Software Engineering Contracts in the North of England

Software Engineering
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 75 48
Rank change year-on-year +46 -27 +3
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 249 154 338
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.40% 2.74% 4.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.32% 3.02% 5.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 93 220
10th Percentile £300 £411 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +27.22%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £606
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 12 12
10th Percentile £38.39 £31.89 £41.59
25th Percentile £46.18 £37.73 £44.69
Median hourly rate £48.43 £43.21 £50.13
Median % change year-on-year +12.09% -13.81% +25.31%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.61 £59.71
90th Percentile £71.80 £51.94 £65.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% +19.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,937 5,092 6,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.36% 90.48% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,416 3,501 4,644
10th Percentile £300 £300 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 203 265
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.36 £13.50
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.70 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.03% +45.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £45.00 £43.75 £36.75
90th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £63.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the North of England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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 +50 143 £544 -9.33% 205
Yorkshire +17 73 £450 -11.11% 109
North East +27 35 £390 -38.82% 39
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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 6 (2.41%) Apache
1 6 (2.41%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.80%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.80%) Drupal
4 1 (0.40%) Confluence
Applications
1 61 (24.50%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.61%) Simulink
2 4 (1.61%) Stateflow
3 3 (1.20%) Adobe After Effects
3 3 (1.20%) Blender
3 3 (1.20%) Maya
3 3 (1.20%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Misys Midas
2 2 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.40%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 52 (20.88%) AWS
2 25 (10.04%) Azure
3 14 (5.62%) Serverless
4 9 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (3.21%) GCP
5 8 (3.21%) GitHub
6 6 (2.41%) Snowflake
7 5 (2.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.01%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (2.01%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.01%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.61%) BrowserStack
8 4 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.61%) npm
9 1 (0.40%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.40%) Azure Batch
9 1 (0.40%) IaaS
9 1 (0.40%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.81%) HTTP
2 5 (2.01%) FTP
3 3 (1.20%) J1939
4 2 (0.80%) SSL
5 1 (0.40%) AMQP
5 1 (0.40%) Modbus
5 1 (0.40%) MQTT
5 1 (0.40%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (3.61%) MySQL
3 8 (3.21%) MongoDB
4 6 (2.41%) Big Data
4 6 (2.41%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.01%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.80%) GIS
6 2 (0.80%) Spatial Data
6 2 (0.80%) SQLite
7 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.40%) DB2
7 1 (0.40%) Flink
7 1 (0.40%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.40%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (8.43%) Git
2 16 (6.43%) JIRA
3 7 (2.81%) Cypress.io
4 6 (2.41%) JUnit
5 5 (2.01%) GitLab
6 3 (1.20%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.20%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.80%) GoCD
7 2 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.40%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.40%) Maven
8 1 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
General
1 38 (15.26%) Social Skills
2 22 (8.84%) Finance
3 17 (6.83%) Aerospace
4 13 (5.22%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.02%) Automotive
6 9 (3.61%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.41%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (2.41%) Electronics
7 6 (2.41%) Legal
8 5 (2.01%) Military
8 5 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.61%) Games
9 4 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.61%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.20%) Retail
11 2 (0.80%) Back Office
12 1 (0.40%) Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 109 (43.78%) Software Engineer
2 90 (36.14%) Developer
3 62 (24.90%) Software Developer
4 26 (10.44%) Senior
5 17 (6.83%) PLC Software Engineer
5 17 (6.83%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (4.42%) Java Developer
6 11 (4.42%) Lead
7 9 (3.61%) Full Stack Engineer
7 9 (3.61%) Project Manager
8 7 (2.81%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (2.81%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 7 (2.81%) Java Engineer
9 6 (2.41%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (2.41%) Embedded Engineer
9 6 (2.41%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 6 (2.41%) iOS Developer
10 5 (2.01%) Data Engineer
10 5 (2.01%) Lead Developer
10 5 (2.01%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (27.71%) HTML
2 30 (12.05%) React
3 17 (6.83%) Node.js
3 17 (6.83%) RESTful
3 17 (6.83%) Spring
4 14 (5.62%) AngularJS
5 12 (4.82%) Spring Boot
6 9 (3.61%) XML
7 8 (3.21%) CSS
8 7 (2.81%) PyTorch
8 7 (2.81%) TensorFlow
9 6 (2.41%) JPA
9 6 (2.41%) JSON
10 5 (2.01%) AWS CDK
10 5 (2.01%) Jest
10 5 (2.01%) REST
11 4 (1.61%) .NET
11 4 (1.61%) Hibernate
11 4 (1.61%) Next.js
11 4 (1.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (2.41%) Algorithms
2 4 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (1.61%) Management Information System
3 3 (1.20%) Augmented Reality
3 3 (1.20%) Blockchain
3 3 (1.20%) CAN bus
3 3 (1.20%) CMDB
3 3 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (1.20%) Virtual Reality
4 2 (0.80%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.40%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.40%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.40%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.40%) IoT
5 1 (0.40%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.40%) PKI
5 1 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.40%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.40%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.81%) Linux
2 6 (2.41%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.61%) Android
4 2 (0.80%) Unix
4 2 (0.80%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (28.11%) Artificial Intelligence
2 67 (26.91%) Code Quality
3 61 (24.50%) Agile
3 61 (24.50%) Conversational UI
4 30 (12.05%) DevOps
5 26 (10.44%) SDLC
5 26 (10.44%) Test Automation
6 25 (10.04%) CI/CD
7 23 (9.24%) Microservices
8 22 (8.84%) Systems Engineering
9 19 (7.63%) Design Patterns
9 19 (7.63%) Mentoring
10 15 (6.02%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (5.62%) Computer Science
11 14 (5.62%) Full Stack Development
11 14 (5.62%) Scrum
12 13 (5.22%) Front End Development
13 11 (4.42%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (4.42%) TDD
14 10 (4.02%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 91 (36.55%) JavaScript
1 91 (36.55%) Python
2 87 (34.94%) SQL
3 70 (28.11%) C#
4 48 (19.28%) Java
5 26 (10.44%) TypeScript
6 16 (6.43%) C
7 10 (4.02%) PHP
8 7 (2.81%) C++
8 7 (2.81%) Embedded C
8 7 (2.81%) PL/SQL
9 6 (2.41%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.41%) Swift
10 5 (2.01%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.61%) MATLAB
11 4 (1.61%) Scala
12 3 (1.20%) Ada
12 3 (1.20%) Bash
13 1 (0.40%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.40%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 73 (29.32%) Degree
2 22 (8.84%) Security Cleared
3 18 (7.23%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.61%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.80%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.21%) QA
2 7 (2.81%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.01%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.20%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (0.40%) GRC
5 1 (0.40%) HL7
5 1 (0.40%) MISRA
5 1 (0.40%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.40%) SLA
5 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (4.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (8.43%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.02%) Terraform
3 6 (2.41%) Grafana
4 4 (1.61%) Ansible
5 3 (1.20%) Functional Safety
5 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 61 (24.50%) PayPal
2 10 (4.02%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.81%) Avaloq
4 5 (2.01%) Informatica
4 5 (2.01%) Oracle
4 5 (2.01%) Talend
5 4 (1.61%) SAP
6 3 (1.20%) Adobe
6 3 (1.20%) Google
6 3 (1.20%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.80%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.80%) ESRI
8 1 (0.40%) Ariba
8 1 (0.40%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.40%) Zend