Software Engineering Contracts in Gloucestershire

Software Engineering
South West > Gloucestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 17 11
Rank change year-on-year -21 -6 -3
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 20 64 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 4.73% 13.50% 11.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.52% 14.58% 13.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 53 56
10th Percentile - £500 £475
25th Percentile £525 £525 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £719 £700 £666
90th Percentile £765 £722 £680
South West median daily rate £525 £579 £550
% change year-on-year -9.33% +5.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £70.25 £57.90 £46.20
25th Percentile £70.63 £66.00 £49.50
Median hourly rate £72.50 £75.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.97% +37.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £74.38 £78.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.75 - £59.00
South West median hourly rate £66.01 £65.50 £63.50
% change year-on-year +0.78% +3.15% +27.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 362 439 469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 85.58% 92.62% 87.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 308 368
10th Percentile £363 £296 £206
25th Percentile £463 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +6.34% +7.89%
75th Percentile £677 £650 £600
90th Percentile £738 £700 £680
South West median daily rate £525 £549 £500
% change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 37 16
10th Percentile £14.00 £35.00 £11.88
25th Percentile £18.85 £50.50 £13.59
Median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +116.05% -35.20%
75th Percentile £68.75 £78.00 £46.40
90th Percentile £71.73 £83.40 £57.50
South West median hourly rate £48.00 £61.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year -21.95% +26.16% +8.33%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Gloucestershire

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Gloucestershire

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Gloucestershire

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Gloucestershire

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Cheltenham -13 12 £563 -19.64% 21
Gloucester +2 2 £650 +8.33% 4
Filton - 2 - -
Software Engineering
South West

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 (5.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) AMQP
1 1 (5.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.00%) InfluxDB
1 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.00%) Cypress.io
2 3 (15.00%) JIRA
3 2 (10.00%) GoogleTest
4 1 (5.00%) Git
4 1 (5.00%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (5.00%) Rational Team Concert
4 1 (5.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (10.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (5.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 17 (85.00%) Software Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) C++ Software Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Java Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Site Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) React
2 5 (25.00%) Spring
2 5 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 4 (20.00%) Node.js
3 4 (20.00%) RESTful
4 3 (15.00%) Vue
5 2 (10.00%) Qt
6 1 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (5.00%) Kafka
6 1 (5.00%) Lucene
6 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) CentOS
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (40.00%) DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) Agile
3 4 (20.00%) BDD
4 2 (10.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (10.00%) Open Source
4 2 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (5.00%) Analytics
5 1 (5.00%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (5.00%) Event-Driven
5 1 (5.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (5.00%) Observability
5 1 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.00%) Product Management
5 1 (5.00%) Project Management
5 1 (5.00%) Records Management
5 1 (5.00%) Storyboarding
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (5.00%) Verification and Validation
5 1 (5.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 16 (80.00%) Java
2 8 (40.00%) C
2 8 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (35.00%) Python
4 4 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 3 (15.00%) C++
6 2 (10.00%) Go
7 1 (5.00%) Assembly Language
7 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
7 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (80.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) PhD
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) MISRA
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (20.00%) Ansible
3 3 (15.00%) Terraform
4 2 (10.00%) Grafana
4 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef
4 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.00%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.00%) Wind River