Software Engineering Contracts in Central London

Software Engineering
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 43 30
Rank change year-on-year -5 -13 +6
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 103 182 296
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.30% 4.93% 6.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.74% 5.40% 7.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 101 225
10th Percentile £425 £475 £450
25th Percentile £456 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -15.31% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £750
90th Percentile £838 £825 £813
London median daily rate £650 £650 £615
% change year-on-year - +5.69% +11.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £45.00
25th Percentile - - £46.13
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year - -29.29% +98.00%
75th Percentile - - £53.13
90th Percentile - - £54.40
London median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £49.92
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.18% +7.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central 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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,175 3,368 4,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.89% 91.27% 92.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 2,272 3,148
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.57% +7.24%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £681
90th Percentile £799 £813 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 26 44
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.75 £18.50
25th Percentile £23.03 £17.08 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%
75th Percentile £32.09 £53.50 £52.63
90th Percentile £41.65 £88.30 £62.28
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.08
% change year-on-year -28.59% +11.79% +7.35%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Central London

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Central London

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Central London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Central London

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Central London

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 31 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
City of London -7 88 £588 -9.62% 64
West End of London - 3 £425 - 3
Software Engineering
London

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 6 (5.83%) IIS
2 4 (3.88%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.88%) BizTalk Server
2 4 (3.88%) Confluence
3 2 (1.94%) Apache
4 1 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.97%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.97%) Endur
1 1 (0.97%) Front Arena
Cloud Services
1 40 (38.83%) Azure
2 28 (27.18%) AWS
3 13 (12.62%) Serverless
4 10 (9.71%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (7.77%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (7.77%) Azure Functions
6 6 (5.83%) GitHub
7 5 (4.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (4.85%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (4.85%) Azure Storage
7 5 (4.85%) GCP
8 4 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (3.88%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (3.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.91%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.91%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.94%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.94%) Azure Pipelines
10 2 (1.94%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.80%) Internet
2 3 (2.91%) Firewall
3 1 (0.97%) 5G
3 1 (0.97%) Broadband
3 1 (0.97%) DHCP
3 1 (0.97%) DNS
3 1 (0.97%) Network Security
3 1 (0.97%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.97%) VLAN
3 1 (0.97%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.65%) SQL Server
2 10 (9.71%) NoSQL
3 6 (5.83%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (5.83%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.85%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.85%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.88%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.91%) MySQL
7 2 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.94%) Big Data
7 2 (1.94%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.94%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.94%) KDB
7 2 (1.94%) Parquet
7 2 (1.94%) Power BI
7 2 (1.94%) Presto
8 1 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.97%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.97%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 12 (11.65%) Git
2 8 (7.77%) JIRA
3 7 (6.80%) GitLab
4 5 (4.85%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.91%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.91%) JMeter
5 3 (2.91%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.94%) Deequ
6 2 (1.94%) JUnit
6 2 (1.94%) Postman
6 2 (1.94%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.94%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.97%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.97%) Appium
7 1 (0.97%) Darcs
7 1 (0.97%) fastlane
7 1 (0.97%) Gradle
7 1 (0.97%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.97%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.97%) Travis CI
General
1 25 (24.27%) Finance
2 15 (14.56%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.62%) Banking
4 10 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.80%) Local Government
6 3 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.91%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.91%) Retail
7 2 (1.94%) Front Office
7 2 (1.94%) Legal
7 2 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.94%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.97%) Advertising
8 1 (0.97%) Automotive
8 1 (0.97%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.97%) Marketing
8 1 (0.97%) Publishing
8 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (35.92%) Software Engineer
2 29 (28.16%) Developer
3 19 (18.45%) Senior
4 11 (10.68%) Senior Software Engineer
5 10 (9.71%) Full Stack Developer
6 7 (6.80%) Lead
7 5 (4.85%) Analyst
7 5 (4.85%) Architect
7 5 (4.85%) Java Developer
7 5 (4.85%) Project Manager
7 5 (4.85%) Python Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) .NET Developer
8 4 (3.88%) Data Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Python Developer
8 4 (3.88%) Python Software Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Senior Developer
9 3 (2.91%) Full Stack .NET Developer
9 3 (2.91%) Full Stack Engineer
9 3 (2.91%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 3 (2.91%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (28.16%) .NET
2 25 (24.27%) React
3 11 (10.68%) .NET Framework
4 9 (8.74%) ASP.NET
4 9 (8.74%) Kafka
5 7 (6.80%) .NET Core
5 7 (6.80%) HTML
5 7 (6.80%) Web Services
6 5 (4.85%) Blazor
6 5 (4.85%) REST
7 4 (3.88%) ARM Templates
7 4 (3.88%) FIX Protocol
7 4 (3.88%) Middleware
7 4 (3.88%) Node.js
7 4 (3.88%) PySpark
7 4 (3.88%) Spring
7 4 (3.88%) WebSockets
8 3 (2.91%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (2.91%) FastAPI
8 3 (2.91%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.80%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.85%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.91%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.91%) Equities
4 3 (2.91%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.91%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.94%) CMDB
5 2 (1.94%) Derivative
5 2 (1.94%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.94%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.97%) Digital Currency
6 1 (0.97%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.97%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.97%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.97%) PKI
6 1 (0.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.56%) Windows
2 9 (8.74%) Linux
3 4 (3.88%) Unix
4 2 (1.94%) Android
4 2 (1.94%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (32.04%) Agile
2 27 (26.21%) SDLC
3 25 (24.27%) CI/CD
3 25 (24.27%) DevOps
4 20 (19.42%) Microservices
5 18 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (15.53%) Front End Development
6 16 (15.53%) Full Stack Development
7 14 (13.59%) Mentoring
8 12 (11.65%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (10.68%) Scrum
10 9 (8.74%) Analytics
10 9 (8.74%) Computer Science
10 9 (8.74%) Migration
11 8 (7.77%) Software Deployment
12 7 (6.80%) ETL
12 7 (6.80%) Mathematics
12 7 (6.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 6 (5.83%) User Stories
13 6 (5.83%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 39 (37.86%) Python
2 31 (30.10%) SQL
3 29 (28.16%) Java
4 23 (22.33%) C#
5 17 (16.50%) JavaScript
6 8 (7.77%) PowerShell
6 8 (7.77%) TypeScript
7 6 (5.83%) C++
7 6 (5.83%) Go
7 6 (5.83%) T-SQL
8 4 (3.88%) PL/SQL
8 4 (3.88%) Scala
9 2 (1.94%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.97%) Bicep
10 1 (0.97%) C
10 1 (0.97%) Perl
10 1 (0.97%) Ruby
10 1 (0.97%) Rust
10 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.97%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (17.48%) Degree
2 4 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (3.88%) SC Cleared
2 4 (3.88%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.94%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.97%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.91%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.94%) QA
3 1 (0.97%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.97%) NIST
3 1 (0.97%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.97%) SEPA
System Software
1 11 (10.68%) Docker
2 2 (1.94%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (13.59%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.80%) Terraform
3 2 (1.94%) Argo
3 2 (1.94%) Grafana
4 1 (0.97%) Ansible
4 1 (0.97%) Kibana
4 1 (0.97%) logstash
4 1 (0.97%) Podman
4 1 (0.97%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.97%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.97%) Puppet
4 1 (0.97%) vRealize
4 1 (0.97%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 16 (15.53%) Oracle
2 15 (14.56%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.80%) Databricks
4 4 (3.88%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.91%) Google
5 3 (2.91%) SAP
6 2 (1.94%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.94%) Foundry
6 2 (1.94%) Palantir
6 2 (1.94%) Solace
6 2 (1.94%) TIBCO
6 2 (1.94%) VMware
7 1 (0.97%) Advent
7 1 (0.97%) Eze Castle Integration
7 1 (0.97%) IBM
7 1 (0.97%) New Relic
7 1 (0.97%) Splunk
7 1 (0.97%) Sybase
7 1 (0.97%) Temenos