Software Engineer Contracts in the South East

Software Engineer
England > South East

The median Software Engineer daily rate in the South East is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 109 157
Rank change year-on-year +38 +48 -30
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 139 105 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.51% 1.82% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.72% 1.92% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 62 65
10th Percentile £169 £425 £401
25th Percentile £402 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.88% -5.00% +22.22%
75th Percentile £575 £568 £650
90th Percentile £650 £625 £720
England median daily rate £638 £590 £600
% change year-on-year +8.05% -1.67% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 18 21
10th Percentile £46.25 £46.25 £36.71
25th Percentile £51.06 £50.31 £43.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £58.70 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.47% +16.24% +12.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.63 £55.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +27.78%

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 5,116 5,468 7,452
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 94.67% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,095 3,815 5,051
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £491
Median % change year-on-year - +1.83% +9.11%
75th Percentile £617 £610 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £673
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 481 242 333
10th Percentile £12.78 £16.86 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.72 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £47.79 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% +138.95% -20.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.91 £43.95
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £61.20
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the South East

Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineer in the South East

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineer in the South East

Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineer in the South East

Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineer in the South East

Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 6 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
Hampshire +16 79 £540 -2.88% 47
Thames Valley +19 27 £500 - 81
Berkshire -3 17 £600 +20.00% 20
Middlesex - 11 - - 1
Surrey +3 8 £450 -12.62% 35
Oxfordshire +10 7 £450 - 45
West Sussex +10 6 £500 - 12
Sussex - 4 - - 1
Buckinghamshire +28 3 £450 -12.62% 16
Kent +1 2 £413 -17.50% 14
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Software Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 138 (99.28%) Software Engineering
2 52 (37.41%) C++
3 40 (28.78%) Agile
4 39 (28.06%) C
5 34 (24.46%) Scrum
5 34 (24.46%) Linux
6 33 (23.74%) Java
7 32 (23.02%) Git
8 31 (22.30%) Security Cleared
9 28 (20.14%) JIRA
10 25 (17.99%) SC Cleared
10 25 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (17.27%) Firmware
12 22 (15.83%) Aerospace
12 22 (15.83%) Windows
12 22 (15.83%) Software-Defined Radio
13 20 (14.39%) Jenkins
13 20 (14.39%) JavaScript
13 20 (14.39%) Social Skills
14 19 (13.67%) Degree
14 19 (13.67%) Computer Science
15 18 (12.95%) Validation
15 18 (12.95%) UML
15 18 (12.95%) Python
16 17 (12.23%) Continuous Integration
16 17 (12.23%) Kanban
16 17 (12.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 16 (11.51%) OO
17 16 (11.51%) Bitbucket
18 15 (10.79%) Confluence

Software Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (10.79%) Confluence
2 1 (0.72%) Apache
2 1 (0.72%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.72%) MTS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 13 (9.35%) Azure
2 11 (7.91%) AWS
3 4 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.16%) GCP
4 3 (2.16%) GitHub
5 2 (1.44%) Google App Engine
6 1 (0.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (0.72%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.72%) npm
6 1 (0.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (15.83%) Software-Defined Radio
2 12 (8.63%) SNMP
3 10 (7.19%) 802.11
3 10 (7.19%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (2.88%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.88%) Wireless
5 3 (2.16%) Link 16
5 3 (2.16%) Tactical Data Link
6 2 (1.44%) HTTP
6 2 (1.44%) J1939
6 2 (1.44%) RS-232
7 1 (0.72%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.72%) NFC
7 1 (0.72%) PPP
7 1 (0.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.16%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.44%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.44%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.44%) MySQL
3 2 (1.44%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.72%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.72%) Couchbase
4 1 (0.72%) CouchDB
4 1 (0.72%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.72%) Metadata
4 1 (0.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 32 (23.02%) Git
2 28 (20.14%) JIRA
3 20 (14.39%) Jenkins
4 16 (11.51%) Bitbucket
5 13 (9.35%) Eclipse
6 11 (7.91%) GoogleTest
7 10 (7.19%) Robot Framework
8 8 (5.76%) GitLab
9 7 (5.04%) Selenium
10 6 (4.32%) Cucumber
10 6 (4.32%) Subversion
11 5 (3.60%) REST Assured
11 5 (3.60%) SonarQube
12 4 (2.88%) Artifactory
13 3 (2.16%) LabVIEW
14 2 (1.44%) Rational DOORS
14 2 (1.44%) Visual Studio
15 1 (0.72%) CMake
15 1 (0.72%) SpecFlow
15 1 (0.72%) Valgrind
General
1 22 (15.83%) Aerospace
2 20 (14.39%) Social Skills
3 10 (7.19%) Electronics
4 9 (6.47%) Automotive
5 6 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.32%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.60%) Law
7 4 (2.88%) Billing
7 4 (2.88%) Police
8 3 (2.16%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.44%) Aviation
9 2 (1.44%) Finance
10 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.72%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.72%) Publishing
10 1 (0.72%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.79%) CSS
1 15 (10.79%) HTML
2 14 (10.07%) REST
3 10 (7.19%) 802.1X
4 9 (6.47%) Node.js
4 9 (6.47%) RESTful
5 8 (5.76%) .NET
6 7 (5.04%) XML
7 6 (4.32%) ARM Templates
7 6 (4.32%) Java EE
7 6 (4.32%) Kafka
8 5 (3.60%) AngularJS
8 5 (3.60%) React
9 4 (2.88%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (2.88%) React Native
9 4 (2.88%) SOAP
10 3 (2.16%) .NET Core
10 3 (2.16%) .NET Framework
11 2 (1.44%) gRPC
11 2 (1.44%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.60%) Algorithms
2 4 (2.88%) Device Driver
3 2 (1.44%) CAN bus
3 2 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.72%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (0.72%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.72%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.72%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.72%) Smartcard
4 1 (0.72%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 34 (24.46%) Linux
2 22 (15.83%) Windows
3 8 (5.76%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (1.44%) Android
5 1 (0.72%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (99.28%) Software Engineering
2 40 (28.78%) Agile
3 34 (24.46%) Scrum
4 25 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (13.67%) Computer Science
6 18 (12.95%) UML
6 18 (12.95%) Validation
7 17 (12.23%) Continuous Integration
7 17 (12.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 17 (12.23%) Kanban
8 16 (11.51%) OO
9 12 (8.63%) DevOps
9 12 (8.63%) Test Automation
9 12 (8.63%) Verification and Validation
10 11 (7.91%) SysML
11 10 (7.19%) Prototyping
12 9 (6.47%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (5.76%) CI/CD
13 8 (5.76%) Software Testing
13 8 (5.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 52 (37.41%) C++
2 39 (28.06%) C
3 33 (23.74%) Java
4 20 (14.39%) JavaScript
5 18 (12.95%) Python
6 15 (10.79%) C#
7 14 (10.07%) Perl
8 10 (7.19%) Embedded C
8 10 (7.19%) Tcl
9 6 (4.32%) Bash
9 6 (4.32%) SQL
10 5 (3.60%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.88%) Assembly Language
11 4 (2.88%) Go
11 4 (2.88%) MATLAB
12 3 (2.16%) Ada
12 3 (2.16%) Ada 95
12 3 (2.16%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.44%) PHP
13 2 (1.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (22.30%) Security Cleared
2 25 (17.99%) SC Cleared
3 19 (13.67%) Degree
4 9 (6.47%) Master's Degree
5 8 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.32%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.88%) PhD
8 1 (0.72%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.72%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.88%) JTAG
2 3 (2.16%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 24 (17.27%) Firmware
2 9 (6.47%) Docker
3 5 (3.60%) VirtualBox
4 4 (2.88%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.72%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (5.04%) Ansible
1 7 (5.04%) Kubernetes
1 7 (5.04%) Terraform
2 5 (3.60%) Docker Swarm
2 5 (3.60%) Podman
3 2 (1.44%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.72%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.72%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.72%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (10.07%) Google
2 10 (7.19%) Atlassian
3 4 (2.88%) Oracle
4 2 (1.44%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (1.44%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.72%) Compaq
5 1 (0.72%) HP
5 1 (0.72%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.72%) NVIDIA
5 1 (0.72%) QNX
5 1 (0.72%) Sparx
5 1 (0.72%) VMware