The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Chester 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 22 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 Chester 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineer
Rank 21 20 20
Rank change year-on-year
-1 0
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 4 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 2.857% 1.724% 1.258%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.985% 1.802% 1.361%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
Average daily rate £375 £319 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.64% -11.45%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £308 £300
% change year-on-year
+5.69% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year
- +4.16%
All Job Titles
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
134 111 147
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 95.71% 95.69% 92.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 38 50
Average daily rate £325 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £155 £240 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £451 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 7
Average hourly rate £32.50 £50.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.00% +257.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.67 £50.00 £6.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.39 £50.00 £45.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Software Engineer
Cheshire

Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester Software Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 4 (100.00%) Subversion
2 3 (75.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 3 (75.00%) SCADA
2 3 (75.00%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (75.00%) C
2 3 (75.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 3 (75.00%) HND
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Embedded C
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) Ethernet
3 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) Spring
4 1 (25.00%) JSF
4 1 (25.00%) Ajax
4 1 (25.00%) Web 2.0
4 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
4 1 (25.00%) XPath
4 1 (25.00%) ESB
4 1 (25.00%) JIRA
4 1 (25.00%) Embedded Software Development
4 1 (25.00%) Apache Axis
4 1 (25.00%) RIA
4 1 (25.00%) jQuery
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Mule
4 1 (25.00%) ICEfaces

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) JSF
1 1 (25.00%) Ajax
1 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Axis
1 1 (25.00%) jQuery
1 1 (25.00%) ICEfaces
1 1 (25.00%) RichFaces
1 1 (25.00%) CSS3
1 1 (25.00%) WSDL
1 1 (25.00%) JAX-RPC
1 1 (25.00%) XHTML
1 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) JSP
1 1 (25.00%) Servlets
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
1 1 (25.00%) DOM
1 1 (25.00%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) ESB
1 1 (25.00%) Mule
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Ethernet
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Subversion
2 3 (75.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
3 1 (25.00%) JUnit
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Military
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 3 (75.00%) SCADA
1 3 (75.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Web 2.0
2 1 (25.00%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Embedded Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C
2 2 (50.00%) Embedded C
3 1 (25.00%) XPath
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) HND
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) Perforce
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
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