Kent Software Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT contracts within the Kent 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 Developer 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 Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Clapham Colchester Coventry Crawley Crewe Derby Derbyshire Devon Doncaster Dorset Dumbarton East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gateshead Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hove Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Portsmouth Reading Redhill Scotland Sheffield Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wokingham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	51
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	1	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	0.262 %	0.735 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£300
Average daily rate	-	£325
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£308	£322
% change on same period last year	-4.45 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.79	£35.51
% change on same period last year	-7.65 %
Job Titles Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	381	544
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.508 %	0.543 %
Daily rates quoted	136	117
Average minimum daily rate	£282	£313
Average daily rate	£300	£327
% change on same period last year	-8.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£317	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	60	111
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.49	£22.11
Average hourly rate	£21.07	£24.44
% change on same period last year	-13.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.65	£26.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
Software Developer South East

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 Developer across the Kent 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 Developer across the Kent 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 Developer across the Kent region.

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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 Developer within the Kent 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
Maidstone	-	1	-	-

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Top 6 Related IT Skills

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

1 1 (100.00 %) Java 1 1 (100.00 %) JUnit 1 1 (100.00 %) Struts 1 1 (100.00 %) Hibernate 1 1 (100.00 %) Extreme Programming 1 1 (100.00 %) Spring

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 1 (100.00 %) Struts 1 1 (100.00 %) Hibernate 1 1 (100.00 %) Spring	Development Applications 1 1 (100.00 %) JUnit
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) Extreme Programming	Programming Languages 1 1 (100.00 %) Java