Software Engineering Contracts in Northamptonshire

Software Engineering
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 - 43
Rank change year-on-year - - -16
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 2.39% - 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.66% - 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.69%
East Midlands median daily rate £550 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% +28.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £50.25 - -
25th Percentile £50.63 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £59.38 - -
90th Percentile £59.75 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 188 219 333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 89.95% 89.39% 90.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 169 267
10th Percentile £302 £190 £217
25th Percentile £356 £308 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £388 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -13.89% +20.00%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £520
90th Percentile £620 £588 £575
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £450 £438
% change year-on-year -8.89% +2.86% +12.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 16 29
10th Percentile £10.90 £16.12 £10.50
25th Percentile - £18.13 £16.05
Median hourly rate £14.00 £41.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -66.27% +50.91% -38.89%
75th Percentile £50.71 £51.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £53.90 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.00 £18.37 £19.25
% change year-on-year -7.43% -4.60% +31.76%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Northamptonshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Northamptonshire.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Northamptonshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Northamptonshire.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Northamptonshire

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 5 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
Northampton - 4 £505 - 13
Towcester - 1 - - 1
Software Engineering
East Midlands

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 2 (40.00%) Simulink
2 1 (20.00%) CATIA
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (40.00%) Automotive
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (20.00%) gRPC
1 1 (20.00%) JMS
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (20.00%) RAML
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) API Design
2 1 (20.00%) ArchiMate
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Data Management
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) MVC
2 1 (20.00%) PLM
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C
1 2 (40.00%) C++
1 2 (40.00%) Embedded C
1 2 (40.00%) Embedded C++
1 2 (40.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle