Software Engineering Contracts in Cheltenham

Software Engineering
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 9 18
Rank change year-on-year -14 +9 -12
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 12 31 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 6.78% 19.14% 7.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.79% 21.38% 7.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 27 8
10th Percentile - £525 £451
25th Percentile £525 £594 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% +33.33% +16.67%
75th Percentile £725 - £609
90th Percentile £775 - £683
Gloucestershire median daily rate £625 £613 £600
% change year-on-year +2.04% +2.08% +20.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £71.63 - -
25th Percentile £72.19 - -
Median hourly rate £73.75 - -
75th Percentile £74.69 - -
90th Percentile £74.88 - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £72.50 £75.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.97% +37.27% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 154 145 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 87.01% 89.51% 90.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 108 92
10th Percentile £398 £347 £257
25th Percentile £475 £500 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £595 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% +13.33% +13.51%
75th Percentile £674 £700 £601
90th Percentile £739 £738 £731
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £548 £513
% change year-on-year +0.46% +6.83% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 2
10th Percentile £42.75 £67.10 £12.08
25th Percentile £70.13 £67.25 £12.19
Median hourly rate £71.00 £81.00 £12.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.35% +535.29% -74.50%
75th Percentile £73.19 £96.00 £13.69
90th Percentile £74.38 £96.90 £14.03
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 £32.40
% change year-on-year -50.00% +116.05% -35.20%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Cheltenham

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Cheltenham

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Cheltenham

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Cheltenham

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) AMQP
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (8.33%) InfluxDB
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (8.33%) Rational Team Concert
2 1 (8.33%) Selenium
General
1 2 (16.67%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Software Engineer
2 8 (66.67%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Site Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) React
1 5 (41.67%) Spring
1 5 (41.67%) Spring Boot
2 4 (33.33%) Node.js
2 4 (33.33%) RESTful
3 1 (8.33%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (8.33%) Kafka
3 1 (8.33%) Lucene
3 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (8.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) CentOS
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 2 (16.67%) Open Source
3 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Analytics
4 1 (8.33%) BDD
4 1 (8.33%) Business Development
4 1 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
4 1 (8.33%) Data Modelling
4 1 (8.33%) Product Management
4 1 (8.33%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (8.33%) Scrum
4 1 (8.33%) Service Management
4 1 (8.33%) Software Testing
4 1 (8.33%) TDD
4 1 (8.33%) Test Scripting
4 1 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Java
2 8 (66.67%) C
3 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
4 4 (33.33%) TypeScript
5 3 (25.00%) Python
6 2 (16.67%) Go
7 1 (8.33%) Assembly Language
7 1 (8.33%) C++
7 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
7 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) DV Cleared
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) PhD
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (25.00%) Ansible
3 2 (16.67%) Grafana
3 2 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 2 (16.67%) Terraform
4 1 (8.33%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) CA Agile Central
1 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (8.33%) Wind River