Software Developer Contracts in Lancashire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 Lancashire 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Developer
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 1.923% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.020% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Average daily rate £290 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £316 £300 £298
% change year-on-year
+5.41% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -4.10%
All Job Titles
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 198 386 218
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 95.19% 92.57% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 207 89
Average daily rate £285 £375 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.00% +17.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £208 £273 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £490 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 22 34
Average hourly rate £19.02 £18.00 £38.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.66% -52.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.50 £13.47
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £30.00 £41.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Software Developer
North West

Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire Software Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Software Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Lancashire Software Developer Daily Rate Trend

Software Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Lancashire Software Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Software Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Developer within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Chorley - 1 £305 -
Software Developer
North West

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) MVC
2 4 (80.00%) Web Services
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) WCF
3 3 (60.00%) SOAP
3 3 (60.00%) WSDL
3 3 (60.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (60.00%) XML
3 3 (60.00%) XSD
3 3 (60.00%) Visual Studio
3 3 (60.00%) SQL Server 2012
3 3 (60.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
4 2 (40.00%) Mobile Application Development
4 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (40.00%) IIS
4 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 2 (40.00%) Workflow
4 2 (40.00%) Document Management
4 2 (40.00%) WPF
4 2 (40.00%) Dependency Injection
4 2 (40.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 2 (40.00%) Ninject
4 2 (40.00%) REST

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 5 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (80.00%) Web Services
2 4 (80.00%) WCF
3 3 (60.00%) SOAP
3 3 (60.00%) WSDL
3 3 (60.00%) XML
3 3 (60.00%) XSD
4 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (40.00%) WPF
4 2 (40.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 2 (40.00%) Ninject
4 2 (40.00%) REST
5 1 (20.00%) XHTML
5 1 (20.00%) CSS
5 1 (20.00%) ADO.NET
5 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server 2012
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (20.00%) Billing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) MVC
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 2 (40.00%) Workflow
2 2 (40.00%) Document Management
2 2 (40.00%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (20.00%) Web Application Development
3 1 (20.00%) Release Management
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
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