Software Engineering Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineering
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 8 32
Rank change year-on-year -22 +24 +6
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 3 27 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 1.26% 11.95% 4.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 13.78% 5.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 10
10th Percentile £334 - £557
25th Percentile £355 £370 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £390 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -44.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £425 £410 -
90th Percentile £446 - -
North East median daily rate £390 £390 £638
% change year-on-year - -38.82% +18.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 0
Median hourly rate £52.00 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% - -
North East median hourly rate £52.00 £47.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +9.47% +46.15% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 196 196 257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 82.01% 86.73% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 94 203
10th Percentile £213 £313 £314
25th Percentile £350 £377 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £573 £590 £650
90th Percentile £625 £650 £742
North East median daily rate £464 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -7.25% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 35 0
10th Percentile £11.60 £11.50 -
25th Percentile £12.39 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £18.24 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.20% - -
75th Percentile £41.56 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £50.38 £50.00 -
North East median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 £40.75
% change year-on-year -5.71% -57.06% +146.97%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 23 May 2025. 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -24 3 £390 - 213
Software Engineering
North East

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) LabWindows
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) LabVIEW
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) QA Tester
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) FPGA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Defect Management
2 2 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (33.33%) Line Management
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian