Software Engineer Contracts in England

The median contractor rate for a Software Engineer was £425 per day in advertised job vacancies in England during the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

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

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Software Engineer UK / England
Location	3 months to 24 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	237	260	249
Rank change year-on-year	+23	-11
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer	424	457	466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	1.00%	0.93%	0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category	1.05%	0.97%	0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted	200	259	239
Median daily rate	£425	£400	£375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+6.25%	+6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£325	£320	£294
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£575	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£393	£380	£350
% change year-on-year	+3.28%	+8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted	94	84	86
Median hourly rate	£42.50	£42.35	£42.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+0.35%	+0.83%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£35.75	£32.50	£34.57
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£52.50	£50.55	£55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£42.35	£40.00
% change year-on-year	+0.35%	+5.87%

The next table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all job roles in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title. As such, the figures in the first row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract IT Job Roles England
Contract job vacancies with a job title containing a recognized job role	40228	46925	48391
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	94.73%	95.04%	94.83%
Number of daily rates quoted	26246	30992	30918
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£275	£263	£250
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£575
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£400	£370
% change year-on-year	-	+8.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1226	1370	1877
Median hourly rate	£18.00	£17.50	£16.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+2.85%	+6.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.50	£11.00	£11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.50	£43.50	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£17.48	£16.00
% change year-on-year	+0.14%	+9.21%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England that featured Software Engineer in the job title.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in England

Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Software Engineer in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Software Engineer in England

Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Software Engineer in England over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Software Engineer in England

Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Software Engineer in England

Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Software Engineer in England over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Software Engineer in England

Software 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 Engineer within the England region over the 3 months to 24 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	+23	142	£498	+10.55%	117
South East	-11	73	£370	+1.71%	69
South West	+13	60	£375	+11.11%	62
North West	+40	46	£406	+0.30%	36
East of England	-3	36	£385	+10.00%	75
East Midlands	+16	32	£340	-32.00%	10
Yorkshire	+17	17	£393	+5.36%	29
West Midlands	-2	10	£444	+7.01%	12
North East	+49	4	£415	-16.16%	7
Midlands	+9	1	-	-	22
Software Engineer UK

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 24 June 2017, Software Engineer contract jobs required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1	842 (96.89%)	Software Engineering
2	303 (34.87%)	C++
3	283 (32.57%)	Agile Software Development
4	280 (32.22%)	Java
5	241 (27.73%)	C
6	240 (27.62%)	Linux
7	196 (22.55%)	C#
8	152 (17.49%)	SQL
9	145 (16.69%)	Python
10	141 (16.23%)	JavaScript
11	139 (16.00%)	TDD
12	135 (15.54%)	Security Cleared
13	126 (14.50%)	OO
14	117 (13.46%)	.NET
15	113 (13.00%)	Git (software)

16	110 (12.66%)	Scrum
16	110 (12.66%)	SC Cleared
17	103 (11.85%)	UML
18	96 (11.05%)	Windows
18	96 (11.05%)	Embedded C
19	90 (10.36%)	Configuration Management
20	87 (10.01%)	Spring
21	81 (9.32%)	REST
21	81 (9.32%)	SDLC
22	80 (9.21%)	Test Automation
23	79 (9.09%)	Node.js
24	77 (8.86%)	HTML
25	76 (8.75%)	Web Services
25	76 (8.75%)	Multithreading
26	74 (8.52%)	Integration Testing

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	51 (5.87%)	Apache
2	35 (4.03%)	Tomcat
3	25 (2.88%)	Elasticsearch
4	21 (2.42%)	Apache Spark
5	17 (1.96%)	JBoss
5	17 (1.96%)	WebLogic
6	16 (1.84%)	Confluence
7	13 (1.50%)	NServiceBus
8	12 (1.38%)	CMS
9	11 (1.27%)	nginx
9	11 (1.27%)	WebSphere
10	8 (0.92%)	ArcGIS
11	7 (0.81%)	Drupal
11	7 (0.81%)	GlassFish
12	6 (0.69%)	Cloud Foundry
12	6 (0.69%)	SharePoint
13	4 (0.46%)	Apache Pig
13	4 (0.46%)	Mule
14	3 (0.35%)	Adobe Experience Manager
15	2 (0.23%)	Sitecore CMS

