The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Liverpool 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 20 June 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 Liverpool 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Developer
Rank 18 27 24
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 2 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 1.550% 0.559% 1.639%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.600% 0.595% 1.744%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
Average daily rate - £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.09%
UK excluding London average daily rate £316 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+5.41% -
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
Liverpool
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
125 168 172
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 96.90% 93.85% 93.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 97 105
Average daily rate £331 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.41% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £163 £200 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 16 17
Average hourly rate £11.50 £16.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.30% -19.51%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.00 £9.70 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.55 £38.00 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Software Developer
Merseyside

Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool Software Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 6 (85.71%) MVC
1 6 (85.71%) jQuery
2 4 (57.14%) WCF
2 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET
2 4 (57.14%) CSS
2 4 (57.14%) C#
2 4 (57.14%) HTML
2 4 (57.14%) .NET
2 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
3 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 3 (42.86%) PHP
4 2 (28.57%) Zend
4 2 (28.57%) CodeIgniter
4 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (28.57%) Magento
5 1 (14.29%) Git (software)
5 1 (14.29%) Pentaho
5 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (14.29%) HTML5
5 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
5 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC 2
5 1 (14.29%) CSS3
5 1 (14.29%) Backbone.js
5 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (14.29%) Finance
5 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
5 1 (14.29%) Scrum
5 1 (14.29%) Spring
5 1 (14.29%) Maven
5 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 6 (85.71%) jQuery
2 4 (57.14%) WCF
2 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET
2 4 (57.14%) CSS
2 4 (57.14%) HTML
2 4 (57.14%) .NET
3 2 (28.57%) CodeIgniter
4 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (14.29%) HTML5
4 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC 2
4 1 (14.29%) CSS3
4 1 (14.29%) Backbone.js
4 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
4 1 (14.29%) Spring
4 1 (14.29%) J2EE
4 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Magento
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Pentaho
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git (software)
1 1 (14.29%) Maven
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) MVC
2 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) C#
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 3 (42.86%) PHP
3 1 (14.29%) Java
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Zend