Software Engineering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 28 49 46
Rank change year-on-year +21 -3 -7
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 1,129 950 1,414
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.42% 4.17% 4.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.51% 4.68% 5.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 549 766
10th Percentile £358 £406 £406
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +13.51%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 379 168 148
10th Percentile £46.25 £48.15 £44.69
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.75 £50.94
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +30.43%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.50 £77.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £64.57 £57.50
% change year-on-year -3.21% +12.30% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,348 20,314 27,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.29% 89.18% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,293 13,939 19,042
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,136 1,244 1,338
10th Percentile £12.45 £10.63 £12.47
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.72 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.70 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
South East +20 265 £550 +4.76% 307
North of England +43 263 £510 -7.27% 310
East of England +10 201 £500 -7.24% 168
South West -4 175 £525 -8.70% 233
North West +56 154 £540 -1.82% 204
Scotland +31 108 £475 -5.00% 128
Midlands +41 96 £492 -6.38% 235
Yorkshire +19 74 £450 -10.00% 78
West Midlands +31 68 £475 -13.64% 119
North East +26 37 £390 -44.29% 32
East Midlands +19 27 £550 +29.41% 115
Wales +8 19 £538 -8.15% 26
Northern Ireland +3 4 £675 +68.75% 29
Software Engineering
UK

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 27 (2.39%) Confluence
2 15 (1.33%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.15%) Apache
4 11 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.18%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.18%) CICS
5 2 (0.18%) Drupal
5 2 (0.18%) SAS
6 1 (0.089%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.089%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.089%) JBoss
6 1 (0.089%) MetaMask
6 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.089%) MTS
6 1 (0.089%) nginx
6 1 (0.089%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.089%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.089%) WebSphere
Applications
1 108 (9.57%) Chatbot
2 31 (2.75%) Simulink
3 21 (1.86%) Stateflow
4 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.44%) TargetLink
5 3 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.27%) Blender
5 3 (0.27%) Maya
5 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.27%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.089%) CATIA
6 1 (0.089%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.089%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.089%) Sketch
6 1 (0.089%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (0.89%) Misys Midas
2 4 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.089%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.089%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 153 (13.55%) AWS
2 95 (8.41%) Azure
3 44 (3.90%) GitHub
4 31 (2.75%) GCP
5 30 (2.66%) Serverless
6 29 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (1.59%) OpenShift
9 13 (1.15%) Amazon S3
10 11 (0.97%) npm
11 7 (0.62%) Power Platform
12 6 (0.53%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (0.53%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (0.53%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (0.53%) Snowflake
13 5 (0.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (0.44%) Amazon EMR
13 5 (0.44%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (0.44%) Azure Functions
13 5 (0.44%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.28%) Modbus
1 37 (3.28%) RS-485
2 35 (3.10%) RS-422
