Senior Software Engineer Contracts

Senior Software Engineer
UK

The median Senior Software Engineer daily rate in the UK is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 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
18 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 353 519 560
Rank change year-on-year +166 +41 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 221 169 295
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.30% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.31% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 118 210
10th Percentile £425 £419 £495
25th Percentile £463 £465 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £556 £600
Median % change year-on-year +16.91% -7.33% +17.07%
75th Percentile £800 £672 £700
90th Percentile £850 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £543 £538 £517
% change year-on-year +0.84% +4.06% +14.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 4 8
10th Percentile £35.52 £39.88 £35.13
25th Percentile £46.91 £47.19 £42.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £47.25
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +11.11% -0.53%
75th Percentile £72.50 £56.05 £51.51
90th Percentile £83.75 £60.20 £62.42
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £50.89
% change year-on-year +23.81% +3.16% +7.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in the UK

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in the UK

Senior Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Software Engineer in the UK

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in the UK

Senior Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Software Engineer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Software Engineer in the UK

Senior Software Engineer
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 18 May 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
England +173 209 £650 +18.18% 436
London +147 121 £650 +4.00% 227
Work from Home +107 96 £650 +30.00% 234
UK excluding London +64 71 £543 +0.84% 287
South East +41 29 £543 +5.85% 103
North of England +41 22 £588 +20.39% 43
North West +28 17 £625 +21.83% 28
East of England +5 11 £600 -6.25% 43
Yorkshire +17 5 £280 -37.78% 12
South West +3 5 £488 -17.37% 42
Scotland +39 2 - - 16
West Midlands +19 2 - - 20
Midlands +19 2 - - 28
Wales +17 1 - - 8

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 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 featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 219 (99.10%) Software Engineering
2 116 (52.49%) AWS
3 113 (51.13%) Agile
4 79 (35.75%) Java
5 65 (29.41%) Python
6 57 (25.79%) JavaScript
7 56 (25.34%) Finance
8 54 (24.43%) Kubernetes
9 49 (22.17%) Docker
10 47 (21.27%) TypeScript
11 41 (18.55%) Kafka
12 40 (18.10%) User Experience
13 39 (17.65%) Pandas
13 39 (17.65%) CI/CD
14 38 (17.19%) Derivative
14 38 (17.19%) Front Office
14 38 (17.19%) Asset Management
14 38 (17.19%) C#
15 37 (16.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 37 (16.74%) Fixed Income
15 37 (16.74%) UX Design
15 37 (16.74%) gRPC
16 36 (16.29%) Apache Airflow
16 36 (16.29%) Microservices
16 36 (16.29%) Protocol Buffers
16 36 (16.29%) Equities
17 35 (15.84%) Banking
17 35 (15.84%) Go
18 34 (15.38%) Azure
18 34 (15.38%) NumPy

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 36 (16.29%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (14.03%) Apache
3 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.45%) Drupal
3 1 (0.45%) MTS
3 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Simulink
1 2 (0.90%) Stateflow
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.26%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.45%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 116 (52.49%) AWS
2 34 (15.38%) Azure
3 30 (13.57%) dbt
4 29 (13.12%) Snowflake
5 14 (6.33%) GCP
6 9 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (3.17%) Serverless
8 6 (2.71%) Amazon S3
8 6 (2.71%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.71%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.26%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (2.26%) GitHub
10 4 (1.81%) Miro
11 3 (1.36%) OpenShift
12 2 (0.90%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (0.90%) AWS IoT
12 2 (0.90%) Datadog
12 2 (0.90%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.90%) RS-485
2 1 (0.45%) Firewall
2 1 (0.45%) RS-422
2 1 (0.45%) SNMP
2 1 (0.45%) VPN
2 1 (0.45%) WAN
2 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (14.03%) Apache Cassandra
2 30 (13.57%) Amazon Athena
2 30 (13.57%) Apache Arrow
2 30 (13.57%) Apache Ignite
2 30 (13.57%) Dremio
3 29 (13.12%) Data Lake
4 12 (5.43%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.62%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.71%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.71%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.36%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.90%) MySQL
9 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.45%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.45%) KDB
9 1 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.45%) Redis
9 1 (0.45%) Scylla
9 1 (0.45%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 13 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 12 (5.43%) GitLab
3 6 (2.71%) Cucumber
3 6 (2.71%) Selenium
4 5 (2.26%) CircleCI
4 5 (2.26%) JIRA
4 5 (2.26%) REST Assured
4 5 (2.26%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.81%) Git
6 3 (1.36%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.36%) Gradle
6 3 (1.36%) JUnit
6 3 (1.36%) Maven
6 3 (1.36%) MSI
6 3 (1.36%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.36%) webpack
6 3 (1.36%) WiX
7 1 (0.45%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.45%) ClearQuest
7 1 (0.45%) JMeter
General
1 56 (25.34%) Finance
2 38 (17.19%) Front Office
3 35 (15.84%) Banking
4 31 (14.03%) Social Skills
5 30 (13.57%) Investment Banking
6 13 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 9 (4.07%) Retail
8 8 (3.62%) Electronics
8 8 (3.62%) Local Government
9 7 (3.17%) Aerospace
9 7 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.71%) Law
10 6 (2.71%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.26%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.81%) Automotive
12 4 (1.81%) Marketing
12 4 (1.81%) Military
12 4 (1.81%) Police
13 2 (0.90%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (18.55%) Kafka
2 39 (17.65%) Pandas
3 37 (16.74%) gRPC
4 36 (16.29%) Protocol Buffers
5 34 (15.38%) NumPy
6 30 (13.57%) SciPy
7 29 (13.12%) React
8 26 (11.76%) .NET
8 26 (11.76%) Node.js
9 21 (9.50%) REST
10 16 (7.24%) RESTful
11 14 (6.33%) AngularJS
12 12 (5.43%) Spring
12 12 (5.43%) XML
13 11 (4.98%) Spring Boot
14 10 (4.52%) Java EE
15 9 (4.07%) CSS
16 8 (3.62%) .NET Core
16 8 (3.62%) Material-UI
17 7 (3.17%) http4s
Miscellaneous
1 38 (17.19%) Derivative
2 37 (16.74%) Fixed Income
2 37 (16.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 36 (16.29%) Equities
4 31 (14.03%) Hedge funds
5 13 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (4.52%) Pricing Data
7 8 (3.62%) Embedded Systems
8 7 (3.17%) Algorithms
8 7 (3.17%) Distributed Architecture
8 7 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.26%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.26%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.81%) Video\Live Streaming
11 3 (1.36%) IoT
11 3 (1.36%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.36%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.36%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.60%) Linux
2 7 (3.17%) Windows
3 2 (0.90%) Android
3 2 (0.90%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (99.10%) Software Engineering
2 113 (51.13%) Agile
3 40 (18.10%) User Experience
4 39 (17.65%) CI/CD
5 38 (17.19%) Asset Management
6 37 (16.74%) UX Design
7 36 (16.29%) Microservices
8 33 (14.93%) Investment Management
9 32 (14.48%) Fintech
10 31 (14.03%) User Research
10 31 (14.03%) UX Research
11 27 (12.22%) DevOps
12 26 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (10.86%) Computer Science
14 23 (10.41%) Scrum
15 19 (8.60%) Mentoring
15 19 (8.60%) OO
16 18 (8.14%) Greeks
17 16 (7.24%) Design Patterns
17 16 (7.24%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 79 (35.75%) Java
2 65 (29.41%) Python
3 57 (25.79%) JavaScript
4 47 (21.27%) TypeScript
5 38 (17.19%) C#
6 35 (15.84%) Go
7 21 (9.50%) SQL
8 20 (9.05%) C++
9 11 (4.98%) C
10 10 (4.52%) Rust
10 10 (4.52%) Scala
11 7 (3.17%) PowerShell
12 5 (2.26%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.81%) Perl
13 4 (1.81%) PHP
13 4 (1.81%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.36%) Bicep
14 3 (1.36%) Clojure
14 3 (1.36%) Haskell
15 2 (0.90%) VB
Qualifications
1 29 (13.12%) Degree
2 25 (11.31%) Security Cleared
3 19 (8.60%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.98%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.81%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.36%) PhD
8 2 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.45%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.14%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.81%) QA
3 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.45%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.45%) MiFID
3 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 49 (22.17%) Docker
2 6 (2.71%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (24.43%) Kubernetes
2 24 (10.86%) Terraform
3 5 (2.26%) Ansible
3 5 (2.26%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (2.26%) Podman
4 4 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.45%) Argo
5 1 (0.45%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (4.52%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.26%) Salesforce
3 4 (1.81%) Google
3 4 (1.81%) Okta
3 4 (1.81%) Roku
4 3 (1.36%) SAP
5 2 (0.90%) Databricks
5 2 (0.90%) MathWorks
5 2 (0.90%) New Relic
5 2 (0.90%) NVIDIA
5 2 (0.90%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.45%) Finsemble
6 1 (0.45%) HP
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle
6 1 (0.45%) Sparx
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