Software Engineering Contract Job Trends in Swindon

Software Engineering
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swindon requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 0.90% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £419 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - -
75th Percentile £456 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £575 £618 £550
% change year-on-year -6.88% +12.27% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 171 99 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 77.03% 90.00% 78.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 57 60
10th Percentile £333 £210 £304
25th Percentile £419 £308 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +5.26% -17.39%
75th Percentile £725 £575 £550
90th Percentile £788 £608 £639
Wiltshire median daily rate £525 £553 £538
% change year-on-year -4.98% +2.79% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £28.75 - -
25th Percentile £46.00 - -
Median hourly rate £47.00 - -
75th Percentile £49.50 - -
90th Percentile £49.80 - -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £37.43 £22.50 £12.79
% change year-on-year +66.34% +75.92% -78.68%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Swindon

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

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

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Swindon

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

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

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon 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 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) PowerApps
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) Pinecone
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Weaviate
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Faiss
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) LangChain
1 1 (50.00%) LlamaIndex
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Low-Code
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle