Software Engineering Contracts in Lancashire

Software Engineering
North West > Lancashire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 27 31
Rank change year-on-year +19 +4 -6
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 25 10 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 11.01% 4.17% 3.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.20% 4.74% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile - - £416
25th Percentile £205 - £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +28.81%
75th Percentile £568 - £541
90th Percentile £617 - £546
North West median daily rate £540 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +29.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 1
10th Percentile - £30.74 -
25th Percentile £37.55 £37.73 -
Median hourly rate £46.18 £40.59 £44.68
Median % change year-on-year +13.77% -9.15% -
75th Percentile £48.22 £47.20 -
90th Percentile £49.97 £51.18 -
North West median hourly rate £48.00 £40.59 £57.95
% change year-on-year +18.26% -29.96% +28.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 176 211 226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 77.53% 87.92% 91.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 111 160
10th Percentile £220 £313 £203
25th Percentile £400 £400 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £607 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £700 £750
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 45 33
10th Percentile - £25.75 £13.30
25th Percentile £16.06 £29.30 £15.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £42.50 £28.92
Median % change year-on-year -25.88% +46.96% +57.69%
75th Percentile £46.11 £49.52 £45.25
90th Percentile £48.00 £56.38 £89.34
North West median hourly rate £26.46 £35.00 £22.75
% change year-on-year -24.41% +53.85% +30.34%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Lancashire

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Lancashire

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Lancashire

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Lancashire

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire 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
Preston +3 3 £650 - 1
Lancaster - 2 - - 2
Blackpool +11 1 £540 - 2
Software Engineering
North West

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (36.00%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) Azure
2 2 (8.00%) AWS
3 1 (4.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) HTTP
1 2 (8.00%) SSL
2 1 (4.00%) Link 16
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) JIRA
2 3 (12.00%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (8.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (8.00%) Git
3 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (4.00%) GitLab
4 1 (4.00%) Mercurial
4 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (28.00%) Aerospace
1 7 (28.00%) Military
2 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Avionics
3 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 18 (72.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Design Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Lead
3 2 (8.00%) Software Design Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Spring
2 2 (8.00%) JDBC
2 2 (8.00%) JPA
2 2 (8.00%) JWT
2 2 (8.00%) PyTorch
2 2 (8.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (8.00%) WebSockets
3 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.00%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Agile
2 6 (24.00%) DevOps
3 5 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 4 (16.00%) Data Modelling
4 4 (16.00%) Dependency Injection
4 4 (16.00%) DevSecOps
4 4 (16.00%) Microservices
4 4 (16.00%) SDLC
5 3 (12.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 3 (12.00%) Requirements Management
5 3 (12.00%) SysML
5 3 (12.00%) UML
6 2 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (8.00%) GitOps
6 2 (8.00%) Kanban
6 2 (8.00%) Load Balancing
6 2 (8.00%) Machine Learning
6 2 (8.00%) Multithreading
6 2 (8.00%) Systems Engineering
6 2 (8.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) C++
2 5 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (8.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) Degree
4 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) MISRA
1 3 (12.00%) MISRA C
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Oracle
2 3 (12.00%) Atlassian
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft