Software Engineering Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Software Engineering
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 55 35
Rank change year-on-year +1 -20 +17
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 28 17 32
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.35% 2.21% 4.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 2.57% 5.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 22
10th Percentile £409 £192 £310
25th Percentile £435 £312 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £448 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.53% -5.79% -
75th Percentile £613 £511 £569
90th Percentile £650 £659 £613
England median daily rate £563 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 896 662 604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 75.36% 85.97% 79.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 452 413
10th Percentile £220 £219 £263
25th Percentile £400 £331 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.90% -8.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £650 £625 £623
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 60 37
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.96 £12.73
25th Percentile £15.06 £17.87 £14.27
Median hourly rate £18.00 £18.87 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% -5.65% -53.50%
75th Percentile £27.73 £25.15 £26.15
90th Percentile £38.43 £25.29 £50.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +1.00%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Software Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 9 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in the East Midlands

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Software Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottinghamshire -3 21 £600 +22.45% 56
Northamptonshire +13 5 £525 +53.73% 11
Derbyshire -6 2 £548 -32.62% 10
Leicestershire - 1 £400 - 12
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.57%) Apache
1 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.29%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) AWS
2 3 (10.71%) Azure Functions
2 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
2 3 (10.71%) Serverless
3 2 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (7.14%) Azure Storage
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.57%) AWS IoT
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.57%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.57%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Git
1 2 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (3.57%) Aerospace
2 1 (3.57%) Aviation
2 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (64.29%) Software Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Senior
2 7 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Head of Engineering
3 6 (21.43%) Head of Software Engineering
4 4 (14.29%) Project Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) SCADA Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) SCADA Software Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) C++ Software Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Java Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Java Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Architect
7 1 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Lead Software Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) Node.js
2 2 (7.14%) HTML
2 2 (7.14%) REST
3 1 (3.57%) .NET
3 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (3.57%) CSS
3 1 (3.57%) HTML5
3 1 (3.57%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (3.57%) Kafka
3 1 (3.57%) PySpark
3 1 (3.57%) WCF
3 1 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) SCADA
2 4 (14.29%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
4 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.57%) Digital Signage
5 1 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (3.57%) Hedge funds
5 1 (3.57%) IoT
5 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Tizen
1 1 (3.57%) Unix
1 1 (3.57%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
2 4 (14.29%) Agile
2 4 (14.29%) DevOps
3 3 (10.71%) Event-Driven
3 3 (10.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (7.14%) Analytics
4 2 (7.14%) Cloud Security
4 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (7.14%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (7.14%) Logistics
4 2 (7.14%) Microservices
4 2 (7.14%) Secure Coding
5 1 (3.57%) Change Control
5 1 (3.57%) Generative AI
5 1 (3.57%) LLM
5 1 (3.57%) Machine Learning
5 1 (3.57%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 1 (3.57%) Signal Processing
5 1 (3.57%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) Java
2 4 (14.29%) RPG
3 3 (10.71%) C++
3 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.14%) Bicep
4 2 (7.14%) C#
4 2 (7.14%) Python
4 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.57%) C
5 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Databricks
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft