Software Engineer Contract Job Trends in Skipton

Software Engineer
North Yorkshire > Skipton

The median Software Engineer daily rate in Skipton is £558, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 - 9
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Skipton 15.38% - 5.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.38% - 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £540 - -
25th Percentile £543 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 - £450
75th Percentile £570 - -
90th Percentile £572 - -
North Yorkshire median daily rate £558 - £450

All Contract IT Job Roles
Skipton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Skipton. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Skipton with a recognized job title 13 1 16
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% 80.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 15
10th Percentile £462 - £410
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £300 £425
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% -29.41% -32.00%
75th Percentile £563 - £523
90th Percentile £590 - £640
North Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £488 £400
% change year-on-year -2.56% +21.88% +1.27%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Skipton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Skipton.

Software Engineer job vacancy trend in Skipton

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Skipton

For the 6 months to 23 March 2026, Software Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Skipton region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
1 2 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (100.00%) Canary Deployment
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Trunk-Based Development
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Attestation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Budget Management
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Community of Practice
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Datadog
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Skipton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Datadog
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
1 2 (100.00%) Canary Deployment
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Trunk-Based Development
2 1 (50.00%) Attestation
2 1 (50.00%) Budget Management
2 1 (50.00%) Community of Practice
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SBOM
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Kotlin
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google