Software Developer Contracts in Leeds
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 21 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 Leeds 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Developer
Rank 64 57 54
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 8 9 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 1.057% 1.011% 0.164%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.114% 1.066% 0.172%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 0
Average daily rate £275 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.16% -
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
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 718 844 580
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 94.85% 94.83% 95.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 482 272
Average daily rate £300 £335 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.44% -1.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £209 £200 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £434 £460 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 48 45
Average hourly rate £12.50 £12.75 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.96% -15.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.00 £6.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.25 £35.60 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Software Developer
West Yorkshire

Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Software Developer Daily Rate Trend

Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Developer across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Leeds Software Developer Daily Rate Histogram

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 Leeds region.

Leeds Software Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 10 (58.82%) .NET
2 9 (52.94%) SQL Server
2 9 (52.94%) C#
2 9 (52.94%) Web Services
3 8 (47.06%) ASP.NET
3 8 (47.06%) SQL
4 5 (29.41%) VB.NET
5 4 (23.53%) C++
5 4 (23.53%) OO
5 4 (23.53%) Python
5 4 (23.53%) Ruby
5 4 (23.53%) Amazon AWS
5 4 (23.53%) Node.js
6 3 (17.65%) Multithreading
6 3 (17.65%) SQL Server 2008
6 3 (17.65%) Web Development
6 3 (17.65%) WinForms
6 3 (17.65%) Windows
6 3 (17.65%) Java
6 3 (17.65%) Visual Studio
6 3 (17.65%) PL/SQL
7 2 (11.76%) Oracle
7 2 (11.76%) VB
7 2 (11.76%) CSS
7 2 (11.76%) XML
7 2 (11.76%) CMMI
7 2 (11.76%) RUP
7 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
7 2 (11.76%) MVC
7 2 (11.76%) Perforce

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 10 (58.82%) .NET
2 9 (52.94%) Web Services
3 8 (47.06%) ASP.NET
4 4 (23.53%) Node.js
5 3 (17.65%) WinForms
6 2 (11.76%) CSS
6 2 (11.76%) XML
6 2 (11.76%) jQuery
6 2 (11.76%) WCF
6 2 (11.76%) WPF
6 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET MVC 2
7 1 (5.882%) LINQ
7 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (5.882%) HTML5
7 1 (5.882%) .NET Framework
7 1 (5.882%) LAMP
7 1 (5.882%) XSLT
7 1 (5.882%) SOAP
7 1 (5.882%) POSIX
7 1 (5.882%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 4 (23.53%) Amazon AWS
2 1 (5.882%) Route 53
2 1 (5.882%) nginx
2 1 (5.882%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (5.882%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.882%) Apache
2 1 (5.882%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.882%) BizTalk Server
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.882%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (5.882%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) SQL Server
2 3 (17.65%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (5.882%) Couchbase
3 1 (5.882%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.882%) Redis
3 1 (5.882%) SimpleDB
3 1 (5.882%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.882%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (5.882%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (5.882%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Visual Studio
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
3 1 (5.882%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (5.882%) NUnit
3 1 (5.882%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 1 (5.882%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.882%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (5.882%) Open Source
1 1 (5.882%) Computer Science
1 1 (5.882%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
2 1 (5.882%) Windows Mobile
2 1 (5.882%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) OO
2 3 (17.65%) Multithreading
2 3 (17.65%) Web Development
3 2 (11.76%) CMMI
3 2 (11.76%) RUP
3 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
3 2 (11.76%) MVC
3 2 (11.76%) Scrum
3 2 (11.76%) TDD
4 1 (5.882%) Kanban
4 1 (5.882%) Test Automation
4 1 (5.882%) Domain-Driven Design
4 1 (5.882%) Security Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Unit Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (5.882%) Network Design
4 1 (5.882%) Service Delivery
4 1 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) C#
2 8 (47.06%) SQL
3 5 (29.41%) VB.NET
4 4 (23.53%) C++
4 4 (23.53%) Python
4 4 (23.53%) Ruby
5 3 (17.65%) Java
5 3 (17.65%) PL/SQL
6 2 (11.76%) VB
7 1 (5.882%) Bash shell
7 1 (5.882%) VB6
7 1 (5.882%) VBA
7 1 (5.882%) JavaScript
7 1 (5.882%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.882%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle
1 2 (11.76%) Perforce
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