Senior Software Engineer Contracts

Senior Software Engineer
UK

The median Senior Software Engineer daily rate in the UK is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 528 582
Rank change year-on-year +154 +54 -36
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 216 170 295
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.29% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.31% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 119 211
10th Percentile £425 £419 £495
25th Percentile £463 £463 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +17.07%
75th Percentile £740 £654 £700
90th Percentile £850 £778 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £521 £538 £517
% change year-on-year -3.11% +4.06% +14.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 4 8
10th Percentile £35.52 £39.88 £35.13
25th Percentile £46.91 £47.19 £42.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £47.25
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +11.11% -0.53%
75th Percentile £72.50 £56.05 £51.51
90th Percentile £83.75 £60.20 £62.42
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £50.89
% change year-on-year +23.81% +3.16% +7.14%

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 39,893 55,060 83,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,957 38,445 58,715
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,534 2,047
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +2.56%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 12 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
England +168 204 £650 +18.18% 366
London +137 116 £650 +8.33% 168
Work from Home +108 92 £650 +30.00% 219
UK excluding London +71 71 £521 -3.11% 229
South East +29 30 £521 +4.25% 52
North of England +31 21 £588 +20.39% 42
North West +28 16 £625 +21.83% 26
East of England +9 11 £600 -6.25% 38
Yorkshire +23 5 £280 -37.78% 13
South West +11 5 £488 -13.72% 43
Scotland +41 2 - - 23
Midlands +24 2 - - 22
West Midlands +11 2 - - 13
Wales +19 1 - - 8

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 214 (99.07%) Software Engineering
2 110 (50.93%) AWS
3 109 (50.46%) Agile
4 76 (35.19%) Java
5 62 (28.70%) Python
6 53 (24.54%) Kubernetes
7 52 (24.07%) JavaScript
7 52 (24.07%) Finance
8 48 (22.22%) Docker
9 42 (19.44%) TypeScript
10 41 (18.98%) Kafka
11 40 (18.52%) User Experience
12 39 (18.06%) C#
13 38 (17.59%) CI/CD
14 36 (16.67%) Microservices
14 36 (16.67%) UX Design
15 35 (16.20%) Pandas
15 35 (16.20%) Go
16 34 (15.74%) Azure
16 34 (15.74%) Derivative
16 34 (15.74%) Front Office
16 34 (15.74%) Asset Management
17 33 (15.28%) Fixed Income
17 33 (15.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 33 (15.28%) gRPC
18 32 (14.81%) Apache Airflow
18 32 (14.81%) Fintech
18 32 (14.81%) Protocol Buffers
18 32 (14.81%) Social Skills
18 32 (14.81%) Equities

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 32 (14.81%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (12.50%) Apache
3 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.46%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.46%) Drupal
3 1 (0.46%) MTS
3 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Simulink
1 2 (0.93%) Stateflow
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.85%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.46%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 110 (50.93%) AWS
2 34 (15.74%) Azure
3 26 (12.04%) dbt
4 25 (11.57%) Snowflake
5 13 (6.02%) GCP
6 9 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (2.78%) Entra ID
7 6 (2.78%) Serverless
8 5 (2.31%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.31%) GitHub
9 4 (1.85%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (1.85%) Miro
10 3 (1.39%) OpenShift
11 2 (0.93%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (0.93%) AWS IoT
11 2 (0.93%) Datadog
11 2 (0.93%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.93%) RS-485
2 1 (0.46%) Firewall
2 1 (0.46%) NFC
2 1 (0.46%) PPP
2 1 (0.46%) RS-422
2 1 (0.46%) SNMP
2 1 (0.46%) VPN
2 1 (0.46%) WAN
2 1 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (14.35%) Apache Cassandra
2 26 (12.04%) Amazon Athena
2 26 (12.04%) Apache Arrow
2 26 (12.04%) Apache Ignite
2 26 (12.04%) Dremio
3 25 (11.57%) Data Lake
4 12 (5.56%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.70%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.78%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.31%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.39%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.93%) MySQL
10 1 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.46%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.46%) KDB
10 1 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.46%) Redis
10 1 (0.46%) Scylla
10 1 (0.46%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 14 (6.48%) Jenkins
2 12 (5.56%) GitLab
3 6 (2.78%) Cucumber
3 6 (2.78%) JIRA
3 6 (2.78%) Selenium
4 5 (2.31%) Git
4 5 (2.31%) REST Assured
4 5 (2.31%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.85%) CircleCI
5 4 (1.85%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.39%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.39%) Gradle
6 3 (1.39%) JUnit
6 3 (1.39%) Maven
6 3 (1.39%) MSI
6 3 (1.39%) webpack
6 3 (1.39%) WiX
7 2 (0.93%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.46%) TestNG
8 1 (0.46%) Valgrind
General
1 52 (24.07%) Finance
2 34 (15.74%) Front Office
3 32 (14.81%) Social Skills
4 31 (14.35%) Banking
5 26 (12.04%) Investment Banking
6 13 (6.02%) Public Sector
7 9 (4.17%) Retail
8 8 (3.70%) Electronics
8 8 (3.70%) Local Government
9 7 (3.24%) Aerospace
9 7 (3.24%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.78%) Law
10 6 (2.78%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.31%) Automotive
11 5 (2.31%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.85%) Marketing
12 4 (1.85%) Military
12 4 (1.85%) Police
13 2 (0.93%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (18.98%) Kafka
2 35 (16.20%) Pandas
3 33 (15.28%) gRPC
4 32 (14.81%) Protocol Buffers
5 30 (13.89%) NumPy
6 28 (12.96%) React
7 26 (12.04%) .NET
7 26 (12.04%) SciPy
8 24 (11.11%) Node.js
9 22 (10.19%) REST
10 15 (6.94%) RESTful
11 14 (6.48%) AngularJS
12 13 (6.02%) XML
13 12 (5.56%) Spring
14 11 (5.09%) Spring Boot
15 10 (4.63%) Java EE
16 9 (4.17%) CSS
17 8 (3.70%) .NET Core
17 8 (3.70%) Material-UI
18 7 (3.24%) http4s
Miscellaneous
1 34 (15.74%) Derivative
2 33 (15.28%) Fixed Income
2 33 (15.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 32 (14.81%) Equities
4 27 (12.50%) Hedge funds
5 13 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.70%) Embedded Systems
6 8 (3.70%) Pricing Data
7 7 (3.24%) Algorithms
7 7 (3.24%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.31%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.31%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.85%) Video\Live Streaming
11 3 (1.39%) IoT
11 3 (1.39%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.39%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.26%) Linux
2 8 (3.70%) Windows
3 3 (1.39%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.93%) Android
5 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (99.07%) Software Engineering
2 109 (50.46%) Agile
3 40 (18.52%) User Experience
4 38 (17.59%) CI/CD
5 36 (16.67%) Microservices
5 36 (16.67%) UX Design
6 34 (15.74%) Asset Management
7 32 (14.81%) Fintech
8 31 (14.35%) User Research
8 31 (14.35%) UX Research
9 29 (13.43%) Investment Management
10 27 (12.50%) DevOps
10 27 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (11.57%) Computer Science
12 24 (11.11%) Scrum
13 20 (9.26%) OO
14 19 (8.80%) Mentoring
15 17 (7.87%) Design Patterns
16 16 (7.41%) Kanban
16 16 (7.41%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 76 (35.19%) Java
2 62 (28.70%) Python
3 52 (24.07%) JavaScript
4 42 (19.44%) TypeScript
5 39 (18.06%) C#
6 35 (16.20%) Go
7 21 (9.72%) C++
8 20 (9.26%) SQL
9 11 (5.09%) C
10 10 (4.63%) Rust
10 10 (4.63%) Scala
11 7 (3.24%) PowerShell
12 5 (2.31%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.85%) Perl
13 4 (1.85%) PHP
13 4 (1.85%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.39%) Bicep
14 3 (1.39%) Clojure
14 3 (1.39%) Haskell
15 2 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 30 (13.89%) Degree
2 25 (11.57%) Security Cleared
3 19 (8.80%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (5.56%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.85%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.39%) PhD
8 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.46%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.46%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.85%) QA
3 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.46%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.46%) ISO 26262
3 1 (0.46%) MiFID
3 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 48 (22.22%) Docker
2 6 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.46%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 53 (24.54%) Kubernetes
2 23 (10.65%) Terraform
3 5 (2.31%) Ansible
3 5 (2.31%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (2.31%) Podman
4 4 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.46%) Argo
5 1 (0.46%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (4.63%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.31%) Google
3 4 (1.85%) Okta
3 4 (1.85%) Roku
3 4 (1.85%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.39%) SAP
5 2 (0.93%) Databricks
5 2 (0.93%) MathWorks
5 2 (0.93%) New Relic
5 2 (0.93%) NVIDIA
5 2 (0.93%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.46%) Finsemble
6 1 (0.46%) HP
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle
6 1 (0.46%) Sparx
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