Software Engineering Contracts in the North West

Software Engineering
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 91 33
Rank change year-on-year +64 -58 +11
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 151 63 248
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 5.63% 2.03% 6.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.55% 2.24% 7.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 39 160
10th Percentile £456 £412 £400
25th Percentile £501 £476 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +17.02% +26.60%
75th Percentile £623 £654 £620
90th Percentile £650 £681 £651
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 7 12
10th Percentile £38.20 £28.42 £41.59
25th Percentile £45.22 £37.73 £45.81
Median hourly rate £48.00 £40.59 £51.79
Median % change year-on-year +18.26% -21.63% +19.06%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £72.19 £51.49 £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 West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,307 2,809 3,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.08% 90.47% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,467 1,986 2,574
10th Percentile £307 £313 £250
25th Percentile £406 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 136 157
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £23.15 £14.25
Median hourly rate £23.80 £36.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.89% +71.43% +14.01%
75th Percentile £46.11 £49.52 £43.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the North West

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in the North West

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the North West over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in the North West

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in the North West

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineering in the North West over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in the North West

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the North West region over the 6 months to 9 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 +51 82 £550 - 130
Lancashire +16 20 £583 - 18
Cumbria - 20 - - 5
Cheshire +15 15 £568 -16.40% 21
Merseyside +20 14 - - 8
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.97%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.31%) Apache
2 5 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.66%) Confluence
Applications
1 25 (16.56%) Chatbot
2 4 (2.65%) Simulink
2 4 (2.65%) Stateflow
3 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.99%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.66%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 44 (29.14%) AWS
2 15 (9.93%) Azure
3 11 (7.28%) Serverless
4 7 (4.64%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (3.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (3.31%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (3.31%) Amazon S3
6 5 (3.31%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.31%) Snowflake
7 4 (2.65%) npm
8 3 (1.99%) IaaS
8 3 (1.99%) PaaS
9 2 (1.32%) GCP
9 2 (1.32%) SaaS
9 2 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.66%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.66%) BrowserStack
10 1 (0.66%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.97%) HTTP
2 5 (3.31%) FTP
3 2 (1.32%) SSL
4 1 (0.66%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.27%) MongoDB
2 6 (3.97%) Big Data
3 4 (2.65%) MySQL
4 3 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.32%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.32%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.32%) SQLite
6 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.66%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 16 (10.60%) JIRA
2 12 (7.95%) Git
2 12 (7.95%) GitLab
3 5 (3.31%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.65%) Cypress.io
4 4 (2.65%) JUnit
5 3 (1.99%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.32%) GoCD
6 2 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.66%) Maven
7 1 (0.66%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.66%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (11.92%) Finance
1 18 (11.92%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.61%) Aerospace
3 12 (7.95%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.62%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.31%) Legal
5 5 (3.31%) Military
5 5 (3.31%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (2.65%) Automotive
7 3 (1.99%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.99%) Retail
8 2 (1.32%) Electronics
8 2 (1.32%) Marketing
8 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.66%) Games
9 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.66%) Public Speaking
9 1 (0.66%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 84 (55.63%) Software Engineer
2 32 (21.19%) Developer
3 25 (16.56%) Software Developer
4 20 (13.25%) Senior
5 16 (10.60%) Senior Software Engineer
6 12 (7.95%) PLC Software Engineer
7 7 (4.64%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (4.64%) Java Engineer
7 7 (4.64%) Lead
7 7 (4.64%) Project Manager
8 5 (3.31%) Data Engineer
8 5 (3.31%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (3.31%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 4 (2.65%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.99%) Architect
10 3 (1.99%) Full Stack Engineer
10 3 (1.99%) Java Developer
10 3 (1.99%) Lead Developer
11 2 (1.32%) Full Stack Software Engineer
11 2 (1.32%) PHP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (17.88%) HTML
2 23 (15.23%) Node.js
3 20 (13.25%) RESTful
4 18 (11.92%) React
5 13 (8.61%) Spring
6 9 (5.96%) AngularJS
7 7 (4.64%) Spring Boot
7 7 (4.64%) XML
8 6 (3.97%) JSON
9 5 (3.31%) AWS CDK
9 5 (3.31%) Jest
10 4 (2.65%) JPA
11 3 (1.99%) Kafka
12 2 (1.32%) CSS
12 2 (1.32%) Django
12 2 (1.32%) Hibernate
12 2 (1.32%) REST
12 2 (1.32%) RxJava
12 2 (1.32%) TensorFlow
12 2 (1.32%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.31%) Algorithms
2 2 (1.32%) Blockchain
3 1 (0.66%) Cloud Native
3 1 (0.66%) Data Centre
3 1 (0.66%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (0.66%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (0.66%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.66%) Online Gambling
3 1 (0.66%) Online Games
3 1 (0.66%) Product Ownership
3 1 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.66%) Virtual Team
3 1 (0.66%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.97%) Linux
2 2 (1.32%) Android
3 1 (0.66%) Unix
3 1 (0.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (27.81%) Agile
2 30 (19.87%) Code Quality
3 28 (18.54%) Artificial Intelligence
4 27 (17.88%) CI/CD
5 26 (17.22%) Design Patterns
6 25 (16.56%) Conversational UI
7 24 (15.89%) Microservices
8 19 (12.58%) SDLC
8 19 (12.58%) Test Automation
9 17 (11.26%) Systems Engineering
10 16 (10.60%) DevOps
11 11 (7.28%) Front End Development
12 9 (5.96%) Thought Leadership
13 8 (5.30%) Computer Science
13 8 (5.30%) Containerisation
13 8 (5.30%) Scrum
14 7 (4.64%) CRM
14 7 (4.64%) Data Security
14 7 (4.64%) Project Management
14 7 (4.64%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (27.81%) Python
2 41 (27.15%) SQL
3 33 (21.85%) C#
4 32 (21.19%) Java
4 32 (21.19%) JavaScript
5 15 (9.93%) TypeScript
6 7 (4.64%) PHP
6 7 (4.64%) PL/SQL
7 5 (3.31%) C
8 4 (2.65%) MATLAB
9 3 (1.99%) C++
9 3 (1.99%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.32%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.66%) Bash
11 1 (0.66%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.66%) Fortran
11 1 (0.66%) Go
11 1 (0.66%) Perl
11 1 (0.66%) Rust
11 1 (0.66%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (19.21%) Degree
2 15 (9.93%) Security Cleared
3 11 (7.28%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.31%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.32%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.32%) QA
2 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.66%) MISRA
2 1 (0.66%) MISRA C
2 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (0.66%) SLA
2 1 (0.66%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (3.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (12.58%) Terraform
2 7 (4.64%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.65%) Ansible
4 1 (0.66%) Grafana
4 1 (0.66%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (16.56%) PayPal
2 7 (4.64%) Avaloq
3 5 (3.31%) Informatica
3 5 (3.31%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.31%) Talend
4 4 (2.65%) Oracle
5 3 (1.99%) SAP
6 2 (1.32%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.66%) Google