Software Engineer Contracts in Leeds

Software Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Software Engineer daily rate in Leeds is £490, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
4 Aug 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 56 75
Rank change year-on-year +13 +19 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 21 8 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 3.72% 1.11% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.80% 1.22% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 9
10th Percentile £393 £334 £450
25th Percentile £450 £441 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -1.23%
75th Percentile £500 - £525
90th Percentile £540 - £578
West Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £500 £493
% change year-on-year -2.00% +1.52% +3.68%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 552 658 1,123
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.70% 91.52% 98.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 436 769
10th Percentile £308 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £638
90th Percentile £609 £650 £702
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 20 13
10th Percentile £25.15 £17.84 £12.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £18.44 £15.75
Median hourly rate £29.56 £28.75 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +51.32% -10.59%
75th Percentile £50.48 £48.75 £21.31
90th Percentile £79.33 £49.50 £23.45
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.57 £28.75 £19.00
% change year-on-year -18.02% +51.32% -0.42%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Leeds

Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineer in Leeds

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Leeds over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineer in Leeds

Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineer in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 4 August 2025, 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 Leeds region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (76.19%) Software Engineering
2 13 (61.90%) Agile
3 11 (52.38%) DevOps
3 11 (52.38%) Terraform
4 9 (42.86%) Serverless
4 9 (42.86%) React
4 9 (42.86%) Azure
4 9 (42.86%) AWS
5 8 (38.10%) .NET
6 7 (33.33%) C#
6 7 (33.33%) SQL
6 7 (33.33%) Node.js
6 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
7 6 (28.57%) Public Sector
7 6 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (23.81%) TypeScript
8 5 (23.81%) Docker
8 5 (23.81%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
9 4 (19.05%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (19.05%) Clean Code
9 4 (19.05%) Cloud Native
9 4 (19.05%) NHS
10 3 (14.29%) Scrum
10 3 (14.29%) PL/SQL
10 3 (14.29%) COBOL
10 3 (14.29%) Oracle
10 3 (14.29%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (14.29%) Python

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (4.76%) Confluence
1 1 (4.76%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) AWS
1 9 (42.86%) Azure
1 9 (42.86%) Serverless
2 6 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (19.05%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Functions
4 3 (14.29%) GitHub
4 3 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.52%) Slack
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Service Fabric
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Stack
6 1 (4.76%) Datadog
6 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) DynamoDB
2 2 (9.52%) DocumentDB
2 2 (9.52%) Redis
3 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Git
1 3 (14.29%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (9.52%) JIRA
2 2 (9.52%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) React
2 8 (38.10%) .NET
3 7 (33.33%) Node.js
4 2 (9.52%) .NET Core
4 2 (9.52%) Kafka
4 2 (9.52%) Razor View Engine
4 2 (9.52%) REST
5 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.76%) ARM Templates
5 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (4.76%) AWS CDK
5 1 (4.76%) Blazor
5 1 (4.76%) D3.js
5 1 (4.76%) Django
5 1 (4.76%) FHIR
5 1 (4.76%) GraphQL
5 1 (4.76%) Next.js
5 1 (4.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Cloud Native
1 4 (19.05%) NHS
2 3 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) Software Engineering
2 13 (61.90%) Agile
3 11 (52.38%) DevOps
4 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (23.81%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (19.05%) Clean Code
7 3 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (14.29%) Scrum
7 3 (14.29%) Unit Testing
8 2 (9.52%) Code Quality
8 2 (9.52%) ETL
8 2 (9.52%) Impact Analysis
8 2 (9.52%) Microservices
8 2 (9.52%) Project Planning
8 2 (9.52%) Secure Coding
8 2 (9.52%) Story Points
8 2 (9.52%) Translating Business Requirements
8 2 (9.52%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) C#
1 7 (33.33%) SQL
2 5 (23.81%) TypeScript
3 3 (14.29%) COBOL
3 3 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 3 (14.29%) Python
4 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.76%) Bicep
5 1 (4.76%) VB
5 1 (4.76%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
1 2 (9.52%) QA
1 2 (9.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (52.38%) Terraform
2 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Oracle
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Perforce
3 1 (4.76%) Brio
27 Software Engineer jobs in West Yorkshire