Software Engineer Contracts in the South West

Software Engineer
England > South West

The median Software Engineer daily rate in the South West is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 71 42
Rank change year-on-year +23 -29 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 122 104 169
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.76% 3.08% 4.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.06% 3.32% 4.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 47 80
10th Percentile £474 £387 £449
25th Percentile £514 £469 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% +26.32%
75th Percentile £684 £675 £625
90th Percentile £719 £705 £680
England median daily rate £630 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 43 44
10th Percentile £52.50 - £58.25
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.91 £60.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +30.00%
75th Percentile - £70.30 -
90th Percentile £70.38 £74.46 £72.23
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +31.15%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 3,005 3,130 3,489
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 92.58% 95.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,892 2,328 2,526
10th Percentile £213 £281 £225
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £594
90th Percentile £700 £719 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 250 208
10th Percentile £13.93 £17.97 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £50.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £64.57 £45.17
Median % change year-on-year -14.82% +42.95% +1.51%
75th Percentile £71.25 £74.69 £62.78
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.40 £68.53
England median hourly rate £37.63 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.39% +88.21% +11.21%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the South West

Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineer in the South West

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineer in the South West

Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineer in the South West

Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineer in the South West

Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
Bristol +23 82 £525 +16.67% 65
Gloucestershire -5 24 £625 +14.68% 34
Dorset +10 7 £525 -2.33% 21
Somerset -1 3 £450 -35.79% 11
Wiltshire -7 3 £625 +19.05% 12
Devon -4 1 £325 - 12
Cornwall - 1 - - 1
Software Engineer
England

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Software Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South West region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 122 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 53 (43.44%) Linux
3 51 (41.80%) Security Cleared
4 42 (34.43%) C
5 37 (30.33%) C++
5 37 (30.33%) Java
6 36 (29.51%) Agile
7 35 (28.69%) CI/CD
8 29 (23.77%) DevOps
9 28 (22.95%) SC Cleared
10 26 (21.31%) Python
10 26 (21.31%) FreeRTOS
11 24 (19.67%) Jenkins
12 23 (18.85%) Lauterbach
12 23 (18.85%) ARM Cortex
12 23 (18.85%) Configuration Management
12 23 (18.85%) IBM
12 23 (18.85%) Embedded C
12 23 (18.85%) DV Cleared
13 19 (15.57%) JIRA
14 18 (14.75%) GitHub
15 17 (13.93%) JavaScript
15 17 (13.93%) C#
16 16 (13.11%) Validation
16 16 (13.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 16 (13.11%) Google
16 16 (13.11%) Qt
16 16 (13.11%) GoogleTest
16 16 (13.11%) MISRA
17 15 (12.30%) AWS

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (1.64%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.82%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.82%) Confluence
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.82%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (4.10%) Simulink
1 5 (4.10%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 18 (14.75%) GitHub
2 15 (12.30%) AWS
3 3 (2.46%) Azure
4 2 (1.64%) GCP
4 2 (1.64%) OpenShift
4 2 (1.64%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.10%) Ethernet
1 5 (4.10%) HTTP
1 5 (4.10%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.82%) Skype
2 1 (0.82%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (0.82%) VSAN
2 1 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.10%) SQLite
3 3 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.64%) Big Data
4 2 (1.64%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.64%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.82%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.82%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 24 (19.67%) Jenkins
2 19 (15.57%) JIRA
3 16 (13.11%) GoogleTest
4 9 (7.38%) Git
5 8 (6.56%) Rational DOORS
6 5 (4.10%) Checkstyle
6 5 (4.10%) Cypress.io
6 5 (4.10%) Eclipse
6 5 (4.10%) SonarQube
6 5 (4.10%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.64%) Selenium
8 1 (0.82%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.82%) JUnit
8 1 (0.82%) Maven
8 1 (0.82%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 13 (10.66%) Aerospace
2 9 (7.38%) Social Skills
3 6 (4.92%) Automotive
4 5 (4.10%) Legal
4 5 (4.10%) Military
4 5 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (1.64%) Law
5 2 (1.64%) Tech for Good
5 2 (1.64%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.82%) Aviation
6 1 (0.82%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.82%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.11%) Qt
2 12 (9.84%) .NET
3 9 (7.38%) Node.js
4 8 (6.56%) .NET Core
4 8 (6.56%) React
4 8 (6.56%) Spring
4 8 (6.56%) Spring Boot
5 6 (4.92%) .NET Framework
5 6 (4.92%) REST
5 6 (4.92%) RESTful
5 6 (4.92%) Web Services
5 6 (4.92%) XML
6 5 (4.10%) JSON
7 4 (3.28%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.46%) Kafka
8 3 (2.46%) Vue
9 2 (1.64%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.64%) Blazor
9 2 (1.64%) Flask
9 2 (1.64%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.85%) ARM Cortex
2 16 (13.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (9.84%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (4.10%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.28%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (3.28%) IoT
6 3 (2.46%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.64%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.64%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.82%) Acoustics
8 1 (0.82%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.82%) PCIe
8 1 (0.82%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.82%) Robotics
8 1 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 53 (43.44%) Linux
2 26 (21.31%) FreeRTOS
3 6 (4.92%) Windows
4 4 (3.28%) SafeRTOS
5 1 (0.82%) CentOS
5 1 (0.82%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.82%) Unix
5 1 (0.82%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.82%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 36 (29.51%) Agile
3 35 (28.69%) CI/CD
4 29 (23.77%) DevOps
5 23 (18.85%) Configuration Management
6 16 (13.11%) Validation
7 13 (10.66%) Test Automation
8 11 (9.02%) SDLC
8 11 (9.02%) Verification and Validation
9 9 (7.38%) TDD
10 7 (5.74%) Computer Science
11 6 (4.92%) BDD
11 6 (4.92%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (4.92%) OO
11 6 (4.92%) Visualisation
12 5 (4.10%) Code Quality
12 5 (4.10%) Digital Twin
12 5 (4.10%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
12 5 (4.10%) Synthetic Environment
12 5 (4.10%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 42 (34.43%) C
2 37 (30.33%) C++
2 37 (30.33%) Java
3 26 (21.31%) Python
4 23 (18.85%) Embedded C
5 17 (13.93%) C#
5 17 (13.93%) JavaScript
6 9 (7.38%) Ada
7 6 (4.92%) MATLAB
8 4 (3.28%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.46%) Bash
9 3 (2.46%) Perl
9 3 (2.46%) SQL
10 2 (1.64%) Go
10 2 (1.64%) Rust
11 1 (0.82%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.82%) PHP
Qualifications
1 51 (41.80%) Security Cleared
2 28 (22.95%) SC Cleared
3 23 (18.85%) DV Cleared
4 8 (6.56%) Degree
5 4 (3.28%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.64%) HND
7 1 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.82%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.11%) MISRA
2 1 (0.82%) JTAG
2 1 (0.82%) QA
System Software
1 11 (9.02%) Docker
2 1 (0.82%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.82%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (8.20%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.64%) Terraform
3 1 (0.82%) Ansible
3 1 (0.82%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (18.85%) IBM
1 23 (18.85%) Lauterbach
2 16 (13.11%) Google
3 12 (9.84%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.64%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.82%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (0.82%) QinetiQ
5 1 (0.82%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.82%) Splunk
5 1 (0.82%) VMware
5 1 (0.82%) Wind River