Senior Software Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Software Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Software Engineer daily rate in London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 267 414 427
Rank change year-on-year +147 +13 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 121 73 191
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.69% 0.28% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.29% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 61 146
10th Percentile £450 - £538
25th Percentile £505 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £850 £738 £713
90th Percentile - £800 £750
England median daily rate £650 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile - - £32.88
25th Percentile £81.25 - £33.44
Median hourly rate £82.50 £35.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +135.71% -3.45% -
75th Percentile £83.75 - £38.44
90th Percentile - - £38.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £47.25
% change year-on-year +23.81% +11.11% -0.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,330 24,760 37,101
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 95.17% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,815 17,998 27,187
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 281 441
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.07 £22.50 £23.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +13.45%
75th Percentile £46.05 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.32 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in London

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in London

Senior Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Software Engineer in London

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in London

Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Central London +41 13 £450 -25.00% 14
South London - 4 - - 4
Senior Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 London region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 119 (98.35%) Software Engineering
2 74 (61.16%) AWS
3 63 (52.07%) Agile
4 53 (43.80%) Java
4 53 (43.80%) JavaScript
5 52 (42.98%) Python
5 52 (42.98%) Finance
6 44 (36.36%) TypeScript
7 39 (32.23%) Pandas
8 38 (31.40%) Front Office
8 38 (31.40%) Asset Management
8 38 (31.40%) Derivative
9 37 (30.58%) Fixed Income
9 37 (30.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 37 (30.58%) gRPC
10 36 (29.75%) Apache Airflow
10 36 (29.75%) Protocol Buffers
10 36 (29.75%) Equities
11 34 (28.10%) Banking
12 33 (27.27%) Investment Management
12 33 (27.27%) NumPy
13 31 (25.62%) Hedge funds
13 31 (25.62%) Apache
14 30 (24.79%) Investment Banking
14 30 (24.79%) SciPy
14 30 (24.79%) Amazon Athena
14 30 (24.79%) Apache Arrow
14 30 (24.79%) Apache Ignite
14 30 (24.79%) Dremio
14 30 (24.79%) dbt

Senior 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 36 (29.75%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (25.62%) Apache
3 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.83%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.83%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 5 (4.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 74 (61.16%) AWS
2 30 (24.79%) dbt
3 29 (23.97%) Snowflake
4 21 (17.36%) Azure
5 10 (8.26%) GCP
6 7 (5.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (5.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (5.79%) Serverless
7 6 (4.96%) Amazon S3
7 6 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.96%) Entra ID
8 5 (4.13%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (4.13%) GitHub
9 4 (3.31%) Miro
10 3 (2.48%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.65%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.65%) Datadog
11 2 (1.65%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (24.79%) Amazon Athena
1 30 (24.79%) Apache Arrow
1 30 (24.79%) Apache Ignite
1 30 (24.79%) Dremio
2 29 (23.97%) Data Lake
3 15 (12.40%) Apache Cassandra
4 10 (8.26%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.96%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.48%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.48%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.65%) MySQL
8 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.83%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.83%) KDB
8 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.83%) Redis
8 1 (0.83%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 6 (4.96%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.13%) CircleCI
3 3 (2.48%) Cypress.io
3 3 (2.48%) Gradle
3 3 (2.48%) Maven
3 3 (2.48%) MSI
3 3 (2.48%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.48%) webpack
3 3 (2.48%) WiX
4 2 (1.65%) JUnit
5 1 (0.83%) Babel
5 1 (0.83%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.83%) Git
5 1 (0.83%) GitLab
5 1 (0.83%) JMeter
5 1 (0.83%) Selenium
5 1 (0.83%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.83%) TestNG
General
1 52 (42.98%) Finance
2 38 (31.40%) Front Office
3 34 (28.10%) Banking
4 30 (24.79%) Investment Banking
5 15 (12.40%) Social Skills
6 9 (7.44%) Retail
7 8 (6.61%) Local Government
7 8 (6.61%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.31%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.65%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.65%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.65%) Law
9 2 (1.65%) Marketing
10 1 (0.83%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (32.23%) Pandas
2 37 (30.58%) gRPC
3 36 (29.75%) Protocol Buffers
4 33 (27.27%) NumPy
5 30 (24.79%) SciPy
6 25 (20.66%) React
7 21 (17.36%) .NET
7 21 (17.36%) Kafka
8 17 (14.05%) Node.js
9 15 (12.40%) REST
10 11 (9.09%) Spring
11 10 (8.26%) AngularJS
12 9 (7.44%) Spring Boot
12 9 (7.44%) XML
13 8 (6.61%) Material-UI
13 8 (6.61%) RESTful
14 7 (5.79%) CSS
14 7 (5.79%) Vue
15 6 (4.96%) GraphQL
16 5 (4.13%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 38 (31.40%) Derivative
2 37 (30.58%) Fixed Income
2 37 (30.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 36 (29.75%) Equities
4 31 (25.62%) Hedge funds
5 10 (8.26%) Pricing Data
6 8 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (5.79%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (3.31%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (2.48%) Client/Server
9 3 (2.48%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (2.48%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.48%) Web 2.0
10 2 (1.65%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.65%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.65%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.83%) Machine to Machine
11 1 (0.83%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.48%) Windows
2 1 (0.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (98.35%) Software Engineering
2 63 (52.07%) Agile
3 38 (31.40%) Asset Management
4 33 (27.27%) Investment Management
5 23 (19.01%) User Experience
6 21 (17.36%) CI/CD
7 20 (16.53%) Microservices
7 20 (16.53%) UX Design
8 18 (14.88%) Greeks
9 16 (13.22%) Fintech
10 15 (12.40%) User Research
10 15 (12.40%) UX Research
11 12 (9.92%) DevOps
11 12 (9.92%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (9.09%) Analytics
12 11 (9.09%) Front End Development
12 11 (9.09%) Full Stack Development
12 11 (9.09%) Mentoring
12 11 (9.09%) TDD
13 8 (6.61%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 53 (43.80%) Java
1 53 (43.80%) JavaScript
2 52 (42.98%) Python
3 44 (36.36%) TypeScript
4 27 (22.31%) C#
5 16 (13.22%) Go
6 13 (10.74%) SQL
7 6 (4.96%) C++
7 6 (4.96%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.96%) Rust
8 4 (3.31%) Scala
8 4 (3.31%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.48%) Bicep
9 3 (2.48%) Clojure
9 3 (2.48%) Haskell
9 3 (2.48%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.65%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (9.09%) Degree
2 7 (5.79%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.13%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.48%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.48%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.83%) ISO 20022
2 1 (0.83%) MiFID
System Software
1 23 (19.01%) Docker
2 6 (4.96%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (21.49%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.31%) Terraform
3 1 (0.83%) Argo
Vendors
1 7 (5.79%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.13%) Salesforce
3 2 (1.65%) Databricks
3 2 (1.65%) New Relic
4 1 (0.83%) Finsemble
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle