Software Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Software Engineer
England > North of England

The median Software Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £463 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 150 157
Rank change year-on-year +82 +7 -29
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 130 61 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.70% 1.12% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.91% 1.17% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 40 58
10th Percentile £339 £437 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +10.00% +20.48%
75th Percentile £573 £688 £550
90th Percentile £635 £700 £700
England median daily rate £628 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +4.58% - +18.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 9 5
10th Percentile £37.55 £27.91 £39.77
25th Percentile £45.22 £37.80 £44.68
Median hourly rate £48.00 £45.82 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -9.27% +22.42%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.40 £53.08
90th Percentile £71.50 £50.63 £60.23
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +27.66%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,470 5,202 6,914
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 95.33% 96.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,715 3,644 5,048
10th Percentile £263 £264 £206
25th Percentile £388 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £569
90th Percentile £668 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.19% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 163 271
10th Percentile £11.11 £14.05 £11.30
25th Percentile £13.02 £17.60 £14.57
Median hourly rate £23.48 £27.20 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.69% +36.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £48.00 £43.75 £34.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £58.90 £63.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -12.22% +88.21% +13.59%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the North of England

Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineer in the North of England

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineer in the North of England

Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineer in the North of England

Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineer in the North of England

Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +69 96 £525 -0.94% 109
Yorkshire +13 19 £400 -20.00% 34
North East +17 15 £390 -44.29% 16
Software Engineer
England

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 9 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 North of England region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 130 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 31 (23.85%) AWS
3 29 (22.31%) SDLC
4 26 (20.00%) Aerospace
5 23 (17.69%) Java
6 22 (16.92%) React
7 21 (16.15%) Agile
8 20 (15.38%) Social Skills
9 19 (14.62%) TypeScript
10 17 (13.08%) JavaScript
11 14 (10.77%) Misys Midas
11 14 (10.77%) CI/CD
12 13 (10.00%) Microservices
12 13 (10.00%) RESTful
12 13 (10.00%) Azure
13 12 (9.23%) Node.js
13 12 (9.23%) Military
14 11 (8.46%) C
14 11 (8.46%) Python
14 11 (8.46%) Test Automation
14 11 (8.46%) Full Stack Development
15 10 (7.69%) Serverless
15 10 (7.69%) AngularJS
15 10 (7.69%) C++
15 10 (7.69%) Automotive
16 9 (6.92%) PHP
16 9 (6.92%) MySQL
16 9 (6.92%) Cypress.io
16 9 (6.92%) Degree
16 9 (6.92%) Spring

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (1.54%) Drupal
Applications
1 4 (3.08%) Simulink
1 4 (3.08%) Stateflow
2 3 (2.31%) Adobe After Effects
2 3 (2.31%) Blender
2 3 (2.31%) Maya
2 3 (2.31%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 14 (10.77%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 31 (23.85%) AWS
2 13 (10.00%) Azure
3 10 (7.69%) Serverless
4 6 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (4.62%) BrowserStack
4 6 (4.62%) GitHub
5 5 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (3.85%) GCP
6 4 (3.08%) npm
7 2 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.77%) Azure Batch
8 1 (0.77%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.85%) HTTP
2 3 (2.31%) J1939
3 1 (0.77%) AMQP
3 1 (0.77%) Link 16
3 1 (0.77%) Modbus
3 1 (0.77%) MQTT
3 1 (0.77%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.92%) MySQL
2 6 (4.62%) MongoDB
2 6 (4.62%) NoSQL
2 6 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.77%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.77%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.77%) SQLite
3 1 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (6.92%) Cypress.io
2 6 (4.62%) JIRA
3 4 (3.08%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (1.54%) Git
4 2 (1.54%) GoCD
5 1 (0.77%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.77%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.77%) JUnit
5 1 (0.77%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.77%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (20.00%) Aerospace
2 20 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 12 (9.23%) Military
4 10 (7.69%) Automotive
5 7 (5.38%) Finance
6 6 (4.62%) Electronics
6 6 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.85%) Legal
8 4 (3.08%) Games
8 4 (3.08%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.31%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.54%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.77%) Avionics
11 1 (0.77%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.77%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (16.92%) React
2 13 (10.00%) RESTful
3 12 (9.23%) Node.js
4 10 (7.69%) AngularJS
5 9 (6.92%) Spring
6 6 (4.62%) Next.js
7 5 (3.85%) Spring Boot
8 4 (3.08%) AWS CDK
8 4 (3.08%) Jest
9 3 (2.31%) CSS
9 3 (2.31%) HTML
9 3 (2.31%) jQuery
9 3 (2.31%) Unreal Engine
10 2 (1.54%) .NET
10 2 (1.54%) React Native
10 2 (1.54%) SOAP
11 1 (0.77%) .NET Core
11 1 (0.77%) HTML5
11 1 (0.77%) RxJava
11 1 (0.77%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.08%) Algorithms
2 3 (2.31%) Augmented Reality
2 3 (2.31%) CAN bus
2 3 (2.31%) Virtual Reality
3 2 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.77%) Blockchain
4 1 (0.77%) IoT
4 1 (0.77%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.77%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.77%) Online Gambling
4 1 (0.77%) Online Games
4 1 (0.77%) PKI
4 1 (0.77%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.38%) Linux
2 2 (1.54%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 29 (22.31%) SDLC
3 21 (16.15%) Agile
4 14 (10.77%) CI/CD
5 13 (10.00%) Microservices
6 11 (8.46%) Full Stack Development
6 11 (8.46%) Test Automation
7 9 (6.92%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (6.15%) Computer Science
8 8 (6.15%) TDD
9 7 (5.38%) BDD
9 7 (5.38%) Front End Development
9 7 (5.38%) Systems Engineering
10 6 (4.62%) Decision-Making
10 6 (4.62%) Kanban
10 6 (4.62%) Mentoring
10 6 (4.62%) Operational Stability
10 6 (4.62%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (3.85%) Data Modelling
11 5 (3.85%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 23 (17.69%) Java
2 19 (14.62%) TypeScript
3 17 (13.08%) JavaScript
4 11 (8.46%) C
4 11 (8.46%) Python
5 10 (7.69%) C++
6 9 (6.92%) PHP
7 8 (6.15%) SQL
8 6 (4.62%) Embedded C
9 4 (3.08%) MATLAB
10 3 (2.31%) Ada
10 3 (2.31%) C#
10 3 (2.31%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.31%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.77%) Bash
11 1 (0.77%) Fortran
11 1 (0.77%) Perl
11 1 (0.77%) Rust
11 1 (0.77%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (6.92%) Degree
2 7 (5.38%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.85%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.31%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.62%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.08%) MISRA
2 4 (3.08%) MISRA C
3 3 (2.31%) AUTOSAR
4 2 (1.54%) QA
5 1 (0.77%) HL7
5 1 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.77%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (3.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.38%) Grafana
1 7 (5.38%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.31%) Functional Safety
2 3 (2.31%) Terraform
3 2 (1.54%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (3.08%) Atlassian
2 3 (2.31%) Adobe
2 3 (2.31%) Oracle
3 1 (0.77%) Microsoft