Software Engineering Contracts in Norfolk

Software Engineering
East of England > Norfolk

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Norfolk 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 3 12 -
Rank change year-on-year +9 - -
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Norfolk 19.35% 2.08% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.43% 2.70% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
East of England median daily rate £488 £500 £523
% change year-on-year -2.35% -4.40% -0.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Norfolk

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 Norfolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 28 37 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Norfolk 90.32% 77.08% 84.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 24 57
10th Percentile £162 £184 £104
25th Percentile £200 £207 £159
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 £363 £250
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +45.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £450 £500 £388
90th Percentile - £538 £475
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 9
10th Percentile £14.01 £12.93 £11.93
25th Percentile £14.19 £13.60 £16.13
Median hourly rate £15.33 £15.63 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -25.63% +11.31%
75th Percentile £15.94 £20.06 £21.52
90th Percentile £18.79 £26.25 £24.68
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Norfolk

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Norfolk

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Norfolk

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Norfolk

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Norfolk

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Norfolk

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Norfolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the Norfolk region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Norwich +8 6 £450 - 46
Software Engineering
East of England

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Norfolk 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 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (83.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (16.67%) MySQL
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Git
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Alpine.js
1 5 (83.33%) CSS
1 5 (83.33%) Laravel
1 5 (83.33%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) XML
2 1 (16.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Design Patterns
2 5 (83.33%) Microservices
2 5 (83.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Management
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) PHP
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Perl
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle