Software Development Engineer Contracts in England

Software Development Engineer
UK > England

The median Software Development Engineer daily rate in England is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 519 633 736
Rank change year-on-year +114 +103 -128
Contract jobs requiring a Software Development Engineer 23 20 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.062% 0.040% 0.066%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.042% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 21
10th Percentile £406 £483 £363
25th Percentile £425 £503 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £488 £675 £550
90th Percentile £494 - £725
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £49.00 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - +38.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 34,483 47,741 67,845
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.62% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,890 33,903 48,246
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,432 1,409 1,905
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.35 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.31 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.32% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.60 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.07% +91.49% +3.14%

Software Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Development Engineer in England

Software Development Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Development Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Software Development Engineer in England

Software Development Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Development Engineer in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Development Engineer in England

Software Development Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Development Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Software Development Engineer in England

Software Development Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Development Engineer in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Development Engineer in England

Software Development Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Development Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 30 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
London +96 13 £475 -13.64% 3
South East - 5 £450 - 1
East of England - 4 - - 6
South West - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - - 3
Midlands - 1 - - 5
Software Development Engineer
UK

Software Development Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, Software Development 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 England region featuring Software Development Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (65.22%) Software Engineering
2 14 (60.87%) Degree
3 12 (52.17%) C++
4 11 (47.83%) Oracle
4 11 (47.83%) Computer Science
4 11 (47.83%) Agile
5 9 (39.13%) Azure
6 8 (34.78%) Scrum
6 8 (34.78%) Validation
7 7 (30.43%) Kafka
7 7 (30.43%) Feasibility Study
8 6 (26.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
8 6 (26.09%) Product Management
8 6 (26.09%) Git
8 6 (26.09%) Couchbase
8 6 (26.09%) Software Testing
9 5 (21.74%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (21.74%) SQL
9 5 (21.74%) Linux
9 5 (21.74%) Python
9 5 (21.74%) Jenkins
9 5 (21.74%) SDET
9 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
9 5 (21.74%) RESTful
10 4 (17.39%) Manual Testing
10 4 (17.39%) Performance Management
10 4 (17.39%) VirtualBox
10 4 (17.39%) Open Source
10 4 (17.39%) Confluence

Software Development Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (17.39%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) Azure
2 3 (13.04%) AWS
3 2 (8.70%) GitHub
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.35%) Azure API Management
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
4 1 (4.35%) GCP
4 1 (4.35%) npm
4 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.35%) Serverless
4 1 (4.35%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) Couchbase
2 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (4.35%) KDB
3 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Git
2 5 (21.74%) Jenkins
3 4 (17.39%) Artifactory
3 4 (17.39%) Bitbucket
3 4 (17.39%) JIRA
4 1 (4.35%) Babel
4 1 (4.35%) Maven
4 1 (4.35%) webpack
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Aviation
3 1 (4.35%) Electronics
3 1 (4.35%) Front Office
3 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.35%) Marketing
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) Kafka
2 5 (21.74%) RESTful
3 4 (17.39%) SOAP
3 4 (17.39%) XML
4 2 (8.70%) CSS
4 2 (8.70%) React
4 2 (8.70%) Redux
4 2 (8.70%) REST
5 1 (4.35%) Akka
5 1 (4.35%) Drools
5 1 (4.35%) JSON
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (4.35%) Middleware
5 1 (4.35%) Node.js
5 1 (4.35%) NumPy
5 1 (4.35%) Playwright
5 1 (4.35%) Spring
5 1 (4.35%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.70%) Algorithms
2 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) Derivative
3 1 (4.35%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (4.35%) Fixed Income
3 1 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (4.35%) Grid Computing
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Code
3 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
2 4 (17.39%) Embedded Linux
2 4 (17.39%) Windows
3 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) Software Engineering
2 11 (47.83%) Agile
2 11 (47.83%) Computer Science
3 8 (34.78%) Scrum
3 8 (34.78%) Validation
4 7 (30.43%) Feasibility Study
5 6 (26.09%) Product Management
5 6 (26.09%) Software Testing
6 5 (21.74%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (21.74%) SDET
6 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
7 4 (17.39%) API Testing
7 4 (17.39%) End-to-End Testing
7 4 (17.39%) Manual Testing
7 4 (17.39%) Open Source
7 4 (17.39%) Performance Management
8 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
8 3 (13.04%) Customer-Centric Approach
8 3 (13.04%) Customer-Centricity
8 3 (13.04%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) C++
2 5 (21.74%) Python
2 5 (21.74%) SQL
3 3 (13.04%) C
3 3 (13.04%) C#
3 3 (13.04%) Java
3 3 (13.04%) TypeScript
4 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.35%) Groovy
5 1 (4.35%) Perl
5 1 (4.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (60.87%) Degree
2 6 (26.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.35%) PhD
3 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) ISO 20022
1 1 (4.35%) MiFID
1 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (17.39%) VirtualBox
2 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.35%) Podman
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Dell
3 1 (4.35%) SAP
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk
3 1 (4.35%) Typelevel