The first table below looks at the demand for Software Engineering skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Engineering over the 3 months to 20 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineering
Rank 27 46 31
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -15
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 12 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 3.571% 0.723% 0.823%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.417% 1.351% 1.429%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £440 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £335 £330
% change year-on-year
-2.98% +1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
Average hourly rate £40.00 - £35.75
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.70 - £32.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 - £39.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.50 £36.25 £33.75
% change year-on-year
+6.20% +7.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
187 222 140
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 55.65% 53.49% 57.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 109 85
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £274 £267
10% offered a daily rate of more than £429 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 19 19
Average hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +34.92%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.75 £37.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £57.20 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Software Engineering
Cambridgeshire

Software Engineering
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Software Engineering across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Cambridge Software Engineering Jobs Demand Trend

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Software Engineering Daily Rate Trend

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Software Engineering Hourly Rate Trend

Software Engineering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing Software Engineering also 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 that cited Software Engineering.

1 9 (64.29%) C
2 6 (42.86%) C++
2 6 (42.86%) Oracle
2 6 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 6 (42.86%) Windows
2 6 (42.86%) Linux
3 5 (35.71%) IIS
3 5 (35.71%) Embedded C
3 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
3 5 (35.71%) WebSphere
4 4 (28.57%) LTE
4 4 (28.57%) Digital Signal Processing
4 4 (28.57%) Signal Processing
4 4 (28.57%) MATLAB
4 4 (28.57%) Embedded C++
4 4 (28.57%) 3GPP
4 4 (28.57%) Wireless
4 4 (28.57%) UNIX
5 3 (21.43%) SQL
5 3 (21.43%) Mac OS
6 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
6 2 (14.29%) ITIL
6 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
6 2 (14.29%) GAMP
7 1 (7.143%) Microsoft
7 1 (7.143%) Automated Testing
7 1 (7.143%) Software Testing
7 1 (7.143%) Requirements Analysis
7 1 (7.143%) T-SQL
7 1 (7.143%) .NET

Software Engineering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing Software Engineering also 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 that cited Software Engineering. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (35.71%) WebSphere
2 1 (7.143%) HTML
2 1 (7.143%) .NET
2 1 (7.143%) STL
Application Platforms
1 5 (35.71%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) 3GPP
1 4 (28.57%) Wireless
1 4 (28.57%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.143%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (7.143%) Visual Studio
1 1 (7.143%) GCC
1 1 (7.143%) GDB
General
1 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) DSP Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Developer
3 1 (7.143%) .NET Developer
3 1 (7.143%) C# Developer
3 1 (7.143%) Technical Writer
3 1 (7.143%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (7.143%) Automated Tester
3 1 (7.143%) Tester
3 1 (7.143%) Author
3 1 (7.143%) Technical Author
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.143%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Windows
1 6 (42.86%) Linux
2 4 (28.57%) UNIX
3 3 (21.43%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Digital Signal Processing
1 4 (28.57%) Signal Processing
2 2 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (7.143%) OO
3 1 (7.143%) OOD
3 1 (7.143%) Automated Testing
3 1 (7.143%) Software Testing
3 1 (7.143%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) C
2 6 (42.86%) C++
3 5 (35.71%) Embedded C
4 4 (28.57%) Embedded C++
4 4 (28.57%) MATLAB
5 3 (21.43%) SQL
6 1 (7.143%) T-SQL
6 1 (7.143%) VC++
6 1 (7.143%) Python
6 1 (7.143%) PL/SQL
6 1 (7.143%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) GAMP
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Oracle
2 1 (7.143%) Microsoft