Hertfordshire Software Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT contracts within the Hertfordshire 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 28 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Software Engineer
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 Redhill Reigate Scotland Sevenoaks 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 Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 28 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	47	50
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	33	48
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.044 %	0.048 %
As % of the category below	2.552 %	2.751 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£400	-
Average daily rate	£400	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£400	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£316	£279
% change on same period last year	+13.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	27	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.74	£35.48
Average hourly rate	£35.20	£37.02
% change on same period last year	-4.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.67	£38.57
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.81	£35.13
% change on same period last year	+1.93 %
Job Titles Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1293	1745
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.720 %	1.741 %
Daily rates quoted	477	709
Average minimum daily rate	£357	£325
Average daily rate	£384	£345
% change on same period last year	+11.21 %
Average maximum daily rate	£410	£365
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	164	189
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.36	£24.11
Average hourly rate	£26.51	£25.21
% change on same period last year	+5.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.66	£26.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.26 %
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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 28 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 28 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
Stevenage	-4	6	-	-
Watford	-	1	-	-
Welwyn Garden City	-	1	-	-
St Albans	-3	1	£400	-
Hitchin	-	1	-	-

Software Engineer East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 32 (55.17 %) C++ 1 32 (55.17 %) C 2 15 (25.86 %) Visual Studio 3 14 (24.14 %) MFC 3 14 (24.14 %) Microsoft 4 11 (18.97 %) Electronics 5 10 (17.24 %) UML 5 10 (17.24 %) Security Cleared 6 9 (15.52 %) Degree 7 7 (12.07 %) Manufacturing 7 7 (12.07 %) .NET 7 7 (12.07 %) QA 7 7 (12.07 %) SC Cleared 8 6 (10.34 %) SQL 8 6 (10.34 %) XML

8 6 (10.34 %) Windows 8 6 (10.34 %) OO 9 5 (8.621 %) Software Engineering 9 5 (8.621 %) VxWorks 9 5 (8.621 %) IIS 9 5 (8.621 %) ASP 9 5 (8.621 %) VBScript 9 5 (8.621 %) VB 9 5 (8.621 %) HTML 9 5 (8.621 %) Java 9 5 (8.621 %) JavaScript 10 4 (6.897 %) VB.NET 10 4 (6.897 %) J2EE 10 4 (6.897 %) C# 10 4 (6.897 %) SQL Server

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 14 (24.14 %) MFC 2 7 (12.07 %) .NET 3 6 (10.34 %) XML 4 5 (8.621 %) ASP 4 5 (8.621 %) HTML 5 4 (6.897 %) ASP.NET 5 4 (6.897 %) J2EE 5 4 (6.897 %) Hibernate 6 3 (5.172 %) Spring 6 3 (5.172 %) WebSphere 6 3 (5.172 %) CSS 6 3 (5.172 %) XSL 7 2 (3.448 %) WebServices 7 2 (3.448 %) ADO.NET 7 2 (3.448 %) .NET Framework 7 2 (3.448 %) WinForms 8 1 (1.724 %) AJAX 8 1 (1.724 %) WCF 8 1 (1.724 %) JSP 8 1 (1.724 %) Servlets	Application Platforms 1 5 (8.621 %) IIS 2 4 (6.897 %) JBoss 3 3 (5.172 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 4 (6.897 %) MATLAB 1 4 (6.897 %) Simulink	Communications & Networking 1 2 (3.448 %) HTTP 1 2 (3.448 %) SNMP 1 2 (3.448 %) TCP/IP 1 2 (3.448 %) Internet 1 2 (3.448 %) RTP 2 1 (1.724 %) TELNET 2 1 (1.724 %) Q.931 2 1 (1.724 %) DAB 2 1 (1.724 %) Wi-Fi 2 1 (1.724 %) ASN.1 2 1 (1.724 %) IGMP 2 1 (1.724 %) RTSP 2 1 (1.724 %) DVB 2 1 (1.724 %) RTCP 2 1 (1.724 %) VoIP 2 1 (1.724 %) DHCP 2 1 (1.724 %) FTP 2 1 (1.724 %) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (6.897 %) SQL Server 2 3 (5.172 %) DB2 3 2 (3.448 %) MS Access 3 2 (3.448 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (1.724 %) SQL Server 2008 4 1 (1.724 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	Development Applications 1 15 (25.86 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (1.724 %) Eclipse
General 1 11 (18.97 %) Electronics 2 7 (12.07 %) Manufacturing 3 4 (6.897 %) Government 4 1 (1.724 %) Pharmaceutical 4 1 (1.724 %) Advertising 4 1 (1.724 %) Multimedia 4 1 (1.724 %) Marketing 4 1 (1.724 %) Avionics 4 1 (1.724 %) Finance 4 1 (1.724 %) Aerospace 4 1 (1.724 %) Automotive 4 1 (1.724 %) Electric	Miscellaneous 1 4 (6.897 %) Mathematics 1 4 (6.897 %) Physics 2 2 (3.448 %) Computer Science 2 2 (3.448 %) Client/Server 3 1 (1.724 %) W3C 3 1 (1.724 %) Device Driver 3 1 (1.724 %) VHDL 3 1 (1.724 %) STB 3 1 (1.724 %) IPTV 3 1 (1.724 %) Life Science 3 1 (1.724 %) Multithreading
Operating Systems 1 6 (10.34 %) Windows 2 5 (8.621 %) VxWorks 3 4 (6.897 %) Linux 4 3 (5.172 %) UNIX 5 2 (3.448 %) Windows XP 5 2 (3.448 %) Windows Server 2003 5 2 (3.448 %) Embedded Linux 5 2 (3.448 %) Windows Vista 5 2 (3.448 %) Windows Server 2008 6 1 (1.724 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 1 (1.724 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (17.24 %) UML 1 10 (17.24 %) Security Cleared 2 7 (12.07 %) SC Cleared 3 6 (10.34 %) OO 4 5 (8.621 %) Software Engineering 5 4 (6.897 %) Risk Management 6 3 (5.172 %) BC Cleared 7 2 (3.448 %) Use Case 8 1 (1.724 %) Internet Marketing 8 1 (1.724 %) Validation 8 1 (1.724 %) Requirements Management 8 1 (1.724 %) Project Planning 8 1 (1.724 %) Data Modelling 8 1 (1.724 %) DRM 8 1 (1.724 %) Project Management 8 1 (1.724 %) Yourdon 8 1 (1.724 %) HOOD
Programming Languages 1 32 (55.17 %) C 1 32 (55.17 %) C++ 2 6 (10.34 %) SQL 3 5 (8.621 %) VBScript 3 5 (8.621 %) VB 3 5 (8.621 %) Java 3 5 (8.621 %) JavaScript 4 4 (6.897 %) C# 4 4 (6.897 %) VB.NET 4 4 (6.897 %) VB6 5 1 (1.724 %) Ruby 5 1 (1.724 %) XPath 5 1 (1.724 %) Python 5 1 (1.724 %) Embedded C 5 1 (1.724 %) XQuery	Qualifications 1 9 (15.52 %) Degree 2 2 (3.448 %) HNC 2 2 (3.448 %) HND 2 2 (3.448 %) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (12.07 %) QA	Vendors 1 14 (24.14 %) Microsoft