Software Engineering Contract Job Trends in Herefordshire

Software Engineering
West Midlands > Herefordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Herefordshire requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 16 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Herefordshire 4.55% 1.89% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.62% 2.44% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile £615 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £484 £550
% change year-on-year +8.58% -12.09% +1.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 65 41 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire 98.48% 77.36% 82.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 32 11
10th Percentile £515 £513 £300
25th Percentile £525 £563 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £612 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.21% +11.27% +12.82%
75th Percentile £700 £635 £706
90th Percentile £750 £685 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 1
10th Percentile £20.81 - -
25th Percentile £21.46 £31.25 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -35.00% -
75th Percentile - £33.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.01 £22.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year -3.46% -8.80% +41.24%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Herefordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Herefordshire

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Herefordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing Software Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Herefordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing Software Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire region over the 6 months to 27 November 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
Hereford - 2 £575 - 3
Software Engineering
West Midlands

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Herefordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (100.00%) InfluxDB
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Service Management
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Domain Models
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Go
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft