Software Engineering Contracts in the South West

Software Engineering
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 26 26
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 -6
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 156 235 249
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 4.90% 6.65% 6.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.90% 7.42% 7.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 136 117
10th Percentile £400 £433 £425
25th Percentile £454 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £579 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% +5.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £692 £625
90th Percentile £729 £725 £680
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 61 55
10th Percentile £52.50 £60.00 £48.99
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.91 £58.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +30.00%
75th Percentile - £70.30 £65.13
90th Percentile £73.00 £72.98 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,645 3,167 3,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.12% 89.56% 88.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,687 2,324 2,293
10th Percentile £218 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +6.89%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £590
90th Percentile £700 £723 £671
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 327 194
10th Percentile £13.87 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.42 £20.37
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £48.61
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +23.43% +11.75%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.31 £69.95
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 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 +7 97 £525 -4.55% 109
Gloucestershire -25 20 £625 -5.12% 33
Devon +9 15 £458 - 24
Dorset +6 9 £400 -20.00% 23
Wiltshire -41 8 £700 +22.86% 17
Somerset -2 5 £450 -33.48% 25
Cornwall - 1 - - 2
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 2 (1.28%) Confluence
2 1 (0.64%) Apache
2 1 (0.64%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.64%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (7.69%) Chatbot
2 5 (3.21%) Simulink
2 5 (3.21%) Stateflow
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (16.67%) AWS
2 14 (8.97%) GitHub
3 13 (8.33%) Azure
4 8 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.92%) Serverless
6 2 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.28%) GCP
6 2 (1.28%) Pulumi
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.64%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.64%) Azure App Service
7 1 (0.64%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (0.64%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.64%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.21%) Ethernet
1 5 (3.21%) HTTP
1 5 (3.21%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.28%) Tactical Data Link
3 1 (0.64%) AMQP
3 1 (0.64%) Internet
3 1 (0.64%) Network Security
3 1 (0.64%) Skype
3 1 (0.64%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.64%) VSAN
3 1 (0.64%) WAN
3 1 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.21%) NoSQL
2 5 (3.21%) SQLite
3 3 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (1.92%) CockroachDB
4 2 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.28%) MySQL
5 1 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.64%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.64%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.64%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (13.46%) Jenkins
2 18 (11.54%) JIRA
3 12 (7.69%) Git
3 12 (7.69%) GoogleTest
4 11 (7.05%) SonarQube
5 10 (6.41%) Rational DOORS
6 7 (4.49%) Artifactory
7 5 (3.21%) Checkstyle
7 5 (3.21%) Eclipse
7 5 (3.21%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.92%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.28%) Selenium
10 1 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.64%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.64%) GitLab
10 1 (0.64%) JUnit
10 1 (0.64%) Maven
10 1 (0.64%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 16 (10.26%) Social Skills
2 12 (7.69%) Aerospace
3 11 (7.05%) Legal
4 9 (5.77%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.85%) Automotive
6 5 (3.21%) Military
6 5 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.56%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.92%) Law
9 2 (1.28%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.28%) Finance
9 2 (1.28%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.64%) Banking
10 1 (0.64%) Electronics
10 1 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.64%) Marketing
