The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the East Sussex 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 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 Job Titles advertised for the East Sussex 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 Developer
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 0.877% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.922% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £400 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -4.10%
All Job Titles
East Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
217 318 181
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 95.18% 98.76% 96.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 159 110
Average daily rate £363 £375 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% +2.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £200 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 23 8
Average hourly rate £17.00 £22.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-22.72% +62.96%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.03 £13.50 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.50 £175.00 £20.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Software Developer
South East

Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Sussex 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 East Sussex region.

East Sussex 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 East Sussex region.

East Sussex Software Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Software Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Developer within the East Sussex 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
Brighton - 2 £400 -
Software Developer
South East

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) VBA
2 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (50.00%) DevExpress
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 1 (50.00%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (50.00%) Health Informatics
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) NUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Informatics
2 1 (50.00%) LINQ
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 1 (50.00%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) LINQ
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (50.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 1 (50.00%) NUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Health Informatics
1 1 (50.00%) Informatics
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) VBA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) DevExpress