London Software Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT contracts within the London region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hampshire Havant Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hull Ipswich Kidderminster Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Scotland Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	282	269
Rank change on same period last year	-13
Matching contract IT job ads	122	218
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.163 %	0.221 %
As % of the category below	0.411 %	0.513 %
Daily rates quoted	35	44
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£350
Average daily rate	£350	£386
% change on same period last year	-9.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£423
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£303
% change on same period last year	+6.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	27
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.63	£32.41
Average hourly rate	£35.13	£35.02
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.63	£37.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.76	£34.25
% change on same period last year	+7.35 %
Job Titles London
Matching contract IT job ads	29663	42535
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	39.54 %	43.03 %
Daily rates quoted	12541	15833
Average minimum daily rate	£408	£426
Average daily rate	£438	£455
% change on same period last year	-3.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£468	£484
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	1576	2120
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.67	£24.40
Average hourly rate	£24.26	£26.14
% change on same period last year	-7.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.85	£27.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Software Engineer across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the London region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the London region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the London region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
City of London	-16	15	£301	-35.33 %
Wimbledon	-	8	£263	-
Luton	+15	2	-	-
Docklands, London	-	2	£625	-
Croydon	-	1	-	-
Uxbridge	-8	1	-	-
Greenford	+3	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 76 (31.54 %) Java 2 73 (30.29 %) C++ 3 66 (27.39 %) C 4 44 (18.26 %) Linux 5 41 (17.01 %) SQL 5 41 (17.01 %) J2EE 6 38 (15.77 %) UNIX 7 35 (14.52 %) C# 7 35 (14.52 %) Software Engineering 8 34 (14.11 %) Windows 9 31 (12.86 %) .NET 10 30 (12.45 %) Agile Software Development 11 28 (11.62 %) XML 12 24 (9.959 %) UML 12 24 (9.959 %) SQL Server

13 23 (9.544 %) Perl 13 23 (9.544 %) OO 13 23 (9.544 %) Finance 14 22 (9.129 %) Scrum 15 21 (8.714 %) Oracle 16 18 (7.469 %) Visual Studio 16 18 (7.469 %) TDD 17 17 (7.054 %) Subversion 17 17 (7.054 %) Spring 17 17 (7.054 %) Military 18 16 (6.639 %) WebServices 18 16 (6.639 %) Eclipse 19 14 (5.809 %) Embedded C 19 14 (5.809 %) CSS 19 14 (5.809 %) VxWorks

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 41 (17.01 %) J2EE 2 31 (12.86 %) .NET 3 28 (11.62 %) XML 4 17 (7.054 %) Spring 5 16 (6.639 %) WebServices 6 14 (5.809 %) CSS 7 12 (4.979 %) Middleware 8 11 (4.564 %) MVC 8 11 (4.564 %) HTML 9 10 (4.149 %) XSL 10 9 (3.734 %) XHTML 10 9 (3.734 %) J2ME 10 9 (3.734 %) Struts 10 9 (3.734 %) Ruby on Rails 10 9 (3.734 %) Spring MVC 11 8 (3.320 %) AJAX 11 8 (3.320 %) JSP 11 8 (3.320 %) ASP.NET 11 8 (3.320 %) XSLT 11 8 (3.320 %) MHP	Application Platforms 1 10 (4.149 %) Apache 2 7 (2.905 %) CMS 3 4 (1.660 %) WebLogic 3 4 (1.660 %) JBoss 4 3 (1.245 %) BizTalk Server 5 2 (0.830 %) Tomcat 5 2 (0.830 %) SharePoint 6 1 (0.415 %) SAS 6 1 (0.415 %) ColdFusion 6 1 (0.415 %) CICS 6 1 (0.415 %) ColdFusion MX 6 1 (0.415 %) IIS 6 1 (0.415 %) Live Communications Server
