Software Engineering Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Software Engineering
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 18 27
Rank change year-on-year -6 +9 +6
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 2 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 1.44% 1.06% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.20% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £298 - -
25th Percentile £350 - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £550 - £467
90th Percentile £603 - £521
West Midlands median daily rate £544 £460 £600
% change year-on-year +18.21% -23.33% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 135 83 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 97.12% 88.30% 84.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 54 118
10th Percentile £220 £313 £321
25th Percentile £328 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -3.23%
75th Percentile £575 £570 £538
90th Percentile £630 £626 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -2.20% +2.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £19.19 - £31.06
25th Percentile £24.35 £15.50 £38.65
Median hourly rate £27.21 £17.00 £52.59
Median % change year-on-year +60.06% -67.68% +78.28%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £66.83
90th Percentile - - £74.60
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.70 £23.60 £27.50
% change year-on-year +0.40% -14.18% +55.19%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Coventry

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

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

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Coventry

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Coventry over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Coventry

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

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

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

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Kotlin
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform