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 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 81 49
Rank change year-on-year +10 -32 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 88 105 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.75% 2.85% 4.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.94% 3.09% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 44 72
10th Percentile £481 £450 £450
25th Percentile £522 £494 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -9.17% +18.73%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £642
90th Percentile £723 £696 £680
England median daily rate £628 £590 £600
% change year-on-year +6.36% -1.67% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 46 42
10th Percentile £52.50 £60.45 £57.75
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.91 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +0.77% +34.02%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.19
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.25 £57.00
% change year-on-year +2.04% +7.46% +26.67%

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 2,993 3,403 3,576
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.47% 92.35% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,937 2,534 2,546
10th Percentile £210 £263 £225
25th Percentile £388 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £588
90th Percentile £706 £713 £661
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 387 280 203
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.09 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.50 £51.25 £16.99
Median hourly rate £48.29 £65.00 £45.20
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +43.81% +6.35%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.05
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £69.05
England median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -22.22% +100.00% +0.36%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 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
Bristol +19 60 £538 +13.16% 90
Gloucestershire -7 17 £625 +4.17% 34
Wiltshire -9 3 £625 +25.00% 9
Dorset - 3 £525 - 19
Somerset +3 2 - - 13
Cornwall - 1 - - 1
Devon - 1 £325 - 16
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 West region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 88 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 43 (48.86%) Security Cleared
3 33 (37.50%) C
4 31 (35.23%) Linux
5 24 (27.27%) SC Cleared
6 21 (23.86%) FreeRTOS
7 19 (21.59%) DV Cleared
7 19 (21.59%) C++
8 18 (20.45%) Java
9 17 (19.32%) IBM
9 17 (19.32%) Embedded C
9 17 (19.32%) Agile
9 17 (19.32%) Configuration Management
9 17 (19.32%) Lauterbach
9 17 (19.32%) ARM Cortex
10 16 (18.18%) DevOps
10 16 (18.18%) CI/CD
11 14 (15.91%) AWS
12 13 (14.77%) Validation
12 13 (14.77%) Python
13 12 (13.64%) JavaScript
13 12 (13.64%) C#
13 12 (13.64%) Aerospace
14 11 (12.50%) Test Automation
15 10 (11.36%) .NET
16 9 (10.23%) SDLC
16 9 (10.23%) Ada
16 9 (10.23%) Microsoft
16 9 (10.23%) Jenkins
17 8 (9.09%) Docker

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 1 (1.14%) Apache Solr
1 1 (1.14%) Confluence
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.14%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Simulink
1 5 (5.68%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 14 (15.91%) AWS
2 5 (5.68%) GitHub
3 2 (2.27%) Azure
3 2 (2.27%) GCP
3 2 (2.27%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.68%) HTTP
2 2 (2.27%) Ethernet
2 2 (2.27%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.14%) Skype
3 1 (1.14%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.14%) VSAN
3 1 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (5.68%) SQLite
2 2 (2.27%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.14%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.14%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (10.23%) Jenkins
2 8 (9.09%) Git
2 8 (9.09%) Rational DOORS
3 6 (6.82%) JIRA
4 5 (5.68%) Checkstyle
4 5 (5.68%) SonarQube
5 4 (4.55%) GoogleTest
6 3 (3.41%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.27%) Eclipse
7 2 (2.27%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.14%) Rational Team Concert
8 1 (1.14%) Selenium
General
1 12 (13.64%) Aerospace
2 6 (6.82%) Automotive
3 5 (5.68%) Legal
4 4 (4.55%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.27%) Law
5 2 (2.27%) Military
5 2 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.27%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.14%) Aviation
6 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.36%) .NET
2 8 (9.09%) React
3 6 (6.82%) .NET Core
3 6 (6.82%) .NET Framework
3 6 (6.82%) Node.js
3 6 (6.82%) RESTful
3 6 (6.82%) XML
4 5 (5.68%) JSON
4 5 (5.68%) REST
4 5 (5.68%) Spring
4 5 (5.68%) Spring Boot
5 4 (4.55%) Qt
6 3 (3.41%) Vue
6 3 (3.41%) Web Services
7 2 (2.27%) ASP.NET
7 2 (2.27%) Blazor
7 2 (2.27%) CSS
7 2 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (2.27%) Flask
7 2 (2.27%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.32%) ARM Cortex
2 5 (5.68%) Algorithms
2 5 (5.68%) IoT
3 4 (4.55%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.41%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.27%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.14%) Acoustics
6 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.14%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) Robotics
6 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (35.23%) Linux
2 21 (23.86%) FreeRTOS
3 4 (4.55%) SafeRTOS
4 3 (3.41%) Windows
5 1 (1.14%) CentOS
5 1 (1.14%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.14%) Unix
5 1 (1.14%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 17 (19.32%) Agile
2 17 (19.32%) Configuration Management
3 16 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 16 (18.18%) DevOps
4 13 (14.77%) Validation
5 11 (12.50%) Test Automation
6 9 (10.23%) SDLC
7 8 (9.09%) Verification and Validation
8 6 (6.82%) BDD
8 6 (6.82%) Computer Science
8 6 (6.82%) OO
8 6 (6.82%) TDD
9 5 (5.68%) Code Quality
9 5 (5.68%) Design Patterns
9 5 (5.68%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
10 4 (4.55%) Embedded Software Development
11 3 (3.41%) Full Stack Development
11 3 (3.41%) Microservices
11 3 (3.41%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 33 (37.50%) C
2 19 (21.59%) C++
3 18 (20.45%) Java
4 17 (19.32%) Embedded C
5 13 (14.77%) Python
6 12 (13.64%) C#
6 12 (13.64%) JavaScript
7 9 (10.23%) Ada
8 6 (6.82%) MATLAB
9 4 (4.55%) TypeScript
10 3 (3.41%) SQL
11 2 (2.27%) Go
12 1 (1.14%) Assembly Language
12 1 (1.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 43 (48.86%) Security Cleared
2 24 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 19 (21.59%) DV Cleared
4 7 (7.95%) Degree
5 4 (4.55%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.27%) HND
7 1 (1.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.55%) MISRA
2 1 (1.14%) JTAG
System Software
1 8 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (1.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (7.95%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.27%) Terraform
3 1 (1.14%) Ansible
3 1 (1.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (19.32%) IBM
1 17 (19.32%) Lauterbach
2 9 (10.23%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.55%) Google
4 2 (2.27%) Xamarin
5 1 (1.14%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.14%) QinetiQ
5 1 (1.14%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.14%) Splunk
5 1 (1.14%) VMware
5 1 (1.14%) Wind River