Software Engineering Contracts in Surrey

Software Engineering
South East > Surrey

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 39 37
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 -17
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 21 30 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 3.62% 4.42% 5.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 5.16% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 26 36
10th Percentile £398 £451 £475
25th Percentile £419 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +10.64%
75th Percentile £650 £558 £619
90th Percentile £850 £631 £681
South East median daily rate £550 £530 £535
% change year-on-year +3.77% -0.98% +13.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £51.13 £27.05
25th Percentile - £52.81 £36.13
Median hourly rate - £56.25 £45.57
Median % change year-on-year - +23.44% +1.83%
75th Percentile - £60.31 £48.75
90th Percentile - £62.38 -
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £57.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year +8.70% +14.43% +11.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 477 581 799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 82.24% 85.69% 91.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 436 565
10th Percentile £210 £198 £208
25th Percentile £363 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% +6.38%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.89% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 33 20
10th Percentile £11.71 £32.10 £16.96
25th Percentile £13.25 £42.50 £19.50
Median hourly rate £18.35 £45.00 £22.97
Median % change year-on-year -59.22% +95.95% -46.59%
75th Percentile £46.25 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £63.51 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -15.89%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Surrey

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Surrey

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Surrey over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Surrey

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Surrey

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 28 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
Redhill - 9 £475 - 1
Guildford +1 3 £850 +63.46% 11
Leatherhead -10 3 £488 -15.95% 1
Sunbury-on-Thames +22 1 £825 +57.14%
Reigate - 1 - - 12
Software Engineering
South East

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 4 (19.05%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) Apache
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) Azure
2 2 (9.52%) AWS
3 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Functions
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.76%) Power Automate
3 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) TCP/IP
2 2 (9.52%) SAN
3 1 (4.76%) LAN
3 1 (4.76%) NFC
3 1 (4.76%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) Git
2 6 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 5 (23.81%) Bitbucket
3 5 (23.81%) JIRA
4 4 (19.05%) Artifactory
5 1 (4.76%) Eclipse
5 1 (4.76%) GoogleTest
5 1 (4.76%) NUnit
5 1 (4.76%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (4.76%) TestRail
5 1 (4.76%) Valgrind
5 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Back Office
3 1 (4.76%) Electronics
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.76%) Marketing
3 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Developer
1 8 (38.10%) Software Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Senior
3 4 (19.05%) C++ Software Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Development Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Software Development Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Test Development Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Lead
4 3 (14.29%) Lead Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Embedded Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Embedded Linux Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) IT Architect
5 2 (9.52%) IT Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Embedded Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior VMware Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Windows Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) RESTful
1 5 (23.81%) XML
2 4 (19.05%) SOAP
3 2 (9.52%) REST
4 1 (4.76%) .NET
4 1 (4.76%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (4.76%) JSON
4 1 (4.76%) Kafka
4 1 (4.76%) Spring
4 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Smartcard
3 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (47.62%) Linux
2 8 (38.10%) Windows
3 6 (28.57%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (9.52%) Unix
5 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Scrum
2 8 (38.10%) Agile
3 6 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (28.57%) Software Testing
3 6 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (23.81%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (19.05%) API Testing
5 4 (19.05%) Clean Code
5 4 (19.05%) Data Integration
5 4 (19.05%) End-to-End Testing
5 4 (19.05%) Manual Testing
5 4 (19.05%) OO
5 4 (19.05%) Open Source
5 4 (19.05%) Performance Management
5 4 (19.05%) SDET
6 3 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (14.29%) Decision-Making
6 3 (14.29%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) SQL
2 7 (33.33%) C++
2 7 (33.33%) Python
3 4 (19.05%) C#
3 4 (19.05%) Java
4 2 (9.52%) C
4 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.52%) ProC
4 2 (9.52%) VB
5 1 (4.76%) Bash
5 1 (4.76%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (47.62%) Degree
2 5 (23.81%) Master's Degree
2 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
3 4 (19.05%) DV Cleared
4 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (9.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) PCI DSS
2 2 (9.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (19.05%) VirtualBox
2 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Oracle
2 2 (9.52%) VMware
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft