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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 20 18
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 -8
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 92 100 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 8.76% 8.04% 9.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.53% 9.05% 10.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 35 34
10th Percentile £446 £394 £413
25th Percentile £481 £488 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £547 £675 £574
90th Percentile £679 £760 £633
South West median daily rate £525 £579 £550
% change year-on-year -9.33% +5.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 52 38
10th Percentile £52.50 - -
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.91 £60.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +42.86%
75th Percentile - £70.30 -
90th Percentile £71.00 - £75.00
South West median hourly rate £67.26 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.69% +0.77% +30.00%

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 1,105 1,237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 83.24% 88.83% 87.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 750 852
10th Percentile £257 £300 £313
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £588
90th Percentile £688 £721 £657
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 215 105
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% +2.86%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £83.75 £67.70
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £61.10 £48.74
% change year-on-year -9.98% +25.36% +12.05%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 (1.09%) Apache
Applications
1 12 (13.04%) Chatbot
2 5 (5.43%) Simulink
2 5 (5.43%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 13 (14.13%) AWS
2 9 (9.78%) Azure
2 9 (9.78%) GitHub
3 7 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.17%) GCP
4 2 (2.17%) Pulumi
4 2 (2.17%) Serverless
5 1 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.09%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.09%) Azure App Service
5 1 (1.09%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (1.09%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.43%) HTTP
2 4 (4.35%) Ethernet
2 4 (4.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (5.43%) SQLite
2 2 (2.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (11.96%) SonarQube
2 9 (9.78%) Jenkins
2 9 (9.78%) JIRA
3 7 (7.61%) Artifactory
3 7 (7.61%) GoogleTest
3 7 (7.61%) Rational DOORS
4 6 (6.52%) Git
5 5 (5.43%) Checkstyle
6 4 (4.35%) Eclipse
6 4 (4.35%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.09%) GitLab
General
1 11 (11.96%) Legal
2 7 (7.61%) Aerospace
3 6 (6.52%) Automotive
3 6 (6.52%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.35%) Military
4 4 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (4.35%) Tech for Good
5 2 (2.17%) Law
5 2 (2.17%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.09%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.09%) Aviation
6 1 (1.09%) Electronics
6 1 (1.09%) Finance
6 1 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.09%) Marketing
6 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (73.91%) Software Engineer
2 25 (27.17%) Embedded Engineer
2 25 (27.17%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 13 (14.13%) Developer
3 13 (14.13%) Software Developer
4 10 (10.87%) C++ Software Engineer
5 9 (9.78%) Ada Engineer
5 9 (9.78%) Ada Software Engineer
5 9 (9.78%) Java Engineer
5 9 (9.78%) Java Software Engineer
6 7 (7.61%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.52%) C# Software Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Senior
9 3 (3.26%) Senior Software Engineer
10 2 (2.17%) .NET Software Engineer
10 2 (2.17%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
10 2 (2.17%) Python Engineer
10 2 (2.17%) Python Software Engineer
11 1 (1.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 1 (1.09%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.22%) HTML
2 9 (9.78%) .NET
3 7 (7.61%) .NET Core
3 7 (7.61%) Qt
4 6 (6.52%) .NET Framework
4 6 (6.52%) Node.js
4 6 (6.52%) REST
4 6 (6.52%) XML
4 6 (6.52%) YAML
5 5 (5.43%) JSON
5 5 (5.43%) Web Services
6 2 (2.17%) CSS
6 2 (2.17%) Flask
6 2 (2.17%) React
6 2 (2.17%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (1.09%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.09%) CSS3
7 1 (1.09%) HTML5
7 1 (1.09%) Kafka
7 1 (1.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.48%) ARM Cortex
2 7 (7.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (6.52%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (5.43%) Algorithms
4 5 (5.43%) IoT
5 4 (4.35%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (3.26%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.09%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.09%) Robotics
7 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (33.70%) Linux
2 21 (22.83%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (5.43%) Windows
4 4 (4.35%) SafeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (27.17%) DevOps
2 22 (23.91%) CI/CD
3 21 (22.83%) Agile
4 18 (19.57%) Configuration Management
5 17 (18.48%) Code Quality
6 14 (15.22%) Validation
7 12 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence
7 12 (13.04%) Conversational UI
8 11 (11.96%) Test Automation
9 9 (9.78%) Verification and Validation
10 8 (8.70%) Software Delivery
10 8 (8.70%) TDD
11 6 (6.52%) Computer Science
11 6 (6.52%) Data Protection
11 6 (6.52%) OO
11 6 (6.52%) SDLC
12 5 (5.43%) Design Patterns
12 5 (5.43%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
12 5 (5.43%) Visualisation
13 4 (4.35%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (27.17%) C
1 25 (27.17%) Python
2 24 (26.09%) C#
3 20 (21.74%) C++
3 20 (21.74%) JavaScript
4 17 (18.48%) Embedded C
5 14 (15.22%) SQL
6 9 (9.78%) Ada
6 9 (9.78%) Java
7 8 (8.70%) PowerShell
8 7 (7.61%) Bash
9 5 (5.43%) MATLAB
10 3 (3.26%) TypeScript
11 2 (2.17%) Go
12 1 (1.09%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 34 (36.96%) Security Cleared
2 22 (23.91%) SC Cleared
3 19 (20.65%) Degree
4 10 (10.87%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.35%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.17%) HND
7 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.61%) MISRA
2 1 (1.09%) QA
System Software
1 8 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (10.87%) Terraform
2 8 (8.70%) Ansible
3 5 (5.43%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.09%) Grafana
4 1 (1.09%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (18.48%) IBM
1 17 (18.48%) Lauterbach
2 12 (13.04%) PayPal
3 11 (11.96%) Microsoft
4 7 (7.61%) Google
5 1 (1.09%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.09%) SAP