Software Engineer Contracts in Bristol

Software Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Software Engineer daily rate in Bristol is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 50 31
Rank change year-on-year +26 -19 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 62 53 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 5.93% 4.22% 6.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.24% 4.69% 6.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 14
10th Percentile £476 £382 £413
25th Percentile £481 £399 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +26.47% -15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £581 £581 £568
90th Percentile £679 £675 £630
South West median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +20.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 40 35
10th Percentile £52.50 - -
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.91 £60.00
Median hourly rate £66.25 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.15% +0.77% +43.65%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.38
90th Percentile - - £75.00
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.76% +0.77% +30.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 994 1,131 1,349
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.03% 90.12% 95.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 540 805 924
10th Percentile £249 £300 £267
25th Percentile £363 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £575
90th Percentile £688 £713 £650
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 142 114
10th Percentile £36.25 £30.97 -
25th Percentile £45.00 £57.25 £15.90
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +55.95% -1.18%
75th Percentile £73.92 £75.00 £63.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £86.23 £65.53
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £47.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +38.30% +9.94%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Bristol

Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in Bristol.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineer in Bristol

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Bristol over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineer in Bristol

Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in Bristol.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineer in Bristol

Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineer in Bristol over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineer in Bristol

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 28 April 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 Bristol region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 62 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 26 (41.94%) Security Cleared
2 26 (41.94%) Linux
3 25 (40.32%) C
4 21 (33.87%) FreeRTOS
4 21 (33.87%) SC Cleared
5 17 (27.42%) IBM
5 17 (27.42%) Embedded C
5 17 (27.42%) Configuration Management
5 17 (27.42%) ARM Cortex
5 17 (27.42%) Lauterbach
6 14 (22.58%) C++
7 12 (19.35%) Validation
7 12 (19.35%) Agile
7 12 (19.35%) DevOps
8 10 (16.13%) Test Automation
9 9 (14.52%) C#
9 9 (14.52%) Python
9 9 (14.52%) Ada
10 8 (12.90%) CI/CD
10 8 (12.90%) Microsoft
11 7 (11.29%) Aerospace
11 7 (11.29%) .NET
11 7 (11.29%) Verification and Validation
11 7 (11.29%) Rational DOORS
12 6 (9.68%) SDLC
12 6 (9.68%) .NET Core
12 6 (9.68%) XML
12 6 (9.68%) Automotive
12 6 (9.68%) OO

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 5 (8.06%) Simulink
1 5 (8.06%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.06%) AWS
1 5 (8.06%) GitHub
2 2 (3.23%) GCP
2 2 (3.23%) Pulumi
3 1 (1.61%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.06%) HTTP
2 2 (3.23%) Ethernet
2 2 (3.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (8.06%) SQLite
2 2 (3.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (11.29%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (9.68%) Git
3 5 (8.06%) Checkstyle
3 5 (8.06%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.06%) JIRA
3 5 (8.06%) SonarQube
4 4 (6.45%) GoogleTest
5 2 (3.23%) Eclipse
5 2 (3.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (11.29%) Aerospace
2 6 (9.68%) Automotive
3 5 (8.06%) Legal
4 3 (4.84%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Military
5 2 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.61%) Aviation
6 1 (1.61%) Law
6 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.29%) .NET
2 6 (9.68%) .NET Core
2 6 (9.68%) .NET Framework
2 6 (9.68%) XML
3 5 (8.06%) JSON
3 5 (8.06%) REST
4 4 (6.45%) Qt
5 3 (4.84%) Web Services
6 2 (3.23%) Flask
6 2 (3.23%) Node.js
6 2 (3.23%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (1.61%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.61%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (27.42%) ARM Cortex
2 5 (8.06%) Algorithms
2 5 (8.06%) IoT
3 4 (6.45%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (6.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (6.45%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (4.84%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.61%) Robotics
5 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (41.94%) Linux
2 21 (33.87%) FreeRTOS
3 4 (6.45%) SafeRTOS
4 2 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 17 (27.42%) Configuration Management
3 12 (19.35%) Agile
3 12 (19.35%) DevOps
3 12 (19.35%) Validation
4 10 (16.13%) Test Automation
5 8 (12.90%) CI/CD
6 7 (11.29%) Verification and Validation
7 6 (9.68%) OO
7 6 (9.68%) SDLC
8 5 (8.06%) Code Quality
8 5 (8.06%) Computer Science
8 5 (8.06%) Design Patterns
8 5 (8.06%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
9 4 (6.45%) Embedded Software Development
9 4 (6.45%) TDD
10 3 (4.84%) Microservices
10 3 (4.84%) Visualisation
11 2 (3.23%) ETL Development
11 2 (3.23%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 25 (40.32%) C
2 17 (27.42%) Embedded C
3 14 (22.58%) C++
4 9 (14.52%) Ada
4 9 (14.52%) C#
4 9 (14.52%) Python
5 5 (8.06%) Java
5 5 (8.06%) MATLAB
6 3 (4.84%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.23%) Go
7 2 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (41.94%) Security Cleared
2 21 (33.87%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.68%) Degree
4 5 (8.06%) DV Cleared
5 4 (6.45%) Master's Degree
6 2 (3.23%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.45%) MISRA
System Software
1 1 (1.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.23%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (27.42%) IBM
1 17 (27.42%) Lauterbach
2 8 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.45%) Google