Software Engineering Contracts in London

Software Engineering
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 37 36
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -13
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 1,027 1,490 2,463
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 5.88% 5.76% 6.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.64% 6.33% 6.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 1,104 1,951
10th Percentile £459 £463 £463
25th Percentile £525 £529 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £613
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +6.12% +11.36%
75th Percentile £800 £750 £713
90th Percentile £886 £835 £800
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +0.04% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 29 36
10th Percentile £48.44 £35.00 £31.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.42 £39.41
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £51.63
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +11.38% +13.46%
75th Percentile £82.50 £72.50 £60.31
90th Percentile £83.75 £90.00 £77.30
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £55.75
% change year-on-year -3.85% +16.59% +22.53%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,475 23,527 35,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.65% 90.92% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,094 16,975 26,024
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 269 415
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.40 £17.55
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.49 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.84 £37.34 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.44% -0.43% +14.77%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.25 £51.61
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.30 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineering in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
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 Software Engineering within the London region over the 6 months to 16 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 -7 105 £550 -15.38% 66
West London +18 26 £488 -18.75% 30
East London +3 11 £548 +9.50% 33
South London -17 6 £550 - 13
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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
1 190 (18.50%) Apache Airflow
2 182 (17.72%) Apache
3 20 (1.95%) Confluence
4 14 (1.36%) CMS
5 12 (1.17%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.88%) nginx
7 8 (0.78%) BizTalk Server
7 8 (0.78%) IIS
8 6 (0.58%) Headless CMS
8 6 (0.58%) Tornado
9 4 (0.39%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.39%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.19%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.19%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.19%) SAS
10 2 (0.19%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.097%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.097%) EPiServer
11 1 (0.097%) JBoss
11 1 (0.097%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (1.27%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.58%) Simulink
3 6 (0.58%) Stateflow
4 4 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 6 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
2 5 (0.49%) Endur
3 4 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.29%) FLEXCUBE
4 3 (0.29%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (0.19%) Shopify
5 2 (0.19%) WebTrends
6 1 (0.097%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.097%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.097%) Front Arena
Cloud Services
1 438 (42.65%) AWS
2 371 (36.12%) Azure
3 236 (22.98%) GCP
4 108 (10.52%) dbt
5 95 (9.25%) Snowflake
6 66 (6.43%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (5.74%) Serverless
8 41 (3.99%) GitHub
9 38 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
10 31 (3.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 22 (2.14%) Azure Logic Apps
11 22 (2.14%) PaaS
12 21 (2.04%) npm
13 19 (1.85%) Amazon S3
13 19 (1.85%) Azure Functions
13 19 (1.85%) Azure Key Vault
13 19 (1.85%) Azure Storage
13 19 (1.85%) Entra ID
14 18 (1.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.88%) Internet
2 8 (0.78%) DNS
3 7 (0.68%) Firewall
4 5 (0.49%) DHCP
4 5 (0.49%) HTTP
5 4 (0.39%) Network Security
5 4 (0.39%) VPN
5 4 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.29%) IPv4
7 2 (0.19%) AMQP
8 1 (0.097%) 5G
8 1 (0.097%) Broadband
8 1 (0.097%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.097%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.097%) SMS
8 1 (0.097%) SNMP
8 1 (0.097%) SSL
8 1 (0.097%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.097%) VLAN
8 1 (0.097%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (16.75%) Apache Ignite
2 107 (10.42%) Amazon Athena
2 107 (10.42%) Apache Arrow
2 107 (10.42%) Dremio
3 98 (9.54%) Data Lake
4 81 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
5 72 (7.01%) SQL Server
6 54 (5.26%) NoSQL
7 27 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
8 22 (2.14%) Relational Database
9 21 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
9 21 (2.04%) MongoDB
10 19 (1.85%) MySQL
10 19 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 18 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
12 17 (1.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 15 (1.46%) Big Data
14 12 (1.17%) Oracle Database
15 10 (0.97%) DynamoDB
16 9 (0.88%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 91 (8.86%) Git
2 71 (6.91%) Cypress.io
3 56 (5.45%) JIRA
4 43 (4.19%) Jenkins
5 23 (2.24%) GitLab
5 23 (2.24%) Postman
6 20 (1.95%) webpack
7 19 (1.85%) Maven
8 14 (1.36%) Selenium
8 14 (1.36%) TeamCity
9 13 (1.27%) JMeter
10 12 (1.17%) Visual Studio
11 10 (0.97%) JUnit
12 9 (0.88%) git-flow
13 7 (0.68%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.58%) CircleCI
14 6 (0.58%) MLflow
14 6 (0.58%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.58%) SpecFlow
15 5 (0.49%) Pylint
General
1 456 (44.40%) Finance
2 311 (30.28%) Front Office
3 267 (26.00%) Banking
4 196 (19.08%) Social Skills
5 120 (11.68%) Investment Banking
6 53 (5.16%) Analytical Skills
7 32 (3.12%) Retail
8 27 (2.63%) Public Sector
9 21 (2.04%) Marketing
10 16 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (1.27%) Financial Institution
12 9 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (0.78%) Automotive
13 8 (0.78%) Local Government
13 8 (0.78%) Retail Banking
13 8 (0.78%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.68%) Games
14 7 (0.68%) Legal
15 5 (0.49%) Tech for Good
16 4 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 446 (43.43%) Developer
1 446 (43.43%) Software Engineer
2 234 (22.78%) Senior
3 148 (14.41%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 143 (13.92%) Python Developer
5 137 (13.34%) Python Engineer
6 129 (12.56%) Python Software Engineer
7 119 (11.59%) Senior Software Engineer
8 106 (10.32%) Lead
9 92 (8.96%) React Developer
10 75 (7.30%) Senior Developer
11 74 (7.21%) Full Stack Developer
12 73 (7.11%) Software Developer
13 62 (6.04%) Java Engineer
14 60 (5.84%) Architect
15 59 (5.74%) C# Developer
16 58 (5.65%) AWS Engineer
16 58 (5.65%) Full Stack Engineer
17 54 (5.26%) Java Software Engineer
18 53 (5.16%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 280 (27.26%) React
2 188 (18.31%) gRPC
3 184 (17.92%) .NET
4 181 (17.62%) Protocol Buffers
5 144 (14.02%) Pandas
6 134 (13.05%) Redux
7 131 (12.76%) NumPy
8 111 (10.81%) SciPy
9 92 (8.96%) Node.js
10 86 (8.37%) Material-UI
11 80 (7.79%) AngularJS
12 79 (7.69%) REST
13 78 (7.59%) Kafka
14 75 (7.30%) HTML
15 63 (6.13%) .NET Core
16 58 (5.65%) CSS
17 46 (4.48%) WebSockets
18 38 (3.70%) Web Services
19 37 (3.60%) GraphQL
20 36 (3.51%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 246 (23.95%) Fixed Income
2 200 (19.47%) Hedge funds
3 180 (17.53%) Equities
4 162 (15.77%) Derivative
5 137 (13.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 46 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
7 38 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
8 34 (3.31%) Algorithms
9 22 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (2.04%) Product Ownership
11 20 (1.95%) Cloud Native
11 20 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
12 18 (1.75%) Management Information System
13 17 (1.66%) Renewable Energy
14 16 (1.56%) Mobile App
15 13 (1.27%) Data Structures
16 11 (1.07%) Client/Server
17 10 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
17 10 (0.97%) Pricing Data
17 10 (0.97%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 59 (5.74%) Linux
2 39 (3.80%) Windows
3 22 (2.14%) Android
4 19 (1.85%) Apple iOS
5 12 (1.17%) Unix
6 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.19%) VMS
6 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.097%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.097%) tvOS
7 1 (0.097%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.097%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 483 (47.03%) Agile
2 243 (23.66%) Asset Management
3 216 (21.03%) DevOps
4 200 (19.47%) Investment Management
5 193 (18.79%) CI/CD
6 190 (18.50%) Full Stack Development
7 118 (11.49%) TDD
8 114 (11.10%) Fintech
9 111 (10.81%) SDLC
10 110 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence
11 102 (9.93%) Microservices
12 99 (9.64%) Machine Learning
13 96 (9.35%) Computer Science
14 90 (8.76%) Analytics
15 85 (8.28%) Scrum
16 84 (8.18%) Problem-Solving
17 79 (7.69%) Test Automation
18 75 (7.30%) Front End Development
19 74 (7.21%) Design Patterns
20 66 (6.43%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 433 (42.16%) Python
2 351 (34.18%) JavaScript
3 335 (32.62%) Java
4 320 (31.16%) TypeScript
5 263 (25.61%) C#
6 258 (25.12%) SQL
7 64 (6.23%) Go
8 58 (5.65%) C++
9 54 (5.26%) PowerShell
10 31 (3.02%) Scala
11 29 (2.82%) T-SQL
12 28 (2.73%) Rust
13 25 (2.43%) Kotlin
14 20 (1.95%) C
14 20 (1.95%) Ruby
15 17 (1.66%) Bicep
16 15 (1.46%) R
17 13 (1.27%) PL/SQL
18 12 (1.17%) PHP
19 8 (0.78%) Perl
Qualifications
1 160 (15.58%) Degree
2 62 (6.04%) Security Cleared
3 53 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 44 (4.28%) SC Cleared
5 35 (3.41%) Master's Degree
6 22 (2.14%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.49%) CISSP
8 4 (0.39%) CISA
8 4 (0.39%) CISM
9 3 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.29%) PhD
10 2 (0.19%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.19%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.19%) MBA
10 2 (0.19%) PgMP
10 2 (0.19%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.19%) PMP
11 1 (0.097%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.097%) EMC Certification
11 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (5.36%) QA
2 40 (3.89%) Data Quality
3 16 (1.56%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.49%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.39%) SEPA
6 3 (0.29%) MiFID
6 3 (0.29%) WCAG
7 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.097%) EMIR
8 1 (0.097%) GRC
8 1 (0.097%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.097%) JTAG
8 1 (0.097%) NIST
System Software
1 100 (9.74%) Docker
2 27 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.49%) ACF2
4 5 (0.49%) IAG
4 5 (0.49%) RACF
4 5 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.19%) Time Sharing Option
5 2 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 121 (11.78%) Kubernetes
2 55 (5.36%) Terraform
3 17 (1.66%) Ansible
4 13 (1.27%) Grafana
5 10 (0.97%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.58%) Kubeflow
7 5 (0.49%) Argo
7 5 (0.49%) Packer
8 4 (0.39%) Puppet
8 4 (0.39%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 3 (0.29%) Consul
10 2 (0.19%) Kibana
10 2 (0.19%) logstash
10 2 (0.19%) Podman
11 1 (0.097%) Bugsnag
11 1 (0.097%) Netcool
11 1 (0.097%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.097%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.097%) systemd
11 1 (0.097%) vRealize
Vendors
1 78 (7.59%) Google
2 75 (7.30%) Oracle
3 74 (7.21%) Microsoft
4 29 (2.82%) Databricks
5 19 (1.85%) Salesforce
6 16 (1.56%) Bloomberg
6 16 (1.56%) SAP
7 14 (1.36%) MuleSoft
8 13 (1.27%) PayPal
9 11 (1.07%) Virgin Media
10 8 (0.78%) ServiceNow
10 8 (0.78%) Splunk
11 7 (0.68%) Sybase
11 7 (0.68%) VMware
12 6 (0.58%) Adobe
12 6 (0.58%) Optimizely
13 5 (0.49%) Confluent
13 5 (0.49%) Foundry
13 5 (0.49%) Palantir
13 5 (0.49%) Red Hat