Software Engineering Contracts in the Thames Valley

Software Engineering
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 92 120
Rank change year-on-year +44 +28 -45
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 103 57 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.79% 1.93% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.33% 2.09% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 35 38
10th Percentile £425 £413 £389
25th Percentile £500 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £540 £520
Median % change year-on-year +15.74% +3.85% +9.47%
75th Percentile £688 £588 £598
90th Percentile - £660 £720
South East median daily rate £550 £540 £525
% change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 0
10th Percentile - £20.65 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £32.13 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.88 -
90th Percentile - £66.75 -
South East median hourly rate £62.25 £56.25 £50.50
% change year-on-year +10.67% +11.39% +12.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,381 2,727 3,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.57% 92.10% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,335 1,893 2,096
10th Percentile £213 £320 £225
25th Percentile £363 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 62 86
10th Percentile £15.55 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £20.00 £24.86 £12.10
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £69.05 £25.55
90th Percentile £85.57 £79.19 £66.88
South East median hourly rate £46.87 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -6.26% +122.22% -11.76%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the Thames Valley

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in the Thames Valley

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in the Thames Valley

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in the Thames Valley

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineering in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in the Thames Valley

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 23 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
Berkshire +43 80 £640 +16.36% 48
Buckinghamshire +25 12 £550 - 30
Oxfordshire +1 11 £450 -14.29% 65
Software Engineering
South East

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (0.97%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.97%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.97%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 32 (31.07%) AWS
2 18 (17.48%) Azure
3 9 (8.74%) OpenShift
4 4 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.94%) GCP
5 2 (1.94%) Power Automate
5 2 (1.94%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.97%) Azure API Management
6 1 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.97%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (0.97%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.97%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.97%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.97%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.97%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.97%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.83%) SAN
1 6 (5.83%) TCP/IP
2 4 (3.88%) Wireless
3 3 (2.91%) Link 16
3 3 (2.91%) Tactical Data Link
4 1 (0.97%) DNS
4 1 (0.97%) Firewall
4 1 (0.97%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (23.30%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (17.48%) Oracle Database
2 18 (17.48%) Oracle Database 11g
3 6 (5.83%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.97%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.97%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 25 (24.27%) Jenkins
2 23 (22.33%) Selenium
3 22 (21.36%) Cucumber
3 22 (21.36%) SonarQube
4 21 (20.39%) REST Assured
5 18 (17.48%) JIRA
6 13 (12.62%) GitLab
7 9 (8.74%) Git
8 4 (3.88%) Subversion
9 1 (0.97%) Appium
9 1 (0.97%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.97%) CMake
9 1 (0.97%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.97%) Maven
9 1 (0.97%) MSTest
9 1 (0.97%) NUnit
9 1 (0.97%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.97%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.97%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (30.10%) Social Skills
2 23 (22.33%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (19.42%) Law
4 13 (12.62%) Police
5 7 (6.80%) Billing
5 7 (6.80%) Telecoms
6 6 (5.83%) Aerospace
7 4 (3.88%) Automotive
7 4 (3.88%) Electronics
8 3 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.94%) Aviation
9 2 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.94%) Local Government
10 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.97%) Marketing
10 1 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.97%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 34 (33.01%) Developer
2 26 (25.24%) Software Engineer
3 17 (16.50%) Java Engineer
4 15 (14.56%) PostgreSQL Developer
5 12 (11.65%) Senior
6 9 (8.74%) Python Developer
7 8 (7.77%) Lead
7 8 (7.77%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) Embedded Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) Java Developer
9 6 (5.83%) Java Software Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) Site Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Senior Java Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 4 (3.88%) Author
11 4 (3.88%) Lead Software Engineer
11 4 (3.88%) Technical Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (22.33%) REST
2 22 (21.36%) Java EE
3 11 (10.68%) ARM Templates
4 8 (7.77%) Node.js
4 8 (7.77%) React
5 7 (6.80%) Kafka
5 7 (6.80%) React Native
6 5 (4.85%) .NET
7 2 (1.94%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.97%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.97%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.97%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.97%) CNTK
8 1 (0.97%) CSS
8 1 (0.97%) HTML
8 1 (0.97%) JAX-RS
8 1 (0.97%) Restlet
8 1 (0.97%) TensorFlow
8 1 (0.97%) XML
8 1 (0.97%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.80%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.85%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.88%) Device Driver
3 4 (3.88%) IoT
4 2 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.94%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.97%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.97%) Life Science
5 1 (0.97%) Raspberry Pi
5 1 (0.97%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.74%) Linux
2 7 (6.80%) Debian
3 6 (5.83%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.97%) Android
4 1 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.97%) Solaris
4 1 (0.97%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (57.28%) DevOps
2 26 (25.24%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (25.24%) Test Automation
3 25 (24.27%) Continuous Integration
4 24 (23.30%) Agile
4 24 (23.30%) Performance Tuning
5 23 (22.33%) Decision-Making
5 23 (22.33%) Technical Leadership
6 22 (21.36%) Software Architecture
7 20 (19.42%) Unit Testing
8 19 (18.45%) Migration
8 19 (18.45%) Software Testing
9 18 (17.48%) Containerisation
9 18 (17.48%) Data Migration
9 18 (17.48%) Secure Coding
10 17 (16.50%) Architectural Design
10 17 (16.50%) Clean Code
10 17 (16.50%) Configuration Management
11 12 (11.65%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (8.74%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 25 (24.27%) Java
2 18 (17.48%) PL/SQL
2 18 (17.48%) SQL
3 17 (16.50%) Python
4 8 (7.77%) C#
4 8 (7.77%) JavaScript
5 7 (6.80%) C++
6 6 (5.83%) C
7 4 (3.88%) Assembly Language
7 4 (3.88%) MATLAB
7 4 (3.88%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.91%) Ada
8 3 (2.91%) Ada 95
8 3 (2.91%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.94%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.97%) Bash
10 1 (0.97%) Bicep
10 1 (0.97%) PHP
Qualifications
1 54 (52.43%) SC Cleared
1 54 (52.43%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.77%) Degree
3 7 (6.80%) Master's Degree
4 6 (5.83%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.88%) PhD
6 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.97%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.80%) QA
2 4 (3.88%) JTAG
System Software
1 11 (10.68%) Docker
2 4 (3.88%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (3.88%) Firmware
3 1 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.97%) NFS
Systems Management
1 24 (23.30%) Ansible
2 20 (19.42%) Kubernetes
3 12 (11.65%) Terraform
4 9 (8.74%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (8.74%) Podman
5 6 (5.83%) Argo
5 6 (5.83%) Grafana
5 6 (5.83%) Istio
5 6 (5.83%) Kibana
5 6 (5.83%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.97%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.97%) Puppet
6 1 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (19.42%) Oracle
2 10 (9.71%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.74%) Red Hat
4 6 (5.83%) VMware
5 2 (1.94%) Google
6 1 (0.97%) BMC
6 1 (0.97%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.97%) Databricks
6 1 (0.97%) Remedy
6 1 (0.97%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.97%) Sparx