Senior Software Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Software Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 234 357 483
Rank change year-on-year +123 +126 -34
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 106 94 141
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.72% 0.39% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.41% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 59 101
10th Percentile £450 £419 £495
25th Percentile £625 £463 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £500 £615
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -18.70% +23.00%
75th Percentile £850 £700 £713
90th Percentile - £788 £756
UK median daily rate £650 £562 £600
% change year-on-year +15.66% -6.33% +17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile - £38.25 -
25th Percentile £35.52 £43.13 £46.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.60 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £47.25
% change year-on-year +23.81% +11.11% -8.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,716 22,731 42,165
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.23% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,231 16,123 30,649
10th Percentile £325 £358 £359
25th Percentile £425 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £634
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 528 566
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.75
25th Percentile £22.54 £25.00 £19.58
Median hourly rate £43.00 £51.57 £38.83
Median % change year-on-year -16.61% +32.81% +67.29%
75th Percentile £63.38 £66.33 £58.66
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.80 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Senior Software Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Senior Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Software Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Senior Software Engineer.

Senior Software Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Software Engineer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Senior Software Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Senior Software Engineer.

Senior Software Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Software Engineer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Senior Software Engineer hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 9 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 106 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 78 (73.58%) AWS
3 62 (58.49%) Agile
4 58 (54.72%) Java
5 56 (52.83%) Python
6 54 (50.94%) JavaScript
7 50 (47.17%) Finance
8 49 (46.23%) Asset Management
8 49 (46.23%) TypeScript
8 49 (46.23%) gRPC
9 48 (45.28%) Apache Airflow
9 48 (45.28%) Protocol Buffers
9 48 (45.28%) Pandas
9 48 (45.28%) Fixed Income
9 48 (45.28%) Equities
9 48 (45.28%) Front Office
9 48 (45.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 48 (45.28%) Derivative
10 43 (40.57%) Investment Management
11 42 (39.62%) Investment Banking
11 42 (39.62%) Apache
11 42 (39.62%) Banking
11 42 (39.62%) Hedge funds
11 42 (39.62%) SciPy
11 42 (39.62%) NumPy
11 42 (39.62%) Amazon Athena
11 42 (39.62%) Apache Ignite
11 42 (39.62%) Dremio
11 42 (39.62%) Apache Arrow
11 42 (39.62%) dbt

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 48 (45.28%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (39.62%) Apache
3 1 (0.94%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.94%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Simulink
1 2 (1.89%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 5 (4.72%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 78 (73.58%) AWS
2 42 (39.62%) dbt
3 41 (38.68%) Snowflake
4 19 (17.92%) Azure
5 9 (8.49%) GCP
6 7 (6.60%) Serverless
7 6 (5.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (5.66%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.72%) Amazon S3
8 5 (4.72%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (1.89%) AWS IoT
9 2 (1.89%) Miro
10 1 (0.94%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (0.94%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.94%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.94%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.94%) Datadog
10 1 (0.94%) GitHub
10 1 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (39.62%) Amazon Athena
1 42 (39.62%) Apache Arrow
1 42 (39.62%) Apache Ignite
1 42 (39.62%) Dremio
2 40 (37.74%) Data Lake
3 14 (13.21%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (4.72%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.83%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.94%) Big Data
6 1 (0.94%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.94%) MySQL
6 1 (0.94%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.94%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.94%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 7 (6.60%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.66%) Selenium
3 5 (4.72%) CircleCI
3 5 (4.72%) Cucumber
3 5 (4.72%) GitLab
3 5 (4.72%) JIRA
3 5 (4.72%) REST Assured
3 5 (4.72%) SonarQube
4 3 (2.83%) Git
4 3 (2.83%) MSI
4 3 (2.83%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.83%) WiX
5 1 (0.94%) CMake
5 1 (0.94%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.94%) fastlane
5 1 (0.94%) JMeter
5 1 (0.94%) JUnit
General
1 50 (47.17%) Finance
2 48 (45.28%) Front Office
3 42 (39.62%) Banking
3 42 (39.62%) Investment Banking
4 15 (14.15%) Social Skills
5 7 (6.60%) Retail
6 5 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.72%) Law
7 4 (3.77%) Police
8 3 (2.83%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.89%) Automotive
9 2 (1.89%) Military
9 2 (1.89%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (46.23%) gRPC
2 48 (45.28%) Pandas
2 48 (45.28%) Protocol Buffers
3 42 (39.62%) NumPy
3 42 (39.62%) SciPy
4 19 (17.92%) Kafka
5 13 (12.26%) REST
6 11 (10.38%) React
7 10 (9.43%) Node.js
8 8 (7.55%) AngularJS
8 8 (7.55%) Java EE
9 6 (5.66%) .NET
9 6 (5.66%) Material-UI
9 6 (5.66%) Vue
10 5 (4.72%) ARM Templates
10 5 (4.72%) RESTful
11 4 (3.77%) ASP.NET
11 4 (3.77%) CSS
11 4 (3.77%) GraphQL
11 4 (3.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (45.28%) Derivative
1 48 (45.28%) Equities
1 48 (45.28%) Fixed Income
1 48 (45.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 42 (39.62%) Hedge funds
3 16 (15.09%) Pricing Data
4 5 (4.72%) Algorithms
4 5 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.83%) Client/Server
5 3 (2.83%) IoT
5 3 (2.83%) Web 2.0
6 1 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.94%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.94%) Machine to Machine
6 1 (0.94%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.94%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.94%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.55%) Linux
2 6 (5.66%) Windows
3 2 (1.89%) Android
3 2 (1.89%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.94%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 62 (58.49%) Agile
3 49 (46.23%) Asset Management
4 43 (40.57%) Investment Management
5 24 (22.64%) Greeks
6 17 (16.04%) User Experience
7 14 (13.21%) Fintech
7 14 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (13.21%) User Research
7 14 (13.21%) UX Design
7 14 (13.21%) UX Research
8 11 (10.38%) DevOps
9 10 (9.43%) Analytics
10 8 (7.55%) Artificial Intelligence
10 8 (7.55%) Configuration Management
11 7 (6.60%) CI/CD
11 7 (6.60%) TDD
12 6 (5.66%) Clean Code
12 6 (5.66%) Data Management
12 6 (5.66%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 58 (54.72%) Java
2 56 (52.83%) Python
3 54 (50.94%) JavaScript
4 49 (46.23%) TypeScript
5 15 (14.15%) Go
6 12 (11.32%) SQL
7 8 (7.55%) C#
8 4 (3.77%) PHP
8 4 (3.77%) Scala
9 3 (2.83%) C++
9 3 (2.83%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.83%) Perl
9 3 (2.83%) Ruby
9 3 (2.83%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.89%) Bash
10 2 (1.89%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.94%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.94%) Rust
11 1 (0.94%) Swift
11 1 (0.94%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (10.38%) Degree
2 5 (4.72%) SC Cleared
2 5 (4.72%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.89%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (23.58%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.94%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (20.75%) Docker
2 1 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (21.70%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.60%) Terraform
3 5 (4.72%) Ansible
3 5 (4.72%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (4.72%) Podman
4 1 (0.94%) Argo
4 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (4.72%) Salesforce
2 3 (2.83%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.89%) MathWorks
3 2 (1.89%) NVIDIA
4 1 (0.94%) Finsemble
4 1 (0.94%) New Relic