Software Engineering Contracts in Gloucestershire

Software Engineering
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 23 39 16
Rank change year-on-year +16 -23 -3
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 18 20 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 6.57% 4.66% 13.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.53% 5.43% 14.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 52
10th Percentile - - £500
25th Percentile £575 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £668 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £697 £719 £700
90th Percentile £738 £765 £723
South West median daily rate £575 £525 £579
% change year-on-year +9.52% -9.33% +5.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile £64.00 £70.25 £57.90
25th Percentile £66.25 £70.63 £66.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £72.50 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% -3.97% +37.27%
75th Percentile £68.75 £74.38 £78.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £74.75 -
South West median hourly rate £67.00 £67.02 £65.50
% change year-on-year -0.03% +2.32% +3.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 239 368 438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 87.23% 85.78% 92.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 230 307
10th Percentile £237 £363 £295
25th Percentile £413 £458 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +6.34%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £650
90th Percentile £729 £738 £700
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 31 37
10th Percentile £25.56 £14.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.88 £19.57 £50.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £35.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +92.86% -50.00% +116.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.38 £78.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £71.50 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Gloucestershire

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Gloucestershire

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Gloucestershire

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Gloucestershire

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Cheltenham +8 9 £668 +18.67% 30
Filton +6 5 - - 2
Gloucester -1 1 £750 +15.38% 22
Software Engineering
South West

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 2 (11.11%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Big Data
1 3 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (16.67%) Hadoop
2 2 (11.11%) Flink
3 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.56%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 3 (16.67%) JIRA
3 2 (11.11%) Git
4 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.56%) GitLab
4 1 (5.56%) JUnit
4 1 (5.56%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (5.56%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 2 (11.11%) Aerospace
2 1 (5.56%) Aviation
2 1 (5.56%) Military
2 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (77.78%) Software Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) C++ Software Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Data Scientist
4 2 (11.11%) Java Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Ada Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Ada Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Spring
1 3 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (11.11%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.56%) JPA
3 1 (5.56%) pytest
3 1 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.56%) React
3 1 (5.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Agile
1 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (22.22%) DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 3 (16.67%) Data Engineering
3 3 (16.67%) Data Science
3 3 (16.67%) ETL
3 3 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 3 (16.67%) Predictive Modelling
4 1 (5.56%) Clean Code
4 1 (5.56%) Computer Science
4 1 (5.56%) Epics
4 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (5.56%) Records Management
4 1 (5.56%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (5.56%) SDLC
4 1 (5.56%) UML
4 1 (5.56%) User Research
4 1 (5.56%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (83.33%) Java
2 5 (27.78%) C
2 5 (27.78%) C++
2 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
3 4 (22.22%) Python
4 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.56%) Ada
5 1 (5.56%) Assembly Language
5 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 12 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.56%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (5.56%) Grafana
3 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) CA Agile Central
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle
1 1 (5.56%) Wind River