Software Engineering Contracts in the North of England

Software Engineering
England > North of England

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 72 39
Rank change year-on-year +40 -33 +19
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 250 171 384
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.29% 2.95% 5.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.17% 3.25% 6.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 110 256
10th Percentile £300 £412 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +22.32%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £602
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 12 15
10th Percentile £43.85 £31.89 £41.25
25th Percentile £46.18 £37.67 £42.97
Median hourly rate £48.43 £42.80 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +13.17% -13.98% +14.37%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.08 £60.00
90th Percentile £69.37 £51.86 £65.00
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
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,053 5,255 6,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.80% 90.70% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,479 3,654 4,660
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 203 262
10th Percentile £11.05 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.22 £12.77
Median hourly rate £17.72 £28.70 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -38.26% +54.36% +0.50%
75th Percentile £44.74 £46.03 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £50.70
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the North of England region over the 6 months to 2 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 +59 148 £548 -8.67% 180
Yorkshire +7 69 £400 -21.95% 89
North East +23 35 £390 -32.17% 28
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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 6 (2.40%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.00%) Apache
2 5 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.80%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.80%) Drupal
4 1 (0.40%) Confluence
Applications
1 61 (24.40%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.60%) Simulink
2 4 (1.60%) Stateflow
3 3 (1.20%) Adobe After Effects
3 3 (1.20%) Blender
3 3 (1.20%) Maya
3 3 (1.20%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.40%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 57 (22.80%) AWS
2 23 (9.20%) Azure
3 14 (5.60%) Serverless
4 9 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (3.20%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (3.20%) GitHub
6 6 (2.40%) Snowflake
7 5 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (2.00%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (2.00%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.00%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.00%) GCP
7 5 (2.00%) SaaS
8 4 (1.60%) BrowserStack
8 4 (1.60%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.60%) IaaS
8 4 (1.60%) npm
8 4 (1.60%) PaaS
9 3 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.80%) HTTP
2 5 (2.00%) FTP
3 3 (1.20%) J1939
4 2 (0.80%) SSL
5 1 (0.40%) AMQP
5 1 (0.40%) Modbus
5 1 (0.40%) MQTT
5 1 (0.40%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.80%) MongoDB
2 10 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (3.60%) MySQL
4 6 (2.40%) Big Data
5 5 (2.00%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.00%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.80%) GIS
7 2 (0.80%) Spatial Data
7 2 (0.80%) SQLite
8 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.40%) DB2
8 1 (0.40%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (8.00%) Git
2 15 (6.00%) JIRA
3 13 (5.20%) GitLab
4 7 (2.80%) Cypress.io
5 6 (2.40%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.40%) JUnit
6 3 (1.20%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.80%) GoCD
7 2 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.40%) Maven
8 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
General
1 36 (14.40%) Social Skills
2 25 (10.00%) Finance
3 19 (7.60%) Public Sector
4 13 (5.20%) Aerospace
5 12 (4.80%) Manufacturing
6 10 (4.00%) Automotive
7 9 (3.60%) Electronics
8 7 (2.80%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.40%) Legal
10 5 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.60%) Games
11 4 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.60%) Retail
12 3 (1.20%) Marketing
12 3 (1.20%) Military
13 2 (0.80%) Back Office
14 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.40%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 105 (42.00%) Software Engineer
2 96 (38.40%) Developer
3 62 (24.80%) Software Developer
4 29 (11.60%) Senior
5 20 (8.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 14 (5.60%) Lead
6 14 (5.60%) PLC Software Engineer
7 9 (3.60%) Full Stack Engineer
7 9 (3.60%) Java Developer
7 9 (3.60%) Project Manager
8 7 (2.80%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (2.80%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 7 (2.80%) Java Engineer
9 6 (2.40%) Embedded Engineer
9 6 (2.40%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 6 (2.40%) iOS Developer
10 5 (2.00%) Data Engineer
10 5 (2.00%) Java Software Engineer
10 5 (2.00%) Lead Developer
10 5 (2.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (27.20%) HTML
2 28 (11.20%) React
3 26 (10.40%) RESTful
4 23 (9.20%) Node.js
5 14 (5.60%) AngularJS
6 12 (4.80%) Spring
7 9 (3.60%) CSS
8 7 (2.80%) PyTorch
8 7 (2.80%) TensorFlow
8 7 (2.80%) XML
9 6 (2.40%) JPA
9 6 (2.40%) JSON
9 6 (2.40%) Spring Boot
10 5 (2.00%) Django
10 5 (2.00%) Jest
11 4 (1.60%) FastAPI
11 4 (1.60%) Flask
11 4 (1.60%) Kafka
11 4 (1.60%) Next.js
11 4 (1.60%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (2.40%) Algorithms
2 4 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (1.60%) Management Information System
3 3 (1.20%) Augmented Reality
3 3 (1.20%) CAN bus
3 3 (1.20%) CMDB
3 3 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (1.20%) Virtual Reality
4 2 (0.80%) Blockchain
4 2 (0.80%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.40%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.40%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.40%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.40%) IoT
5 1 (0.40%) Online Gambling
5 1 (0.40%) Online Games
5 1 (0.40%) PKI
5 1 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.40%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.40%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.40%) Apple iOS
1 6 (2.40%) Linux
2 4 (1.60%) Android
2 4 (1.60%) Unix
2 4 (1.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (27.60%) Artificial Intelligence
2 64 (25.60%) Code Quality
3 61 (24.40%) Conversational UI
4 59 (23.60%) Agile
5 31 (12.40%) CI/CD
6 30 (12.00%) Microservices
7 28 (11.20%) DevOps
8 27 (10.80%) Design Patterns
9 24 (9.60%) Test Automation
10 22 (8.80%) SDLC
10 22 (8.80%) Systems Engineering
11 20 (8.00%) Mentoring
12 16 (6.40%) Full Stack Development
13 14 (5.60%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (5.20%) Front End Development
14 13 (5.20%) Scrum
15 11 (4.40%) TDD
16 10 (4.00%) Computer Science
16 10 (4.00%) Stakeholder Management
17 9 (3.60%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 93 (37.20%) Python
2 90 (36.00%) JavaScript
3 84 (33.60%) SQL
4 69 (27.60%) C#
5 41 (16.40%) Java
6 23 (9.20%) TypeScript
7 13 (5.20%) C
8 10 (4.00%) PHP
9 7 (2.80%) Embedded C
9 7 (2.80%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.40%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.40%) Swift
11 5 (2.00%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.60%) C++
12 4 (1.60%) MATLAB
12 4 (1.60%) Scala
13 3 (1.20%) Ada
13 3 (1.20%) Bash
14 2 (0.80%) Rust
15 1 (0.40%) Go
Qualifications
1 71 (28.40%) Degree
2 22 (8.80%) Security Cleared
3 18 (7.20%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.80%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.20%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.80%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.80%) Accessibility
1 7 (2.80%) QA
2 5 (2.00%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.20%) AUTOSAR
4 1 (0.40%) GRC
4 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (9.20%) Terraform
2 17 (6.80%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.80%) Ansible
4 6 (2.40%) Grafana
5 4 (1.60%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.20%) Functional Safety
6 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 61 (24.40%) PayPal
2 10 (4.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.80%) Avaloq
3 7 (2.80%) SAP
4 5 (2.00%) Informatica
4 5 (2.00%) Talend
5 4 (1.60%) Oracle
6 3 (1.20%) Adobe
6 3 (1.20%) Google
6 3 (1.20%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.80%) ESRI
8 1 (0.40%) Ariba
8 1 (0.40%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.40%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.40%) Zend