Essex Software Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT contracts within the Essex region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Avon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Crawley Derby Derbyshire Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hampshire Havant Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Hull Ipswich Kent Kidderminster Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Shields North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rugby Scotland Sevenoaks Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	46	53
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	14	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	2.047 %	1.243 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£120
Average daily rate	£400	£120
% change on same period last year	+233.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£120
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£279
% change on same period last year	+13.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.80	£26.00
Average hourly rate	£34.30	£29.75
% change on same period last year	+15.29 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.80	£33.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.80	£35.14
% change on same period last year	+1.85 %
Job Titles Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	684	724
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.912 %	0.722 %
Daily rates quoted	247	209
Average minimum daily rate	£287	£313
Average daily rate	£304	£335
% change on same period last year	-9.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£321	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	90	161
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.48	£27.94
Average hourly rate	£26.35	£28.71
% change on same period last year	-8.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.21	£29.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
Software Engineer East of England

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Software Engineer across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Essex region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the Essex region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Colchester	-	1	-	-
Chelmsford	+5	1	-	-

Software Engineer East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region that cited Software 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 12 (70.59 %) C 2 11 (64.71 %) C++ 3 7 (41.18 %) Windows 4 6 (35.29 %) Embedded C 5 4 (23.53 %) Configuration Management 5 4 (23.53 %) Electronics 6 3 (17.65 %) Automotive 6 3 (17.65 %) Embedded C++ 6 3 (17.65 %) Borland 6 3 (17.65 %) Microsoft 6 3 (17.65 %) ODBC 6 3 (17.65 %) SQL 6 3 (17.65 %) C# 6 3 (17.65 %) Visual Studio 6 3 (17.65 %) Windows Mobile

6 3 (17.65 %) PDA 6 3 (17.65 %) WPF 7 2 (11.76 %) Windows Vista 7 2 (11.76 %) Mathematics 7 2 (11.76 %) PVCS 7 2 (11.76 %) .NET 7 2 (11.76 %) MS Excel 7 2 (11.76 %) Windows XP 7 2 (11.76 %) TCP/IP 7 2 (11.76 %) Ethernet 7 2 (11.76 %) QNX 8 1 (5.882 %) NDS 8 1 (5.882 %) Publishing 8 1 (5.882 %) OpenTV 8 1 (5.882 %) Military

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region that cited Software 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (17.65 %) ODBC 1 3 (17.65 %) WPF 2 2 (11.76 %) .NET 3 1 (5.882 %) XML	Applications 1 2 (11.76 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 2 (11.76 %) Ethernet 1 2 (11.76 %) TCP/IP	Development Applications 1 3 (17.65 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (11.76 %) PVCS 3 1 (5.882 %) Flash
General 1 4 (23.53 %) Electronics 2 3 (17.65 %) Automotive 3 1 (5.882 %) Publishing 3 1 (5.882 %) Military 3 1 (5.882 %) Telecoms	Miscellaneous 1 3 (17.65 %) PDA 2 2 (11.76 %) Mathematics 3 1 (5.882 %) MPEG 3 1 (5.882 %) STB
Operating Systems 1 7 (41.18 %) Windows 2 3 (17.65 %) Windows Mobile 3 2 (11.76 %) Windows XP 3 2 (11.76 %) Windows Vista 4 1 (5.882 %) Nucleus RTOS 4 1 (5.882 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (23.53 %) Configuration Management 2 1 (5.882 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (5.882 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (5.882 %) OO
Programming Languages 1 12 (70.59 %) C 2 11 (64.71 %) C++ 3 6 (35.29 %) Embedded C 4 3 (17.65 %) Embedded C++ 4 3 (17.65 %) C# 4 3 (17.65 %) SQL 5 1 (5.882 %) VB.NET 5 1 (5.882 %) ActionScript	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (5.882 %) JTAG
System Software 1 1 (5.882 %) NDS	Vendors 1 3 (17.65 %) Microsoft 1 3 (17.65 %) Borland 2 2 (11.76 %) QNX 3 1 (5.882 %) OpenTV