Software Engineering Contracts in Nottinghamshire

Software Engineering
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 17 29
Rank change year-on-year +3 +12 -12
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 8 13 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 5.67% 8.18% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.45% 10.00% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 6
10th Percentile £72 - £368
25th Percentile £326 £663 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £675 £425
Median % change year-on-year -27.41% +58.82% -15.00%
75th Percentile £512 £688 £513
90th Percentile £520 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £490 £550 £425
% change year-on-year -10.91% +29.41% -15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 124 130 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 87.94% 81.76% 88.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 65 187
10th Percentile £333 £255 £304
25th Percentile £410 £350 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £530 £575 £700
90th Percentile £565 £678 £743
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £419 £450
% change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 11
10th Percentile - £12.02 £11.00
25th Percentile - £12.75 £11.80
Median hourly rate £13.81 £14.27 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% -28.65% +47.28%
75th Percentile - £17.32 £24.37
90th Percentile £15.88 £23.10 £28.50
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
% change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Nottinghamshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Nottinghamshire

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Nottinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Nottinghamshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Nottinghamshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Nottinghamshire

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Nottingham +1 8 £490 -27.41% 105
Software Engineering
East Midlands

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) AWS CodeBuild
3 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (12.50%) SaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) MySQL
1 4 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) Eclipse
2 2 (25.00%) NetBeans
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior C# Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) .NET
1 5 (62.50%) React
1 5 (62.50%) REST
2 3 (37.50%) .NET Core
3 2 (25.00%) POSIX
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
4 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (12.50%) Express.js
4 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
4 1 (12.50%) Next.js
4 1 (12.50%) Node.js
4 1 (12.50%) Redux
4 1 (12.50%) Sass
4 1 (12.50%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (12.50%) IoT
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Microservices
3 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (37.50%) Code Quality
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
6 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
6 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
6 1 (12.50%) DevOps
6 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
6 1 (12.50%) Mathematics
6 1 (12.50%) Physics
6 1 (12.50%) Product Management
6 1 (12.50%) Project Planning
6 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) C#
1 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
1 5 (62.50%) TypeScript
2 2 (25.00%) C
2 2 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
1 2 (25.00%) MISRA
1 2 (25.00%) MISRA C
1 2 (25.00%) QA
1 2 (25.00%) Software Quality Assurance
2 1 (12.50%) IEC 61508
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) QNX
3 1 (12.50%) Adobe