Software Engineering Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineering
North East > Tyne and Wear

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 7 27 30
Rank change year-on-year +20 +3 0
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 27 26 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 11.16% 7.45% 4.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.92% 7.98% 5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 22 14
10th Percentile - £399 -
25th Percentile £370 £534 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £575 £438
Median % change year-on-year -32.17% +31.43% -7.89%
75th Percentile £410 £675 £606
90th Percentile - £700 £650
North East median daily rate £390 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -32.17% +15.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £47.50 £32.50 -
% change year-on-year +46.15% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 209 326 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 86.36% 93.41% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 256 271
10th Percentile £263 £319 £200
25th Percentile £366 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £589 £650 £600
90th Percentile £650 £734 £695
North East median daily rate £500 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -9.09% +12.82% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 0 12
10th Percentile £11.50 - £10.57
25th Percentile £12.13 - £12.54
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £16.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.68%
75th Percentile £48.75 - £17.50
90th Percentile £50.00 - £18.63
North East median hourly rate £15.46 £40.75 £16.50
% change year-on-year -62.06% +146.97% +8.20%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineering in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +20 27 £390 -32.17% 22
Software Engineering
North East

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Applications
1 14 (51.85%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.11%) AWS
1 3 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (11.11%) Azure
1 3 (11.11%) BrowserStack
1 3 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (11.11%) GitHub
1 3 (11.11%) Serverless
2 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) J1939
2 1 (3.70%) AMQP
2 1 (3.70%) Modbus
2 1 (3.70%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 3 (11.11%) MySQL
1 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 3 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Cypress.io
General
1 6 (22.22%) Automotive
1 6 (22.22%) Electronics
2 3 (11.11%) Aerospace
2 3 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (51.85%) Developer
1 14 (51.85%) Software Developer
2 13 (48.15%) Software Engineer
3 6 (22.22%) Embedded Engineer
3 6 (22.22%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Ada Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Ada Software Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Full Stack Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Full Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) IoT Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (51.85%) HTML
2 3 (11.11%) Next.js
2 3 (11.11%) React
2 3 (11.11%) RESTful
3 1 (3.70%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) CAN bus
2 1 (3.70%) IoT
2 1 (3.70%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Artificial Intelligence
1 14 (51.85%) Code Quality
1 14 (51.85%) Conversational UI
2 3 (11.11%) Agile
2 3 (11.11%) BDD
2 3 (11.11%) CI/CD
2 3 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
2 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (11.11%) Microservices
2 3 (11.11%) Operational Stability
2 3 (11.11%) SDLC
2 3 (11.11%) TDD
3 1 (3.70%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 18 (66.67%) SQL
2 17 (62.96%) JavaScript
3 14 (51.85%) C#
3 14 (51.85%) Python
4 6 (22.22%) C
4 6 (22.22%) Embedded C
5 3 (11.11%) Ada
5 3 (11.11%) Java
5 3 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (51.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 3 (11.11%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) Grafana
2 3 (11.11%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 14 (51.85%) PayPal