Software Engineering Contracts in Sheffield

Software Engineering
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 40 39
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -10
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 17 10 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 4.55% 2.27% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.93% 2.39% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 11
10th Percentile - £410 £383
25th Percentile - £426 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £531 £400
Median % change year-on-year +22.35% +32.81% -13.51%
75th Percentile - £636 £669
90th Percentile - £675 £850
South Yorkshire median daily rate £650 £531 £400
% change year-on-year +22.35% +32.81% -13.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 345 419 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 92.25% 95.23% 92.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 292 280
10th Percentile £375 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £473 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £563
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £471 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -14.36% +10.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 11
10th Percentile £10.90 £11.05 £9.49
25th Percentile £11.33 £11.13 £12.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £11.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +91.30% -28.13% +18.06%
75th Percentile £23.75 £25.88 £18.57
90th Percentile - £34.35 £24.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £17.62 £10.63 £17.06
% change year-on-year +65.71% -37.67% +41.36%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Sheffield

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Sheffield

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Sheffield

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 11 (64.71%) Chatbot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
1 2 (11.76%) JUnit
General
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 15 (88.24%) Developer
2 11 (64.71%) Software Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Lead Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Lead Java Developer
3 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (82.35%) HTML
2 3 (17.65%) AngularJS
2 3 (17.65%) CSS
2 3 (17.65%) LDAP
3 2 (11.76%) Hibernate
3 2 (11.76%) JPA
3 2 (11.76%) React
3 2 (11.76%) REST
3 2 (11.76%) Spring
3 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.88%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) CMDB
1 3 (17.65%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Artificial Intelligence
1 11 (64.71%) Code Quality
1 11 (64.71%) Conversational UI
2 5 (29.41%) Agile
2 5 (29.41%) DevOps
2 5 (29.41%) Scrum
3 3 (17.65%) Compliance Management
3 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
3 3 (17.65%) Incident Management
3 3 (17.65%) Information Security
3 3 (17.65%) ITIL
3 3 (17.65%) Kanban
3 3 (17.65%) Knowledge Management
3 3 (17.65%) Mathematics
3 3 (17.65%) Patch Management
3 3 (17.65%) Problem Management
3 3 (17.65%) Security Operations
3 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
3 3 (17.65%) User Stories
3 3 (17.65%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) JavaScript
1 14 (82.35%) Python
2 11 (64.71%) C#
2 11 (64.71%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
4 2 (11.76%) Java
4 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (82.35%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Data Quality
1 3 (17.65%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) PayPal
2 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow