Software Engineer Contracts in Swindon

Software Engineer
Wiltshire > Swindon

The median Software Engineer daily rate in Swindon is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Swindon 1.02% - 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% - 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £500
75th Percentile - - £550
90th Percentile - - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £613 £625 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% +25.00% -9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Swindon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Swindon. 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 Swindon with a recognized job title 92 110 233
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 89.43% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 69 190
10th Percentile £248 £143 £200
25th Percentile £354 £200 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -23.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £593 £538 £588
90th Percentile £650 £682 £694
Wiltshire median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +6.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 0
Median hourly rate - £16.50 -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £18.87 £20.75 £65.50
% change year-on-year -9.06% -68.32% +19.09%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Swindon

Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in Swindon.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineer in Swindon

Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Swindon

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in Swindon.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineer in Swindon

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Swindon

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Swindon region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Route 53
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Swindon 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Route 53
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce