Senior Software Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Software Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Software Engineer daily rate in London is £666, 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 264 414 413
Rank change year-on-year +150 -1 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 136 68 193
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.77% 0.27% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.28% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 56 152
10th Percentile £450 - £538
25th Percentile £531 £463 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £666 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year +6.60% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £850 £738 £713
90th Percentile - £806 £750
England median daily rate £650 £556 £600
% change year-on-year +16.91% -7.33% +17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile £81.22 - £32.88
25th Percentile £81.25 - £33.44
Median hourly rate £82.50 £35.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +135.71% -3.45% -
75th Percentile £83.75 - £38.44
90th Percentile - - £38.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £47.25
% change year-on-year +23.81% +11.11% -8.70%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in London

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in London

Senior Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Software Engineer in London

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in London

Senior Software Engineer
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 Engineer 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 +40 12 £450 -25.00% 16
South London - 4 - - 2
East London -4 1 £575 -20.69% 6
Senior Software Engineer
England

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

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

1 134 (98.53%) Software Engineering
2 87 (63.97%) AWS
3 74 (54.41%) Agile
4 68 (50.00%) Python
5 67 (49.26%) Java
5 67 (49.26%) Finance
6 64 (47.06%) JavaScript
7 59 (43.38%) TypeScript
8 53 (38.97%) Pandas
8 53 (38.97%) Asset Management
9 52 (38.24%) Derivative
9 52 (38.24%) Front Office
9 52 (38.24%) gRPC
10 51 (37.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 51 (37.50%) Fixed Income
11 50 (36.76%) Equities
11 50 (36.76%) Apache Airflow
11 50 (36.76%) Protocol Buffers
12 49 (36.03%) Banking
13 47 (34.56%) Investment Management
13 47 (34.56%) NumPy
14 45 (33.09%) Apache
15 44 (32.35%) Investment Banking
15 44 (32.35%) Hedge funds
15 44 (32.35%) SciPy
15 44 (32.35%) Amazon Athena
15 44 (32.35%) Apache Ignite
15 44 (32.35%) Dremio
15 44 (32.35%) dbt
15 44 (32.35%) Snowflake

Senior Software Engineer 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 50 (36.76%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (33.09%) Apache
3 2 (1.47%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.74%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.74%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 5 (3.68%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 87 (63.97%) AWS
2 44 (32.35%) dbt
2 44 (32.35%) Snowflake
3 20 (14.71%) Azure
4 10 (7.35%) GCP
5 7 (5.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (5.15%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (5.15%) Serverless
6 6 (4.41%) Amazon S3
6 6 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.41%) Entra ID
7 5 (3.68%) AWS Step Functions
7 5 (3.68%) GitHub
8 4 (2.94%) Miro
9 3 (2.21%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.47%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (1.47%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (32.35%) Amazon Athena
1 44 (32.35%) Apache Arrow
1 44 (32.35%) Apache Ignite
1 44 (32.35%) Dremio
2 43 (31.62%) Data Lake
3 12 (8.82%) Apache Cassandra
4 9 (6.62%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.41%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.94%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.21%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.47%) MySQL
9 1 (0.74%) Big Data
9 1 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.74%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.74%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.74%) KDB
9 1 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.74%) Redis
9 1 (0.74%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 6 (4.41%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.68%) CircleCI
3 3 (2.21%) Cypress.io
3 3 (2.21%) Gradle
3 3 (2.21%) Maven
3 3 (2.21%) MSI
3 3 (2.21%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.21%) webpack
3 3 (2.21%) WiX
4 2 (1.47%) fastlane
4 2 (1.47%) JUnit
4 2 (1.47%) Selenium
5 1 (0.74%) Babel
5 1 (0.74%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.74%) Git
5 1 (0.74%) GitLab
5 1 (0.74%) JMeter
5 1 (0.74%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.74%) TestNG
General
1 67 (49.26%) Finance
2 52 (38.24%) Front Office
3 49 (36.03%) Banking
4 44 (32.35%) Investment Banking
5 14 (10.29%) Social Skills
6 10 (7.35%) Retail
7 8 (5.88%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.41%) Local Government
9 4 (2.94%) Aerospace
10 3 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.21%) Law
11 2 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.74%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (38.97%) Pandas
2 52 (38.24%) gRPC
3 50 (36.76%) Protocol Buffers
4 47 (34.56%) NumPy
5 44 (32.35%) SciPy
6 23 (16.91%) React
7 19 (13.97%) .NET
7 19 (13.97%) Kafka
7 19 (13.97%) REST
8 15 (11.03%) Node.js
9 11 (8.09%) Spring
10 9 (6.62%) AngularJS
10 9 (6.62%) GraphQL
10 9 (6.62%) Spring Boot
10 9 (6.62%) XML
11 8 (5.88%) Material-UI
11 8 (5.88%) RESTful
12 7 (5.15%) Vue
13 5 (3.68%) CSS
13 5 (3.68%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 52 (38.24%) Derivative
2 51 (37.50%) Fixed Income
2 51 (37.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 50 (36.76%) Equities
4 44 (32.35%) Hedge funds
5 16 (11.76%) Pricing Data
6 9 (6.62%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (5.15%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.94%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (2.21%) Client/Server
9 3 (2.21%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (2.21%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.21%) Public Cloud
9 3 (2.21%) Web 2.0
10 2 (1.47%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.47%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.47%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.47%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.74%) Machine to Machine
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.94%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.21%) Windows
3 1 (0.74%) Android
3 1 (0.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (98.53%) Software Engineering
2 74 (54.41%) Agile
3 53 (38.97%) Asset Management
4 47 (34.56%) Investment Management
5 26 (19.12%) Greeks
6 21 (15.44%) CI/CD
7 20 (14.71%) User Experience
8 17 (12.50%) Microservices
8 17 (12.50%) UX Design
9 13 (9.56%) Analytics
9 13 (9.56%) Fintech
10 12 (8.82%) DevOps
10 12 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (8.82%) TDD
10 12 (8.82%) User Research
10 12 (8.82%) UX Research
11 11 (8.09%) Mentoring
12 9 (6.62%) Front End Development
12 9 (6.62%) Full Stack Development
13 8 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 68 (50.00%) Python
2 67 (49.26%) Java
3 64 (47.06%) JavaScript
4 59 (43.38%) TypeScript
5 26 (19.12%) C#
6 14 (10.29%) SQL
7 13 (9.56%) Go
8 6 (4.41%) C++
8 6 (4.41%) PowerShell
8 6 (4.41%) Rust
9 5 (3.68%) Scala
10 4 (2.94%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.94%) Ruby
11 3 (2.21%) Bicep
11 3 (2.21%) Clojure
11 3 (2.21%) Haskell
11 3 (2.21%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.47%) Swift
13 1 (0.74%) C
Qualifications
1 14 (10.29%) Degree
2 7 (5.15%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.68%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.21%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.21%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (19.85%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.74%) ISO 20022
2 1 (0.74%) MiFID
System Software
1 20 (14.71%) Docker
2 6 (4.41%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.94%) Terraform
3 1 (0.74%) Argo
Vendors
1 8 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.68%) Salesforce
3 2 (1.47%) Databricks
3 2 (1.47%) Finsemble
3 2 (1.47%) New Relic
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle