Software Engineer Contracts in Cheltenham

Software Engineer
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The median Software Engineer daily rate in Cheltenham is £556, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 17 23
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 22 13 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 9.82% 8.44% 3.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.53% 8.72% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 4
10th Percentile £519 £513 £436
25th Percentile £525 £522 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.42% +23.81% +12.00%
75th Percentile £652 £700 £588
90th Percentile £769 £753 -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £625 £545 £600
% change year-on-year +14.68% -9.17% +26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £72.50 - -
75th Percentile £74.06 - -
90th Percentile £74.63 - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £72.50 £78.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -7.05% +45.79% +7.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheltenham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheltenham. 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 Cheltenham with a recognized job title 209 149 110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 96.75% 93.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 97 91
10th Percentile £364 £253 £181
25th Percentile £513 £488 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £600
90th Percentile £736 £755 £675
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £534 £500
% change year-on-year +3.04% +6.75% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 6 3
10th Percentile - £27.38 £12.15
25th Percentile £63.75 £35.00 £12.38
Median hourly rate £70.50 £70.50 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year - +422.22% -73.00%
75th Percentile £72.81 £90.00 £14.63
90th Percentile £73.75 £92.25 £14.85
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £57.50 £78.00 £23.75
% change year-on-year -26.28% +228.42% -52.50%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Cheltenham

Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in Cheltenham.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineer in Cheltenham

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 21 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineer in Cheltenham

Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in Cheltenham.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineer in Cheltenham

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham

For the 6 months to 21 June 2024, Software Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cheltenham region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 14 (63.64%) DV Cleared
2 14 (63.64%) Security Cleared
3 13 (59.09%) Java
4 11 (50.00%) Docker
5 10 (45.45%) C
6 9 (40.91%) AWS
7 8 (36.36%) Kubernetes
8 7 (31.82%) Spring Boot
8 7 (31.82%) JavaScript
8 7 (31.82%) Spring
9 6 (27.27%) Agile
9 6 (27.27%) Linux
9 6 (27.27%) Business Transformation
10 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
10 5 (22.73%) React
10 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
11 4 (18.18%) Rust
11 4 (18.18%) TypeScript
11 4 (18.18%) Node.js
11 4 (18.18%) RESTful
12 3 (13.64%) Cypress.io
12 3 (13.64%) Git
12 3 (13.64%) Kafka
12 3 (13.64%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (13.64%) Analytics
12 3 (13.64%) Python
12 3 (13.64%) Red Hat
12 3 (13.64%) Scrum
12 3 (13.64%) Elastic Stack

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 2 (9.09%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) AWS
2 2 (9.09%) OpenShift
2 2 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (9.09%) Big Data
2 2 (9.09%) DynamoDB
2 2 (9.09%) Hadoop
2 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.64%) Cypress.io
2 3 (13.64%) Git
3 2 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (9.09%) Gradle
3 2 (9.09%) JUnit
3 2 (9.09%) Maven
4 1 (4.55%) JIRA
4 1 (4.55%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (4.55%) Rational Team Concert
4 1 (4.55%) Selenium
General
1 2 (9.09%) Aerospace
1 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) Spring
1 7 (31.82%) Spring Boot
2 5 (22.73%) React
3 4 (18.18%) Node.js
3 4 (18.18%) RESTful
4 3 (13.64%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (13.64%) Kafka
5 2 (9.09%) .NET
5 2 (9.09%) .NET Core
5 2 (9.09%) EJB
5 2 (9.09%) Java EE
5 2 (9.09%) JMS
5 2 (9.09%) Web Services
6 1 (4.55%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (4.55%) Lucene
6 1 (4.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Windows
3 1 (4.55%) CentOS
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (27.27%) Agile
2 6 (27.27%) Business Transformation
3 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
4 3 (13.64%) Analytics
4 3 (13.64%) Scrum
5 2 (9.09%) Containerisation
5 2 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (9.09%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (9.09%) Data Analytics
5 2 (9.09%) DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) High Availability
5 2 (9.09%) Low Latency
5 2 (9.09%) Manual Testing
5 2 (9.09%) Microservices
5 2 (9.09%) Open Source
5 2 (9.09%) SDLC
5 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (9.09%) Test Automation
6 1 (4.55%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) Java
2 10 (45.45%) C
3 7 (31.82%) JavaScript
4 4 (18.18%) Rust
4 4 (18.18%) TypeScript
5 3 (13.64%) Python
6 2 (9.09%) Bash
6 2 (9.09%) C#
6 2 (9.09%) Perl
7 1 (4.55%) Assembly Language
7 1 (4.55%) C++
Qualifications
1 14 (63.64%) DV Cleared
1 14 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) PhD
System Software
1 11 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Red Hat
2 2 (9.09%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.55%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (4.55%) Wind River