Software Engineer Contracts in the South East

Software Engineer
England > South East

The median Software Engineer daily rate in the South East is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 119 158
Rank change year-on-year +44 +39 -35
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 138 99 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.48% 1.76% 1.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.69% 1.86% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 55 66
10th Percentile £140 £405 £401
25th Percentile £397 £494 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -9.57% +18.80%
75th Percentile £575 £562 £650
90th Percentile £650 £585 £720
England median daily rate £638 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +6.25% - +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 19 14
10th Percentile £46.25 £46.25 £46.25
25th Percentile £51.06 £50.63 £47.77
Median hourly rate £62.50 £58.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.84% +11.43% +14.75%
75th Percentile £67.77 £64.63 £55.19
90th Percentile £75.50 £68.26 £57.93
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £57.89
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.96% +27.23%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,132 5,328 7,379
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 94.54% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,075 3,700 5,053
10th Percentile £225 £219 £205
25th Percentile £400 £388 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.81% +7.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 502 233 314
10th Percentile £12.82 £16.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.94 £16.03
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +139.02% -18.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £61.50
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
% change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +8.05%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the South East

Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineer in the South East

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineer in the South East

Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineer in the South East

Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineer in the South East

Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 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
Hampshire +17 82 £540 - 47
Thames Valley +15 28 £500 - 62
Berkshire +3 17 £600 +23.08% 27
Oxfordshire +12 8 £450 - 30
Middlesex - 8 - -
Surrey +6 7 £450 -13.46% 26
West Sussex +9 5 £550 - 23
Sussex - 5 - - 6
Buckinghamshire +25 3 £450 -18.18% 5
Kent +2 1 - - 7
Software Engineer
England

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 27 May 2024, 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 South East region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 137 (99.28%) Software Engineering
2 51 (36.96%) C++
3 42 (30.43%) Agile
4 36 (26.09%) C
4 36 (26.09%) Linux
5 35 (25.36%) Scrum
6 34 (24.64%) Git
7 33 (23.91%) Java
8 32 (23.19%) Security Cleared
9 29 (21.01%) JIRA
10 26 (18.84%) SC Cleared
10 26 (18.84%) Firmware
11 25 (18.12%) Aerospace
12 24 (17.39%) Software-Defined Radio
13 22 (15.94%) Windows
14 21 (15.22%) JavaScript
14 21 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
15 19 (13.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 19 (13.77%) UML
16 18 (13.04%) Computer Science
16 18 (13.04%) Degree
16 18 (13.04%) Jenkins
17 17 (12.32%) Bitbucket
17 17 (12.32%) Confluence
17 17 (12.32%) Validation
17 17 (12.32%) Python
18 16 (11.59%) HTML
18 16 (11.59%) CSS
18 16 (11.59%) Kanban
18 16 (11.59%) Social Skills

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 17 (12.32%) Confluence
2 1 (0.72%) Apache
2 1 (0.72%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.72%) MTS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 12 (8.70%) Azure
2 11 (7.97%) AWS
3 4 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.17%) GCP
5 2 (1.45%) GitHub
5 2 (1.45%) Google App Engine
6 1 (0.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (0.72%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.72%) Figma
6 1 (0.72%) npm
6 1 (0.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 24 (17.39%) Software-Defined Radio
2 15 (10.87%) SNMP
3 7 (5.07%) 802.11
3 7 (5.07%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (2.90%) Link 16
4 4 (2.90%) Tactical Data Link
4 4 (2.90%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.90%) Wireless
5 2 (1.45%) HTTP
5 2 (1.45%) J1939
5 2 (1.45%) RS-232
6 1 (0.72%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.17%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.17%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.45%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.45%) MySQL
3 2 (1.45%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.72%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.72%) Couchbase
4 1 (0.72%) CouchDB
4 1 (0.72%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.72%) Metadata
4 1 (0.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 34 (24.64%) Git
2 29 (21.01%) JIRA
3 18 (13.04%) Jenkins
4 17 (12.32%) Bitbucket
5 15 (10.87%) Eclipse
6 12 (8.70%) GoogleTest
6 12 (8.70%) Robot Framework
7 7 (5.07%) GitLab
7 7 (5.07%) Selenium
8 6 (4.35%) Cucumber
8 6 (4.35%) Subversion
9 5 (3.62%) REST Assured
9 5 (3.62%) SonarQube
10 4 (2.90%) Artifactory
11 3 (2.17%) LabVIEW
12 1 (0.72%) ClearCase
12 1 (0.72%) ClearQuest
12 1 (0.72%) CMake
12 1 (0.72%) NUnit
12 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (18.12%) Aerospace
2 16 (11.59%) Social Skills
3 10 (7.25%) Electronics
4 9 (6.52%) Automotive
5 6 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.35%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.62%) Law
7 4 (2.90%) Billing
7 4 (2.90%) Police
8 3 (2.17%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.45%) Aviation
9 2 (1.45%) Finance
10 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.72%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.72%) Publishing
10 1 (0.72%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.59%) CSS
1 16 (11.59%) HTML
2 11 (7.97%) REST
3 10 (7.25%) Node.js
4 9 (6.52%) RESTful
5 7 (5.07%) .NET
5 7 (5.07%) 802.1X
6 6 (4.35%) ARM Templates
6 6 (4.35%) Java EE
6 6 (4.35%) XML
7 5 (3.62%) AngularJS
7 5 (3.62%) Kafka
7 5 (3.62%) React
8 4 (2.90%) React Native
8 4 (2.90%) SOAP
9 3 (2.17%) .NET Core
9 3 (2.17%) .NET Framework
9 3 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.45%) GraphQL
10 2 (1.45%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.62%) Algorithms
2 4 (2.90%) Device Driver
3 2 (1.45%) CAN bus
3 2 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.72%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (0.72%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.72%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (0.72%) IoT
4 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.72%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (26.09%) Linux
2 22 (15.94%) Windows
3 7 (5.07%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (1.45%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (99.28%) Software Engineering
2 42 (30.43%) Agile
3 35 (25.36%) Scrum
4 21 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (13.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 19 (13.77%) UML
6 18 (13.04%) Computer Science
7 17 (12.32%) Validation
8 16 (11.59%) Kanban
9 15 (10.87%) Continuous Integration
9 15 (10.87%) OO
10 13 (9.42%) SysML
11 12 (8.70%) DevOps
12 11 (7.97%) Test Automation
12 11 (7.97%) Verification and Validation
13 9 (6.52%) Prototyping
14 8 (5.80%) Continuous Improvement
14 8 (5.80%) Software Testing
14 8 (5.80%) Technical Leadership
15 7 (5.07%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 51 (36.96%) C++
2 36 (26.09%) C
3 33 (23.91%) Java
4 21 (15.22%) JavaScript
5 17 (12.32%) Python
6 14 (10.14%) C#
7 11 (7.97%) Perl
8 10 (7.25%) Embedded C
9 7 (5.07%) Tcl
10 6 (4.35%) Bash
10 6 (4.35%) SQL
11 5 (3.62%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.90%) Ada
12 4 (2.90%) Ada 95
12 4 (2.90%) Assembly Language
12 4 (2.90%) MATLAB
13 3 (2.17%) Go
13 3 (2.17%) PowerShell
14 2 (1.45%) PHP
14 2 (1.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (23.19%) Security Cleared
2 26 (18.84%) SC Cleared
3 18 (13.04%) Degree
4 8 (5.80%) Master's Degree
5 7 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.35%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.90%) PhD
8 1 (0.72%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.90%) JTAG
2 3 (2.17%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 26 (18.84%) Firmware
2 8 (5.80%) Docker
3 5 (3.62%) VirtualBox
4 4 (2.90%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.72%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (5.07%) Ansible
1 7 (5.07%) Terraform
2 6 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.62%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (3.62%) Podman
4 2 (1.45%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.72%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.72%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.72%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (10.87%) Google
2 12 (8.70%) Atlassian
3 4 (2.90%) Oracle
4 2 (1.45%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (1.45%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.72%) Compaq
5 1 (0.72%) HP
5 1 (0.72%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.72%) NVIDIA
5 1 (0.72%) QNX
5 1 (0.72%) Sparx
5 1 (0.72%) VMware