Software Engineering Contracts in Dorset

Software Engineering
South West > Dorset

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 18 24 16
Rank change year-on-year +6 -8 +1
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 10 12 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 6.06% 5.45% 8.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.09% 6.59% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 2
10th Percentile £398 - -
25th Percentile - £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £503 £522 £525
90th Percentile £588 £528 -
South West median daily rate £525 £579 £541
% change year-on-year -9.33% +6.97% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 10
10th Percentile - - £47.34
25th Percentile £61.25 £59.73 £47.67
Median hourly rate £62.50 £64.15 £54.72
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +17.23% -
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.98 £64.63
90th Percentile - - £69.96
South West median hourly rate £67.02 £65.50 £63.50
% change year-on-year +2.32% +3.15% +27.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 141 182 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 85.45% 82.73% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 106 91
10th Percentile £175 £160 £276
25th Percentile £175 £258 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +4.17% +16.36%
75th Percentile £630 £610 £575
90th Percentile £825 £638 £650
South West median daily rate £525 £545 £500
% change year-on-year -3.67% +9.00% +6.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 36 38
10th Percentile £11.87 £17.50 £20.88
25th Percentile £13.69 £48.86 £45.18
Median hourly rate £15.31 £56.29 £51.64
Median % change year-on-year -72.80% +9.02% +8.71%
75th Percentile £56.49 £62.72 £60.13
90th Percentile £61.25 £70.77 £79.40
South West median hourly rate £48.00 £61.50 £48.61
% change year-on-year -21.95% +26.52% +8.02%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Dorset

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Dorset

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Dorset

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Dorset

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

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 Dorset region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Bournemouth +4 6 £400 - 7
Software Engineering
South West

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 (10.00%) Apache Solr
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
1 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) CockroachDB
2 3 (30.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Couchbase
3 1 (10.00%) MySQL
3 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) C++ Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Backend Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Django Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) PHP Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Product Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Python/Django Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Python Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) REST
2 3 (30.00%) JPA
2 3 (30.00%) Spring
2 3 (30.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (20.00%) .NET
3 2 (20.00%) Blazor
3 2 (20.00%) CSS
3 2 (20.00%) HTML
4 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (10.00%) Django
4 1 (10.00%) Kafka
4 1 (10.00%) Laravel
4 1 (10.00%) React
4 1 (10.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) SDLC
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Architectural Design
2 4 (40.00%) Community of Practice
2 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (40.00%) Information Architecture
2 4 (40.00%) Microservices
2 4 (40.00%) Operational Stability
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) SOLID
4 2 (20.00%) TDD
4 2 (20.00%) Web Application Development
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (10.00%) IT Governance
5 1 (10.00%) Mathematics
5 1 (10.00%) Pair Programming
5 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
5 1 (10.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Java
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) C#
2 2 (20.00%) C++
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) PHP
3 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CESG Certified Professional
1 1 (10.00%) CISM
1 1 (10.00%) CISSP
1 1 (10.00%) CLAS
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) JSP 440
1 1 (10.00%) NCSC
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
1 1 (10.00%) RMADS
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Xamarin
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle