The first table below looks at the demand for Software Engineering skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Engineering 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Hampshire 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 Engineering
Rank 70 92 85
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -7
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 32 7 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 2.070% 0.443% 0.766%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.065% 0.690% 1.191%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 2
Average daily rate £400 £390 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.56% +47.16%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £335 £330
% change year-on-year
-2.98% +1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 1
Average hourly rate £40.00 £36.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.58% +73.80%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.50 £36.25 £33.75
% change year-on-year
+6.20% +7.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1044 1014 1175
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 67.53% 64.22% 64.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 587 478 532
Average daily rate £370 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £265 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £510 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 100 125
Average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.90% -11.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.65 £14.60 £13.54
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £42.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Software Engineering
South East

Software Engineering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire Software Engineering Hourly Rate Trend

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Engineering across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Hampshire Software Engineering Hourly Rate Histogram

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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Basingstoke - 7 £400 -
Southampton -2 4 £295 -
Eastleigh - 1 - -
Havant - 1 - -
Portsmouth - 1 - -
Software Engineering
South East

Software Engineering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 22 (47.83%) SQL
2 20 (43.48%) UNIX
3 19 (41.30%) Windows
3 19 (41.30%) Linux
4 16 (34.78%) Continuous Integration
5 15 (32.61%) Multithreading
6 14 (30.43%) C++
6 14 (30.43%) Configuration Management
7 13 (28.26%) XML
7 13 (28.26%) Degree
8 12 (26.09%) Git (software)
8 12 (26.09%) UML
8 12 (26.09%) OOD
8 12 (26.09%) Maven
9 11 (23.91%) C
9 11 (23.91%) Java
9 11 (23.91%) Security Cleared
10 10 (21.74%) Ant
10 10 (21.74%) ClearCase
10 10 (21.74%) Microsoft
11 9 (19.57%) OO
11 9 (19.57%) Oracle
11 9 (19.57%) PowerShell
12 8 (17.39%) Test Automation
12 8 (17.39%) SC Cleared
12 8 (17.39%) GoogleTest
12 8 (17.39%) SQL Server
12 8 (17.39%) C#
12 8 (17.39%) Python
12 8 (17.39%) JDBC

