Software Engineering Contract Job Trends in Nottingham

Software Engineering
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottingham requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 13 23
Rank change year-on-year -7 +10 -4
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 4 9 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Nottingham 2.96% 6.82% 3.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.77% 8.57% 4.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 8
10th Percentile £428 £444 £370
25th Percentile £455 £475 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £550 £460
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% +19.57% -8.00%
75th Percentile £516 £613 £631
90th Percentile £517 £705 £658
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £498 £550 £420
% change year-on-year -9.55% +30.95% -20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Nottingham

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Nottingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 106 105 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottingham 78.52% 79.55% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 56 139
10th Percentile £205 £294 £277
25th Percentile £394 £411 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £564 £575 £700
90th Percentile £691 £614 £745
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 10
10th Percentile £15.12 £12.61 £10.77
25th Percentile £16.17 £12.75 £14.87
Median hourly rate £17.87 £13.51 £24.51
Median % change year-on-year +32.27% -44.87% +105.64%
75th Percentile - £14.99 £70.00
90th Percentile - £15.12 £88.75
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £17.87 £13.54 £48.75
% change year-on-year +31.98% -72.23% +309.06%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Nottingham

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Nottingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Software Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Nottingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Software Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Nottingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS CodeBuild
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (75.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) React
1 4 (100.00%) REST
2 3 (75.00%) .NET
3 2 (50.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (25.00%) Express.js
4 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (25.00%) Next.js
4 1 (25.00%) Node.js
4 1 (25.00%) Redux
4 1 (25.00%) Sass
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) A/B Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (75.00%) C#
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe