Software Engineering Contracts in London

Software Engineering
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 29 35 36
Rank change year-on-year +6 +1 -12
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 1,145 1,463 2,461
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 6.48% 5.82% 6.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.34% 6.40% 6.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 894 1,107 1,927
10th Percentile £450 £463 £463
25th Percentile £525 £531 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £667 £650 £620
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% +4.84% +12.73%
75th Percentile £825 £775 £725
90th Percentile £888 £863 £813
England median daily rate £600 £601 £600
% change year-on-year -0.08% +0.08% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 23 27
10th Percentile £49.06 £36.75 £29.85
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.42 £35.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.97 £47.34
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% +11.89% -2.39%
75th Percentile £81.82 £78.00 £57.25
90th Percentile £83.75 £90.00 £71.05
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +21.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,607 22,862 35,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.27% 90.90% 92.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,159 16,574 26,061
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 267 388
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.09
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.83
90th Percentile £67.60 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineering in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in London

Software Engineering
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 Software Engineering 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 -1 104 £563 -13.46% 101
West London +21 30 £575 -4.17% 24
East London +4 12 £575 +15.00% 18
South London -16 6 £550 - 11
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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
1 243 (21.22%) Apache Airflow
2 232 (20.26%) Apache
3 22 (1.92%) Confluence
4 16 (1.40%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.22%) CMS
6 10 (0.87%) nginx
7 8 (0.70%) IIS
8 7 (0.61%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.44%) Anypoint
10 4 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
10 4 (0.35%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.35%) SAS
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.17%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.17%) WildFly
12 1 (0.087%) Appian
12 1 (0.087%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.087%) JBoss
12 1 (0.087%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.087%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (1.14%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.52%) Simulink
2 6 (0.52%) Stateflow
3 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (0.44%) Endur
1 5 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.26%) FLEXCUBE
3 3 (0.26%) Oracle BPM
4 2 (0.17%) Shopify
4 2 (0.17%) WebTrends
5 1 (0.087%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.087%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.087%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.087%) Front Arena
5 1 (0.087%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 513 (44.80%) AWS
2 381 (33.28%) Azure
3 267 (23.32%) GCP
4 154 (13.45%) dbt
5 142 (12.40%) Snowflake
6 67 (5.85%) Serverless
7 65 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
8 49 (4.28%) GitHub
9 44 (3.84%) AWS Lambda
10 41 (3.58%) Azure Service Bus
11 32 (2.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 31 (2.71%) Amazon S3
13 28 (2.45%) Amazon EC2
14 23 (2.01%) PaaS
15 20 (1.75%) Entra ID
16 19 (1.66%) SaaS
17 18 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
17 18 (1.57%) Azure API Management
18 17 (1.48%) Azure Functions
18 17 (1.48%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.87%) Internet
2 8 (0.70%) DNS
2 8 (0.70%) Firewall
3 6 (0.52%) HTTP
4 5 (0.44%) DHCP
5 4 (0.35%) AMQP
5 4 (0.35%) VPN
5 4 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.26%) IPv4
6 3 (0.26%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.26%) SSL
7 2 (0.17%) 5G
7 2 (0.17%) Broadband
7 2 (0.17%) Network Security
8 1 (0.087%) 4G
8 1 (0.087%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.087%) Intranet
8 1 (0.087%) SMS
8 1 (0.087%) VLAN
8 1 (0.087%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (19.30%) Apache Ignite
2 154 (13.45%) Amazon Athena
3 153 (13.36%) Dremio
4 149 (13.01%) Apache Arrow
5 145 (12.66%) Data Lake
6 93 (8.12%) PostgreSQL
7 70 (6.11%) SQL Server
8 60 (5.24%) NoSQL
9 30 (2.62%) Relational Database
10 28 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
11 27 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
12 25 (2.18%) MySQL
13 22 (1.92%) DynamoDB
14 21 (1.83%) MongoDB
15 18 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 17 (1.48%) Apache Cassandra
16 17 (1.48%) Big Data
17 16 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 14 (1.22%) Oracle Database
19 12 (1.05%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 102 (8.91%) Git
2 78 (6.81%) Cypress.io
3 52 (4.54%) Jenkins
3 52 (4.54%) JIRA
4 32 (2.79%) Postman
5 28 (2.45%) GitLab
6 21 (1.83%) Maven
7 16 (1.40%) Selenium
8 15 (1.31%) TeamCity
9 14 (1.22%) JMeter
9 14 (1.22%) webpack
10 13 (1.14%) JUnit
10 13 (1.14%) Visual Studio
11 11 (0.96%) git-flow
12 8 (0.70%) SonarQube
12 8 (0.70%) SpecFlow
13 7 (0.61%) Appium
13 7 (0.61%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.61%) fastlane
14 6 (0.52%) CircleCI
General
1 518 (45.24%) Finance
2 349 (30.48%) Front Office
3 323 (28.21%) Banking
4 190 (16.59%) Social Skills
5 162 (14.15%) Investment Banking
6 48 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
7 36 (3.14%) Retail
8 29 (2.53%) Public Sector
9 20 (1.75%) Marketing
10 13 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (0.96%) Financial Institution
11 11 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (0.79%) Games
13 8 (0.70%) Automotive
13 8 (0.70%) Legal
13 8 (0.70%) Retail Banking
14 6 (0.52%) Local Government
14 6 (0.52%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.44%) Tech for Good
16 4 (0.35%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 510 (44.54%) Software Engineer
2 470 (41.05%) Developer
3 267 (23.32%) Senior
4 169 (14.76%) Python Engineer
5 163 (14.24%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 157 (13.71%) Python Software Engineer
7 153 (13.36%) Python Developer
8 134 (11.70%) Senior Software Engineer
9 129 (11.27%) Lead
10 96 (8.38%) React Developer
11 89 (7.77%) Senior Developer
12 87 (7.60%) Software Developer
13 83 (7.25%) Java Engineer
14 79 (6.90%) Architect
14 79 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
15 73 (6.38%) AWS Software Engineer
16 71 (6.20%) Java Software Engineer
17 68 (5.94%) Full Stack Developer
18 60 (5.24%) Full Stack Engineer
18 60 (5.24%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 277 (24.19%) React
2 241 (21.05%) gRPC
3 230 (20.09%) Protocol Buffers
4 182 (15.90%) Pandas
5 181 (15.81%) .NET
6 175 (15.28%) NumPy
7 157 (13.71%) SciPy
8 141 (12.31%) Redux
9 89 (7.77%) Material-UI
9 89 (7.77%) Node.js
10 86 (7.51%) Kafka
11 81 (7.07%) REST
12 78 (6.81%) AngularJS
12 78 (6.81%) HTML
13 66 (5.76%) CSS
14 63 (5.50%) .NET Core
15 43 (3.76%) Web Services
16 41 (3.58%) GraphQL
17 38 (3.32%) Spring
18 36 (3.14%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 286 (24.98%) Fixed Income
2 239 (20.87%) Hedge funds
3 219 (19.13%) Equities
4 197 (17.21%) Derivative
5 176 (15.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (4.28%) Distributed Systems
7 38 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
8 34 (2.97%) Algorithms
9 27 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (1.83%) Mobile App
10 21 (1.83%) Product Ownership
11 19 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
