Senior Software Engineer Contracts in Southwark

Senior Software Engineer
Central London > Southwark

The median Senior Software Engineer daily rate in Southwark is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Southwark 5.00% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 5.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £575 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +27.78% -25.00% -11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Southwark

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Southwark. 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 Southwark with a recognized job title 20 9 21
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 20
10th Percentile £155 £446 £149
25th Percentile £176 £466 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £381
Median % change year-on-year -25.04% +31.47% -37.88%
75th Percentile £447 £544 £561
90th Percentile £450 £650 £604
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.75 - -
Median hourly rate £24.98 £23.80 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.94% - -
75th Percentile £44.84 - -
90th Percentile £77.94 - -
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Southwark

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in Southwark

Senior Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Southwark

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 Southwark region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London Bridge - 1 £425 -
Senior Software Engineer
Central London

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southwark

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Southwark region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Web Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) WordPress
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) PHPUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southwark 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 1 (100.00%) WordPress
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) PHPUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible