Software Engineering Contracts in Bristol

Software Engineering
South West > Bristol

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 21 16
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 -4
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 89 100 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 8.44% 7.97% 9.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.18% 8.95% 10.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 34 35
10th Percentile £446 £393 £413
25th Percentile £481 £475 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £547 £675 £575
90th Percentile £679 £764 £632
South West median daily rate £525 £579 £550
% change year-on-year -9.33% +5.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 53 37
10th Percentile £52.50 - -
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.91 £60.00
Median hourly rate £68.75 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.96% +0.77% +42.86%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 -
90th Percentile £72.50 - £75.00
South West median hourly rate £67.02 £65.50 £63.50
% change year-on-year +2.32% +3.15% +27.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 874 1,117 1,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 82.92% 89.00% 87.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 750 848
10th Percentile £250 £300 £313
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £588
90th Percentile £688 £713 £659
South West median daily rate £525 £549 £500
% change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 220 103
10th Percentile £40.00 - -
25th Percentile £45.00 £9.80 £15.90
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +36.67% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £83.88 £66.95
South West median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year -18.70% +26.16% +8.33%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Bristol

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Bristol

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Bristol over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Bristol

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Bristol

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineering in Bristol over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in Bristol

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 1 (1.12%) Apache
Applications
1 12 (13.48%) Chatbot
2 5 (5.62%) Simulink
2 5 (5.62%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 13 (14.61%) AWS
2 9 (10.11%) Azure
3 7 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (7.87%) GitHub
4 2 (2.25%) GCP
4 2 (2.25%) Pulumi
4 2 (2.25%) Serverless
5 1 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.12%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.12%) Azure App Service
5 1 (1.12%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (1.12%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.12%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.62%) HTTP
2 3 (3.37%) Ethernet
2 3 (3.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (5.62%) SQLite
2 2 (2.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (12.36%) SonarQube
2 7 (7.87%) Artifactory
2 7 (7.87%) Jenkins
2 7 (7.87%) JIRA
2 7 (7.87%) Rational DOORS
3 6 (6.74%) Git
4 5 (5.62%) Checkstyle
4 5 (5.62%) GoogleTest
5 3 (3.37%) Eclipse
5 3 (3.37%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.12%) GitLab
General
1 11 (12.36%) Legal
2 7 (7.87%) Aerospace
3 6 (6.74%) Automotive
4 5 (5.62%) Social Skills
5 4 (4.49%) Tech for Good
6 3 (3.37%) Military
6 3 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.25%) Law
7 2 (2.25%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.25%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.12%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Aviation
8 1 (1.12%) Electronics
8 1 (1.12%) Finance
8 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Marketing
8 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (73.03%) Software Engineer
2 25 (28.09%) Embedded Engineer
2 25 (28.09%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 13 (14.61%) Developer
3 13 (14.61%) Software Developer
4 9 (10.11%) Ada Engineer
4 9 (10.11%) Ada Software Engineer
5 8 (8.99%) C++ Software Engineer
6 7 (7.87%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (7.87%) Java Engineer
6 7 (7.87%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) C# Software Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) Senior
8 3 (3.37%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (2.25%) .NET Software Engineer
9 2 (2.25%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 2 (2.25%) Python Engineer
9 2 (2.25%) Python Software Engineer
10 1 (1.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 1 (1.12%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.73%) HTML
2 9 (10.11%) .NET
3 7 (7.87%) .NET Core
4 6 (6.74%) .NET Framework
4 6 (6.74%) REST
4 6 (6.74%) XML
4 6 (6.74%) YAML
5 5 (5.62%) JSON
5 5 (5.62%) Node.js
5 5 (5.62%) Qt
6 4 (4.49%) Web Services
7 2 (2.25%) CSS
7 2 (2.25%) Flask
7 2 (2.25%) React
7 2 (2.25%) SQLAlchemy
8 1 (1.12%) CSS3
8 1 (1.12%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (1.12%) HTML5
8 1 (1.12%) Kafka
8 1 (1.12%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.10%) ARM Cortex
2 5 (5.62%) Algorithms
2 5 (5.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (5.62%) IoT
3 4 (4.49%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (4.49%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.37%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.12%) Robotics
5 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (31.46%) Linux
2 21 (23.60%) FreeRTOS
3 4 (4.49%) SafeRTOS
3 4 (4.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (25.84%) DevOps
2 19 (21.35%) CI/CD
3 18 (20.22%) Agile
3 18 (20.22%) Configuration Management
4 17 (19.10%) Code Quality
5 13 (14.61%) Validation
6 12 (13.48%) Artificial Intelligence
6 12 (13.48%) Conversational UI
7 11 (12.36%) Test Automation
8 8 (8.99%) Software Delivery
8 8 (8.99%) Verification and Validation
9 7 (7.87%) TDD
10 6 (6.74%) Computer Science
10 6 (6.74%) Data Protection
10 6 (6.74%) OO
10 6 (6.74%) SDLC
11 5 (5.62%) Design Patterns
11 5 (5.62%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
12 4 (4.49%) Full Stack Development
12 4 (4.49%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 25 (28.09%) C
2 23 (25.84%) C#
2 23 (25.84%) Python
3 19 (21.35%) JavaScript
4 17 (19.10%) C++
4 17 (19.10%) Embedded C
5 14 (15.73%) SQL
6 9 (10.11%) Ada
7 8 (8.99%) PowerShell
8 7 (7.87%) Bash
8 7 (7.87%) Java
9 5 (5.62%) MATLAB
10 3 (3.37%) TypeScript
11 2 (2.25%) Go
12 1 (1.12%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 34 (38.20%) Security Cleared
2 22 (24.72%) SC Cleared
3 19 (21.35%) Degree
4 10 (11.24%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.49%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.25%) HND
7 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.62%) MISRA
2 1 (1.12%) QA
System Software
1 8 (8.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (11.24%) Terraform
2 8 (8.99%) Ansible
3 5 (5.62%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.12%) Grafana
4 1 (1.12%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (19.10%) IBM
1 17 (19.10%) Lauterbach
2 12 (13.48%) PayPal
3 10 (11.24%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.62%) Google
5 1 (1.12%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.12%) SAP