Software Development Engineer Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Development Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Development Engineer 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 England 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 Development Engineer
Rank 482 559 552
Rank change year-on-year
+77 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Software Development Engineer 32 11 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.076% 0.020% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.082% 0.022% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 1 4
Average daily rate £400 £350 £306
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £262 £350 £254
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £350 £368
UK excluding London average daily rate £263 £350 £363
% change year-on-year
-25.00% -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 6
Average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £32.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+14.50% -18.12%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 39040 50214 51349
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.49% 92.56% 92.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 22971 28392 28508
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £245 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2022 2460 2732
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.13 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Software Development Engineer
UK

Software Development Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Software Development Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Software Development Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Software Development Engineer across the England region.

England Software Development Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Software Development Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Software Development Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Software Development Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Software Development Engineer across the England region.

England Software Development Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Software Development Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Development Engineer within the England region over the 3 months to 22 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
London +42 15 £400 -
South East +27 12 £450 -
East of England - 4 £263 -
South West +27 1 - -
East Midlands -2 1 - -
Software Development Engineer
UK

Software Development Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Software Development Engineer 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 Development Engineer in their job title.

1 29 (72.50%) C#
2 17 (42.50%) Games
3 15 (37.50%) C++
3 15 (37.50%) SQL
3 15 (37.50%) Degree
4 14 (35.00%) Test Automation
5 13 (32.50%) Windows Azure
5 13 (32.50%) Computer Science
5 13 (32.50%) Windows
6 12 (30.00%) Visual Studio
7 11 (27.50%) .NET
7 11 (27.50%) SQL Server
8 10 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (25.00%) REST
9 8 (20.00%) WCF
9 8 (20.00%) Automated Testing
9 8 (20.00%) IIS
9 8 (20.00%) Web Services
10 7 (17.50%) XML
10 7 (17.50%) JavaScript
10 7 (17.50%) C
10 7 (17.50%) Agile Software Development
10 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
10 7 (17.50%) Test Strategy
11 6 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (15.00%) Game Development
11 6 (15.00%) Web Development
11 6 (15.00%) Load Testing
12 5 (12.50%) MS Excel
12 5 (12.50%) HTML

Software Development Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Software Development Engineer 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 Development Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (27.50%) .NET
2 10 (25.00%) REST
3 8 (20.00%) WCF
3 8 (20.00%) Web Services
4 7 (17.50%) XML
5 5 (12.50%) HTML
6 4 (10.00%) XSLT
6 4 (10.00%) ASP.NET
6 4 (10.00%) CSS
7 3 (7.500%) WinForms
8 2 (5.000%) XML Schema
8 2 (5.000%) .NET Framework
9 1 (2.500%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 13 (32.50%) Windows Azure
2 8 (20.00%) IIS
3 1 (2.500%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (12.50%) MS Excel
2 3 (7.500%) MS Visio
3 2 (5.000%) MS Office
3 2 (5.000%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) LTE
2 2 (5.000%) CDMA
2 2 (5.000%) GPRS
2 2 (5.000%) GSM
2 2 (5.000%) ISDN
2 2 (5.000%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.500%) UTRAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (27.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.500%) Data Mining
3 2 (5.000%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (5.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.500%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (2.500%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (2.500%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (30.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (5.000%) Eclipse
2 2 (5.000%) LabVIEW
3 1 (2.500%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.500%) GDB
3 1 (2.500%) Valgrind
3 1 (2.500%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.500%) JBehave
3 1 (2.500%) WebDriver
3 1 (2.500%) JIRA
3 1 (2.500%) WATIR
3 1 (2.500%) Selenium
3 1 (2.500%) Git (software)
3 1 (2.500%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.500%) ClearQuest
3 1 (2.500%) JMeter
3 1 (2.500%) Subversion
3 1 (2.500%) Maven
3 1 (2.500%) Ant
3 1 (2.500%) JUnit
General
1 17 (42.50%) Games
2 2 (5.000%) Electronics
2 2 (5.000%) Telecoms
2 2 (5.000%) Finance
3 1 (2.500%) German Language
3 1 (2.500%) Banking
3 1 (2.500%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 13 (32.50%) Computer Science
2 10 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (10.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (7.500%) Mobile App
5 2 (5.000%) Kinect
6 1 (2.500%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (2.500%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.500%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 13 (32.50%) Windows
2 3 (7.500%) Windows Phone
2 3 (7.500%) Apple iOS
2 3 (7.500%) Android
2 3 (7.500%) Linux
3 2 (5.000%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (20.00%) Automated Testing
3 7 (17.50%) Agile Software Development
3 7 (17.50%) Test Strategy
4 6 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (15.00%) Game Development
4 6 (15.00%) Web Development
4 6 (15.00%) Load Testing
5 4 (10.00%) TDD
5 4 (10.00%) MVC
5 4 (10.00%) Multithreading
5 4 (10.00%) BDD
6 3 (7.500%) Software Architecture
6 3 (7.500%) Process Architecture
6 3 (7.500%) Performance Testing
6 3 (7.500%) Code Coverage
6 3 (7.500%) OO
7 2 (5.000%) OOD
7 2 (5.000%) E-Commerce
7 2 (5.000%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 29 (72.50%) C#
2 15 (37.50%) C++
2 15 (37.50%) SQL
3 7 (17.50%) JavaScript
3 7 (17.50%) C
4 4 (10.00%) Java
5 3 (7.500%) Python
6 2 (5.000%) MATLAB
7 1 (2.500%) Bash shell
7 1 (2.500%) Groovy
7 1 (2.500%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (37.50%) Degree
2 4 (10.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.500%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.500%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.00%) Facebook
3 2 (5.000%) Omniture
Software Development Engineer in Test - c# SQL
City of London
Experience with web technologies such as IIS and WCF and/or REST-based web services -Experience writing automated test cases using C# and Visual Studio test frameworks-Ability...
Rate: £30000 - £85000 per annum
Posted: 2 May 2013
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