Software Engineering Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Software Engineering
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 54 57
Rank change year-on-year +10 +3 +2
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 9 8 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 2.26% 1.23% 4.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 1.33% 4.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 45
10th Percentile £311 £505 £478
25th Percentile £327 £513 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £550 £612
Median % change year-on-year -31.36% -10.13% +7.37%
75th Percentile £656 £600 £638
90th Percentile £707 £615 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £586
% change year-on-year -4.76% -10.41% +17.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 333 603 1,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 83.46% 92.63% 93.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 455 989
10th Percentile £241 £275 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £610 £598
90th Percentile £645 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £511 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -1.70% +1.46% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 17 31
10th Percentile £14.58 £13.17 £10.77
25th Percentile £18.70 £16.00 £11.81
Median hourly rate £30.00 £20.00 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +42.86% +1.82%
75th Percentile £36.75 £23.75 £17.38
90th Percentile £41.15 £24.00 £20.00
South East median hourly rate £58.30 £52.30 £37.13
% change year-on-year +11.47% +40.86% +35.02%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Buckinghamshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Buckinghamshire

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Buckinghamshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Buckinghamshire

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. 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
Milton Keynes +15 9 £378 -31.36% 19
Software Engineering
South East

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
1 6 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) FTP
1 3 (33.33%) SMTP
1 3 (33.33%) VPN
2 2 (22.22%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 3 (33.33%) Gradle
1 3 (33.33%) IntelliJ
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 3 (33.33%) Maven
2 2 (22.22%) GitLab
3 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Hardware Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Smartphone
2 4 (44.44%) YubiKey
3 3 (33.33%) Wiki
4 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
4 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Apple iOS
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
1 6 (66.67%) Windows 10
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (22.22%) Logistics
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Groovy
1 3 (33.33%) Java
1 3 (33.33%) Python
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (33.33%) Ansible
2 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Apple
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft