Software Engineering Contracts in Worcestershire

Software Engineering
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Worcestershire 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 13 10 18
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 4 7 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Worcestershire 8.70% 9.33% 6.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.09% 11.67% 7.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 7
10th Percentile - £483 £564
25th Percentile £563 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £590
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -11.02% +21.84%
75th Percentile £594 £538 £595
90th Percentile £605 £560 £600
West Midlands median daily rate £531 £450 £540
% change year-on-year +18.00% -16.67% +1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 44 60 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 95.65% 80.00% 93.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 47 81
10th Percentile £145 £213 £331
25th Percentile £200 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - +35.48%
75th Percentile £700 £575 £650
90th Percentile £830 £675 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 6
10th Percentile £14.09 - £15.82
25th Percentile £15.22 £10.50 £16.83
Median hourly rate £17.16 £11.73 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year +46.31% -33.76% +11.60%
75th Percentile £18.13 £48.13 £17.72
90th Percentile £37.29 £72.50 £17.72
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Worcestershire

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Worcestershire

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Worcestershire

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire 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
Malvern 0 3 £575 +9.52% 3
Worcester -10 1 £600 +9.09% 15
Software Engineering
West Midlands

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Worcestershire 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:

Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) User Experience
1 4 (100.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform