Software Developer Contracts in Cambridgeshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 Cambridgeshire 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Developer
Rank 45 44 44
Rank change year-on-year
-1 0
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 7 20 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 1.296% 2.911% 1.487%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.431% 3.049% 1.563%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 1
Average daily rate £285 £348 £240
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.98% +44.79%
UK excluding London average daily rate £316 £300 £298
% change year-on-year
+5.41% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 1
Average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £50.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -4.10%
All Job Titles
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 489 656 512
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 90.56% 95.49% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 313 243
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £225 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £463 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 80 91
Average hourly rate £25.00 £22.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.63% +62.96%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £10.50 £11.38
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £50.00 £34.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Software Developer
East of England

Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Software Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Software Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Software Developer Daily Rate Trend

Software Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Software Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Software Developer
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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridge +4 7 £285 -18.57%
Software Developer
East of England

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 7 (53.85%) C#
2 5 (38.46%) C++
2 5 (38.46%) Visual Studio
2 5 (38.46%) Data Modelling
2 5 (38.46%) MVVM
3 4 (30.77%) HTML5
3 4 (30.77%) HTML
3 4 (30.77%) .NET
3 4 (30.77%) Linux
4 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
4 3 (23.08%) SQL
4 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 3 (23.08%) C
5 2 (15.38%) Windows
5 2 (15.38%) Bluetooth
5 2 (15.38%) Symbian
5 2 (15.38%) PHP
5 2 (15.38%) OO
5 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
5 2 (15.38%) MS Excel
5 2 (15.38%) Project Management
5 2 (15.38%) QNX
5 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
5 2 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (15.38%) Device Driver
5 2 (15.38%) Handset
5 2 (15.38%) Embedded Software Development
5 2 (15.38%) QA
5 2 (15.38%) Windows Mobile
5 2 (15.38%) Android

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 4 (30.77%) HTML5
1 4 (30.77%) HTML
1 4 (30.77%) .NET
2 1 (7.692%) WCF
2 1 (7.692%) WinForms
2 1 (7.692%) CSS
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Bluetooth
1 2 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (7.692%) SAN
2 1 (7.692%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Visual Studio
2 1 (7.692%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (7.692%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
1 2 (15.38%) Device Driver
1 2 (15.38%) Handset
2 1 (7.692%) Machine Learning
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Mobile
2 2 (15.38%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Data Modelling
1 5 (38.46%) MVVM
2 2 (15.38%) OO
2 2 (15.38%) Project Management
2 2 (15.38%) Embedded Software Development
3 1 (7.692%) Manual Testing
3 1 (7.692%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (7.692%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) C#
2 5 (38.46%) C++
3 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 3 (23.08%) C
4 2 (15.38%) PHP
5 1 (7.692%) Bash shell
5 1 (7.692%) Python
5 1 (7.692%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Symbian
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
1 2 (15.38%) QNX
2 1 (7.692%) Facebook
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