Software Engineering Contracts in England

Software Engineering
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 40 40
Rank change year-on-year +12 0 -5
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 2,201 2,369 4,024
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.96% 5.04% 5.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.96% 5.61% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,271 1,614 2,854
10th Percentile £419 £438 £435
25th Percentile £493 £506 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £700
90th Percentile £850 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 196 186
10th Percentile £46.25 £46.25 £39.08
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.85 £48.21
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% +21.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.50 £69.29
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% +22.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,636 42,259 64,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.61% 89.98% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,577 29,660 45,742
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,328 1,505 1,722
10th Percentile £12.82 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +46.16% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.64%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in England

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in England

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in England over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in England

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in England

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineering in England over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in England

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 5 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
London +6 1,113 £650 - 878
North of England +42 263 £525 -4.55% 315
South East +25 263 £545 +3.81% 293
East of England +11 203 £500 -6.89% 156
South West -3 184 £525 -8.70% 228
North West +52 156 £540 -1.82% 205
Midlands +43 99 £492 -6.38% 239
Yorkshire +15 72 £450 -10.00% 78
West Midlands +33 70 £475 -15.56% 118
North East +24 38 £390 -44.29% 36
East Midlands +18 28 £550 +29.41% 120
Software Engineering
UK

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 236 (10.72%) Apache Airflow
2 230 (10.45%) Apache
3 55 (2.50%) Confluence
4 25 (1.14%) Apache Spark
5 15 (0.68%) CMS
6 10 (0.45%) nginx
7 8 (0.36%) IIS
8 7 (0.32%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.27%) SAS
10 5 (0.23%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
11 4 (0.18%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.14%) JBoss
12 3 (0.14%) SharePoint
13 2 (0.091%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.091%) CICS
13 2 (0.091%) Drupal
13 2 (0.091%) MQSeries
13 2 (0.091%) WildFly
Applications
1 111 (5.04%) Chatbot
2 37 (1.68%) Simulink
3 27 (1.23%) Stateflow
4 10 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
5 9 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.23%) TargetLink
7 3 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
7 3 (0.14%) Blender
7 3 (0.14%) Maya
7 3 (0.14%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.091%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.045%) CATIA
9 1 (0.045%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.045%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (0.50%) Misys Midas
2 6 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.23%) Endur
3 5 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
5 3 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.091%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.091%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.091%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.091%) Shopify
6 2 (0.091%) WebTrends
7 1 (0.045%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.045%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.045%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.045%) Front Arena
7 1 (0.045%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.045%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.045%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 653 (29.67%) AWS
2 473 (21.49%) Azure
3 286 (12.99%) GCP
4 140 (6.36%) dbt
5 133 (6.04%) Snowflake
6 95 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
7 89 (4.04%) Serverless
8 88 (4.00%) GitHub
