Software Engineering Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Software Engineering
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 20 46
Rank change year-on-year -9 +26 +6
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 49 51 27
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 6.82% 8.25% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.73% 9.50% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 35 21
10th Percentile £385 £450 £488
25th Percentile £431 £471 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £534 £681 £575
90th Percentile £575 £775 £600
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -2.44% -4.65% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £37.50 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £37.50 -

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 634 537 822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 88.18% 86.89% 90.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 339 558
10th Percentile £301 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -8.57% -
75th Percentile £573 £573 £613
90th Percentile £648 £688 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £515
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 6
10th Percentile - £15.59 £18.50
25th Percentile - £17.43 £18.74
Median hourly rate £14.25 £35.00 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year -59.29% +66.61% -2.29%
75th Percentile £25.75 £41.50 £21.80
90th Percentile £27.40 £98.25 £41.98
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £32.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -31.88% +71.05% -11.63%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Leeds

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Leeds over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Leeds

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 33 (67.35%) AWS
2 25 (51.02%) Serverless
3 17 (34.69%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (30.61%) Azure
5 11 (22.45%) Amazon ECS
5 11 (22.45%) GitHub
6 10 (20.41%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (16.33%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (14.29%) Azure Functions
9 6 (12.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (12.24%) Amazon S3
10 4 (8.16%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (6.12%) GCP
11 3 (6.12%) Slack
12 2 (4.08%) Azure AKS
12 2 (4.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (4.08%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (4.08%) PaaS
13 1 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) DynamoDB
2 4 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (8.16%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.12%) DocumentDB
3 3 (6.12%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.12%) NoSQL
3 3 (6.12%) Redis
4 2 (4.08%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 10 (20.41%) Git
2 4 (8.16%) GitLab
2 4 (8.16%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.16%) JIRA
2 4 (8.16%) SonarQube
3 2 (4.08%) Selenium
4 1 (2.04%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.04%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.04%) JMeter
4 1 (2.04%) Maven
4 1 (2.04%) MSI
4 1 (2.04%) Vite
4 1 (2.04%) webpack
General
1 17 (34.69%) Public Sector
2 10 (20.41%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.12%) Health Technology
4 2 (4.08%) Finance
5 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (69.39%) Software Engineer
2 11 (22.45%) AWS Engineer
3 9 (18.37%) .NET Software Engineer
4 8 (16.33%) AWS Software Engineer
5 6 (12.24%) Senior
6 5 (10.20%) Developer
6 5 (10.20%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Lead
7 4 (8.16%) Python Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Python Software Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Delphi Software Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Java Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Java Software Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Lead Software Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (48.98%) React
2 14 (28.57%) .NET
3 13 (26.53%) Node.js
4 8 (16.33%) Kafka
4 8 (16.33%) RESTful
5 5 (10.20%) REST
6 4 (8.16%) .NET Core
6 4 (8.16%) AngularJS
7 3 (6.12%) FHIR
7 3 (6.12%) Jest
7 3 (6.12%) Spring
7 3 (6.12%) Spring Boot
7 3 (6.12%) WebSockets
8 2 (4.08%) AWS CDK
8 2 (4.08%) CSS
8 2 (4.08%) CSS3
8 2 (4.08%) Django
8 2 (4.08%) HTML
8 2 (4.08%) HTML5
8 2 (4.08%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.37%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.24%) NHS
3 3 (6.12%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.04%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.16%) Linux
2 3 (6.12%) Windows
3 1 (2.04%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.04%) Unix
3 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (59.18%) DevOps
2 24 (48.98%) CI/CD
3 23 (46.94%) Agile
3 23 (46.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (32.65%) Full-Stack Development
5 15 (30.61%) Microservices
6 14 (28.57%) Clean Code
6 14 (28.57%) Containerisation
7 9 (18.37%) Mentoring
8 8 (16.33%) Unit Testing
9 5 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (10.20%) Test Automation
10 4 (8.16%) Code Quality
10 4 (8.16%) Event-Driven
10 4 (8.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 4 (8.16%) Observability
10 4 (8.16%) Platform Engineering
10 4 (8.16%) Story Points
10 4 (8.16%) TDD
10 4 (8.16%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 17 (34.69%) TypeScript
2 14 (28.57%) C#
2 14 (28.57%) Python
3 8 (16.33%) JavaScript
4 7 (14.29%) Java
4 7 (14.29%) SQL
5 3 (6.12%) Delphi
5 3 (6.12%) PHP
6 2 (4.08%) Bicep
7 1 (2.04%) Bash
7 1 (2.04%) C++
7 1 (2.04%) Groovy
7 1 (2.04%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.04%) VB
7 1 (2.04%) VB6
Qualifications
1 5 (10.20%) SC Cleared
1 5 (10.20%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.16%) Degree
3 3 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.20%) QA
2 4 (8.16%) WCAG
3 3 (6.12%) Accessibility
3 3 (6.12%) HL7
4 1 (2.04%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (34.69%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (59.18%) Terraform
2 10 (20.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.04%) Grafana
3 1 (2.04%) HP Fortify
3 1 (2.04%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.16%) Brio
3 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.04%) Cribl.io
4 1 (2.04%) Splunk