Software Engineering Contracts in Oxfordshire

Software Engineering
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 12 27 25
Rank change year-on-year +15 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 6 1 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 4.32% 0.48% 4.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.50% 0.55% 4.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 9
10th Percentile £431 - £255
25th Percentile £459 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £528 - £725
90th Percentile £534 - £918
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £586
% change year-on-year -4.76% -10.41% +17.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £63.25
% change year-on-year +27.27% -13.04% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 109 182 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 78.42% 87.08% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 133 221
10th Percentile £210 £180 £185
25th Percentile £366 £300 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £594
90th Percentile £638 £672 £680
South East median daily rate £511 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -1.70% +1.46% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 13
10th Percentile £14.91 £25.05 £14.56
25th Percentile £19.79 £25.95 £15.80
Median hourly rate £25.50 £32.32 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.12% +61.60% +5.43%
75th Percentile £37.50 £50.00 £24.42
90th Percentile £55.50 - £33.54
South East median hourly rate £58.30 £52.30 £37.13
% change year-on-year +11.47% +40.86% +35.02%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Oxfordshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Oxfordshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Oxfordshire

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire 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
Oxford - 2 £500 - 18
Software Engineering
South East

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 1 (16.67%) Automotive
1 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Agile Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Automotive Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Automotive Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IoT Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Software Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
1 1 (16.67%) JPA
1 1 (16.67%) NestJS
1 1 (16.67%) Next.js
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) IoT
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) Front End Development
1 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
2 1 (16.67%) Kanban
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (16.67%) Requirements Workshops
2 1 (16.67%) SOLID
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) User Stories
2 1 (16.67%) UX Design
2 1 (16.67%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) Fortran
2 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (16.67%) AUTOSAR
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Cadence
1 1 (16.67%) F5
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) QNX