Buckinghamshire Software Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT contracts within the Buckinghamshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Software Developer
Location Aberdeen Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Clapham Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Doncaster Dorset Dumbarton East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Flintshire Gateshead Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hove Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West Northern Ireland Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Portsmouth Potters Bar Queensferry Reading Scotland Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire Waterlooville West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	69	81
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	11	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	1.029 %	1.084 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£150	£255
Average daily rate	£185	£255
% change on same period last year	-27.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£220	£255
UK excluding London average daily rate	£284	£315
% change on same period last year	-9.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£50.00
Average hourly rate	-	£50.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.27	£33.93
% change on same period last year	-4.88 %
Job Titles Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1069	1568
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.493 %	1.575 %
Daily rates quoted	337	386
Average minimum daily rate	£301	£300
Average daily rate	£321	£315
% change on same period last year	+1.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£342	£331
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	131	235
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.91	£24.97
Average hourly rate	£21.02	£25.88
% change on same period last year	-18.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.14	£26.79
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.74	£25.24
% change on same period last year	-5.93 %
Software Developer South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Software Developer across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Software Developer across the Buckinghamshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Developer across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Software Developer across the Buckinghamshire region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Developer within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Milton Keynes	+3	2	-	-

Software Developer South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited Software Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Software Developer in their job title.

1 16 (61.54 %) SQL 2 14 (53.85 %) HTML 2 14 (53.85 %) JavaScript 2 14 (53.85 %) .NET 3 13 (50.00 %) SQL Server 3 13 (50.00 %) C# 4 12 (46.15 %) ASP.NET 4 12 (46.15 %) Windows 4 12 (46.15 %) OOD 5 10 (38.46 %) Workflow 5 10 (38.46 %) AJAX 5 10 (38.46 %) Transact-SQL 6 5 (19.23 %) C++ 6 5 (19.23 %) C 7 4 (15.38 %) WinForms

7 4 (15.38 %) ASP 7 4 (15.38 %) PHP 7 4 (15.38 %) Embedded C 8 3 (11.54 %) Firmware 8 3 (11.54 %) Bluetooth 8 3 (11.54 %) Java 8 3 (11.54 %) VB.NET 8 3 (11.54 %) Wireless 9 2 (7.692 %) Software Testing 9 2 (7.692 %) SC Cleared 9 2 (7.692 %) DV Cleared 9 2 (7.692 %) Security Cleared 9 2 (7.692 %) Government 9 2 (7.692 %) VBA 9 2 (7.692 %) MFC

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited Software Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Software Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 14 (53.85 %) HTML 1 14 (53.85 %) .NET 2 12 (46.15 %) ASP.NET 3 10 (38.46 %) AJAX 4 4 (15.38 %) WinForms 4 4 (15.38 %) ASP 5 2 (7.692 %) MFC 5 2 (7.692 %) CSS 5 2 (7.692 %) SOAP 5 2 (7.692 %) WebServices 6 1 (3.846 %) XML 6 1 (3.846 %) Java RMI 6 1 (3.846 %) JCE 6 1 (3.846 %) JNI 6 1 (3.846 %) JSP 6 1 (3.846 %) Servlets 6 1 (3.846 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.846 %) ArcGIS
Communications & Networking 1 3 (11.54 %) Bluetooth 1 3 (11.54 %) Wireless 2 1 (3.846 %) ZigBee 2 1 (3.846 %) WLAN 2 1 (3.846 %) Wi-Fi	Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2 2 (7.692 %) MySQL 3 1 (3.846 %) GIS
General 1 2 (7.692 %) Government 2 1 (3.846 %) Finance	Miscellaneous 1 3 (11.54 %) Firmware
Operating Systems 1 12 (46.15 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (46.15 %) OOD 2 10 (38.46 %) Workflow 3 2 (7.692 %) UML 3 2 (7.692 %) OO 3 2 (7.692 %) SSADM 3 2 (7.692 %) Software Testing 3 2 (7.692 %) SC Cleared 3 2 (7.692 %) DV Cleared 3 2 (7.692 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (3.846 %) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages 1 16 (61.54 %) SQL 2 14 (53.85 %) JavaScript 3 13 (50.00 %) C# 4 10 (38.46 %) Transact-SQL 5 5 (19.23 %) C++ 5 5 (19.23 %) C 6 4 (15.38 %) Embedded C 6 4 (15.38 %) PHP 7 3 (11.54 %) Java 7 3 (11.54 %) VB.NET 8 2 (7.692 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 1 (3.846 %) Degree
Vendors 1 2 (7.692 %) Oracle 2 1 (3.846 %) Microsoft