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
3 3 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.20%) Shopify
4 2 (0.20%) WebTrends
5 1 (0.099%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.099%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.099%) Front Arena
Cloud Services
1 409 (40.50%) AWS
2 362 (35.84%) Azure
3 223 (22.08%) GCP
4 92 (9.11%) dbt
5 80 (7.92%) Snowflake
6 68 (6.73%) Azure DevOps
7 55 (5.45%) Serverless
8 41 (4.06%) GitHub
9 38 (3.76%) Azure Service Bus
10 33 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
11 30 (2.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 24 (2.38%) npm
12 24 (2.38%) PaaS
13 21 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
13 21 (2.08%) SaaS
14 20 (1.98%) Azure Functions
15 19 (1.88%) Azure Key Vault
15 19 (1.88%) Entra ID
16 18 (1.78%) Azure API Management
16 18 (1.78%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.89%) Internet
2 8 (0.79%) DNS
3 7 (0.69%) Firewall
4 5 (0.50%) DHCP
4 5 (0.50%) Network Security
5 4 (0.40%) HTTP
5 4 (0.40%) VPN
5 4 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.30%) IPv4
7 2 (0.20%) AMQP
8 1 (0.099%) Broadband
8 1 (0.099%) FTP
8 1 (0.099%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.099%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.099%) SMS
8 1 (0.099%) SNMP
8 1 (0.099%) SSL
8 1 (0.099%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.099%) VLAN
8 1 (0.099%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (14.46%) Apache Ignite
2 91 (9.01%) Amazon Athena
2 91 (9.01%) Apache Arrow
2 91 (9.01%) Dremio
3 84 (8.32%) Data Lake
4 72 (7.13%) SQL Server
5 71 (7.03%) PostgreSQL
6 54 (5.35%) NoSQL
7 27 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
8 21 (2.08%) MongoDB
9 20 (1.98%) Relational Database
10 19 (1.88%) Apache Cassandra
10 19 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 17 (1.68%) MySQL
11 17 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 13 (1.29%) Big Data
13 11 (1.09%) Oracle Database
14 8 (0.79%) Couchbase
14 8 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 88 (8.71%) Git
2 61 (6.04%) Cypress.io
3 53 (5.25%) JIRA
4 40 (3.96%) Jenkins
5 23 (2.28%) webpack
6 21 (2.08%) Postman
7 19 (1.88%) GitLab
7 19 (1.88%) Maven
8 14 (1.39%) Selenium
8 14 (1.39%) TeamCity
9 12 (1.19%) Visual Studio
10 9 (0.89%) JUnit
11 8 (0.79%) git-flow
11 8 (0.79%) JMeter
12 7 (0.69%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.59%) MLflow
13 6 (0.59%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.50%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.50%) SpecFlow
14 5 (0.50%) WiX
General
1 435 (43.07%) Finance
2 289 (28.61%) Front Office
3 240 (23.76%) Banking
4 203 (20.10%) Social Skills
5 104 (10.30%) Investment Banking
6 60 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
7 33 (3.27%) Public Sector
8 32 (3.17%) Retail
9 29 (2.87%) Marketing
10 16 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (1.29%) Financial Institution
12 12 (1.19%) Telecoms
13 9 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (0.79%) Automotive
14 8 (0.79%) Electronics
14 8 (0.79%) Local Government
14 8 (0.79%) Retail Banking
15 7 (0.69%) Games
15 7 (0.69%) Legal
15 7 (0.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 434 (42.97%) Developer
2 426 (42.18%) Software Engineer
3 227 (22.48%) Senior
4 137 (13.56%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 132 (13.07%) Python Developer
6 122 (12.08%) Python Engineer
7 113 (11.19%) Python Software Engineer
8 112 (11.09%) Senior Software Engineer
9 105 (10.40%) Lead
10 83 (8.22%) React Developer
11 73 (7.23%) Senior Developer
12 71 (7.03%) Software Developer
13 70 (6.93%) Full Stack Developer
14 59 (5.84%) C# Developer
15 56 (5.54%) Architect
15 56 (5.54%) Full Stack Engineer
16 55 (5.45%) .NET Developer
17 54 (5.35%) .NET Software Engineer
17 54 (5.35%) Java Engineer
18 49 (4.85%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 273 (27.03%) React
2 185 (18.32%) .NET
3 162 (16.04%) gRPC
4 155 (15.35%) Protocol Buffers
5 128 (12.67%) Pandas
6 124 (12.28%) Redux
7 115 (11.39%) NumPy
8 95 (9.41%) SciPy
9 87 (8.61%) Node.js
10 84 (8.32%) REST
11 81 (8.02%) Kafka
12 80 (7.92%) AngularJS
13 78 (7.72%) Material-UI
14 76 (7.52%) HTML
15 62 (6.14%) .NET Core
16 59 (5.84%) CSS
17 48 (4.75%) WebSockets
18 39 (3.86%) GraphQL
19 37 (3.66%) ASP.NET
19 37 (3.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 225 (22.28%) Fixed Income
2 181 (17.92%) Hedge funds
3 163 (16.14%) Equities
4 149 (14.75%) Derivative
5 125 (12.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 45 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
7 40 (3.96%) Greenfield Project
8 34 (3.37%) Algorithms
9 22 (2.18%) Product Ownership
10 21 (2.08%) Cloud Native
11 19 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
12 18 (1.78%) Management Information System
13 17 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
14 16 (1.58%) Renewable Energy
15 14 (1.39%) Mobile App
16 13 (1.29%) Data Structures
17 11 (1.09%) Client/Server
18 10 (0.99%) Public Cloud
19 9 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
19 9 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 57 (5.64%) Linux
2 37 (3.66%) Windows
3 18 (1.78%) Android
4 15 (1.49%) Apple iOS
5 12 (1.19%) Unix
6 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.20%) VMS
6 2 (0.20%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.099%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.099%) tvOS
7 1 (0.099%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.099%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 459 (45.45%) Agile
2 221 (21.88%) Asset Management
3 220 (21.78%) DevOps
4 190 (18.81%) CI/CD
5 184 (18.22%) Investment Management
6 178 (17.62%) Full Stack Development
7 117 (11.58%) Fintech
8 115 (11.39%) TDD
9 112 (11.09%) SDLC
10 100 (9.90%) Microservices
11 99 (9.80%) Computer Science
12 97 (9.60%) Artificial Intelligence
13 95 (9.41%) Analytics
14 89 (8.81%) Problem-Solving
15 88 (8.71%) Machine Learning
16 85 (8.42%) Scrum
17 77 (7.62%) Design Patterns
18 76 (7.52%) Front End Development
19 75 (7.43%) Test Automation
20 65 (6.44%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 416 (41.19%) Python
2 332 (32.87%) JavaScript
3 315 (31.19%) Java
4 299 (29.60%) TypeScript
5 269 (26.63%) C#
6 255 (25.25%) SQL
7 65 (6.44%) Go
8 58 (5.74%) C++
9 55 (5.45%) PowerShell
10 32 (3.17%) Scala
11 28 (2.77%) T-SQL
12 27 (2.67%) Rust
13 26 (2.57%) Kotlin
14 22 (2.18%) Ruby
15 19 (1.88%) C
16 18 (1.78%) R
17 16 (1.58%) Bicep
18 14 (1.39%) PL/SQL
19 11 (1.09%) PHP
20 9 (0.89%) Perl
Qualifications
1 164 (16.24%) Degree
2 61 (6.04%) Security Cleared
3 59 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 45 (4.46%) SC Cleared
5 38 (3.76%) Master's Degree
6 19 (1.88%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.40%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.30%) CISSP
8 3 (0.30%) PhD
9 2 (0.20%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.20%) CISA
9 2 (0.20%) CISM
9 2 (0.20%) MBA
9 2 (0.20%) PgMP
9 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.20%) PMP
10 1 (0.099%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.099%) EMC Certification
10 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (5.74%) QA
2 34 (3.37%) Data Quality
3 16 (1.58%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.50%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.40%) SEPA
6 3 (0.30%) MiFID
6 3 (0.30%) WCAG
7 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.099%) EMIR
8 1 (0.099%) GRC
8 1 (0.099%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.099%) JTAG
8 1 (0.099%) NIST
System Software
1 99 (9.80%) Docker
2 27 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.50%) ACF2
5 5 (0.50%) IAG
5 5 (0.50%) RACF
6 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 123 (12.18%) Kubernetes
2 58 (5.74%) Terraform
3 15 (1.49%) Ansible
4 13 (1.29%) Grafana
5 10 (0.99%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.59%) Kubeflow
7 5 (0.50%) Argo
7 5 (0.50%) Packer
8 4 (0.40%) Puppet
8 4 (0.40%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 3 (0.30%) Consul
10 2 (0.20%) Kibana
10 2 (0.20%) logstash
10 2 (0.20%) Podman
11 1 (0.099%) Bugsnag
11 1 (0.099%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.099%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.099%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.099%) systemd
11 1 (0.099%) vRealize
Vendors
1 73 (7.23%) Oracle
2 71 (7.03%) Google
2 71 (7.03%) Microsoft
3 28 (2.77%) Databricks
4 19 (1.88%) SAP
5 17 (1.68%) Salesforce
6 16 (1.58%) Bloomberg
7 14 (1.39%) MuleSoft
8 13 (1.29%) PayPal
9 11 (1.09%) Virgin Media
10 8 (0.79%) ServiceNow
10 8 (0.79%) Splunk
10 8 (0.79%) VMware
11 7 (0.69%) Sybase
12 6 (0.59%) Adobe
12 6 (0.59%) Optimizely
13 5 (0.50%) Foundry
13 5 (0.50%) IBM
13 5 (0.50%) Palantir
13 5 (0.50%) Red Hat