Software Engineer Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineer
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Software Engineer daily rate in Tyne and Wear is £390 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 38 37
Rank change year-on-year +18 -1 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 13 14 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 5.31% 4.20% 3.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.83% 4.28% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £370 £563 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £638 £463
Median % change year-on-year -38.82% +37.84% +27.76%
75th Percentile £410 £700 £550
90th Percentile - - £655
North East median daily rate £390 £575 £463
% change year-on-year -32.17% +24.32% +27.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £47.50 £32.50 -
% change year-on-year +46.15% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Tyne and Wear

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear. 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 Tyne and Wear with a recognized job title 223 327 386
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.02% 98.20% 97.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 255 306
10th Percentile £271 £307 £164
25th Percentile £377 £425 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £594
90th Percentile £650 £736 £681
North East median daily rate £475 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 0 11
10th Percentile £11.50 - £11.17
25th Percentile £12.13 - £14.36
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £17.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +28.30%
75th Percentile £48.75 - £18.13
90th Percentile £60.00 - £19.91
North East median hourly rate £13.99 £40.75 £17.00
% change year-on-year -65.67% +139.71% +25.93%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineer in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineer in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineer in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineer in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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 +23 13 £390 -38.82% 8
Software Engineer
North East

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, 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 Tyne and Wear region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (46.15%) C
2 6 (46.15%) Embedded C
2 6 (46.15%) Electronics
2 6 (46.15%) Automotive
3 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 4 (30.77%) Grafana
4 3 (23.08%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (23.08%) Microservices
4 3 (23.08%) React
4 3 (23.08%) SDLC
4 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (23.08%) Azure
4 3 (23.08%) AWS
4 3 (23.08%) BDD
4 3 (23.08%) MongoDB
4 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
4 3 (23.08%) CAN bus
4 3 (23.08%) GitHub
4 3 (23.08%) TypeScript
4 3 (23.08%) MySQL
4 3 (23.08%) Ada
4 3 (23.08%) Java
4 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 3 (23.08%) Aerospace
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) TDD
4 3 (23.08%) RESTful
4 3 (23.08%) Cypress.io
4 3 (23.08%) BrowserStack

Software Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
1 3 (23.08%) BrowserStack
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (23.08%) GitHub
1 3 (23.08%) Serverless
2 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) J1939
2 1 (7.69%) AMQP
2 1 (7.69%) Modbus
2 1 (7.69%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) MongoDB
1 3 (23.08%) MySQL
1 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
1 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Cypress.io
General
1 6 (46.15%) Automotive
1 6 (46.15%) Electronics
2 3 (23.08%) Aerospace
2 3 (23.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Next.js
1 3 (23.08%) React
1 3 (23.08%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) CAN bus
2 1 (7.69%) IoT
2 1 (7.69%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (23.08%) Agile
2 3 (23.08%) BDD
2 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
2 3 (23.08%) Full Stack Development
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (23.08%) Microservices
2 3 (23.08%) Operational Stability
2 3 (23.08%) SDLC
2 3 (23.08%) TDD
3 1 (7.69%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) C
1 6 (46.15%) Embedded C
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) Ada
3 3 (23.08%) Java
3 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 3 (23.08%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Accessibility
1 3 (23.08%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Grafana
2 3 (23.08%) Functional Safety