Senior Software Developer Contracts in London

Senior Software Developer
England > London

The median Senior Software Developer daily rate in London is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 456 508
Rank change year-on-year +126 +52 -30
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 70 26 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.40% 0.10% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.11% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 23 85
10th Percentile £418 £418 £463
25th Percentile £500 £468 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £634 £700
90th Percentile £800 £785 £738
England median daily rate £538 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -8.51% +2.17% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £61.43 - -
England median hourly rate £58.91 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Senior Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Senior Software Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Developer in London

Senior Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Software Developer in London

Senior Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Developer in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Software Developer in London

Senior Software Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Software Developer in London

Senior Software Developer
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 Senior Software Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Central London +45 9 £500 +0.65% 3
East London - 9 £538 -
South London - 1 - -
Senior Software Developer
England

Senior Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Senior Software Developer 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 across the London region featuring Senior Software Developer in the job title.

1 53 (75.71%) Agile
2 52 (74.29%) Azure
3 50 (71.43%) PowerShell
4 44 (62.86%) C#
4 44 (62.86%) SQL Server
5 43 (61.43%) DevOps
6 40 (57.14%) Microsoft
6 40 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (54.29%) CI/CD
8 36 (51.43%) .NET
8 36 (51.43%) XML
8 36 (51.43%) Scrum
9 27 (38.57%) .NET Framework
10 22 (31.43%) Software Engineering
11 21 (30.00%) AngularJS
12 19 (27.14%) Product Ownership
13 18 (25.71%) JavaScript
14 17 (24.29%) SQL
15 16 (22.86%) Active Directory
16 15 (21.43%) Public Sector
17 14 (20.00%) Entra ID
17 14 (20.00%) Java
17 14 (20.00%) B2C
18 13 (18.57%) Project Delivery
19 12 (17.14%) Bicep
19 12 (17.14%) SpecFlow
20 11 (15.71%) AWS
20 11 (15.71%) Python
21 10 (14.29%) Front Office
21 10 (14.29%) Finance

Senior Software Developer Skill Set
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 8 (11.43%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.86%) Apache
3 1 (1.43%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Endur
1 1 (1.43%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 52 (74.29%) Azure
2 40 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 11 (15.71%) AWS
5 8 (11.43%) GCP
6 4 (5.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (4.29%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (4.29%) GitHub
7 3 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.86%) dbt
9 1 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.43%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.43%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.43%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.43%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.43%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (62.86%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (2.86%) Apache Arrow
2 2 (2.86%) Apache Ignite
2 2 (2.86%) Dremio
3 1 (1.43%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (17.14%) SpecFlow
2 2 (2.86%) fastlane
2 2 (2.86%) Git
3 1 (1.43%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.43%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.43%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.43%) Selenium
General
1 15 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 10 (14.29%) Finance
2 10 (14.29%) Front Office
3 7 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.71%) Local Government
5 3 (4.29%) Banking
6 2 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.86%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.43%) Back Office
7 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.43%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (51.43%) .NET
1 36 (51.43%) XML
2 27 (38.57%) .NET Framework
3 21 (30.00%) AngularJS
4 9 (12.86%) Pandas
5 8 (11.43%) ARM Templates
5 8 (11.43%) gRPC
5 8 (11.43%) Protocol Buffers
5 8 (11.43%) React
6 6 (8.57%) Material-UI
6 6 (8.57%) Vue
7 5 (7.14%) .NET Core
8 3 (4.29%) NumPy
8 3 (4.29%) SciPy
9 2 (2.86%) Bazel
9 2 (2.86%) RESTful
9 2 (2.86%) SwiftUI
10 1 (1.43%) ASP.NET MVC
10 1 (1.43%) OAuth2
10 1 (1.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (27.14%) Product Ownership
2 9 (12.86%) Derivative
3 8 (11.43%) Equities
3 8 (11.43%) Fixed Income
3 8 (11.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (7.14%) Contactless
6 3 (4.29%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.86%) Hedge funds
7 2 (2.86%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.86%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.43%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (75.71%) Agile
2 43 (61.43%) DevOps
3 38 (54.29%) CI/CD
4 36 (51.43%) Scrum
5 22 (31.43%) Software Engineering
6 14 (20.00%) B2C
7 13 (18.57%) Project Delivery
8 8 (11.43%) Analytics
8 8 (11.43%) Asset Management
8 8 (11.43%) Database Optimisation
8 8 (11.43%) TDD
9 7 (10.00%) Content Management
9 7 (10.00%) Design Patterns
10 5 (7.14%) SDLC
11 3 (4.29%) Collaborative Working
11 3 (4.29%) Software Testing
11 3 (4.29%) Storyboarding
11 3 (4.29%) User Acceptance Testing
12 2 (2.86%) Clean Code
12 2 (2.86%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 50 (71.43%) PowerShell
2 44 (62.86%) C#
3 18 (25.71%) JavaScript
4 17 (24.29%) SQL
5 14 (20.00%) Java
6 12 (17.14%) Bicep
7 11 (15.71%) Python
8 9 (12.86%) TypeScript
9 4 (5.71%) Ruby
10 2 (2.86%) BeanShell
10 2 (2.86%) Scala
10 2 (2.86%) Swift
11 1 (1.43%) C++
11 1 (1.43%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (7.14%) Degree
2 3 (4.29%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.57%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (22.86%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.43%) ION Trading
2 1 (1.43%) NEC
2 1 (1.43%) OpenLink