Software Engineering Contracts in Central London

Software Engineering
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 43 33
Rank change year-on-year -1 -10 +6
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 104 183 289
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.30% 4.99% 6.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.74% 5.46% 7.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 101 211
10th Percentile £433 £475 £463
25th Percentile £477 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £772
90th Percentile £875 £825 £813
London median daily rate £667 £650 £620
% change year-on-year +2.54% +4.84% +12.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £45.00
25th Percentile - - £46.13
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year - -29.29% +98.00%
75th Percentile - - £53.13
90th Percentile - - £54.40
London median hourly rate £55.00 £52.97 £47.34
% change year-on-year +3.83% +11.89% -2.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,195 3,349 4,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.74% 91.28% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,540 2,258 3,100
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +6.05%
75th Percentile £680 £725 £688
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 28 47
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.33 £25.63
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%
75th Percentile £31.19 £53.19 £54.50
90th Percentile £41.47 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Central London

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Central London

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Central London

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Central London

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the Central 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
City of London -7 90 £625 -3.85% 69
West End of London - 3 £425 - 12
Software Engineering
London

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 6 (5.77%) IIS
2 4 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.85%) Confluence
3 2 (1.92%) Apache
3 2 (1.92%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.96%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.96%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.96%) Endur
1 1 (0.96%) Front Arena
Cloud Services
1 38 (36.54%) Azure
2 27 (25.96%) AWS
3 11 (10.58%) Serverless
4 10 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (5.77%) Azure Functions
5 6 (5.77%) GitHub
6 5 (4.81%) GCP
7 4 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (2.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (2.88%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (2.88%) Azure Storage
8 3 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.88%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.92%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (1.92%) Datadog
9 2 (1.92%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.73%) Internet
2 4 (3.85%) Firewall
3 1 (0.96%) 5G
3 1 (0.96%) AMQP
3 1 (0.96%) Broadband
3 1 (0.96%) DHCP
3 1 (0.96%) DNS
3 1 (0.96%) Network Security
3 1 (0.96%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.96%) VLAN
3 1 (0.96%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.58%) SQL Server
2 10 (9.62%) NoSQL
3 7 (6.73%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.81%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (3.85%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.85%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.88%) KDB
7 3 (2.88%) MySQL
8 2 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.92%) Big Data
8 2 (1.92%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.92%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.92%) Parquet
8 2 (1.92%) Power BI
8 2 (1.92%) Presto
9 1 (0.96%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.96%) Power Query
9 1 (0.96%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 14 (13.46%) Git
2 8 (7.69%) GitLab
2 8 (7.69%) JIRA
3 6 (5.77%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.88%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.88%) Gradle
4 3 (2.88%) JMeter
4 3 (2.88%) Maven
4 3 (2.88%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.92%) Deequ
5 2 (1.92%) Eclipse
5 2 (1.92%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.92%) JUnit
5 2 (1.92%) Postman
5 2 (1.92%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.92%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.96%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.96%) Appium
6 1 (0.96%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.96%) Mercurial
General
1 26 (25.00%) Finance
2 16 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 14 (13.46%) Banking
4 10 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.77%) Local Government
6 5 (4.81%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.88%) Retail
8 2 (1.92%) Front Office
8 2 (1.92%) Legal
8 2 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.92%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.96%) Advertising
9 1 (0.96%) Automotive
9 1 (0.96%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.96%) Marketing
9 1 (0.96%) Publishing
9 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (35.58%) Software Engineer
2 27 (25.96%) Developer
3 18 (17.31%) Senior
4 11 (10.58%) Senior Software Engineer
5 8 (7.69%) Lead
6 7 (6.73%) Full Stack Developer
6 7 (6.73%) Java Developer
7 6 (5.77%) Architect
8 5 (4.81%) Analyst
8 5 (4.81%) Project Manager
8 5 (4.81%) Python Engineer
9 4 (3.85%) .NET Developer
9 4 (3.85%) Data Engineer
9 4 (3.85%) Python Developer
9 4 (3.85%) Python Software Engineer
10 3 (2.88%) Business Analyst
10 3 (2.88%) Design Engineer
10 3 (2.88%) Java Engineer
10 3 (2.88%) Senior Developer
10 3 (2.88%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (25.00%) .NET
2 23 (22.12%) React
3 11 (10.58%) .NET Framework
3 11 (10.58%) Kafka
4 9 (8.65%) ASP.NET
5 7 (6.73%) HTML
5 7 (6.73%) Web Services
6 6 (5.77%) REST
7 5 (4.81%) .NET Core
7 5 (4.81%) FIX Protocol
7 5 (4.81%) Middleware
8 4 (3.85%) ARM Templates
8 4 (3.85%) Node.js
8 4 (3.85%) PySpark
8 4 (3.85%) Spring
9 3 (2.88%) Blazor
9 3 (2.88%) FastAPI
9 3 (2.88%) Next.js
9 3 (2.88%) RESTful
9 3 (2.88%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.81%) Algorithms
1 5 (4.81%) Cloud Native
1 5 (4.81%) Equities
1 5 (4.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (2.88%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (1.92%) Derivative
3 2 (1.92%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.92%) Market Risk
3 2 (1.92%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.96%) CMDB
4 1 (0.96%) Digital Media
4 1 (0.96%) IoT
4 1 (0.96%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.96%) PKI
4 1 (0.96%) Replication
4 1 (0.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (13.46%) Windows
2 10 (9.62%) Linux
3 4 (3.85%) Unix
4 2 (1.92%) Android
4 2 (1.92%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (30.77%) Agile
2 27 (25.96%) DevOps
3 25 (24.04%) CI/CD
4 24 (23.08%) SDLC
5 19 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (16.35%) Microservices
7 13 (12.50%) Front End Development
7 13 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
7 13 (12.50%) Mentoring
8 12 (11.54%) Scrum
9 11 (10.58%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (9.62%) Analytics
11 9 (8.65%) Computer Science
11 9 (8.65%) Migration
12 8 (7.69%) Software Deployment
13 7 (6.73%) Design Patterns
13 7 (6.73%) ETL
13 7 (6.73%) Mathematics
13 7 (6.73%) TDD
14 6 (5.77%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 41 (39.42%) Python
2 29 (27.88%) Java
2 29 (27.88%) SQL
3 20 (19.23%) C#
4 14 (13.46%) JavaScript
5 8 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 8 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 6 (5.77%) Go
7 4 (3.85%) C++
7 4 (3.85%) Scala
7 4 (3.85%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.92%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.92%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.96%) Bash
9 1 (0.96%) Bicep
9 1 (0.96%) Perl
9 1 (0.96%) Ruby
9 1 (0.96%) Rust
9 1 (0.96%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.96%) Swift
Qualifications
1 17 (16.35%) Degree
2 5 (4.81%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.85%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.92%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.96%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.96%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.88%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.92%) QA
3 1 (0.96%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.96%) NIST
3 1 (0.96%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.96%) SEPA
System Software
1 12 (11.54%) Docker
2 1 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.96%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (14.42%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.65%) Terraform
3 2 (1.92%) Ansible
3 2 (1.92%) Argo
3 2 (1.92%) Grafana
4 1 (0.96%) Kibana
4 1 (0.96%) logstash
4 1 (0.96%) Podman
4 1 (0.96%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.96%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.96%) Puppet
4 1 (0.96%) vRealize
4 1 (0.96%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 15 (14.42%) Microsoft
2 14 (13.46%) Oracle
3 7 (6.73%) Databricks
4 3 (2.88%) Google
4 3 (2.88%) SAP
5 2 (1.92%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.92%) Foundry
5 2 (1.92%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.92%) Palantir
5 2 (1.92%) Solace
5 2 (1.92%) Splunk
5 2 (1.92%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.96%) Advent
6 1 (0.96%) Eze Castle Integration
6 1 (0.96%) IBM
6 1 (0.96%) New Relic
6 1 (0.96%) Sybase
6 1 (0.96%) Temenos
6 1 (0.96%) VMware