Software Engineer Contracts in the South East

Software Engineer
England > South East

The median Software Engineer daily rate in the South East is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 122 158
Rank change year-on-year +45 +36 -37
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 137 104 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.47% 1.78% 1.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.67% 1.89% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 62 61
10th Percentile £183 £426 £398
25th Percentile £406 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% +18.28%
75th Percentile £575 £568 £650
90th Percentile £650 £625 £720
England median daily rate £625 £590 £600
% change year-on-year +5.93% -1.67% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 18 24
10th Percentile £46.25 £45.77 £35.69
25th Percentile £51.06 £50.00 £43.65
Median hourly rate £62.50 £56.95 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.74% +10.59% +14.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £74.75 £68.63 £56.71
England median hourly rate £63.27 £61.25 £57.00
% change year-on-year +3.29% +7.46% +26.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 East with a recognized job title 5,138 5,513 7,438
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 94.48% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,081 3,840 5,034
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £615 £603 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 241 339
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £15.81
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -13.40%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.59 £43.85
90th Percentile £76.87 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the South East

Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineer in the South East

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineer in the South East

Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineer in the South East

Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineer in the South East

Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Hampshire +20 78 £540 -3.91% 46
Thames Valley +21 26 £500 +2.56% 69
Berkshire -1 17 £600 +23.08% 16
Middlesex - 12 £450 -
Surrey -8 8 £450 -13.04% 33
Oxfordshire +10 6 £450 - 35
West Sussex +9 6 £500 - 11
Sussex - 4 - - 1
Buckinghamshire +31 3 £450 -12.62% 18
Kent -1 2 £413 -17.50% 14
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 East region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 137 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 50 (36.50%) C++
3 39 (28.47%) Agile
4 38 (27.74%) C
5 33 (24.09%) Scrum
5 33 (24.09%) Java
5 33 (24.09%) Linux
6 31 (22.63%) Security Cleared
6 31 (22.63%) Git
7 27 (19.71%) JIRA
8 26 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (18.25%) SC Cleared
10 23 (16.79%) Firmware
11 22 (16.06%) Windows
12 21 (15.33%) Aerospace
12 21 (15.33%) Software-Defined Radio
12 21 (15.33%) Social Skills
13 20 (14.60%) Jenkins
14 19 (13.87%) JavaScript
14 19 (13.87%) Degree
14 19 (13.87%) Computer Science
15 18 (13.14%) Validation
15 18 (13.14%) Python
16 17 (12.41%) UML
16 17 (12.41%) Continuous Integration
16 17 (12.41%) Kanban
17 16 (11.68%) OO
17 16 (11.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 15 (10.95%) Perl
18 15 (10.95%) C#

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 14 (10.22%) Confluence
2 1 (0.73%) Apache
2 1 (0.73%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.73%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.73%) MTS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 13 (9.49%) Azure
2 11 (8.03%) AWS
3 4 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.19%) GCP
4 3 (2.19%) GitHub
5 2 (1.46%) Google App Engine
6 1 (0.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (0.73%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.73%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.73%) npm
6 1 (0.73%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (15.33%) Software-Defined Radio
2 11 (8.03%) 802.11
2 11 (8.03%) SNMP
2 11 (8.03%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.92%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.92%) Wireless
4 3 (2.19%) Link 16
4 3 (2.19%) Tactical Data Link
5 2 (1.46%) HTTP
5 2 (1.46%) J1939
5 2 (1.46%) RS-232
6 1 (0.73%) NFC
6 1 (0.73%) PPP
6 1 (0.73%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.19%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.46%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.46%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.46%) MySQL
3 2 (1.46%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.73%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.73%) Couchbase
4 1 (0.73%) CouchDB
4 1 (0.73%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.73%) Metadata
4 1 (0.73%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (22.63%) Git
2 27 (19.71%) JIRA
3 20 (14.60%) Jenkins
4 15 (10.95%) Bitbucket
5 12 (8.76%) Eclipse
6 10 (7.30%) GoogleTest
7 9 (6.57%) Robot Framework
8 8 (5.84%) GitLab
9 7 (5.11%) Selenium
10 6 (4.38%) Cucumber
10 6 (4.38%) Subversion
11 5 (3.65%) REST Assured
11 5 (3.65%) SonarQube
12 4 (2.92%) Artifactory
13 3 (2.19%) LabVIEW
14 2 (1.46%) Rational DOORS
14 2 (1.46%) Visual Studio
15 1 (0.73%) Appium
15 1 (0.73%) CMake
15 1 (0.73%) SpecFlow
General
1 21 (15.33%) Aerospace
1 21 (15.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (7.30%) Electronics
3 8 (5.84%) Automotive
4 6 (4.38%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.65%) Law
5 5 (3.65%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.92%) Billing
6 4 (2.92%) Police
7 3 (2.19%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.46%) Aviation
8 2 (1.46%) Finance
9 1 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.73%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.73%) Publishing
9 1 (0.73%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.22%) CSS
1 14 (10.22%) HTML
1 14 (10.22%) REST
2 11 (8.03%) 802.1X
3 9 (6.57%) Node.js
3 9 (6.57%) RESTful
4 8 (5.84%) .NET
5 7 (5.11%) XML
6 6 (4.38%) ARM Templates
6 6 (4.38%) Java EE
6 6 (4.38%) Kafka
7 5 (3.65%) AngularJS
7 5 (3.65%) React
8 4 (2.92%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (2.92%) React Native
8 4 (2.92%) SOAP
9 3 (2.19%) .NET Core
9 3 (2.19%) .NET Framework
10 2 (1.46%) GraphQL
10 2 (1.46%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.65%) Algorithms
2 4 (2.92%) Device Driver
3 2 (1.46%) CAN bus
3 2 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.73%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (0.73%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.73%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (0.73%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.73%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.73%) Smartcard
4 1 (0.73%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 33 (24.09%) Linux
2 22 (16.06%) Windows
3 8 (5.84%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (1.46%) Android
5 1 (0.73%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 39 (28.47%) Agile
3 33 (24.09%) Scrum
4 26 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (13.87%) Computer Science
6 18 (13.14%) Validation
7 17 (12.41%) Continuous Integration
7 17 (12.41%) Kanban
7 17 (12.41%) UML
8 16 (11.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 16 (11.68%) OO
9 12 (8.76%) DevOps
9 12 (8.76%) Test Automation
9 12 (8.76%) Verification and Validation
10 10 (7.30%) Prototyping
10 10 (7.30%) SysML
11 9 (6.57%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (5.84%) CI/CD
12 8 (5.84%) Software Testing
12 8 (5.84%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 50 (36.50%) C++
2 38 (27.74%) C
3 33 (24.09%) Java
4 19 (13.87%) JavaScript
5 18 (13.14%) Python
6 15 (10.95%) C#
6 15 (10.95%) Perl
7 11 (8.03%) Tcl
8 10 (7.30%) Embedded C
9 6 (4.38%) Bash
9 6 (4.38%) SQL
10 5 (3.65%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.92%) Assembly Language
11 4 (2.92%) Go
11 4 (2.92%) MATLAB
12 3 (2.19%) Ada
12 3 (2.19%) Ada 95
12 3 (2.19%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.46%) PHP
13 2 (1.46%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (22.63%) Security Cleared
2 25 (18.25%) SC Cleared
3 19 (13.87%) Degree
4 9 (6.57%) Master's Degree
5 8 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.38%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.92%) PhD
8 1 (0.73%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.73%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.92%) JTAG
2 2 (1.46%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 23 (16.79%) Firmware
2 9 (6.57%) Docker
3 5 (3.65%) VirtualBox
4 4 (2.92%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.73%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.73%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (5.11%) Ansible
1 7 (5.11%) Kubernetes
1 7 (5.11%) Terraform
2 5 (3.65%) Docker Swarm
2 5 (3.65%) Podman
3 2 (1.46%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.73%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.73%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.73%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (9.49%) Google
2 9 (6.57%) Atlassian
3 4 (2.92%) Oracle
4 2 (1.46%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (1.46%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.73%) Compaq
5 1 (0.73%) HP
5 1 (0.73%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.73%) NVIDIA
5 1 (0.73%) Sparx
5 1 (0.73%) VMware