Software Engineer Contracts in the East of England

Software Engineer
England > East of England

The median Software Engineer daily rate in the East of England is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 55 53
Rank change year-on-year +41 -2 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 155 75 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 8.09% 3.61% 4.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.03% 3.95% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 20 23
10th Percentile £413 - £385
25th Percentile £444 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £492
Median % change year-on-year - +1.63% +32.97%
75th Percentile £575 £560 £581
90th Percentile £600 £583 £720
England median daily rate £630 £590 £600
% change year-on-year +6.78% -1.67% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 35 41
10th Percentile £52.50 - £47.75
25th Percentile £61.25 £53.75 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% - +27.78%
75th Percentile £72.81 £71.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £87.00 £83.30 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £57.00
% change year-on-year - +9.65% +26.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East of England. 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 the East of England with a recognized job title 1,716 1,900 2,419
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.61% 91.48% 93.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 798 1,162 1,392
10th Percentile £206 £185 £163
25th Percentile £315 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £560 £600 £540
90th Percentile £650 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 578 301 375
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £35.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% +125.81% -5.62%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £39.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the East of England

Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineer in the East of England

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineer in the East of England

Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineer in the East of England

Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineer in the East of England

Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
Hertfordshire +23 90 £425 +553.85% 38
Cambridgeshire +12 40 £500 -2.44% 110
Essex +19 21 £575 +15.00% 8
Suffolk - 2 £215 - 3
Bedfordshire -7 1 - - 4
Norfolk - 1 - - 3
Software Engineer
England

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 24 April 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 East of England region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 155 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 86 (55.48%) C
3 82 (52.90%) C++
4 54 (34.84%) Electronics
5 50 (32.26%) C#
5 50 (32.26%) Agile
6 47 (30.32%) Continuous Integration
7 43 (27.74%) TDD
7 43 (27.74%) DevOps
8 40 (25.81%) Pair Programming
8 40 (25.81%) Unit Testing
9 37 (23.87%) Software Testing
9 37 (23.87%) Customer Requirements
9 37 (23.87%) RS-485
9 37 (23.87%) RS-422
9 37 (23.87%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (23.87%) Modbus
10 34 (21.94%) Social Skills
10 34 (21.94%) Validation
11 28 (18.06%) Self-Motivation
12 23 (14.84%) Test Automation
13 21 (13.55%) Verification and Validation
14 19 (12.26%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (10.97%) Python
15 17 (10.97%) Ada
16 16 (10.32%) Embedded C
17 15 (9.68%) Linux
17 15 (9.68%) MATLAB
17 15 (9.68%) Code Quality
18 14 (9.03%) Rational Rhapsody

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 14 (9.03%) Simulink
2 7 (4.52%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (1.94%) GCP
1 3 (1.94%) GitHub
2 2 (1.29%) Azure
2 2 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 37 (23.87%) Modbus
1 37 (23.87%) RS-422
1 37 (23.87%) RS-485
2 4 (2.58%) Firewall
2 4 (2.58%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (2.58%) VPN
3 3 (1.94%) Ethernet
3 3 (1.94%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.94%) Wireless
4 1 (0.65%) 5G
4 1 (0.65%) Broadband
4 1 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.65%) DVB
4 1 (0.65%) Internet
4 1 (0.65%) MQTT
4 1 (0.65%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.65%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (9.03%) Rational Rhapsody
2 11 (7.10%) Rational DOORS
3 10 (6.45%) Git
4 7 (4.52%) GCC
4 7 (4.52%) Visual Studio
5 4 (2.58%) Eclipse
5 4 (2.58%) Mercurial
6 3 (1.94%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.65%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.65%) JIRA
7 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 54 (34.84%) Electronics
2 34 (21.94%) Social Skills
3 12 (7.74%) Automotive
4 11 (7.10%) Manufacturing
5 7 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (4.52%) Military
6 6 (3.87%) Aerospace
7 5 (3.23%) Multimedia
8 4 (2.58%) Legal
9 3 (1.94%) Finance
9 3 (1.94%) Law
9 3 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.29%) Aviation
10 2 (1.29%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.29%) Wearables
11 1 (0.65%) Marketing
11 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.10%) React
2 7 (4.52%) LLVM
3 5 (3.23%) NumPy
4 4 (2.58%) CSS
4 4 (2.58%) HTML
4 4 (2.58%) Pandas
4 4 (2.58%) SciPy
4 4 (2.58%) Web Services
5 3 (1.94%) DirectX
5 3 (1.94%) Node.js
5 3 (1.94%) OpenGL
5 3 (1.94%) OpenGL ES
5 3 (1.94%) Vulkan
6 2 (1.29%) .NET
6 2 (1.29%) MFC
6 2 (1.29%) WinForms
6 2 (1.29%) WPF
7 1 (0.65%) GStreamer
7 1 (0.65%) Spring
7 1 (0.65%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (18.06%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (4.52%) Algorithms
3 3 (1.94%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.29%) Social Media
5 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.65%) Digital TV
5 1 (0.65%) FPGA
5 1 (0.65%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.68%) Linux
2 10 (6.45%) Windows
3 2 (1.29%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 50 (32.26%) Agile
3 47 (30.32%) Continuous Integration
4 43 (27.74%) DevOps
4 43 (27.74%) TDD
5 40 (25.81%) Pair Programming
5 40 (25.81%) Unit Testing
6 37 (23.87%) Continuous Improvement
6 37 (23.87%) Customer Requirements
6 37 (23.87%) Software Testing
7 34 (21.94%) Validation
8 23 (14.84%) Test Automation
9 21 (13.55%) Verification and Validation
10 19 (12.26%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (9.68%) Code Quality
12 13 (8.39%) UML
13 12 (7.74%) Embedded Software Development
13 12 (7.74%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
13 12 (7.74%) Visualisation
14 11 (7.10%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 86 (55.48%) C
2 82 (52.90%) C++
3 50 (32.26%) C#
4 17 (10.97%) Ada
4 17 (10.97%) Python
5 16 (10.32%) Embedded C
6 15 (9.68%) MATLAB
7 12 (7.74%) JavaScript
8 9 (5.81%) Embedded C++
9 6 (3.87%) Java
10 5 (3.23%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.94%) Bash
11 3 (1.94%) SQL
12 2 (1.29%) C++/CLI
12 2 (1.29%) VB
13 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (8.39%) Degree
2 11 (7.10%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.16%) PhD
4 7 (4.52%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.29%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.65%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 3 (1.94%) zsh
2 1 (0.65%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.65%) Ansible
1 1 (0.65%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 10 (6.45%) IBM
2 4 (2.58%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.94%) Google
3 3 (1.94%) MathWorks
4 2 (1.29%) Twitter
5 1 (0.65%) Cisco
5 1 (0.65%) SAP