The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Norfolk 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 Norfolk 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 24 31 36
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 8 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norfolk 4.372% 0.380% 0.377%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.624% 0.405% 0.403%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £250 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
Average hourly rate £38.75 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -4.10%
All Job Titles
Norfolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
173 247 248
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norfolk 94.54% 93.92% 93.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 116 74
Average daily rate £275 £315 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.69% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £100 £232 £227
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £455 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 16 30
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -2.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £14.00 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £25.75 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Software Developer
East of England

Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Norfolk 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 Norfolk region.

Norfolk 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 Norfolk region.

Norfolk Software Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Software Developer
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 8 (53.33%) E-Commerce
1 8 (53.33%) B2C
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
1 8 (53.33%) C#
1 8 (53.33%) .NET
1 8 (53.33%) OO
1 8 (53.33%) MS Excel
1 8 (53.33%) Open Source
1 8 (53.33%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (46.67%) SharePoint
2 7 (46.67%) XHTML
2 7 (46.67%) Photoshop
2 7 (46.67%) CSS
2 7 (46.67%) HTML
2 7 (46.67%) JavaScript
2 7 (46.67%) PHP
2 7 (46.67%) Code Coverage
2 7 (46.67%) Publishing
2 7 (46.67%) Drupal
2 7 (46.67%) jQuery
2 7 (46.67%) Unit Testing

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 8 (53.33%) .NET
2 7 (46.67%) XHTML
2 7 (46.67%) CSS
2 7 (46.67%) HTML
2 7 (46.67%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 7 (46.67%) SharePoint
1 7 (46.67%) Drupal
Applications
1 8 (53.33%) MS Excel
2 7 (46.67%) Photoshop
General
1 7 (46.67%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Open Source
1 8 (53.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) E-Commerce
1 8 (53.33%) B2C
1 8 (53.33%) OO
2 7 (46.67%) Code Coverage
2 7 (46.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) C#
2 7 (46.67%) JavaScript
2 7 (46.67%) PHP
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft