The first table below looks at the demand for the Development Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Development Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Cambridge region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Development Engineer
Rank 27 46 30
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Development Engineer 9 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 2.736% 0.472% 1.563%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.051% 0.500% 1.600%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
Average daily rate £263 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £263 £305 £363
% change year-on-year
-13.93% -15.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £42.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £37.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year
-4.05% -4.51%
All Job Titles
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
295 400 250
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 89.67% 94.34% 97.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 199 132
Average daily rate £350 £313 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £200 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 56 45
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +159.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £10.33 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.50 £52.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Development Engineer
Cambridgeshire

Development Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Development Engineer across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Cambridge Development Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Development Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Development Engineer across the Cambridge region.

Cambridge Development Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Development Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Development Engineer across the Cambridge region.

Cambridge Development Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Development Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region that cited Development Engineer 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 Development Engineer in their job title.

1 6 (42.86%) PhD
1 6 (42.86%) 3GPP
1 6 (42.86%) UMTS
1 6 (42.86%) 3G
1 6 (42.86%) Wireless
1 6 (42.86%) WiMAX
1 6 (42.86%) Degree
1 6 (42.86%) LTE
1 6 (42.86%) 4G
2 5 (35.71%) SQL
3 4 (28.57%) C#
3 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 4 (28.57%) Games
3 4 (28.57%) Machine Learning
3 4 (28.57%) Facebook
4 3 (21.43%) LabVIEW
4 3 (21.43%) Electronics
5 2 (14.29%) C++
5 2 (14.29%) MATLAB
5 2 (14.29%) Simulink
5 2 (14.29%) .NET
5 2 (14.29%) Multithreading
6 1 (7.143%) Perforce
6 1 (7.143%) Software Testing
6 1 (7.143%) Streaming Media
6 1 (7.143%) QA
6 1 (7.143%) Test Management
6 1 (7.143%) JIRA
6 1 (7.143%) XML
6 1 (7.143%) UNIX

Development Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region that cited Development Engineer 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 Development Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (7.143%) XML
2 1 (7.143%) HTML
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) 3GPP
1 6 (42.86%) UMTS
1 6 (42.86%) 3G
1 6 (42.86%) Wireless
1 6 (42.86%) WiMAX
1 6 (42.86%) LTE
1 6 (42.86%) 4G
2 1 (7.143%) Internet
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) LabVIEW
2 1 (7.143%) JIRA
General
1 4 (28.57%) Games
2 3 (21.43%) Electronics
3 1 (7.143%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
1 4 (28.57%) Machine Learning
2 1 (7.143%) Streaming Media
2 1 (7.143%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.143%) UNIX
1 1 (7.143%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (14.29%) Multithreading
2 1 (7.143%) Software Testing
2 1 (7.143%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) C#
3 2 (14.29%) C++
3 2 (14.29%) MATLAB
4 1 (7.143%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) PhD
1 6 (42.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.143%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Facebook
2 1 (7.143%) Perforce