Software Engineering Contracts in West Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 35 49
Rank change year-on-year 0 +14 -7
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 28 43 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 5.11% 4.30% 3.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.58% 4.91% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 19 33
10th Percentile £450 £277 £413
25th Percentile £463 £300 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -12.20% -
75th Percentile £775 £550 £588
90th Percentile £777 £630 £680
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £400 £513
% change year-on-year +25.00% -21.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £52.50 £45.96
% change year-on-year - +14.22% +9.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 502 875 1,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.61% 87.59% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 513 1,023
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £656 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 16
10th Percentile £20.11 £11.91 £12.58
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £15.10
Median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.20 £65.31
90th Percentile £99.93 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in West Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in West Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in West Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in West Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in West Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in West Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Leeds -2 28 £500 +11.11% 69
Software Engineering
Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (21.43%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) Azure
2 6 (21.43%) Slack
3 5 (17.86%) AWS
4 4 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (10.71%) GitHub
6 2 (7.14%) GCP
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.57%) Apigee
7 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Stack
7 1 (3.57%) npm
7 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (42.86%) MySQL
2 9 (32.14%) Apache Cassandra
2 9 (32.14%) MongoDB
2 9 (32.14%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 7 (25.00%) Git
1 7 (25.00%) Jasmine
1 7 (25.00%) JIRA
1 7 (25.00%) JUnit
2 1 (3.57%) Babel
2 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.57%) GitLab
2 1 (3.57%) webpack
General
1 7 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Finance
3 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (57.14%) Developer
2 13 (46.43%) Senior
3 10 (35.71%) Software Engineer
4 8 (28.57%) Java Developer
5 7 (25.00%) Senior Developer
5 7 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (21.43%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (14.29%) React Developer
8 3 (10.71%) .NET Software Engineer
8 3 (10.71%) Architect
9 2 (7.14%) Java Engineer
9 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
10 1 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
10 1 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
10 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
10 1 (3.57%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
10 1 (3.57%) Senior Java Engineer
10 1 (3.57%) Senior SQL Developer
10 1 (3.57%) Technical Architect
10 1 (3.57%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (32.14%) .NET
1 9 (32.14%) Spring
1 9 (32.14%) Spring Boot
2 8 (28.57%) React
2 8 (28.57%) Spring Security
3 7 (25.00%) RESTful
3 7 (25.00%) Spring Batch
3 7 (25.00%) Swagger
4 5 (17.86%) OpenAPI
4 5 (17.86%) React Native
5 4 (14.29%) AngularJS
6 3 (10.71%) .NET Core
6 3 (10.71%) Laravel
6 3 (10.71%) Vue
6 3 (10.71%) WPF
7 2 (7.14%) Next.js
7 2 (7.14%) Node.js
8 1 (3.57%) D3.js
8 1 (3.57%) HTML
8 1 (3.57%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (10.71%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (7.14%) Mobile App
3 2 (7.14%) NHS
4 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Linux
1 10 (35.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (10.71%) Android
2 3 (10.71%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.57%) HPUX
3 1 (3.57%) Solaris
3 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) BDD
1 15 (53.57%) TDD
2 11 (39.29%) Technical Leadership
3 10 (35.71%) Continuous Delivery
3 10 (35.71%) Mentoring
3 10 (35.71%) Microservices
4 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 8 (28.57%) Coaching
4 8 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 7 (25.00%) Agile
6 6 (21.43%) API Design
6 6 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (21.43%) DevOps
6 6 (21.43%) High Availability
6 6 (21.43%) Kernel Tuning
6 6 (21.43%) Operational Stability
6 6 (21.43%) OWASP
6 6 (21.43%) Test Automation
7 5 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (14.29%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) SQL
2 11 (39.29%) Java
3 9 (32.14%) Bash
4 8 (28.57%) C#
5 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
6 3 (10.71%) PHP
7 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
8 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
8 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (32.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (3.57%) IBM
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
1 1 (3.57%) Sun
1 1 (3.57%) Unisys