The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Programmer 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 Programmer 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Programmer
Rank 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Software Programmer 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.134% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.142% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £225 £350
% change year-on-year
+44.44% -35.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.53%
All Job Titles
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
706 845 596
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 94.77% 94.94% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 480 279
Average daily rate £300 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £213 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £434 £453 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 47 44
Average hourly rate £12.50 £12.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.00 £6.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.75 £32.80 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Software Programmer
West Yorkshire

Software Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds Software Programmer Jobs Demand Trend

Software Programmer
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region that cited Software Programmer 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 Programmer in their job title.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) Pharmacovigilance
2 1 (50.00%) German Language
2 1 (50.00%) Japanese Language
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL

Software Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region that cited Software Programmer 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 Programmer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Ajax
1 1 (50.00%) WCF
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
General
1 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (50.00%) German Language
1 1 (50.00%) Japanese Language
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Pharmacovigilance
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle