Software Engineer Contracts in the North West

Software Engineer
England > North West

The median Software Engineer daily rate in the North West is £549 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 121 87
Rank change year-on-year +59 -34 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 75 33 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.76% 1.04% 2.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.92% 1.10% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 20 77
10th Percentile - £440 -
25th Percentile £456 £473 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £575 £445
Median % change year-on-year -4.52% +29.21% +4.71%
75th Percentile £625 £629 £525
90th Percentile £643 £641 £635
England median daily rate £638 £590 £600
% change year-on-year +8.05% -1.67% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 5 11
10th Percentile £38.39 £23.85 £41.25
25th Percentile £45.22 £37.80 £42.97
Median hourly rate £48.00 £40.59 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.26% -18.41% +13.71%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.54
90th Percentile £71.87 £48.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.00
% change year-on-year - +14.04% +26.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,569 3,005 3,909
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.38% 94.77% 96.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,673 2,153 2,861
10th Percentile £281 £300 £208
25th Percentile £390 £403 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £564
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 129 174
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.63 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% +49.01% +13.86%
75th Percentile £46.18 £48.75 £42.69
90th Percentile £67.25 £65.80 £56.25
England median hourly rate £36.34 £44.77 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.83% +98.96% +0.36%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the North West

Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineer in the North West

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineer in the North West

Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineer in the North West

Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineer in the North West

Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Manchester +39 44 £537 -2.45% 65
Cumbria - 18 - - 2
Lancashire +10 10 £625 - 11
Cheshire +5 2 - - 13
Merseyside +9 1 - - 1
Software Engineer
England

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 2 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 North West region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 75 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 25 (33.33%) AWS
3 17 (22.67%) RESTful
4 16 (21.33%) SDLC
5 15 (20.00%) Java
6 14 (18.67%) Design Patterns
6 14 (18.67%) Microservices
6 14 (18.67%) Node.js
7 12 (16.00%) MongoDB
7 12 (16.00%) CI/CD
8 11 (14.67%) Terraform
8 11 (14.67%) Agile
9 10 (13.33%) Aerospace
10 9 (12.00%) GitLab
10 9 (12.00%) React
10 9 (12.00%) AngularJS
11 8 (10.67%) TypeScript
11 8 (10.67%) Test Automation
11 8 (10.67%) Python
11 8 (10.67%) Systems Engineering
12 7 (9.33%) Social Skills
12 7 (9.33%) PHP
12 7 (9.33%) Computer Science
12 7 (9.33%) Security Cleared
12 7 (9.33%) Front End Development
13 6 (8.00%) Azure
13 6 (8.00%) Finance
13 6 (8.00%) Decision-Making
14 5 (6.67%) Serverless
14 5 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (5.33%) Simulink
1 4 (5.33%) Stateflow
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 25 (33.33%) AWS
2 6 (8.00%) Azure
3 5 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (6.67%) Serverless
4 4 (5.33%) npm
5 2 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.33%) Azure Batch
6 1 (1.33%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.33%) GCP
6 1 (1.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.67%) HTTP
2 1 (1.33%) RS-422
2 1 (1.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (5.33%) MySQL
3 1 (1.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.33%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 9 (12.00%) GitLab
2 4 (5.33%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.67%) Git
3 2 (2.67%) GoCD
3 2 (2.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.33%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.33%) JIRA
4 1 (1.33%) JUnit
4 1 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (13.33%) Aerospace
2 7 (9.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.00%) Finance
4 5 (6.67%) Legal
5 4 (5.33%) Automotive
6 3 (4.00%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.00%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.67%) Military
7 2 (2.67%) Retail
8 1 (1.33%) Games
8 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (22.67%) RESTful
2 14 (18.67%) Node.js
3 9 (12.00%) AngularJS
3 9 (12.00%) React
4 5 (6.67%) Spring
5 4 (5.33%) Jest
6 2 (2.67%) Kafka
6 2 (2.67%) SOAP
7 1 (1.33%) CSS
7 1 (1.33%) HTML
7 1 (1.33%) JDBC
7 1 (1.33%) JPA
7 1 (1.33%) JWT
7 1 (1.33%) Next.js
7 1 (1.33%) RxJava
7 1 (1.33%) Smart Contracts
7 1 (1.33%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.33%) web3js
7 1 (1.33%) WebSockets
7 1 (1.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (1.33%) Blockchain
2 1 (1.33%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.33%) Online Gambling
2 1 (1.33%) Online Games
2 1 (1.33%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 16 (21.33%) SDLC
3 14 (18.67%) Design Patterns
3 14 (18.67%) Microservices
4 12 (16.00%) CI/CD
5 11 (14.67%) Agile
6 8 (10.67%) Systems Engineering
6 8 (10.67%) Test Automation
7 7 (9.33%) Computer Science
7 7 (9.33%) Front End Development
8 6 (8.00%) Decision-Making
9 5 (6.67%) Data Security
10 4 (5.33%) Critical Thinking
10 4 (5.33%) Full Stack Development
10 4 (5.33%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
10 4 (5.33%) Incident Management
10 4 (5.33%) Infrastructure Automation
10 4 (5.33%) Test Strategy
10 4 (5.33%) Validation
10 4 (5.33%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.00%) Java
2 8 (10.67%) Python
2 8 (10.67%) TypeScript
3 7 (9.33%) PHP
4 5 (6.67%) C
5 4 (5.33%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.33%) MATLAB
6 3 (4.00%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.67%) C#
7 2 (2.67%) C++
7 2 (2.67%) SQL
8 1 (1.33%) Bash
8 1 (1.33%) Embedded C
8 1 (1.33%) Fortran
8 1 (1.33%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.33%) Perl
8 1 (1.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (9.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.67%) Degree
3 2 (2.67%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.67%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.33%) QA
1 1 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (1.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (14.67%) Terraform
2 2 (2.67%) Ansible
3 1 (1.33%) Grafana
3 1 (1.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (4.00%) Oracle
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.33%) SAP