Software Engineering Contracts in Portsmouth

Software Engineering
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 2 17
Rank change year-on-year -10 +15 +13
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 15 63 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 11.63% 22.18% 11.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.85% 25.10% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 9
10th Percentile £401 £61 £406
25th Percentile £434 £67 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £400 £413
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -3.03% -8.33%
75th Percentile £626 - £466
90th Percentile £660 £419 £510
Hampshire median daily rate £520 £425 £510
% change year-on-year +22.35% -16.67% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 37 10
10th Percentile £57.14 £51.06 £54.49
25th Percentile £59.78 £59.44 £55.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -9.09%
75th Percentile £62.81 £67.02 £61.91
90th Percentile £63.38 £70.00 £71.74
Hampshire median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +8.70% +4.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 101 251 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 78.29% 88.38% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 99 140
10th Percentile £370 £393 £201
25th Percentile £463 £445 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £658 £570
90th Percentile £669 £850 £651
Hampshire median daily rate £545 £591 £525
% change year-on-year -7.76% +12.55% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 103 23
10th Percentile £40.19 £51.06 £45.48
25th Percentile £50.00 £53.40 £51.25
Median hourly rate £56.25 £60.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +4.35% +24.32%
75th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £65.63
90th Percentile £63.88 £79.37 £71.02
Hampshire median hourly rate £57.50 £57.35 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.26% +4.27% +124.49%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Portsmouth

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Portsmouth

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Portsmouth

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Portsmouth

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 12 (80.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) GitHub
1 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Software-Defined Radio
2 3 (20.00%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 12 (80.00%) JIRA
2 10 (66.67%) Robot Framework
3 9 (60.00%) Bitbucket
3 9 (60.00%) Eclipse
3 9 (60.00%) GoogleTest
4 6 (40.00%) GitLab
4 6 (40.00%) Jenkins
5 4 (26.67%) Git
General
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Embedded Engineer
1 7 (46.67%) Software Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Data Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Data Business Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Software Test Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Test Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Python Developer
5 1 (6.67%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) CSS
1 3 (20.00%) HTML
2 2 (13.33%) Django
2 2 (13.33%) FastAPI
2 2 (13.33%) Flask
2 2 (13.33%) pytest
2 2 (13.33%) RESTful
2 2 (13.33%) Web Services
3 1 (6.67%) Celery
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Agile
2 9 (60.00%) Scrum
3 6 (40.00%) Migration
3 6 (40.00%) Validation
4 4 (26.67%) Lean Software Development
4 4 (26.67%) Software Testing
5 3 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (20.00%) Agile Project Management
5 3 (20.00%) Business Process Modelling
5 3 (20.00%) Project Management
5 3 (20.00%) Prototyping
5 3 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
5 3 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
5 3 (20.00%) Sprint Review
5 3 (20.00%) SysML
5 3 (20.00%) UML
5 3 (20.00%) User Research
5 3 (20.00%) User Stories
5 3 (20.00%) Verification and Validation
5 3 (20.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) C++
2 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (93.33%) Security Cleared
2 11 (73.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Firmware
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Atlassian
1 9 (60.00%) Google
2 6 (40.00%) Intel
3 2 (13.33%) Palantir