10 1 (0.64%) Public Speaking
10 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 102 (65.38%) Software Engineer
2 28 (17.95%) Embedded Engineer
3 27 (17.31%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 18 (11.54%) Developer
5 17 (10.90%) C++ Software Engineer
5 17 (10.90%) Java Engineer
6 16 (10.26%) Software Developer
7 15 (9.62%) Java Software Engineer
8 13 (8.33%) Project Manager
9 10 (6.41%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 10 (6.41%) Senior
10 9 (5.77%) Ada Engineer
10 9 (5.77%) Ada Software Engineer
11 8 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (4.49%) C# Software Engineer
12 7 (4.49%) SC Cleared Project Manager
13 5 (3.21%) Senior Software Engineer
14 4 (2.56%) Senior Manager
15 3 (1.92%) Delivery Project Manager
15 3 (1.92%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.26%) HTML
2 13 (8.33%) .NET
3 12 (7.69%) Node.js
3 12 (7.69%) Qt
4 11 (7.05%) React
5 10 (6.41%) REST
6 9 (5.77%) Spring
6 9 (5.77%) Spring Boot
7 8 (5.13%) .NET Core
8 7 (4.49%) .NET Framework
9 6 (3.85%) RESTful
9 6 (3.85%) Web Services
9 6 (3.85%) XML
9 6 (3.85%) YAML
10 5 (3.21%) JSON
10 5 (3.21%) Vue
11 4 (2.56%) CSS
11 4 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (1.92%) Blazor
12 3 (1.92%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.54%) ARM Cortex
2 12 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (5.77%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (3.21%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.21%) IoT
5 4 (2.56%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.28%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.28%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.64%) Acoustics
8 1 (0.64%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.64%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.64%) Robotics
8 1 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 49 (31.41%) Linux
2 22 (14.10%) FreeRTOS
3 10 (6.41%) Windows
4 4 (2.56%) SafeRTOS
5 2 (1.28%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.64%) CentOS
6 1 (0.64%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.64%) Unix
6 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (28.85%) Agile
2 41 (26.28%) CI/CD
3 37 (23.72%) DevOps
4 22 (14.10%) Configuration Management
5 17 (10.90%) Code Quality
6 16 (10.26%) SDLC
6 16 (10.26%) Validation
7 13 (8.33%) Project Governance
7 13 (8.33%) Test Automation
8 12 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence
8 12 (7.69%) Conversational UI
9 11 (7.05%) TDD
9 11 (7.05%) Verification and Validation
10 10 (6.41%) Scrum
11 9 (5.77%) OO
12 8 (5.13%) Computer Science
12 8 (5.13%) Continuous Delivery
12 8 (5.13%) Software Delivery
13 7 (4.49%) Microservices
13 7 (4.49%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 40 (25.64%) Python
2 39 (25.00%) Java
3 38 (24.36%) C
4 34 (21.79%) C++
5 31 (19.87%) JavaScript
6 30 (19.23%) C#
7 21 (13.46%) SQL
8 18 (11.54%) Embedded C
9 9 (5.77%) Ada
9 9 (5.77%) PowerShell
10 8 (5.13%) Bash
11 7 (4.49%) TypeScript
12 6 (3.85%) MATLAB
13 4 (2.56%) Go
14 2 (1.28%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.64%) Assembly Language
15 1 (0.64%) Bicep
15 1 (0.64%) PHP
15 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 71 (45.51%) Security Cleared
2 37 (23.72%) SC Cleared
3 30 (19.23%) DV Cleared
4 24 (15.38%) Degree
5 5 (3.21%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.28%) HND
7 1 (0.64%) CESG Certified Professional
7 1 (0.64%) CISM
7 1 (0.64%) CISSP
7 1 (0.64%) CLAS
7 1 (0.64%) PhD
7 1 (0.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.69%) MISRA
2 2 (1.28%) JTAG
2 2 (1.28%) QA
3 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.64%) JSP 440
3 1 (0.64%) NCSC
3 1 (0.64%) NIST
3 1 (0.64%) RMADS
System Software
1 18 (11.54%) Docker
2 2 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.64%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.64%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (8.33%) Terraform
2 12 (7.69%) Ansible
2 12 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.92%) Grafana
3 3 (1.92%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.28%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.64%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.64%) Puppet
5 1 (0.64%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (11.54%) IBM
1 18 (11.54%) Lauterbach
2 15 (9.62%) Microsoft
3 12 (7.69%) Google
3 12 (7.69%) PayPal
4 2 (1.28%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.28%) VMware
4 2 (1.28%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.64%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.64%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (0.64%) QinetiQ
5 1 (0.64%) SAP
5 1 (0.64%) Splunk
5 1 (0.64%) Wind River