Software Engineer Contracts in the North West

Software Engineer
England > North West

The median Software Engineer daily rate in the North West is £525 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 48 117 121
Rank change year-on-year +69 +4 -28
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 96 32 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.45% 1.06% 1.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.65% 1.12% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 19 40
10th Percentile - £410 -
25th Percentile £456 £458 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £556
90th Percentile £695 £688 £669
England median daily rate £628 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +4.58% - +18.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 5 4
10th Percentile £37.55 £23.85 £46.05
25th Percentile £38.39 £37.80 £48.11
Median hourly rate £48.00 £40.59 £51.79
Median % change year-on-year +18.26% -21.63% +15.09%
75th Percentile £51.91 £48.75 £56.06
90th Percentile £71.87 £49.65 £61.42
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +27.66%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,631 2,854 3,913
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 94.72% 96.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,629 2,025 2,844
10th Percentile £268 £300 £219
25th Percentile £385 £406 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £575
90th Percentile £673 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.19% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 310 132 164
10th Percentile £11.71 £14.56 £11.83
25th Percentile £14.17 £17.72 £15.30
Median hourly rate £32.95 £29.00 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year +13.61% +17.17% +37.50%
75th Percentile £48.00 £43.75 £51.95
90th Percentile £71.87 £59.08 £75.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the North West

Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineer in the North West

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineer in the North West

Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineer in the North West

Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineer in the North West

Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +33 42 £525 -3.45% 81
Cumbria - 24 - -
Lancashire +24 23 - - 5
Cheshire - 5 - - 18
Merseyside +10 1 - - 7
Software Engineer
England

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

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 West region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 96 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 24 (25.00%) SDLC
3 23 (23.96%) Aerospace
4 22 (22.92%) AWS
5 18 (18.75%) Java
6 15 (15.63%) React
7 14 (14.58%) TypeScript
7 14 (14.58%) Misys Midas
8 13 (13.54%) Agile
9 12 (12.50%) Military
10 11 (11.46%) Test Automation
11 10 (10.42%) Node.js
12 9 (9.38%) AngularJS
12 9 (9.38%) Spring
12 9 (9.38%) Python
12 9 (9.38%) Social Skills
13 8 (8.33%) C++
13 8 (8.33%) Computer Science
14 7 (7.29%) Security Cleared
14 7 (7.29%) RESTful
14 7 (7.29%) Azure
14 7 (7.29%) Front End Development
14 7 (7.29%) PHP
14 7 (7.29%) Linux
14 7 (7.29%) CI/CD
14 7 (7.29%) Systems Engineering
15 6 (6.25%) Decision-Making
15 6 (6.25%) JavaScript
15 6 (6.25%) Finance
15 6 (6.25%) Degree

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Simulink
1 4 (4.17%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 14 (14.58%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 22 (22.92%) AWS
2 7 (7.29%) Azure
3 5 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (5.21%) Serverless
4 4 (4.17%) npm
5 3 (3.13%) GCP
6 2 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.04%) Azure Batch
7 1 (1.04%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.04%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.21%) HTTP
2 1 (1.04%) Link 16
2 1 (1.04%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.17%) MySQL
2 1 (1.04%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.04%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 6 (6.25%) JIRA
2 4 (4.17%) Cypress.io
2 4 (4.17%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (2.08%) Git
3 2 (2.08%) GoCD
4 1 (1.04%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.04%) JUnit
4 1 (1.04%) Mercurial
4 1 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (23.96%) Aerospace
2 12 (12.50%) Military
3 9 (9.38%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.25%) Finance
5 5 (5.21%) Legal
6 4 (4.17%) Automotive
7 3 (3.13%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Avionics
9 1 (1.04%) Games
9 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.63%) React
2 10 (10.42%) Node.js
3 9 (9.38%) AngularJS
3 9 (9.38%) Spring
4 7 (7.29%) RESTful
5 5 (5.21%) Spring Boot
6 4 (4.17%) AWS CDK
6 4 (4.17%) Jest
7 2 (2.08%) SOAP
8 1 (1.04%) CSS
8 1 (1.04%) HTML
8 1 (1.04%) JDBC
8 1 (1.04%) Jetpack Compose
8 1 (1.04%) JPA
8 1 (1.04%) JWT
8 1 (1.04%) Next.js
8 1 (1.04%) RxJava
8 1 (1.04%) Smart Contracts
8 1 (1.04%) web3js
8 1 (1.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.17%) Algorithms
2 1 (1.04%) Blockchain
2 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.04%) Online Gambling
2 1 (1.04%) Online Games
2 1 (1.04%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 24 (25.00%) SDLC
3 13 (13.54%) Agile
4 11 (11.46%) Test Automation
5 8 (8.33%) Computer Science
6 7 (7.29%) CI/CD
6 7 (7.29%) Front End Development
6 7 (7.29%) Systems Engineering
7 6 (6.25%) Decision-Making
7 6 (6.25%) Kanban
7 6 (6.25%) Microservices
8 5 (5.21%) Data Modelling
8 5 (5.21%) Data Security
8 5 (5.21%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (5.21%) Software Testing
9 4 (4.17%) Design Patterns
9 4 (4.17%) Full Stack Development
9 4 (4.17%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
9 4 (4.17%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (4.17%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (18.75%) Java
2 14 (14.58%) TypeScript
3 9 (9.38%) Python
4 8 (8.33%) C++
5 7 (7.29%) PHP
6 6 (6.25%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.21%) C
8 4 (4.17%) MATLAB
9 3 (3.13%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.08%) SQL
11 1 (1.04%) Bash
11 1 (1.04%) C#
11 1 (1.04%) Fortran
11 1 (1.04%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.04%) Perl
11 1 (1.04%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (7.29%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.25%) Degree
3 5 (5.21%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.13%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.17%) MISRA
1 4 (4.17%) MISRA C
2 1 (1.04%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.04%) QA
2 1 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.04%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.13%) Terraform
3 2 (2.08%) Ansible
4 1 (1.04%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (4.17%) Atlassian
2 3 (3.13%) Oracle
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft