Software Engineering Contracts in the Midlands

Software Engineering
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 92 57
Rank change year-on-year +51 -35 -10
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 107 68 182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.70% 2.11% 3.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.57% 2.41% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 47 121
10th Percentile £352 £381 £440
25th Percentile £358 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £517
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +1.55% +25.33%
75th Percentile £550 £595 £562
90th Percentile £598 £615 £663
England median daily rate £600 £602 £600
% change year-on-year -0.37% +0.38% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 4 0
10th Percentile £46.25 £46.88 -
25th Percentile £50.00 £49.69 -
Median hourly rate £56.25 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £58.75 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £72.50 £62.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +19.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,343 2,821 4,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.04% 87.55% 87.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,568 1,980 3,250
10th Percentile £231 £258 £250
25th Percentile £358 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 101 130
10th Percentile £11.10 £12.50 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +31.51% +21.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £24.50
90th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the Midlands

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in the Midlands

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in the Midlands

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in the Midlands

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineering in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 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
West Midlands +38 77 £463 -20.60% 121
East Midlands +21 29 £550 +29.41% 122
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 (1.87%) Apache
1 2 (1.87%) CICS
1 2 (1.87%) SAS
2 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.93%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.93%) MetaMask
2 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.93%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.93%) WebSphere
Applications
1 24 (22.43%) Chatbot
2 7 (6.54%) Simulink
3 5 (4.67%) Stateflow
3 5 (4.67%) TargetLink
4 1 (0.93%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (6.54%) Azure
2 3 (2.80%) AWS
3 2 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (1.87%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (1.87%) GCP
4 1 (0.93%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (0.93%) Azure Functions
4 1 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (0.93%) OpenShift
4 1 (0.93%) Power Automate
4 1 (0.93%) Power Platform
4 1 (0.93%) PowerApps
4 1 (0.93%) Serverless
4 1 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.80%) SAN
1 3 (2.80%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.87%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (1.87%) Internet
2 2 (1.87%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (22.43%) MySQL
2 23 (21.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (2.80%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.87%) DB2
4 2 (1.87%) IDMS
5 1 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.93%) Power BI
5 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (28.97%) Git
2 5 (4.67%) Bitbucket
2 5 (4.67%) Subversion
3 3 (2.80%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.80%) PVCS
3 3 (2.80%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.87%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.87%) GitLab
4 2 (1.87%) JIRA
5 1 (0.93%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (10.28%) Automotive
2 10 (9.35%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.48%) Finance
4 6 (5.61%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.74%) Electronics
6 3 (2.80%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.93%) Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (38.32%) Developer
2 25 (23.36%) Software Developer
3 16 (14.95%) Software Engineer
4 12 (11.21%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (7.48%) Senior
6 6 (5.61%) Embedded Engineer
6 6 (5.61%) Systems Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) Control Systems Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) Senior Developer
8 4 (3.74%) Author
8 4 (3.74%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 4 (3.74%) Java Developer
8 4 (3.74%) Technical Author
9 3 (2.80%) Python Developer
9 3 (2.80%) Senior Software Engineer
10 2 (1.87%) IBM Mainframe Developer
10 2 (1.87%) Mainframe Developer
10 2 (1.87%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (25.23%) HTML
2 5 (4.67%) React
3 4 (3.74%) AngularJS
3 4 (3.74%) Spring
4 3 (2.80%) .NET
4 3 (2.80%) CSS
5 2 (1.87%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (1.87%) HTML5
5 2 (1.87%) REST
5 2 (1.87%) Vue
5 2 (1.87%) Web Services
6 1 (0.93%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.93%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.93%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.93%) gRPC
6 1 (0.93%) PySpark
6 1 (0.93%) RAML
6 1 (0.93%) Smart Contracts
6 1 (0.93%) Truffle
6 1 (0.93%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.54%) Algorithms
2 6 (5.61%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.87%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (1.87%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.93%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.93%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.54%) Linux
2 3 (2.80%) Debian
2 3 (2.80%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.87%) Windows
3 2 (1.87%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (42.06%) Agile
2 28 (26.17%) Configuration Management
3 26 (24.30%) Artificial Intelligence
3 26 (24.30%) Continuous Integration
4 25 (23.36%) Analytics
4 25 (23.36%) Requirements Gathering
5 24 (22.43%) Code Quality
5 24 (22.43%) Conversational UI
5 24 (22.43%) Data Analytics
5 24 (22.43%) Data Extraction
5 24 (22.43%) ETL
6 23 (21.50%) Dashboard Development
6 23 (21.50%) Scrum
7 20 (18.69%) Computer Science
8 19 (17.76%) DevOps
9 18 (16.82%) Process Improvement
9 18 (16.82%) Test Strategy
10 12 (11.21%) Decision-Making
11 11 (10.28%) User Experience
12 10 (9.35%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 34 (31.78%) Python
2 29 (27.10%) JavaScript
3 27 (25.23%) C#
4 25 (23.36%) SQL
5 11 (10.28%) C
6 7 (6.54%) MATLAB
7 6 (5.61%) C++
8 5 (4.67%) Java
9 3 (2.80%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.87%) CLIST
10 2 (1.87%) COBOL
10 2 (1.87%) Embedded C
10 2 (1.87%) Embedded C++
10 2 (1.87%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.87%) REXX
10 2 (1.87%) SELCOPY
11 1 (0.93%) Rust
11 1 (0.93%) Solidity
11 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 48 (44.86%) Degree
2 40 (37.38%) Security Cleared
3 30 (28.04%) SC Cleared
4 17 (15.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (11.21%) DV Cleared
6 9 (8.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.35%) QA
2 7 (6.54%) AUTOSAR
3 5 (4.67%) ISO 26262
3 5 (4.67%) MISRA
3 5 (4.67%) MISRA C
4 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 2 (1.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (21.50%) Grafana
2 4 (3.74%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.87%) Ansible
3 2 (1.87%) Terraform
4 1 (0.93%) Kibana
Vendors
1 24 (22.43%) PayPal
2 23 (21.50%) Denodo
2 23 (21.50%) Talend
3 12 (11.21%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.67%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.80%) IBM
5 3 (2.80%) VMware
6 2 (1.87%) Cisco
6 2 (1.87%) Juniper
6 2 (1.87%) NVIDIA
6 2 (1.87%) Oracle
6 2 (1.87%) SAP
6 2 (1.87%) Syncsort
7 1 (0.93%) Ariba
7 1 (0.93%) Google
7 1 (0.93%) OutSystems
7 1 (0.93%) Workday