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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 45 40
Rank change year-on-year -27 -5 +21
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 15 15 30
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.35% 2.29% 3.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 2.59% 4.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 9
10th Percentile £431 £122 £463
25th Percentile £471 £410 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £490 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.91% +29.41%
75th Percentile £625 £515 £575
90th Percentile £650 £744 £618
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £55.63
90th Percentile - - £58.75
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 869 580 674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.22% 88.55% 78.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 389 450
10th Percentile £200 £225 £200
25th Percentile £393 £326 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £420 £425
Median % change year-on-year +10.12% -1.18% -10.53%
75th Percentile £559 £500 £550
90th Percentile £640 £589 £623
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 46 60
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.81 £11.67
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.47 £12.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £18.87 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +11.00% -34.79%
75th Percentile £25.15 £25.00 £26.15
90th Percentile £32.47 £33.51 £50.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +67.86% -25.33% +4.17%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -18 10 £600 +22.45% 16
Northamptonshire -2 4 £525 +33.59% 5
Derbyshire -6 2 £548 -32.62% 7
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 (6.67%) Apache
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) Azure Functions
2 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (20.00%) Serverless
3 2 (13.33%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Storage
3 2 (13.33%) SaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.67%) AWS IoT
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (6.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) Git
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Software Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Project Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) SCADA Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) SCADA Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Head of Engineering
3 2 (13.33%) Head of Software Engineering
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Java Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Technology Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Node.js
2 2 (13.33%) HTML
2 2 (13.33%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) .NET
3 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (6.67%) CSS
3 1 (6.67%) HTML5
3 1 (6.67%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (6.67%) PySpark
3 1 (6.67%) WCF
3 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) SCADA
2 3 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (13.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (13.33%) Hedge funds
4 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Signage
4 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (6.67%) IoT
4 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Tizen
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
1 1 (6.67%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
2 3 (20.00%) Agile
2 3 (20.00%) DevOps
2 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (13.33%) Analytics
3 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (13.33%) Event-Driven
3 2 (13.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (13.33%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (6.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (6.67%) Customer Experience
4 1 (6.67%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (6.67%) Event-Driven Programming
4 1 (6.67%) Generative AI
4 1 (6.67%) LLM
4 1 (6.67%) MLOps
4 1 (6.67%) Predictive Maintenance
4 1 (6.67%) Probabilistic Modelling
4 1 (6.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Java
1 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (13.33%) Bicep
2 2 (13.33%) C#
2 2 (13.33%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (6.67%) C
3 1 (6.67%) C++
3 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Databricks
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft