Software Engineering Contracts in the North of England

Software Engineering
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 29 75 36
Rank change year-on-year +46 -39 +18
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 252 171 396
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.29% 2.93% 5.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.16% 3.23% 6.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 112 270
10th Percentile £300 £413 -
25th Percentile £450 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £588
90th Percentile £650 £687 £675
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 12 16
10th Percentile £43.85 £31.89 -
25th Percentile £46.18 £37.67 £41.25
Median hourly rate £48.43 £42.80 £48.56
Median % change year-on-year +13.17% -11.88% +11.64%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.08 £60.00
90th Percentile £69.37 £51.86 £65.00
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 of England

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 of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,090 5,295 6,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.85% 90.71% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,507 3,675 4,669
10th Percentile £287 £300 £237
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £684 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 355 210 260
10th Percentile £11.03 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.45 £15.00 £12.81
Median hourly rate £17.50 £27.60 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -36.59% +48.45% -1.57%
75th Percentile £44.41 £45.05 £32.97
90th Percentile £53.90 £65.00 £50.85
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
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 Software Engineering within the North of England 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
North West +60 152 £549 -8.50% 177
Yorkshire +9 67 £425 -18.07% 93
North East +22 35 £390 -32.17% 32
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.38%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.98%) Apache
2 5 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.79%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.79%) Drupal
4 1 (0.40%) Confluence
Applications
1 61 (24.21%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.59%) Simulink
2 4 (1.59%) Stateflow
3 2 (0.79%) Adobe After Effects
3 2 (0.79%) Blender
3 2 (0.79%) Maya
3 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.79%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.40%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 58 (23.02%) AWS
2 23 (9.13%) Azure
3 15 (5.95%) Serverless
4 10 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (2.38%) Amazon S3
6 6 (2.38%) GitHub
6 6 (2.38%) Snowflake
7 5 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (1.98%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (1.98%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.98%) SaaS
8 4 (1.59%) BrowserStack
8 4 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.59%) IaaS
8 4 (1.59%) npm
8 4 (1.59%) PaaS
9 3 (1.19%) GCP
9 3 (1.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.78%) HTTP
2 5 (1.98%) FTP
3 3 (1.19%) J1939
4 2 (0.79%) SSL
5 1 (0.40%) AMQP
5 1 (0.40%) Modbus
5 1 (0.40%) MQTT
5 1 (0.40%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.75%) MongoDB
2 10 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (3.57%) MySQL
4 6 (2.38%) Big Data
5 5 (1.98%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.98%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.79%) GIS
7 2 (0.79%) Spatial Data
7 2 (0.79%) SQLite
8 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.40%) DB2
8 1 (0.40%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (7.94%) Git
2 15 (5.95%) JIRA
3 13 (5.16%) GitLab
4 7 (2.78%) Cypress.io
5 6 (2.38%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.38%) JUnit
6 3 (1.19%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.79%) GoCD
7 2 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.40%) Maven
8 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
General
1 33 (13.10%) Social Skills
2 25 (9.92%) Finance
3 20 (7.94%) Public Sector
4 13 (5.16%) Aerospace
5 12 (4.76%) Manufacturing
6 10 (3.97%) Automotive
7 9 (3.57%) Electronics
8 7 (2.78%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.38%) Legal
10 5 (1.98%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.59%) Retail
12 3 (1.19%) Games
12 3 (1.19%) Marketing
12 3 (1.19%) Military
13 2 (0.79%) Back Office
14 1 (0.40%) Avionics
14 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.40%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 106 (42.06%) Software Engineer
2 97 (38.49%) Developer
3 62 (24.60%) Software Developer
4 30 (11.90%) Senior
5 20 (7.94%) Senior Software Engineer
6 14 (5.56%) Lead
6 14 (5.56%) PLC Software Engineer
7 9 (3.57%) Full Stack Engineer
7 9 (3.57%) Java Developer
7 9 (3.57%) Project Manager
8 7 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (2.78%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 7 (2.78%) Java Engineer
9 6 (2.38%) Embedded Engineer
9 6 (2.38%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 6 (2.38%) iOS Developer
10 5 (1.98%) Data Engineer
10 5 (1.98%) Java Software Engineer
10 5 (1.98%) Lead Developer
10 5 (1.98%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (26.98%) HTML
2 29 (11.51%) React
3 26 (10.32%) RESTful
4 23 (9.13%) Node.js
5 14 (5.56%) AngularJS
6 12 (4.76%) Spring
7 9 (3.57%) CSS
8 7 (2.78%) PyTorch
8 7 (2.78%) TensorFlow
8 7 (2.78%) XML
9 6 (2.38%) JPA
9 6 (2.38%) JSON
9 6 (2.38%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.98%) Django
10 5 (1.98%) Jest
11 4 (1.59%) FastAPI
11 4 (1.59%) Flask
11 4 (1.59%) Kafka
11 4 (1.59%) Next.js
11 4 (1.59%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (2.38%) Algorithms
2 4 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (1.59%) Management Information System
3 3 (1.19%) CAN bus
3 3 (1.19%) CMDB
3 3 (1.19%) Product Ownership
4 2 (0.79%) Augmented Reality
4 2 (0.79%) Blockchain
4 2 (0.79%) Virtual Reality
5 1 (0.40%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.40%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.40%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.40%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.40%) IoT
5 1 (0.40%) iSeries
5 1 (0.40%) Online Gambling
5 1 (0.40%) Online Games
5 1 (0.40%) PKI
5 1 (0.40%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.38%) Apple iOS
1 6 (2.38%) Linux
2 5 (1.98%) Unix
3 4 (1.59%) Android
3 4 (1.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (27.38%) Artificial Intelligence
2 64 (25.40%) Code Quality
3 61 (24.21%) Conversational UI
4 58 (23.02%) Agile
5 30 (11.90%) Microservices
6 29 (11.51%) CI/CD
6 29 (11.51%) DevOps
7 27 (10.71%) Design Patterns
8 22 (8.73%) Systems Engineering
8 22 (8.73%) Test Automation
9 21 (8.33%) SDLC
10 20 (7.94%) Mentoring
11 17 (6.75%) Full Stack Development
12 13 (5.16%) Front End Development
12 13 (5.16%) Scrum
13 12 (4.76%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (4.37%) TDD
15 10 (3.97%) Computer Science
15 10 (3.97%) Stakeholder Management
16 9 (3.57%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 95 (37.70%) Python
2 89 (35.32%) JavaScript
3 84 (33.33%) SQL
4 69 (27.38%) C#
5 42 (16.67%) Java
6 22 (8.73%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.37%) C
8 10 (3.97%) PHP
9 7 (2.78%) Embedded C
9 7 (2.78%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.38%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.38%) Swift
11 5 (1.98%) C++
11 5 (1.98%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.59%) MATLAB
12 4 (1.59%) Scala
13 3 (1.19%) Ada
14 2 (0.79%) Go
14 2 (0.79%) Rust
15 1 (0.40%) Perl
Qualifications
1 70 (27.78%) Degree
2 23 (9.13%) Security Cleared
3 19 (7.54%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.78%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.59%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.78%) Accessibility
1 7 (2.78%) QA
2 5 (1.98%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.19%) AUTOSAR
4 1 (0.40%) GRC
4 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (4.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (9.13%) Terraform
2 18 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.17%) Ansible
4 6 (2.38%) Grafana
5 4 (1.59%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.19%) Functional Safety
6 3 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 61 (24.21%) PayPal
2 10 (3.97%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.78%) Avaloq
3 7 (2.78%) SAP
4 5 (1.98%) Informatica
4 5 (1.98%) Talend
5 4 (1.59%) Oracle
6 3 (1.19%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.79%) Adobe
7 2 (0.79%) ESRI
8 1 (0.40%) Ariba
8 1 (0.40%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.40%) Brio
8 1 (0.40%) Google
8 1 (0.40%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.40%) Zend