Software Engineer Contracts in Gloucestershire

Software Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Software Engineer daily rate in Gloucestershire is £595, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

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

 6 months to
31 Oct 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 16 18
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 36 52 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 8.87% 11.18% 10.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.25% 11.90% 11.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 39 47
10th Percentile £517 £448 £500
25th Percentile £520 £506 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £545 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% -9.17% +21.40%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £625
90th Percentile £630 £710 £688
South West median daily rate £538 £538 £590
% change year-on-year - -8.90% +19.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile £66.75 £71.60 -
25th Percentile £71.25 £74.00 -
Median hourly rate £72.50 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.05% - -
75th Percentile £73.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.76% +31.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Gloucestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 389 437 461
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.81% 93.98% 93.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 263 349
10th Percentile £381 £359 £262
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +12.82%
75th Percentile £676 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £764
South West median daily rate £513 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -4.65% +2.38% +14.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 52 13
10th Percentile £30.00 £33.20 £13.13
25th Percentile £57.81 £48.72 £16.54
Median hourly rate £67.50 £56.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -6.25% +20.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £79.40 £79.04
90th Percentile £73.75 £83.40 £99.50
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £56.49 £61.50
% change year-on-year +15.06% -8.15% +29.47%

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
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 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
Cheltenham -6 23 £595 -0.83% 10
Filton - 6 - - 6
Gloucester -1 3 - - 4
Software Engineer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 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 36 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 16 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 16 (44.44%) C
2 16 (44.44%) Java
3 15 (41.67%) DV Cleared
4 13 (36.11%) JavaScript
5 11 (30.56%) Linux
5 11 (30.56%) C++
6 9 (25.00%) Python
6 9 (25.00%) AWS
6 9 (25.00%) Docker
7 8 (22.22%) CI/CD
7 8 (22.22%) Agile
8 7 (19.44%) Embedded Software Development
9 6 (16.67%) Business Transformation
9 6 (16.67%) Kubernetes
9 6 (16.67%) Social Skills
9 6 (16.67%) Validation
10 5 (13.89%) JUnit
10 5 (13.89%) SDLC
10 5 (13.89%) Jenkins
10 5 (13.89%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (11.11%) TypeScript
11 4 (11.11%) Spring Boot
11 4 (11.11%) Rust
11 4 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (11.11%) Avionics
11 4 (11.11%) Spring
11 4 (11.11%) Aerospace

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 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (5.56%) GitHub
2 2 (5.56%) OpenShift
2 2 (5.56%) Serverless
3 1 (2.78%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 3 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.56%) Big Data
3 2 (5.56%) DynamoDB
3 2 (5.56%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Jenkins
1 5 (13.89%) JUnit
2 3 (8.33%) Cypress.io
2 3 (8.33%) Git
2 3 (8.33%) Maven
2 3 (8.33%) Rational Rhapsody
3 2 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (5.56%) Gradle
4 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.78%) GoogleTest
4 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 6 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.11%) Aerospace
2 4 (11.11%) Avionics
3 3 (8.33%) Electronics
4 1 (2.78%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) Spring
1 4 (11.11%) Spring Boot
2 3 (8.33%) pytest
3 2 (5.56%) .NET
3 2 (5.56%) .NET Core
3 2 (5.56%) EJB
3 2 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (5.56%) Java EE
3 2 (5.56%) JMS
3 2 (5.56%) Kafka
3 2 (5.56%) Web Services
4 1 (2.78%) Gherkin
4 1 (2.78%) Qt
4 1 (2.78%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 11 (30.56%) Linux
2 4 (11.11%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (22.22%) Agile
2 8 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 7 (19.44%) Embedded Software Development
4 6 (16.67%) Business Transformation
4 6 (16.67%) Validation
5 5 (13.89%) SDLC
6 4 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (11.11%) Software Testing
7 3 (8.33%) Code Quality
7 3 (8.33%) Containerisation
7 3 (8.33%) Microservices
7 3 (8.33%) Systems Engineering
7 3 (8.33%) UML
8 2 (5.56%) Analytics
8 2 (5.56%) Customer Requirements
8 2 (5.56%) High Availability
8 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (5.56%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 16 (44.44%) C
1 16 (44.44%) Java
2 13 (36.11%) JavaScript
3 11 (30.56%) C++
4 9 (25.00%) Python
5 4 (11.11%) Rust
5 4 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 3 (8.33%) Ada
6 3 (8.33%) C#
6 3 (8.33%) Embedded C++
6 3 (8.33%) SQL
7 2 (5.56%) Bash
7 2 (5.56%) Perl
8 1 (2.78%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 16 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 15 (41.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) MISRA
System Software
1 9 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) Ansible
2 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (8.33%) Atlassian
1 3 (8.33%) IBM
2 2 (5.56%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.78%) Google
129 Software Engineer jobs in the South West