Lead Software Engineer Contracts in London

Lead Software Engineer
England > London

The median Lead Software Engineer daily rate in London is £813, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 423 534
Rank change year-on-year +82 +111 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 40 8 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.039% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.042% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 6 35
10th Percentile £515 £483 -
25th Percentile £694 £504 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £813 £511 £710
Median % change year-on-year +58.92% -27.99% +9.23%
75th Percentile £888 £569 £888
90th Percentile - £588 -
England median daily rate £800 £638 £700
% change year-on-year +25.49% -8.93% +7.69%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 14,705 19,194 35,324
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 93.86% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,509 13,971 25,561
10th Percentile £338 £350 £375
25th Percentile £450 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £790 £800 £788
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 212 302
10th Percentile £17.25 £18.02 £15.75
25th Percentile £24.50 £21.94 £20.25
Median hourly rate £39.00 £40.50 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +25.58% +7.50%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.94 £57.50
90th Percentile £80.75 £76.25 £75.00
England median hourly rate £41.50 £45.94 £30.00
% change year-on-year -9.66% +53.13% +50.00%

Lead Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Engineer in London

Lead Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Software Engineer in London

Lead Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Engineer in London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Software Engineer in London

Lead Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Software Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
East London - 4 £554 - 1
Central London +21 2 £530 -7.83% 1
West London - 1 £575 -
Lead Software Engineer
England

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Lead 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 London region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 40 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 34 (85.00%) Agile
3 33 (82.50%) Java
4 32 (80.00%) Finance
4 32 (80.00%) AWS
5 31 (77.50%) Banking
6 30 (75.00%) GCP
7 29 (72.50%) TypeScript
7 29 (72.50%) JavaScript
7 29 (72.50%) Python
8 28 (70.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 28 (70.00%) Apache
8 28 (70.00%) Asset Management
8 28 (70.00%) Front Office
8 28 (70.00%) Fixed Income
8 28 (70.00%) Equities
8 28 (70.00%) Hedge funds
8 28 (70.00%) SciPy
8 28 (70.00%) NumPy
8 28 (70.00%) Derivative
8 28 (70.00%) Investment Banking
8 28 (70.00%) Protocol Buffers
8 28 (70.00%) Pandas
8 28 (70.00%) Line Management
8 28 (70.00%) Data Lake
8 28 (70.00%) gRPC
8 28 (70.00%) Apache Airflow
8 28 (70.00%) Amazon Athena
8 28 (70.00%) Apache Ignite
8 28 (70.00%) Dremio

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 28 (70.00%) Apache
1 28 (70.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 32 (80.00%) AWS
2 30 (75.00%) GCP
3 28 (70.00%) dbt
3 28 (70.00%) Snowflake
4 10 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.00%) Azure
6 1 (2.50%) Figma
6 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (70.00%) Amazon Athena
1 28 (70.00%) Apache Arrow
1 28 (70.00%) Apache Ignite
1 28 (70.00%) Data Lake
1 28 (70.00%) Dremio
2 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Git
2 3 (7.50%) XCTest
3 1 (2.50%) GitLab
General
1 32 (80.00%) Finance
2 31 (77.50%) Banking
3 28 (70.00%) Front Office
3 28 (70.00%) Investment Banking
4 3 (7.50%) Social Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (70.00%) gRPC
1 28 (70.00%) NumPy
1 28 (70.00%) Pandas
1 28 (70.00%) Protocol Buffers
1 28 (70.00%) SciPy
2 10 (25.00%) PySpark
3 6 (15.00%) React Native
4 3 (7.50%) SwiftUI
5 2 (5.00%) .NET
6 1 (2.50%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.50%) CSS
6 1 (2.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 28 (70.00%) Derivative
1 28 (70.00%) Equities
1 28 (70.00%) Fixed Income
1 28 (70.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 28 (70.00%) Hedge funds
2 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Apple iOS
2 3 (7.50%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 34 (85.00%) Agile
3 28 (70.00%) Asset Management
3 28 (70.00%) Line Management
4 10 (25.00%) Migration
5 9 (22.50%) Computer Science
6 8 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (17.50%) Test Automation
8 6 (15.00%) Architectural Patterns
8 6 (15.00%) Clean Code
8 6 (15.00%) Code Quality
8 6 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (15.00%) Critical Thinking
8 6 (15.00%) Cryptography
8 6 (15.00%) MVVM
8 6 (15.00%) Operational Stability
8 6 (15.00%) SDLC
8 6 (15.00%) User Experience
8 6 (15.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 33 (82.50%) Java
2 29 (72.50%) JavaScript
2 29 (72.50%) Python
2 29 (72.50%) TypeScript
3 13 (32.50%) SQL
4 4 (10.00%) C#
5 3 (7.50%) Kotlin
5 3 (7.50%) Objective-C
5 3 (7.50%) Swift
6 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (22.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (22.50%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) Bloomberg
1 10 (25.00%) Reuters
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft