Software Engineering Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Software Engineering
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 13 16
Rank change year-on-year -12 +3 -
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 3 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 1.66% 3.39% 3.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 4.35% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £713 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - £400
75th Percentile £738 - £425
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £470 £575 £460
% change year-on-year -18.26% +25.00% -23.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 166 46 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 91.71% 77.97% 73.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 23 46
10th Percentile £178 £140 £128
25th Percentile £263 £174 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £250 £390
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -35.90% -22.00%
75th Percentile £609 £481 £497
90th Percentile £850 £590 £594
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £519
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.66% +3.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 4
10th Percentile £13.56 £24.43 -
25th Percentile £17.74 £29.00 £33.93
Median hourly rate £19.41 £30.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year -35.30% -12.96% +25.33%
75th Percentile £21.44 £31.00 £38.44
90th Percentile £42.75 £34.68 £44.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.05 £23.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +21.93% -4.88% -12.07%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Software Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Software Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Embedded Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Qt Software Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) QML
1 2 (66.67%) Qt
1 2 (66.67%) Yocto
2 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Embedded Linux
1 2 (66.67%) FreeRTOS
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C++
2 2 (66.67%) C
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO 26262
1 2 (66.67%) MISRA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) QNX
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft