Senior Software Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Software Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Software Engineer daily rate in London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 264 424 409
Rank change year-on-year +160 -15 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 130 69 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.74% 0.27% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 0.28% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 57 149
10th Percentile £450 £445 £538
25th Percentile £525 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £850 £738 £713
90th Percentile - £805 £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% -0.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,399 24,342 36,962
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,837 17,773 27,187
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £473
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 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%

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 2 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 2 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 +34 12 £450 -25.00% 11
South London - 4 - - 1
East London -5 1 £575 -20.69% 2
Senior Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 128 (98.46%) Software Engineering
2 81 (62.31%) AWS
3 69 (53.08%) Agile
4 59 (45.38%) Finance
4 59 (45.38%) Java
4 59 (45.38%) JavaScript
4 59 (45.38%) Python
5 53 (40.77%) TypeScript
6 47 (36.15%) Pandas
7 46 (35.38%) Front Office
7 46 (35.38%) Asset Management
7 46 (35.38%) Derivative
8 45 (34.62%) Fixed Income
8 45 (34.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 45 (34.62%) gRPC
9 44 (33.85%) Apache Airflow
9 44 (33.85%) Protocol Buffers
9 44 (33.85%) Equities
10 42 (32.31%) Banking
11 41 (31.54%) NumPy
12 40 (30.77%) Investment Management
13 39 (30.00%) Apache
14 38 (29.23%) Investment Banking
14 38 (29.23%) Hedge funds
14 38 (29.23%) SciPy
14 38 (29.23%) Amazon Athena
14 38 (29.23%) dbt
14 38 (29.23%) Apache Arrow
14 38 (29.23%) Apache Ignite
14 38 (29.23%) Dremio

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 44 (33.85%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (30.00%) Apache
3 1 (0.77%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.77%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.77%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 5 (3.85%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 81 (62.31%) AWS
2 38 (29.23%) dbt
3 37 (28.46%) Snowflake
4 20 (15.38%) Azure
5 10 (7.69%) GCP
6 7 (5.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (5.38%) Serverless
7 6 (4.62%) Amazon S3
7 6 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.62%) Entra ID
8 5 (3.85%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (3.85%) GitHub
9 4 (3.08%) Miro
10 3 (2.31%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.54%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.54%) Datadog
11 2 (1.54%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (29.23%) Amazon Athena
1 38 (29.23%) Apache Arrow
1 38 (29.23%) Apache Ignite
1 38 (29.23%) Dremio
2 37 (28.46%) Data Lake
3 14 (10.77%) Apache Cassandra
4 9 (6.92%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.62%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.31%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.31%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.54%) MySQL
8 1 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.77%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.77%) KDB
8 1 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.77%) Redis
8 1 (0.77%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 6 (4.62%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.85%) CircleCI
3 3 (2.31%) Cypress.io
3 3 (2.31%) Gradle
3 3 (2.31%) Maven
3 3 (2.31%) MSI
3 3 (2.31%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.31%) webpack
3 3 (2.31%) WiX
4 2 (1.54%) fastlane
4 2 (1.54%) JUnit
5 1 (0.77%) Babel
5 1 (0.77%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.77%) Git
5 1 (0.77%) GitLab
5 1 (0.77%) JMeter
5 1 (0.77%) Selenium
5 1 (0.77%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.77%) TestNG
General
1 59 (45.38%) Finance
2 46 (35.38%) Front Office
3 42 (32.31%) Banking
4 38 (29.23%) Investment Banking
5 15 (11.54%) Social Skills
6 10 (7.69%) Retail
7 8 (6.15%) Public Sector
8 7 (5.38%) Local Government
9 4 (3.08%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.54%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.54%) Law
11 1 (0.77%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.77%) Games
11 1 (0.77%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (36.15%) Pandas
2 45 (34.62%) gRPC
3 44 (33.85%) Protocol Buffers
4 41 (31.54%) NumPy
5 38 (29.23%) SciPy
6 24 (18.46%) React
7 20 (15.38%) Kafka
8 19 (14.62%) .NET
9 16 (12.31%) Node.js
9 16 (12.31%) REST
10 11 (8.46%) Spring
11 9 (6.92%) AngularJS
11 9 (6.92%) Spring Boot
11 9 (6.92%) XML
12 8 (6.15%) Material-UI
12 8 (6.15%) RESTful
13 7 (5.38%) GraphQL
13 7 (5.38%) Vue
14 6 (4.62%) CSS
15 5 (3.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 46 (35.38%) Derivative
2 45 (34.62%) Fixed Income
2 45 (34.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 44 (33.85%) Equities
4 38 (29.23%) Hedge funds
5 14 (10.77%) Pricing Data
6 8 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (5.38%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (3.08%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (2.31%) Client/Server
9 3 (2.31%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (2.31%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.31%) Web 2.0
10 2 (1.54%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.54%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.54%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.54%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.77%) Augmented Reality
11 1 (0.77%) Machine to Machine
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.08%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.31%) Windows
3 1 (0.77%) Android
3 1 (0.77%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (98.46%) Software Engineering
2 69 (53.08%) Agile
3 46 (35.38%) Asset Management
4 40 (30.77%) Investment Management
5 22 (16.92%) Greeks
5 22 (16.92%) User Experience
6 21 (16.15%) CI/CD
7 19 (14.62%) UX Design
8 18 (13.85%) Microservices
9 15 (11.54%) Fintech
10 14 (10.77%) User Research
10 14 (10.77%) UX Research
11 12 (9.23%) DevOps
11 12 (9.23%) Mentoring
11 12 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (8.46%) Analytics
12 11 (8.46%) TDD
13 10 (7.69%) Front End Development
13 10 (7.69%) Full Stack Development
14 7 (5.38%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 59 (45.38%) Java
1 59 (45.38%) JavaScript
1 59 (45.38%) Python
2 53 (40.77%) TypeScript
3 25 (19.23%) C#
4 15 (11.54%) Go
5 13 (10.00%) SQL
6 6 (4.62%) C++
6 6 (4.62%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.85%) Rust
8 4 (3.08%) Kotlin
8 4 (3.08%) Ruby
8 4 (3.08%) Scala
9 3 (2.31%) Bicep
9 3 (2.31%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.54%) Clojure
10 2 (1.54%) Haskell
10 2 (1.54%) Swift
11 1 (0.77%) C
Qualifications
1 12 (9.23%) Degree
2 7 (5.38%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.85%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.31%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.31%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.77%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (16.92%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.77%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.77%) ISO 20022
2 1 (0.77%) MiFID
System Software
1 22 (16.92%) Docker
2 6 (4.62%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (19.23%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.08%) Terraform
3 1 (0.77%) Argo
Vendors
1 7 (5.38%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.85%) Salesforce
3 2 (1.54%) Databricks
3 2 (1.54%) New Relic
4 1 (0.77%) Finsemble
4 1 (0.77%) Oracle