Senior Software Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Senior Software Engineer
England > North of England

The median Senior Software Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 161 192
Rank change year-on-year +24 +31 +38
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 24 17 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.72% 0.36% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 0.39% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 3 9
10th Percentile - £266 £345
25th Percentile £400 £271 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £280 £500
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -44.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £488 £331 £575
90th Percentile £535 £358 £603
England median daily rate £500 £650 £556
% change year-on-year -23.08% +16.91% -7.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 0
10th Percentile £56.30 £40.96 -
25th Percentile £62.75 £42.67 -
Median hourly rate £79.00 £46.91 -
Median % change year-on-year +68.41% - -
75th Percentile £86.63 - -
90th Percentile £87.90 £72.45 -
England median hourly rate £65.50 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +0.77% +23.81% +11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 3,096 4,414 5,292
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.37% 93.00% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,047 2,722 3,704
10th Percentile £250 £263 £269
25th Percentile £375 £386 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.02% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £579 £600
90th Percentile £638 £670 £688
England median daily rate £517 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 438 162
10th Percentile £12.76 £11.10 £14.03
25th Percentile £14.13 £13.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.14 £22.50 £28.34
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -20.61% +45.48%
75th Percentile £46.89 £47.50 £44.92
90th Percentile £74.38 £66.61 £65.68
England median hourly rate £29.33 £37.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.30% -16.11% +88.21%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Senior Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in the North of England

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in the North of England

Senior Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Software Engineer in the North of England

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in the North of England

Senior Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Software Engineer in the North of England

Senior Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
North West +15 19 £425 - 98
Yorkshire +11 4 £475 +69.64% 27
North East - 1 - - 9
Senior Software Engineer
England

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 3 June 2025, Senior 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 North of England region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 15 (62.50%) TypeScript
3 13 (54.17%) AWS
4 12 (50.00%) Node.js
5 11 (45.83%) JavaScript
6 10 (41.67%) React
7 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
8 7 (29.17%) Cloud Native
8 7 (29.17%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (29.17%) SQL
9 6 (25.00%) Java
9 6 (25.00%) Python
10 5 (20.83%) Agile
10 5 (20.83%) Bash
10 5 (20.83%) AWS CDK
11 4 (16.67%) Observability
11 4 (16.67%) Containerisation
11 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
11 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
11 4 (16.67%) Terraform
11 4 (16.67%) Grafana
11 4 (16.67%) Test Automation
11 4 (16.67%) RESTful
11 4 (16.67%) Azure
11 4 (16.67%) Docker
11 4 (16.67%) Microservices
11 4 (16.67%) Incident Management
12 3 (12.50%) Google
12 3 (12.50%) JIRA

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) Azure
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (12.50%) Apigee
3 3 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (12.50%) AWS CodeBuild
3 3 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (12.50%) GCP
3 3 (12.50%) Serverless
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (8.33%) dbt
4 2 (8.33%) GitHub
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Stack
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.17%) InfluxDB
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) CircleCI
1 3 (12.50%) Cypress.io
1 3 (12.50%) GitLab
1 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) LabVIEW
2 1 (4.17%) XCTest
2 1 (4.17%) XCUITest
General
1 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (50.00%) Node.js
2 10 (41.67%) React
3 5 (20.83%) AWS CDK
4 4 (16.67%) RESTful
5 3 (12.50%) .NET
5 3 (12.50%) GraphQL
5 3 (12.50%) Playwright
5 3 (12.50%) Puppeteer
6 2 (8.33%) .NET Core
6 2 (8.33%) OAuth
7 1 (4.17%) CarPlay
7 1 (4.17%) FastAPI
7 1 (4.17%) HTML
7 1 (4.17%) NestJS
7 1 (4.17%) Spring
7 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
7 1 (4.17%) SwiftUI
7 1 (4.17%) UIKit
7 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Cloud Native
1 7 (29.17%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (8.33%) NHS
3 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.17%) FPGA
3 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
4 5 (20.83%) Agile
5 4 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 4 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 4 (16.67%) Microservices
5 4 (16.67%) Observability
5 4 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 3 (12.50%) API Development
6 3 (12.50%) DevSecOps
6 3 (12.50%) Front End Development
6 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (12.50%) Task Automation
6 3 (12.50%) User Experience
7 2 (8.33%) Data Modelling
7 2 (8.33%) DevOps
7 2 (8.33%) Mentoring
7 2 (8.33%) Scrum
7 2 (8.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) TypeScript
2 11 (45.83%) JavaScript
3 7 (29.17%) SQL
4 6 (25.00%) Java
4 6 (25.00%) Python
5 5 (20.83%) Bash
6 3 (12.50%) C#
7 1 (4.17%) C
7 1 (4.17%) Kotlin
7 1 (4.17%) Scala
7 1 (4.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
1 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) GDPR
1 1 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Grafana
1 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (16.67%) Terraform
2 3 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Google
1 3 (12.50%) PagerDuty
2 1 (4.17%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Ping Identity