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Oct 23, 2026
Duration not stated
Software Engineer - Quantitative Decision Systems at Naverion, Remote/London, £350-£550 per day
£350 - £550 per day
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Software Engineer - Quantitative Decision Systems Experienced Junior to Mid-Level Location:  Remote, London-based Engagement:  Initial contractor, intended to convert to permanent Indicative contract rate:  GBP 350-550/day; target c. GBP 450/day Indicative permanent salary:  GBP 55,000-80,000 Reporting to:  Naverion Chief Technical Officer (CTO)   Role Summary Naverion is seeking a software engineer at experienced-junior to mid-level to deliver defined components across its quantitative decision platform. Working directly with the CTO, the engineer will implement, test, document and support the controlled release of production software. The role suits someone who can progress bounded work independently and, at the upper end of the range, own defined components through the full SDLC. Architecture, methodology, clinical interpretation, security design and production approval remain with the CTO and relevant...
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Oct 14, 2026
6 Months or more
Python Software Engineer at WWT, London/Remote, 12 Months, to £700 per day
£600 - £700 per day
Contract Spy Hybrid (London, UK)
World Wide Technology (WWT), a 36-year-old global technology integrator and IT solutions provider. Through our culture of innovation, we inspire, build, and deliver business results from idea to outcome. World Wide Technology (WWT) has an opportunity for a Python Software Engineer to join a team building configuration management software for a large-scale private cloud platform within a leading financial services organisation. This is a hands-on development role, not an SRE or infrastructure automation position you'll help re-architect existing software as the platform evolves toward a zoned, enclave-based network model, while keeping performance and reliability intact.   This is a contract Role & Inside IR35   Python Software Engineer Contract Duration: 12 months Location: London or Glasgow (3 days per week in office)   Key Responsibilities Build and maintain production-grade Python applications. Re-architect software to...
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Oct 14, 2026
6 Months or more
Senior Software Engineer at Red Badger, London, 6 Months, £Contract Rate (Outside IR35)
Contract Spy London, UK
Full job description Joining a new project Ideally have worked on Financial Services Projects before (Payments would be great) Fullstack Experience Tech Stack - Kotlin Backend, JS/TS React Frontend Start date ASAP Duration 6 months (Likely to extend) 2/3 days / week in person working (London) Immediate Interviews   The best bit about Red Badger is, of course, the team. We are really proud of our people; we support and learn a lot from each other; we work really hard but have fun doing it. We are a diverse group made up of 22 different nationalities, speaking 17 different languages.   Our 3 founders, Dave, Cain and Stu, who have considerable tech and consultancy experience and still own 100% of the company. We've been consistently profitable and have grown responsibly from the beginning.   We are based at Old Street in the heart of "tech city" and get thoroughly stuck in with the brilliant...
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Oct 27, 2026
6 Months or more
Software & DevOps Engineer at Deloitte, London/Remote, 12 Months, £Competitive Day Rate
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Job Title: Software & DevOps Engineer Location: London Hybrid Duration: 12 months Contract Start Date: November, ASAP Day Rate: Competitive (Inside IR35)   Deloitte Working with the Deloitte Associate (Contractor) Programme means we can offer you the opportunity to work on a variation of industry and client related projects. Our aim is to retain the best talent and so when your project end date nears our team of Talent Community Advisors will be working with you to look at alternative projects within the firm that suit your experience should you wish to continue with Deloitte.   The Role This role requires a senior software engineer specializing in Java and JavaScript development to design, build, and secure enterprise-level applications and platforms. The consultant will be a key figure in enhancing software supply chain security and driving the adoption of secure development practices across the...
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Oct 20, 2026
6 Months or more
Software & DevOps Engineer at Deloitte, London/Remote, 12 Months, £Competitive Day Rate
Contract Spy Remote (London, UK)
Job Title: Software & DevOps Engineer Location: London Hybrid Duration: 12 months Contract Start Date: November, ASAP Day Rate: Competitive (Inside IR35)   Deloitte Working with the Deloitte Associate (Contractor) Programme means we can offer you the opportunity to work on a variation of industry and client related projects. Our aim is to retain the best talent and so when your project end date nears our team of Talent Community Advisors will be working with you to look at alternative projects within the firm that suit your experience should you wish to continue with Deloitte.   The Role This role requires a senior software engineer specializing in Java and JavaScript development to design, build, and secure enterprise-level applications and platforms. The consultant will be a key figure in enhancing software supply chain security and driving the adoption of secure development practices across the software...
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Oct 13, 2026
6 Months or more
Software & DevOps Engineer at Deloitte, London/Remote, 12 Months, £Competitive Day Rate
Contract Spy Hybrid (London, UK)
Contract - Software & DevOps Engineer Job Type Contract Date published 12-Oct-2026 Req # 25464 Job description Job Title: Software & DevOps Engineer Location: London Hybrid Duration: 12 months Contract Start Date: November, ASAP Day Rate: Competitive (Inside IR35)   Deloitte Working with the Deloitte Associate (Contractor) Programme means we can offer you the opportunity to work on a variation of industry and client related projects. Our aim is to retain the best talent and so when your project end date nears our team of Talent Community Advisors will be working with you to look at alternative projects within the firm that suit your experience should you wish to continue with Deloitte.   The Role This role requires a senior software engineer specializing in Java and JavaScript development to design, build, and secure...
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Oct 23, 2026
Duration not stated
Platform Engineer at YLD, Remote, £B2B Contract Rate
Contract Spy Remote (London, England, United Kingdom)
Location: UK Remote (GMT timezone) Department: Engineering Employment Type: Contract (B2B)   About YLD: Our goal is to help our clients keep moving forward. We work with them to build the skills and capabilities they need to stay ahead of the competition, and we know our success only happens when they succeed. We’re a team of curious, talented people, and we’re committed to making YLD a place where great people want to work, grow, and stay. We’re a remote-first consultancy specialising in software engineering, product design, and data. Our teams are based across London, Lisbon, and Porto, and we create digital solutions that continue to deliver value long after our work is done.   About the role As a Senior Software Engineer at YLD, you’ll be part of a client team building innovative products. We’re looking for someone curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic. You should be skilled in...
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Oct 16, 2026
Duration not stated
Digital Software Development Examiner - T Level at Pearson, London, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy London, England, United Kingdom
What are T Levels? T Levels are new courses coming in September 2020, which will follow GCSEs and will be equivalent to three A levels. These two-year courses have been developed in collaboration with employers and businesses, so that the content meets the needs of industry and prepares students for work. T Levels will offer students a mixture of classroom learning and ‘on-the-job’ experience during an industry placement of at least 45 days. They will provide the knowledge and experience needed to open the door into skilled employment, further study or a higher apprenticeship. The Role The T Level Examiner role is an excellent opportunity to earn some extra money in a contract role, alongside any full-time commitments you may have, whilst also developing your career in education. T-Level Examiners mark candidate responses in accordance with a pre-defined mark scheme, whilst adhering to the Code of Practice and published examination...
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Oct 08, 2026
6 Months or more
AI Engineer at Aviva, London/Remote, 6 Months, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy London Area, United Kingdom
AI Engineer Location: London, UK Wide (50% Remote) Inside / Outside IR35: Inside IR35 Duration: 6 Month Contract A bit about the job   We are looking for an experienced AI Engineer to design, build, deploy and operate AI solutions that deliver measurable business value across Aviva.   This is a hands-on engineering role where you’ll own the end-to-end AI lifecycle — from understanding and framing a business problem, through solution design and development, to production deployment, monitoring and continuous improvement.   You’ll work across both traditional machine learning and generative AI, making informed decisions about the right approach for each use case. This could include developing ML models, building LLM-powered features, designing retrieval and prompt pipelines, or combining different AI approaches to deliver the best outcome.   Working as part of a multidisciplinary product or AI...
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Oct 27, 2026
6 Months or more
Senior Mobile QA Engineer at Waracle, London/Remote, 6 Months initial, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy Hybrid (London, UK)
Waracle are looking for a Senior QA for an exciting new role joining our world-class digital technology consultancy and home to a diverse, smart, curious and ambitious community of specialists in technology-driven transformation. We work with ambitious clients to help them solve their biggest business and customer challenges. We help our clients to innovate and create intelligent digital products and services. We thrive on complex challenges and deliver business-critical IT transformation projects, moving seamlessly from strategy, design and delivery to operations.   This is a Hybrid role working from our London office 2 days a week and is available on a Contract (Inside IR35) basis, initially for 6 months. Are you a technical quality specialist who thrives on collaboration, engineering rigor, and robust automation? We are looking for a Senior Quality Engineer who combines strong software engineering discipline with deep test automation expertise to deliver...
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Oct 26, 2026
Duration not stated
Principal Lead Engineer -Cloud, Data & AI at UST, London, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy London, UK
We are seeking a highly experienced hands on Senior Technical Lead engineer to serve as the primary technical anchor for a large-scale Wealth Management Replatforming initiative. This individual will act as the strategic bridge between business stakeholders, enterprise architecture teams, and distributed engineering pods, driving the design and delivery of an AI-first platform ecosystem.   The ideal candidate will combine deep technical expertise across data, integration, cloud, and AI with strong stakeholder management capabilities and the ability to influence enterprise-wide technology decisions.     Key Responsibilities Technical Leadership Lead architecture, solution design, and technical governance across the replatforming program. Define and drive the target-state architecture spanning data, integration, AI, and customer platforms. Establish engineering standards, delivery practices, and architectural guardrails. Ensure...
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Oct 23, 2026
Duration not stated
Principal Engineer – SC Eligible at ByDesign Secure, London/Remote, £850 per day (Outside IR35)
£850 per day
Contract Spy Hybrid (London, UK)
Principal Engineer – SC Eligible – Government Projects This role is delivered within secure environments. Candidates must be eligible for UK SC clearance and hold UK citizenship. Join the Mission We are a fast‑growing startup building scalable, high‑quality digital products at pace. Our success depends on strong engineering foundations, pragmatic architecture, and ways of working that enable teams to deliver value continuously. We are looking for a Principal Engineer to play a critical leadership role across our engineering and architecture community. This is an opportunity to shape how we build, not just what we build—embedding effective engineering processes, modern delivery practices, and a culture of continuous improvement as the company scales. This role suits a senior technologist who thrives in ambiguity, enjoys influencing without authority, and wants to leave a lasting imprint on how engineering operates within a growing...
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Oct 21, 2026
6 Months or more
AI Engineer at Handelsbanken Plc, London, 12 Months, £Day Rate
Contract Spy London, UK
Posted 1 hour ago  Contract  Competitive     AI Engineer - 12 Month Day Rate Contract Job Introduction Handelsbanken combines a long-established relationship banking model with secure, resilient, and customer-focused technology. Our technology teams enable the Bank's decentralised way of working, delivering systems built for stability, trust, and long-term value. We are on a multi-year technology and digital transformation journey to enhance customer experience and improve how colleagues work together. By modernising platforms, simplifying processes, and better connecting data and systems, we help relationship teams focus on customers and less on complexity. Our decentralised culture extends to technology. Teams are trusted to take ownership, make informed decisions, and deliver sustainable, high-quality solutions. We value engineering excellence, pragmatic problem-solving, and strong collaboration across technology, business, and...
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Oct 21, 2026
Duration not stated
Senior AWS Application & Platform Engineer at UST, London, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy London, UK
Location: London (Hybrid – 3 days onsite, mandatory) Employment Type : Permanent | Fixed-Term Contract | Contract (Inside IR35) Start Date : Immediate/ Short Notice period About the Role We are seeking a Senior AWS Application & Platform Engineer to help design and build cloud-native applications, developer platforms and AI-enabled engineering capabilities from the ground up.   This is a highly hands-on engineering role combining AWS application development, serverless and event-driven architecture, Python, Generative AI, developer tooling and automation.   You will build APIs, reusable application patterns, developer accelerators and AI-enabled services that help engineering teams deliver software more efficiently, securely and consistently.   Key Responsibilities Design and build cloud-native applications, APIs and platform services on AWS. Develop serverless and event-driven solutions using AWS Lambda, API...
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Oct 20, 2026
6 Months or more
Senior Mobile QA Engineer at Waracle, London/Remote, 6 Months initial, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy Hybrid (London, UK)
Waracle are looking for a Senior QA for an exciting new role joining our world-class digital technology consultancy and home to a diverse, smart, curious and ambitious community of specialists in technology-driven transformation. We work with ambitious clients to help them solve their biggest business and customer challenges. We help our clients to innovate and create intelligent digital products and services. We thrive on complex challenges and deliver business-critical IT transformation projects, moving seamlessly from strategy, design and delivery to operations.   This is a Hybrid role working from our London office 2 days a week and is available on a Contract (Inside IR35) basis, initially for 6 months. Are you a technical quality specialist who thrives on collaboration, engineering rigor, and robust automation? We are looking for a Senior Quality Engineer who combines strong software engineering discipline with deep test automation expertise to deliver...
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Oct 16, 2026
Duration not stated
Senior Cloud Engineer at Deloitte, London, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy London, UK
  Job Title: Senior Cloud Engineer (contract) Location: London Hybrid. Travel to the London office 3 days a week Duration: 11 months Contract Start Date: ASAP *note client onboarding takes 6 weeks from offer Day Rate: Competitive (Inside IR35)   Deloitte Working with the Deloitte Associate (Contractor) Programme means we can offer you the opportunity to work on a variation of industry and client related projects. Our aim is to retain the best talent and so when your project end date nears our team of Talent Community Advisors will be working with you to look at alternative projects within the firm that suit your experience should you wish to continue with Deloitte.   The Role We are looking for experienced Senior Cloud Engineers to work in the Technology and Transformation Team at Deloitte. You will work with one of our global financial services clients. This position...
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Oct 15, 2026
6 Months or more
AI Engineer at Handelsbanken Plc, London, 12 Months, £Day Rate
Contract Spy London, UK
AI Engineer - 12 Month Day Rate Contract Job Introduction Handelsbanken combines a long-established relationship banking model with secure, resilient, and customer-focused technology. Our technology teams enable the Bank's decentralised way of working, delivering systems built for stability, trust, and long-term value. We are on a multi-year technology and digital transformation journey to enhance customer experience and improve how colleagues work together. By modernising platforms, simplifying processes, and better connecting data and systems, we help relationship teams focus on customers and less on complexity. Our decentralised culture extends to technology. Teams are trusted to take ownership, make informed decisions, and deliver sustainable, high-quality solutions. We value engineering excellence, pragmatic problem-solving, and strong collaboration across technology, business, and risk. We offer technologists the opportunity to build lasting careers, deepen their...
Contract Spy
Oct 15, 2026
up to 6 Months
Senior Data Engineer at Bank of England, London, 4 Months, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy London, UK
The Bank of England is the UK 's central bank. Our mission is to deliver monetary and financial stability for the British people.   The Bank of England is a diverse organisation. Each of its 4,000 people are committed to public service and dedicated to promoting the good of the people of the United Kingdom by maintaining monetary and financial stability.   As a Senior Data Engineer , your main responsibilities will be: Refactor legacy applications and data workflows into scalable, maintainable and reusable components aligned with modern engineering standards. Design, build and optimise end-to-end data pipelines for reliable ingestion, transformation, processing and delivery of large-scale datasets. Modernise existing ETL/ELT processes, improving performance, resilience, scalability and maintainability. Develop modular, production-quality code with strong testing, version control and CI/CD practices. Integrate applications and data...
Contract Spy
Oct 15, 2026
6 Months or more
Lead Data Engineer AI at Cabinet Office, Remote, 6 Months, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy Remote (London, UK)
The Cabinet Office supports the Prime Minister and ensures the effective running of government. The Cabinet Office is also the corporate headquarters for the government, in partnership with HM Treasury, and takes the lead in certain critical policy areas. More information about the Cabinet Office can be found on its website at: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/cabinet-office   As a Lead Data Engineer AI , your main responsibilities will be: AI Data Integration & Pipeline Design: Establish Cabinet Office data integration standards and lead the engineering of automated data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and API connections connecting enterprise SaaS and internal databases to AI applications whilst ensuring alignment with existing pipelines and standards. AI Data Security & Compliance: Implement identity and access controls, including SSO, conduct data quality, sensitivity and access checks before indexing, and ensure AI applications respect...
Contract Spy
Oct 15, 2026
6 Months or more
Python AI Engineer at Deloitte, London, 6 Months, £Competitive Day Rate
Contract Spy London, UK
Deloitte Working with the Deloitte Associate (Contractor) Programme means we can offer you the opportunity to work on a variation of industry and client related projects. Our aim is to retain the best talent and so when your project end date nears our team of Talent Community Advisors will be working with you to look at alternative projects within the firm that suit your experience should you wish to continue with Deloitte.   The Role Successful candidate will develop modular Python services across question planning, AI workflow orchestration, information retrieval, evidence processing, LLM integration, response generation and validation. You will work collaboratively with engineering, data, platform and evaluation specialists to translate AI concepts and experiments into reliable, scalable and maintainable production services. This is a hands-on software engineering role requiring strong production Python experience and practical delivery of Generative AI...
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