Software Engineering Contracts in Northamptonshire

Software Engineering
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 35 - 40
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 0.84% - 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% - 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £501 - -
25th Percentile £503 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £525
75th Percentile £528 - £538
90th Percentile £534 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -2.56% -7.14% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 213 179 265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 89.12% 94.21% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 132 210
10th Percentile £340 £213 £204
25th Percentile £357 £400 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £481 £480
Median % change year-on-year -11.55% +0.10% +12.94%
75th Percentile £514 £539 £538
90th Percentile £600 £606 £588
East Midlands median daily rate £445 £485 £475
% change year-on-year -8.25% +2.11% +12.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 15 14
10th Percentile - £13.60 £15.10
25th Percentile £23.10 £18.95 £17.18
Median hourly rate £24.20 £51.00 £33.54
Median % change year-on-year -52.55% +52.06% +39.29%
75th Percentile £25.30 £51.50 £35.00
90th Percentile - - £37.60
East Midlands median hourly rate £23.25 £22.50 £16.97
% change year-on-year +3.33% +32.61% +17.02%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Northamptonshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Northamptonshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Northamptonshire

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire 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
Northampton - 1 £525 - 3
Software Engineering
East Midlands

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Records Management
1 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes