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 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 370 536 567
Rank change year-on-year +166 +31 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 237 160 300
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 155 110 218
10th Percentile £425 £424 £494
25th Percentile £478 £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 35 4 8
10th Percentile £37.81 £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 £50.00 £52.50 £50.89
% change year-on-year -4.76% +3.16% -1.66%

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 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
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% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +175 222 £650 +16.91% 359
London +150 135 £650 +4.00% 157
Work from Home +123 106 £750 +50.00% 212
UK excluding London +55 73 £494 -9.40% 231
South East +27 29 £543 +3.33% 41
North of England +27 17 £280 -44.00% 53
East of England +9 17 £600 -6.25% 24
North West +14 12 - - 39
Yorkshire +14 5 £280 -37.78% 11
South West +8 5 £488 -17.37% 55
Midlands +21 3 - - 25
West Midlands +12 3 - - 20
Scotland +38 2 - - 18
Wales +18 1 - - 10

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 235 (99.16%) Software Engineering
2 119 (50.21%) AWS
3 118 (49.79%) Agile
4 90 (37.97%) Java
5 79 (33.33%) Python
6 69 (29.11%) Finance
7 66 (27.85%) JavaScript
8 61 (25.74%) TypeScript
9 51 (21.52%) Pandas
9 51 (21.52%) Kubernetes
9 51 (21.52%) Asset Management
10 50 (21.10%) Front Office
10 50 (21.10%) Derivative
10 50 (21.10%) gRPC
11 49 (20.68%) Fixed Income
11 49 (20.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 48 (20.25%) Equities
12 48 (20.25%) Protocol Buffers
12 48 (20.25%) Apache Airflow
13 47 (19.83%) Banking
14 46 (19.41%) NumPy
15 45 (18.99%) Investment Management
15 45 (18.99%) Docker
16 43 (18.14%) Apache
17 42 (17.72%) Investment Banking
17 42 (17.72%) Hedge funds
17 42 (17.72%) SciPy
17 42 (17.72%) Amazon Athena
17 42 (17.72%) Apache Ignite
17 42 (17.72%) 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 48 (20.25%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (18.14%) 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 (2.11%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 119 (50.21%) AWS
2 42 (17.72%) dbt
2 42 (17.72%) Snowflake
3 33 (13.92%) Azure
4 14 (5.91%) GCP
5 9 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (2.95%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (2.95%) Serverless
7 6 (2.53%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (2.53%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.11%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (2.11%) GitHub
9 4 (1.69%) Miro
10 3 (1.27%) OpenShift
11 2 (0.84%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.84%) AWS IoT
11 2 (0.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (0.84%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.27%) 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 42 (17.72%) Amazon Athena
1 42 (17.72%) Apache Arrow
1 42 (17.72%) Apache Ignite
1 42 (17.72%) Dremio
2 41 (17.30%) Data Lake
3 27 (11.39%) Apache Cassandra
4 11 (4.64%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.53%) DynamoDB
5 6 (2.53%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.69%) 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%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.42%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.42%) Redis
8 1 (0.42%) Scylla
8 1 (0.42%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 13 (5.49%) Jenkins
2 7 (2.95%) Selenium
3 6 (2.53%) Cucumber
3 6 (2.53%) GitLab
4 5 (2.11%) CircleCI
4 5 (2.11%) JIRA
4 5 (2.11%) REST Assured
4 5 (2.11%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.69%) Git
6 3 (1.27%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.27%) Gradle
6 3 (1.27%) JUnit
6 3 (1.27%) Maven
6 3 (1.27%) MSI
6 3 (1.27%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.27%) webpack
6 3 (1.27%) WiX
7 2 (0.84%) fastlane
8 1 (0.42%) Babel
8 1 (0.42%) CMake
General
1 69 (29.11%) Finance
2 50 (21.10%) Front Office
3 47 (19.83%) Banking
4 42 (17.72%) Investment Banking
5 29 (12.24%) Social Skills
6 12 (5.06%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.22%) Retail
8 9 (3.80%) Electronics
9 8 (3.38%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.95%) Aerospace
10 7 (2.95%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.95%) Law
11 6 (2.53%) Local Government
11 6 (2.53%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.69%) Automotive
12 4 (1.69%) Military
12 4 (1.69%) Police
13 3 (1.27%) Marketing
14 2 (0.84%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (21.52%) Pandas
2 50 (21.10%) gRPC
3 48 (20.25%) Protocol Buffers
4 46 (19.41%) NumPy
5 42 (17.72%) SciPy
6 38 (16.03%) Kafka
7 28 (11.81%) React
8 25 (10.55%) REST
9 24 (10.13%) .NET
10 18 (7.59%) Node.js
11 13 (5.49%) AngularJS
12 12 (5.06%) Spring
12 12 (5.06%) XML
13 11 (4.64%) Spring Boot
14 10 (4.22%) GraphQL
14 10 (4.22%) Java EE
15 9 (3.80%) RESTful
16 8 (3.38%) Material-UI
17 7 (2.95%) .NET Core
17 7 (2.95%) http4s
Miscellaneous
1 50 (21.10%) Derivative
2 49 (20.68%) Fixed Income
2 49 (20.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 48 (20.25%) Equities
4 42 (17.72%) Hedge funds
5 16 (6.75%) Pricing Data
6 14 (5.91%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.95%) Algorithms
7 7 (2.95%) Distributed Architecture
7 7 (2.95%) Embedded Systems
7 7 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.53%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.53%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.69%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.69%) Video\Live Streaming
10 3 (1.27%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.27%) FPGA
10 3 (1.27%) IoT
10 3 (1.27%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.44%) Linux
2 7 (2.95%) Windows
3 4 (1.69%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.27%) Android
5 2 (0.84%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (99.16%) Software Engineering
2 118 (49.79%) Agile
3 51 (21.52%) Asset Management
4 45 (18.99%) Investment Management
5 36 (15.19%) User Experience
6 33 (13.92%) CI/CD
6 33 (13.92%) UX Design
7 29 (12.24%) DevOps
8 28 (11.81%) Fintech
9 27 (11.39%) User Research
9 27 (11.39%) UX Research
10 26 (10.97%) Microservices
11 25 (10.55%) Computer Science
11 25 (10.55%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (10.13%) Greeks
13 23 (9.70%) Scrum
14 19 (8.02%) Mentoring
14 19 (8.02%) OO
15 17 (7.17%) TDD
16 15 (6.33%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 90 (37.97%) Java
2 79 (33.33%) Python
3 66 (27.85%) JavaScript
4 61 (25.74%) TypeScript
5 37 (15.61%) C#
6 30 (12.66%) Go
7 22 (9.28%) SQL
8 20 (8.44%) C++
9 11 (4.64%) C
9 11 (4.64%) Rust
9 11 (4.64%) Scala
10 7 (2.95%) PowerShell
11 6 (2.53%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.69%) Perl
12 4 (1.69%) PHP
12 4 (1.69%) Ruby
13 3 (1.27%) Bicep
13 3 (1.27%) Clojure
13 3 (1.27%) Haskell
13 3 (1.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (13.92%) Degree
2 25 (10.55%) Security Cleared
3 17 (7.17%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (5.06%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.95%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.69%) PhD
8 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.42%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.55%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.69%) 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 45 (18.99%) Docker
2 6 (2.53%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (21.52%) Kubernetes
2 17 (7.17%) Terraform
3 5 (2.11%) Ansible
3 5 (2.11%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (2.11%) Podman
4 4 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.42%) Argo
5 1 (0.42%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (4.22%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.11%) Salesforce
3 4 (1.69%) Google
3 4 (1.69%) Okta
3 4 (1.69%) Roku
4 3 (1.27%) 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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