Software Engineering Contracts in the East Midlands

Software Engineering
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 66 56
Rank change year-on-year +31 -10 -4
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 31 18 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.05% 1.72% 2.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.18% 1.96% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 38
10th Percentile £525 £367 £371
25th Percentile - £393 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% +26.90%
75th Percentile £613 £513 £615
90th Percentile £638 £538 £725
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £50.25 £46.00 -
25th Percentile £50.63 £47.50 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 -
75th Percentile £59.38 £62.50 -
90th Percentile £59.75 £64.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 598 920 1,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.07% 88.12% 83.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 692 886
10th Percentile £200 £213 £209
25th Percentile £269 £330 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +2.27% +13.55%
75th Percentile £561 £566 £520
90th Percentile £625 £700 £610
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 74 83
10th Percentile £11.41 £12.07 £9.51
25th Percentile £12.75 £16.25 £13.32
Median hourly rate £17.00 £18.56 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.39% +0.31% +24.96%
75th Percentile £26.15 £31.50 £26.81
90th Percentile £45.79 £58.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the East Midlands

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in the East Midlands

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in the East Midlands

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in the East Midlands

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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
Nottinghamshire +14 14 £650 +52.94% 42
Derbyshire +8 7 £588 +11.90% 13
Northamptonshire - 5 £505 - 14
Lincolnshire +11 1 £550 +4.76% 5
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (3.23%) Ethereum
1 1 (3.23%) MetaMask
1 1 (3.23%) Tomcat
1 1 (3.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (38.71%) Chatbot
2 2 (6.45%) Simulink
3 1 (3.23%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.68%) AWS
1 3 (9.68%) Azure
2 2 (6.45%) GCP
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
3 1 (3.23%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) SAN
1 3 (9.68%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.23%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (3.23%) MySQL
1 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (6.45%) Git
3 1 (3.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Aerospace
2 4 (12.90%) Electronics
3 2 (6.45%) Automotive
3 2 (6.45%) Finance
4 1 (3.23%) Aeronautics
4 1 (3.23%) Banking
4 1 (3.23%) Law
4 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (58.06%) Developer
2 12 (38.71%) Software Developer
3 4 (12.90%) Validation Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Verification Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Embedded Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Python Developer
4 3 (9.68%) Senior
4 3 (9.68%) Senior Developer
4 3 (9.68%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Python Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Product Owner
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Software Validation Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Talend Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (41.94%) HTML
2 1 (3.23%) CSS
2 1 (3.23%) CSS3
2 1 (3.23%) GraphQL
2 1 (3.23%) gRPC
2 1 (3.23%) HTML5
2 1 (3.23%) JMS
2 1 (3.23%) JSON
2 1 (3.23%) Kafka
2 1 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.23%) RAML
2 1 (3.23%) RESTful
2 1 (3.23%) Smart Contracts
2 1 (3.23%) SOAP
2 1 (3.23%) Truffle
2 1 (3.23%) Web Services
2 1 (3.23%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.23%) Blockchain
1 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
1 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
1 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.13%) Linux
2 3 (9.68%) Debian
2 3 (9.68%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) Artificial Intelligence
1 12 (38.71%) Code Quality
1 12 (38.71%) Conversational UI
2 7 (22.58%) Agile
2 7 (22.58%) Validation
3 6 (19.35%) Computer Science
4 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (16.13%) Software Testing
4 5 (16.13%) Systems Engineering
5 4 (12.90%) Configuration Management
5 4 (12.90%) Creative Thinking
5 4 (12.90%) Verification and Validation
6 3 (9.68%) Customer Service
6 3 (9.68%) Data Engineering
6 3 (9.68%) Data Modelling
6 3 (9.68%) DevOps
6 3 (9.68%) ITIL
6 3 (9.68%) Matrix Organization
6 3 (9.68%) Prototyping
6 3 (9.68%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 16 (51.61%) Python
2 14 (45.16%) JavaScript
3 12 (38.71%) C#
3 12 (38.71%) SQL
4 3 (9.68%) C
4 3 (9.68%) C++
5 2 (6.45%) Embedded C
5 2 (6.45%) Embedded C++
5 2 (6.45%) MATLAB
6 1 (3.23%) Java
6 1 (3.23%) Rust
6 1 (3.23%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 19 (61.29%) Degree
2 10 (32.26%) Security Cleared
3 9 (29.03%) DV Cleared
4 4 (12.90%) Chartered Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Grafana
Vendors
1 12 (38.71%) PayPal
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.68%) Red Hat
3 3 (9.68%) VMware
4 1 (3.23%) Ariba
4 1 (3.23%) Denodo
4 1 (3.23%) Google
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle
4 1 (3.23%) SAP
4 1 (3.23%) Talend
4 1 (3.23%) Workday