Software Engineering Contracts in the East of England

Software Engineering
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 8 27 26
Rank change year-on-year +19 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 191 143 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 10.03% 6.93% 7.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.65% 7.97% 8.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 45 68
10th Percentile £350 £425 £325
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £523
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.03% +19.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £598
90th Percentile £600 £650 £711
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 52 49
10th Percentile £52.50 - £47.25
25th Percentile £60.00 £53.75 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% +27.78%
75th Percentile £73.13 £65.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £64.15 £55.00
% change year-on-year -2.56% +16.63% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,640 1,795 2,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 86.09% 87.01% 87.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 710 1,054 1,266
10th Percentile £208 £200 £185
25th Percentile £345 £313 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £468
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +1.50% +10.12%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 603 344 387
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £22.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +41.94% -11.93%
75th Percentile £63.13 £64.63 £39.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the East of England

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in the East of England

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in the East of England

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in the East of England

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineering in the East of England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in the East of England

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the East of England 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
Hertfordshire +8 104 £400 -33.33% 56
Cambridgeshire +11 46 £525 -4.55% 147
Essex +10 34 £534 +4.40% 20
Suffolk +11 4 £550 +175.00% 1
Bedfordshire -2 2 £450 -4.86% 5
Norfolk - 1 - - 8
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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 (7.33%) Simulink
2 7 (3.66%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (2.62%) Azure
2 4 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (2.09%) GCP
2 4 (2.09%) GitHub
3 1 (0.52%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (19.90%) Modbus
1 38 (19.90%) RS-422
1 38 (19.90%) RS-485
2 12 (6.28%) Firewall
2 12 (6.28%) VPN
3 7 (3.66%) Wireless
4 4 (2.09%) 5G
4 4 (2.09%) Ethernet
4 4 (2.09%) Radio Access Network
4 4 (2.09%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.57%) 4G
6 1 (0.52%) Broadband
6 1 (0.52%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.52%) DVB
6 1 (0.52%) Internet
6 1 (0.52%) MQTT
6 1 (0.52%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.52%) Big Data
1 1 (0.52%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (8.38%) Git
2 14 (7.33%) Rational Rhapsody
3 13 (6.81%) Rational DOORS
4 8 (4.19%) Visual Studio
5 7 (3.66%) GCC
5 7 (3.66%) Mercurial
6 5 (2.62%) Eclipse
6 5 (2.62%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.57%) JIRA
8 2 (1.05%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.52%) ClearCase
9 1 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 55 (28.80%) Electronics
2 44 (23.04%) Social Skills
3 13 (6.81%) Automotive
4 11 (5.76%) Manufacturing
5 9 (4.71%) Aerospace
6 8 (4.19%) Military
6 8 (4.19%) Multimedia
7 7 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.09%) Legal
8 4 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.09%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.57%) Finance
9 3 (1.57%) Law
10 2 (1.05%) Aviation
10 2 (1.05%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.05%) Wearables
11 1 (0.52%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.52%) Marketing
11 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 155 (81.15%) Software Engineer
2 49 (25.65%) C++ Software Engineer
3 42 (21.99%) Embedded Engineer
3 42 (21.99%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 31 (16.23%) C Software Engineer
5 17 (8.90%) Ada Engineer
5 17 (8.90%) Ada Software Engineer
5 17 (8.90%) C/C++ Software Engineer
6 16 (8.38%) Developer
7 15 (7.85%) Senior
8 13 (6.81%) Principal Engineer
8 13 (6.81%) Principal Software Engineer
9 12 (6.28%) Embedded C Engineer
9 12 (6.28%) Embedded C Software Engineer
10 11 (5.76%) Full Stack Engineer
10 11 (5.76%) Java Engineer
11 10 (5.24%) Compiler Engineer
11 10 (5.24%) Software Developer
12 9 (4.71%) Senior Software Engineer
13 8 (4.19%) Real Time Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (13.61%) React
2 12 (6.28%) CSS
2 12 (6.28%) HTML
3 8 (4.19%) NumPy
4 7 (3.66%) LLVM
4 7 (3.66%) Pandas
4 7 (3.66%) SciPy
5 5 (2.62%) Node.js
5 5 (2.62%) Web Services
6 3 (1.57%) .NET
6 3 (1.57%) DirectX
6 3 (1.57%) OpenGL
6 3 (1.57%) OpenGL ES
6 3 (1.57%) Vulkan
7 2 (1.05%) MFC
7 2 (1.05%) WinForms
7 2 (1.05%) WPF
8 1 (0.52%) GStreamer
8 1 (0.52%) RESTful
8 1 (0.52%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.71%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (6.28%) Algorithms
3 6 (3.14%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.62%) Social Media
5 3 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.57%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.52%) Digital TV
6 1 (0.52%) FPGA
6 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.52%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.90%) Linux
2 15 (7.85%) Windows
3 2 (1.05%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (1.05%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (33.51%) Agile
2 54 (28.27%) Continuous Integration
2 54 (28.27%) DevOps
3 46 (24.08%) TDD
4 42 (21.99%) Pair Programming
4 42 (21.99%) Unit Testing
5 40 (20.94%) Customer Requirements
6 38 (19.90%) Continuous Improvement
6 38 (19.90%) Software Testing
7 37 (19.37%) Validation
8 32 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (14.14%) Test Automation
10 24 (12.57%) Verification and Validation
11 19 (9.95%) CI/CD
11 19 (9.95%) Code Quality
11 19 (9.95%) Computer Science
11 19 (9.95%) Machine Learning
12 13 (6.81%) Artificial Intelligence
12 13 (6.81%) Scrum
12 13 (6.81%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 88 (46.07%) C++
2 87 (45.55%) C
3 59 (30.89%) C#
4 27 (14.14%) Python
5 24 (12.57%) Java
6 18 (9.42%) TypeScript
7 17 (8.90%) Ada
7 17 (8.90%) JavaScript
8 16 (8.38%) Embedded C
9 15 (7.85%) MATLAB
10 9 (4.71%) Embedded C++
11 5 (2.62%) SQL
12 4 (2.09%) Bash
12 4 (2.09%) R
13 2 (1.05%) C++/CLI
13 2 (1.05%) VB
14 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (11.52%) Degree
2 16 (8.38%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (6.28%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.19%) PhD
6 2 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.05%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.05%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.52%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 4 (2.09%) zsh
2 1 (0.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (1.05%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.52%) Ansible
2 1 (0.52%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 10 (5.24%) IBM
2 7 (3.66%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.09%) Google
4 3 (1.57%) MathWorks
5 2 (1.05%) Twitter
6 1 (0.52%) Cisco
6 1 (0.52%) SAP