Software Developer Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London 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 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 City of London 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 Developer
Rank 176 194 211
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 29 21 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.451% 0.263% 0.310%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.488% 0.288% 0.338%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 15 25
Average daily rate £515 £425 £488
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.17% -12.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £293 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £515 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £60.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -4.10%
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 5944 7299 8873
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.46% 91.48% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4372 5246 6461
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £278 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 182 195
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.50 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Software Developer
London

Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Software Developer Daily Rate Trend

Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Developer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

City of London Software Developer Daily Rate Histogram

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 City of London region.

City of London Software Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 42 (77.78%) C#
2 38 (70.37%) .NET
3 33 (61.11%) SQL Server
4 31 (57.41%) SQL
5 23 (42.59%) OO
5 23 (42.59%) Multithreading
6 20 (37.04%) Banking
6 20 (37.04%) Web Services
6 20 (37.04%) XML
7 19 (35.19%) WCF
8 18 (33.33%) Telecoms
9 17 (31.48%) N-Tier
9 17 (31.48%) Memory Management
10 14 (25.93%) ASP.NET
11 12 (22.22%) Java
12 11 (20.37%) Microsoft
13 10 (18.52%) TDD
14 9 (16.67%) MS Excel
15 8 (14.81%) MVC
15 8 (14.81%) C++
15 8 (14.81%) Finance
16 7 (12.96%) Oracle
16 7 (12.96%) Windows
16 7 (12.96%) Linux
16 7 (12.96%) ASP.NET MVC
17 6 (11.11%) VBA
17 6 (11.11%) WinForms
17 6 (11.11%) Front Office
17 6 (11.11%) .NET Framework
18 5 (9.259%) Unit Testing

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 38 (70.37%) .NET
2 20 (37.04%) Web Services
2 20 (37.04%) XML
3 19 (35.19%) WCF
4 14 (25.93%) ASP.NET
5 7 (12.96%) ASP.NET MVC
6 6 (11.11%) WinForms
6 6 (11.11%) .NET Framework
7 4 (7.407%) CSS
7 4 (7.407%) ASP
7 4 (7.407%) Ajax
8 3 (5.556%) JSON
8 3 (5.556%) WPF
8 3 (5.556%) jQuery
9 2 (3.704%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 2 (3.704%) REST
9 2 (3.704%) XHTML
9 2 (3.704%) Silverlight
10 1 (1.852%) NHibernate
10 1 (1.852%) YUI
Application Platforms
1 4 (7.407%) IIS
2 3 (5.556%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.704%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (3.704%) WebLogic
3 2 (3.704%) SAS
4 1 (1.852%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.852%) Apache
4 1 (1.852%) Apache Pig
4 1 (1.852%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 9 (16.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.259%) HTTP
2 1 (1.852%) Wireless
2 1 (1.852%) Intranet
2 1 (1.852%) Internet
2 1 (1.852%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (61.11%) SQL Server
2 5 (9.259%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (5.556%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (3.704%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.704%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.704%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.704%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (3.704%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.852%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.852%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.852%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.852%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (1.852%) OLAP
5 1 (1.852%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.852%) HBase
5 1 (1.852%) Mahout
5 1 (1.852%) Big Data
5 1 (1.852%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.852%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.852%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 3 (5.556%) JIRA
2 2 (3.704%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (3.704%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (3.704%) Subversion
3 1 (1.852%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.852%) Selenium
3 1 (1.852%) Maven
3 1 (1.852%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.852%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.852%) JUnit
General
1 20 (37.04%) Banking
2 18 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 8 (14.81%) Finance
4 6 (11.11%) Front Office
5 5 (9.259%) Retail
6 3 (5.556%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.852%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 17 (31.48%) N-Tier
2 4 (7.407%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (7.407%) Fixed Income
2 4 (7.407%) Equities
2 4 (7.407%) Derivative
3 3 (5.556%) Computer Science
3 3 (5.556%) Client/Server
3 3 (5.556%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.704%) Data Integration
4 2 (3.704%) Mathematics
4 2 (3.704%) Physics
5 1 (1.852%) Social Network
5 1 (1.852%) Economics
5 1 (1.852%) Machine Learning
5 1 (1.852%) Visualisation
5 1 (1.852%) Open Source
5 1 (1.852%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.96%) Windows
1 7 (12.96%) Linux
2 5 (9.259%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (42.59%) OO
1 23 (42.59%) Multithreading
2 17 (31.48%) Memory Management
3 10 (18.52%) TDD
4 8 (14.81%) MVC
5 5 (9.259%) Unit Testing
5 5 (9.259%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (9.259%) Scrum
6 3 (5.556%) Data Analysis
6 3 (5.556%) UML
6 3 (5.556%) BDD
7 2 (3.704%) RUP
7 2 (3.704%) CMMI
8 1 (1.852%) Web Development
8 1 (1.852%) Business Analysis
8 1 (1.852%) Workflow
8 1 (1.852%) Practice Management
8 1 (1.852%) Software Engineering
8 1 (1.852%) Pair Programming
8 1 (1.852%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 42 (77.78%) C#
2 31 (57.41%) SQL
3 12 (22.22%) Java
4 8 (14.81%) C++
5 6 (11.11%) VBA
6 5 (9.259%) VB
6 5 (9.259%) JavaScript
7 4 (7.407%) PHP
8 3 (5.556%) Python
8 3 (5.556%) T-SQL
9 2 (3.704%) PL/SQL
9 2 (3.704%) Perl
9 2 (3.704%) C
10 1 (1.852%) Objective-C
10 1 (1.852%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.852%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 5 (9.259%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.556%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.704%) PhD
3 2 (3.704%) Degree
4 1 (1.852%) MCPD
4 1 (1.852%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.852%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.852%) WCAG
1 1 (1.852%) WAI
1 1 (1.852%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.852%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 11 (20.37%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.96%) Oracle
3 2 (3.704%) hybris
3 2 (3.704%) VMware
3 2 (3.704%) Perforce
4 1 (1.852%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.852%) Infragistics
4 1 (1.852%) TIBCO
4 1 (1.852%) Citrix
4 1 (1.852%) Sybase
4 1 (1.852%) Business Objects
4 1 (1.852%) Twitter
4 1 (1.852%) DevExpress
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