Software Engineering Contracts in the North East

Software Engineering
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 29 34
Rank change year-on-year +22 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 35 29 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 10.36% 6.84% 4.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.87% 7.47% 4.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 24 17
10th Percentile - £370 -
25th Percentile £370 £525 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -32.17% +15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £410 £625 £550
90th Percentile - £700 £650
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 0
10th Percentile £46.24 - -
25th Percentile £46.25 £31.25 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £32.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% - -
75th Percentile £63.75 £33.75 -
90th Percentile £68.75 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 272 388 435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 80.47% 91.51% 85.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 300 336
10th Percentile £228 £254 £173
25th Percentile £363 £409 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £483
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +13.99% +7.22%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £588
90th Percentile £655 £720 £681
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 2 15
10th Percentile £11.44 £32.98 £10.77
25th Percentile £11.81 £35.56 £12.91
Median hourly rate £15.46 £40.75 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.06% +146.97% +6.45%
75th Percentile £47.47 £45.56 £18.13
90th Percentile £50.00 £47.93 £35.25
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the North East

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in the North East

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in the North East

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineering in the North East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in the North East

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Tyne and Wear +20 27 £390 -32.17% 28
Northumberland +2 7 - -
Durham +2 1 - - 1
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Applications
1 14 (40.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 10 (28.57%) AWS
1 10 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (8.57%) BrowserStack
2 3 (8.57%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (8.57%) GitHub
2 3 (8.57%) Serverless
3 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) J1939
2 1 (2.86%) AMQP
2 1 (2.86%) Modbus
2 1 (2.86%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) MongoDB
1 3 (8.57%) MySQL
1 3 (8.57%) NoSQL
1 3 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) Git
2 3 (8.57%) Cypress.io
General
1 6 (17.14%) Automotive
1 6 (17.14%) Electronics
2 3 (8.57%) Aerospace
2 3 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (8.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Finance
3 1 (2.86%) Legal
3 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (40.00%) Developer
1 14 (40.00%) Software Developer
2 13 (37.14%) Software Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Embedded Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Lead
4 3 (8.57%) Ada Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Ada Software Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Full Stack Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Full Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) IoT Software Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (40.00%) HTML
2 7 (20.00%) PyTorch
2 7 (20.00%) TensorFlow
3 3 (8.57%) Next.js
3 3 (8.57%) React
3 3 (8.57%) RESTful
4 1 (2.86%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) CAN bus
2 1 (2.86%) IoT
2 1 (2.86%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 14 (40.00%) Code Quality
2 14 (40.00%) Conversational UI
3 8 (22.86%) Visualisation
4 7 (20.00%) DevOps
4 7 (20.00%) Digital Engineering
4 7 (20.00%) GitOps
4 7 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 7 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
5 3 (8.57%) Agile
5 3 (8.57%) BDD
5 3 (8.57%) CI/CD
5 3 (8.57%) Full Stack Development
5 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (8.57%) Microservices
5 3 (8.57%) Operational Stability
5 3 (8.57%) SDLC
5 3 (8.57%) TDD
6 1 (2.86%) Information Security
6 1 (2.86%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (60.00%) Python
2 18 (51.43%) SQL
3 17 (48.57%) JavaScript
4 14 (40.00%) C#
5 6 (17.14%) C
5 6 (17.14%) Embedded C
6 3 (8.57%) Ada
6 3 (8.57%) Java
6 3 (8.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (40.00%) Degree
2 7 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 7 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) Accessibility
1 3 (8.57%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.43%) Grafana
3 3 (8.57%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 14 (40.00%) PayPal
2 7 (20.00%) Microsoft