Applications
1	40 (4.60%)	Simulink
2	16 (1.84%)	Microsoft Office
3	6 (0.69%)	Microsoft Excel
3	6 (0.69%)	TargetLink
4	3 (0.35%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	2 (0.23%)	Doxygen
5	2 (0.23%)	MS Visio
6	1 (0.12%)	Adobe Creative Suite
6	1 (0.12%)	HipChat
6	1 (0.12%)	Photoshop
6	1 (0.12%)	Stateflow

Business Applications
1	10 (1.15%)	LabWindows
2	4 (0.46%)	Salesforce.com CRM
3	2 (0.23%)	Oracle Cash Management
3	2 (0.23%)	Payment Gateway
3	2 (0.23%)	Remedy ITSM
3	2 (0.23%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	2 (0.23%)	Teamcenter
4	1 (0.12%)	BusinessWorks
4	1 (0.12%)	Dynamics CRM
4	1 (0.12%)	Siebel CRM

Cloud Services
1	50 (5.75%)	Amazon AWS
2	42 (4.83%)	Microsoft Azure
3	15 (1.73%)	GitHub
4	10 (1.15%)	PaaS
5	7 (0.81%)	OpenShift
5	7 (0.81%)	SaaS
6	6 (0.69%)	IaaS
6	6 (0.69%)	Slack
7	5 (0.58%)	Google Analytics
8	4 (0.46%)	Amazon EC2
9	3 (0.35%)	Oracle Service Cloud
10	2 (0.23%)	Amazon Kinesis
10	2 (0.23%)	AWS CloudFormation
10	2 (0.23%)	AWS Lambda
10	2 (0.23%)	Cloud Computing
10	2 (0.23%)	Google Cloud Platform
10	2 (0.23%)	Oracle CX
11	1 (0.12%)	Amazon SQS
11	1 (0.12%)	Google App Engine
11	1 (0.12%)	Google Play

Communications & Networking
1	36 (4.14%)	TCP/IP
2	31 (3.57%)	HTTP
3	25 (2.88%)	Wireshark
4	22 (2.53%)	SSL
5	16 (1.84%)	Bluetooth
6	14 (1.61%)	Internet
7	13 (1.50%)	Asterisk PBX
7	13 (1.50%)	Diameter Protocol
7	13 (1.50%)	FlexRay
7	13 (1.50%)	GSM
7	13 (1.50%)	LTE
7	13 (1.50%)	PBX
7	13 (1.50%)	RANAP
7	13 (1.50%)	RTP
7	13 (1.50%)	UMTS
7	13 (1.50%)	VoIP
8	12 (1.38%)	Link 16
8	12 (1.38%)	Wireless
9	11 (1.27%)	Firewall
10	10 (1.15%)	GGSN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	55 (6.33%)	MongoDB
2	53 (6.10%)	NoSQL
3	48 (5.52%)	MySQL
3	48 (5.52%)	SQL Server
4	45 (5.18%)	PostgreSQL
5	30 (3.45%)	Hadoop
6	28 (3.22%)	Relational Database
7	25 (2.88%)	Big Data
8	23 (2.65%)	Apache Cassandra
9	13 (1.50%)	Redis
10	10 (1.15%)	Apache Hive
11	9 (1.04%)	Data Warehouse
12	8 (0.92%)	Oracle Database
13	6 (0.69%)	Blockchain
13	6 (0.69%)	RDBMS
14	4 (0.46%)	Amazon DynamoDB
14	4 (0.46%)	Geospatial Data
14	4 (0.46%)	GIS
14	4 (0.46%)	Neo4j
15	3 (0.35%)	Amazon Redshift

Development Applications
1	113 (13.00%)	Git (software)
2	74 (8.52%)	Jenkins
3	67 (7.71%)	Rational DOORS
4	61 (7.02%)	Visual Studio
5	49 (5.64%)	Rational Rhapsody
6	48 (5.52%)	Eclipse
7	40 (4.60%)	JIRA
8	34 (3.91%)	JUnit
9	33 (3.80%)	Subversion
10	30 (3.45%)	Cucumber
11	27 (3.11%)	GDB
12	26 (2.99%)	Team Foundation Server
13	24 (2.76%)	Maven
14	18 (2.07%)	Selenium
15	17 (1.96%)	GCC
16	15 (1.73%)	TeamCity
17	14 (1.61%)	Octopus Deploy
18	13 (1.50%)	Hudson
18	13 (1.50%)	Trac
19	12 (1.38%)	Ant

