Software Engineer Contracts in the North East

Software Engineer
England > North East

The median Software Engineer daily rate in the North East is £390 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 38 39
Rank change year-on-year +13 +1 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 13 21 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 3.85% 4.95% 2.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.26% 5.06% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 17 12
10th Percentile - £525 -
25th Percentile £370 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £575 £400
Median % change year-on-year -32.17% +43.75% +10.50%
75th Percentile £410 £700 £550
90th Percentile - - £640
England median daily rate £630 £590 £600
% change year-on-year +6.78% -1.67% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 £31.25 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £32.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% - -
75th Percentile £68.75 £33.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £63.75 £57.00
% change year-on-year -1.96% +11.84% +26.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North East with a recognized job title 305 415 497
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.24% 97.88% 97.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 320 393
10th Percentile £190 £231 £146
25th Percentile £363 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £539 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% +13.42% +5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £575
90th Percentile £650 £720 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 2 17
10th Percentile £10.42 £32.98 £12.16
25th Percentile £11.50 £35.56 £14.00
Median hourly rate £13.99 £40.75 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.67% +139.71% +19.03%
75th Percentile £34.50 £45.56 £19.91
90th Percentile £50.00 £47.93 £46.15
England median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the North East

Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineer in the North East

Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineer in the North East

Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineer in the North East over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineer in the North East

Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the North East 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
Tyne and Wear +16 13 £390 -32.17% 15
Software Engineer
England

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Software Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North East region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (46.15%) C
2 6 (46.15%) Embedded C
2 6 (46.15%) Electronics
2 6 (46.15%) Automotive
3 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 4 (30.77%) Grafana
4 3 (23.08%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (23.08%) Microservices
4 3 (23.08%) React
4 3 (23.08%) SDLC
4 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (23.08%) Azure
4 3 (23.08%) AWS
4 3 (23.08%) BDD
4 3 (23.08%) MongoDB
4 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
4 3 (23.08%) CAN bus
4 3 (23.08%) GitHub
4 3 (23.08%) TypeScript
4 3 (23.08%) MySQL
4 3 (23.08%) Ada
4 3 (23.08%) Java
4 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 3 (23.08%) Aerospace
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) TDD
4 3 (23.08%) RESTful
4 3 (23.08%) Cypress.io
4 3 (23.08%) BrowserStack

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
1 3 (23.08%) BrowserStack
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (23.08%) GitHub
1 3 (23.08%) Serverless
2 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) J1939
2 1 (7.69%) AMQP
2 1 (7.69%) Modbus
2 1 (7.69%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) MongoDB
1 3 (23.08%) MySQL
1 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
1 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Cypress.io
General
1 6 (46.15%) Automotive
1 6 (46.15%) Electronics
2 3 (23.08%) Aerospace
2 3 (23.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Next.js
1 3 (23.08%) React
1 3 (23.08%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) CAN bus
2 1 (7.69%) IoT
2 1 (7.69%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (23.08%) Agile
2 3 (23.08%) BDD
2 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
2 3 (23.08%) Full Stack Development
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (23.08%) Microservices
2 3 (23.08%) Operational Stability
2 3 (23.08%) SDLC
2 3 (23.08%) TDD
3 1 (7.69%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) C
1 6 (46.15%) Embedded C
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) Ada
3 3 (23.08%) Java
3 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 3 (23.08%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Accessibility
1 3 (23.08%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Grafana
2 3 (23.08%) Functional Safety