Software Engineering Contracts in Southampton

Software Engineering
Hampshire > Southampton

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Southampton 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 11 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +19
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 13 17 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Southampton 7.69% 10.24% 12.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.75% 13.18% 13.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 24
10th Percentile - £428 £392
25th Percentile £425 £484 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £644 £495
Median % change year-on-year -30.10% +30.05% +23.75%
75th Percentile £475 £663 £550
90th Percentile - £687 £700
Hampshire median daily rate £450 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -18.18% +0.46% +13.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £70.25 - -
25th Percentile £78.13 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £62.50 £58.91 £50.00
% change year-on-year +6.10% +17.81% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 102 129 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 60.36% 77.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 88 191
10th Percentile £300 £240 £250
25th Percentile £413 £422 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +16.67% +9.76%
75th Percentile £650 £598 £538
90th Percentile £713 £663 £638
Hampshire median daily rate £581 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +10.71% +5.00% +7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 9
10th Percentile £13.13 £22.19 £16.25
25th Percentile £66.88 £23.15 £16.41
Median hourly rate £80.00 £29.58 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +170.50% +67.66% +27.00%
75th Percentile - £41.63 £23.75
90th Percentile - £51.13 £36.67
Hampshire median hourly rate £57.35 £52.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +9.24% +110.00% -18.57%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Southampton.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Southampton

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Southampton.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Southampton

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Southampton

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Southampton.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Southampton

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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 (23.08%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
3 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 3 (23.08%) MongoDB
2 3 (23.08%) MySQL
3 2 (15.38%) CouchDB
3 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (7.69%) Couchbase
4 1 (7.69%) Metadata
4 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 1 (7.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
2 3 (23.08%) Bitbucket
2 3 (23.08%) JIRA
3 1 (7.69%) GitLab
3 1 (7.69%) MagicDraw
3 1 (7.69%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (7.69%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 6 (46.15%) Aerospace
2 1 (7.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Software Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Principal Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Principal Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Full Stack Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Full Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) PHP Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) AngularJS
1 4 (30.77%) Node.js
2 3 (23.08%) React
3 2 (15.38%) .NET
3 2 (15.38%) .NET Core
3 2 (15.38%) .NET Framework
3 2 (15.38%) CSS
3 2 (15.38%) HTML
3 2 (15.38%) Vue
3 2 (15.38%) XML
4 1 (7.69%) FastAPI
4 1 (7.69%) JSON
4 1 (7.69%) Laravel
4 1 (7.69%) OpenAPI
4 1 (7.69%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) RESTful
4 1 (7.69%) Swagger
4 1 (7.69%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 1 (7.69%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Client/Server
2 1 (7.69%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) Full Stack Development
3 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 2 (15.38%) Kanban
4 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
4 2 (15.38%) Scrum
4 2 (15.38%) TDD
4 2 (15.38%) Web Application Development
4 2 (15.38%) Web Development
5 1 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (7.69%) Data Protection
5 1 (7.69%) E-Commerce
5 1 (7.69%) MVC
5 1 (7.69%) OO
5 1 (7.69%) OOD
5 1 (7.69%) Refactoring
5 1 (7.69%) Requirements Management
5 1 (7.69%) Test Automation
5 1 (7.69%) UML
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) C#
1 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
2 2 (15.38%) Bash
2 2 (15.38%) C++
2 2 (15.38%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.69%) Assembly Language
3 1 (7.69%) C
3 1 (7.69%) MATLAB
3 1 (7.69%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) IEC 61508
1 1 (7.69%) MISRA
1 1 (7.69%) MISRA C
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
1 2 (15.38%) VirtualBox
1 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) VMware
2 1 (7.69%) Compaq
2 1 (7.69%) NVIDIA