Software Engineer Contracts in Yorkshire

Software Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Software Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £480, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 84 107
Rank change year-on-year +8 +23 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 16 16 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.57% 0.95% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.67% 1.03% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 14
10th Percentile - £270 £450
25th Percentile £450 £280 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £350 £525
Median % change year-on-year +37.14% -33.33% +20.69%
75th Percentile £509 £450 £625
90th Percentile £549 - £678
England median daily rate £603 £638 £590
% change year-on-year -5.45% +8.05% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 4
10th Percentile - - £39.17
25th Percentile - £51.25 £41.42
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £45.96
Median % change year-on-year - +14.22% +9.84%
75th Percentile - £61.25 £50.08
90th Percentile - £63.75 £51.31
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £63.75
% change year-on-year +4.00% -1.96% +11.84%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 959 1,546 2,201
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 91.53% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 962 1,502
10th Percentile £224 £233 £260
25th Percentile £358 £378 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £629 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 65 27
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.23 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.25 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.24 £14.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.71% -36.36% +25.71%
75th Percentile £22.14 £23.75 £54.07
90th Percentile £80.10 £51.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Yorkshire

Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineer in Yorkshire

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineer in Yorkshire

Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineer in Yorkshire

Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 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
West Yorkshire +17 15 £475 +35.71% 65
South Yorkshire +8 1 £525 - 17
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Yorkshire region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (68.75%) Software Engineering
2 7 (43.75%) SQL
3 6 (37.50%) Agile
3 6 (37.50%) C#
3 6 (37.50%) Azure
4 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
4 5 (31.25%) React
4 5 (31.25%) .NET
5 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (25.00%) DevOps
5 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) Translating Business Requirements
6 3 (18.75%) Docker
6 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
6 3 (18.75%) BDD
6 3 (18.75%) Node.js
6 3 (18.75%) AWS
6 3 (18.75%) PL/SQL
6 3 (18.75%) COBOL
6 3 (18.75%) Oracle
6 3 (18.75%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (18.75%) TDD
7 2 (12.50%) Java
7 2 (12.50%) Project Planning
7 2 (12.50%) NHS
7 2 (12.50%) Finance
7 2 (12.50%) Perforce
7 2 (12.50%) Git
7 2 (12.50%) Confluence
7 2 (12.50%) Mentoring

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.25%) Apigee
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Stack
3 1 (6.25%) npm
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) Serverless
3 1 (6.25%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.25%) MySQL
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (6.25%) Babel
3 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
3 1 (6.25%) Jasmine
3 1 (6.25%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) JUnit
3 1 (6.25%) webpack
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) .NET
1 5 (31.25%) React
2 3 (18.75%) Node.js
3 2 (12.50%) .NET Core
3 2 (12.50%) Next.js
3 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 2 (12.50%) Swagger
4 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
4 1 (6.25%) CSS
4 1 (6.25%) D3.js
4 1 (6.25%) GraphQL
4 1 (6.25%) HTML
4 1 (6.25%) Jest
4 1 (6.25%) JSON
4 1 (6.25%) JWT
4 1 (6.25%) OpenAPI
4 1 (6.25%) React Native
4 1 (6.25%) RESTful
4 1 (6.25%) Spring Batch
4 1 (6.25%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (12.50%) NHS
1 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Software Engineering
2 6 (37.50%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) BDD
4 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 3 (18.75%) TDD
4 3 (18.75%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (12.50%) Front End Development
5 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (12.50%) Impact Analysis
5 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 2 (12.50%) Microservices
5 2 (12.50%) Project Planning
5 2 (12.50%) User Experience
6 1 (6.25%) API Design
6 1 (6.25%) API Development
6 1 (6.25%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (6.25%) Kernel Tuning
6 1 (6.25%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) SQL
2 6 (37.50%) C#
3 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (18.75%) COBOL
4 3 (18.75%) PL/SQL
5 2 (12.50%) Java
5 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 1 (6.25%) Bash
6 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) Perforce
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2,395 Software Engineer jobs in England