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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 27 33
Rank change year-on-year -19 +6 +4
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 28 106 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 3.38% 6.04% 6.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.88% 7.38% 6.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 39 37
10th Percentile £423 £293 -
25th Percentile £470 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £575
90th Percentile £646 £653 £715
South East median daily rate £501 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -7.31% +2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 53 21
10th Percentile £47.69 £47.21 £51.25
25th Percentile £49.86 £59.44 £54.88
Median hourly rate £56.31 £67.02 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.98% +16.56% +4.55%
75th Percentile £60.72 £73.75 £64.63
90th Percentile £61.79 £79.50 £71.28
South East median hourly rate £53.69 £65.43 £57.50
% change year-on-year -17.94% +13.78% +4.55%

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 721 1,436 1,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.97% 81.78% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 808 709
10th Percentile £325 £379 £240
25th Percentile £457 £462 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.70% +12.29% +2.44%
75th Percentile £616 £675 £613
90th Percentile £663 £738 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 168 105
10th Percentile £18.87 £13.78 £15.50
25th Percentile £32.94 £26.19 £21.05
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +4.27% +90.31%
75th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £74.50
South East median hourly rate £24.33 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -48.78% -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 30 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineering in Hampshire over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 30 June 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 -12 14 £520 +30.00% 99
Basingstoke +20 4 - - 58
Southampton -4 3 - - 113
Fleet - 1 £440 - 5
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 16 (57.14%) Confluence
2 4 (14.29%) Apache
2 4 (14.29%) CMS
2 4 (14.29%) Drupal
2 4 (14.29%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) GCP
2 4 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (3.57%) GitHub
3 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) Internet
2 3 (10.71%) SNMP
2 3 (10.71%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) Relational Database
2 4 (14.29%) MySQL
2 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.57%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 18 (64.29%) JIRA
2 9 (32.14%) Bitbucket
2 9 (32.14%) Eclipse
2 9 (32.14%) Git
2 9 (32.14%) GoogleTest
2 9 (32.14%) Robot Framework
3 6 (21.43%) GitLab
3 6 (21.43%) Jenkins
4 4 (14.29%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.57%) Postman
5 1 (3.57%) Selenium
5 1 (3.57%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Aerospace
2 1 (3.57%) Finance
2 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (57.14%) Software Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Embedded Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) PHP Software Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Business Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) C# Software Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Data Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Data Business Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) GCP Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Software Test Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Test Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Python Developer
6 1 (3.57%) C++ Software Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Python Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.00%) .NET
1 7 (25.00%) CSS
1 7 (25.00%) HTML
2 6 (21.43%) Web Services
3 4 (14.29%) Ajax
3 4 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 4 (14.29%) CodeIgniter
3 4 (14.29%) jQuery
3 4 (14.29%) LAMP
3 4 (14.29%) SOAP
4 3 (10.71%) RESTful
5 2 (7.14%) Django
5 2 (7.14%) FastAPI
5 2 (7.14%) Flask
5 2 (7.14%) pytest
6 1 (3.57%) Celery
6 1 (3.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Legacy Code
2 3 (10.71%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (46.43%) Linux
2 4 (14.29%) Unix
3 3 (10.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) Agile
2 15 (53.57%) Scrum
3 11 (39.29%) Test Automation
4 9 (32.14%) OO
5 6 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 6 (21.43%) Migration
5 6 (21.43%) Validation
6 5 (17.86%) Concurrent Programming
6 5 (17.86%) Containerisation
6 5 (17.86%) Multithreading
7 4 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 4 (14.29%) Kanban
7 4 (14.29%) Lean Software Development
7 4 (14.29%) Microservices
7 4 (14.29%) MVC
7 4 (14.29%) Secure Coding
7 4 (14.29%) Software Testing
7 4 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
7 4 (14.29%) Sprint Retrospective
7 4 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 9 (32.14%) C++
3 7 (25.00%) C#
3 7 (25.00%) Python
4 5 (17.86%) Java
5 4 (14.29%) PHP
5 4 (14.29%) SQL
6 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.57%) C
Qualifications
1 18 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 15 (53.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) QA
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.71%) WMI
Vendors
1 12 (42.86%) Google
2 9 (32.14%) Atlassian
3 6 (21.43%) Intel
4 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 4 (14.29%) Zend
5 2 (7.14%) Palantir