The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside 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 24 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 Merseyside 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Developer
Rank 26 30 18
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 5 5 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 2.475% 1.916% 5.645%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.564% 2.024% 6.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
Average daily rate £300 £288 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.34% +4.54%
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -4.10%
All Job Titles
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
195 247 230
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 96.53% 94.64% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 113 111
Average daily rate £330 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £188 £134
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £430 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 44 35
Average hourly rate £11.50 £17.76 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.22% +18.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.16 £11.71 £11.07
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £83.70 £25.00 £22.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Software Developer
North West

Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside Software Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 15 (88.24%) .NET
1 15 (88.24%) SQL Server
2 13 (76.47%) C#
3 11 (64.71%) ASP.NET
3 11 (64.71%) WCF
4 10 (58.82%) CSS
5 9 (52.94%) HTML
5 9 (52.94%) jQuery
5 9 (52.94%) MVC
6 8 (47.06%) JavaScript
7 6 (35.29%) .NET Framework
8 5 (29.41%) Visual Studio
8 5 (29.41%) Java
8 5 (29.41%) OO
9 4 (23.53%) MS Excel
9 4 (23.53%) Eclipse
9 4 (23.53%) NHS
9 4 (23.53%) C++
9 4 (23.53%) SQL
9 4 (23.53%) VBScript
9 4 (23.53%) VB
9 4 (23.53%) ASP
9 4 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (23.53%) Android
9 4 (23.53%) Agile Software Development
9 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
9 4 (23.53%) Apple iOS
10 3 (17.65%) CSS3
10 3 (17.65%) SQL Server 2005
10 3 (17.65%) SQL Server 2008

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 15 (88.24%) .NET
2 11 (64.71%) ASP.NET
2 11 (64.71%) WCF
3 10 (58.82%) CSS
4 9 (52.94%) HTML
4 9 (52.94%) jQuery
5 6 (35.29%) .NET Framework
6 4 (23.53%) ASP
7 3 (17.65%) CSS3
8 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET 2.0
8 2 (11.76%) HTML5
8 2 (11.76%) Backbone.js
9 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET MVC 2
9 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (5.882%) Symfony
9 1 (5.882%) Spring
9 1 (5.882%) Hibernate
9 1 (5.882%) Flash
9 1 (5.882%) Web Services
9 1 (5.882%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.882%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (88.24%) SQL Server
2 3 (17.65%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (17.65%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (17.65%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (5.882%) Pentaho
4 1 (5.882%) RDBMS
4 1 (5.882%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Visual Studio
2 4 (23.53%) Eclipse
3 2 (11.76%) Git (software)
4 1 (5.882%) NUnit
4 1 (5.882%) Maven
4 1 (5.882%) InstallShield
General
1 1 (5.882%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) NHS
2 1 (5.882%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Android
1 4 (23.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) MVC
2 5 (29.41%) OO
3 4 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (23.53%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (5.882%) Unit Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Scrum
4 1 (5.882%) Extreme Programming
4 1 (5.882%) Project Management
4 1 (5.882%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) C#
2 8 (47.06%) JavaScript
3 5 (29.41%) Java
4 4 (23.53%) C++
4 4 (23.53%) SQL
4 4 (23.53%) VBScript
4 4 (23.53%) VB
5 2 (11.76%) PHP
6 1 (5.882%) Perl
6 1 (5.882%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.882%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.882%) Twitter
2 1 (5.882%) Adobe