Software Engineer Contracts in Cheshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software 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 Cheshire 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
Software Engineer
Rank 52 59 67
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 11 4 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.519% 0.501% 0.516%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.667% 0.549% 0.567%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 5
Average daily rate £338 £288 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.39% -20.13%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £268 £208 £354
10% offered a daily rate of more than £368 £338 £365
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £310 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.83% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year
- +3.44%
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Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 660 729 882
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 91.16% 91.24% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 375 482
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £488 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 21 35
Average hourly rate £39.00 £22.41 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+74.02% +44.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £34.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Software Engineer
North West

Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheshire Software Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire Software Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Software Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Warrington 0 5 £294 +56.66%
Chester -2 4 £375 +17.64%
Crewe - 2 - -
Macclesfield - 2 - -
Software Engineer
North West

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 5 (45.45%) C#
1 5 (45.45%) .NET
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
1 5 (45.45%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (36.36%) Subversion
2 4 (36.36%) IBM
2 4 (36.36%) Oracle
2 4 (36.36%) SharePoint
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) Java
2 4 (36.36%) ASP.NET
2 4 (36.36%) WebSphere
2 4 (36.36%) .NET Framework
2 4 (36.36%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (27.27%) Feature Driven Development
3 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (27.27%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (27.27%) Java EE
3 3 (27.27%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (27.27%) Windows SharePoint Services
3 3 (27.27%) Degree
3 3 (27.27%) SCADA
3 3 (27.27%) WCF
3 3 (27.27%) WPF
3 3 (27.27%) Visual Studio
3 3 (27.27%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 3 (27.27%) SAP
3 3 (27.27%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (27.27%) C
3 3 (27.27%) HND

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (45.45%) .NET
2 4 (36.36%) ASP.NET
2 4 (36.36%) WebSphere
2 4 (36.36%) .NET Framework
3 3 (27.27%) Java EE
3 3 (27.27%) Windows SharePoint Services
3 3 (27.27%) WCF
3 3 (27.27%) WPF
4 1 (9.091%) ICEfaces
4 1 (9.091%) RichFaces
4 1 (9.091%) CSS3
4 1 (9.091%) Apache Axis
4 1 (9.091%) jQuery
4 1 (9.091%) WSDL
4 1 (9.091%) XHTML
4 1 (9.091%) CSS
4 1 (9.091%) JSP
4 1 (9.091%) Servlets
4 1 (9.091%) SOAP
4 1 (9.091%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) SharePoint
2 1 (9.091%) Mule
2 1 (9.091%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (9.091%) ESB
2 1 (9.091%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) MS Excel
2 1 (9.091%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Ethernet
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
2 1 (9.091%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 4 (36.36%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (27.27%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (27.27%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Subversion
2 3 (27.27%) Visual Studio
2 3 (27.27%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (9.091%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (9.091%) JIRA
3 1 (9.091%) Eclipse
3 1 (9.091%) JUnit
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 1 (9.091%) Military
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Embedded Systems
1 3 (27.27%) SCADA
1 3 (27.27%) Management Information System
1 3 (27.27%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 2 (18.18%) CMDB
3 1 (9.091%) Web 2.0
3 1 (9.091%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (27.27%) Feature Driven Development
2 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) Asset Management
2 3 (27.27%) Data Management
2 3 (27.27%) Scrum
3 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
3 2 (18.18%) Change Management
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (9.091%) Embedded Software Development
4 1 (9.091%) Waterfall
4 1 (9.091%) Incident Management
4 1 (9.091%) RUP
4 1 (9.091%) Workflow
4 1 (9.091%) Business Analysis
4 1 (9.091%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) C#
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) C
4 2 (18.18%) Embedded C
5 1 (9.091%) PowerShell
5 1 (9.091%) XPath
5 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
5 1 (9.091%) PL/SQL
5 1 (9.091%) C++
5 1 (9.091%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
1 3 (27.27%) HND
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) IBM
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) SAP
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.091%) Perforce
Software Engineer - Java, J2EE
Chester, North West
Required Skills:SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:Essential:-Extensive experience of Web 2.0 technologies i.e AJAX, XHTML, JavaScript, XPATH, CSS, XSLT, DOM, JSP, Servlets-Minimum 2yrs + JSF...
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 11 May 2013
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