Software Engineering Contracts in the Midlands

Software Engineering
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 55 62
Rank change year-on-year +8 +7 -11
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 87 131 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.19% 3.77% 3.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.89% 4.27% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 98 118
10th Percentile £358 £412 £384
25th Percentile £364 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £519
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% +3.76% +28.02%
75th Percentile £550 £544 £580
90th Percentile £610 £590 £656
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 0
10th Percentile £46.25 £46.00 -
25th Percentile £48.13 £47.50 -
Median hourly rate £56.25 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% - -
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 -
90th Percentile £67.50 £64.00 -
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
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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,238 3,065 4,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.07% 88.30% 88.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,495 2,136 3,342
10th Percentile £233 £250 £233
25th Percentile £356 £370 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 122 155
10th Percentile £11.09 £11.82 £10.20
25th Percentile £13.96 £15.02 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.37% +9.25%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.47 £22.00
90th Percentile £55.00 £54.88 £33.30
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the Midlands

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in the Midlands

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the Midlands over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in the Midlands

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in the Midlands

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineering in the Midlands over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 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
West Midlands -7 57 £450 -16.67% 123
East Midlands +29 30 £550 +29.41% 104
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 2 (2.30%) CICS
1 2 (2.30%) SAS
2 1 (1.15%) Apache
2 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.15%) Ethereum
2 1 (1.15%) MetaMask
2 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.15%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 24 (27.59%) Chatbot
2 7 (8.05%) Simulink
3 5 (5.75%) Stateflow
3 5 (5.75%) TargetLink
4 1 (1.15%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.90%) Azure
2 4 (4.60%) AWS
3 2 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.30%) Azure Functions
3 2 (2.30%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (2.30%) GCP
3 2 (2.30%) Serverless
4 1 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (1.15%) Azure App Service
4 1 (1.15%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (1.15%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.15%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.15%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.15%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.45%) SAN
1 3 (3.45%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.30%) Bluetooth
2 2 (2.30%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (2.30%) Internet
2 2 (2.30%) Junos
2 2 (2.30%) Wireless
3 1 (1.15%) FTP
3 1 (1.15%) LAN
3 1 (1.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.64%) MySQL
2 10 (11.49%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (3.45%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.30%) DB2
4 2 (2.30%) IDMS
5 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.15%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.15%) Power BI
5 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (21.84%) Git
2 5 (5.75%) Bitbucket
2 5 (5.75%) Subversion
3 4 (4.60%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (3.45%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.30%) JIRA
6 1 (1.15%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.15%) GitLab
6 1 (1.15%) PVCS
6 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 13 (14.94%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.64%) Automotive
3 9 (10.34%) Electronics
4 8 (9.20%) Finance
5 4 (4.60%) Aerospace
5 4 (4.60%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.30%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.15%) Aeronautics
7 1 (1.15%) Banking
7 1 (1.15%) Law
7 1 (1.15%) Marketing
7 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (47.13%) Developer
2 24 (27.59%) Software Developer
3 9 (10.34%) Senior
3 9 (10.34%) Software Engineer
4 6 (6.90%) Systems Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) Control Systems Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) Java Developer
5 5 (5.75%) Principal Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) Senior Developer
6 4 (4.60%) Author
6 4 (4.60%) Embedded Engineer
6 4 (4.60%) Technical Author
6 4 (4.60%) Validation Engineer
6 4 (4.60%) Verification Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) .NET Developer
7 3 (3.45%) Lead
7 3 (3.45%) Python Developer
7 3 (3.45%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (29.89%) HTML
2 5 (5.75%) .NET
3 4 (4.60%) AngularJS
3 4 (4.60%) Spring
4 3 (3.45%) React
5 2 (2.30%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.30%) CSS
5 2 (2.30%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.30%) Web Services
5 2 (2.30%) Yocto
6 1 (1.15%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.15%) gRPC
6 1 (1.15%) JMS
6 1 (1.15%) JSON
6 1 (1.15%) PySpark
6 1 (1.15%) RAML
6 1 (1.15%) Smart Contracts
6 1 (1.15%) SOAP
6 1 (1.15%) Truffle
6 1 (1.15%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.05%) Algorithms
1 7 (8.05%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.60%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.30%) Device Driver
3 2 (2.30%) IBM Mainframe
3 2 (2.30%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (2.30%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.15%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.15%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.34%) Linux
2 3 (3.45%) Debian
2 3 (3.45%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.30%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (2.30%) zOS
4 1 (1.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (40.23%) Agile
2 26 (29.89%) Artificial Intelligence
3 24 (27.59%) Code Quality
3 24 (27.59%) Conversational UI
4 17 (19.54%) Computer Science
5 15 (17.24%) Configuration Management
6 13 (14.94%) Continuous Integration
6 13 (14.94%) DevOps
6 13 (14.94%) Scrum
6 13 (14.94%) Validation
7 12 (13.79%) Analytics
7 12 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (13.79%) Requirements Gathering
8 11 (12.64%) Data Analytics
8 11 (12.64%) Data Extraction
8 11 (12.64%) ETL
9 10 (11.49%) Dashboard Development
9 10 (11.49%) Software Testing
9 10 (11.49%) Verification and Validation
10 9 (10.34%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 34 (39.08%) Python
2 28 (32.18%) C#
3 27 (31.03%) JavaScript
4 25 (28.74%) SQL
5 9 (10.34%) C
6 7 (8.05%) MATLAB
7 6 (6.90%) C++
7 6 (6.90%) Java
8 2 (2.30%) Bash
8 2 (2.30%) CLIST
8 2 (2.30%) COBOL
8 2 (2.30%) Embedded C
8 2 (2.30%) Embedded C++
8 2 (2.30%) REXX
8 2 (2.30%) SELCOPY
9 1 (1.15%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.15%) Rust
9 1 (1.15%) Solidity
9 1 (1.15%) XAML
Qualifications
1 46 (52.87%) Degree
2 26 (29.89%) Security Cleared
3 16 (18.39%) SC Cleared
4 13 (14.94%) DV Cleared
5 10 (11.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (10.34%) Master's Degree
7 4 (4.60%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.05%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (5.75%) ISO 26262
2 5 (5.75%) MISRA
2 5 (5.75%) MISRA C
3 4 (4.60%) QA
4 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 2 (2.30%) Docker
1 2 (2.30%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (2.30%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (11.49%) Grafana
2 4 (4.60%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.30%) Terraform
4 1 (1.15%) Ansible
Vendors
1 24 (27.59%) PayPal
2 10 (11.49%) Denodo
2 10 (11.49%) Talend
3 9 (10.34%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.60%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.45%) IBM
5 3 (3.45%) VMware
6 2 (2.30%) Cisco
6 2 (2.30%) Juniper
6 2 (2.30%) NVIDIA
6 2 (2.30%) Oracle
6 2 (2.30%) SAP
6 2 (2.30%) Syncsort
7 1 (1.15%) Google
7 1 (1.15%) Xamarin