Luton Software Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT contracts within the Luton 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Avon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Crawley Derby Derbyshire Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hampshire Harrow Havant Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Hull Ipswich Kent Kidderminster Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Shields North West Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rugby Scotland Sevenoaks Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	10	25
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	4	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	5.556 %	6.918 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£350
Average daily rate	£300	£350
% change on same period last year	-14.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£319	£277
% change on same period last year	+15.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£33.00
Average hourly rate	£20.00	£35.08
% change on same period last year	-42.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	£37.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.74	£35.09
% change on same period last year	+1.85 %
Job Titles Luton
Matching contract IT job ads	72	159
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.097 %	0.157 %
Daily rates quoted	29	51
Average minimum daily rate	£286	£329
Average daily rate	£304	£358
% change on same period last year	-15.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£321	£387
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.74	£24.94
Average hourly rate	£23.60	£27.27
% change on same period last year	-13.45 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.45	£29.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.85	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.14 %
Software Engineer London

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 Luton 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 Luton region.

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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 Luton region.

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Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Luton 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 11 (100.00 %) C++ 2 9 (81.82 %) Military 2 9 (81.82 %) Visual Studio 3 7 (63.64 %) Finance 4 4 (36.36 %) Windows 4 4 (36.36 %) C 5 2 (18.18 %) C# 5 2 (18.18 %) Java 5 2 (18.18 %) UNIX 5 2 (18.18 %) Government 5 2 (18.18 %) JNI 5 2 (18.18 %) Degree 6 1 (9.091 %) Embedded C 6 1 (9.091 %) Embedded C++

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Luton 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 2 (18.18 %) JNI	Development Applications 1 9 (81.82 %) Visual Studio
General 1 9 (81.82 %) Military 2 7 (63.64 %) Finance 3 2 (18.18 %) Government	Operating Systems 1 4 (36.36 %) Windows 2 2 (18.18 %) UNIX
Programming Languages 1 11 (100.00 %) C++ 2 4 (36.36 %) C 3 2 (18.18 %) C# 3 2 (18.18 %) Java 4 1 (9.091 %) Embedded C 4 1 (9.091 %) Embedded C++	Qualifications 1 2 (18.18 %) Degree