Software Engineering Contracts in Lancashire

Software Engineering
North West > Lancashire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 30 28
Rank change year-on-year +15 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 17 5 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 8.76% 2.08% 5.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.04% 2.39% 5.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £205 - £433
25th Percentile £289 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +81.03%
75th Percentile £625 - £544
90th Percentile £638 - £548
North West median daily rate £548 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -8.67% +20.00% +23.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 7
10th Percentile £45.88 £23.80 -
25th Percentile £46.11 £37.67 £41.25
Median hourly rate £48.00 £40.59 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.26% -4.49% -2.30%
75th Percentile £48.11 £43.48 £46.62
90th Percentile £48.43 £49.40 £49.04
North West median hourly rate £48.00 £40.59 £50.13
% change year-on-year +18.26% -19.02% +14.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 154 209 239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 79.38% 87.08% 91.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 117 156
10th Percentile £313 £335 £230
25th Percentile £413 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £540 £477
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% +13.09% +19.37%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £578
90th Percentile £747 £700 £706
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 41 47
10th Percentile - £23.97 £14.46
25th Percentile £16.06 £29.30 £16.93
Median hourly rate £19.18 £42.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.87% +7.59% -3.66%
75th Percentile £46.03 £49.52 £44.03
90th Percentile £48.00 £53.44 £60.34
North West median hourly rate £21.56 £35.00 £20.49
% change year-on-year -38.41% +70.82% +10.76%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Lancashire

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Lancashire

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Lancashire over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Lancashire

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Lancashire

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Blackpool - 4 £625 -
Preston +5 2 £650 - 3
Lancaster - 2 - - 2
Software Engineering
North West

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) HTTP
1 2 (11.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) GitLab
2 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
2 2 (11.76%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 2 (11.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (17.65%) Aerospace
2 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Public Speaking
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Software Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Design Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Software Design Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Spring
2 3 (17.65%) Node.js
3 2 (11.76%) JDBC
3 2 (11.76%) JPA
3 2 (11.76%) JWT
3 2 (11.76%) PyTorch
3 2 (11.76%) RESTful
3 2 (11.76%) TensorFlow
3 2 (11.76%) WebSockets
4 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.88%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Agile
1 6 (35.29%) DevOps
1 6 (35.29%) Microservices
2 4 (23.53%) Dependency Injection
2 4 (23.53%) DevSecOps
3 3 (17.65%) SDLC
4 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
4 2 (11.76%) Design Patterns
4 2 (11.76%) Digital Engineering
4 2 (11.76%) GitOps
4 2 (11.76%) Kanban
4 2 (11.76%) Load Balancing
4 2 (11.76%) Machine Learning
4 2 (11.76%) Multithreading
4 2 (11.76%) Software Testing
4 2 (11.76%) Systems Engineering
4 2 (11.76%) Visualisation
5 1 (5.88%) Product Management
5 1 (5.88%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Terraform
2 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Oracle
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft