Software Development Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software Development Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Development Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London 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 376 - 494
Rank change year-on-year - - -58
Contract jobs requiring a Software Development Engineer 12 0 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.058% - 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% - 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 9
10th Percentile £399 - £375
25th Percentile £416 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +46.15%
75th Percentile £475 - £545
90th Percentile - - £550
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £49.00 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - +38.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,104 22,515 29,589
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 94.27% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,669 15,787 20,737
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £397 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,253 1,161 1,465
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £43.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Software Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Software Development Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Development Engineer in the UK excluding London

Software Development Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Development Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Software Development Engineer in the UK excluding London

Software Development Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Development Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Software Development Engineer in the UK excluding London

Software Development Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Development Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Development Engineer in the UK excluding London

Software Development Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Development Engineer within the UK excluding London 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
South East - 5 £450 - 1
East of England - 5 - - 3
Midlands - 1 - - 7
South West - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - - 3
Scotland - 1 - -
Software Development Engineer
UK

Software Development Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Software Development 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 UK excluding London region featuring Software Development Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 7 (58.33%) Degree
2 7 (58.33%) Computer Science
3 6 (50.00%) Linux
3 6 (50.00%) Python
4 5 (41.67%) C++
4 5 (41.67%) Scrum
4 5 (41.67%) Git
5 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 4 (33.33%) RESTful
5 4 (33.33%) Open Source
5 4 (33.33%) Confluence
5 4 (33.33%) JIRA
5 4 (33.33%) Software Testing
5 4 (33.33%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (33.33%) Manual Testing
5 4 (33.33%) Performance Management
5 4 (33.33%) SQL
5 4 (33.33%) Oracle
5 4 (33.33%) SOAP
5 4 (33.33%) XML
5 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
5 4 (33.33%) Bitbucket
5 4 (33.33%) Artifactory
5 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
5 4 (33.33%) VirtualBox
5 4 (33.33%) API Testing
5 4 (33.33%) SDET

Software Development Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (8.33%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Git
2 4 (33.33%) Artifactory
2 4 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (16.67%) Electronics
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
1 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
1 2 (16.67%) Marketing
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) RESTful
1 4 (33.33%) SOAP
1 4 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (8.33%) Guice
2 1 (8.33%) NumPy
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (33.33%) Embedded Linux
2 4 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 7 (58.33%) Computer Science
3 5 (41.67%) Scrum
4 4 (33.33%) API Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Manual Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Open Source
4 4 (33.33%) Performance Management
4 4 (33.33%) SDET
4 4 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (16.67%) Programme Management
5 2 (16.67%) Synthetic Environment
5 2 (16.67%) Validation
5 2 (16.67%) Verification and Validation
5 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) C++
3 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 3 (25.00%) C
4 3 (25.00%) C#
5 1 (8.33%) Java
5 1 (8.33%) Perl
5 1 (8.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
2 2 (16.67%) PhD
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (33.33%) VirtualBox
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) SAP
3 1 (8.33%) Dell