Software Engineering Contracts in Oxfordshire

Software Engineering
South East > Oxfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 17 27
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 -7
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 11 17 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 4.82% 6.88% 3.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.95% 7.66% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 9
10th Percentile - £425 £335
25th Percentile £425 £494 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £537
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -2.14% +26.24%
75th Percentile £475 £556 £600
90th Percentile - £588 £720
South East median daily rate £550 £540 £525
% change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £59.00 - -
25th Percentile - £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% - -
75th Percentile - £53.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £57.50 £51.50
% change year-on-year +8.70% +11.65% +14.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 185 222 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 81.14% 89.88% 82.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 143 185
10th Percentile £150 £263 £169
25th Percentile £263 £363 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +3.45%
75th Percentile £525 £559 £575
90th Percentile £623 £666 £660
South East median daily rate £501 £506 £500
% change year-on-year -1.14% +1.25% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 13 6
10th Percentile £12.20 £22.10 £14.09
25th Percentile £13.12 £25.95 £17.42
Median hourly rate £19.50 £26.00 £18.71
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +38.96% -58.42%
75th Percentile £29.38 £32.30 £20.00
90th Percentile £58.00 £52.90 £34.38
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -12.62%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Oxfordshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Oxfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Oxfordshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Oxfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Oxfordshire

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 26 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
Oxford +11 5 - - 27
Abingdon -1 3 - - 2
Software Engineering
South East

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Git
1 5 (45.45%) JIRA
2 4 (36.36%) Subversion
3 3 (27.27%) GitLab
4 1 (9.09%) LabVIEW
General
1 6 (54.55%) Aerospace
2 4 (36.36%) Telecoms
3 2 (18.18%) Aviation
4 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
4 1 (9.09%) Marketing
4 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Embedded Engineer
1 6 (54.55%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 6 (54.55%) Software Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Administrator
2 3 (27.27%) IT Administrator
2 3 (27.27%) IT Systems Administrator
2 3 (27.27%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Software Verification Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) GWT
1 1 (9.09%) JAX-RS
1 1 (9.09%) REST
1 1 (9.09%) Restlet
1 1 (9.09%) SAML
1 1 (9.09%) Spring
1 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Algorithms
1 4 (36.36%) Device Driver
2 1 (9.09%) Educational Technology
2 1 (9.09%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Validation
2 4 (36.36%) Computer Science
2 4 (36.36%) Defect Tracking
2 4 (36.36%) Signal Processing
2 4 (36.36%) Software Optimisation
3 2 (18.18%) Verification and Validation
4 1 (9.09%) Agile
4 1 (9.09%) Code Quality
4 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (9.09%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
4 1 (9.09%) Data Science
4 1 (9.09%) ITSM
4 1 (9.09%) Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) Service Management
4 1 (9.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) C
2 4 (36.36%) Assembly Language
2 4 (36.36%) C++
2 4 (36.36%) MATLAB
2 4 (36.36%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Shell Script
3 2 (18.18%) Embedded C
4 1 (9.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Degree
1 5 (45.45%) Master's Degree
2 4 (36.36%) PhD
3 1 (9.09%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) JTAG
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (36.36%) Firmware
2 1 (9.09%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Google