Senior Software Engineer Contracts in the Thames Valley

Senior Software Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Senior Software Engineer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £625 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 132 147 167
Rank change year-on-year +15 +20 -37
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 7 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.26% 0.17% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.18% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 1
10th Percentile £392 £402 -
25th Percentile £463 £404 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £430 £425
Median % change year-on-year +45.35% +1.18% -22.73%
75th Percentile £650 £484 £463
90th Percentile £669 £501 -
South East median daily rate £521 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +4.25% -2.44% +2.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,517 2,768 3,336
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 94.21% 96.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,916 2,273
10th Percentile £207 £313 £188
25th Percentile £370 £406 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 77 101
10th Percentile £15.85 £17.11 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.00 £12.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £45.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +157.14% -16.86%
75th Percentile £62.90 £66.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £84.40 £79.19 £57.38
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -13.40%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in the Thames Valley

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in the Thames Valley

Senior Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Software Engineer in the Thames Valley

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in the Thames Valley

Senior Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -3 7 £625 +52.44% 4
Senior Software Engineer
South East

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (85.71%) Java
2 6 (85.71%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
3 5 (71.43%) JIRA
3 5 (71.43%) Selenium
3 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
3 5 (71.43%) Azure
3 5 (71.43%) AWS
3 5 (71.43%) Software Architecture
3 5 (71.43%) Cucumber
3 5 (71.43%) REST
3 5 (71.43%) Java EE
3 5 (71.43%) Configuration Management
3 5 (71.43%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (71.43%) Terraform
3 5 (71.43%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (71.43%) SonarQube
3 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
3 5 (71.43%) Ansible
3 5 (71.43%) Docker
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (71.43%) GitLab
3 5 (71.43%) Decision-Making

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Cucumber
1 5 (71.43%) GitLab
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
1 5 (71.43%) JIRA
1 5 (71.43%) REST Assured
1 5 (71.43%) Selenium
1 5 (71.43%) SonarQube
2 1 (14.29%) CMake
2 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (57.14%) Law
3 4 (57.14%) Police
4 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) ARM Templates
1 5 (71.43%) Java EE
1 5 (71.43%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) CNTK
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) OpenVINO
2 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) Symfony
2 1 (14.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (71.43%) Configuration Management
3 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
3 5 (71.43%) Decision-Making
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (71.43%) Software Architecture
3 5 (71.43%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Data Science
4 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) C++
2 1 (14.29%) PHP
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 5 (71.43%) Ansible
2 5 (71.43%) Docker Swarm
2 5 (71.43%) Podman
2 5 (71.43%) Terraform