Software Engineering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 13 (28.26%) XML
2 8 (17.39%) JDBC
2 8 (17.39%) Spring
3 7 (15.22%) Java EE
3 7 (15.22%) Motif
3 7 (15.22%) SOAP
3 7 (15.22%) soapUI
4 5 (10.87%) REST
4 5 (10.87%) Middleware
4 5 (10.87%) wxWidgets
4 5 (10.87%) JPA
4 5 (10.87%) Drools
4 5 (10.87%) HTML5
4 5 (10.87%) XSL
4 5 (10.87%) JMS
4 5 (10.87%) Hibernate
4 5 (10.87%) Lucene
5 3 (6.522%) Swing
6 2 (4.348%) Flash
6 2 (4.348%) STL
Application Platforms
1 7 (15.22%) IIS
1 7 (15.22%) BizTalk Server
1 7 (15.22%) ESB
2 5 (10.87%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (6.522%) SharePoint
4 2 (4.348%) SAS
5 1 (2.174%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (13.04%) MS Excel
2 2 (4.348%) MS Project
2 2 (4.348%) MS Office
2 2 (4.348%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (2.174%) Doxygen
Business Applications
1 4 (8.696%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.22%) DVB
2 6 (13.04%) TCP/IP
3 5 (10.87%) HTTP
4 3 (6.522%) 3G
5 2 (4.348%) IPv4
5 2 (4.348%) CDMA
5 2 (4.348%) GPRS
5 2 (4.348%) GSM
5 2 (4.348%) LAN
5 2 (4.348%) UMTS
5 2 (4.348%) WAN
5 2 (4.348%) Wireless
5 2 (4.348%) LTE
6 1 (2.174%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.39%) SQL Server
1 8 (17.39%) Ingres
1 8 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (8.696%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (6.522%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (6.522%) GIS
4 2 (4.348%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.174%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 12 (26.09%) Maven
1 12 (26.09%) Git (software)
2 10 (21.74%) Ant
2 10 (21.74%) ClearCase
3 8 (17.39%) NUnit
3 8 (17.39%) CruiseControl
3 8 (17.39%) GoogleTest
4 7 (15.22%) MSBuild
4 7 (15.22%) CppUnit
4 7 (15.22%) TeamCity
5 6 (13.04%) Subversion
5 6 (13.04%) Rational Rose
6 5 (10.87%) Cucumber
7 4 (8.696%) Hudson
7 4 (8.696%) ClearQuest
7 4 (8.696%) Jenkins
8 3 (6.522%) FindBugs
8 3 (6.522%) Mockito
8 3 (6.522%) NetBeans
8 3 (6.522%) Eclipse
General
1 7 (15.22%) Telecoms
2 3 (6.522%) Manufacturing
3 2 (4.348%) Multimedia
3 2 (4.348%) Marketing
3 2 (4.348%) Legal
4 1 (2.174%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (30.43%) Software Engineer
2 7 (15.22%) Release Manager
2 7 (15.22%) Build Manager
3 4 (8.696%) Java Software Engineer
3 4 (8.696%) Architect
4 3 (6.522%) Project Manager
4 3 (6.522%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (6.522%) C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (4.348%) Software Project Manager
5 2 (4.348%) Software Manager
5 2 (4.348%) Wireless Engineer
5 2 (4.348%) ScrumMaster
5 2 (4.348%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (4.348%) Java Engineer
6 1 (2.174%) Network Design Architect
6 1 (2.174%) Project Support Coordinator
6 1 (2.174%) Coordinator
6 1 (2.174%) Project Support Manager
6 1 (2.174%) Dynamics AX Consultant
6 1 (2.174%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) DTV
1 7 (15.22%) Computer Science
2 5 (10.87%) Derivative
3 2 (4.348%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.348%) STB
3 2 (4.348%) MPEG
4 1 (2.174%) NHS
4 1 (2.174%) ASIC
4 1 (2.174%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.174%) Remote Sensing
4 1 (2.174%) Open Source
4 1 (2.174%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.174%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 20 (43.48%) UNIX
2 19 (41.30%) Windows
2 19 (41.30%) Linux
3 7 (15.22%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (34.78%) Continuous Integration
2 15 (32.61%) Multithreading
3 14 (30.43%) Configuration Management
4 12 (26.09%) UML
4 12 (26.09%) OOD
5 9 (19.57%) OO
6 8 (17.39%) Test Automation
7 7 (15.22%) Test Scripting
7 7 (15.22%) Project Management
7 7 (15.22%) Refactoring
7 7 (15.22%) Release Management
8 6 (13.04%) Unified Process
8 6 (13.04%) RUP
8 6 (13.04%) ERP
9 5 (10.87%) Integration Testing
9 5 (10.87%) Memory Management
10 4 (8.696%) Analytics
10 4 (8.696%) Time Management
10 4 (8.696%) Code Coverage
10 4 (8.696%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 22 (47.83%) SQL
2 14 (30.43%) C++
3 11 (23.91%) Java
3 11 (23.91%) C
4 9 (19.57%) PowerShell
5 8 (17.39%) C#
5 8 (17.39%) Python
6 5 (10.87%) XPath
7 3 (6.522%) Perl
8 2 (4.348%) Embedded C
8 2 (4.348%) Tcl
8 2 (4.348%) Korn
8 2 (4.348%) Bash shell
9 1 (2.174%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (28.26%) Degree
2 11 (23.91%) Security Cleared
3 8 (17.39%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.174%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.174%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.522%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.174%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (2.174%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 9 (19.57%) Oracle
3 4 (8.696%) Red Hat
4 3 (6.522%) VMware
4 3 (6.522%) Cognizant
5 2 (4.348%) Agilent
5 2 (4.348%) Coverity
5 2 (4.348%) Perforce
6 1 (2.174%) SAP
6 1 (2.174%) Citrix
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