Software Engineering Contracts in Gloucestershire

Software Engineering
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 13 10 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 52 68 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 12.81% 14.62% 17.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.44% 16.46% 19.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 55 72
10th Percentile £519 £418 £506
25th Percentile £575 £510 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £668 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +21.36% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £676 £700 £700
90th Percentile - £715 £715
South West median daily rate £590 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +7.27% -8.33% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 0
10th Percentile £68.75 £71.60 -
25th Percentile - £74.00 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% - -
75th Percentile £73.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +7.69% -0.76% +31.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 360 413 445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 88.67% 88.82% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 256 333
10th Percentile £400 £361 £315
25th Percentile £471 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.83% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £676 £688 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £784
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 52 13
10th Percentile £25.25 £33.20 £13.13
25th Percentile £28.50 £48.72 £16.54
Median hourly rate £34.02 £57.50 £58.35
Median % change year-on-year -40.84% -1.45% +16.69%
75th Percentile £70.94 £79.40 £79.04
90th Percentile £73.75 £83.40 £99.50
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +36.84%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Gloucestershire

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Gloucestershire

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Gloucestershire

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Gloucestershire

Software Engineering
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 Engineering 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 -1 35 £668 +2.69% 14
Filton - 10 - - 6
Gloucester -6 3 - - 9
Software Engineering
South West

Software Engineering
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 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.92%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (19.23%) AWS
2 6 (11.54%) GitHub
3 2 (3.85%) OpenShift
3 2 (3.85%) Serverless
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (1.92%) Azure
4 1 (1.92%) Heroku
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (25.00%) Big Data
1 13 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 5 (9.62%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (5.77%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.85%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.92%) MySQL
5 1 (1.92%) MySQL Workbench
5 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (17.31%) Jenkins
2 6 (11.54%) JIRA
3 5 (9.62%) GoogleTest
3 5 (9.62%) JUnit
4 4 (7.69%) Git
5 3 (5.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (5.77%) Cypress.io
5 3 (5.77%) Maven
5 3 (5.77%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (3.85%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.85%) Gradle
7 1 (1.92%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.92%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.92%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.92%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (13.46%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.69%) Aerospace
2 4 (7.69%) Avionics
3 3 (5.77%) Electronics
4 1 (1.92%) Marketing
4 1 (1.92%) Military
Job Titles
1 36 (69.23%) Software Engineer
2 11 (21.15%) Data Scientist
3 9 (17.31%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 9 (17.31%) Embedded Engineer
3 9 (17.31%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Developer
4 5 (9.62%) Java Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Java Software Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) C++ Developer
5 4 (7.69%) C++/Java Developer
5 4 (7.69%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.77%) C++ Software Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Embedded C++ Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) JavaScript Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) C Software Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Data Analytics Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Data Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.62%) Qt
2 4 (7.69%) Spring
2 4 (7.69%) Spring Boot
3 3 (5.77%) .NET
3 3 (5.77%) pytest
4 2 (3.85%) .NET Core
4 2 (3.85%) EJB
4 2 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (3.85%) Java EE
4 2 (3.85%) JMS
4 2 (3.85%) Kafka
4 2 (3.85%) Web Services
5 1 (1.92%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.92%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (1.92%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.92%) JSON
5 1 (1.92%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (1.92%) React
5 1 (1.92%) REST
5 1 (1.92%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.15%) Algorithms
2 5 (9.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.85%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.92%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (28.85%) Linux
2 4 (7.69%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (26.92%) Continuous Integration
2 13 (25.00%) Agile
3 12 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 11 (21.15%) Data Analysis
4 11 (21.15%) Data Engineering
4 11 (21.15%) Data Science
4 11 (21.15%) ETL
4 11 (21.15%) Machine Learning
4 11 (21.15%) Predictive Modelling
5 7 (13.46%) Embedded Software Development
6 6 (11.54%) Business Transformation
6 6 (11.54%) Validation
7 5 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (9.62%) DevOps
7 5 (9.62%) SDLC
8 4 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (7.69%) Software Testing
9 3 (5.77%) Scrum
9 3 (5.77%) Test Automation
9 3 (5.77%) UML
Programming Languages
1 31 (59.62%) Java
2 24 (46.15%) Python
3 16 (30.77%) C
4 15 (28.85%) C++
5 13 (25.00%) JavaScript
6 4 (7.69%) C#
6 4 (7.69%) Rust
6 4 (7.69%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.77%) Ada
7 3 (5.77%) Embedded C++
7 3 (5.77%) SQL
8 2 (3.85%) Bash
8 2 (3.85%) Perl
9 1 (1.92%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.92%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 27 (51.92%) Security Cleared
2 26 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.92%) CITP
3 1 (1.92%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) MISRA
System Software
1 9 (17.31%) Docker
2 1 (1.92%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.92%) Ansible
2 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (9.62%) Google
2 3 (5.77%) Atlassian
2 3 (5.77%) IBM
3 2 (3.85%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.92%) Salesforce