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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 35 40
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 -22
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 23 31 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 3.90% 4.68% 5.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.75% 5.50% 5.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 27 36
10th Percentile £399 £466 £475
25th Percentile £422 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £650 £555 £612
90th Percentile £850 £630 £652
South East median daily rate £550 £540 £525
% change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £51.13 £31.09
25th Percentile - £52.81 £42.44
Median hourly rate - £56.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +18.42% +3.26%
75th Percentile - £60.31 £54.94
90th Percentile - £62.38 £57.00
South East median hourly rate £62.25 £54.98 £49.29
% change year-on-year +13.23% +11.53% +9.53%

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 484 564 825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 82.03% 85.20% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 427 584
10th Percentile £213 £193 £211
25th Percentile £366 £344 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £619 £607 £594
90th Percentile £698 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £495
% change year-on-year -0.99% +2.02% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 33 21
10th Percentile £11.71 £32.10 £17.54
25th Percentile £13.25 £42.50 £19.50
Median hourly rate £18.35 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.22% +87.50% -44.83%
75th Percentile £46.25 £58.77 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £62.55 £57.00
South East median hourly rate £45.00 £48.08 £22.50
% change year-on-year -6.41% +113.69% -13.46%

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 19 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 19 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 0 3 £850 +63.46% 11
Leatherhead -7 3 £488 -15.95%
Sunbury-on-Thames +19 2 £825 +57.14%
Reigate - 1 - - 9
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 (17.39%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) Apache
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) Azure
2 2 (8.70%) AWS
3 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
3 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) TCP/IP
2 2 (8.70%) SAN
3 1 (4.35%) LAN
3 1 (4.35%) NFC
3 1 (4.35%) PPP
3 1 (4.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Git
2 6 (26.09%) Jenkins
3 5 (21.74%) Bitbucket
3 5 (21.74%) JIRA
4 4 (17.39%) Artifactory
5 2 (8.70%) Visual Studio
6 1 (4.35%) Eclipse
6 1 (4.35%) GoogleTest
6 1 (4.35%) NUnit
6 1 (4.35%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (4.35%) Subversion
6 1 (4.35%) TestRail
6 1 (4.35%) Valgrind
General
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Back Office
3 1 (4.35%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Electronics
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.35%) Marketing
3 1 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Software Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) Developer
3 6 (26.09%) Senior
4 5 (21.74%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) C++ Software Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) Development Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) Software Development Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) Test Development Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) Lead
6 3 (13.04%) Lead Developer
7 2 (8.70%) Architect
7 2 (8.70%) Embedded Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Embedded Linux Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) IT Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (8.70%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Senior VMware Architect
7 2 (8.70%) Windows Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) RESTful
1 5 (21.74%) XML
2 4 (17.39%) SOAP
3 2 (8.70%) REST
4 1 (4.35%) .NET
4 1 (4.35%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (4.35%) JSON
4 1 (4.35%) Kafka
4 1 (4.35%) Spring
4 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.35%) Web Services
4 1 (4.35%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (13.04%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.70%) Smartcard
3 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) SCADA
3 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (43.48%) Linux
2 9 (39.13%) Windows
3 6 (26.09%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (8.70%) Unix
5 1 (4.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Scrum
2 8 (34.78%) Agile
3 7 (30.43%) Computer Science
3 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (30.43%) Software Testing
4 6 (26.09%) Test Automation
5 5 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (21.74%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (17.39%) API Testing
6 4 (17.39%) Clean Code
6 4 (17.39%) Data Integration
6 4 (17.39%) End-to-End Testing
6 4 (17.39%) Manual Testing
6 4 (17.39%) OO
6 4 (17.39%) Open Source
6 4 (17.39%) Performance Management
6 4 (17.39%) SDET
7 3 (13.04%) Configuration Management
7 3 (13.04%) Customer Service
7 3 (13.04%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) SQL
2 8 (34.78%) C++
3 7 (30.43%) Python
4 4 (17.39%) C#
4 4 (17.39%) Java
5 3 (13.04%) C
6 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
6 2 (8.70%) ProC
6 2 (8.70%) VB
7 1 (4.35%) Bash
7 1 (4.35%) Perl
7 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (47.83%) Degree
2 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
3 5 (21.74%) Master's Degree
4 4 (17.39%) DV Cleared
5 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (8.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) PCI DSS
2 2 (8.70%) GDPR
3 1 (4.35%) HAZOP
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (17.39%) VirtualBox
2 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) VMware
3 1 (4.35%) Google