Software Engineering Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Software Engineering
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 6 27 29
Rank change year-on-year +21 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 27 25 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 12.86% 7.65% 5.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.17% 8.09% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 21 14
10th Percentile - £506 -
25th Percentile £370 £563 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £575 £438
Median % change year-on-year -32.17% +31.43% -7.89%
75th Percentile £410 £700 £606
90th Percentile - - £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £390 £575 £438
% change year-on-year -32.17% +31.43% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £47.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 178 309 332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 84.76% 94.50% 92.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 244 255
10th Percentile £333 £353 £212
25th Percentile £387 £486 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £565 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +13.00% +10.50%
75th Percentile £598 £650 £600
90th Percentile £650 £738 £697
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £500 £563 £500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 10
10th Percentile £18.25 - £10.50
25th Percentile £20.75 - £11.63
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £16.18
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.72%
75th Percentile £50.00 - £17.44
90th Percentile £68.75 - £17.63
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £17.50 - £16.50
% change year-on-year - - +6.45%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Newcastle upon Tyne

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Newcastle upon Tyne

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Newcastle upon Tyne

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineering in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in Newcastle upon Tyne

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 (51.85%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.11%) AWS
1 3 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (11.11%) Azure
1 3 (11.11%) BrowserStack
1 3 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (11.11%) GitHub
1 3 (11.11%) Serverless
2 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) J1939
2 1 (3.70%) AMQP
2 1 (3.70%) Modbus
2 1 (3.70%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 3 (11.11%) MySQL
1 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 3 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Cypress.io
General
1 6 (22.22%) Automotive
1 6 (22.22%) Electronics
2 3 (11.11%) Aerospace
2 3 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (51.85%) Developer
1 14 (51.85%) Software Developer
2 13 (48.15%) Software Engineer
3 6 (22.22%) Embedded Engineer
3 6 (22.22%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Ada Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Ada Software Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Full Stack Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Full Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) IoT Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (51.85%) HTML
2 3 (11.11%) Next.js
2 3 (11.11%) React
2 3 (11.11%) RESTful
3 1 (3.70%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) CAN bus
2 1 (3.70%) IoT
2 1 (3.70%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Artificial Intelligence
1 14 (51.85%) Code Quality
1 14 (51.85%) Conversational UI
2 3 (11.11%) Agile
2 3 (11.11%) BDD
2 3 (11.11%) CI/CD
2 3 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
2 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (11.11%) Microservices
2 3 (11.11%) Operational Stability
2 3 (11.11%) SDLC
2 3 (11.11%) TDD
3 1 (3.70%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 18 (66.67%) SQL
2 17 (62.96%) JavaScript
3 14 (51.85%) C#
3 14 (51.85%) Python
4 6 (22.22%) C
4 6 (22.22%) Embedded C
5 3 (11.11%) Ada
5 3 (11.11%) Java
5 3 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (51.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 3 (11.11%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) Grafana
2 3 (11.11%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 14 (51.85%) PayPal