Software Engineering Contracts in Leeds

Software Engineering
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 30 52
Rank change year-on-year -2 +22 -17
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 28 36 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 6.02% 4.51% 3.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.54% 5.20% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 17 28
10th Percentile £450 £273 £421
25th Percentile £463 £300 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -12.20% -2.38%
75th Percentile £775 £550 £591
90th Percentile £777 £588 £691
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +11.11% -12.20% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 692 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.04% 86.61% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 421 872
10th Percentile £263 £300 £388
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £12.15 £16.87
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.30 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -78.88% +158.37%
75th Percentile £98.08 £12.53 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%

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 1 May 2025.

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 6 (21.43%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) Azure
2 6 (21.43%) Slack
3 5 (17.86%) AWS
4 4 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (10.71%) GitHub
6 2 (7.14%) GCP
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.57%) Apigee
7 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Stack
7 1 (3.57%) npm
7 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (42.86%) MySQL
2 9 (32.14%) Apache Cassandra
2 9 (32.14%) MongoDB
2 9 (32.14%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 7 (25.00%) Git
1 7 (25.00%) Jasmine
1 7 (25.00%) JIRA
1 7 (25.00%) JUnit
2 1 (3.57%) Babel
2 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.57%) GitLab
2 1 (3.57%) webpack
General
1 7 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Finance
3 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (57.14%) Developer
2 13 (46.43%) Senior
3 10 (35.71%) Software Engineer
4 8 (28.57%) Java Developer
5 7 (25.00%) Senior Developer
5 7 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (21.43%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (14.29%) React Developer
8 3 (10.71%) .NET Software Engineer
8 3 (10.71%) Architect
9 2 (7.14%) Java Engineer
9 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
10 1 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
10 1 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
10 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
10 1 (3.57%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
10 1 (3.57%) Senior Java Engineer
10 1 (3.57%) Senior SQL Developer
10 1 (3.57%) Technical Architect
10 1 (3.57%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (32.14%) .NET
1 9 (32.14%) Spring
1 9 (32.14%) Spring Boot
2 8 (28.57%) React
2 8 (28.57%) Spring Security
3 7 (25.00%) RESTful
3 7 (25.00%) Spring Batch
3 7 (25.00%) Swagger
4 5 (17.86%) OpenAPI
4 5 (17.86%) React Native
5 4 (14.29%) AngularJS
6 3 (10.71%) .NET Core
6 3 (10.71%) Laravel
6 3 (10.71%) Vue
6 3 (10.71%) WPF
7 2 (7.14%) Next.js
7 2 (7.14%) Node.js
8 1 (3.57%) D3.js
8 1 (3.57%) HTML
8 1 (3.57%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (10.71%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (7.14%) Mobile App
3 2 (7.14%) NHS
4 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Linux
1 10 (35.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (10.71%) Android
2 3 (10.71%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.57%) HPUX
3 1 (3.57%) Solaris
3 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) BDD
1 15 (53.57%) TDD
2 11 (39.29%) Technical Leadership
3 10 (35.71%) Continuous Delivery
3 10 (35.71%) Mentoring
3 10 (35.71%) Microservices
4 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 8 (28.57%) Coaching
4 8 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 7 (25.00%) Agile
6 6 (21.43%) API Design
6 6 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (21.43%) DevOps
6 6 (21.43%) High Availability
6 6 (21.43%) Kernel Tuning
6 6 (21.43%) Operational Stability
6 6 (21.43%) OWASP
6 6 (21.43%) Test Automation
7 5 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (14.29%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) SQL
2 11 (39.29%) Java
3 9 (32.14%) Bash
4 8 (28.57%) C#
5 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
6 3 (10.71%) PHP
7 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
8 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
8 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (32.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (3.57%) IBM
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
1 1 (3.57%) Sun
1 1 (3.57%) Unisys