Software Engineer Contracts in Surrey

Software Engineer
South East > Surrey

The median Software Engineer daily rate in Surrey is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 58 58
Rank change year-on-year +9 0 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 10 16 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 1.59% 2.16% 2.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.70% 2.26% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 15
10th Percentile £378 £500 £475
25th Percentile £406 £504 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.88% -0.48% +11.70%
75th Percentile £488 £555 £639
90th Percentile £510 £612 £688
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £69.40 £51.13 -
25th Percentile £71.50 £52.81 £46.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £56.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +18.42% +11.76%
75th Percentile - £60.31 £48.75
90th Percentile - £62.38 -
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year +14.54% +8.10% +12.30%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Surrey. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Surrey with a recognized job title 589 707 836
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.49% 95.54% 96.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 549 590
10th Percentile £249 £198 £188
25th Percentile £363 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £738 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 31 24
10th Percentile £12.70 £29.50 £12.11
25th Percentile £13.25 £42.50 £19.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% - +109.30%
75th Percentile £58.00 £62.53 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £65.00 £48.38
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% +150.00% -13.93%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Surrey

Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in Surrey.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineer in Surrey

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Surrey over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineer in Surrey

Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in Surrey.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineer in Surrey

Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 12 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
Redhill - 5 £450 - 3
Egham - 2 - - 1
Software Engineer
South East

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Software Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Surrey region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (70.00%) C++
3 5 (50.00%) Python
3 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 5 (50.00%) Windows
3 5 (50.00%) Linux
3 5 (50.00%) Scrum
3 5 (50.00%) Embedded Linux
3 5 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 5 (50.00%) Degree
3 5 (50.00%) Git
3 5 (50.00%) RESTful
3 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (40.00%) API Testing
4 4 (40.00%) SDET
4 4 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Open Source
4 4 (40.00%) VirtualBox
4 4 (40.00%) Confluence
4 4 (40.00%) Bitbucket
4 4 (40.00%) Artifactory
4 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 4 (40.00%) JIRA
4 4 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (40.00%) Manual Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Performance Management
4 4 (40.00%) Software Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Agile
4 4 (40.00%) Oracle

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 4 (40.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Git
1 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (40.00%) Artifactory
2 4 (40.00%) Bitbucket
2 4 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) RESTful
2 4 (40.00%) SOAP
2 4 (40.00%) XML
3 1 (10.00%) Kafka
3 1 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) Spring
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) GPGPU
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Embedded Linux
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 5 (50.00%) Scrum
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) API Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Manual Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Open Source
3 4 (40.00%) Performance Management
3 4 (40.00%) SDET
3 4 (40.00%) Software Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Clean Code
5 2 (20.00%) OO
6 1 (10.00%) Kanban
6 1 (10.00%) OOD
6 1 (10.00%) OOP
6 1 (10.00%) TDD
6 1 (10.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) C++
2 5 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (40.00%) VirtualBox
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle