Software Engineer Contracts in the East of England

Software Engineer
England > East of England

The median Software Engineer daily rate in the East of England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 56 47
Rank change year-on-year +42 -9 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 154 77 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 8.05% 3.77% 4.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.01% 4.12% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 21 24
10th Percentile £413 - £385
25th Percentile £446 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -0.20% +47.35%
75th Percentile £581 £560 £578
90th Percentile £600 £575 £711
England median daily rate £638 £590 £600
% change year-on-year +8.05% -1.67% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 36 44
10th Percentile £52.50 - £47.58
25th Percentile £61.25 £53.75 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% - +27.78%
75th Percentile £70.00 £77.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £88.75 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.00
% change year-on-year - +14.04% +26.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East of England. 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 the East of England with a recognized job title 1,710 1,869 2,383
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.39% 91.44% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 768 1,140 1,384
10th Percentile £206 £185 £163
25th Percentile £313 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £550
90th Percentile £651 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 599 292 369
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £34.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.47% +119.35% -8.69%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £44.53
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £59.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the East of England

Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineer in the East of England

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineer in the East of England

Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineer in the East of England

Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineer in the East of England

Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Hertfordshire +21 90 £425 +553.85% 24
Cambridgeshire +10 38 £550 +4.76% 91
Essex +25 22 £575 +15.00% 8
Suffolk - 2 £215 -
Bedfordshire -6 1 - - 2
Norfolk - 1 - - 6
Software Engineer
England

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 East of England region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 154 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 83 (53.90%) C
3 80 (51.95%) C++
4 56 (36.36%) Electronics
5 52 (33.77%) C#
5 52 (33.77%) Agile
6 48 (31.17%) Continuous Integration
7 44 (28.57%) TDD
8 43 (27.92%) DevOps
9 41 (26.62%) Unit Testing
10 40 (25.97%) Pair Programming
11 38 (24.68%) RS-485
12 37 (24.03%) RS-422
12 37 (24.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 37 (24.03%) Modbus
12 37 (24.03%) Customer Requirements
12 37 (24.03%) Software Testing
13 36 (23.38%) Social Skills
14 34 (22.08%) Validation
15 29 (18.83%) Self-Motivation
16 22 (14.29%) Test Automation
17 21 (13.64%) Verification and Validation
18 18 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
19 17 (11.04%) Linux
19 17 (11.04%) Python
19 17 (11.04%) Ada
20 15 (9.74%) Code Quality
20 15 (9.74%) Embedded C
21 14 (9.09%) MATLAB
21 14 (9.09%) Simulink

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 14 (9.09%) Simulink
2 7 (4.55%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (1.95%) GCP
1 3 (1.95%) GitHub
2 2 (1.30%) Azure
2 2 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 38 (24.68%) RS-485
2 37 (24.03%) Modbus
2 37 (24.03%) RS-422
3 4 (2.60%) Ethernet
3 4 (2.60%) Firewall
3 4 (2.60%) Radio Access Network
3 4 (2.60%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.60%) VPN
4 2 (1.30%) Wireless
5 1 (0.65%) Broadband
5 1 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.65%) DVB
5 1 (0.65%) Internet
5 1 (0.65%) MQTT
5 1 (0.65%) RS-232
Development Applications
1 14 (9.09%) Rational Rhapsody
2 10 (6.49%) Git
2 10 (6.49%) Rational DOORS
3 9 (5.84%) Visual Studio
4 5 (3.25%) Eclipse
4 5 (3.25%) GCC
5 4 (2.60%) Mercurial
6 3 (1.95%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.65%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.65%) JIRA
7 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 56 (36.36%) Electronics
2 36 (23.38%) Social Skills
3 12 (7.79%) Automotive
3 12 (7.79%) Manufacturing
4 8 (5.19%) Military
5 6 (3.90%) Aerospace
6 5 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.25%) Multimedia
7 4 (2.60%) Finance
7 4 (2.60%) Legal
7 4 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.95%) Law
9 2 (1.30%) Aviation
9 2 (1.30%) Marketing
9 2 (1.30%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.30%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.30%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.14%) React
2 6 (3.90%) Web Services
3 5 (3.25%) LLVM
3 5 (3.25%) NumPy
4 4 (2.60%) CSS
4 4 (2.60%) HTML
4 4 (2.60%) Node.js
4 4 (2.60%) Pandas
4 4 (2.60%) SciPy
5 3 (1.95%) DirectX
5 3 (1.95%) OpenGL
5 3 (1.95%) OpenGL ES
5 3 (1.95%) Vulkan
6 2 (1.30%) .NET
6 2 (1.30%) MFC
6 2 (1.30%) WinForms
6 2 (1.30%) WPF
7 1 (0.65%) GStreamer
Miscellaneous
1 29 (18.83%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (4.55%) Algorithms
3 3 (1.95%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (1.30%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.30%) Social Media
5 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.65%) Digital TV
5 1 (0.65%) FPGA
5 1 (0.65%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.04%) Linux
2 12 (7.79%) Windows
3 2 (1.30%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 52 (33.77%) Agile
3 48 (31.17%) Continuous Integration
4 44 (28.57%) TDD
5 43 (27.92%) DevOps
6 41 (26.62%) Unit Testing
7 40 (25.97%) Pair Programming
8 37 (24.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (24.03%) Customer Requirements
8 37 (24.03%) Software Testing
9 34 (22.08%) Validation
10 22 (14.29%) Test Automation
11 21 (13.64%) Verification and Validation
12 18 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (9.74%) Code Quality
14 13 (8.44%) UML
14 13 (8.44%) Visualisation
15 12 (7.79%) Computer Science
15 12 (7.79%) Embedded Software Development
15 12 (7.79%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
Programming Languages
1 83 (53.90%) C
2 80 (51.95%) C++
3 52 (33.77%) C#
4 17 (11.04%) Ada
4 17 (11.04%) Python
5 15 (9.74%) Embedded C
6 14 (9.09%) MATLAB
7 13 (8.44%) JavaScript
8 8 (5.19%) Embedded C++
9 5 (3.25%) Java
9 5 (3.25%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.95%) Bash
10 3 (1.95%) SQL
11 2 (1.30%) C++/CLI
11 2 (1.30%) VB
12 1 (0.65%) Rust
12 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (9.09%) Degree
2 11 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.55%) PhD
3 7 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.30%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.30%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.65%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 3 (1.95%) zsh
2 1 (0.65%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.65%) Ansible
1 1 (0.65%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 10 (6.49%) IBM
2 6 (3.90%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.95%) Google
3 3 (1.95%) MathWorks
4 2 (1.30%) SAP
4 2 (1.30%) Twitter
5 1 (0.65%) Cisco