Software Engineer Contracts in Lancashire

Software Engineer
North West > Lancashire

The median Software Engineer daily rate in Lancashire is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 34 31
Rank change year-on-year +13 -3 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 11 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 5.67% 1.23% 3.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.63% 1.36% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £516
25th Percentile - - £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £538
75th Percentile - - £547
90th Percentile - - £549
North West median daily rate £549 £609 £425
% change year-on-year -9.82% +43.24% +1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 7
10th Percentile £46.09 £19.20 -
25th Percentile £47.55 £26.17 £41.25
Median hourly rate £48.00 £40.59 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.26% -4.49% -2.30%
75th Percentile £48.43 £43.39 £46.62
90th Percentile £48.90 - £49.04
North West median hourly rate £48.22 £40.59 £48.56
% change year-on-year +18.79% -16.42% +11.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Lancashire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Lancashire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Lancashire with a recognized job title 166 221 249
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.57% 90.57% 97.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 125 155
10th Percentile £200 £241 £190
25th Percentile £363 £401 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £564
90th Percentile £750 £700 £699
North West median daily rate £495 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -1.00% +8.11% +10.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 36 50
10th Percentile £15.00 £23.05 £14.99
25th Percentile £27.40 £28.40 £17.32
Median hourly rate £42.91 £41.37 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +3.72% +8.52% +50.99%
75th Percentile £46.18 £52.13 £44.03
90th Percentile £49.84 £54.91 £68.02
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £30.64 £20.25
% change year-on-year -13.87% +51.35% +12.47%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Lancashire

Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in Lancashire.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineer in Lancashire

Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in Lancashire.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineer in Lancashire

Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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
Blackpool - 3 £625 -
Preston +8 2 - - 2
Lancaster - 2 - - 1
Software Engineer
North West

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Software Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Lancashire region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Microservices
3 4 (36.36%) SDLC
3 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
4 3 (27.27%) Java
4 3 (27.27%) Oracle
4 3 (27.27%) Linux
4 3 (27.27%) Aerospace
4 3 (27.27%) Spring
4 3 (27.27%) Dependency Injection
4 3 (27.27%) MongoDB
4 3 (27.27%) Node.js
4 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Design Patterns
5 2 (18.18%) RESTful
5 2 (18.18%) AWS
5 2 (18.18%) Terraform
5 2 (18.18%) GitLab
5 2 (18.18%) C++
6 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
6 1 (9.09%) HTTP
6 1 (9.09%) SSL
6 1 (9.09%) JDBC
6 1 (9.09%) JPA
6 1 (9.09%) Avionics
6 1 (9.09%) Software Testing
6 1 (9.09%) JIRA

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 (18.18%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) HTTP
1 1 (9.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (27.27%) Aerospace
2 1 (9.09%) Avionics
2 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Node.js
1 3 (27.27%) Spring
2 2 (18.18%) RESTful
3 1 (9.09%) JDBC
3 1 (9.09%) JPA
3 1 (9.09%) JWT
3 1 (9.09%) WebSockets
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Microservices
3 4 (36.36%) SDLC
4 3 (27.27%) Dependency Injection
4 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Design Patterns
6 1 (9.09%) DevOps
6 1 (9.09%) Kanban
6 1 (9.09%) Load Balancing
6 1 (9.09%) Multithreading
6 1 (9.09%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle