Software Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Software Engineer
England > North of England

The median Software Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £463 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 142 146
Rank change year-on-year +70 +4 -25
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 123 62 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.59% 1.13% 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.79% 1.18% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 41 76
10th Percentile £339 £440 -
25th Percentile £450 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £573 £688 £538
90th Percentile £635 £700 £644
England median daily rate £630 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +18.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 9 6
10th Percentile £37.91 £27.91 £40.59
25th Percentile £45.22 £37.80 £44.68
Median hourly rate £48.00 £45.82 £47.60
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -3.73% +15.38%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.40 £52.75
90th Percentile £71.57 £50.63 £59.04
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +30.43%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 4,410 5,258 6,892
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.02% 95.43% 96.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,721 3,683 5,047
10th Percentile £263 £270 £204
25th Percentile £386 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £598 £563
90th Percentile £670 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 163 272
10th Percentile £11.09 £14.05 £11.35
25th Percentile £13.00 £17.72 £14.61
Median hourly rate £22.50 £28.70 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.60% +45.32% +11.99%
75th Percentile £47.50 £45.62 £33.96
90th Percentile £66.61 £65.60 £62.70
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the North of England

Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineer in the North of England

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineer in the North of England

Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineer in the North of England

Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineer in the North of England

Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the North 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
North West +72 90 £525 -1.64% 112
Yorkshire +19 19 £400 -20.00% 33
North East +15 14 £390 -44.29% 16
Software Engineer
England

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 across the North of England region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 123 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 30 (24.39%) AWS
3 28 (22.76%) SDLC
4 24 (19.51%) Aerospace
5 22 (17.89%) Java
6 21 (17.07%) React
7 19 (15.45%) Social Skills
7 19 (15.45%) Agile
8 18 (14.63%) TypeScript
9 16 (13.01%) JavaScript
10 13 (10.57%) CI/CD
11 12 (9.76%) Azure
11 12 (9.76%) Node.js
11 12 (9.76%) Microservices
11 12 (9.76%) RESTful
12 11 (8.94%) Test Automation
12 11 (8.94%) C
12 11 (8.94%) Python
13 10 (8.13%) Automotive
13 10 (8.13%) Misys Midas
13 10 (8.13%) AngularJS
13 10 (8.13%) Full Stack Development
14 9 (7.32%) Serverless
14 9 (7.32%) Spring
14 9 (7.32%) Military
14 9 (7.32%) C++
14 9 (7.32%) PHP
15 8 (6.50%) MySQL
15 8 (6.50%) Computer Science
15 8 (6.50%) Degree

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.63%) Drupal
Applications
1 4 (3.25%) Simulink
1 4 (3.25%) Stateflow
2 3 (2.44%) Adobe After Effects
2 3 (2.44%) Blender
2 3 (2.44%) Maya
2 3 (2.44%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (8.13%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.81%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 30 (24.39%) AWS
2 12 (9.76%) Azure
3 9 (7.32%) Serverless
4 5 (4.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (4.07%) BrowserStack
4 5 (4.07%) GCP
4 5 (4.07%) GitHub
5 4 (3.25%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (3.25%) npm
6 2 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.81%) Azure Batch
7 1 (0.81%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.07%) HTTP
2 3 (2.44%) J1939
3 1 (0.81%) AMQP
3 1 (0.81%) Link 16
3 1 (0.81%) Modbus
3 1 (0.81%) MQTT
3 1 (0.81%) RS-422
3 1 (0.81%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.50%) MySQL
2 5 (4.07%) MongoDB
2 5 (4.07%) NoSQL
2 5 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.81%) SQLite
3 1 (0.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (6.50%) Cypress.io
2 5 (4.07%) JIRA
3 3 (2.44%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (1.63%) Git
4 2 (1.63%) GoCD
5 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.81%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.81%) JUnit
5 1 (0.81%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (19.51%) Aerospace
2 19 (15.45%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.13%) Automotive
4 9 (7.32%) Military
5 7 (5.69%) Finance
6 6 (4.88%) Electronics
7 5 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.07%) Legal
8 4 (3.25%) Games
8 4 (3.25%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.63%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.81%) Avionics
11 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.81%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (17.07%) React
2 12 (9.76%) Node.js
2 12 (9.76%) RESTful
3 10 (8.13%) AngularJS
4 9 (7.32%) Spring
5 5 (4.07%) Next.js
5 5 (4.07%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.25%) AWS CDK
6 4 (3.25%) Jest
7 3 (2.44%) CSS
7 3 (2.44%) HTML
7 3 (2.44%) jQuery
7 3 (2.44%) Unreal Engine
8 2 (1.63%) .NET
8 2 (1.63%) React Native
8 2 (1.63%) SOAP
9 1 (0.81%) CSS3
9 1 (0.81%) HTML5
9 1 (0.81%) RxJava
9 1 (0.81%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.25%) Algorithms
2 3 (2.44%) Augmented Reality
2 3 (2.44%) CAN bus
2 3 (2.44%) Virtual Reality
3 2 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.81%) Blockchain
4 1 (0.81%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (0.81%) IoT
4 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.81%) Online Gambling
4 1 (0.81%) Online Games
4 1 (0.81%) PKI
4 1 (0.81%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.88%) Linux
2 2 (1.63%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 28 (22.76%) SDLC
3 19 (15.45%) Agile
4 13 (10.57%) CI/CD
5 12 (9.76%) Microservices
6 11 (8.94%) Test Automation
7 10 (8.13%) Full Stack Development
8 8 (6.50%) Computer Science
8 8 (6.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (6.50%) Systems Engineering
9 7 (5.69%) Front End Development
9 7 (5.69%) TDD
10 6 (4.88%) BDD
10 6 (4.88%) Decision-Making
10 6 (4.88%) Kanban
10 6 (4.88%) Mentoring
10 6 (4.88%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (4.07%) Data Security
11 5 (4.07%) Infrastructure Automation
11 5 (4.07%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 22 (17.89%) Java
2 18 (14.63%) TypeScript
3 16 (13.01%) JavaScript
4 11 (8.94%) C
4 11 (8.94%) Python
5 9 (7.32%) C++
5 9 (7.32%) PHP
6 7 (5.69%) Embedded C
6 7 (5.69%) SQL
7 4 (3.25%) C#
7 4 (3.25%) MATLAB
8 3 (2.44%) Ada
8 3 (2.44%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.44%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.81%) Bash
9 1 (0.81%) Fortran
9 1 (0.81%) Perl
9 1 (0.81%) Rust
9 1 (0.81%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (6.50%) Degree
1 8 (6.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.88%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.44%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.07%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.44%) AUTOSAR
2 3 (2.44%) MISRA
2 3 (2.44%) MISRA C
3 2 (1.63%) QA
4 1 (0.81%) HL7
4 1 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.81%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (3.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.69%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.88%) Grafana
3 3 (2.44%) Functional Safety
3 3 (2.44%) Terraform
4 2 (1.63%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (2.44%) Adobe
1 3 (2.44%) Atlassian
1 3 (2.44%) Oracle
2 2 (1.63%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.81%) SAP