Software Engineer Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Software Engineer
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The median Software Engineer daily rate in Newcastle upon Tyne is £390 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 38 35
Rank change year-on-year +23 -3 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 13 14 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 6.16% 4.50% 3.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.88% 4.58% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £370 £563 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £638 £463
Median % change year-on-year -38.82% +37.84% +27.76%
75th Percentile £410 £700 £550
90th Percentile - - £655
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £390 £638 £463
% change year-on-year -38.82% +37.84% +27.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £47.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Newcastle upon Tyne

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne. 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 Newcastle upon Tyne with a recognized job title 189 306 356
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.57% 98.39% 97.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 240 282
10th Percentile £338 £319 £186
25th Percentile £400 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £565 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +13.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £590 £650 £600
90th Percentile £650 £744 £688
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 0 9
10th Percentile £12.66 - £11.04
25th Percentile £18.69 - £13.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £16.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +32.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 - £17.50
90th Percentile £67.88 - £18.98
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £17.50 - £17.00
% change year-on-year - - +28.30%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (46.15%) C
2 6 (46.15%) Embedded C
2 6 (46.15%) Electronics
2 6 (46.15%) Automotive
3 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 4 (30.77%) Grafana
4 3 (23.08%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (23.08%) Microservices
4 3 (23.08%) React
4 3 (23.08%) SDLC
4 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (23.08%) Azure
4 3 (23.08%) AWS
4 3 (23.08%) BDD
4 3 (23.08%) MongoDB
4 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
4 3 (23.08%) CAN bus
4 3 (23.08%) GitHub
4 3 (23.08%) TypeScript
4 3 (23.08%) MySQL
4 3 (23.08%) Ada
4 3 (23.08%) Java
4 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 3 (23.08%) Aerospace
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) TDD
4 3 (23.08%) RESTful
4 3 (23.08%) Cypress.io
4 3 (23.08%) BrowserStack

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
1 3 (23.08%) BrowserStack
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (23.08%) GitHub
1 3 (23.08%) Serverless
2 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) J1939
2 1 (7.69%) AMQP
2 1 (7.69%) Modbus
2 1 (7.69%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) MongoDB
1 3 (23.08%) MySQL
1 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
1 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Cypress.io
General
1 6 (46.15%) Automotive
1 6 (46.15%) Electronics
2 3 (23.08%) Aerospace
2 3 (23.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Next.js
1 3 (23.08%) React
1 3 (23.08%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) CAN bus
2 1 (7.69%) IoT
2 1 (7.69%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (23.08%) Agile
2 3 (23.08%) BDD
2 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
2 3 (23.08%) Full Stack Development
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (23.08%) Microservices
2 3 (23.08%) Operational Stability
2 3 (23.08%) SDLC
2 3 (23.08%) TDD
3 1 (7.69%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) C
1 6 (46.15%) Embedded C
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) Ada
3 3 (23.08%) Java
3 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 3 (23.08%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Accessibility
1 3 (23.08%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Grafana
2 3 (23.08%) Functional Safety