Software Engineering Contracts in Leeds

Software Engineering
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 53 47
Rank change year-on-year +29 -6 -25
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 47 25 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 7.04% 2.51% 4.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.22% 2.79% 4.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 21 55
10th Percentile £451 £463 £450
25th Percentile £476 - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £663
90th Percentile £750 £600 £750
West Yorkshire median daily rate £511 £519 £525
% change year-on-year -1.45% -1.19% +5.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.25 - -
Median hourly rate £37.50 - -
75th Percentile £38.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £37.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 572 896 1,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 85.63% 89.87% 91.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 621 1,065
10th Percentile £325 £313 £263
25th Percentile £405 £435 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - +6.06%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £516 £525
% change year-on-year -7.86% -1.81% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 20
10th Percentile £15.54 £18.50 £10.25
25th Percentile £25.00 £18.97 £16.65
Median hourly rate £32.50 £21.31 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +52.51% +0.28% +3.66%
75th Percentile £41.50 £22.86 £22.94
90th Percentile £61.75 £39.05 £28.61
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.50 £20.71 £21.09
% change year-on-year +56.97% -1.80% +20.49%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Leeds

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Leeds

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Leeds over the 6 months to 15 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Leeds

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Leeds.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Leeds

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 6 (12.77%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 22 (46.81%) AWS
2 14 (29.79%) Azure
3 9 (19.15%) Serverless
4 7 (14.89%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (14.89%) GitHub
5 6 (12.77%) Apigee
5 6 (12.77%) GCP
5 6 (12.77%) Slack
6 5 (10.64%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (10.64%) Amazon S3
6 5 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (8.51%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (8.51%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (8.51%) npm
8 3 (6.38%) Azure API Management
9 2 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (2.13%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (2.13%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (2.13%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.51%) HTTP
2 1 (2.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.89%) MySQL
2 6 (12.77%) Apache Cassandra
2 6 (12.77%) MongoDB
2 6 (12.77%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.26%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (27.66%) Git
2 7 (14.89%) JIRA
3 6 (12.77%) Cucumber
3 6 (12.77%) Jasmine
3 6 (12.77%) JUnit
4 4 (8.51%) Babel
4 4 (8.51%) webpack
5 3 (6.38%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (21.28%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.89%) Finance
3 5 (10.64%) Health Technology
3 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 23 (48.94%) Developer
2 15 (31.91%) Software Engineer
3 10 (21.28%) Senior
4 8 (17.02%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (14.89%) Lead
6 6 (12.77%) Java Developer
6 6 (12.77%) React Developer
7 5 (10.64%) Senior Developer
8 4 (8.51%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (8.51%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (6.38%) .NET Software Engineer
9 3 (6.38%) C# Developer
9 3 (6.38%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 3 (6.38%) Lead Developer
10 2 (4.26%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 2 (4.26%) Java Engineer
10 2 (4.26%) Python Developer
10 2 (4.26%) Python Engineer
10 2 (4.26%) Python Software Engineer
11 1 (2.13%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (27.66%) React
2 11 (23.40%) .NET
2 11 (23.40%) RESTful
3 6 (12.77%) Spring
3 6 (12.77%) Spring Boot
3 6 (12.77%) Swagger
4 5 (10.64%) AngularJS
4 5 (10.64%) OpenAPI
4 5 (10.64%) Spring Security
5 4 (8.51%) JSON
5 4 (8.51%) JWT
5 4 (8.51%) React Native
5 4 (8.51%) Redux
5 4 (8.51%) Spring Batch
6 3 (6.38%) CSS
6 3 (6.38%) HTML
6 3 (6.38%) pytest
7 2 (4.26%) DOM
7 2 (4.26%) PySpark
8 1 (2.13%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.02%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 5 (10.64%) NHS
3 4 (8.51%) Public Cloud
4 3 (6.38%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.89%) Linux
2 6 (12.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (6.38%) Android
3 3 (6.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.17%) CI/CD
2 15 (31.91%) Agile
3 11 (23.40%) Microservices
3 11 (23.40%) Test Automation
4 10 (21.28%) TDD
5 9 (19.15%) API Design
5 9 (19.15%) Continuous Delivery
5 9 (19.15%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (19.15%) Mentoring
5 9 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (17.02%) BDD
6 8 (17.02%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (14.89%) Coaching
7 7 (14.89%) Scrum
7 7 (14.89%) SDLC
7 7 (14.89%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (12.77%) Containerisation
8 6 (12.77%) DevOps
8 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (12.77%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 20 (42.55%) JavaScript
2 16 (34.04%) TypeScript
3 12 (25.53%) Java
4 10 (21.28%) SQL
5 9 (19.15%) C#
5 9 (19.15%) Python
6 7 (14.89%) Bash
7 1 (2.13%) C
7 1 (2.13%) Perl
7 1 (2.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (19.15%) SC Cleared
1 9 (19.15%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.26%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (4.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (4.26%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) GDPR
1 1 (2.13%) HL7
1 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 9 (19.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (25.53%) Terraform
2 8 (17.02%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (14.89%) Brio
2 4 (8.51%) Google
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.13%) Splunk