11 19 (1.66%) Management Information System
12 16 (1.40%) Cloud Native
12 16 (1.40%) Pricing Data
12 16 (1.40%) Renewable Energy
13 12 (1.05%) Client/Server
13 12 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (1.05%) Data Structures
13 12 (1.05%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 60 (5.24%) Linux
2 32 (2.79%) Windows
3 30 (2.62%) Apple iOS
4 27 (2.36%) Android
5 14 (1.22%) Unix
6 4 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.17%) VMS
7 2 (0.17%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.087%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.087%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (46.29%) Agile
2 285 (24.89%) Asset Management
3 219 (19.13%) Investment Management
4 216 (18.86%) DevOps
5 205 (17.90%) CI/CD
6 193 (16.86%) Full Stack Development
7 129 (11.27%) TDD
8 127 (11.09%) Fintech
9 123 (10.74%) Artificial Intelligence
10 118 (10.31%) SDLC
11 111 (9.69%) Machine Learning
12 107 (9.34%) Analytics
12 107 (9.34%) Microservices
13 104 (9.08%) Scrum
14 97 (8.47%) Computer Science
15 84 (7.34%) Problem-Solving
15 84 (7.34%) Test Automation
16 68 (5.94%) Design Patterns
16 68 (5.94%) Line Management
17 65 (5.68%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 501 (43.76%) Python
2 399 (34.85%) Java
3 383 (33.45%) JavaScript
4 363 (31.70%) TypeScript
5 269 (23.49%) SQL
6 265 (23.14%) C#
7 63 (5.50%) Go
8 56 (4.89%) C++
9 53 (4.63%) PowerShell
10 34 (2.97%) Scala
11 31 (2.71%) Kotlin
12 29 (2.53%) Rust
13 27 (2.36%) T-SQL
14 25 (2.18%) Ruby
15 23 (2.01%) C
16 17 (1.48%) Bicep
17 12 (1.05%) PHP
17 12 (1.05%) Swift
18 11 (0.96%) R
19 10 (0.87%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 161 (14.06%) Degree
2 77 (6.72%) Security Cleared
3 51 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 49 (4.28%) SC Cleared
5 35 (3.06%) Master's Degree
6 32 (2.79%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.61%) CISSP
8 6 (0.52%) CISA
8 6 (0.52%) CISM
9 3 (0.26%) PhD
10 2 (0.17%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.17%) PgMP
10 2 (0.17%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.17%) PMP
11 1 (0.087%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.087%) EMC Certification
11 1 (0.087%) MBA
11 1 (0.087%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.087%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (5.41%) Data Quality
2 54 (4.72%) QA
3 18 (1.57%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.44%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.44%) SEPA
5 3 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.26%) MiFID
5 3 (0.26%) WCAG
6 1 (0.087%) EMIR
6 1 (0.087%) GRC
6 1 (0.087%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.087%) JTAG
6 1 (0.087%) NIST
System Software
1 117 (10.22%) Docker
2 30 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.44%) ACF2
4 5 (0.44%) IAG
4 5 (0.44%) RACF
5 4 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 128 (11.18%) Kubernetes
2 65 (5.68%) Terraform
3 24 (2.10%) Ansible
4 16 (1.40%) Grafana
5 13 (1.14%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.61%) Argo
7 6 (0.52%) Packer
7 6 (0.52%) Podman
8 4 (0.35%) Kubeflow
8 4 (0.35%) Puppet
8 4 (0.35%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 3 (0.26%) Consul
10 2 (0.17%) Kibana
10 2 (0.17%) logstash
11 1 (0.087%) Bugsnag
11 1 (0.087%) Netcool
11 1 (0.087%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.087%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.087%) systemd
11 1 (0.087%) vRealize
Vendors
1 85 (7.42%) Google
2 79 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 74 (6.46%) Oracle
4 28 (2.45%) Databricks
5 20 (1.75%) Bloomberg
5 20 (1.75%) SAP
6 18 (1.57%) Salesforce
7 13 (1.14%) PayPal
7 13 (1.14%) Virgin Media
8 11 (0.96%) MuleSoft
8 11 (0.96%) ServiceNow
9 10 (0.87%) Splunk
10 8 (0.70%) Reuters
10 8 (0.70%) Sybase
11 7 (0.61%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.52%) Adobe
12 6 (0.52%) Optimizely
12 6 (0.52%) VMware
13 5 (0.44%) Palantir
13 5 (0.44%) Solace