Software Engineering Contracts in Leeds

Software Engineering
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 52 35
Rank change year-on-year +25 -17 +17
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 37 46 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 4.64% 3.46% 5.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.34% 3.80% 5.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 28 57
10th Percentile £275 £421 £400
25th Percentile £300 £459 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% -2.38% +28.44%
75th Percentile £550 £591 £563
90th Percentile £581 £691 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -12.20% - +30.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 693 1,211 1,443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 86.84% 90.98% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 872 1,055
10th Percentile £300 £388 £313
25th Percentile £413 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 12 19
10th Percentile £11.75 £12.38 £17.95
25th Percentile £12.15 £16.87 £20.56
Median hourly rate £12.30 £58.25 £22.55
Median % change year-on-year -78.88% +158.37% +3.70%
75th Percentile £12.53 £70.00 £28.00
90th Percentile £15.24 - £28.85
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £12.53 £25.25 £18.00
% change year-on-year -50.38% +40.28% -22.40%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Leeds

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Leeds

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Leeds over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Leeds

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Leeds

Software Engineering
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 2 (5.41%) Drupal
2 1 (2.70%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 11 (29.73%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.70%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.92%) AWS
2 3 (8.11%) GCP
2 3 (8.11%) GitHub
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) GIS
1 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.70%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Git
General
1 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Finance
2 4 (10.81%) Telecoms
3 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Back Office
5 1 (2.70%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (54.05%) Developer
2 12 (32.43%) Software Developer
3 9 (24.32%) Software Engineer
4 8 (21.62%) Senior
5 5 (13.51%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Full Stack Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) iOS Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Designer
7 2 (5.41%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) IT Manager
7 2 (5.41%) IT Project Manager
7 2 (5.41%) JavaScript Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Project Manager
7 2 (5.41%) SAP Manager
7 2 (5.41%) SAP Project Manager
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Designer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Service Designer
7 2 (5.41%) Service Designer
8 1 (2.70%) Senior Business Analyst
8 1 (2.70%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (35.14%) HTML
2 4 (10.81%) CSS
2 4 (10.81%) React
3 3 (8.11%) jQuery
3 3 (8.11%) RESTful
4 2 (5.41%) Node.js
4 2 (5.41%) Playwright
4 2 (5.41%) React Native
4 2 (5.41%) Web Services
5 1 (2.70%) Akka
5 1 (2.70%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.70%) CSS3
5 1 (2.70%) Express.js
5 1 (2.70%) HTML5
5 1 (2.70%) Kafka
5 1 (2.70%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (2.70%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.41%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Apple iOS
2 2 (5.41%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (29.73%) Artificial Intelligence
1 11 (29.73%) Code Quality
1 11 (29.73%) Conversational UI
1 11 (29.73%) Mentoring
2 10 (27.03%) Agile
3 7 (18.92%) Performance Metrics
4 5 (13.51%) CI/CD
4 5 (13.51%) Full Stack Development
4 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (10.81%) Project Delivery
6 3 (8.11%) DevOps
6 3 (8.11%) iOS Development
6 3 (8.11%) Prototyping
6 3 (8.11%) Test Automation
6 3 (8.11%) User Experience
6 3 (8.11%) User Research
6 3 (8.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 2 (5.41%) Rapid Prototyping
7 2 (5.41%) Resource Management
7 2 (5.41%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (59.46%) JavaScript
2 15 (40.54%) Python
3 12 (32.43%) SQL
4 11 (29.73%) C#
5 5 (13.51%) TypeScript
6 3 (8.11%) Kotlin
6 3 (8.11%) Swift
7 2 (5.41%) Bash
7 2 (5.41%) C
7 2 (5.41%) Java
7 2 (5.41%) PHP
7 2 (5.41%) Scala
8 1 (2.70%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 13 (35.14%) Degree
2 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.70%) Grafana
2 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (29.73%) PayPal
2 3 (8.11%) SAP
3 2 (5.41%) Google
4 1 (2.70%) Ariba
4 1 (2.70%) Brio
4 1 (2.70%) ESRI
4 1 (2.70%) Salesforce