General
1	67 (7.71%)	Finance
2	39 (4.49%)	Automotive
3	35 (4.03%)	Aerospace
4	34 (3.91%)	Electronics
5	29 (3.34%)	Manufacturing
6	28 (3.22%)	Banking
7	27 (3.11%)	Telecoms
8	26 (2.99%)	Military
9	24 (2.76%)	Avionics
10	19 (2.19%)	Games
11	16 (1.84%)	Retail
12	7 (0.81%)	Publishing
13	6 (0.69%)	Investment Banking
13	6 (0.69%)	Marketing
14	5 (0.58%)	Advertising
14	5 (0.58%)	Retail Banking
15	4 (0.46%)	Financial Institution
16	3 (0.35%)	Back Office
17	2 (0.23%)	Front Office
17	2 (0.23%)	Pharmaceutical

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	117 (13.46%)	.NET
2	87 (10.01%)	Spring
3	81 (9.32%)	REST
4	79 (9.09%)	Node.js
5	77 (8.86%)	HTML
6	76 (8.75%)	Web Services
7	70 (8.06%)	CSS
8	49 (5.64%)	AngularJS
9	46 (5.29%)	XML
10	41 (4.72%)	RESTful
11	39 (4.49%)	SOAP
12	34 (3.91%)	Boost C++ Libraries
12	34 (3.91%)	STL
13	32 (3.68%)	Hibernate
13	32 (3.68%)	HTML5
14	31 (3.57%)	JSON
15	30 (3.45%)	WPF
16	29 (3.34%)	J2EE
17	27 (3.11%)	ASP.NET
17	27 (3.11%)	jQuery

Miscellaneous
1	47 (5.41%)	Computer Science
2	42 (4.83%)	Analytical Skills
3	33 (3.80%)	User Experience
4	31 (3.57%)	Embedded Systems
5	22 (2.53%)	Algorithms
5	22 (2.53%)	Device Driver
5	22 (2.53%)	Greenfield Project
6	16 (1.84%)	RIA
7	15 (1.73%)	Mobile App
8	14 (1.61%)	Field-Programmable Gate Array
9	13 (1.50%)	Clustering
9	13 (1.50%)	Data Structures
10	10 (1.15%)	Fintech
11	9 (1.04%)	NHS
12	6 (0.69%)	Enterprise Software
13	5 (0.58%)	Linux Command Line
13	5 (0.58%)	Robotics
13	5 (0.58%)	STB
14	4 (0.46%)	Cyber Attack
14	4 (0.46%)	SCADA

Operating Systems
1	240 (27.62%)	Linux
2	96 (11.05%)	Windows
3	65 (7.48%)	Unix
4	34 (3.91%)	Android
5	27 (3.11%)	Apple iOS
6	25 (2.88%)	Embedded Linux
6	25 (2.88%)	Ubuntu
7	14 (1.61%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8	11 (1.27%)	VxWorks
9	8 (0.92%)	CentOS
10	4 (0.46%)	CoreOS
10	4 (0.46%)	Debian
10	4 (0.46%)	Nucleus RTOS
11	3 (0.35%)	Windows Embedded Compact
11	3 (0.35%)	Windows Server
12	2 (0.23%)	Solaris
12	2 (0.23%)	ThreadX
13	1 (0.12%)	HPUX
13	1 (0.12%)	Mac OS
13	1 (0.12%)	uClinux

Processes & Methodologies
1	842 (96.89%)	Software Engineering
2	283 (32.57%)	Agile Software Development
3	139 (16.00%)	TDD
4	126 (14.50%)	OO
5	110 (12.66%)	Scrum
6	103 (11.85%)	UML
7	90 (10.36%)	Configuration Management
8	81 (9.32%)	SDLC
9	80 (9.21%)	Test Automation
10	76 (8.75%)	Multithreading
11	74 (8.52%)	Integration Testing
12	73 (8.40%)	DevOps
13	71 (8.17%)	BDD
13	71 (8.17%)	Continuous Integration
14	69 (7.94%)	Open Source
15	68 (7.83%)	Microservices
16	62 (7.13%)	MVC
17	47 (5.41%)	Unit Testing
18	37 (4.26%)	E-Commerce
19	35 (4.03%)	OOD

Programming Languages
1	303 (34.87%)	C++
2	280 (32.22%)	Java
3	241 (27.73%)	C
4	196 (22.55%)	C#
5	152 (17.49%)	SQL
6	145 (16.69%)	Python
7	141 (16.23%)	JavaScript
8	96 (11.05%)	Embedded C
9	55 (6.33%)	Ada
10	50 (5.75%)	MATLAB
11	48 (5.52%)	Perl
12	41 (4.72%)	Scala
13	38 (4.37%)	Ruby
14	37 (4.26%)	PHP
15	28 (3.22%)	Embedded C++
16	22 (2.53%)	PowerShell
17	21 (2.42%)	Bash Shell
17	21 (2.42%)	T-SQL
18	19 (2.19%)	Ada 95
19	16 (1.84%)	Assembly Language

Qualifications
1	135 (15.54%)	Security Cleared
2	110 (12.66%)	SC Cleared
3	60 (6.90%)	Degree
4	25 (2.88%)	Computer Science Degree
5	11 (1.27%)	Microsoft Certification
6	7 (0.81%)	DV Cleared
7	6 (0.69%)	RHCE
8	4 (0.46%)	BPSS Clearance
9	3 (0.35%)	MCTS
10	2 (0.23%)	HND
10	2 (0.23%)	Master's Degree
10	2 (0.23%)	PhD
11	1 (0.12%)	Numerate Degree
11	1 (0.12%)	Postgraduate

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	26 (2.99%)	QA
2	25 (2.88%)	MISRA
3	13 (1.50%)	DO-178B
3	13 (1.50%)	IEC 62304
3	13 (1.50%)	MISRA C
4	10 (1.15%)	MIL-STD-1553
5	8 (0.92%)	ISO 26262
6	7 (0.81%)	Def Stans
7	4 (0.46%)	IEC 61508
8	3 (0.35%)	MIL-STD-498
9	2 (0.23%)	WCAG
10	1 (0.12%)	DO-254
10	1 (0.12%)	ISO 13485
10	1 (0.12%)	ISO 8583
10	1 (0.12%)	ISO 9001
10	1 (0.12%)	MiFID
10	1 (0.12%)	WAI

System Software
1	51 (5.87%)	Docker
2	11 (1.27%)	Firmware
3	4 (0.46%)	Active Directory
3	4 (0.46%)	Apache ZooKeeper
3	4 (0.46%)	KVM
3	4 (0.46%)	LXC
4	2 (0.23%)	VMware Infrastructure
5	1 (0.12%)	Apache Flume

Systems Management
1	28 (3.22%)	Ansible
1	28 (3.22%)	Puppet
2	20 (2.30%)	Opscode Chef
3	17 (1.96%)	Kibana
4	11 (1.27%)	Kubernetes
5	8 (0.92%)	Grafana
6	7 (0.81%)	Graphite
6	7 (0.81%)	Mesos
7	6 (0.69%)	Salt
8	4 (0.46%)	logstash
8	4 (0.46%)	OpenAM
8	4 (0.46%)	OpenIDM
8	4 (0.46%)	Packer
9	3 (0.35%)	Oozie
9	3 (0.35%)	Prometheus
9	3 (0.35%)	Terraform
10	2 (0.23%)	Hadoop YARN
10	2 (0.23%)	Nagios
10	2 (0.23%)	SCCM
10	2 (0.23%)	WSUS

Vendors
1	62 (7.13%)	Microsoft
2	45 (5.18%)	Oracle
3	19 (2.19%)	Red Hat
4	14 (1.61%)	Cisco
4	14 (1.61%)	Serena
5	10 (1.15%)	Google
6	8 (0.92%)	Adobe
6	8 (0.92%)	hybris
7	7 (0.81%)	Splunk
8	6 (0.69%)	IBM
8	6 (0.69%)	Salesforce.com
8	6 (0.69%)	TIBCO
8	6 (0.69%)	VMware
9	5 (0.58%)	Luciad
9	5 (0.58%)	Pega
9	5 (0.58%)	webMethods
10	4 (0.46%)	Atlassian
10	4 (0.46%)	ForgeRock
10	4 (0.46%)	Wind River
10	4 (0.46%)	Xamarin