The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 Gloucester 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineer
Rank - 42 -
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 0 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucester - 0.743% -
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.791% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £288 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £304 £300
% change year-on-year
+6.82% +1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.25 £36.25
% change year-on-year
+0.67% +2.75%
All Job Titles
Gloucester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
66 253 84
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucester 95.65% 94.05% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 161 36
Average daily rate £400 £385 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.03% +28.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £301 £250 £170
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 10
Average hourly rate £11.00 £25.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-56.00% +31.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.50 £21.00 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.30 £25.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Software Engineer
Gloucestershire

Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucester Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Gloucester Software Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Gloucester Software Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Software Engineer
Top 2 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucester 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 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) Embedded C

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucester 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.

Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) Embedded C