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 in the 6 months leading up to 11 June 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
11 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 363 538 578
Rank change year-on-year +175 +40 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 239 160 298
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.29% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.30% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 110 219
10th Percentile £425 £424 £495
25th Percentile £480 £465 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £562 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.66% -6.33% +17.07%
75th Percentile £850 £675 £713
90th Percentile - £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £545 £516
% change year-on-year -9.40% +5.62% +14.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 4 8
10th Percentile £38.39 £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% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73.50 £56.05 £51.51
90th Percentile £83.75 £60.20 £62.42
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.46 £52.50 £50.89
% change year-on-year -7.70% +3.16% -1.66%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,533 52,506 83,140
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 94.52% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,086 36,648 58,637
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £407 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,938 1,481 1,935
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.18 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.71 £65.75 £49.92
90th Percentile £74.00 £76.50 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% +110.00% +7.82%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +182 224 £650 +16.91% 366
London +148 136 £666 +6.60% 168
Work from Home +113 108 £750 +50.00% 222
UK excluding London +58 74 £494 -9.40% 221
South East +29 29 £543 +3.33% 42
North of England +32 18 £280 -44.00% 48
East of England +10 17 £600 -6.25% 24
North West +16 13 - - 36
Yorkshire +7 5 £280 -37.78% 8
South West +3 5 £488 -17.37% 54
Midlands +15 3 - - 24
West Midlands +11 3 - - 19
Scotland +35 2 - - 16
Wales +22 1 - - 9

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 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.

1 237 (99.16%) Software Engineering
2 120 (50.21%) AWS
3 119 (49.79%) Agile
4 92 (38.49%) Java
5 81 (33.89%) Python
6 71 (29.71%) Finance
7 68 (28.45%) JavaScript
8 63 (26.36%) TypeScript
9 53 (22.18%) Pandas
9 53 (22.18%) Asset Management
10 52 (21.76%) Front Office
10 52 (21.76%) Derivative
10 52 (21.76%) gRPC
11 51 (21.34%) Fixed Income
11 51 (21.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 50 (20.92%) Equities
12 50 (20.92%) Protocol Buffers
12 50 (20.92%) Apache Airflow
12 50 (20.92%) Kubernetes
13 49 (20.50%) Banking
14 48 (20.08%) NumPy
15 47 (19.67%) Investment Management
16 45 (18.83%) Apache
17 44 (18.41%) Investment Banking
17 44 (18.41%) Hedge funds
17 44 (18.41%) SciPy
17 44 (18.41%) Docker
17 44 (18.41%) Amazon Athena
17 44 (18.41%) Apache Ignite
17 44 (18.41%) Dremio

