Senior Software Engineer Contracts

Senior Software Engineer
UK

The median Senior Software Engineer daily rate in the UK is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 532 565
Rank change year-on-year +146 +33 -43
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 204 186 300
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.31% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.32% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 132 222
10th Percentile £425 £426 £500
25th Percentile £456 £486 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +17.07%
75th Percentile £675 £651 £700
90th Percentile £850 £772 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £521 £540 £515
% change year-on-year -3.47% +4.85% +14.44%
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 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £72.75 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £83.75 £59.28 £60.29
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £52.50 £49.73
% change year-on-year +9.52% +5.57% +4.69%

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 40,501 57,364 85,821
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.55% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,442 40,011 60,276
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 £748 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,615 1,620 2,120
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.33 £15.47
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.77 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.12% +117.95% +2.63%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +153 193 £638 +15.91% 354
London +134 106 £650 +4.00% 147
Work from Home +93 81 £650 +20.37% 209
UK excluding London +65 68 £521 -3.47% 230
South East +25 31 £521 +4.25% 49
North of England +44 21 £550 - 41
North West +31 16 £625 +21.83% 26
East of England +17 8 £550 -4.01% 34
South West +24 5 £488 -9.72% 41
Yorkshire +23 5 £280 -44.00% 8
Midlands +20 2 - - 26
West Midlands +12 2 - - 13
Scotland +35 1 - - 32
Wales +16 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 19 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.

1 202 (99.02%) Software Engineering
2 99 (48.53%) AWS
3 96 (47.06%) Agile
4 63 (30.88%) Java
5 57 (27.94%) Kubernetes
6 51 (25.00%) Docker
6 51 (25.00%) Python
7 43 (21.08%) Kafka
8 42 (20.59%) User Experience
9 40 (19.61%) Finance
10 39 (19.12%) C#
11 38 (18.63%) JavaScript
11 38 (18.63%) UX Design
11 38 (18.63%) Go
12 35 (17.16%) Microservices
13 34 (16.67%) Fintech
13 34 (16.67%) CI/CD
13 34 (16.67%) Azure
14 33 (16.18%) Apache Cassandra
14 33 (16.18%) UX Research
14 33 (16.18%) User Research
15 32 (15.69%) Social Skills
16 29 (14.22%) React
16 29 (14.22%) TypeScript
17 28 (13.73%) .NET
18 27 (13.24%) Degree
18 27 (13.24%) DevOps
18 27 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
19 25 (12.25%) Pandas
19 25 (12.25%) Security Cleared

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 22 (10.78%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (7.35%) 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 (0.98%) Simulink
1 2 (0.98%) 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 99 (48.53%) AWS
2 34 (16.67%) Azure
3 15 (7.35%) GCP
4 14 (6.86%) dbt
5 13 (6.37%) Snowflake
6 8 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.94%) GitHub
8 5 (2.45%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.47%) Miro
9 3 (1.47%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.47%) Serverless
10 2 (0.98%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.98%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (0.98%) AWS IoT
10 2 (0.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (0.98%) Datadog
10 2 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.98%) 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%) VoIP
1 1 (0.49%) VPN
1 1 (0.49%) WAN
1 1 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (16.18%) Apache Cassandra
2 14 (6.86%) Amazon Athena
2 14 (6.86%) Apache Arrow
2 14 (6.86%) Apache Ignite
2 14 (6.86%) Dremio
3 13 (6.37%) Data Lake
4 12 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 9 (4.41%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.94%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.47%) MySQL
7 3 (1.47%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.98%) 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 15 (7.35%) Jenkins
2 12 (5.88%) GitLab
3 6 (2.94%) Git
3 6 (2.94%) JIRA
3 6 (2.94%) Selenium
3 6 (2.94%) SonarQube
4 5 (2.45%) Cucumber
4 5 (2.45%) REST Assured
4 5 (2.45%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.47%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.47%) Gradle
5 3 (1.47%) Maven
5 3 (1.47%) MSI
5 3 (1.47%) webpack
5 3 (1.47%) WiX
6 2 (0.98%) JUnit
6 2 (0.98%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.49%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.49%) ClearQuest
7 1 (0.49%) Eclipse
General
1 40 (19.61%) Finance
2 32 (15.69%) Social Skills
3 24 (11.76%) Front Office
4 19 (9.31%) Banking
5 14 (6.86%) Investment Banking
6 12 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.92%) Local Government
7 8 (3.92%) Retail
8 7 (3.43%) Aerospace
8 7 (3.43%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (2.94%) Electronics
9 6 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.94%) Law
10 5 (2.45%) Automotive
10 5 (2.45%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.96%) Military
11 4 (1.96%) Police
11 4 (1.96%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.47%) Marketing
13 2 (0.98%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (21.08%) Kafka
2 29 (14.22%) React
3 28 (13.73%) .NET
4 25 (12.25%) Pandas
5 23 (11.27%) gRPC
6 22 (10.78%) Protocol Buffers
7 21 (10.29%) REST
8 18 (8.82%) Node.js
8 18 (8.82%) NumPy
9 16 (7.84%) AngularJS
10 14 (6.86%) SciPy
11 12 (5.88%) RESTful
11 12 (5.88%) Spring
11 12 (5.88%) XML
12 11 (5.39%) Spring Boot
13 10 (4.90%) Material-UI
14 9 (4.41%) Java EE
14 9 (4.41%) Vue
15 8 (3.92%) .NET Core
15 8 (3.92%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.76%) Derivative
2 23 (11.27%) Fixed Income
2 23 (11.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 22 (10.78%) Equities
4 15 (7.35%) Hedge funds
5 13 (6.37%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.92%) Algorithms
6 8 (3.92%) Distributed Architecture
6 8 (3.92%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.45%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.96%) Video\Live Streaming
9 3 (1.47%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.47%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.47%) IoT
9 3 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.47%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.47%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.82%) Linux
2 9 (4.41%) Windows
3 3 (1.47%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.98%) Android
5 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (99.02%) Software Engineering
2 96 (47.06%) Agile
3 42 (20.59%) User Experience
4 38 (18.63%) UX Design
5 35 (17.16%) Microservices
6 34 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 34 (16.67%) Fintech
7 33 (16.18%) User Research
7 33 (16.18%) UX Research
8 27 (13.24%) DevOps
8 27 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (11.76%) Asset Management
10 22 (10.78%) Computer Science
10 22 (10.78%) Scrum
11 21 (10.29%) OO
12 20 (9.80%) Mentoring
13 18 (8.82%) Design Patterns
14 17 (8.33%) Investment Management
15 15 (7.35%) Kanban
16 14 (6.86%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 63 (30.88%) Java
2 51 (25.00%) Python
3 39 (19.12%) C#
4 38 (18.63%) Go
4 38 (18.63%) JavaScript
5 29 (14.22%) TypeScript
6 23 (11.27%) C++
7 16 (7.84%) SQL
8 12 (5.88%) C
9 10 (4.90%) Scala
10 7 (3.43%) PowerShell
10 7 (3.43%) Rust
11 6 (2.94%) PHP
12 5 (2.45%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.96%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.47%) Clojure
14 3 (1.47%) Haskell
14 3 (1.47%) Perl
15 2 (0.98%) Bash
15 2 (0.98%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 27 (13.24%) Degree
2 25 (12.25%) Security Cleared
3 19 (9.31%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.90%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.96%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.49%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.49%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.90%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.96%) 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 51 (25.00%) Docker
2 6 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.45%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.49%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 57 (27.94%) Kubernetes
2 23 (11.27%) Terraform
3 6 (2.94%) Ansible
4 5 (2.45%) Docker Swarm
4 5 (2.45%) Podman
5 4 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.49%) Argo
6 1 (0.49%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (4.90%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.45%) Google
3 4 (1.96%) Okta
3 4 (1.96%) Roku
4 2 (0.98%) Databricks
4 2 (0.98%) MathWorks
4 2 (0.98%) New Relic
4 2 (0.98%) NVIDIA
4 2 (0.98%) Oracle
4 2 (0.98%) SAP
4 2 (0.98%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.49%) Finsemble
5 1 (0.49%) HP
5 1 (0.49%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.49%) Sonatype
5 1 (0.49%) Sparx
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