Software Engineering Contract Job Trends in Brentwood

Software Engineering
Essex > Brentwood

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Brentwood requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 - 11
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Brentwood 33.33% - 10.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 33.33% - 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £345
25th Percentile £538 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £550
75th Percentile £613 - £575
90th Percentile - - -
Essex median daily rate £575 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +2.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Brentwood

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Brentwood.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3 6 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Brentwood 100.00% 85.71% 85.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 16
10th Percentile - £85 -
25th Percentile £538 £151 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £275 £320
Median % change year-on-year +109.09% -14.06% +6.67%
75th Percentile £613 £294 £434
90th Percentile - £298 £553
Essex median daily rate £408 £315 £450
% change year-on-year +29.37% -30.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -38.46% +306.25%
Essex median hourly rate £18.87 £23.75 £40.31
% change year-on-year -20.55% -41.08% +61.24%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Brentwood

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Brentwood.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Brentwood

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Brentwood

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Brentwood citing Software Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Brentwood citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Brentwood

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Brentwood citing Software Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Brentwood citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Brentwood 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Discovery
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet