Software Engineering Contracts in South Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 45 56
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 -21
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 18 11 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 3.80% 2.14% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.36% 2.32% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 3
10th Percentile - £415 £367
25th Percentile - £469 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £390
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +47.44% -10.86%
75th Percentile - £625 £399
90th Percentile - £630 £400
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 413 475 469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 87.13% 92.59% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 295 363
10th Percentile £360 £300 £300
25th Percentile £412 £473 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £584 £675 £566
90th Percentile £624 £743 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 37 20
10th Percentile £10.90 - £10.97
25th Percentile £12.55 £9.80 £11.00
Median hourly rate £12.83 £10.63 £17.06
Median % change year-on-year +20.70% -37.67% -9.04%
75th Percentile £22.00 - £22.33
90th Percentile £23.75 - £23.78
Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £18.60
% change year-on-year +27.00% -42.85% -6.73%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in South Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in South Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in South Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Sheffield +2 18 £650 +13.04% 12
Software Engineering
Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 11 (61.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) AWS
1 1 (5.56%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
1 2 (11.11%) JUnit
General
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 15 (83.33%) Developer
2 11 (61.11%) Software Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Lead Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Lead Java Developer
3 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Programme Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Security Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (77.78%) HTML
2 3 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 3 (16.67%) CSS
2 3 (16.67%) LDAP
3 2 (11.11%) Hibernate
3 2 (11.11%) JPA
3 2 (11.11%) React
3 2 (11.11%) REST
3 2 (11.11%) Spring
3 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.56%) JWT
4 1 (5.56%) OpenID
4 1 (5.56%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) CMDB
1 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Blockchain
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 11 (61.11%) Code Quality
2 11 (61.11%) Conversational UI
3 6 (33.33%) DevOps
4 5 (27.78%) Agile
4 5 (27.78%) Scrum
5 3 (16.67%) Change Management
5 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 3 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 3 (16.67%) Information Security
5 3 (16.67%) ITIL
5 3 (16.67%) ITSM
5 3 (16.67%) Knowledge Management
5 3 (16.67%) Mathematics
5 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 3 (16.67%) Problem Management
5 3 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 3 (16.67%) Service Management
5 3 (16.67%) User Stories
5 3 (16.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (77.78%) JavaScript
1 14 (77.78%) Python
2 11 (61.11%) C#
2 11 (61.11%) SQL
3 3 (16.67%) Java
3 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (77.78%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 3 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 3 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) PayPal
2 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow