Software Engineering Contracts in the North of England

Software Engineering
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 80 47
Rank change year-on-year +52 -33 +7
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 257 153 344
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.54% 2.74% 4.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.47% 3.02% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 93 224
10th Percentile £300 £392 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.21% +20.71%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £606
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +0.04% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 12 12
10th Percentile £38.39 £31.89 £41.59
25th Percentile £46.18 £37.73 £44.69
Median hourly rate £48.43 £43.21 £50.13
Median % change year-on-year +12.09% -13.81% +16.57%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.61 £59.71
90th Percentile £71.80 £51.94 £65.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £55.75
% change year-on-year -3.85% +16.59% +22.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,971 5,062 6,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.53% 90.60% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,420 3,499 4,622
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £401 £413 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £569
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 201 266
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.72 £13.56
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.98 £19.12
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +46.32% +5.90%
75th Percentile £45.00 £44.50 £36.75
90th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £62.86
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 16 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
North West +66 151 £550 -8.33% 177
Yorkshire +12 73 £450 -11.11% 94
North East +22 35 £390 -32.17% 29
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (2.33%) Apache
1 6 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.78%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.78%) Drupal
4 1 (0.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 61 (23.74%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.56%) Simulink
2 4 (1.56%) Stateflow
3 3 (1.17%) Adobe After Effects
3 3 (1.17%) Blender
3 3 (1.17%) Maya
3 3 (1.17%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Misys Midas
2 2 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.39%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 61 (23.74%) AWS
2 25 (9.73%) Azure
3 14 (5.45%) Serverless
4 9 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (3.11%) GitHub
6 7 (2.72%) GCP
7 6 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (2.33%) Snowflake
8 5 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (1.95%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (1.95%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.95%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.56%) BrowserStack
9 4 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.56%) npm
10 2 (0.78%) IaaS
10 2 (0.78%) PaaS
11 1 (0.39%) Azure Batch
11 1 (0.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.72%) HTTP
2 5 (1.95%) FTP
3 3 (1.17%) J1939
4 2 (0.78%) SSL
5 1 (0.39%) AMQP
5 1 (0.39%) Modbus
5 1 (0.39%) MQTT
5 1 (0.39%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.61%) MongoDB
2 10 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (3.50%) MySQL
4 6 (2.33%) Big Data
4 6 (2.33%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.95%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.78%) GIS
6 2 (0.78%) Spatial Data
6 2 (0.78%) SQLite
7 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.39%) DB2
7 1 (0.39%) Flink
7 1 (0.39%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.39%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (8.17%) Git
2 16 (6.23%) JIRA
3 13 (5.06%) GitLab
4 7 (2.72%) Cypress.io
5 6 (2.33%) JUnit
6 4 (1.56%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.17%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.78%) GoCD
8 2 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.39%) Maven
9 1 (0.39%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.39%) SonarQube
General
1 38 (14.79%) Social Skills
2 23 (8.95%) Finance
3 17 (6.61%) Aerospace
4 16 (6.23%) Public Sector
5 10 (3.89%) Automotive
5 10 (3.89%) Manufacturing
6 7 (2.72%) Electronics
7 6 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (2.33%) Legal
8 5 (1.95%) Military
8 5 (1.95%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (1.95%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.56%) Games
9 4 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.17%) Retail
11 2 (0.78%) Back Office
12 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Marketing
12 1 (0.39%) Public Speaking
12 1 (0.39%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 116 (45.14%) Software Engineer
2 91 (35.41%) Developer
3 62 (24.12%) Software Developer
4 30 (11.67%) Senior
5 21 (8.17%) Senior Software Engineer
6 17 (6.61%) PLC Software Engineer
7 12 (4.67%) Lead
8 11 (4.28%) Java Developer
9 9 (3.50%) Full Stack Engineer
9 9 (3.50%) Project Manager
10 7 (2.72%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (2.72%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 7 (2.72%) Java Engineer
11 6 (2.33%) Embedded Engineer
11 6 (2.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 6 (2.33%) iOS Developer
12 5 (1.95%) Data Engineer
12 5 (1.95%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (1.95%) Lead Developer
12 5 (1.95%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (26.85%) HTML
2 29 (11.28%) React
3 26 (10.12%) RESTful
4 24 (9.34%) Node.js
5 17 (6.61%) Spring
6 14 (5.45%) AngularJS
7 12 (4.67%) Spring Boot
8 9 (3.50%) XML
9 8 (3.11%) CSS
10 7 (2.72%) PyTorch
10 7 (2.72%) TensorFlow
11 6 (2.33%) JPA
11 6 (2.33%) JSON
12 5 (1.95%) AWS CDK
12 5 (1.95%) Jest
12 5 (1.95%) REST
13 4 (1.56%) .NET
13 4 (1.56%) Hibernate
13 4 (1.56%) Next.js
13 4 (1.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (2.33%) Algorithms
2 4 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (1.56%) Management Information System
3 3 (1.17%) Augmented Reality
3 3 (1.17%) Blockchain
3 3 (1.17%) CAN bus
3 3 (1.17%) CMDB
3 3 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (1.17%) Virtual Reality
4 2 (0.78%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.39%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.39%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.39%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.39%) IoT
5 1 (0.39%) Online Gambling
5 1 (0.39%) Online Games
5 1 (0.39%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.39%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.39%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.72%) Linux
2 6 (2.33%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.56%) Android
4 2 (0.78%) Unix
4 2 (0.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (27.24%) Artificial Intelligence
2 67 (26.07%) Agile
2 67 (26.07%) Code Quality
3 61 (23.74%) Conversational UI
4 34 (13.23%) CI/CD
5 32 (12.45%) Microservices
6 29 (11.28%) DevOps
7 28 (10.89%) Design Patterns
8 26 (10.12%) SDLC
8 26 (10.12%) Test Automation
9 22 (8.56%) Systems Engineering
10 19 (7.39%) Mentoring
11 15 (5.84%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (5.45%) Computer Science
12 14 (5.45%) Full Stack Development
12 14 (5.45%) Scrum
13 13 (5.06%) Front End Development
14 11 (4.28%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (4.28%) TDD
15 10 (3.89%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 90 (35.02%) JavaScript
1 90 (35.02%) Python
2 86 (33.46%) SQL
3 70 (27.24%) C#
4 48 (18.68%) Java
5 25 (9.73%) TypeScript
6 16 (6.23%) C
7 10 (3.89%) PHP
8 7 (2.72%) C++
8 7 (2.72%) Embedded C
8 7 (2.72%) PL/SQL
9 6 (2.33%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.33%) Swift
10 5 (1.95%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.56%) MATLAB
11 4 (1.56%) Scala
12 3 (1.17%) Ada
12 3 (1.17%) Bash
13 1 (0.39%) Go
13 1 (0.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 73 (28.40%) Degree
2 24 (9.34%) Security Cleared
3 19 (7.39%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.50%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.78%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.11%) QA
2 7 (2.72%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.95%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.17%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (0.39%) GRC
5 1 (0.39%) HL7
5 1 (0.39%) MISRA
5 1 (0.39%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.39%) SLA
5 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (4.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (7.78%) Kubernetes
2 18 (7.00%) Terraform
3 6 (2.33%) Grafana
4 4 (1.56%) Ansible
5 3 (1.17%) Functional Safety
5 3 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 61 (23.74%) PayPal
2 10 (3.89%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.72%) Avaloq
4 5 (1.95%) Informatica
4 5 (1.95%) SAP
4 5 (1.95%) Talend
5 4 (1.56%) Oracle
6 3 (1.17%) Adobe
6 3 (1.17%) Google
6 3 (1.17%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.78%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.78%) ESRI
8 1 (0.39%) Ariba
8 1 (0.39%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.39%) Zend