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 50 (20.92%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (18.83%) Apache
3 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.42%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.42%) Drupal
4 1 (0.42%) MTS
4 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Simulink
1 2 (0.84%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 5 (2.09%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 120 (50.21%) AWS
2 44 (18.41%) dbt
2 44 (18.41%) Snowflake
3 33 (13.81%) Azure
4 14 (5.86%) GCP
5 9 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (2.93%) Serverless
7 6 (2.51%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (2.51%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.09%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (2.09%) GitHub
9 4 (1.67%) Miro
10 3 (1.26%) OpenShift
11 2 (0.84%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (0.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (0.84%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (0.84%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.26%) RS-485
2 1 (0.42%) Firewall
2 1 (0.42%) SNMP
2 1 (0.42%) VPN
2 1 (0.42%) WAN
2 1 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (18.41%) Amazon Athena
1 44 (18.41%) Apache Arrow
1 44 (18.41%) Apache Ignite
1 44 (18.41%) Dremio
2 43 (17.99%) Data Lake
3 26 (10.88%) Apache Cassandra
4 11 (4.60%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.51%) DynamoDB
5 6 (2.51%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.67%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.84%) MySQL
8 1 (0.42%) Big Data
8 1 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.42%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.42%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.42%) KDB
8 1 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.42%) Redis
8 1 (0.42%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 13 (5.44%) Jenkins
2 7 (2.93%) Selenium
3 6 (2.51%) Cucumber
3 6 (2.51%) GitLab
4 5 (2.09%) CircleCI
4 5 (2.09%) JIRA
4 5 (2.09%) REST Assured
4 5 (2.09%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.67%) Git
6 3 (1.26%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.26%) Gradle
6 3 (1.26%) JUnit
6 3 (1.26%) Maven
6 3 (1.26%) MSI
6 3 (1.26%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.26%) webpack
6 3 (1.26%) WiX
7 2 (0.84%) fastlane
8 1 (0.42%) Babel
8 1 (0.42%) Spinnaker
General
1 71 (29.71%) Finance
2 52 (21.76%) Front Office
3 49 (20.50%) Banking
4 44 (18.41%) Investment Banking
5 29 (12.13%) Social Skills
6 12 (5.02%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.18%) Retail
8 9 (3.77%) Electronics
9 8 (3.35%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.93%) Aerospace
10 7 (2.93%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.93%) Law
11 6 (2.51%) Local Government
11 6 (2.51%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.67%) Automotive
12 4 (1.67%) Military
12 4 (1.67%) Police
13 3 (1.26%) Marketing
14 2 (0.84%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (22.18%) Pandas
2 52 (21.76%) gRPC
3 50 (20.92%) Protocol Buffers
4 48 (20.08%) NumPy
5 44 (18.41%) SciPy
6 37 (15.48%) Kafka
7 28 (11.72%) React
8 25 (10.46%) REST
9 24 (10.04%) .NET
10 18 (7.53%) Node.js
11 13 (5.44%) AngularJS
12 12 (5.02%) Spring
12 12 (5.02%) XML
13 11 (4.60%) Spring Boot
14 10 (4.18%) GraphQL
14 10 (4.18%) Java EE
15 9 (3.77%) RESTful
16 8 (3.35%) Material-UI
17 7 (2.93%) http4s
17 7 (2.93%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 52 (21.76%) Derivative
2 51 (21.34%) Fixed Income
2 51 (21.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 50 (20.92%) Equities
4 44 (18.41%) Hedge funds
5 16 (6.69%) Pricing Data
6 14 (5.86%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.93%) Algorithms
7 7 (2.93%) Distributed Architecture
7 7 (2.93%) Embedded Systems
7 7 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.51%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.51%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.67%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.67%) Video\Live Streaming
10 3 (1.26%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.26%) FPGA
10 3 (1.26%) IoT
10 3 (1.26%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.37%) Linux
2 7 (2.93%) Windows
3 4 (1.67%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.26%) Android
5 2 (0.84%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (99.16%) Software Engineering
2 119 (49.79%) Agile
3 53 (22.18%) Asset Management
4 47 (19.67%) Investment Management
5 35 (14.64%) User Experience
6 33 (13.81%) CI/CD
7 32 (13.39%) UX Design
8 29 (12.13%) DevOps
9 27 (11.30%) Fintech
10 26 (10.88%) Greeks
10 26 (10.88%) Microservices
10 26 (10.88%) User Research
10 26 (10.88%) UX Research
11 25 (10.46%) Computer Science
11 25 (10.46%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (9.62%) Scrum
13 19 (7.95%) Mentoring
13 19 (7.95%) OO
14 17 (7.11%) TDD
15 15 (6.28%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 92 (38.49%) Java
2 81 (33.89%) Python
3 68 (28.45%) JavaScript
4 63 (26.36%) TypeScript
5 37 (15.48%) C#
6 29 (12.13%) Go
7 22 (9.21%) SQL
8 20 (8.37%) C++
9 11 (4.60%) C
9 11 (4.60%) Rust
9 11 (4.60%) Scala
10 7 (2.93%) PowerShell
11 6 (2.51%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.67%) Perl
12 4 (1.67%) PHP
12 4 (1.67%) Ruby
13 3 (1.26%) Bicep
13 3 (1.26%) Clojure
13 3 (1.26%) Haskell
13 3 (1.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (13.81%) Degree
2 25 (10.46%) Security Cleared
3 17 (7.11%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (5.02%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.93%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.67%) PhD
8 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.42%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (11.30%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.67%) QA
3 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.42%) MiFID
3 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (18.41%) Docker
2 6 (2.51%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (20.92%) Kubernetes
2 17 (7.11%) Terraform
3 5 (2.09%) Ansible
3 5 (2.09%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (2.09%) Podman
4 4 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.42%) Argo
5 1 (0.42%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (4.18%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.09%) Salesforce
3 4 (1.67%) Google
3 4 (1.67%) Okta
3 4 (1.67%) Roku
4 3 (1.26%) SAP
5 2 (0.84%) Databricks
5 2 (0.84%) Finsemble
5 2 (0.84%) MathWorks
5 2 (0.84%) New Relic
5 2 (0.84%) NVIDIA
5 2 (0.84%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.42%) HP
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle
6 1 (0.42%) Sparx
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