Software Developer Contracts in the South East

Software Developer
England > South East

The median Software Developer daily rate in the South East is £413 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 166 206
Rank change year-on-year -4 +40 -39
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 29 58 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.52% 0.99% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 1.05% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 44 35
10th Percentile £346 £387 £343
25th Percentile £400 £406 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £531 £550 £588
90th Percentile £581 £589 £683
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +15.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 2
10th Percentile - £47.50 £44.40
25th Percentile £46.25 £55.90 £46.17
Median hourly rate £56.95 £61.80 £50.60
Median % change year-on-year -7.84% +22.12% +0.70%
75th Percentile £64.49 £73.13 £53.54
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.00 £54.42
England median hourly rate £58.91 £57.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +2.44% +21.05% +21.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,138 5,513 7,438
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 94.48% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,081 3,840 5,034
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £615 £603 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 241 339
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £15.81
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -13.40%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.59 £43.85
90th Percentile £76.87 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Software Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in the South East

Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Developer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Software Developer in the South East

Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Developer in the South East

Software Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Developer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Software Developer in the South East

Software Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Developer in the South East

Software Developer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Developer within the South East 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
Thames Valley +11 12 £510 -7.27% 12
Hampshire -24 9 £413 -5.71% 16
Buckinghamshire +32 8 £521 -5.23% 3
Berkshire -8 3 £325 -36.59% 7
Sussex - 3 - -
Kent - 2 - - 5
Oxfordshire +6 1 - - 2
East Sussex +5 1 £380 -27.62% 4
Surrey +5 1 - - 8
West Sussex - 1 £475 - 3
Software Developer
England

Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Software Developer 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 South East region featuring Software Developer in the job title.

1 17 (58.62%) C#
2 16 (55.17%) Agile
3 11 (37.93%) .NET
4 10 (34.48%) Software Engineering
5 9 (31.03%) Microsoft
6 8 (27.59%) C++
6 8 (27.59%) Windows
6 8 (27.59%) Linux
7 6 (20.69%) ASP.NET
7 6 (20.69%) C
7 6 (20.69%) SQL Server
7 6 (20.69%) JavaScript
7 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
8 5 (17.24%) QA
8 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
8 5 (17.24%) ASP.NET MVC
8 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
8 5 (17.24%) Blazor
8 5 (17.24%) Visual Studio
8 5 (17.24%) UML
8 5 (17.24%) Python
8 5 (17.24%) MVC
8 5 (17.24%) LabVIEW
8 5 (17.24%) Scrum
9 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (13.79%) LabWindows
9 4 (13.79%) Subversion
9 4 (13.79%) CCTV
9 4 (13.79%) Refactoring

Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (13.79%) LabWindows
2 1 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.90%) Azure
1 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.45%) AWS
2 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
2 1 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (3.45%) GitHub
2 1 (3.45%) Power Automate
2 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) RS-232
1 4 (13.79%) TCP/IP
2 3 (10.34%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) LabVIEW
1 5 (17.24%) Visual Studio
2 4 (13.79%) Subversion
3 1 (3.45%) Git
3 1 (3.45%) JIRA
3 1 (3.45%) NUnit
3 1 (3.45%) Rational DOORS
General
1 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
2 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.45%) Aviation
4 1 (3.45%) Marketing
4 1 (3.45%) Military
4 1 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (37.93%) .NET
2 6 (20.69%) ASP.NET
3 5 (17.24%) ASP.NET MVC
3 5 (17.24%) Blazor
4 3 (10.34%) .NET Core
4 3 (10.34%) CSS
4 3 (10.34%) HTML
4 3 (10.34%) Razor View Engine
5 2 (6.90%) .NET Framework
5 2 (6.90%) JSON
5 2 (6.90%) RESTful
5 2 (6.90%) WCF
5 2 (6.90%) XML
6 1 (3.45%) 802.1X
6 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.45%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (3.45%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) CCTV
2 1 (3.45%) IoT
2 1 (3.45%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 8 (27.59%) Linux
1 8 (27.59%) Windows
2 4 (13.79%) Windows 10
3 3 (10.34%) Debian
3 3 (10.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (55.17%) Agile
2 10 (34.48%) Software Engineering
3 5 (17.24%) MVC
3 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (17.24%) Scrum
3 5 (17.24%) UML
4 4 (13.79%) Configuration Management
4 4 (13.79%) Data Acquisition
4 4 (13.79%) OCR
4 4 (13.79%) OO
4 4 (13.79%) Refactoring
4 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (10.34%) Data Modelling
5 3 (10.34%) Integration Testing
5 3 (10.34%) ITIL
5 3 (10.34%) SDLC
5 3 (10.34%) SysML
5 3 (10.34%) Unit Testing
5 3 (10.34%) Waterfall
6 2 (6.90%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 17 (58.62%) C#
2 8 (27.59%) C++
3 6 (20.69%) C
3 6 (20.69%) JavaScript
4 5 (17.24%) Python
5 4 (13.79%) SQL
6 2 (6.90%) Java
7 1 (3.45%) Ada
7 1 (3.45%) Embedded C
7 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
3 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) QA
2 3 (10.34%) ISO 9001
2 3 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 3 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.45%) Def Stans
3 1 (3.45%) DO-178B
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Red Hat
2 3 (10.34%) VMware
3 1 (3.45%) Atmel
3 1 (3.45%) IBM
3 1 (3.45%) QinetiQ
3 1 (3.45%) Remedy