Software Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Software Engineer
England > North of England

The median Software Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 147 113
Rank change year-on-year +71 -34 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 115 65 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.46% 1.14% 2.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.64% 1.20% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 43 110
10th Percentile £376 £450 -
25th Percentile £456 £476 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £445
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +29.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £530
90th Percentile £625 £700 £628
England median daily rate £638 £590 £600
% change year-on-year +8.05% -1.67% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 10 12
10th Percentile £38.39 £29.58 £41.25
25th Percentile £46.22 £37.70 £43.82
Median hourly rate £48.43 £43.21 £48.56
Median % change year-on-year +12.09% -11.03% +11.64%
75th Percentile £60.63 £49.30 £54.81
90th Percentile £71.87 £50.44 £60.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +27.78%

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 4,358 5,423 6,862
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 95.37% 96.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,821 5,048
10th Percentile £263 £281 £200
25th Percentile £387 £411 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £556
90th Percentile £672 £684 £640
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 399 154 276
10th Percentile £11.06 £14.08 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.52 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.74 £30.65 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -32.33% +63.96% +4.43%
75th Percentile £46.18 £51.66 £29.88
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.48 £51.60
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
% change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the North of England

Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineer in the North of England

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineer in the North of England

Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineer in the North of England

Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineer in the North of England

Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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 +67 84 £550 - 90
Yorkshire +17 18 £400 -23.81% 47
North East +11 13 £390 -38.82% 13
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 of England region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 115 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 35 (30.43%) AWS
3 22 (19.13%) Agile
4 21 (18.26%) Java
4 21 (18.26%) RESTful
4 21 (18.26%) SDLC
4 21 (18.26%) CI/CD
5 20 (17.39%) Microservices
5 20 (17.39%) Node.js
6 18 (15.65%) React
7 17 (14.78%) Social Skills
8 16 (13.91%) Aerospace
9 15 (13.04%) TypeScript
9 15 (13.04%) MongoDB
9 15 (13.04%) Design Patterns
10 13 (11.30%) JavaScript
11 11 (9.57%) C
11 11 (9.57%) Test Automation
11 11 (9.57%) Terraform
12 10 (8.70%) AngularJS
12 10 (8.70%) Python
12 10 (8.70%) Automotive
13 9 (7.83%) PHP
13 9 (7.83%) Azure
13 9 (7.83%) GitLab
13 9 (7.83%) Full Stack Development
14 8 (6.96%) Serverless
14 8 (6.96%) Systems Engineering
14 8 (6.96%) Spring
14 8 (6.96%) Computer Science

Software Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.74%) Drupal
Applications
1 4 (3.48%) Simulink
1 4 (3.48%) Stateflow
2 3 (2.61%) Adobe After Effects
2 3 (2.61%) Blender
2 3 (2.61%) Maya
2 3 (2.61%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.87%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 35 (30.43%) AWS
2 9 (7.83%) Azure
3 8 (6.96%) Serverless
4 5 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (3.48%) BrowserStack
5 4 (3.48%) GitHub
5 4 (3.48%) npm
6 3 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.74%) GCP
8 1 (0.87%) Azure Batch
8 1 (0.87%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.35%) HTTP
2 3 (2.61%) J1939
3 1 (0.87%) AMQP
3 1 (0.87%) Modbus
3 1 (0.87%) MQTT
3 1 (0.87%) RS-422
3 1 (0.87%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.04%) MongoDB
2 7 (6.09%) MySQL
3 4 (3.48%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.87%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.87%) SQLite
4 1 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (7.83%) GitLab
2 7 (6.09%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.74%) Git
3 2 (1.74%) GoCD
3 2 (1.74%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.74%) JIRA
4 1 (0.87%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.87%) JUnit
4 1 (0.87%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (14.78%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.91%) Aerospace
3 10 (8.70%) Automotive
4 7 (6.09%) Finance
5 6 (5.22%) Electronics
6 5 (4.35%) Legal
7 4 (3.48%) Games
7 4 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.48%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.48%) Military
8 3 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.61%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.74%) Retail
9 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (18.26%) RESTful
2 20 (17.39%) Node.js
3 18 (15.65%) React
4 10 (8.70%) AngularJS
5 8 (6.96%) Spring
6 4 (3.48%) AWS CDK
6 4 (3.48%) Jest
6 4 (3.48%) Next.js
6 4 (3.48%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.61%) CSS
7 3 (2.61%) HTML
7 3 (2.61%) jQuery
7 3 (2.61%) Unreal Engine
8 2 (1.74%) Kafka
8 2 (1.74%) React Native
8 2 (1.74%) SOAP
9 1 (0.87%) Apache NiFi
9 1 (0.87%) RxJava
9 1 (0.87%) SailPoint
9 1 (0.87%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.48%) Algorithms
2 3 (2.61%) Augmented Reality
2 3 (2.61%) CAN bus
2 3 (2.61%) Virtual Reality
3 2 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.87%) Blockchain
4 1 (0.87%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (0.87%) IoT
4 1 (0.87%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.87%) Online Gambling
4 1 (0.87%) Online Games
4 1 (0.87%) PKI
4 1 (0.87%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.35%) Linux
2 2 (1.74%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 22 (19.13%) Agile
3 21 (18.26%) CI/CD
3 21 (18.26%) SDLC
4 20 (17.39%) Microservices
5 15 (13.04%) Design Patterns
6 11 (9.57%) Test Automation
7 9 (7.83%) Full Stack Development
8 8 (6.96%) Computer Science
8 8 (6.96%) Systems Engineering
9 7 (6.09%) Front End Development
9 7 (6.09%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (5.22%) Decision-Making
10 6 (5.22%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (5.22%) TDD
11 5 (4.35%) BDD
11 5 (4.35%) Data Security
11 5 (4.35%) DevOps
11 5 (4.35%) Kanban
11 5 (4.35%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 21 (18.26%) Java
2 15 (13.04%) TypeScript
3 13 (11.30%) JavaScript
4 11 (9.57%) C
5 10 (8.70%) Python
6 9 (7.83%) PHP
7 7 (6.09%) Embedded C
8 6 (5.22%) SQL
9 5 (4.35%) C++
10 4 (3.48%) MATLAB
11 3 (2.61%) Ada
11 3 (2.61%) C#
11 3 (2.61%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.61%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.87%) Bash
12 1 (0.87%) Fortran
12 1 (0.87%) Perl
12 1 (0.87%) Rust
12 1 (0.87%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (6.09%) Degree
1 7 (6.09%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.35%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.74%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.74%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.48%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.61%) AUTOSAR
3 2 (1.74%) QA
4 1 (0.87%) HL7
4 1 (0.87%) MISRA
4 1 (0.87%) MISRA C
4 1 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.87%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (9.57%) Terraform
2 6 (5.22%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.35%) Grafana
4 3 (2.61%) Functional Safety
5 2 (1.74%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (2.61%) Adobe
1 3 (2.61%) Oracle
2 2 (1.74%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.87%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.87%) SAP