Software Developer Contracts in the North of England

Software Developer
England > North of England

The median Software Developer daily rate in the North of England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 173 171
Rank change year-on-year +111 -2 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 140 40 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.98% 0.70% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.20% 0.74% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 31 43
10th Percentile - £288 £315
25th Percentile £297 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £445 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -1.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £500 £581 £538
90th Percentile £530 £675 £550
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.70 £57.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +5.57% +21.05% +23.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 4,373 5,442 6,917
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.34% 96.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,731 3,843 5,087
10th Percentile £263 £285 £200
25th Percentile £382 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £554
90th Percentile £672 £687 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 155 280
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.54 £14.19
Median hourly rate £20.60 £30.76 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -33.02% +65.42% +3.87%
75th Percentile £46.18 £51.19 £28.94
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.41 £51.48
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in the North of England

Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Developer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Software Developer in the North of England

Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Developer in the North of England

Software Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Developer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Software Developer in the North of England

Software Developer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Developer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
North West +60 62 £420 -5.62% 43
Yorkshire +69 52 £450 +1.12% 16
North East +33 26 - - 11
Software Developer
England

Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Software Developer 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 of England region featuring Software Developer in the job title.

1 121 (86.43%) Artificial Intelligence
1 121 (86.43%) Degree
1 121 (86.43%) PayPal
1 121 (86.43%) Chatbot
1 121 (86.43%) Conversational UI
1 121 (86.43%) Code Quality
2 70 (50.00%) C#
3 67 (47.86%) JavaScript
4 65 (46.43%) SQL
5 64 (45.71%) HTML
6 62 (44.29%) Python
6 62 (44.29%) Software Engineering
7 8 (5.71%) Agile
8 5 (3.57%) .NET
8 5 (3.57%) Security Cleared
9 4 (2.86%) Test Automation
9 4 (2.86%) Azure
9 4 (2.86%) HL7
9 4 (2.86%) CSS
9 4 (2.86%) NHS
10 3 (2.14%) TDD
10 3 (2.14%) Java
10 3 (2.14%) Software Testing
10 3 (2.14%) SDET
10 3 (2.14%) Fintech
10 3 (2.14%) Kafka
11 2 (1.43%) React
11 2 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (1.43%) DevOps
11 2 (1.43%) Microservices

Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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
1 121 (86.43%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (2.86%) Azure
2 2 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (0.71%) AWS
3 1 (0.71%) npm
3 1 (0.71%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (1.43%) MongoDB
1 2 (1.43%) Neo4j
1 2 (1.43%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.71%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (1.43%) Mockito
1 2 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
1 2 (1.43%) TeamCity
2 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.71%) Git
2 1 (0.71%) Jasmine
2 1 (0.71%) JMeter
2 1 (0.71%) Karma Test Runner
2 1 (0.71%) Mocha
2 1 (0.71%) Selenium
2 1 (0.71%) webpack
General
1 1 (0.71%) Finance
1 1 (0.71%) Public Sector
1 1 (0.71%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (45.71%) HTML
2 5 (3.57%) .NET
3 4 (2.86%) CSS
4 3 (2.14%) Kafka
5 2 (1.43%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (1.43%) JAX-RS
5 2 (1.43%) NancyFx
5 2 (1.43%) React
6 1 (0.71%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.71%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.71%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.71%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (0.71%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (0.71%) CSS3
6 1 (0.71%) HTML5
6 1 (0.71%) OpenCV
6 1 (0.71%) REST
6 1 (0.71%) RESTful
6 1 (0.71%) SOAP
6 1 (0.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.86%) NHS
2 2 (1.43%) Product Ownership
3 1 (0.71%) Algorithms
3 1 (0.71%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.43%) Linux
1 2 (1.43%) Mac OS X
1 2 (1.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (86.43%) Artificial Intelligence
1 121 (86.43%) Code Quality
1 121 (86.43%) Conversational UI
2 62 (44.29%) Software Engineering
3 8 (5.71%) Agile
4 4 (2.86%) Test Automation
5 3 (2.14%) Fintech
5 3 (2.14%) SDET
5 3 (2.14%) Software Testing
5 3 (2.14%) TDD
6 2 (1.43%) BDD
6 2 (1.43%) CI/CD
6 2 (1.43%) Continuous Deployment
6 2 (1.43%) DevOps
6 2 (1.43%) Microservices
6 2 (1.43%) Responsive Web Design
6 2 (1.43%) Web Design
6 2 (1.43%) Web Development
7 1 (0.71%) Acceptance Criteria
7 1 (0.71%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 70 (50.00%) C#
2 67 (47.86%) JavaScript
3 65 (46.43%) SQL
4 62 (44.29%) Python
5 3 (2.14%) Java
6 2 (1.43%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.71%) C
7 1 (0.71%) C++
7 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.71%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 121 (86.43%) Degree
2 5 (3.57%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.43%) DV Cleared
3 2 (1.43%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.71%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.86%) HL7
2 2 (1.43%) QA
3 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.71%) WCAG
Vendors
1 121 (86.43%) PayPal
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft