Software Engineering Contracts in the Midlands

Software Engineering
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 85 60
Rank change year-on-year +34 -25 -11
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 91 77 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.38% 2.37% 3.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.13% 2.70% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 54 120
10th Percentile - £375 £415
25th Percentile £358 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £525 £508
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +3.45% +25.31%
75th Percentile £550 £590 £576
90th Percentile £600 £600 £664
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 0
10th Percentile £46.25 £46.25 -
25th Percentile £49.06 £48.13 -
Median hourly rate £56.25 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £58.75 £60.00 -
90th Percentile £66.25 £63.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £55.75
% change year-on-year -3.85% +16.59% +21.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,203 2,852 4,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.87% 87.94% 87.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,485 2,002 3,238
10th Percentile £233 £250 £246
25th Percentile £356 £369 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% +5.26% +14.46%
75th Percentile £595 £597 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 101 147
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.50 £10.61
25th Percentile £13.60 £15.00 £13.74
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.41 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.68% +28.06% +16.67%
75th Percentile £32.53 £40.25 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £57.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.67% +50.00% +8.70%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the Midlands

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in the Midlands

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the Midlands over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in the Midlands

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in the Midlands

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineering in the Midlands over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in the Midlands

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 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
West Midlands +25 63 £463 -15.53% 105
East Midlands +17 27 £550 +29.41% 116
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (2.20%) CICS
1 2 (2.20%) SAS
2 1 (1.10%) Apache
2 1 (1.10%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.10%) Ethereum
2 1 (1.10%) MetaMask
2 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.10%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 24 (26.37%) Chatbot
2 7 (7.69%) Simulink
3 5 (5.49%) Stateflow
3 5 (5.49%) TargetLink
4 1 (1.10%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.69%) Azure
2 3 (3.30%) AWS
3 2 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.20%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (2.20%) GCP
4 1 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (1.10%) Azure Functions
4 1 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (1.10%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.10%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.10%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.10%) PowerApps
4 1 (1.10%) Serverless
4 1 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.30%) SAN
1 3 (3.30%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.20%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (2.20%) Internet
2 2 (2.20%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (18.68%) MySQL
2 16 (17.58%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (3.30%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.20%) DB2
4 2 (2.20%) IDMS
5 1 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.10%) Power BI
5 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (26.37%) Git
2 5 (5.49%) Bitbucket
2 5 (5.49%) Subversion
3 3 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.30%) PVCS
3 3 (3.30%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.20%) JIRA
5 1 (1.10%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.10%) GitLab
5 1 (1.10%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (13.19%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.09%) Automotive
3 7 (7.69%) Finance
4 6 (6.59%) Electronics
5 5 (5.49%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.20%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.10%) Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (42.86%) Developer
2 24 (26.37%) Software Developer
3 8 (8.79%) Software Engineer
4 7 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (6.59%) Senior
5 6 (6.59%) Systems Engineer
6 5 (5.49%) Control Systems Engineer
6 5 (5.49%) Principal Engineer
6 5 (5.49%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Author
7 4 (4.40%) Embedded Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Java Developer
7 4 (4.40%) Senior Developer
7 4 (4.40%) Technical Author
8 3 (3.30%) Python Developer
9 2 (2.20%) C Programmer
9 2 (2.20%) Senior Python Developer
9 2 (2.20%) Software Programmer
9 2 (2.20%) Validation Engineer
9 2 (2.20%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (28.57%) HTML
2 4 (4.40%) React
2 4 (4.40%) Spring
3 3 (3.30%) .NET
3 3 (3.30%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.20%) CSS
4 2 (2.20%) Web Services
5 1 (1.10%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (1.10%) Flask
5 1 (1.10%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.10%) gRPC
5 1 (1.10%) JMS
5 1 (1.10%) PySpark
5 1 (1.10%) pytest
5 1 (1.10%) RAML
5 1 (1.10%) Smart Contracts
5 1 (1.10%) SOAP
5 1 (1.10%) Truffle
5 1 (1.10%) Vue
5 1 (1.10%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.69%) Algorithms
2 6 (6.59%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.20%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (2.20%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.10%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.69%) Linux
2 3 (3.30%) Debian
2 3 (3.30%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.20%) zOS
4 1 (1.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (41.76%) Agile
2 26 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
3 24 (26.37%) Code Quality
3 24 (26.37%) Conversational UI
4 21 (23.08%) Configuration Management
5 19 (20.88%) Continuous Integration
6 18 (19.78%) Analytics
6 18 (19.78%) Requirements Gathering
7 17 (18.68%) Computer Science
7 17 (18.68%) Data Analytics
7 17 (18.68%) Data Extraction
7 17 (18.68%) ETL
8 16 (17.58%) Dashboard Development
8 16 (17.58%) Scrum
9 14 (15.38%) DevOps
10 12 (13.19%) Process Improvement
10 12 (13.19%) Test Strategy
11 10 (10.99%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (10.99%) Validation
12 8 (8.79%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 33 (36.26%) Python
2 28 (30.77%) JavaScript
3 27 (29.67%) C#
4 25 (27.47%) SQL
5 11 (12.09%) C
6 7 (7.69%) MATLAB
7 6 (6.59%) C++
8 5 (5.49%) Java
9 3 (3.30%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.20%) CLIST
10 2 (2.20%) COBOL
10 2 (2.20%) Embedded C
10 2 (2.20%) Embedded C++
10 2 (2.20%) REXX
10 2 (2.20%) SELCOPY
11 1 (1.10%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.10%) Rust
11 1 (1.10%) Solidity
11 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 45 (49.45%) Degree
2 33 (36.26%) Security Cleared
3 25 (27.47%) SC Cleared
4 12 (13.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (10.99%) DV Cleared
6 9 (9.89%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.20%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.69%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (5.49%) ISO 26262
2 5 (5.49%) MISRA
2 5 (5.49%) MISRA C
2 5 (5.49%) QA
3 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 2 (2.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (17.58%) Grafana
2 3 (3.30%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.10%) Ansible
3 1 (1.10%) Kibana
3 1 (1.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (26.37%) PayPal
2 16 (17.58%) Denodo
2 16 (17.58%) Talend
3 12 (13.19%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.40%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.30%) IBM
5 3 (3.30%) VMware
6 2 (2.20%) Cisco
6 2 (2.20%) Juniper
6 2 (2.20%) NVIDIA
6 2 (2.20%) Oracle
6 2 (2.20%) SAP
6 2 (2.20%) Syncsort
7 1 (1.10%) Ariba
7 1 (1.10%) Google
7 1 (1.10%) Workday