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 1 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
1 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 358 521 556
Rank change year-on-year +163 +35 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 228 162 299
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.29% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.31% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 112 216
10th Percentile £425 £419 £495
25th Percentile £463 £463 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £556 £600
Median % change year-on-year +16.91% -7.33% +17.07%
75th Percentile £850 £675 £713
90th Percentile - £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £538 £517
% change year-on-year -8.14% +3.97% +14.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 4 8
10th Percentile £36.38 £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 £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% +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 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
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% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +163 214 £650 +18.18% 335
London +154 130 £650 +4.00% 168
Work from Home +119 101 £750 +50.00% 192
UK excluding London +44 69 £494 -8.14% 186
South East +20 29 £543 +3.33% 26
North of England +25 17 £280 -44.00% 47
East of England +8 13 £600 -6.25% 29
North West +22 12 - - 32
Yorkshire +20 5 £280 -37.78% 12
South West +3 5 £488 -13.72% 39
Midlands +22 3 - - 27
West Midlands +13 3 - - 19
Scotland +35 2 - - 8
Wales +17 1 - - 7

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 226 (99.12%) Software Engineering
2 115 (50.44%) AWS
3 114 (50.00%) Agile
4 84 (36.84%) Java
5 71 (31.14%) Python
6 63 (27.63%) JavaScript
7 62 (27.19%) Finance
8 57 (25.00%) TypeScript
9 52 (22.81%) Kubernetes
10 47 (20.61%) Docker
10 47 (20.61%) Pandas
11 46 (20.18%) Front Office
11 46 (20.18%) Asset Management
11 46 (20.18%) Derivative
12 45 (19.74%) Fixed Income
12 45 (19.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 45 (19.74%) gRPC
13 44 (19.30%) Apache Airflow
13 44 (19.30%) Equities
13 44 (19.30%) Protocol Buffers
14 42 (18.42%) NumPy
14 42 (18.42%) Banking
15 40 (17.54%) Investment Management
16 39 (17.11%) Kafka
16 39 (17.11%) Apache
17 38 (16.67%) Investment Banking
17 38 (16.67%) SciPy
17 38 (16.67%) Hedge funds
17 38 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
17 38 (16.67%) User Experience

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 44 (19.30%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (17.11%) Apache
3 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.44%) Drupal
3 1 (0.44%) MTS
3 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Simulink
1 2 (0.88%) Stateflow
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.19%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.44%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 115 (50.44%) AWS
2 38 (16.67%) dbt
3 37 (16.23%) Snowflake
4 33 (14.47%) Azure
5 14 (6.14%) GCP
6 9 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (3.07%) Serverless
8 6 (2.63%) Amazon S3
8 6 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.63%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.19%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (2.19%) GitHub
10 4 (1.75%) Miro
11 3 (1.32%) OpenShift
12 2 (0.88%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (0.88%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (0.88%) Datadog
12 2 (0.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.88%) RS-485
2 1 (0.44%) Firewall
2 1 (0.44%) RS-422
2 1 (0.44%) SNMP
2 1 (0.44%) VPN
2 1 (0.44%) WAN
2 1 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
1 38 (16.67%) Apache Arrow
1 38 (16.67%) Apache Ignite
1 38 (16.67%) Dremio
2 37 (16.23%) Data Lake
3 29 (12.72%) Apache Cassandra
4 11 (4.82%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.63%) DynamoDB
5 6 (2.63%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.32%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.88%) MySQL
8 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.44%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.44%) KDB
8 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.44%) Redis
8 1 (0.44%) Scylla
8 1 (0.44%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 13 (5.70%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.63%) Cucumber
2 6 (2.63%) GitLab
2 6 (2.63%) Selenium
3 5 (2.19%) CircleCI
3 5 (2.19%) JIRA
3 5 (2.19%) REST Assured
3 5 (2.19%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.75%) Git
5 3 (1.32%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.32%) Gradle
