Software Engineering Contracts in Bristol

Software Engineering
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 25 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 16 20
Rank change year-on-year +7 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 59 84 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 10.81% 8.00% 7.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.73% 9.68% 8.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 28
10th Percentile - £446 £397
25th Percentile £355 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year -29.52% -7.89% +14.00%
75th Percentile £444 £547 £703
90th Percentile £575 £679 £778
South West median daily rate £575 £525 £579
% change year-on-year +9.52% -9.33% +8.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 51 57
10th Percentile £61.93 £52.50 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £60.91
Median hourly rate £66.50 £65.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.31% -0.76% +0.77%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £72.18
South West median hourly rate £66.50 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +2.31% -0.76% +0.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 503 868 1,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 92.12% 82.67% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 494 761
10th Percentile £223 £250 £300
25th Percentile £356 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £574 £613 £630
90th Percentile £670 £688 £713
South West median daily rate £523 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -0.48% -3.67% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 170 230
10th Percentile £18.51 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £45.84 £45.00 £9.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year - +5.69% +40.46%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.50 £80.00 £83.75
South West median hourly rate £63.50 £47.83 £61.50
% change year-on-year +32.76% -22.23% +27.13%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Bristol

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Bristol

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Bristol over the 6 months to 25 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Bristol

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Bristol

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineering in Bristol over the 6 months to 25 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 1 (1.69%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.25%) AWS
1 9 (15.25%) GCP
2 8 (13.56%) Azure
3 1 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (1.69%) GitHub
3 1 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) Ethernet
1 1 (1.69%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Artifactory
1 1 (1.69%) Eclipse
1 1 (1.69%) GitLab
1 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.69%) JIRA
1 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (16.95%) Finance
1 10 (16.95%) Marketing
1 10 (16.95%) Public Sector
1 10 (16.95%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.25%) Electronics
2 9 (15.25%) Manufacturing
2 9 (15.25%) Telecoms
3 5 (8.47%) Aerospace
3 5 (8.47%) Law
4 1 (1.69%) Aviation
4 1 (1.69%) Military
4 1 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (54.24%) Software Engineer
2 15 (25.42%) Support Engineer
3 10 (16.95%) Ada Engineer
3 10 (16.95%) Ada Software Engineer
3 10 (16.95%) Developer
3 10 (16.95%) Embedded Engineer
3 10 (16.95%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 9 (15.25%) C++ Software Engineer
4 9 (15.25%) Java Engineer
5 8 (13.56%) Applications Support
5 8 (13.56%) Java Software Engineer
5 8 (13.56%) Product Engineer
5 8 (13.56%) Products Support Engineer
5 8 (13.56%) Software Support Engineer
6 7 (11.86%) Applications Developer
6 7 (11.86%) Applications Engineer
6 7 (11.86%) Applications Support Engineer
6 7 (11.86%) Linux Engineer
7 6 (10.17%) C# Application Developer
7 6 (10.17%) Linux Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (54.24%) Middleware
2 13 (22.03%) Qt
3 9 (15.25%) CSS
3 9 (15.25%) HTML
4 8 (13.56%) .NET
5 2 (3.39%) Node.js
6 1 (1.69%) Angular 2
6 1 (1.69%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.69%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.69%) HTML5
6 1 (1.69%) REST
6 1 (1.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (37.29%) Linux
2 10 (16.95%) Ubuntu
3 2 (3.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (22.03%) CI/CD
2 10 (16.95%) Computer Science
2 10 (16.95%) Continuous Delivery
2 10 (16.95%) Continuous Integration
2 10 (16.95%) Software Delivery
2 10 (16.95%) SysML
2 10 (16.95%) UML
2 10 (16.95%) User Experience
3 9 (15.25%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (15.25%) Digital Marketing
3 9 (15.25%) Programme Management
3 9 (15.25%) TDD
3 9 (15.25%) Test Automation
4 8 (13.56%) Service Delivery
4 8 (13.56%) Service Management
4 8 (13.56%) Web Development
5 6 (10.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (8.47%) Agile
7 3 (5.08%) DevOps
7 3 (5.08%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 43 (72.88%) Ada
2 26 (44.07%) C++
3 21 (35.59%) JavaScript
4 11 (18.64%) C
4 11 (18.64%) Java
5 10 (16.95%) Shell Script
6 9 (15.25%) C#
7 2 (3.39%) Python
8 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (45.76%) Security Cleared
2 24 (40.68%) SC Cleared
3 10 (16.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (16.95%) Degree
4 8 (13.56%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (38.98%) Def Stans
1 23 (38.98%) IEC 61508
2 13 (22.03%) MISRA
2 13 (22.03%) MISRA C
3 2 (3.39%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.69%) Ansible
1 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (18.64%) Red Hat
2 9 (15.25%) Google
2 9 (15.25%) SAP
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.69%) Twitter