Senior Software Engineer Contracts

Senior Software Engineer
UK

The median Senior Software Engineer daily rate in the UK is £638 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 396 536 565
Rank change year-on-year +140 +29 -32
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 206 184 298
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.31% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.33% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 131 220
10th Percentile £425 £425 £495
25th Percentile £456 £476 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% -8.33% +17.07%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £700
90th Percentile £850 £749 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £539 £517
% change year-on-year -7.24% +4.26% +14.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 5 9
10th Percentile £35.52 £41.50 £35.50
25th Percentile £46.91 £51.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +11.70% -1.05%
75th Percentile £72.75 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £59.28 £60.29
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £52.50 £47.00
% change year-on-year +9.52% +11.70% -1.05%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in the UK

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in the UK

Senior Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Software Engineer in the UK

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in the UK

Senior Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Software Engineer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Software Engineer in the UK

Senior Software Engineer
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +165 195 £644 +17.05% 362
London +131 109 £650 +6.56% 159
Work from Home +105 82 £650 +23.22% 197
UK excluding London +60 67 £500 -7.24% 236
South East +36 30 £521 +4.25% 50
North of England +36 20 £588 +6.82% 42
North West +22 15 £625 +13.64% 26
East of England +19 9 £550 -4.01% 39
Yorkshire +21 5 £280 -44.00% 10
South West +20 5 £488 -13.72% 45
West Midlands +18 2 - - 14
Midlands +11 2 - - 26
Scotland +29 1 - - 27
Wales +15 1 - - 4

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 204 (99.03%) Software Engineering
2 102 (49.51%) AWS
3 99 (48.06%) Agile
4 67 (32.52%) Java
5 55 (26.70%) Kubernetes
6 54 (26.21%) Python
7 50 (24.27%) Docker
8 44 (21.36%) Finance
9 43 (20.87%) Kafka
10 42 (20.39%) User Experience
11 41 (19.90%) JavaScript
12 38 (18.45%) UX Design
13 37 (17.96%) C#
13 37 (17.96%) Go
14 36 (17.48%) Microservices
15 34 (16.50%) Fintech
16 33 (16.02%) TypeScript
16 33 (16.02%) User Research
16 33 (16.02%) UX Research
16 33 (16.02%) CI/CD
16 33 (16.02%) Azure
16 33 (16.02%) Apache Cassandra
17 31 (15.05%) Social Skills
18 28 (13.59%) Pandas
18 28 (13.59%) React
19 27 (13.11%) Derivative
19 27 (13.11%) Front Office
19 27 (13.11%) Asset Management
20 26 (12.62%) Fixed Income
20 26 (12.62%) .NET

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (12.14%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (9.22%) Apache
3 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.49%) Drupal
3 1 (0.49%) MTS
3 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Simulink
1 2 (0.97%) Stateflow
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.49%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 102 (49.51%) AWS
2 33 (16.02%) Azure
3 18 (8.74%) dbt
4 17 (8.25%) Snowflake
5 14 (6.80%) GCP
6 8 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.43%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.43%) GitHub
8 3 (1.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.46%) Miro
8 3 (1.46%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.46%) Serverless
9 2 (0.97%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (0.97%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (0.97%) AWS IoT
9 2 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (0.97%) Datadog
9 2 (0.97%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.49%) Firewall
1 1 (0.49%) NFC
1 1 (0.49%) PPP
1 1 (0.49%) RS-422
1 1 (0.49%) SNMP
1 1 (0.49%) VPN
1 1 (0.49%) WAN
1 1 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (16.02%) Apache Cassandra
2 18 (8.74%) Amazon Athena
2 18 (8.74%) Apache Arrow
2 18 (8.74%) Apache Ignite
2 18 (8.74%) Dremio
3 17 (8.25%) Data Lake
4 11 (5.34%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.88%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.91%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.46%) MySQL
7 3 (1.46%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.97%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.49%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.49%) KDB
9 1 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.49%) Scylla
9 1 (0.49%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 14 (6.80%) Jenkins
2 12 (5.83%) GitLab
3 6 (2.91%) Cucumber
3 6 (2.91%) JIRA
3 6 (2.91%) Selenium
4 5 (2.43%) Git
4 5 (2.43%) REST Assured
4 5 (2.43%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.94%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.46%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.46%) Gradle
6 3 (1.46%) JUnit
6 3 (1.46%) Maven
6 3 (1.46%) MSI
6 3 (1.46%) webpack
6 3 (1.46%) WiX
7 2 (0.97%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.49%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.49%) TestNG
8 1 (0.49%) Valgrind
General
1 44 (21.36%) Finance
2 31 (15.05%) Social Skills
3 27 (13.11%) Front Office
4 23 (11.17%) Banking
5 18 (8.74%) Investment Banking
6 12 (5.83%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.88%) Local Government
7 8 (3.88%) Retail
8 7 (3.40%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (2.91%) Electronics
9 6 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.91%) Law
10 5 (2.43%) Automotive
10 5 (2.43%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.94%) Military
11 4 (1.94%) Police
11 4 (1.94%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.46%) Marketing
13 2 (0.97%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (20.87%) Kafka
2 28 (13.59%) Pandas
2 28 (13.59%) React
3 26 (12.62%) .NET
3 26 (12.62%) gRPC
4 25 (12.14%) Protocol Buffers
5 22 (10.68%) NumPy
6 21 (10.19%) REST
7 20 (9.71%) Node.js
8 18 (8.74%) SciPy
9 15 (7.28%) AngularJS
10 12 (5.83%) RESTful
10 12 (5.83%) Spring
10 12 (5.83%) XML
11 11 (5.34%) Spring Boot
12 9 (4.37%) Java EE
12 9 (4.37%) Material-UI
13 8 (3.88%) CSS
13 8 (3.88%) Vue
14 7 (3.40%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.11%) Derivative
2 26 (12.62%) Fixed Income
2 26 (12.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 25 (12.14%) Equities
4 19 (9.22%) Hedge funds
5 13 (6.31%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.88%) Distributed Architecture
6 8 (3.88%) Embedded Systems
7 7 (3.40%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.43%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.94%) Pricing Data
9 4 (1.94%) Video\Live Streaming
10 3 (1.46%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.46%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.46%) IoT
10 3 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.46%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.74%) Linux
2 8 (3.88%) Windows
3 3 (1.46%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.97%) Android
5 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (99.03%) Software Engineering
2 99 (48.06%) Agile
3 42 (20.39%) User Experience
4 38 (18.45%) UX Design
5 36 (17.48%) Microservices
6 34 (16.50%) Fintech
7 33 (16.02%) CI/CD
7 33 (16.02%) User Research
7 33 (16.02%) UX Research
8 27 (13.11%) Asset Management
9 26 (12.62%) DevOps
9 26 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (10.68%) Scrum
11 21 (10.19%) Computer Science
11 21 (10.19%) Investment Management
12 20 (9.71%) Mentoring
12 20 (9.71%) OO
13 17 (8.25%) Design Patterns
14 15 (7.28%) Kanban
15 14 (6.80%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 67 (32.52%) Java
2 54 (26.21%) Python
3 41 (19.90%) JavaScript
4 37 (17.96%) C#
4 37 (17.96%) Go
5 33 (16.02%) TypeScript
6 21 (10.19%) C++
7 16 (7.77%) SQL
8 11 (5.34%) C
9 10 (4.85%) Scala
10 7 (3.40%) Rust
11 6 (2.91%) PHP
11 6 (2.91%) PowerShell
12 5 (2.43%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.94%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.46%) Clojure
14 3 (1.46%) Haskell
14 3 (1.46%) Perl
15 2 (0.97%) Bash
15 2 (0.97%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (12.62%) Degree
2 25 (12.14%) Security Cleared
3 19 (9.22%) SC Cleared
4 13 (6.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.85%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.94%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.49%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.49%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.83%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.94%) QA
3 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.49%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.49%) ISO 26262
3 1 (0.49%) MiFID
3 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 50 (24.27%) Docker
2 6 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.43%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.49%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 55 (26.70%) Kubernetes
2 23 (11.17%) Terraform
3 5 (2.43%) Ansible
3 5 (2.43%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (2.43%) Podman
4 4 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.49%) Argo
5 1 (0.49%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (4.37%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.43%) Google
3 4 (1.94%) Okta
3 4 (1.94%) Roku
4 2 (0.97%) Databricks
4 2 (0.97%) MathWorks
4 2 (0.97%) New Relic
4 2 (0.97%) NVIDIA
4 2 (0.97%) SAP
4 2 (0.97%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.49%) Finsemble
5 1 (0.49%) HP
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle
5 1 (0.49%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.49%) Sparx
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