5 3 (1.32%) JUnit
5 3 (1.32%) Maven
5 3 (1.32%) MSI
5 3 (1.32%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.32%) webpack
5 3 (1.32%) WiX
6 2 (0.88%) fastlane
7 1 (0.44%) CMake
7 1 (0.44%) Spinnaker
General
1 62 (27.19%) Finance
2 46 (20.18%) Front Office
3 42 (18.42%) Banking
4 38 (16.67%) Investment Banking
5 30 (13.16%) Social Skills
6 11 (4.82%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.39%) Retail
8 8 (3.51%) Electronics
9 7 (3.07%) Aerospace
9 7 (3.07%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (3.07%) Local Government
9 7 (3.07%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.63%) Law
11 5 (2.19%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.75%) Automotive
12 4 (1.75%) Military
12 4 (1.75%) Police
13 3 (1.32%) Marketing
14 2 (0.88%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (20.61%) Pandas
2 45 (19.74%) gRPC
3 44 (19.30%) Protocol Buffers
4 42 (18.42%) NumPy
5 39 (17.11%) Kafka
6 38 (16.67%) SciPy
7 29 (12.72%) React
8 24 (10.53%) .NET
9 22 (9.65%) REST
10 19 (8.33%) Node.js
11 13 (5.70%) AngularJS
12 12 (5.26%) Spring
12 12 (5.26%) XML
13 11 (4.82%) Spring Boot
14 10 (4.39%) Java EE
15 9 (3.95%) RESTful
16 8 (3.51%) CSS
16 8 (3.51%) GraphQL
16 8 (3.51%) Material-UI
17 7 (3.07%) http4s
Miscellaneous
1 46 (20.18%) Derivative
2 45 (19.74%) Fixed Income
2 45 (19.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 44 (19.30%) Equities
4 38 (16.67%) Hedge funds
5 14 (6.14%) Pricing Data
6 13 (5.70%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (3.51%) Embedded Systems
8 7 (3.07%) Algorithms
8 7 (3.07%) Distributed Architecture
8 7 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.19%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.19%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.75%) Video\Live Streaming
11 3 (1.32%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.32%) IoT
11 3 (1.32%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.32%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.33%) Linux
2 7 (3.07%) Windows
3 4 (1.75%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.32%) Android
5 2 (0.88%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (99.12%) Software Engineering
2 114 (50.00%) Agile
3 46 (20.18%) Asset Management
4 40 (17.54%) Investment Management
5 38 (16.67%) User Experience
6 35 (15.35%) UX Design
7 33 (14.47%) CI/CD
8 30 (13.16%) Fintech
9 29 (12.72%) User Research
9 29 (12.72%) UX Research
10 28 (12.28%) DevOps
11 27 (11.84%) Microservices
12 25 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (10.09%) Computer Science
14 22 (9.65%) Greeks
14 22 (9.65%) Scrum
15 20 (8.77%) Mentoring
16 19 (8.33%) OO
17 16 (7.02%) TDD
18 15 (6.58%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 84 (36.84%) Java
2 71 (31.14%) Python
3 63 (27.63%) JavaScript
4 57 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 36 (15.79%) C#
6 32 (14.04%) Go
7 21 (9.21%) SQL
8 20 (8.77%) C++
9 12 (5.26%) C
10 10 (4.39%) Scala
11 9 (3.95%) Rust
12 7 (3.07%) PowerShell
13 6 (2.63%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.75%) Perl
14 4 (1.75%) PHP
14 4 (1.75%) Ruby
15 3 (1.32%) Bicep
15 3 (1.32%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.88%) Swift
16 2 (0.88%) VB
Qualifications
1 30 (13.16%) Degree
2 25 (10.96%) Security Cleared
3 18 (7.89%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.82%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.63%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.32%) PhD
8 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.44%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.65%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.75%) QA
3 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.44%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.44%) MiFID
3 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (20.61%) Docker
2 6 (2.63%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (22.81%) Kubernetes
2 17 (7.46%) Terraform
3 5 (2.19%) Ansible
3 5 (2.19%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (2.19%) Podman
4 4 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.44%) Argo
5 1 (0.44%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (4.39%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.19%) Salesforce
3 4 (1.75%) Google
3 4 (1.75%) Okta
3 4 (1.75%) Roku
4 3 (1.32%) SAP
5 2 (0.88%) Databricks
5 2 (0.88%) MathWorks
5 2 (0.88%) New Relic
5 2 (0.88%) NVIDIA
5 2 (0.88%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.44%) Finsemble
6 1 (0.44%) HP
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle
6 1 (0.44%) Sparx
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