Software Engineering Contracts in the North West

Software Engineering
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 98 29
Rank change year-on-year +69 -69 +22
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 152 63 261
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 5.53% 1.95% 6.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.39% 2.15% 7.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 41 179
10th Percentile £456 £431 -
25th Percentile £487 £476 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% +20.00% +23.46%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
England median daily rate £600 £600 £596
% change year-on-year - +0.76% +13.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 8 14
10th Percentile £38.39 £28.87 £41.25
25th Percentile £45.22 £37.00 £42.11
Median hourly rate £48.00 £40.59 £50.13
Median % change year-on-year +18.26% -19.02% +15.23%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.81 £60.00
90th Percentile £71.87 £50.13 £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 West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,379 2,929 3,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.54% 90.85% 88.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,538 2,093 2,614
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £406 £407 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £569
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 147 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.64
25th Percentile £13.11 £20.74 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +19.02%
75th Percentile £45.00 £49.46 £43.96
90th Percentile £52.78 £65.30 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the North West

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in the North West

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the North West over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in the North West

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in the North West

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineering in the North West over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in the North West

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 19 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
Manchester +50 82 £549 +5.83% 137
Cheshire +16 20 £530 -22.06% 20
Lancashire +20 18 £583 - 19
Cumbria - 18 - - 5
Merseyside +16 14 - - 9
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (3.95%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.29%) Apache
2 5 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.66%) Confluence
Applications
1 25 (16.45%) Chatbot
2 4 (2.63%) Simulink
2 4 (2.63%) Stateflow
3 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.66%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 42 (27.63%) AWS
2 13 (8.55%) Azure
3 11 (7.24%) Serverless
4 8 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (3.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (3.29%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (3.29%) Amazon S3
6 5 (3.29%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (3.29%) SaaS
6 5 (3.29%) Snowflake
7 4 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.63%) IaaS
7 4 (2.63%) npm
8 3 (1.97%) PaaS
8 3 (1.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.32%) GCP
10 1 (0.66%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.66%) BrowserStack
10 1 (0.66%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.95%) HTTP
2 5 (3.29%) FTP
3 2 (1.32%) SSL
4 1 (0.66%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.21%) MongoDB
2 6 (3.95%) Big Data
3 4 (2.63%) MySQL
4 3 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.32%) SQLite
6 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.66%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.66%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.66%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (9.87%) JIRA
2 12 (7.89%) GitLab
3 11 (7.24%) Git
4 6 (3.95%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.63%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.97%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.97%) JUnit
7 2 (1.32%) GoCD
7 2 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.66%) Maven
8 1 (0.66%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (12.50%) Finance
2 17 (11.18%) Social Skills
3 12 (7.89%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.58%) Aerospace
4 10 (6.58%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.29%) Legal
5 5 (3.29%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (2.63%) Automotive
7 3 (1.97%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.97%) Electronics
7 3 (1.97%) Marketing
7 3 (1.97%) Military
7 3 (1.97%) Retail
7 3 (1.97%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.66%) Avionics
8 1 (0.66%) Games
8 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.66%) Public Speaking
8 1 (0.66%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 78 (51.32%) Software Engineer
2 38 (25.00%) Developer
3 25 (16.45%) Software Developer
4 20 (13.16%) Senior
5 16 (10.53%) Senior Software Engineer
6 10 (6.58%) PLC Software Engineer
7 7 (4.61%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (4.61%) Java Engineer
7 7 (4.61%) Lead
7 7 (4.61%) Project Manager
8 5 (3.29%) Data Engineer
8 5 (3.29%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (3.29%) Python Developer
8 5 (3.29%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 4 (2.63%) Architect
9 4 (2.63%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (2.63%) Python Engineer
9 4 (2.63%) Python Software Engineer
10 3 (1.97%) AWS Architect
10 3 (1.97%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (17.76%) HTML
2 20 (13.16%) Node.js
3 19 (12.50%) RESTful
4 16 (10.53%) React
5 9 (5.92%) AngularJS
5 9 (5.92%) Spring
6 7 (4.61%) XML
7 6 (3.95%) JSON
8 5 (3.29%) FastAPI
8 5 (3.29%) Flask
8 5 (3.29%) Jest
9 4 (2.63%) Django
10 3 (1.97%) JPA
10 3 (1.97%) Kafka
10 3 (1.97%) Spring Boot
11 2 (1.32%) CSS
11 2 (1.32%) JDBC
11 2 (1.32%) RxJava
11 2 (1.32%) TensorFlow
11 2 (1.32%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.29%) Algorithms
2 2 (1.32%) Blockchain
2 2 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (1.32%) Product Ownership
3 1 (0.66%) Data Centre
3 1 (0.66%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.66%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (0.66%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (0.66%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.66%) Online Gambling
3 1 (0.66%) Online Games
3 1 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.66%) Virtual Team
3 1 (0.66%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.61%) Unix
2 6 (3.95%) Linux
3 5 (3.29%) Windows
4 2 (1.32%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (25.00%) Agile
2 28 (18.42%) Artificial Intelligence
2 28 (18.42%) Code Quality
3 25 (16.45%) Conversational UI
3 25 (16.45%) Design Patterns
4 23 (15.13%) CI/CD
5 20 (13.16%) Microservices
6 18 (11.84%) SDLC
7 17 (11.18%) Systems Engineering
8 16 (10.53%) Test Automation
9 13 (8.55%) DevOps
10 10 (6.58%) Front End Development
10 10 (6.58%) Infrastructure Automation
11 9 (5.92%) Containerisation
11 9 (5.92%) Thought Leadership
12 8 (5.26%) CRM
13 7 (4.61%) Data Security
13 7 (4.61%) OO
13 7 (4.61%) OOP
13 7 (4.61%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (30.92%) Python
2 40 (26.32%) SQL
3 34 (22.37%) JavaScript
4 33 (21.71%) C#
5 29 (19.08%) Java
6 13 (8.55%) TypeScript
7 7 (4.61%) PHP
7 7 (4.61%) PL/SQL
8 5 (3.29%) C++
9 4 (2.63%) C
9 4 (2.63%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.97%) Go
11 2 (1.32%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.32%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.32%) Rust
12 1 (0.66%) Bash
12 1 (0.66%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.66%) Fortran
12 1 (0.66%) Perl
12 1 (0.66%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (17.76%) Degree
2 15 (9.87%) Security Cleared
3 11 (7.24%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.63%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.97%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.32%) QA
2 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (0.66%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (15.13%) Terraform
2 10 (6.58%) Ansible
3 4 (2.63%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.63%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.66%) Grafana
Vendors
1 25 (16.45%) PayPal
2 7 (4.61%) Avaloq
3 5 (3.29%) Informatica
3 5 (3.29%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.29%) Talend
4 4 (2.63%) Oracle
4 4 (2.63%) SAP
5 1 (0.66%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.66%) Google