Software Engineering Contracts in Birmingham

Software Engineering
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 60 70
Rank change year-on-year +20 +10 -15
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 24 17 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 3.17% 1.92% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.83% 2.19% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 13
10th Percentile - £379 £383
25th Percentile £450 £459 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.56% -2.27% +3.77%
75th Percentile £525 £609 £625
90th Percentile - £649 £768
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £540 £530
% change year-on-year -16.67% +1.89% +30.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - -
75th Percentile £54.38 - -
90th Percentile £56.25 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £57.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 626 778 1,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 82.80% 88.01% 91.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 521 882
10th Percentile £252 £275 £225
25th Percentile £375 £398 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +7.89% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £631 £594
90th Percentile £685 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £488
% change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 29 22
10th Percentile £13.19 £11.00 £12.05
25th Percentile £17.00 £12.50 £13.81
Median hourly rate £26.00 £16.29 £17.24
Median % change year-on-year +59.66% -5.54% -4.22%
75th Percentile £47.13 £28.75 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £62.50 £19.87
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £18.50 £17.00
% change year-on-year +21.62% +8.82% +2.16%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Birmingham

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Birmingham

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Birmingham

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 12 (50.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.17%) Azure
1 1 (4.17%) Azure App Service
1 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (4.17%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
1 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (8.33%) Internet
1 2 (8.33%) Junos
2 1 (4.17%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) Git
3 1 (4.17%) PVCS
3 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (20.83%) Electronics
1 5 (20.83%) Finance
2 4 (16.67%) Automotive
2 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.17%) Marketing
3 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (70.83%) Developer
2 12 (50.00%) Software Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Author
3 4 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Technical Author
4 2 (8.33%) Network Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (4.17%) .NET Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Developer
5 1 (4.17%) C Programmer
5 1 (4.17%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (4.17%) C# Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Embedded C Programmer
5 1 (4.17%) Lead
5 1 (4.17%) Lead Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Programmer
5 1 (4.17%) Software Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (50.00%) HTML
2 4 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 4 (16.67%) Spring
3 3 (12.50%) React
4 1 (4.17%) .NET
4 1 (4.17%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.17%) Entity Framework
4 1 (4.17%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.17%) Swagger
4 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 12 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 12 (50.00%) Conversational UI
2 11 (45.83%) Agile
3 5 (20.83%) TDD
4 4 (16.67%) BDD
4 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 4 (16.67%) DevOps
4 4 (16.67%) Microservices
4 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (16.67%) SOA
5 2 (8.33%) Capacity Management
5 2 (8.33%) Kanban
5 2 (8.33%) Network Design
5 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (8.33%) Waterfall
6 1 (4.17%) Digital Marketing
6 1 (4.17%) Integration Testing
6 1 (4.17%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) C#
2 12 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 12 (50.00%) Python
2 12 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (4.17%) C
4 1 (4.17%) C++
4 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (66.67%) Degree
2 4 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (16.67%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) PayPal
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Cisco
3 2 (8.33%) Juniper
4 1 (4.17%) SAP