Software Engineering Contracts in the North West

Software Engineering
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 31 81 34
Rank change year-on-year +50 -47 +11
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 143 69 232
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 5.39% 2.23% 5.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.28% 2.47% 6.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 41 149
10th Percentile £456 £410 £400
25th Percentile £500 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% +14.29% +29.63%
75th Percentile £614 £659 £620
90th Percentile £650 £688 £653
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 8 10
10th Percentile £38.20 £30.74 £44.34
25th Percentile £45.22 £37.73 £46.95
Median hourly rate £48.00 £40.59 £51.79
Median % change year-on-year +18.26% -21.63% +21.86%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.13 £63.24
90th Percentile £72.19 £51.18 £65.50
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 West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,277 2,793 3,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.86% 90.24% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,451 1,960 2,613
10th Percentile £308 £313 £240
25th Percentile £405 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 138 169
10th Percentile £10.96 £16.25 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £22.44 £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.19 £35.02 £23.06
Median % change year-on-year -30.92% +51.88% +26.48%
75th Percentile £46.18 £48.56 £50.78
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £75.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the North West

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in the North West

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in the North West

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in the North West

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in the North West

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +41 76 £537 -2.45% 151
Cumbria - 21 - - 5
Lancashire +17 18 £375 - 19
Merseyside +21 14 - - 10
Cheshire +7 14 £572 -15.81% 24
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (4.20%) Apache
1 6 (4.20%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 25 (17.48%) Chatbot
2 4 (2.80%) Simulink
2 4 (2.80%) Stateflow
3 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.10%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.70%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 34 (23.78%) AWS
2 16 (11.19%) Azure
3 11 (7.69%) Serverless
4 6 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (3.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (3.50%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (3.50%) Amazon EMR
5 5 (3.50%) Amazon S3
5 5 (3.50%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.50%) Snowflake
6 4 (2.80%) GCP
6 4 (2.80%) npm
7 1 (0.70%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Batch
7 1 (0.70%) BrowserStack
7 1 (0.70%) GitHub
7 1 (0.70%) IaaS
7 1 (0.70%) PaaS
7 1 (0.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.20%) HTTP
2 5 (3.50%) FTP
3 2 (1.40%) SSL
4 1 (0.70%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.20%) Big Data
2 5 (3.50%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.80%) MySQL
4 3 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.40%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.40%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.40%) SQLite
6 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.70%) Flink
6 1 (0.70%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 16 (11.19%) JIRA
2 13 (9.09%) Git
3 4 (2.80%) Cypress.io
3 4 (2.80%) GitLab
3 4 (2.80%) JUnit
4 3 (2.10%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.10%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.40%) GoCD
5 2 (1.40%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.70%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.70%) Maven
6 1 (0.70%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.70%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.70%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (12.59%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.19%) Finance
3 14 (9.79%) Aerospace
4 8 (5.59%) Manufacturing
4 8 (5.59%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.50%) Legal
5 5 (3.50%) Military
5 5 (3.50%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (2.80%) Automotive
7 3 (2.10%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.40%) Retail
9 1 (0.70%) Banking
9 1 (0.70%) Games
9 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.70%) Public Speaking
9 1 (0.70%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 78 (54.55%) Software Engineer
2 30 (20.98%) Developer
3 25 (17.48%) Software Developer
4 15 (10.49%) Senior
5 13 (9.09%) PLC Software Engineer
6 12 (8.39%) Senior Software Engineer
7 7 (4.90%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (4.90%) Project Manager
8 6 (4.20%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (4.20%) Java Engineer
9 5 (3.50%) Data Engineer
9 5 (3.50%) Lead
9 5 (3.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 5 (3.50%) Snowflake Engineer
10 4 (2.80%) Java Software Engineer
11 3 (2.10%) Full Stack Engineer
11 3 (2.10%) Java Developer
11 3 (2.10%) Lead Developer
12 2 (1.40%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 2 (1.40%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (18.18%) HTML
2 18 (12.59%) React
3 15 (10.49%) Node.js
4 14 (9.79%) Spring
5 11 (7.69%) RESTful
6 9 (6.29%) AngularJS
7 8 (5.59%) Spring Boot
8 7 (4.90%) XML
9 6 (4.20%) JSON
10 5 (3.50%) AWS CDK
10 5 (3.50%) Jest
11 4 (2.80%) JPA
12 3 (2.10%) REST
13 2 (1.40%) Elastic Stack
13 2 (1.40%) Hibernate
13 2 (1.40%) JDBC
13 2 (1.40%) Kafka
13 2 (1.40%) RxJava
13 2 (1.40%) TensorFlow
13 2 (1.40%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.50%) Algorithms
2 3 (2.10%) Blockchain
3 1 (0.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (0.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (0.70%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (0.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (0.70%) Online Gambling
3 1 (0.70%) Online Games
3 1 (0.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.70%) Virtual Team
3 1 (0.70%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.90%) Linux
2 2 (1.40%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (25.17%) Agile
2 30 (20.98%) Code Quality
3 29 (20.28%) Artificial Intelligence
4 25 (17.48%) Conversational UI
5 21 (14.69%) SDLC
6 19 (13.29%) Test Automation
7 18 (12.59%) DevOps
8 17 (11.89%) CI/CD
8 17 (11.89%) Design Patterns
8 17 (11.89%) Systems Engineering
9 15 (10.49%) Microservices
10 11 (7.69%) Front End Development
11 9 (6.29%) Thought Leadership
12 8 (5.59%) Computer Science
12 8 (5.59%) Containerisation
12 8 (5.59%) Scrum
13 7 (4.90%) CRM
13 7 (4.90%) Data Security
13 7 (4.90%) Project Management
13 7 (4.90%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (30.07%) Python
2 42 (29.37%) SQL
3 33 (23.08%) C#
3 33 (23.08%) Java
3 33 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 16 (11.19%) TypeScript
5 7 (4.90%) PHP
5 7 (4.90%) PL/SQL
6 6 (4.20%) C
7 4 (2.80%) MATLAB
8 3 (2.10%) C++
8 3 (2.10%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.40%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.70%) Bash
10 1 (0.70%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.70%) Fortran
10 1 (0.70%) Go
10 1 (0.70%) Perl
10 1 (0.70%) Rust
10 1 (0.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (20.28%) Degree
2 15 (10.49%) Security Cleared
3 11 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.90%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.40%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.40%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.40%) QA
2 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.70%) MISRA
2 1 (0.70%) MISRA C
2 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (0.70%) SLA
2 1 (0.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (4.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (6.99%) Terraform
2 9 (6.29%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.80%) Ansible
4 1 (0.70%) Grafana
Vendors
1 25 (17.48%) PayPal
2 7 (4.90%) Avaloq
3 5 (3.50%) Informatica
3 5 (3.50%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.50%) Oracle
3 5 (3.50%) Talend
4 2 (1.40%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.70%) Google
5 1 (0.70%) SAP