Software Engineering Contracts in West Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 53 48
Rank change year-on-year +19 -5 +1
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 46 49 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 4.64% 3.35% 3.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.42% 3.68% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 27 49
10th Percentile £278 £403 £425
25th Percentile £300 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% -7.62% +16.67%
75th Percentile £553 £594 £575
90th Percentile £594 £665 £707
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +18.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £52.50 £46.11 £45.75
% change year-on-year +13.87% +0.78% +22.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 848 1,333 1,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 85.57% 91.24% 90.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 923 1,212
10th Percentile £300 £350 £280
25th Percentile £406 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £578 £625 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 18 47
10th Percentile £12.03 £12.00 £10.25
25th Percentile £12.15 £13.81 £12.38
Median hourly rate £13.02 £19.00 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -31.50% +1.60% -13.98%
75th Percentile £15.25 £32.81 £22.40
90th Percentile £53.75 £63.75 £27.85
Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £18.50
% change year-on-year +27.00% -42.54% -6.06%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in West Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in West Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in West Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in West Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Yorkshire 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
Leeds +17 37 £450 -10.00% 32
Wetherby - 4 - -
Bradford +5 1 £300 -30.64% 4
Software Engineering
Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.35%) ArcGIS
1 2 (4.35%) Drupal
2 1 (2.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (23.91%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 11 (23.91%) AWS
2 6 (13.04%) GCP
3 5 (10.87%) GitHub
4 2 (4.35%) Azure
5 1 (2.17%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) HTTP
1 1 (2.17%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) GIS
1 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (4.35%) Spatial Data
2 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Git
1 1 (2.17%) GitLab
1 1 (2.17%) JIRA
General
1 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.70%) Telecoms
3 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Banking
5 1 (2.17%) Finance
5 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.17%) Front Office
5 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (52.17%) Developer
2 15 (32.61%) Software Engineer
3 11 (23.91%) Software Developer
4 9 (19.57%) Senior
5 5 (10.87%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) iOS Developer
6 4 (8.70%) PLC Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) PLC Software Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Java Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Automation Tester
8 2 (4.35%) Designer
8 2 (4.35%) Full Stack Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) GIS Developer
8 2 (4.35%) JavaScript Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Scala Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Designer
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Service Designer
8 2 (4.35%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (32.61%) HTML
2 4 (8.70%) .NET
3 3 (6.52%) jQuery
3 3 (6.52%) Playwright
3 3 (6.52%) React
3 3 (6.52%) Web Services
4 2 (4.35%) CSS
4 2 (4.35%) J2EE
4 2 (4.35%) JSP
4 2 (4.35%) Node.js
4 2 (4.35%) React Native
4 2 (4.35%) RESTful
4 2 (4.35%) Spring Boot
4 2 (4.35%) XML
5 1 (2.17%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.17%) HTML5
5 1 (2.17%) OAuth
5 1 (2.17%) OpenID
5 1 (2.17%) SAML
5 1 (2.17%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.52%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Apple iOS
2 2 (4.35%) Android
2 2 (4.35%) Unix
2 2 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.96%) Agile
2 12 (26.09%) Code Quality
3 11 (23.91%) Artificial Intelligence
3 11 (23.91%) Conversational UI
3 11 (23.91%) Mentoring
4 7 (15.22%) CI/CD
4 7 (15.22%) Performance Metrics
5 6 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (13.04%) TDD
6 5 (10.87%) Test Automation
7 4 (8.70%) Computer Science
7 4 (8.70%) Full Stack Development
7 4 (8.70%) iOS Development
7 4 (8.70%) Project Delivery
8 3 (6.52%) Coaching
8 3 (6.52%) Non-Functional Testing
8 3 (6.52%) Product Requirements
8 3 (6.52%) User Experience
8 3 (6.52%) User Research
8 3 (6.52%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 24 (52.17%) JavaScript
2 16 (34.78%) Python
3 14 (30.43%) SQL
4 13 (28.26%) C#
5 7 (15.22%) Java
6 5 (10.87%) C
7 4 (8.70%) Swift
7 4 (8.70%) TypeScript
8 3 (6.52%) Bash
8 3 (6.52%) Kotlin
8 3 (6.52%) Scala
9 2 (4.35%) C++
9 2 (4.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (30.43%) Degree
2 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) QA
2 1 (2.17%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.17%) Grafana
2 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) PayPal
2 3 (6.52%) Google
3 2 (4.35%) ESRI
4 1 (2.17%) Ariba
4 1 (2.17%) SAP