Software Engineering Contracts in the West Midlands

Software Engineering
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 82 54
Rank change year-on-year +39 -28 -13
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 78 48 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.86% 2.17% 4.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.70% 2.48% 4.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 32 92
10th Percentile £350 £407 £448
25th Percentile £358 £484 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £583 £520
Median % change year-on-year -19.53% +12.02% +22.35%
75th Percentile £541 £600 £551
90th Percentile £605 £649 £624
England median daily rate £600 £602 £600
% change year-on-year -0.37% +0.38% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 0
10th Percentile £46.25 - -
25th Percentile £48.75 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile £72.50 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,659 1,939 3,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.13% 87.66% 90.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,106 1,313 2,342
10th Percentile £263 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.00% +16.53%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £587
90th Percentile £731 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 51 58
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £12.18
25th Percentile £14.31 £14.03 £13.90
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year - +30.43% +15.00%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.97
90th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £24.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the West Midlands

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in the West Midlands

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in the West Midlands

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in the West Midlands

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineering in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in the West Midlands

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 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
Birmingham +22 24 £496 -13.78% 50
Shropshire +14 24 £358 -33.77% 3
Worcestershire +4 14 £550 -7.56% 16
Warwickshire -8 3 £400 -40.74% 12
Coventry +5 2 £488 +5.41% 8
Staffordshire +7 1 - - 22
Walsall - 1 £325 -
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (2.56%) Apache
1 2 (2.56%) CICS
1 2 (2.56%) SAS
2 1 (1.28%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (15.38%) Chatbot
2 5 (6.41%) Simulink
2 5 (6.41%) Stateflow
2 5 (6.41%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (5.13%) Azure
2 2 (2.56%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (1.28%) AWS
3 1 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.28%) Azure Functions
3 1 (1.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (1.28%) Power Automate
3 1 (1.28%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.28%) PowerApps
3 1 (1.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.56%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (2.56%) Internet
1 2 (2.56%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (29.49%) MySQL
2 22 (28.21%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.56%) DB2
3 2 (2.56%) IDMS
3 2 (2.56%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.28%) Power BI
4 1 (1.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (37.18%) Git
2 5 (6.41%) Bitbucket
2 5 (6.41%) Subversion
3 3 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.85%) PVCS
3 3 (3.85%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.56%) Artifactory
4 2 (2.56%) GitLab
4 2 (2.56%) JIRA
5 1 (1.28%) Rational DOORS
General
1 9 (11.54%) Automotive
2 8 (10.26%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.69%) Finance
3 6 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.13%) Electronics
5 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 24 (30.77%) Developer
2 13 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 9 (11.54%) Software Engineer
4 6 (7.69%) Senior
4 6 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
5 5 (6.41%) Control Systems Engineer
5 5 (6.41%) Principal Engineer
5 5 (6.41%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 4 (5.13%) Author
6 4 (5.13%) Java Developer
6 4 (5.13%) Technical Author
7 3 (3.85%) Senior Developer
7 3 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (2.56%) .NET Developer
8 2 (2.56%) C Programmer
8 2 (2.56%) Embedded C Programmer
8 2 (2.56%) Mainframe Developer
8 2 (2.56%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (2.56%) Software Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.95%) HTML
2 4 (5.13%) AngularJS
2 4 (5.13%) React
2 4 (5.13%) Spring
3 3 (3.85%) .NET
4 2 (2.56%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (2.56%) CSS
4 2 (2.56%) REST
5 1 (1.28%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.28%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (1.28%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.28%) HTML5
5 1 (1.28%) PySpark
5 1 (1.28%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 1 (1.28%) Vue
5 1 (1.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.97%) Algorithms
2 6 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.56%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (2.56%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.28%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.56%) Linux
1 2 (2.56%) Windows
1 2 (2.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (50.00%) Agile
2 25 (32.05%) Continuous Integration
3 24 (30.77%) Configuration Management
3 24 (30.77%) Requirements Gathering
4 23 (29.49%) Analytics
4 23 (29.49%) Data Analytics
4 23 (29.49%) Data Extraction
4 23 (29.49%) ETL
5 22 (28.21%) Dashboard Development
5 22 (28.21%) Scrum
6 19 (24.36%) Computer Science
7 18 (23.08%) DevOps
8 17 (21.79%) Process Improvement
8 17 (21.79%) Test Strategy
9 14 (17.95%) Artificial Intelligence
10 12 (15.38%) Code Quality
10 12 (15.38%) Conversational UI
10 12 (15.38%) Decision-Making
10 12 (15.38%) User Experience
11 11 (14.10%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 17 (21.79%) Python
2 15 (19.23%) C#
3 14 (17.95%) JavaScript
4 13 (16.67%) SQL
5 8 (10.26%) C
6 5 (6.41%) Java
6 5 (6.41%) MATLAB
7 3 (3.85%) C++
7 3 (3.85%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.56%) CLIST
8 2 (2.56%) COBOL
8 2 (2.56%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.56%) REXX
8 2 (2.56%) SELCOPY
Qualifications
1 36 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 35 (44.87%) Degree
3 25 (32.05%) SC Cleared
4 17 (21.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (12.82%) DV Cleared
6 9 (11.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.10%) QA
2 5 (6.41%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (6.41%) ISO 26262
2 5 (6.41%) MISRA
2 5 (6.41%) MISRA C
3 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 1 (1.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (28.21%) Grafana
2 3 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.56%) Ansible
3 2 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (28.21%) Denodo
1 22 (28.21%) Talend
2 12 (15.38%) PayPal
3 7 (8.97%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.85%) IBM
5 2 (2.56%) Cisco
5 2 (2.56%) Juniper
5 2 (2.56%) NVIDIA
5 2 (2.56%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.56%) Syncsort
6 1 (1.28%) Oracle
6 1 (1.28%) OutSystems
6 1 (1.28%) SAP