Senior Software Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Senior Software Engineer
England > North of England

The median Senior Software Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £280, 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 167 187 235
Rank change year-on-year +20 +48 -49
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 18 15 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.37% 0.28% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.29% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 7
10th Percentile £266 £345 -
25th Percentile £271 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £331 £575 £681
90th Percentile £358 £603 £715
England median daily rate £650 £556 £600
% change year-on-year +16.91% -7.33% +17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.25 - -
Median hourly rate £46.91 - £44.68
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £71.50 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £47.25
% change year-on-year +23.81% +11.11% -8.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 4,496 5,185 6,867
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 95.28% 96.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,721 3,630 5,013
10th Percentile £263 £263 £206
25th Percentile £385 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £569
90th Percentile £663 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 165 268
10th Percentile £11.12 £14.10 £11.28
25th Percentile £13.19 £17.50 £14.82
Median hourly rate £23.48 £27.20 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.69% +36.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £47.63 £43.75 £33.96
90th Percentile £66.61 £57.06 £63.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in the North of England

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in the North of England

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in the North of England

Senior Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Software Engineer in the North of England

Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer within the North of 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
North West +17 13 - - 33
Yorkshire +16 5 £280 -37.78% 7
Senior Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (27.78%) Systems Engineering
3 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 4 (22.22%) AWS
4 3 (16.67%) Node.js
4 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 3 (16.67%) React
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.11%) Agile
5 2 (11.11%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (11.11%) GCP
5 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
5 2 (11.11%) Kotlin
5 2 (11.11%) jQuery
5 2 (11.11%) Kanban
6 1 (5.56%) Android
6 1 (5.56%) UX Design
6 1 (5.56%) RESTful
6 1 (5.56%) Scala
6 1 (5.56%) Drupal
6 1 (5.56%) SQLite
6 1 (5.56%) PHP
6 1 (5.56%) JUnit
6 1 (5.56%) CSS
6 1 (5.56%) XML
6 1 (5.56%) E-Commerce
6 1 (5.56%) Terraform

Senior 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 1 (5.56%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JUnit
General
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Node.js
1 3 (16.67%) React
2 2 (11.11%) jQuery
3 1 (5.56%) CSS
3 1 (5.56%) HTML
3 1 (5.56%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (5.56%) RESTful
3 1 (5.56%) RxJava
3 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (27.78%) Systems Engineering
3 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 2 (11.11%) Agile
4 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (11.11%) Kanban
4 2 (11.11%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (5.56%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (5.56%) E-Commerce
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (5.56%) Machine Learning
5 1 (5.56%) Microservices
5 1 (5.56%) MVVM
5 1 (5.56%) Project Delivery
5 1 (5.56%) Push Notifications
5 1 (5.56%) Software Architecture
5 1 (5.56%) Thought Leadership
5 1 (5.56%) User Experience
5 1 (5.56%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 2 (11.11%) Kotlin
4 1 (5.56%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) PHP
4 1 (5.56%) Scala
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform