Software Engineering Contracts in Exeter

Software Engineering
Devon > Exeter

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Exeter 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 20 28
Rank change year-on-year +11 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 4 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Exeter 10.00% 4.05% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.50% 4.80% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 1
10th Percentile £439 £336 -
25th Percentile £478 £386 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £750
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -38.00% +11.94%
75th Percentile - £491 -
90th Percentile - £500 -
Devon median daily rate £500 £458 £750
% change year-on-year +9.29% -39.00% +12.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Exeter

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 Exeter.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32 125 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Exeter 80.00% 84.46% 94.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 102 87
10th Percentile £307 £156 £335
25th Percentile £345 £328 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -22.73% +34.98%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £600
90th Percentile £579 £600 £675
Devon median daily rate £425 £425 £473
% change year-on-year - -10.05% +15.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 4
10th Percentile - £10.76 £26.10
25th Percentile - £13.86 £38.25
Median hourly rate - £26.40 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year - -43.84% +123.81%
75th Percentile - £30.25 £51.38
90th Percentile - - £52.05
Devon median hourly rate £65.00 £30.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +116.67% -45.45% +161.90%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Exeter

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Exeter.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Exeter

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Exeter

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Exeter.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Exeter

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Exeter

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Exeter.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Exeter

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Exeter 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Scientific Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum Master
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Data Science
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA