Senior Software Engineer Contract Job Trends in Bradford

Senior Software Engineer
West Yorkshire > Bradford

The median Senior Software Engineer daily rate in Bradford is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bradford 1.54% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £650 £400
% change year-on-year -23.08% +62.50% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bradford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bradford. 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 Bradford with a recognized job title 60 43 83
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 95.56% 93.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 25 65
10th Percentile £274 £328 £315
25th Percentile £409 £365 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £408 £498
Median % change year-on-year +22.55% -18.07% +4.84%
75th Percentile £584 £438 £600
90th Percentile £662 £603 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £480 £525
% change year-on-year +4.17% -8.57% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 2
10th Percentile £20.81 - £27.10
25th Percentile - - £27.59
Median hourly rate £22.14 - £28.42
Median % change year-on-year - - +66.17%
75th Percentile - - £29.25
90th Percentile £28.21 - £29.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £26.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.76% +31.25% -5.15%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bradford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bradford.

Senior Software Engineer job vacancy trend in Bradford

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bradford

For the 6 months to 15 October 2025, Senior Software Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bradford region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bradford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes