Software Engineering Contracts in the East Midlands

Software Engineering
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 33 60
Rank change year-on-year -15 +27 -1
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 19 35 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.64% 4.05% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 5.15% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 17 21
10th Percentile £215 £315 £373
25th Percentile £313 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £510 £600 £525
90th Percentile £631 £643 £538
England median daily rate £600 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -2.04% +2.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile - - £59.38
90th Percentile - £55.00 £62.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +13.04%

All Process and 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 626 680 887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.82% 78.70% 87.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 447 680
10th Percentile £225 £210 £213
25th Percentile £332 £322 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.87% -6.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £563 £600
90th Percentile £589 £622 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 61 52
10th Percentile £13.81 £11.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.15 £12.75 £19.38
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -40.87% +33.72%
75th Percentile £25.11 £26.15 £52.06
90th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.55
% change year-on-year -34.02% -3.62% +54.01%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the East Midlands

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in the East Midlands

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 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in the East Midlands

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in the East Midlands

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 6 July 2025. 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
Northamptonshire 0 8 £342 - 27
Nottinghamshire -6 8 £490 -14.78% 104
Derbyshire -1 2 £813 +152.33% 59
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) CANalyzer
1 1 (5.26%) Fusion 360
1 1 (5.26%) Siemens NX
1 1 (5.26%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) AWS CodeBuild
3 3 (15.79%) Azure
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.26%) Azure API Management
5 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.26%) SaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) MySQL
1 4 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (21.05%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.26%) Aerospike
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Hive
2 1 (5.26%) Big Data
2 1 (5.26%) HBase
2 1 (5.26%) Impala
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Git
1 4 (21.05%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) Eclipse
2 2 (10.53%) NetBeans
3 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.26%) GitLab
3 1 (5.26%) IntelliJ
3 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.26%) Maven
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Software Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Lead
3 3 (15.79%) Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Embedded Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (5.26%) React Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Scala Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Scala Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Scala Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) .NET
2 5 (26.32%) React
2 5 (26.32%) REST
3 3 (15.79%) .NET Core
4 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (10.53%) POSIX
5 1 (5.26%) .NET Framework
5 1 (5.26%) Akka
5 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.26%) Express.js
5 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
5 1 (5.26%) Kafka
5 1 (5.26%) Node.js
5 1 (5.26%) Play Framework
5 1 (5.26%) Redux
5 1 (5.26%) RESTful
5 1 (5.26%) Sass
5 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
5 1 (5.26%) Web Services
5 1 (5.26%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.26%) Derivative
2 1 (5.26%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (5.26%) IoT
2 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Agile
2 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
3 5 (26.32%) Decision-Making
3 5 (26.32%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (26.32%) Microservices
4 4 (21.05%) Business Strategy
4 4 (21.05%) Scrum
4 4 (21.05%) Sprint Retrospective
5 3 (15.79%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 3 (15.79%) Code Quality
5 3 (15.79%) Resource Allocation
5 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (10.53%) Process Improvement
6 2 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (10.53%) Test Automation
6 2 (10.53%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (10.53%) Unit Testing
6 2 (10.53%) User Stories
6 2 (10.53%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) C#
2 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
2 5 (26.32%) TypeScript
3 3 (15.79%) C
3 3 (15.79%) C++
4 2 (10.53%) Java
5 1 (5.26%) MATLAB
5 1 (5.26%) Scala
5 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) QA
2 2 (10.53%) GDPR
2 2 (10.53%) MISRA
2 2 (10.53%) MISRA C
2 2 (10.53%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (5.26%) IEC 61508
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Oracle
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.53%) QNX
3 2 (10.53%) Siemens
4 1 (5.26%) Adobe
4 1 (5.26%) Autodesk
4 1 (5.26%) Veracode