Software Engineering Contracts in Yorkshire

Software Engineering
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 40 50
Rank change year-on-year -12 +10 +1
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 37 69 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 3.65% 4.09% 3.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.94% 4.73% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 28 47
10th Percentile £450 £294 £413
25th Percentile £463 £300 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £513
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -17.07% -
75th Percentile £638 £553 £625
90th Percentile £775 £650 £675
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
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 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 939 1,458 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.51% 86.43% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 587 874 1,388
10th Percentile £247 £263 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £579 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 65 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £37.50
% change year-on-year -16.27% -4.45% +53.20%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Yorkshire

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 April 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 -1 29 £500 +11.11% 95
South Yorkshire -5 6 £491 -24.40% 24
East Yorkshire +2 2 - - 4
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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 6 (16.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (37.84%) Azure
2 8 (21.62%) GitHub
3 6 (16.22%) AWS
3 6 (16.22%) Slack
4 5 (13.51%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (13.51%) CloudBees
4 5 (13.51%) GCP
5 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (5.41%) Azure AKS
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (5.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.70%) Apigee
7 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Stack
7 1 (2.70%) npm
7 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) HTTP
2 2 (5.41%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (32.43%) MySQL
2 9 (24.32%) Apache Cassandra
2 9 (24.32%) MongoDB
2 9 (24.32%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.41%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (32.43%) Git
2 7 (18.92%) Cucumber
2 7 (18.92%) Jasmine
2 7 (18.92%) JIRA
2 7 (18.92%) JUnit
3 5 (13.51%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.70%) Babel
4 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.70%) GitLab
4 1 (2.70%) webpack
General
1 8 (21.62%) Public Sector
2 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Aviation
3 2 (5.41%) Fire and Rescue
3 2 (5.41%) Police
3 2 (5.41%) Swedish Language
4 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Finance
4 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (43.24%) Developer
2 13 (35.14%) Senior
3 12 (32.43%) Software Engineer
4 8 (21.62%) Java Developer
5 7 (18.92%) Senior Developer
5 7 (18.92%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (16.22%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (13.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (10.81%) .NET Software Engineer
8 4 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (10.81%) React Developer
9 3 (8.11%) Architect
9 3 (8.11%) Java Engineer
10 2 (5.41%) Java Software Engineer
10 2 (5.41%) Lead
10 2 (5.41%) Lead Java Engineer
10 2 (5.41%) Security Engineer
10 2 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
11 1 (2.70%) Flutter Developer
11 1 (2.70%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.03%) .NET
1 10 (27.03%) Spring Boot
2 9 (24.32%) Spring
3 8 (21.62%) React
3 8 (21.62%) Spring Security
4 7 (18.92%) RESTful
4 7 (18.92%) Spring Batch
4 7 (18.92%) Swagger
5 5 (13.51%) OpenAPI
5 5 (13.51%) React Native
6 4 (10.81%) AngularJS
7 3 (8.11%) .NET Core
7 3 (8.11%) Laravel
7 3 (8.11%) Node.js
7 3 (8.11%) Vue
7 3 (8.11%) WPF
8 2 (5.41%) Next.js
9 1 (2.70%) GraphQL
9 1 (2.70%) Jest
9 1 (2.70%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (8.11%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.11%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.41%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.41%) NHS
3 2 (5.41%) Robotics
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (32.43%) Linux
2 10 (27.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (8.11%) Android
3 3 (8.11%) Apple iOS
3 3 (8.11%) Windows
4 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.70%) HPUX
5 1 (2.70%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (56.76%) TDD
2 16 (43.24%) BDD
3 14 (37.84%) Agile
4 12 (32.43%) CI/CD
4 12 (32.43%) DevOps
5 11 (29.73%) Microservices
5 11 (29.73%) Technical Leadership
6 10 (27.03%) Continuous Delivery
6 10 (27.03%) Mentoring
7 9 (24.32%) Containerisation
7 9 (24.32%) Full-Stack Development
8 8 (21.62%) Coaching
9 7 (18.92%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (18.92%) Scrum
10 6 (16.22%) API Design
10 6 (16.22%) High Availability
10 6 (16.22%) Kernel Tuning
10 6 (16.22%) Operational Stability
10 6 (16.22%) OWASP
10 6 (16.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (45.95%) Java
2 14 (37.84%) SQL
3 10 (27.03%) JavaScript
4 9 (24.32%) Bash
4 9 (24.32%) C#
5 6 (16.22%) Python
6 5 (13.51%) Kotlin
6 5 (13.51%) Shell Script
7 3 (8.11%) PHP
8 2 (5.41%) Groovy
8 2 (5.41%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 7 (18.92%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.70%) QA
1 1 (2.70%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 11 (29.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (29.73%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.81%) Grafana
3 3 (8.11%) Terraform
4 2 (5.41%) FortiGate
4 2 (5.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (5.41%) Google
1 2 (5.41%) Ribbon
1 2 (5.41%) Tenable
2 1 (2.70%) IBM
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.70%) Sun
2 1 (2.70%) Unisys