Software Engineering Contract Job Trends in Welwyn Garden City

Software Engineering
Hertfordshire > Welwyn Garden City

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Welwyn Garden City requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Welwyn Garden City 12.50% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.64% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £613 £550 £425
% change year-on-year +11.36% +29.41% -32.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Welwyn Garden City

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 Welwyn Garden City.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22 23 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Welwyn Garden City 91.67% 95.83% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 3
10th Percentile £600 £430 £283
25th Percentile £625 £456 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £575 £375
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% +53.33% -28.57%
75th Percentile - £650 £463
90th Percentile £850 £713 £508
Hertfordshire median daily rate £510 £540 £400
% change year-on-year -5.56% +35.00% -23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 1
10th Percentile - £16.53 -
25th Percentile £92.50 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £95.00 £18.82 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +404.78% +17.63% -75.85%
75th Percentile £97.50 £21.92 £16.50
90th Percentile - £22.11 -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £61.76 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +12.28% +10.00% -23.08%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Welwyn Garden City

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

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Welwyn Garden City

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Welwyn Garden City

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Welwyn Garden City citing Software Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Welwyn Garden City citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Welwyn Garden City

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Welwyn Garden City citing Software Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Welwyn Garden City citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Welwyn Garden City 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure AKS
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) Redis
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Python Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Celery
1 2 (66.67%) Django
1 2 (66.67%) JWT
1 2 (66.67%) OAuth
1 2 (66.67%) React
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (33.33%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) API Design
1 2 (66.67%) Application Security
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
1 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Data Validation
1 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
1 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) Security Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Static Application Security Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform