Software Engineering Contract Job Trends in Leicester

Software Engineering
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leicester 0.82% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
Leicestershire median daily rate £400 - £475

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 91 59 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 74.59% 71.08% 84.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 37 50
10th Percentile £246 £192 £269
25th Percentile £368 £360 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £428
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +8.19% -14.50%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £519
90th Percentile £675 £625 £659
Leicestershire median daily rate £450 £419 £425
% change year-on-year +7.46% -1.47% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 1 0
10th Percentile £13.11 - -
25th Percentile £13.14 - -
Median hourly rate £14.96 £13.84 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.06% - -
75th Percentile £16.46 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Leicestershire median hourly rate £15.48 £21.30 £24.00
% change year-on-year -27.32% -11.25% +14.29%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Leicester

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

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

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

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Leicester

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

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

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect