Software Engineer 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 Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineer
Rank 24 43 19
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -24
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 6 1 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 3.061% 0.231% 5.357%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.209% 0.248% 5.797%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
Average daily rate £300 £340 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% +13.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £301 £300
% change year-on-year
+7.97% +0.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 6
Average hourly rate £37.50 - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.25 £36.25
% change year-on-year
+0.67% +2.75%
All Job Titles
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 187 403 207
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 95.41% 93.29% 92.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 223 88
Average daily rate £288 £365 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.23% +21.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £256 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 18 33
Average hourly rate £19.04 £14.90 £38.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+27.78% -60.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.50 £19.56
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £30.00 £41.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Software Engineer
North West

Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Lancashire Software Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Lancashire Software Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Software Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Preston - 4 £300 -
Blackburn +2 2 - -
Software Engineer
North West

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 5 (55.56%) C#
1 5 (55.56%) .NET
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
1 5 (55.56%) .NET Framework
2 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (44.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2012
2 4 (44.44%) MS Excel
2 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 4 (44.44%) Visual Studio
3 3 (33.33%) C
3 3 (33.33%) Java
4 2 (22.22%) C++
4 2 (22.22%) OO
4 2 (22.22%) XML
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) TDD
4 2 (22.22%) Eclipse
4 2 (22.22%) JNI
4 2 (22.22%) SWT
5 1 (11.11%) JSON
5 1 (11.11%) Mathematics
5 1 (11.11%) WCF
5 1 (11.11%) WPF
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (11.11%) Business Analysis
5 1 (11.11%) Ruby
5 1 (11.11%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (11.11%) JAX-RS

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 5 (55.56%) .NET
1 5 (55.56%) .NET Framework
2 2 (22.22%) SWT
2 2 (22.22%) JNI
2 2 (22.22%) XML
3 1 (11.11%) XSD
3 1 (11.11%) WSDL
3 1 (11.11%) Spring
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) JSON
3 1 (11.11%) WCF
3 1 (11.11%) WPF
3 1 (11.11%) RESTful
3 1 (11.11%) Ninject
3 1 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) JAX-RS
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (44.44%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2005
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2008
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Visual Studio
2 2 (22.22%) Eclipse
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Mathematics
1 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) TDD
1 2 (22.22%) OO
1 2 (22.22%) Migration
2 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (11.11%) RDF
2 1 (11.11%) Benchmarking
2 1 (11.11%) UML
2 1 (11.11%) Pair Programming
2 1 (11.11%) Document Management
2 1 (11.11%) Business Analysis
2 1 (11.11%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
2 1 (11.11%) BDD
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) C#
2 3 (33.33%) C
2 3 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) C++
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) PHP
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) VB
4 1 (11.11%) VB.NET
4 1 (11.11%) VB6
4 1 (11.11%) Ruby
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
C# Software Engineer
Preston, North West
Our client is an £80m revenue business looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join an established but ambitious business. The successful candidate will have in excess of...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 per day + Contract - 3 Months
Posted: 2 May 2013
C# Software Engineer
Preston, North West
Our client is an £80m revenue business looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join an established but ambitious business. The successful candidate will have in excess of...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 per day + Contract - 3 Months
Posted: 23 April 2013
C# Software Engineer
Preston, Lancashire
Our client is an £80m revenue business looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join an established but ambitious business. The successful candidate will have in excess of...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 per day + Contract - 3 Months
Posted: 14 May 2013
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