Software Engineering Contracts in West Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 46 44
Rank change year-on-year +14 -2 +7
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 46 57 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 4.65% 3.60% 4.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.32% 3.93% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 30 52
10th Percentile £280 £410 £400
25th Percentile £300 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.44% +17.14%
75th Percentile £550 £597 £563
90th Percentile £625 £689 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -12.20% +2.50% +22.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £52.50 £46.11 £41.85
% change year-on-year +13.87% +10.18% +11.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 864 1,449 1,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 87.27% 91.42% 90.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 996 1,232
10th Percentile £300 £350 £300
25th Percentile £406 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £584 £619 £575
90th Percentile £663 £700 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £525 £483
% change year-on-year -7.14% +8.81% +10.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 18 43
10th Percentile £11.91 £12.00 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.15 £13.81 £12.38
Median hourly rate £12.53 £20.25 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.12% +9.46% -19.57%
75th Percentile £15.20 £63.75 £22.58
90th Percentile £41.35 £70.00 £28.45
Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £18.25
% change year-on-year +27.00% -41.75% -8.49%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in West Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in West Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in West Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in West Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 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
Leeds +23 39 £450 -10.00% 36
Wetherby - 4 - - 1
Bradford -1 1 £300 -30.64% 1
Software Engineering
Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 2 (4.35%) ArcGIS
1 2 (4.35%) Drupal
Applications
1 11 (23.91%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (19.57%) AWS
2 4 (8.70%) GCP
2 4 (8.70%) GitHub
3 1 (2.17%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) GIS
1 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
1 2 (4.35%) Spatial Data
2 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Git
1 1 (2.17%) GitLab
General
1 11 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.70%) Finance
2 4 (8.70%) Telecoms
3 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.35%) Back Office
5 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (52.17%) Developer
2 14 (30.43%) Software Engineer
3 12 (26.09%) Software Developer
4 8 (17.39%) Senior
5 5 (10.87%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) iOS Developer
6 4 (8.70%) PLC Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) PLC Software Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Full Stack Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Designer
8 2 (4.35%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) GIS Developer
8 2 (4.35%) IT Project Manager
8 2 (4.35%) Java Developer
8 2 (4.35%) JavaScript Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) SAP Manager
8 2 (4.35%) SAP Project Manager
8 2 (4.35%) Scala Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Service Designer
8 2 (4.35%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (30.43%) HTML
2 5 (10.87%) React
3 4 (8.70%) CSS
4 3 (6.52%) jQuery
4 3 (6.52%) RESTful
4 3 (6.52%) Web Services
5 2 (4.35%) .NET
5 2 (4.35%) Node.js
5 2 (4.35%) Playwright
5 2 (4.35%) React Native
6 1 (2.17%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.17%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.17%) FHIR
6 1 (2.17%) J2EE
6 1 (2.17%) JSP
6 1 (2.17%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (2.17%) SAML
6 1 (2.17%) Spring
6 1 (2.17%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Apple iOS
2 2 (4.35%) Android
3 1 (2.17%) Unix
3 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (32.61%) Agile
2 12 (26.09%) Code Quality
3 11 (23.91%) Artificial Intelligence
3 11 (23.91%) Conversational UI
3 11 (23.91%) Mentoring
4 7 (15.22%) Performance Metrics
5 5 (10.87%) CI/CD
5 5 (10.87%) Full Stack Development
5 5 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (8.70%) iOS Development
6 4 (8.70%) Project Delivery
6 4 (8.70%) TDD
6 4 (8.70%) Test Automation
7 3 (6.52%) Prototyping
7 3 (6.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (6.52%) User Experience
7 3 (6.52%) User Research
7 3 (6.52%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 2 (4.35%) Clean Code
8 2 (4.35%) Journey Map
Programming Languages
1 25 (54.35%) JavaScript
2 15 (32.61%) Python
3 13 (28.26%) SQL
4 12 (26.09%) C#
5 6 (13.04%) Java
6 5 (10.87%) TypeScript
7 4 (8.70%) Swift
8 3 (6.52%) C
8 3 (6.52%) Kotlin
8 3 (6.52%) Scala
9 2 (4.35%) Bash
9 2 (4.35%) PHP
10 1 (2.17%) Apex Code
10 1 (2.17%) C++
Qualifications
1 13 (28.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) QA
2 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.17%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.17%) Grafana
2 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) PayPal
2 3 (6.52%) SAP
3 2 (4.35%) ESRI
3 2 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (2.17%) Ariba
4 1 (2.17%) Salesforce