Software Engineering Contracts in Oxfordshire

Software Engineering
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 25 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 15 21
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 +7
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 2 12 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 1.79% 5.41% 5.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 6.74% 5.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - - £425
25th Percentile - £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% -0.60%
75th Percentile - £500 £575
90th Percentile - £515 £588
South East median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - £59.00 -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +23.81% -
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £62.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -9.20% +8.70% +7.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 101 178 206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 90.18% 80.18% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 110 136
10th Percentile £184 £150 £250
25th Percentile £250 £260 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% -
75th Percentile £544 £500 £550
90th Percentile £688 £623 £644
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £505
% change year-on-year -0.20% -0.79% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 37 13
10th Percentile £13.08 £12.10 £23.19
25th Percentile £21.93 £13.00 £25.95
Median hourly rate £25.23 £19.50 £28.16
Median % change year-on-year +29.36% -30.75% +40.80%
75th Percentile £41.83 £30.50 £32.30
90th Percentile £46.30 £65.00 £52.90
South East median hourly rate £25.82 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -45.65% -5.00% +132.56%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Oxfordshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Oxfordshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Oxfordshire

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 25 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
Oxford -4 2 £450 - 202
Software Engineering
South East

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 1 (50.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) RS-232
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) FPGA
1 1 (50.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded C
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Intel
1 1 (50.00%) Siemens