Software Engineer Contracts in Gloucestershire

Software Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Software Engineer daily rate in Gloucestershire is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 29 17
Rank change year-on-year -5 -12 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 24 32 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 5.43% 7.41% 10.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.94% 7.82% 10.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 24 47
10th Percentile £522 £379 £489
25th Percentile £525 £469 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £545 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.68% -9.17% +26.32%
75th Percentile £688 £691 £658
90th Percentile £747 £738 £680
South West median daily rate £550 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% +26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £70.38 £72.75 £45.60
25th Percentile £70.94 £76.13 £48.00
Median hourly rate £72.50 £78.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.05% +45.79% +7.00%
75th Percentile £74.06 - £57.50
90th Percentile £74.63 - £59.00
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +30.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Gloucestershire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire. 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 Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 404 409 497
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.40% 94.68% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 260 400
10th Percentile £300 £313 £170
25th Percentile £425 £436 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +9.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £669 £650 £588
90th Percentile £725 £725 £650
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 42 14
10th Percentile £15.50 £35.00 £11.83
25th Percentile £15.89 £50.63 £12.81
Median hourly rate £40.00 £78.00 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year -48.72% +228.42% -52.50%
75th Percentile £71.50 £83.31 £42.83
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.40 £53.50
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £64.57 £45.17
% change year-on-year -14.82% +42.95% +1.51%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Gloucestershire

Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineer in Gloucestershire

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineer in Gloucestershire

Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineer in Gloucestershire

Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Cheltenham -2 17 £556 -14.42% 17
Filton - 2 - -
Gloucester +4 1 £650 -1.33%
Software Engineer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, 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 Gloucestershire region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 19 (79.17%) Security Cleared
3 18 (75.00%) Java
4 17 (70.83%) DV Cleared
5 12 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 10 (41.67%) AWS
6 10 (41.67%) JavaScript
7 9 (37.50%) Docker
8 8 (33.33%) Kubernetes
8 8 (33.33%) React
8 8 (33.33%) C
9 7 (29.17%) Spring
9 7 (29.17%) Jenkins
9 7 (29.17%) Spring Boot
10 6 (25.00%) DevOps
10 6 (25.00%) Python
11 5 (20.83%) Agile
11 5 (20.83%) Cypress.io
12 4 (16.67%) BDD
12 4 (16.67%) Node.js
12 4 (16.67%) RESTful
12 4 (16.67%) Linux
12 4 (16.67%) TypeScript
13 3 (12.50%) Analytics
13 3 (12.50%) Vue
13 3 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
13 3 (12.50%) C++
13 3 (12.50%) JIRA
13 3 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (12.50%) Kafka

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) AWS
2 2 (8.33%) GitHub
2 2 (8.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (8.33%) Big Data
2 2 (8.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Jenkins
2 5 (20.83%) Cypress.io
3 3 (12.50%) JIRA
4 2 (8.33%) GoogleTest
5 1 (4.17%) Git
5 1 (4.17%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (4.17%) Rational Team Concert
5 1 (4.17%) Selenium
General
1 2 (8.33%) Aerospace
1 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) React
2 7 (29.17%) Spring
2 7 (29.17%) Spring Boot
3 4 (16.67%) Node.js
3 4 (16.67%) RESTful
4 3 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (12.50%) Kafka
4 3 (12.50%) Vue
5 2 (8.33%) .NET
5 2 (8.33%) .NET Core
5 2 (8.33%) Qt
6 1 (4.17%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (4.17%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) CentOS
2 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 12 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (25.00%) DevOps
4 5 (20.83%) Agile
5 4 (16.67%) BDD
6 3 (12.50%) Analytics
7 2 (8.33%) Business Transformation
7 2 (8.33%) Containerisation
7 2 (8.33%) Customer Requirements
7 2 (8.33%) Data Analytics
7 2 (8.33%) High Availability
7 2 (8.33%) Low Latency
7 2 (8.33%) Manual Testing
7 2 (8.33%) Microservices
7 2 (8.33%) Open Source
7 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (8.33%) Test Automation
8 1 (4.17%) SDLC
8 1 (4.17%) Technical Leadership
8 1 (4.17%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 18 (75.00%) Java
2 10 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 8 (33.33%) C
4 6 (25.00%) Python
5 4 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 3 (12.50%) C++
7 2 (8.33%) Bash
7 2 (8.33%) C#
7 2 (8.33%) Perl
7 2 (8.33%) Rust
8 1 (4.17%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 19 (79.17%) Security Cleared
2 17 (70.83%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) PhD
3 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) MISRA
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (4.17%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.17%) Wind River