Software Engineering Contracts in the East of England

Software Engineering
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 17 23
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 +6
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 201 156 203
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 10.39% 8.00% 7.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.35% 9.14% 8.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 63 77
10th Percentile £350 £425 £385
25th Percentile £408 £474 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £539 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.24% +2.67% +23.53%
75th Percentile £575 £624 £603
90th Percentile £600 £670 £738
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 55 50
10th Percentile £52.50 - £47.50
25th Percentile £60.00 £53.75 £50.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% +27.78%
75th Percentile £70.63 £76.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £90.00 £65.30
England median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -1.54% +13.04% +21.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,628 1,707 2,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.13% 87.54% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 673 1,004 1,308
10th Percentile £201 £206 £194
25th Percentile £315 £343 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 618 322 382
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £22.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +41.94% -3.13%
75th Percentile £62.50 £63.75 £44.88
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the East of England

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in the East of England

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in the East of England

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in the East of England

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineering in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in the East of England

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Hertfordshire +8 104 £400 -42.86% 33
Cambridgeshire +11 48 £550 - 101
Essex +2 39 £534 -0.19% 16
Bedfordshire 0 6 £475 +0.42% 7
Suffolk +16 4 £550 +57.14% 1
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 14 (6.97%) Simulink
2 7 (3.48%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (2.49%) Azure
2 4 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (1.99%) GCP
2 4 (1.99%) GitHub
3 1 (0.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (17.91%) RS-485
2 34 (16.92%) Modbus
2 34 (16.92%) RS-422
3 12 (5.97%) Firewall
3 12 (5.97%) VPN
4 7 (3.48%) Wireless
5 6 (2.99%) Ethernet
5 6 (2.99%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.99%) 4G
6 4 (1.99%) 5G
6 4 (1.99%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (1.00%) RS-232
8 1 (0.50%) Broadband
8 1 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.50%) DVB
8 1 (0.50%) Internet
8 1 (0.50%) MQTT
8 1 (0.50%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.50%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 18 (8.96%) Git
2 15 (7.46%) Visual Studio
3 14 (6.97%) Rational Rhapsody
4 9 (4.48%) Rational DOORS
5 7 (3.48%) Eclipse
6 5 (2.49%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.99%) JIRA
7 4 (1.99%) Mercurial
8 3 (1.49%) GCC
8 3 (1.49%) IntelliJ
8 3 (1.49%) ReSharper
9 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.50%) ClearCase
9 1 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 55 (27.36%) Electronics
2 48 (23.88%) Social Skills
3 12 (5.97%) Automotive
3 12 (5.97%) Manufacturing
4 11 (5.47%) Aerospace
5 10 (4.98%) Military
6 6 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (2.99%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.49%) Multimedia
7 5 (2.49%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.99%) Finance
8 4 (1.99%) Legal
9 3 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.49%) Law
10 2 (1.00%) Aviation
10 2 (1.00%) Marketing
10 2 (1.00%) Wearables
11 1 (0.50%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 159 (79.10%) Software Engineer
2 46 (22.89%) C++ Software Engineer
3 44 (21.89%) Embedded Engineer
4 43 (21.39%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 24 (11.94%) C Software Engineer
6 19 (9.45%) Senior
7 18 (8.96%) Principal Engineer
7 18 (8.96%) Principal Software Engineer
8 17 (8.46%) Ada Engineer
8 17 (8.46%) Ada Software Engineer
8 17 (8.46%) Developer
9 14 (6.97%) C/C++ Software Engineer
10 13 (6.47%) Senior Software Engineer
11 11 (5.47%) Full Stack Engineer
11 11 (5.47%) Java Engineer
11 11 (5.47%) Software Developer
12 8 (3.98%) C# Software Engineer
12 8 (3.98%) Embedded C Engineer
12 8 (3.98%) Embedded C Software Engineer
12 8 (3.98%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.44%) React
2 12 (5.97%) CSS
2 12 (5.97%) HTML
3 8 (3.98%) Web Services
4 7 (3.48%) .NET
4 7 (3.48%) Node.js
5 5 (2.49%) .NET Framework
5 5 (2.49%) NumPy
6 4 (1.99%) Pandas
6 4 (1.99%) SciPy
7 3 (1.49%) DirectX
7 3 (1.49%) LLVM
7 3 (1.49%) OpenGL
7 3 (1.49%) OpenGL ES
7 3 (1.49%) Vulkan
7 3 (1.49%) WPF
8 2 (1.00%) MFC
8 2 (1.00%) WinForms
9 1 (0.50%) J2EE
9 1 (0.50%) Silverlight
Miscellaneous
1 29 (14.43%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (6.47%) Algorithms
3 8 (3.98%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.99%) Social Media
5 3 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.49%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (1.49%) FPGA
6 1 (0.50%) Digital TV
6 1 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.50%) Robotics
6 1 (0.50%) Verilog
6 1 (0.50%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.45%) Linux
2 16 (7.96%) Windows
3 2 (1.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (34.83%) Agile
2 52 (25.87%) Continuous Integration
3 50 (24.88%) DevOps
4 44 (21.89%) TDD
4 44 (21.89%) Unit Testing
5 38 (18.91%) Pair Programming
6 36 (17.91%) Customer Requirements
6 36 (17.91%) Validation
7 35 (17.41%) Software Testing
8 34 (16.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (11.94%) CI/CD
11 23 (11.44%) Verification and Validation
12 21 (10.45%) Test Automation
13 20 (9.95%) Computer Science
14 16 (7.96%) Code Quality
14 16 (7.96%) Machine Learning
15 15 (7.46%) UML
15 15 (7.46%) Visualisation
16 13 (6.47%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 83 (41.29%) C++
2 78 (38.81%) C
3 61 (30.35%) C#
4 26 (12.94%) Python
5 25 (12.44%) Java
6 18 (8.96%) TypeScript
7 17 (8.46%) Ada
8 16 (7.96%) JavaScript
9 14 (6.97%) Embedded C
9 14 (6.97%) MATLAB
10 5 (2.49%) Embedded C++
10 5 (2.49%) SQL
11 4 (1.99%) Bash
11 4 (1.99%) R
12 3 (1.49%) Rust
13 2 (1.00%) C++/CLI
13 2 (1.00%) VB
14 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.50%) SystemVerilog
14 1 (0.50%) XAML
Qualifications
1 23 (11.44%) Degree
2 20 (9.95%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.96%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.48%) PhD
6 5 (2.49%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.50%) DO-254
1 1 (0.50%) IEC 61508
1 1 (0.50%) ISO 13485
1 1 (0.50%) MISRA
System Software
1 4 (1.99%) zsh
2 1 (0.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (1.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.50%) Ansible
2 1 (0.50%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 10 (4.98%) IBM
1 10 (4.98%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.99%) Google
3 3 (1.49%) MathWorks
4 2 (1.00%) SAP
4 2 (1.00%) Twitter
5 1 (0.50%) Actel
5 1 (0.50%) Cisco
5 1 (0.50%) Lattice Semiconductor
5 1 (0.50%) Microsemi
5 1 (0.50%) Siemens
5 1 (0.50%) Xilinx