Software Engineering Contracts in Hampshire

Software Engineering
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 32 20 29
Rank change year-on-year -12 +9 +5
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 37 104 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 4.96% 6.46% 6.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.51% 7.72% 7.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 39 50
10th Percentile £419 £67 £406
25th Percentile £455 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £450 £540
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% -16.67% -1.73%
75th Percentile £607 £563 £661
90th Percentile £660 £634 £700
South East median daily rate £513 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -6.82% +3.77% -1.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 50 16
10th Percentile £53.65 £46.25 £48.13
25th Percentile £57.44 £51.06 £53.95
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £58.70
Median % change year-on-year - +6.47% +17.41%
75th Percentile - £66.52 £65.34
90th Percentile £63.00 £80.00 £69.39
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £62.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year -8.84% +8.26% +14.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 671 1,348 1,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 89.95% 83.73% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 715 797
10th Percentile £325 £388 £240
25th Percentile £450 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £581 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.25% +10.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £618 £675 £625
90th Percentile £675 £738 £696
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 162 104
10th Percentile £20.10 £13.05 £18.25
25th Percentile £29.38 £25.52 £22.85
Median hourly rate £57.63 £57.35 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +8.21% +113.80%
75th Percentile £71.88 £62.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.63
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Hampshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Hampshire

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Hampshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Hampshire

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire 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
Portsmouth -5 19 £520 +30.00% 61
Basingstoke +22 4 - - 51
Southampton -4 4 £575 +27.78% 53
Farnborough -1 2 £450 -26.38% 10
Software Engineering
South East

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 19 (51.35%) Confluence
2 4 (10.81%) Apache
2 4 (10.81%) CMS
2 4 (10.81%) Drupal
2 4 (10.81%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 9 (24.32%) AWS
2 7 (18.92%) GCP
3 2 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (5.41%) Amazon S3
3 2 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (5.41%) PaaS
3 2 (5.41%) Serverless
4 1 (2.70%) Azure
4 1 (2.70%) GitHub
4 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.92%) Software-Defined Radio
2 6 (16.22%) SNMP
3 4 (10.81%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (24.32%) Relational Database
2 4 (10.81%) MySQL
2 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.70%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 19 (51.35%) JIRA
2 13 (35.14%) Robot Framework
3 12 (32.43%) Bitbucket
3 12 (32.43%) Eclipse
3 12 (32.43%) Git
3 12 (32.43%) GoogleTest
4 8 (21.62%) GitLab
5 6 (16.22%) Jenkins
6 4 (10.81%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
2 3 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (8.11%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.70%) Aviation
4 1 (2.70%) Finance
4 1 (2.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (51.35%) Software Engineer
2 7 (18.92%) Embedded Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Software Test Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Test Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) PHP Software Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Business Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) C# Software Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Data Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) Data Business Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) GCP Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Developer
7 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Python Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (32.43%) CSS
1 12 (32.43%) HTML
2 7 (18.92%) .NET
3 6 (16.22%) AngularJS
3 6 (16.22%) Web Services
4 4 (10.81%) Ajax
4 4 (10.81%) CodeIgniter
4 4 (10.81%) jQuery
4 4 (10.81%) LAMP
4 4 (10.81%) SOAP
5 2 (5.41%) Angular 2
5 2 (5.41%) Django
5 2 (5.41%) FastAPI
5 2 (5.41%) Flask
5 2 (5.41%) HTML5
5 2 (5.41%) Node.js
5 2 (5.41%) pytest
5 2 (5.41%) RESTful
6 1 (2.70%) Celery
6 1 (2.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Legacy Code
2 3 (8.11%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.41%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (45.95%) Linux
2 4 (10.81%) Unix
3 3 (8.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (70.27%) Agile
2 16 (43.24%) Scrum
3 12 (32.43%) CI/CD
4 11 (29.73%) Test Automation
5 9 (24.32%) OO
5 9 (24.32%) Validation
6 8 (21.62%) Software Testing
7 7 (18.92%) Containerisation
8 6 (16.22%) Design Patterns
8 6 (16.22%) Migration
8 6 (16.22%) Prototyping
8 6 (16.22%) SysML
8 6 (16.22%) UML
8 6 (16.22%) Verification and Validation
9 5 (13.51%) Concurrent Programming
9 5 (13.51%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (13.51%) Multithreading
9 5 (13.51%) User Stories
10 4 (10.81%) Secure Coding
10 4 (10.81%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (48.65%) JavaScript
2 13 (35.14%) C++
3 12 (32.43%) Python
4 7 (18.92%) C#
5 5 (13.51%) Java
6 4 (10.81%) PHP
6 4 (10.81%) SQL
7 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
7 3 (8.11%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.70%) C
8 1 (2.70%) Go
Qualifications
1 27 (72.97%) Security Cleared
2 24 (64.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 1 (2.70%) JSP 440
2 1 (2.70%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (24.32%) Docker
2 3 (8.11%) Firmware
3 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (21.62%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.11%) WMI
Vendors
1 17 (45.95%) Google
2 12 (32.43%) Atlassian
3 6 (16.22%) Intel
4 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
4 4 (10.81%) Zend
5 2 (5.41%) Palantir
6 1 (2.70%) Twitter
6 1 (2.70%) VMware