Software Engineering Contracts in South Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 46 58
Rank change year-on-year 0 +12 -24
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 19 12 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 3.92% 2.41% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 2.60% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 1
10th Percentile - £418 -
25th Percentile - £463 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £375
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +46.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile - £625 £388
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +18.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 420 462 480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 86.60% 92.77% 91.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 286 366
10th Percentile £360 £300 £305
25th Percentile £413 £473 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £495
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +11.11% +16.47%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £563
90th Percentile £622 £743 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 37 20
10th Percentile £10.90 - £10.97
25th Percentile £12.55 £9.80 £11.00
Median hourly rate £12.83 £10.63 £17.06
Median % change year-on-year +20.70% -37.67% -20.67%
75th Percentile £21.50 - £22.33
90th Percentile £23.75 - £23.78
Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £18.50
% change year-on-year +27.00% -42.54% -6.06%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in South Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in South Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in South Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire 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
Sheffield -5 19 £650 +18.18% 13
Software Engineering
Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Applications
1 11 (57.89%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) AWS
1 1 (5.26%) GCP
1 1 (5.26%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
1 2 (10.53%) JUnit
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.26%) Law
Job Titles
1 15 (78.95%) Developer
2 11 (57.89%) Software Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Lead
3 2 (10.53%) Lead Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Lead Java Developer
3 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Programme Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Security Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (73.68%) HTML
2 3 (15.79%) AngularJS
2 3 (15.79%) CSS
2 3 (15.79%) LDAP
2 3 (15.79%) Spring
2 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
3 2 (10.53%) Hibernate
3 2 (10.53%) JPA
3 2 (10.53%) React
3 2 (10.53%) REST
4 1 (5.26%) JWT
4 1 (5.26%) OpenID
4 1 (5.26%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) CMDB
1 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) Blockchain
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Artificial Intelligence
2 11 (57.89%) Code Quality
2 11 (57.89%) Conversational UI
3 6 (31.58%) DevOps
4 5 (26.32%) Agile
4 5 (26.32%) Scrum
5 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
5 3 (15.79%) Data Modelling
5 3 (15.79%) Incident Management
5 3 (15.79%) Information Security
5 3 (15.79%) ITIL
5 3 (15.79%) Kanban
5 3 (15.79%) Knowledge Management
5 3 (15.79%) Mathematics
5 3 (15.79%) Microservices
5 3 (15.79%) Patch Management
5 3 (15.79%) Problem Management
5 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
5 3 (15.79%) User Stories
5 3 (15.79%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (73.68%) JavaScript
1 14 (73.68%) Python
2 11 (57.89%) C#
2 11 (57.89%) SQL
3 4 (21.05%) Java
4 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
5 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (73.68%) Degree
2 3 (15.79%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Data Quality
1 3 (15.79%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
1 3 (15.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) PayPal
2 3 (15.79%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.26%) MuleSoft