Developer/Software Engineer Contracts in England

Software Engineer/Developer
UK > England

The median Software Engineer/Developer daily rate in England is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
12 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 378 503 420
Rank change year-on-year +125 -83 +80
Contract jobs requiring a Developer/Software Engineer 173 133 415
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.46% 0.28% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.30% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 119 370
10th Percentile £538 £475 £438
25th Percentile £575 £518 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £850 £738 £700
90th Percentile £888 £753 £750
UK median daily rate £725 £613 £600
% change year-on-year +18.37% +2.08% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Developer/Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer/Software Engineer in England

Developer/Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Developer/Software Engineer in England

Developer/Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer/Software Engineer in England

Developer/Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Developer/Software Engineer in England

Developer/Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +129 165 £725 +16.00% 6
East of England +7 6 £543 +8.50% 2
South East +15 1 £675 +14.41% 1
North of England +13 1 £350 -
Yorkshire - 1 £350 -
Developer/Software Engineer
UK

Developer/Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Developer/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 England region featuring Developer/Software Engineer in the job title.

1 171 (98.84%) Software Engineering
2 160 (92.49%) AWS
3 158 (91.33%) Finance
3 158 (91.33%) GCP
4 156 (90.17%) Fixed Income
4 156 (90.17%) Front Office
4 156 (90.17%) Asset Management
5 155 (89.60%) TypeScript
6 153 (88.44%) Agile
7 138 (79.77%) Python
8 132 (76.30%) Protocol Buffers
8 132 (76.30%) gRPC
8 132 (76.30%) Apache Airflow
9 127 (73.41%) Investment Management
10 126 (72.83%) Apache
10 126 (72.83%) Apache Ignite
11 122 (70.52%) Hedge funds
12 119 (68.79%) React
13 109 (63.01%) Redux
14 106 (61.27%) Banking
15 100 (57.80%) Full Stack Development
16 97 (56.07%) Equities
17 96 (55.49%) Azure
18 92 (53.18%) JavaScript
19 76 (43.93%) Material-UI
20 67 (38.73%) Google
21 66 (38.15%) PostgreSQL
22 65 (37.57%) Artificial Intelligence
22 65 (37.57%) Machine Learning
22 65 (37.57%) Automated Trading

Developer/Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 132 (76.30%) Apache Airflow
2 126 (72.83%) Apache
3 1 (0.58%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 160 (92.49%) AWS
2 158 (91.33%) GCP
3 96 (55.49%) Azure
4 51 (29.48%) dbt
5 34 (19.65%) Snowflake
6 6 (3.47%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (2.31%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (2.31%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (1.73%) GitHub
9 2 (1.16%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.16%) Serverless
10 1 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.16%) Firewall
1 2 (1.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (72.83%) Apache Ignite
2 66 (38.15%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (29.48%) Amazon Athena
3 51 (29.48%) Apache Arrow
3 51 (29.48%) Dremio
4 34 (19.65%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.58%) Flink
Development Applications
1 47 (27.17%) Cypress.io
2 3 (1.73%) Git
3 2 (1.16%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.16%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.16%) REST Assured
3 2 (1.16%) Selenium
4 1 (0.58%) fastlane
General
1 158 (91.33%) Finance
2 156 (90.17%) Front Office
3 106 (61.27%) Banking
4 41 (23.70%) Investment Banking
5 5 (2.89%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.16%) Social Skills
7 1 (0.58%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.58%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (76.30%) gRPC
1 132 (76.30%) Protocol Buffers
2 119 (68.79%) React
3 109 (63.01%) Redux
4 76 (43.93%) Material-UI
5 57 (32.95%) Pandas
6 51 (29.48%) NumPy
6 51 (29.48%) SciPy
7 26 (15.03%) Node.js
8 23 (13.29%) .NET
9 21 (12.14%) Vue
10 20 (11.56%) AngularJS
11 18 (10.40%) .NET Core
12 5 (2.89%) GraphQL
13 4 (2.31%) ASP.NET
13 4 (2.31%) ASP.NET Core
13 4 (2.31%) PySpark
14 2 (1.16%) .NET Framework
14 2 (1.16%) CSS
14 2 (1.16%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 156 (90.17%) Fixed Income
2 122 (70.52%) Hedge funds
3 97 (56.07%) Equities
4 63 (36.42%) Derivative
4 63 (36.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.58%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.58%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (98.84%) Software Engineering
2 156 (90.17%) Asset Management
3 153 (88.44%) Agile
4 127 (73.41%) Investment Management
5 100 (57.80%) Full Stack Development
6 65 (37.57%) Artificial Intelligence
6 65 (37.57%) Automated Trading
6 65 (37.57%) Machine Learning
7 44 (25.43%) Fintech
8 34 (19.65%) Line Management
9 25 (14.45%) Performance Attribution
10 22 (12.72%) DevOps
11 21 (12.14%) TDD
12 19 (10.98%) Analytics
13 12 (6.94%) Front End Development
14 10 (5.78%) Credit Risk Analysis
14 10 (5.78%) User Experience
15 5 (2.89%) Mentoring
15 5 (2.89%) Problem-Solving
15 5 (2.89%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 155 (89.60%) TypeScript
2 138 (79.77%) Python
3 92 (53.18%) JavaScript
4 49 (28.32%) Java
5 24 (13.87%) C#
5 24 (13.87%) SQL
6 5 (2.89%) Kotlin
6 5 (2.89%) Ruby
7 4 (2.31%) Scala
8 2 (1.16%) Bash
9 1 (0.58%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.58%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (1.73%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.16%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.58%) Degree
3 1 (0.58%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.56%) QA
2 1 (0.58%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (1.16%) zsh
2 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.58%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.58%) Terraform
Vendors
1 67 (38.73%) Google
2 4 (2.31%) Bloomberg
2 4 (2.31%) Reuters
3 2 (1.16%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.58%) IBM
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle
4 1 (0.58%) Temenos
10 Developer/Software Engineer jobs Nationwide