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This section looks at the demand for Software Engineering skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Engineering over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkSoftware Engineering
Location
3 months to
21 Aug 2008		Same period last year
Rank197182
Rank change on same period last yearDown-15
Matching contract IT job ads2917
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.038 %0.017 %
As % of the category below0.576 %0.487 %
Daily rates quoted249
Average minimum daily rate£313£489
Average daily rate£394£503
% change on same period last year-21.69 %
Average maximum daily rate£475£517
UK excluding London average daily rate£304£384
% change on same period last year-20.74 %
Hourly rates quoted02
Average minimum hourly rate-£10.50
Average hourly rate-£10.50
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate-£10.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£34.54£35.48
% change on same period last year-2.64 %
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
City of London
Matching contract IT job ads50343492
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled6.643 %3.478 %
Daily rates quoted28781528
Average minimum daily rate£424£437
Average daily rate£465£472
% change on same period last year-1.33 %
Average maximum daily rate£507£506
UK excluding London average daily rate£380£377
% change on same period last year+0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted10187
Average minimum hourly rate£26.30£24.46
Average hourly rate£28.35£26.63
% change on same period last year+6.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate£30.40£28.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate£30.30£30.18
% change on same period last year+0.42 %
Software Engineering LondonSoftware Engineering
London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Software Engineering
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Software Engineering across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

City of London Software Engineering Demand Trend

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Software Engineering across the City of London region.

City of London Software Engineering Daily Rate Trend

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Engineering across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

City of London Software Engineering Daily Rate Histogram

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Software Engineering across the City of London region.

City of London Software Engineering Hourly Rate Trend

Software Engineering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

130 (53.57 %)J2EE
228 (50.00 %)Degree
327 (48.21 %)JavaScript
424 (42.86 %)CSS
523 (41.07 %)AJAX
622 (39.29 %)Subversion
622 (39.29 %)WebLogic
721 (37.50 %)Photoshop
721 (37.50 %)DHTML
721 (37.50 %)Mathematics
819 (33.93 %)Java
912 (21.43 %)SQL
1011 (19.64 %)C++
1011 (19.64 %)Finance
1110 (17.86 %)OO
129 (16.07 %)C#
138 (14.29 %)Front Office
147 (12.50 %).NET
147 (12.50 %)UML
147 (12.50 %)Computer Science
147 (12.50 %)Derivative
156 (10.71 %)Oracle
156 (10.71 %)XML
156 (10.71 %)Agile Software Development
165 (8.929 %)Spring
165 (8.929 %)Hibernate
165 (8.929 %)UNIX
165 (8.929 %)Windows
165 (8.929 %)SQL Server
165 (8.929 %)Perl

Software Engineering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
130 (53.57 %)J2EE
224 (42.86 %)CSS
323 (41.07 %)AJAX
47 (12.50 %).NET
56 (10.71 %)XML
65 (8.929 %)Spring
65 (8.929 %)Hibernate
65 (8.929 %).NET Framework
74 (7.143 %)HTML
74 (7.143 %)XSLT
74 (7.143 %)Struts
83 (5.357 %)XHTML
83 (5.357 %)CORBA
92 (3.571 %)XML Schema
92 (3.571 %)CGI
92 (3.571 %)CPAN
101 (1.786 %)XML-RPC
101 (1.786 %)ASP.NET
101 (1.786 %)WebServices
101 (1.786 %)WML
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
122 (39.29 %)WebLogic
22 (3.571 %)Apache
31 (1.786 %)CMS
31 (1.786 %)MS Exchange
31 (1.786 %)Lotus Notes
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
121 (37.50 %)Photoshop
21 (1.786 %)MS Project
21 (1.786 %)Spreadsheet
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
12 (3.571 %)Internet
21 (1.786 %)Firewall
21 (1.786 %)DNS
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
15 (8.929 %)SQL Server
23 (5.357 %)RDBMS
23 (5.357 %)SQL Server 2000
23 (5.357 %)MySQL
23 (5.357 %)Reference Data
31 (1.786 %)DataStage
31 (1.786 %)SQL Server 2005
31 (1.786 %)Sybase IQ
31 (1.786 %)ETL
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
122 (39.29 %)Subversion
23 (5.357 %)Ant
31 (1.786 %)NUnit
31 (1.786 %)JUnit
31 (1.786 %)Flash
31 (1.786 %)Eclipse
31 (1.786 %)IntelliJ
31 (1.786 %)Selenium
31 (1.786 %)FitNesse
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
111 (19.64 %)Finance
28 (14.29 %)Front Office
32 (3.571 %)Construction
41 (1.786 %)Financial Institution
41 (1.786 %)Investment Banking
41 (1.786 %)Banking
41 (1.786 %)Multimedia
41 (1.786 %)Education
41 (1.786 %)Publishing
41 (1.786 %)Aerospace
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
134 (60.71 %)Developer
221 (37.50 %)Web Developer
39 (16.07 %)Software Engineer
47 (12.50 %)Senior Developer
56 (10.71 %)Architect
65 (8.929 %)Senior Software Engineer
74 (7.143 %)Java Developer
74 (7.143 %)Project Manager
83 (5.357 %)Analyst
83 (5.357 %)Systems Developer
83 (5.357 %)Senior Systems Developer
92 (3.571 %)Design Engineer
92 (3.571 %)Systems Architect
92 (3.571 %)Senior Java Developer
92 (3.571 %)Software Developer
101 (1.786 %)Business Analyst
101 (1.786 %)Test Analyst
101 (1.786 %)Technical Architect
101 (1.786 %)Support Analyst
101 (1.786 %)Software Architect
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
121 (37.50 %)Mathematics
27 (12.50 %)Computer Science
27 (12.50 %)Derivative
33 (5.357 %)Grid Computing
33 (5.357 %)Equities
33 (5.357 %)N-Tier
33 (5.357 %)Client/Server
42 (3.571 %)Equity Derivative
42 (3.571 %)Fixed Income
51 (1.786 %)Blackberry
51 (1.786 %)BBC
51 (1.786 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
51 (1.786 %)Index Arbitrage
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
15 (8.929 %)UNIX
15 (8.929 %)Windows
24 (7.143 %)Windows XP
24 (7.143 %)Linux
33 (5.357 %)Windows 2000
33 (5.357 %)Solaris
33 (5.357 %)Red Hat Linux
41 (1.786 %)Mac OS X
41 (1.786 %)Windows Server 2003
41 (1.786 %)Windows Mobile
41 (1.786 %)Windows Vista
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
110 (17.86 %)OO
27 (12.50 %)UML
36 (10.71 %)Agile Software Development
45 (8.929 %)OOA/OOD
45 (8.929 %)Requirements Analysis
45 (8.929 %)Unit Testing
54 (7.143 %)SOA
54 (7.143 %)PRINCE2
54 (7.143 %)Scrum
54 (7.143 %)Project Management
63 (5.357 %)RUP
63 (5.357 %)DSDM
63 (5.357 %)RAD
63 (5.357 %)Data Modelling
63 (5.357 %)Investment Management
63 (5.357 %)Project Planning
63 (5.357 %)Technical Architecture
72 (3.571 %)System Testing
72 (3.571 %)TDD
81 (1.786 %)Configuration Management
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
127 (48.21 %)JavaScript
221 (37.50 %)DHTML
319 (33.93 %)Java
412 (21.43 %)SQL
511 (19.64 %)C++
69 (16.07 %)C#
75 (8.929 %)Perl
84 (7.143 %)Python
84 (7.143 %)Ruby
93 (5.357 %)VB.NET
102 (3.571 %)VB
102 (3.571 %)C
111 (1.786 %)Shell Script
111 (1.786 %)VB6
111 (1.786 %)PHP
111 (1.786 %)ActionScript
111 (1.786 %)VBA
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
128 (50.00 %)Degree
21 (1.786 %)PhD
21 (1.786 %)MCSE
21 (1.786 %)CCNA
21 (1.786 %)ISEB
21 (1.786 %)Cisco Certification
21 (1.786 %)Microsoft Certification
21 (1.786 %)PRINCE2 Certification
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
11 (1.786 %)Active Directory
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
16 (10.71 %)Oracle
25 (8.929 %)Microsoft
33 (5.357 %)Red Hat
42 (3.571 %)Sybase
51 (1.786 %)Primavera
51 (1.786 %)IBM
51 (1.786 %)Reuters
51 (1.786 %)Bloomberg
51 (1.786 %)Ab Initio
51 (1.786 %)Symbian
51 (1.786 %)Adobe
51 (1.786 %)Murex
51 (1.786 %)Informatica
51 (1.786 %)Lotus
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