Software Engineering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 27 49 46
Rank change year-on-year +22 -3 -5
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 1,166 951 1,416
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.53% 4.19% 4.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.67% 4.70% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 550 766
10th Percentile £358 £406 £413
25th Percentile £418 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £532
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +2.40% +14.46%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 391 172 153
10th Percentile £46.25 £46.95 £44.78
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.75 £51.25
Median hourly rate £64.04 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +8.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.08 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.00 £69.61
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% +21.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,473 20,238 27,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.84% 89.10% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,285 13,877 19,070
10th Percentile £250 £260 £245
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £585
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,170 1,255 1,342
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.68 £12.48
25th Percentile £15.40 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £74.92 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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 of England +47 270 £518 -5.91% 311
South East +26 270 £548 +4.29% 313
East of England +11 206 £500 -9.09% 172
South West -5 188 £525 -9.33% 235
North West +54 162 £533 -3.18% 200
Midlands +51 107 £475 -9.52% 243
Scotland +29 107 £475 -5.94% 140
West Midlands +38 77 £463 -20.60% 121
Yorkshire +9 72 £450 -10.00% 80
North East +25 39 £390 -44.29% 34
East Midlands +21 29 £550 +29.41% 121
Wales +5 16 £513 -12.54% 27
Northern Ireland +3 4 £675 +68.75% 34
Software Engineering
UK

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 29 (2.49%) Confluence
2 15 (1.29%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.11%) Apache
4 12 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.17%) CICS
5 2 (0.17%) Drupal
5 2 (0.17%) SAS
6 1 (0.086%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.086%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.086%) JBoss
6 1 (0.086%) MetaMask
6 1 (0.086%) MTS
6 1 (0.086%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.086%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.086%) WebSphere
Applications
1 108 (9.26%) Chatbot
2 31 (2.66%) Simulink
3 21 (1.80%) Stateflow
4 5 (0.43%) TargetLink
5 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.26%) Adobe After Effects
6 3 (0.26%) Blender
6 3 (0.26%) Maya
6 3 (0.26%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
8 1 (0.086%) CATIA
8 1 (0.086%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.086%) Sketch
8 1 (0.086%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (1.20%) Misys Midas
2 4 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.086%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.086%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 156 (13.38%) AWS
2 98 (8.40%) Azure
3 50 (4.29%) GitHub
4 32 (2.74%) Serverless
5 30 (2.57%) GCP
6 29 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (1.54%) OpenShift
9 13 (1.11%) Amazon S3
10 12 (1.03%) npm
11 7 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (0.60%) Power Platform
12 6 (0.51%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (0.51%) BrowserStack
12 6 (0.51%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (0.51%) Snowflake
13 5 (0.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (0.43%) Amazon EMR
13 5 (0.43%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (0.43%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.26%) RS-485
2 37 (3.17%) Modbus
3 34 (2.92%) RS-422
4 33 (2.83%) Software-Defined Radio
5 24 (2.06%) TCP/IP
6 22 (1.89%) SNMP
7 15 (1.29%) HTTP
8 13 (1.11%) Firewall
9 12 (1.03%) VPN
10 11 (0.94%) Ethernet
10 11 (0.94%) SAN
10 11 (0.94%) Wireless
11 8 (0.69%) Internet
11 8 (0.69%) Tactical Data Link
12 7 (0.60%) Link 16
12 7 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (0.51%) 802.11
14 5 (0.43%) FTP
14 5 (0.43%) J1939
15 4 (0.34%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (3.52%) MySQL
3 23 (1.97%) Amazon Redshift
4 18 (1.54%) NoSQL
5 17 (1.46%) Big Data
5 17 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
5 17 (1.46%) Relational Database
6 15 (1.29%) MongoDB
7 13 (1.11%) Oracle Database
8 11 (0.94%) Oracle Database 11g
8 11 (0.94%) SQL Server
9 7 (0.60%) SQLite
10 6 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.34%) Couchbase
12 4 (0.34%) Parquet
13 3 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.26%) CockroachDB
13 3 (0.26%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 138 (11.84%) Git
2 107 (9.18%) JIRA
3 83 (7.12%) Jenkins
4 43 (3.69%) GoogleTest
5 34 (2.92%) Bitbucket
5 34 (2.92%) Eclipse
6 33 (2.83%) SonarQube
7 29 (2.49%) Cucumber
7 29 (2.49%) Rational DOORS
8 28 (2.40%) GitLab
9 25 (2.14%) Selenium
9 25 (2.14%) Visual Studio
10 24 (2.06%) Cypress.io
11 21 (1.80%) REST Assured
12 19 (1.63%) Robot Framework
13 15 (1.29%) Rational Rhapsody
14 14 (1.20%) JUnit
15 13 (1.11%) Artifactory
16 12 (1.03%) Subversion
17 6 (0.51%) ClearCase
General
1 165 (14.15%) Social Skills
2 89 (7.63%) Electronics
3 83 (7.12%) Aerospace
4 57 (4.89%) Public Sector
5 52 (4.46%) Automotive
5 52 (4.46%) Finance
6 33 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
7 30 (2.57%) Manufacturing
8 29 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 29 (2.49%) Military
9 27 (2.32%) Law
10 25 (2.14%) Telecoms
11 21 (1.80%) Legal
12 13 (1.11%) Police
12 13 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (0.94%) Aviation
14 10 (0.86%) Financial Institution
15 8 (0.69%) Banking
16 7 (0.60%) Billing
17 6 (0.51%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 621 (53.26%) Software Engineer
2 282 (24.19%) Developer
3 142 (12.18%) Embedded Engineer
4 138 (11.84%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 132 (11.32%) Software Developer
6 110 (9.43%) C++ Software Engineer
7 108 (9.26%) Senior
8 84 (7.20%) Java Engineer
9 73 (6.26%) Senior Software Engineer
10 63 (5.40%) Java Developer
11 52 (4.46%) Lead
12 51 (4.37%) Java Software Engineer
13 43 (3.69%) Full Stack Engineer
14 38 (3.26%) Ada Engineer
14 38 (3.26%) Ada Software Engineer
15 30 (2.57%) DevOps Engineer
15 30 (2.57%) Principal Engineer
16 26 (2.23%) C# Software Engineer
17 25 (2.14%) Principal Software Engineer
17 25 (2.14%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (14.58%) HTML
2 94 (8.06%) React
3 60 (5.15%) CSS
3 60 (5.15%) REST
4 54 (4.63%) Node.js
5 53 (4.55%) Spring
6 46 (3.95%) RESTful
7 44 (3.77%) AngularJS
8 42 (3.60%) .NET
8 42 (3.60%) Spring Boot
9 29 (2.49%) Kafka
10 25 (2.14%) Web Services
11 24 (2.06%) XML
12 23 (1.97%) Java EE
12 23 (1.97%) Qt
13 18 (1.54%) .NET Framework
14 17 (1.46%) JPA
15 16 (1.37%) JSON
16 15 (1.29%) .NET Core
16 15 (1.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 41 (3.52%) Algorithms
2 39 (3.34%) Self-Motivation
3 25 (2.14%) ARM Cortex
4 23 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 22 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
6 21 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (1.54%) Cloud Native
8 17 (1.46%) Data Structures
9 15 (1.29%) Management Information System
10 14 (1.20%) Product Ownership
11 12 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.03%) IoT
12 11 (0.94%) Embedded Systems
13 8 (0.69%) CCTV
13 8 (0.69%) Device Driver
13 8 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (0.69%) Public Cloud
14 6 (0.51%) Blockchain
14 6 (0.51%) PCIe
15 5 (0.43%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 200 (17.15%) Linux
2 63 (5.40%) Windows
3 27 (2.32%) FreeRTOS
4 18 (1.54%) Embedded Linux
5 10 (0.86%) Unix
6 9 (0.77%) Debian
6 9 (0.77%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.60%) Android
7 7 (0.60%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.43%) VxWorks
9 4 (0.34%) SafeRTOS
10 3 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.26%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.17%) zOS
12 1 (0.086%) CentOS
12 1 (0.086%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (33.88%) Agile
2 225 (19.30%) DevOps
3 169 (14.49%) CI/CD
4 151 (12.95%) Artificial Intelligence
5 138 (11.84%) Code Quality
6 137 (11.75%) Continuous Integration
7 123 (10.55%) Scrum
8 112 (9.61%) Test Automation
9 108 (9.26%) Conversational UI
10 101 (8.66%) Problem-Solving
11 99 (8.49%) SDLC
12 93 (7.98%) Computer Science
13 88 (7.55%) Unit Testing
14 86 (7.38%) Validation
15 83 (7.12%) TDD
16 81 (6.95%) Configuration Management
16 81 (6.95%) Software Testing
17 79 (6.78%) Full Stack Development
18 75 (6.43%) Microservices
19 58 (4.97%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 275 (23.58%) Python
2 238 (20.41%) C#
3 236 (20.24%) Java
4 232 (19.90%) C++
5 220 (18.87%) JavaScript
6 202 (17.32%) C
7 189 (16.21%) SQL
8 82 (7.03%) TypeScript
9 62 (5.32%) Embedded C
10 39 (3.34%) Ada
11 36 (3.09%) MATLAB
12 25 (2.14%) Bash
12 25 (2.14%) Scala
13 23 (1.97%) PL/SQL
14 21 (1.80%) PowerShell
15 17 (1.46%) Perl
16 13 (1.11%) Kotlin
16 13 (1.11%) PHP
17 11 (0.94%) Rust
18 10 (0.86%) Go
Qualifications
1 264 (22.64%) Security Cleared
2 218 (18.70%) Degree
3 192 (16.47%) SC Cleared
4 76 (6.52%) DV Cleared
5 51 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 35 (3.00%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.29%) PhD
8 3 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.17%) HND
10 1 (0.086%) CESG Certified Professional
10 1 (0.086%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.086%) CISM
10 1 (0.086%) CISSP
10 1 (0.086%) CLAS
10 1 (0.086%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (3.26%) MISRA
2 34 (2.92%) QA
3 14 (1.20%) MISRA C
4 12 (1.03%) AUTOSAR
5 11 (0.94%) Accessibility
5 11 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.69%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.69%) ISO 9001
7 5 (0.43%) ISO 26262
7 5 (0.43%) JTAG
8 4 (0.34%) GDPR
9 3 (0.26%) IEC 61508
9 3 (0.26%) NIST
9 3 (0.26%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.086%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.086%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.086%) DO-254
10 1 (0.086%) HL7
10 1 (0.086%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.086%) WCAG
System Software
1 59 (5.06%) Docker
2 36 (3.09%) Firmware
3 6 (0.51%) VirtualBox
3 6 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.26%) zsh
7 2 (0.17%) Active Directory
8 1 (0.086%) NFS
Systems Management
1 79 (6.78%) Kubernetes
2 50 (4.29%) Grafana
3 45 (3.86%) Ansible
4 37 (3.17%) Terraform
5 21 (1.80%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.03%) Kibana
7 10 (0.86%) Argo
7 10 (0.86%) Docker Swarm
7 10 (0.86%) Istio
8 9 (0.77%) Podman
9 6 (0.51%) Functional Safety
10 4 (0.34%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.34%) Zipkin
11 3 (0.26%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.17%) Puppet
13 1 (0.086%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 108 (9.26%) PayPal
2 68 (5.83%) Microsoft
3 56 (4.80%) Google
4 39 (3.34%) IBM
5 29 (2.49%) Atlassian
6 28 (2.40%) Oracle
6 28 (2.40%) Talend
7 25 (2.14%) Lauterbach
8 23 (1.97%) Denodo
9 18 (1.54%) Red Hat
10 15 (1.29%) VMware
11 7 (0.60%) Avaloq
11 7 (0.60%) SAP
12 5 (0.43%) Informatica
12 5 (0.43%) NVIDIA
13 4 (0.34%) Adobe
13 4 (0.34%) CA Agile Central
13 4 (0.34%) HP
13 4 (0.34%) Intel
13 4 (0.34%) Sparx