9 55 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
10 44 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
11 35 (1.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 34 (1.54%) Amazon S3
13 29 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
14 27 (1.23%) OpenShift
15 26 (1.18%) PaaS
16 23 (1.04%) npm
17 21 (0.95%) Azure Functions
17 21 (0.95%) Azure Logic Apps
17 21 (0.95%) Entra ID
18 20 (0.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 38 (1.73%) RS-485
2 35 (1.59%) Modbus
2 35 (1.59%) RS-422
3 30 (1.36%) Software-Defined Radio
4 26 (1.18%) TCP/IP
5 21 (0.95%) HTTP
5 21 (0.95%) SNMP
6 20 (0.91%) Firewall
7 16 (0.73%) VPN
8 15 (0.68%) Internet
9 11 (0.50%) Ethernet
9 11 (0.50%) SAN
9 11 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (0.50%) Wireless
10 9 (0.41%) DNS
11 7 (0.32%) Tactical Data Link
12 6 (0.27%) 5G
12 6 (0.27%) 802.11
12 6 (0.27%) AMQP
12 6 (0.27%) Link 16
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (9.45%) Apache Ignite
2 139 (6.32%) Amazon Athena
2 139 (6.32%) Dremio
3 138 (6.27%) PostgreSQL
4 136 (6.18%) Apache Arrow
5 130 (5.91%) Data Lake
6 80 (3.63%) SQL Server
7 77 (3.50%) NoSQL
8 59 (2.68%) MySQL
9 53 (2.41%) Apache Cassandra
10 39 (1.77%) Relational Database
11 37 (1.68%) MongoDB
12 28 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
13 27 (1.23%) Oracle Database
14 26 (1.18%) Big Data
14 26 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
15 24 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
15 24 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
16 20 (0.91%) DynamoDB
17 18 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 231 (10.50%) Git
2 160 (7.27%) JIRA
3 134 (6.09%) Jenkins
4 94 (4.27%) Cypress.io
5 56 (2.54%) GitLab
6 41 (1.86%) GoogleTest
7 40 (1.82%) Selenium
7 40 (1.82%) SonarQube
8 38 (1.73%) Visual Studio
9 37 (1.68%) Bitbucket
10 35 (1.59%) Postman
11 32 (1.45%) Cucumber
11 32 (1.45%) Eclipse
12 29 (1.32%) Rational DOORS
13 23 (1.04%) Maven
14 21 (0.95%) JUnit
14 21 (0.95%) REST Assured
15 18 (0.82%) Artifactory
15 18 (0.82%) JMeter
15 18 (0.82%) Robot Framework
General
1 543 (24.67%) Finance
2 360 (16.36%) Social Skills
3 337 (15.31%) Front Office
4 310 (14.08%) Banking
5 148 (6.72%) Investment Banking
6 90 (4.09%) Analytical Skills
7 85 (3.86%) Electronics
7 85 (3.86%) Public Sector
8 81 (3.68%) Aerospace
9 60 (2.73%) Automotive
10 39 (1.77%) Retail
11 34 (1.54%) Manufacturing
12 32 (1.45%) Telecoms
13 29 (1.32%) Law
13 29 (1.32%) Legal
14 28 (1.27%) Marketing
14 28 (1.27%) Military
15 27 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
16 23 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 14 (0.64%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,111 (50.48%) Software Engineer
2 689 (31.30%) Developer
3 387 (17.58%) Senior
4 216 (9.81%) Senior Software Engineer
5 202 (9.18%) Software Developer
6 179 (8.13%) Python Engineer
7 168 (7.63%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 166 (7.54%) Python Software Engineer
9 165 (7.50%) Python Developer
10 158 (7.18%) Lead
11 150 (6.82%) Java Engineer
12 130 (5.91%) Embedded Engineer
13 126 (5.72%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 115 (5.22%) Java Software Engineer
15 113 (5.13%) C++ Software Engineer
16 101 (4.59%) Senior Developer
17 98 (4.45%) React Developer
18 90 (4.09%) Architect
19 89 (4.04%) Java Developer
20 85 (3.86%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 362 (16.45%) React
2 233 (10.59%) gRPC
3 225 (10.22%) HTML
4 224 (10.18%) .NET
5 217 (9.86%) Protocol Buffers
6 173 (7.86%) Pandas
7 167 (7.59%) NumPy
8 149 (6.77%) Node.js
9 147 (6.68%) SciPy
10 141 (6.41%) Redux
11 136 (6.18%) Kafka
12 130 (5.91%) REST
13 113 (5.13%) CSS
14 109 (4.95%) AngularJS
15 89 (4.04%) Material-UI
16 80 (3.63%) Spring
17 78 (3.54%) .NET Core
18 67 (3.04%) Spring Boot
19 65 (2.95%) Web Services
20 61 (2.77%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 275 (12.49%) Fixed Income
2 228 (10.36%) Hedge funds
3 206 (9.36%) Equities
4 186 (8.45%) Derivative
4 186 (8.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 71 (3.23%) Algorithms
6 63 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
7 46 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
8 42 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
9 33 (1.50%) Management Information System
10 32 (1.45%) Cloud Native
11 31 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
12 29 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
12 29 (1.32%) Product Ownership
