The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Coventry 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 17 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 Coventry 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Developer
Rank 31 27 26
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 2 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Coventry 0.935% 0.787% 0.524%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.015% 0.844% 0.578%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £150 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £316 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+5.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +64.38%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -4.10%
All Job Titles
Coventry
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
197 237 173
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Coventry 92.06% 93.31% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 89 80
Average daily rate £300 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £100 £200 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 34 4
Average hourly rate £31.50 £21.00 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% +15.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £11.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £32.00 £28.79
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Software Developer
West Midlands

Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Coventry 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 Coventry region.

Coventry 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 Coventry region.

Coventry Software Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Software Developer
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry 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 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 2 (66.67%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) XSL
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (33.33%) Web Development
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry 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 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 2 (66.67%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) XSL
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint Server
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) T-SQL