Software Engineering Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Software Engineering
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 15 24
Rank change year-on-year -9 +9 -6
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 4 9 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 2.38% 5.88% 4.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 7.26% 4.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 9
10th Percentile £428 £444 £371
25th Percentile £455 £475 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £550 £420
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% +30.95% -20.00%
75th Percentile £516 £613 £625
90th Percentile £517 £705 £655
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -9.52%

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 136 124 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 80.95% 81.05% 84.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 67 144
10th Percentile £229 £294 £282
25th Percentile £397 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £617 £575 £700
90th Percentile £823 £614 £745
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £455 £495
% change year-on-year -9.89% -8.08% +6.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 13 12
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.71 £11.01
25th Percentile £16.17 £12.75 £18.29
Median hourly rate £17.87 £13.54 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +31.98% -72.23% +309.06%
75th Percentile - £15.25 £88.75
90th Percentile - £50.33 £93.25
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £17.66 £28.75
% change year-on-year +6.85% -38.57% +54.36%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

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

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

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

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 14 September 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 -8 4 £498 -9.55% 19
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 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