Software Engineering Contracts in the South West

Software Engineering
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 26 16
Rank change year-on-year -10 -10 +12
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 92 207 288
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.02% 6.34% 8.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.56% 7.65% 9.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 59 176
10th Percentile £355 £420 £413
25th Percentile £409 £454 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £645 £600 £655
90th Percentile £680 £688 £717
England median daily rate £600 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -2.04% +2.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 99 63
10th Percentile - £52.50 £59.78
25th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.91
Median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +6.87% +3.15%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £70.30
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.40
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,655 2,705 3,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.24% 82.87% 88.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 992 1,714 2,246
10th Percentile £220 £260 £319
25th Percentile £363 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £687 £700 £725
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 379 285
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.60 £29.75 £35.00
Median hourly rate £28.10 £55.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.92% -10.57% +26.16%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.25 £71.90
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.55
% change year-on-year -34.02% -3.62% +54.01%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the South West

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in the South West

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the South West over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in the South West

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in the South West

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineering in the South West over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in the South West

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the South West region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Bristol -9 52 £373 -29.05% 226
Wiltshire +41 11 £585 -16.43% 45
Devon +2 10 £450 -2.44% 55
Gloucestershire -2 10 £668 +6.80% 192
Dorset -12 4 £475 +10.47% 63
Somerset -2 3 £463 +2.78% 85
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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 3 (3.26%) Apache
2 2 (2.17%) Confluence
2 2 (2.17%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.09%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.09%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 21 (22.83%) AWS
2 13 (14.13%) Azure
3 11 (11.96%) GCP
4 8 (8.70%) Serverless
5 7 (7.61%) GitHub
6 4 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (4.35%) SaaS
7 3 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.26%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.17%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.17%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (2.17%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.17%) Datadog
8 2 (2.17%) Figma
9 1 (1.09%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.09%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.17%) Firewall
2 1 (1.09%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.09%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.09%) SAN
2 1 (1.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.26%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (2.17%) Big Data
3 2 (2.17%) Flink
3 2 (2.17%) GIS
3 2 (2.17%) Hadoop
3 2 (2.17%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.17%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.17%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.17%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.09%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.09%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.09%) Spatial Data
4 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 14 (15.22%) Git
2 4 (4.35%) JIRA
3 3 (3.26%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.26%) Cypress.io
3 3 (3.26%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.26%) webpack
4 2 (2.17%) GitLab
4 2 (2.17%) Storybook
4 2 (2.17%) Vite
5 1 (1.09%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.09%) CMake
5 1 (1.09%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.09%) Gradle
5 1 (1.09%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (1.09%) Rational Team Concert
5 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (18.48%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.13%) Public Sector
3 11 (11.96%) Finance
4 10 (10.87%) Marketing
5 9 (9.78%) Electronics
5 9 (9.78%) Manufacturing
5 9 (9.78%) Telecoms
6 7 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (4.35%) Aerospace
8 4 (4.35%) Law
8 4 (4.35%) Military
9 1 (1.09%) Aviation
9 1 (1.09%) Banking
9 1 (1.09%) Games
9 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (32.61%) Software Engineer
2 20 (21.74%) Developer
3 18 (19.57%) Support Engineer
4 11 (11.96%) Product Engineer
4 11 (11.96%) Products Support Engineer
4 11 (11.96%) Software Support Engineer
5 9 (9.78%) Linux Engineer
6 8 (8.70%) Applications Support
6 8 (8.70%) Linux Support
6 8 (8.70%) Linux Support Engineer
7 7 (7.61%) Applications Developer
7 7 (7.61%) Applications Engineer
7 7 (7.61%) Applications Support Engineer
7 7 (7.61%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Azure Developer
8 6 (6.52%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) C# Application Developer
8 6 (6.52%) C# Developer
8 6 (6.52%) C++ Software Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (25.00%) Middleware
2 17 (18.48%) CSS
2 17 (18.48%) HTML
3 12 (13.04%) Qt
4 11 (11.96%) AngularJS
5 10 (10.87%) .NET
6 9 (9.78%) React
7 8 (8.70%) REST
8 6 (6.52%) RESTful
8 6 (6.52%) Spring
9 5 (5.43%) Node.js
9 5 (5.43%) Spring Boot
10 4 (4.35%) Vue
11 3 (3.26%) Apache NiFi
11 3 (3.26%) AWS CDK
11 3 (3.26%) jQuery
12 2 (2.17%) .NET Framework
12 2 (2.17%) NumPy
12 2 (2.17%) SOAP
12 2 (2.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.70%) Management Information System
2 7 (7.61%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.09%) CESG
3 1 (1.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.09%) CUDA
3 1 (1.09%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.09%) Hackathon
3 1 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.09%) PKI
3 1 (1.09%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.09%) Robotics
3 1 (1.09%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 30 (32.61%) Linux
2 14 (15.22%) Windows
3 13 (14.13%) Ubuntu
4 3 (3.26%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.09%) Unix
5 1 (1.09%) VMS
5 1 (1.09%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (22.83%) Agile
1 21 (22.83%) CI/CD
2 16 (17.39%) User Experience
3 13 (14.13%) Continuous Integration
3 13 (14.13%) Service Management
3 13 (14.13%) Test Automation
3 13 (14.13%) Web Development
4 12 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (11.96%) Computer Science
5 11 (11.96%) Configuration Management
6 10 (10.87%) TDD
7 9 (9.78%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (9.78%) Continuous Delivery
7 9 (9.78%) DevOps
7 9 (9.78%) Digital Marketing
7 9 (9.78%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (9.78%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (9.78%) NsoIT
7 9 (9.78%) Programme Management
7 9 (9.78%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 39 (42.39%) JavaScript
2 34 (36.96%) C++
3 27 (29.35%) Ada
3 27 (29.35%) Python
4 18 (19.57%) C
5 17 (18.48%) Java
6 15 (16.30%) Shell Script
7 13 (14.13%) PowerShell
8 12 (13.04%) C#
9 8 (8.70%) SQL
10 7 (7.61%) TypeScript
11 4 (4.35%) Bash
12 3 (3.26%) Go
13 2 (2.17%) Perl
14 1 (1.09%) Assembly Language
14 1 (1.09%) MATLAB
14 1 (1.09%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 40 (43.48%) Security Cleared
2 30 (32.61%) SC Cleared
3 12 (13.04%) Degree
4 11 (11.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (9.78%) DV Cleared
5 9 (9.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 8 (8.70%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.17%) CCNP
7 2 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.17%) OCA
7 2 (2.17%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (2.17%) RHCA
7 2 (2.17%) RHCE
8 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.22%) Def Stans
1 14 (15.22%) IEC 61508
2 11 (11.96%) MISRA
2 11 (11.96%) MISRA C
3 10 (10.87%) QA
4 2 (2.17%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.17%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.17%) WCAG
5 1 (1.09%) JSP 440
System Software
1 6 (6.52%) Docker
2 4 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 17 (18.48%) Terraform
2 15 (16.30%) Ansible
3 7 (7.61%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.17%) Grafana
4 2 (2.17%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.17%) Puppet
4 2 (2.17%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (1.09%) Podman
5 1 (1.09%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.09%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (16.30%) Red Hat
2 11 (11.96%) VMware
3 9 (9.78%) SAP
4 8 (8.70%) Google
5 5 (5.43%) Oracle
6 3 (3.26%) Cisco
6 3 (3.26%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.26%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.26%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.17%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.09%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.09%) ESRI
8 1 (1.09%) Genesys
8 1 (1.09%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.09%) Wind River