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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 74 50
Rank change year-on-year +46 -24 +4
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 263 156 313
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.54% 2.81% 4.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.55% 3.12% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 91 200
10th Percentile £300 £410 £400
25th Percentile £425 £458 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +4.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £594 £650 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 13 9
10th Percentile £38.00 £32.53 £43.04
25th Percentile £45.22 £37.75 £44.69
Median hourly rate £48.00 £45.82 £53.08
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -13.68% +17.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.40 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £51.75 £66.00
England median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -1.54% +13.04% +21.05%

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 4,018 4,995 6,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.66% 90.08% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,427 3,429 4,621
10th Percentile £300 £300 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +3.09% +10.23%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 387 206 255
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.73 £13.50
Median hourly rate £20.74 £26.85 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +41.32% +6.92%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £34.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £63.38 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +52 154 £540 -1.82% 226
Yorkshire +22 74 £450 -10.00% 80
North East +26 37 £390 -44.29% 32
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 (2.28%) Apache
1 6 (2.28%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.76%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.76%) Drupal
4 1 (0.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 61 (23.19%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.52%) Simulink
2 4 (1.52%) Stateflow
3 3 (1.14%) Adobe After Effects
3 3 (1.14%) Blender
3 3 (1.14%) Maya
3 3 (1.14%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (3.80%) Misys Midas
2 2 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.38%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 56 (21.29%) AWS
2 28 (10.65%) Azure
3 15 (5.70%) Serverless
4 11 (4.18%) GCP
5 10 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (3.80%) GitHub
6 6 (2.28%) Snowflake
7 5 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (1.90%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (1.90%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.90%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.90%) BrowserStack
7 5 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.52%) npm
9 1 (0.38%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.38%) Azure Batch
9 1 (0.38%) IaaS
9 1 (0.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.66%) HTTP
2 5 (1.90%) FTP
3 3 (1.14%) J1939
4 2 (0.76%) SSL
5 1 (0.38%) AMQP
5 1 (0.38%) Link 16
5 1 (0.38%) Modbus
5 1 (0.38%) MQTT
5 1 (0.38%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.18%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (3.80%) MySQL
3 6 (2.28%) Big Data
3 6 (2.28%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.28%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.28%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.76%) GIS
4 2 (0.76%) Spatial Data
4 2 (0.76%) SQLite
5 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.38%) DB2
5 1 (0.38%) Flink
5 1 (0.38%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.38%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (8.37%) Git
2 19 (7.22%) JIRA
3 8 (3.04%) Cypress.io
4 6 (2.28%) JUnit
5 4 (1.52%) GitLab
6 3 (1.14%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.14%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.14%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (0.76%) GoCD
7 2 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.38%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.38%) Maven
8 1 (0.38%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.38%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.38%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 40 (15.21%) Social Skills
2 24 (9.13%) Aerospace
3 21 (7.98%) Finance
4 12 (4.56%) Public Sector
5 10 (3.80%) Automotive
5 10 (3.80%) Military
6 9 (3.42%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.28%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (2.28%) Electronics
7 6 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.28%) Legal
8 5 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.52%) Games
9 4 (1.52%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.14%) Retail
11 2 (0.76%) Back Office
11 2 (0.76%) Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Avionics
12 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.38%) Law
Job Titles
1 123 (46.77%) Software Engineer
2 88 (33.46%) Developer
3 61 (23.19%) Software Developer
4 26 (9.89%) Senior
5 20 (7.60%) PLC Software Engineer
6 17 (6.46%) Senior Software Engineer
7 12 (4.56%) Lead
8 11 (4.18%) Java Developer
9 10 (3.80%) Full Stack Engineer
10 9 (3.42%) Project Manager
11 8 (3.04%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 7 (2.66%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (2.66%) Java Engineer
13 6 (2.28%) DevOps Engineer
13 6 (2.28%) Embedded Engineer
13 6 (2.28%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 6 (2.28%) iOS Developer
14 5 (1.90%) Data Engineer
14 5 (1.90%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 5 (1.90%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (26.24%) HTML
2 31 (11.79%) React
3 17 (6.46%) Spring
4 16 (6.08%) RESTful
5 15 (5.70%) Node.js
6 14 (5.32%) AngularJS
7 12 (4.56%) Spring Boot
8 9 (3.42%) XML
9 8 (3.04%) PyTorch
9 8 (3.04%) TensorFlow
10 7 (2.66%) CSS
11 6 (2.28%) JPA
11 6 (2.28%) JSON
12 5 (1.90%) .NET
12 5 (1.90%) AWS CDK
12 5 (1.90%) Jest
12 5 (1.90%) Next.js
12 5 (1.90%) REST
13 4 (1.52%) Hibernate
13 4 (1.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (2.28%) Algorithms
2 4 (1.52%) Blockchain
2 4 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (1.52%) Management Information System
3 3 (1.14%) Augmented Reality
3 3 (1.14%) CAN bus
3 3 (1.14%) CMDB
3 3 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (1.14%) Virtual Reality
4 2 (0.76%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.38%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.38%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.38%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.38%) IoT
5 1 (0.38%) iSeries
5 1 (0.38%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.38%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.38%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.38%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.04%) Linux
2 6 (2.28%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.52%) Android
4 2 (0.76%) Unix
4 2 (0.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (27.38%) Artificial Intelligence
2 67 (25.48%) Code Quality
3 63 (23.95%) Agile
4 61 (23.19%) Conversational UI
5 32 (12.17%) SDLC
6 31 (11.79%) DevOps
7 26 (9.89%) CI/CD
7 26 (9.89%) Test Automation
8 23 (8.75%) Microservices
8 23 (8.75%) Systems Engineering
9 21 (7.98%) Mentoring
10 17 (6.46%) Design Patterns
11 15 (5.70%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (5.32%) Computer Science
12 14 (5.32%) Full Stack Development
12 14 (5.32%) Scrum
13 13 (4.94%) Front End Development
13 13 (4.94%) TDD
14 12 (4.56%) Data Modelling
15 11 (4.18%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 92 (34.98%) Python
2 91 (34.60%) JavaScript
3 88 (33.46%) SQL
4 70 (26.62%) C#
5 50 (19.01%) Java
6 28 (10.65%) TypeScript
7 17 (6.46%) C
8 11 (4.18%) C++
9 10 (3.80%) PHP
10 7 (2.66%) Embedded C
10 7 (2.66%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.28%) PowerShell
11 6 (2.28%) Swift
12 5 (1.90%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.52%) Bash
13 4 (1.52%) MATLAB
13 4 (1.52%) Scala
14 3 (1.14%) Ada
15 1 (0.38%) Fortran
15 1 (0.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 74 (28.14%) Degree
2 23 (8.75%) Security Cleared
3 19 (7.22%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.42%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.04%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.66%) QA
3 5 (1.90%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.14%) AUTOSAR
4 3 (1.14%) MISRA
4 3 (1.14%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.38%) GRC
5 1 (0.38%) HL7
5 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.38%) SLA
5 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (4.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (8.75%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.42%) Terraform
3 7 (2.66%) Grafana
4 4 (1.52%) Ansible
5 3 (1.14%) Functional Safety
5 3 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 61 (23.19%) PayPal
2 11 (4.18%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.66%) Avaloq
4 5 (1.90%) Informatica
4 5 (1.90%) Oracle
4 5 (1.90%) Talend
5 4 (1.52%) Atlassian
5 4 (1.52%) Google
5 4 (1.52%) SAP
6 3 (1.14%) Adobe
6 3 (1.14%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.76%) ESRI
8 1 (0.38%) Ariba
8 1 (0.38%) Zend