Applications 1 6 (2.490 %) MS Office 2 5 (2.075 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 8 (3.320 %) TCP/IP 1 8 (3.320 %) Internet 2 7 (2.905 %) VoIP 3 5 (2.075 %) Bluetooth 4 4 (1.660 %) GPRS 4 4 (1.660 %) GSM 4 4 (1.660 %) 3G 4 4 (1.660 %) DVB 5 3 (1.245 %) Broadband 6 2 (0.830 %) CDMA 6 2 (0.830 %) WLAN 6 2 (0.830 %) SMS 6 2 (0.830 %) IPsec 6 2 (0.830 %) 2G 6 2 (0.830 %) 2.5G 6 2 (0.830 %) FTP 7 1 (0.415 %) HTTP 7 1 (0.415 %) Symposium 7 1 (0.415 %) RTP 7 1 (0.415 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 24 (9.959 %) SQL Server 2 7 (2.905 %) RDBMS 3 5 (2.075 %) MySQL 3 5 (2.075 %) GIS 3 5 (2.075 %) SQL Server 2005 4 4 (1.660 %) MS Access 5 3 (1.245 %) SQL Server 2000 6 2 (0.830 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 2 (0.830 %) Oracle 10g 7 1 (0.415 %) BusinessObjects 7 1 (0.415 %) SQL Server 7 7 1 (0.415 %) Datawarehouse 7 1 (0.415 %) TOAD 7 1 (0.415 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 1 (0.415 %) Oracle 9i 7 1 (0.415 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 1 (0.415 %) Microsoft Analysis Services	Development Applications 1 18 (7.469 %) Visual Studio 2 17 (7.054 %) Subversion 3 16 (6.639 %) Eclipse 4 9 (3.734 %) Ant 5 5 (2.075 %) JUnit 6 3 (1.245 %) NUnit 7 2 (0.830 %) Selenium 7 2 (0.830 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 2 (0.830 %) Flash 7 2 (0.830 %) ClearCase 8 1 (0.415 %) Rational Rose 8 1 (0.415 %) WebObjects 8 1 (0.415 %) LabVIEW
General 1 23 (9.544 %) Finance 2 17 (7.054 %) Military 3 12 (4.979 %) Banking 4 11 (4.564 %) Government 5 10 (4.149 %) Telecoms 6 9 (3.734 %) Aerospace 6 9 (3.734 %) Multimedia 7 8 (3.320 %) Investment Banking 8 6 (2.490 %) Publishing 9 5 (2.075 %) Advertising 9 5 (2.075 %) Electronics 10 3 (1.245 %) Financial Institution 10 3 (1.245 %) Manufacturing 11 2 (0.830 %) Games 11 2 (0.830 %) Billing 11 2 (0.830 %) Front Office 11 2 (0.830 %) Local Government 12 1 (0.415 %) Music 12 1 (0.415 %) Video Editing 12 1 (0.415 %) Insurance	Miscellaneous 1 9 (3.734 %) STB 2 8 (3.320 %) DTV 3 7 (2.905 %) Multithreading 4 5 (2.075 %) Handset 4 5 (2.075 %) Derivative 5 4 (1.660 %) Client/Server 5 4 (1.660 %) Computer Science 5 4 (1.660 %) Device Driver 6 3 (1.245 %) French Language 6 3 (1.245 %) Spanish Language 6 3 (1.245 %) Streaming Video 6 3 (1.245 %) IPTV 6 3 (1.245 %) Web 2.0 7 2 (0.830 %) Equities 7 2 (0.830 %) IVR 7 2 (0.830 %) N-Tier 7 2 (0.830 %) MPEG 8 1 (0.415 %) iDTV 8 1 (0.415 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 8 1 (0.415 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 44 (18.26 %) Linux 2 38 (15.77 %) UNIX 3 34 (14.11 %) Windows 4 14 (5.809 %) VxWorks 5 9 (3.734 %) Mac OS X 6 5 (2.075 %) Windows Mobile 7 4 (1.660 %) Windows Server 2003 8 3 (1.245 %) Windows NT 9 2 (0.830 %) AIX 9 2 (0.830 %) Solaris 9 2 (0.830 %) VMS 9 2 (0.830 %) Windows CE 9 2 (0.830 %) MVS 9 2 (0.830 %) Symbian OS 9 2 (0.830 %) Nucleus RTOS 9 2 (0.830 %) Embedded Linux 10 1 (0.415 %) Windows XP Embedded 10 1 (0.415 %) Windows XP 10 1 (0.415 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 35 (14.52 %) Software Engineering 2 30 (12.45 %) Agile Software Development 3 24 (9.959 %) UML 4 23 (9.544 %) OO 5 22 (9.129 %) Scrum 6 18 (7.469 %) TDD 7 13 (5.394 %) Security Cleared 8 11 (4.564 %) SOA 9 10 (4.149 %) Requirements Analysis 10 9 (3.734 %) Content Management 10 9 (3.734 %) Unit Testing 11 8 (3.320 %) SC Cleared 12 7 (2.905 %) CRM 13 6 (2.490 %) Web Development 14 5 (2.075 %) OOD 14 5 (2.075 %) RUP 14 5 (2.075 %) OOP 14 5 (2.075 %) OOA/OOD 14 5 (2.075 %) Configuration Management 14 5 (2.075 %) System Testing
Programming Languages 1 76 (31.54 %) Java 2 73 (30.29 %) C++ 3 66 (27.39 %) C 4 41 (17.01 %) SQL 5 35 (14.52 %) C# 6 23 (9.544 %) Perl 7 14 (5.809 %) Embedded C 7 14 (5.809 %) Ruby 8 13 (5.394 %) JavaScript 9 11 (4.564 %) Ada 10 6 (2.490 %) Python 10 6 (2.490 %) Transact-SQL 10 6 (2.490 %) PL/SQL 10 6 (2.490 %) VB.NET 11 5 (2.075 %) VC++ 11 5 (2.075 %) PHP 12 4 (1.660 %) Embedded C++ 13 3 (1.245 %) Assembly Language 13 3 (1.245 %) Shell Script 13 3 (1.245 %) DHTML	Qualifications 1 12 (4.979 %) Degree 2 4 (1.660 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (1.660 %) MCP 3 1 (0.415 %) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (1.660 %) QA 2 2 (0.830 %) PCI DSS 2 2 (0.830 %) JTAG	System Software 1 8 (3.320 %) Xen 2 2 (0.830 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 2 (0.830 %) Active Directory 3 1 (0.415 %) AquaLogic 3 1 (0.415 %) NDS
Vendors 1 21 (8.714 %) Oracle 2 12 (4.979 %) Microsoft 3 11 (4.564 %) Symbian 4 10 (4.149 %) VMware 5 5 (2.075 %) Metastorm 6 4 (1.660 %) Stellent 6 4 (1.660 %) IBM 7 3 (1.245 %) Sybase 7 3 (1.245 %) ESRI 8 2 (0.830 %) BEA 8 2 (0.830 %) Mapinfo 8 2 (0.830 %) Algorithmics 8 2 (0.830 %) Calypso 9 1 (0.415 %) HP 9 1 (0.415 %) EMC 9 1 (0.415 %) Business Objects 9 1 (0.415 %) QNX 9 1 (0.415 %) TIBCO 9 1 (0.415 %) OpenTV