The first table below looks at the demand for Software Engineering skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Engineering over the 3 months to 21 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the East Midlands 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineering
Rank 77 78 78
Rank change year-on-year
+1 0
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 7 7 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.551% 0.512% 0.369%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.817% 0.795% 0.569%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
Average daily rate £350 £138 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+154.54% -54.16%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-2.98% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Average hourly rate - £35.00 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +34.61%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.50 £33.63
% change year-on-year
+2.73% +8.55%
All Processes & Methodologies
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
857 880 878
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 67.43% 64.37% 64.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 449 373
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 51 63
Average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% +34.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £57.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Software Engineering across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

East Midlands Software Engineering Jobs Demand Trend

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend

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

East Midlands Software Engineering Daily Rate Trend

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Engineering across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

East Midlands Software Engineering Daily Rate Histogram

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East Midlands Software Engineering Hourly Rate Trend

Software Engineering
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 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
Leicestershire -9 5 £725 +427.27%
Derbyshire - 1 £300 -
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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.

1 6 (60.00%) TDD
2 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (30.00%) Windows
3 3 (30.00%) C#
3 3 (30.00%) C++
3 3 (30.00%) .NET
3 3 (30.00%) Project Management
3 3 (30.00%) Workflow
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) WinForms
3 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Multithreading
3 3 (30.00%) WCF
3 3 (30.00%) WPF
3 3 (30.00%) WF
3 3 (30.00%) LINQ
3 3 (30.00%) MVVM
4 2 (20.00%) BDD
4 2 (20.00%) Social Media
4 2 (20.00%) Kanban
4 2 (20.00%) Market Research
4 2 (20.00%) Pair Programming
4 2 (20.00%) Retail
4 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (20.00%) Smartphone
4 2 (20.00%) Extreme Programming
4 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
4 2 (20.00%) Java

Software Engineering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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.

Application Development
1 3 (30.00%) .NET
1 3 (30.00%) WinForms
1 3 (30.00%) WCF
1 3 (30.00%) WPF
1 3 (30.00%) WF
1 3 (30.00%) LINQ
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
2 1 (10.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (10.00%) jQuery
2 1 (10.00%) HTML5
2 1 (10.00%) CSS3
2 1 (10.00%) Backbone.js
2 1 (10.00%) Sass
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (10.00%) IIS
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (10.00%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 2 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (10.00%) Electronics
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
1 3 (30.00%) C# Developer
1 3 (30.00%) WPF Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Web Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Implementation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Social Media
1 2 (20.00%) Smartphone
2 1 (10.00%) Device Driver
2 1 (10.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) TDD
2 3 (30.00%) Project Management
2 3 (30.00%) Workflow
2 3 (30.00%) Scrum
2 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (30.00%) Multithreading
2 3 (30.00%) MVVM
3 2 (20.00%) BDD
3 2 (20.00%) Kanban
3 2 (20.00%) Market Research
3 2 (20.00%) Pair Programming
3 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (20.00%) Extreme Programming
3 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (10.00%) OO
4 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (10.00%) ETL
4 1 (10.00%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) C#
1 3 (30.00%) C++
2 2 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) PHP
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Embedded C
3 1 (10.00%) C
3 1 (10.00%) CoffeeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle
1 1 (10.00%) Talend