Software Developer Contracts in the North West

Software Developer
England > North West

The median Software Developer daily rate in the North West is £435 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 134 142
Rank change year-on-year +59 +8 -32
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 64 27 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.33% 0.84% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.47% 0.88% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 22 19
10th Percentile - £375 £320
25th Percentile £297 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% -11.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £500 £606 £544
90th Percentile £548 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £58.91 £57.50 £47.47
% change year-on-year +2.44% +21.13% +21.13%

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 2,593 3,051 3,885
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 94.63% 96.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,710 2,199 2,861
10th Percentile £283 £300 £205
25th Percentile £394 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +8.11% +10.12%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £558
90th Percentile £680 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 137 179
10th Percentile £11.03 £14.25 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £30.74 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.15% +53.70% +11.73%
75th Percentile £46.18 £48.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £61.71 £65.30 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
% change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in the North West

Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Software Developer in the North West

Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in the North West over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Developer in the North West

Software Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Developer in the North West

Software Developer
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 Developer within the North West region over the 6 months to 19 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
Manchester +33 34 £500 +11.11% 37
Merseyside +35 26 £450 -6.49% 5
Cheshire 0 4 £311 -29.32% 28
Software Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Software Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 49 (76.56%) Artificial Intelligence
1 49 (76.56%) Degree
1 49 (76.56%) PayPal
1 49 (76.56%) Chatbot
1 49 (76.56%) Conversational UI
1 49 (76.56%) Code Quality
2 32 (50.00%) C#
2 32 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 29 (45.31%) SQL
4 28 (43.75%) HTML
5 27 (42.19%) Python
6 25 (39.06%) Software Engineering
7 6 (9.38%) Agile
8 5 (7.81%) Azure
9 4 (6.25%) Security Cleared
9 4 (6.25%) HL7
9 4 (6.25%) NHS
9 4 (6.25%) .NET
10 3 (4.69%) CSS
10 3 (4.69%) AWS
11 2 (3.13%) Redis
11 2 (3.13%) Neo4j
11 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
11 2 (3.13%) TeamCity
11 2 (3.13%) NancyFx
11 2 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (3.13%) SDET
11 2 (3.13%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (3.13%) DevOps
11 2 (3.13%) BC Cleared

Software Developer 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 49 (76.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.81%) Azure
2 3 (4.69%) AWS
3 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.56%) GitHub
4 1 (1.56%) npm
4 1 (1.56%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (3.13%) Neo4j
1 2 (3.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Octopus Deploy
1 2 (3.13%) TeamCity
2 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.56%) Git
2 1 (1.56%) Jasmine
2 1 (1.56%) Karma Test Runner
2 1 (1.56%) Mocha
2 1 (1.56%) webpack
General
1 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (43.75%) HTML
2 4 (6.25%) .NET
3 3 (4.69%) CSS
4 2 (3.13%) NancyFx
5 1 (1.56%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.56%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.56%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.56%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.56%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (1.56%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (1.56%) CSS3
5 1 (1.56%) HTML5
5 1 (1.56%) Kafka
5 1 (1.56%) Node.js
5 1 (1.56%) OpenCV
5 1 (1.56%) React
5 1 (1.56%) REST
5 1 (1.56%) RESTful
5 1 (1.56%) SOAP
5 1 (1.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.25%) NHS
2 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (76.56%) Artificial Intelligence
1 49 (76.56%) Code Quality
1 49 (76.56%) Conversational UI
2 25 (39.06%) Software Engineering
3 6 (9.38%) Agile
4 2 (3.13%) CI/CD
4 2 (3.13%) DevOps
4 2 (3.13%) Fintech
4 2 (3.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (3.13%) SDET
4 2 (3.13%) Software Testing
4 2 (3.13%) Test Automation
5 1 (1.56%) Asynchronous Programming
5 1 (1.56%) Design Patterns
5 1 (1.56%) Memory Management
5 1 (1.56%) Multithreading
5 1 (1.56%) OO
5 1 (1.56%) OOP
5 1 (1.56%) SOLID
5 1 (1.56%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 32 (50.00%) C#
1 32 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 29 (45.31%) SQL
3 27 (42.19%) Python
4 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.56%) C
5 1 (1.56%) C++
Qualifications
1 49 (76.56%) Degree
2 4 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.13%) BC Cleared
3 2 (3.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) HL7
2 2 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.56%) Docker
Vendors
1 49 (76.56%) PayPal