3 31 (2.75%) Software-Defined Radio
4 24 (2.13%) TCP/IP
5 21 (1.86%) SNMP
6 15 (1.33%) HTTP
7 13 (1.15%) Firewall
8 12 (1.06%) VPN
9 11 (0.97%) Ethernet
9 11 (0.97%) SAN
9 11 (0.97%) Wireless
10 8 (0.71%) Internet
10 8 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.62%) 802.11
11 7 (0.62%) Tactical Data Link
12 6 (0.53%) Link 16
13 5 (0.44%) FTP
13 5 (0.44%) J1939
14 4 (0.35%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (3.01%) MySQL
3 18 (1.59%) Relational Database
4 17 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (1.51%) NoSQL
5 16 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
5 16 (1.42%) Big Data
6 14 (1.24%) Oracle Database
7 13 (1.15%) MongoDB
8 12 (1.06%) Oracle Database 11g
9 11 (0.97%) SQL Server
10 7 (0.62%) SQLite
11 6 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.35%) Couchbase
13 4 (0.35%) DB2
13 4 (0.35%) Parquet
14 3 (0.27%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.27%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 129 (11.43%) Git
2 98 (8.68%) JIRA
3 78 (6.91%) Jenkins
4 36 (3.19%) GoogleTest
5 33 (2.92%) Bitbucket
5 33 (2.92%) Eclipse
5 33 (2.92%) SonarQube
6 29 (2.57%) Cucumber
6 29 (2.57%) GitLab
7 28 (2.48%) Rational DOORS
8 25 (2.21%) Selenium
8 25 (2.21%) Visual Studio
9 22 (1.95%) Cypress.io
10 21 (1.86%) REST Assured
11 18 (1.59%) Robot Framework
12 15 (1.33%) Rational Rhapsody
13 13 (1.15%) Artifactory
13 13 (1.15%) JUnit
14 12 (1.06%) Subversion
15 5 (0.44%) ClearCase
General
1 163 (14.44%) Social Skills
2 88 (7.79%) Electronics
3 80 (7.09%) Aerospace
4 55 (4.87%) Finance
4 55 (4.87%) Public Sector
5 51 (4.52%) Automotive
6 33 (2.92%) Analytical Skills
7 30 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (2.66%) Manufacturing
8 28 (2.48%) Law
9 26 (2.30%) Military
10 22 (1.95%) Telecoms
11 21 (1.86%) Legal
12 13 (1.15%) Police
12 13 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (0.97%) Aviation
13 11 (0.97%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.62%) Banking
14 7 (0.62%) Billing
15 6 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 589 (52.17%) Software Engineer
2 281 (24.89%) Developer
3 134 (11.87%) Embedded Engineer
4 132 (11.69%) Software Developer
5 129 (11.43%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 105 (9.30%) C++ Software Engineer
7 103 (9.12%) Senior
8 80 (7.09%) Java Engineer
9 69 (6.11%) Senior Software Engineer
10 60 (5.31%) Java Developer
11 50 (4.43%) Lead
12 46 (4.07%) Java Software Engineer
13 44 (3.90%) Full Stack Engineer
14 37 (3.28%) Ada Engineer
14 37 (3.28%) Ada Software Engineer
15 30 (2.66%) Principal Engineer
16 29 (2.57%) DevOps Engineer
17 26 (2.30%) C Software Engineer
17 26 (2.30%) C# Software Engineer
18 25 (2.21%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (14.97%) HTML
2 94 (8.33%) React
3 61 (5.40%) REST
4 60 (5.31%) CSS
5 54 (4.78%) Node.js
6 53 (4.69%) Spring
7 46 (4.07%) RESTful
8 44 (3.90%) AngularJS
9 42 (3.72%) .NET
9 42 (3.72%) Spring Boot
10 29 (2.57%) Kafka
11 24 (2.13%) Web Services
11 24 (2.13%) XML
12 22 (1.95%) Java EE
13 18 (1.59%) .NET Framework
13 18 (1.59%) JPA
14 17 (1.51%) Qt
15 16 (1.42%) JSON
16 15 (1.33%) .NET Core
16 15 (1.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 40 (3.54%) Algorithms
2 38 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (2.04%) ARM Cortex
4 21 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (1.51%) Cloud Native
5 17 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 16 (1.42%) Data Structures
6 16 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
7 15 (1.33%) Management Information System
8 14 (1.24%) Product Ownership
9 13 (1.15%) IoT
10 12 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.06%) Embedded Systems
11 9 (0.80%) Public Cloud
12 8 (0.71%) CCTV
12 8 (0.71%) Device Driver
13 7 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (0.44%) Blockchain
14 5 (0.44%) Data Centre
14 5 (0.44%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 190 (16.83%) Linux
2 63 (5.58%) Windows
3 26 (2.30%) FreeRTOS
4 18 (1.59%) Embedded Linux
5 12 (1.06%) Unix
6 9 (0.80%) Debian
6 9 (0.80%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.62%) Android
7 7 (0.62%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.44%) VxWorks
9 4 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.35%) SafeRTOS
9 4 (0.35%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.18%) zOS
11 1 (0.089%) CentOS
11 1 (0.089%) Solaris
11 1 (0.089%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (33.22%) Agile
2 216 (19.13%) DevOps
3 161 (14.26%) CI/CD
4 148 (13.11%) Artificial Intelligence
5 138 (12.22%) Code Quality
6 130 (11.51%) Continuous Integration
7 115 (10.19%) Test Automation
8 114 (10.10%) Scrum
9 108 (9.57%) Conversational UI
10 102 (9.03%) Problem-Solving
11 95 (8.41%) SDLC
12 89 (7.88%) Computer Science
12 89 (7.88%) Unit Testing
13 88 (7.79%) Validation
14 83 (7.35%) TDD
15 81 (7.17%) Software Testing
16 77 (6.82%) Full Stack Development
17 74 (6.55%) Microservices
18 72 (6.38%) Configuration Management
19 60 (5.31%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 266 (23.56%) Python
2 238 (21.08%) C#
3 226 (20.02%) Java
4 222 (19.66%) C++
5 220 (19.49%) JavaScript
6 200 (17.71%) C
7 193 (17.09%) SQL
8 83 (7.35%) TypeScript
9 62 (5.49%) Embedded C
10 38 (3.37%) Ada
11 36 (3.19%) MATLAB
12 26 (2.30%) Bash
12 26 (2.30%) Scala
13 23 (2.04%) PL/SQL
14 21 (1.86%) PowerShell
15 18 (1.59%) Perl
16 14 (1.24%) PHP
17 13 (1.15%) Kotlin
18 10 (0.89%) Embedded C++
18 10 (0.89%) Go
Qualifications
1 260 (23.03%) Security Cleared
2 213 (18.87%) Degree
3 190 (16.83%) SC Cleared
4 75 (6.64%) DV Cleared
5 48 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (3.01%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.24%) PhD
8 3 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.18%) HND
10 1 (0.089%) CESG Certified Professional
10 1 (0.089%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.089%) CISM
10 1 (0.089%) CISSP
10 1 (0.089%) CLAS
10 1 (0.089%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (2.92%) QA
2 31 (2.75%) MISRA
3 13 (1.15%) MISRA C
4 12 (1.06%) AUTOSAR
5 10 (0.89%) Accessibility
5 10 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (0.80%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.71%) ISO 9001
8 6 (0.53%) JTAG
9 5 (0.44%) ISO 26262
10 3 (0.27%) GDPR
10 3 (0.27%) IEC 61508
10 3 (0.27%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.18%) NIST
12 1 (0.089%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.089%) DO-178B
12 1 (0.089%) DO-254
12 1 (0.089%) GRC
12 1 (0.089%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 1 (0.089%) NCSC
System Software
1 58 (5.14%) Docker
2 36 (3.19%) Firmware
3 7 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.53%) VirtualBox
5 5 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.35%) zsh
7 3 (0.27%) Active Directory
7 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.089%) NFS
8 1 (0.089%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.089%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 77 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 45 (3.99%) Ansible
3 42 (3.72%) Grafana
4 37 (3.28%) Terraform
5 21 (1.86%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.06%) Kibana
7 10 (0.89%) Argo
7 10 (0.89%) Docker Swarm
7 10 (0.89%) Istio
8 9 (0.80%) Podman
9 6 (0.53%) Functional Safety
10 4 (0.35%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.35%) Zipkin
11 3 (0.27%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.18%) Puppet
13 1 (0.089%) PowerCLI
13 1 (0.089%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 108 (9.57%) PayPal
2 69 (6.11%) Microsoft
3 50 (4.43%) Google
4 37 (3.28%) IBM
5 29 (2.57%) Oracle
6 26 (2.30%) Atlassian
7 23 (2.04%) Lauterbach
8 21 (1.86%) Talend
9 17 (1.51%) Red Hat
10 16 (1.42%) Denodo
10 16 (1.42%) VMware
11 9 (0.80%) SAP
12 7 (0.62%) Avaloq
13 5 (0.44%) Informatica
13 5 (0.44%) NVIDIA
14 4 (0.35%) CA Agile Central
14 4 (0.35%) HP
14 4 (0.35%) Intel
14 4 (0.35%) ServiceNow
14 4 (0.35%) Sparx