13 25 (1.14%) ARM Cortex
14 22 (1.00%) Data Structures
15 21 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
15 21 (0.95%) Mobile App
16 20 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
17 19 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 230 (10.45%) Linux
2 96 (4.36%) Windows
3 39 (1.77%) Apple iOS
4 34 (1.54%) Android
5 26 (1.18%) FreeRTOS
6 20 (0.91%) Unix
7 9 (0.41%) Debian
7 9 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
7 9 (0.41%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.18%) SafeRTOS
9 4 (0.18%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.091%) VMS
10 2 (0.091%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.091%) zOS
11 1 (0.045%) CentOS
11 1 (0.045%) Solaris
11 1 (0.045%) VxWorks
11 1 (0.045%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 882 (40.07%) Agile
2 440 (19.99%) DevOps
3 330 (14.99%) CI/CD
4 272 (12.36%) Asset Management
5 247 (11.22%) Artificial Intelligence
6 245 (11.13%) Full Stack Development
7 219 (9.95%) TDD
8 214 (9.72%) Investment Management
9 207 (9.40%) Scrum
10 194 (8.81%) SDLC
11 186 (8.45%) Computer Science
12 185 (8.41%) Problem-Solving
13 184 (8.36%) Test Automation
14 181 (8.22%) Code Quality
15 180 (8.18%) Continuous Integration
16 168 (7.63%) Microservices
17 154 (7.00%) Fintech
18 144 (6.54%) Machine Learning
19 137 (6.22%) Analytics
20 136 (6.18%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 731 (33.21%) Python
2 579 (26.31%) JavaScript
3 578 (26.26%) Java
4 485 (22.04%) C#
5 423 (19.22%) SQL
6 415 (18.86%) TypeScript
7 284 (12.90%) C++
8 219 (9.95%) C
9 107 (4.86%) Go
10 76 (3.45%) PowerShell
11 56 (2.54%) Embedded C
12 43 (1.95%) MATLAB
13 39 (1.77%) Scala
14 38 (1.73%) Rust
15 36 (1.64%) Ada
16 35 (1.59%) Kotlin
17 32 (1.45%) Bash
17 32 (1.45%) PL/SQL
18 28 (1.27%) T-SQL
19 26 (1.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 366 (16.63%) Degree
2 328 (14.90%) Security Cleared
3 231 (10.50%) SC Cleared
4 104 (4.73%) DV Cleared
5 102 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 69 (3.13%) Master's Degree
7 19 (0.86%) PhD
8 8 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (0.36%) CISSP
9 7 (0.32%) CISM
10 6 (0.27%) CISA
11 3 (0.14%) HND
11 3 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.091%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.091%) HNC
12 2 (0.091%) MBA
12 2 (0.091%) PgMP
12 2 (0.091%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.091%) PMP
13 1 (0.045%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (4.00%) QA
2 63 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 34 (1.54%) MISRA
4 20 (0.91%) PCI DSS
5 14 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.59%) Accessibility
7 12 (0.55%) AUTOSAR
8 10 (0.45%) MISRA C
9 8 (0.36%) ISO 9001
10 6 (0.27%) JTAG
11 5 (0.23%) ISO 26262
11 5 (0.23%) SEPA
12 4 (0.18%) GDPR
12 4 (0.18%) NIST
12 4 (0.18%) WCAG
13 3 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.14%) IEC 61508
13 3 (0.14%) MiFID
13 3 (0.14%) SLA
14 2 (0.091%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 200 (9.09%) Docker
2 31 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.32%) Firmware
4 12 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.27%) VirtualBox
6 5 (0.23%) ACF2
6 5 (0.23%) IAG
6 5 (0.23%) RACF
6 5 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.14%) zsh
9 2 (0.091%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.045%) NFS
Systems Management
1 233 (10.59%) Kubernetes
2 99 (4.50%) Terraform
3 64 (2.91%) Ansible
4 53 (2.41%) Grafana
5 26 (1.18%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.73%) Argo
7 15 (0.68%) Podman
8 14 (0.64%) Kibana
9 10 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
9 10 (0.45%) Istio
10 6 (0.27%) Functional Safety
10 6 (0.27%) Puppet
11 5 (0.23%) Kubeflow
11 5 (0.23%) Packer
12 4 (0.18%) HP ALM
12 4 (0.18%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.18%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 3 (0.14%) Consul
14 2 (0.091%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 150 (6.82%) Microsoft
2 140 (6.36%) Google
3 110 (5.00%) PayPal
4 104 (4.73%) Oracle
5 44 (2.00%) IBM
6 30 (1.36%) SAP
7 28 (1.27%) Databricks
8 26 (1.18%) Atlassian
9 24 (1.09%) Lauterbach
9 24 (1.09%) Talend
10 23 (1.04%) Red Hat
11 21 (0.95%) VMware
12 18 (0.82%) Salesforce
13 17 (0.77%) Bloomberg
13 17 (0.77%) Denodo
14 13 (0.59%) MuleSoft
14 13 (0.59%) ServiceNow
15 12 (0.55%) Splunk
16 10 (0.45%) Virgin Media
17 9 (0.41%) Adobe