Software Engineering Contracts in Hertfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Software Engineering skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Engineering 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Hertfordshire 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 Engineering
Rank 55 67 62
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -5
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 9 8 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 1.382% 0.819% 0.234%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.940% 1.244% 0.379%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
Average daily rate £269 £488 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-44.87% +62.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £335 £320
% change year-on-year
-2.98% +4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year
+2.73% +19.67%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 464 643 528
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 71.27% 65.81% 61.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 290 228
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 56 76
Average hourly rate £21.50 £33.75 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.29% -3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.05 £12.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.60 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Software Engineering
East of England

Software Engineering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Software Engineering Daily Rate Trend

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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Software Engineering Hourly Rate Trend

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 Hertfordshire 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
Royston - 6 - -
Stevenage +2 1 £263 -
Welwyn Garden City - 1 - -
Hemel Hempstead - 1 £275 -
Software Engineering
East of England

Software Engineering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 12 (63.16%) C++
1 12 (63.16%) Degree
2 8 (42.11%) OO
2 8 (42.11%) Embedded C++
3 6 (31.58%) C
3 6 (31.58%) 3GPP
3 6 (31.58%) Computer Science
3 6 (31.58%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (31.58%) LTE
4 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
5 4 (21.05%) Embedded C
5 4 (21.05%) 2G
6 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
7 2 (10.53%) Unit Testing
7 2 (10.53%) Integration Testing
7 2 (10.53%) QA
7 2 (10.53%) Mathematics
7 2 (10.53%) Physics
7 2 (10.53%) LabWindows
7 2 (10.53%) Digital Signal Processing
7 2 (10.53%) Signal Processing
7 2 (10.53%) Aerospace
7 2 (10.53%) LabVIEW
7 2 (10.53%) Serena
7 2 (10.53%) Configuration Management
7 2 (10.53%) MATLAB
7 2 (10.53%) Quality Management
7 2 (10.53%) Electronics
7 2 (10.53%) ISO 9001
7 2 (10.53%) Linux

Software Engineering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 1 (5.263%) Middleware
1 1 (5.263%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.263%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) LabWindows
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) 3GPP
1 6 (31.58%) LTE
2 4 (21.05%) 2G
3 2 (10.53%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.263%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) LabVIEW
2 1 (5.263%) ClearQuest
2 1 (5.263%) ClearCase
2 1 (5.263%) Subversion
General
1 2 (10.53%) Aerospace
1 2 (10.53%) Electronics
2 1 (5.263%) Billing
2 1 (5.263%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Software Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) C Software Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) DSP Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Software Quality Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Test Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) C++ Software Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Administrator
2 2 (10.53%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (5.263%) Project Manager
3 1 (5.263%) E-Commerce Project Manager
3 1 (5.263%) E-Commerce Manager
3 1 (5.263%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Computer Science
2 2 (10.53%) Mathematics
2 2 (10.53%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
2 1 (5.263%) Windows
2 1 (5.263%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) OO
2 6 (31.58%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (10.53%) Unit Testing
3 2 (10.53%) Integration Testing
3 2 (10.53%) Digital Signal Processing
3 2 (10.53%) Signal Processing
3 2 (10.53%) Configuration Management
3 2 (10.53%) Quality Management
4 1 (5.263%) E-Commerce
4 1 (5.263%) Project Management
4 1 (5.263%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (5.263%) Scrum
4 1 (5.263%) Matrix Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) C++
2 8 (42.11%) Embedded C++
3 6 (31.58%) C
4 4 (21.05%) Embedded C
5 2 (10.53%) MATLAB
6 1 (5.263%) PHP
6 1 (5.263%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (63.16%) Degree
2 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
3 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
1 2 (10.53%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (5.263%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Serena
2 1 (5.263%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.263%) IBM
2 1 (5.263%) VMware
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