M4 Corridor Software Engineering Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Software Engineering skills within the M4 Corridor region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Engineering over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Software Engineering
Location Barrow-in-Furness Bedfordshire Berkshire Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Fareham Gloucestershire Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Hull Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Livingston London M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Midlands Milton Keynes Newport North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Reading Scotland Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Wales Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Wokingham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£304	£384
% change on same period last year	-20.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.54	£35.48
% change on same period last year	-2.64 %
Processes & Methodologies M4 Corridor
Matching contract IT job ads	109	114
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.144 %	0.114 %
Daily rates quoted	31	24
Average minimum daily rate	£395	£386
Average daily rate	£420	£403
% change on same period last year	+4.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£445	£420
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£39.14
Average hourly rate	-	£39.14
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£39.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.30	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.42 %
Software Engineering South East

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.

Software Engineering
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Software Engineering across the M4 Corridor region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Software Engineering across the M4 Corridor region.

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Software Engineering across the M4 Corridor region.