Software Engineer Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 North West 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineer
Rank 94 106 108
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 25 29 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 1.059% 0.919% 0.731%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.135% 1.005% 0.788%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 19 8
Average daily rate £300 £313 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.15% -13.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £266 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £375 £365
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £308 £300
% change year-on-year
+5.69% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 6
Average hourly rate £37.50 - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year
- +3.44%
All Job Titles
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 2202 2887 2793
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 93.27% 91.53% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1041 1432 1395
Average daily rate £333 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.30% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £225 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £473
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 174 190
Average hourly rate £18.00 £19.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% +8.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £33.30 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Software Engineer
England

Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Software Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the North West region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

North West Software Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Software Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Software Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the North West region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cheshire +9 10 £338 +17.39%
Lancashire +16 6 £300 -11.76%
Manchester +2 5 £323 -0.76%
Software Engineer
England

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 14 (35.90%) Java
2 12 (30.77%) C#
2 12 (30.77%) .NET
2 12 (30.77%) Agile Software Development
3 11 (28.21%) C
4 9 (23.08%) Spring
5 8 (20.51%) TDD
5 8 (20.51%) SQL Server
5 8 (20.51%) C++
5 8 (20.51%) Linux
5 8 (20.51%) OO
5 8 (20.51%) .NET Framework
6 7 (17.95%) SQL Server 2008
6 7 (17.95%) Windows
6 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
6 7 (17.95%) XML
6 7 (17.95%) J2EE
7 6 (15.38%) Pair Programming
7 6 (15.38%) SQL Server 2005
7 6 (15.38%) JavaScript
7 6 (15.38%) SQL
7 6 (15.38%) Visual Studio
7 6 (15.38%) Web Services
7 6 (15.38%) MS Excel
7 6 (15.38%) RESTful
7 6 (15.38%) BDD
7 6 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (12.82%) XPath
8 5 (12.82%) Degree
8 5 (12.82%) JSON

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 12 (30.77%) .NET
2 9 (23.08%) Spring
3 8 (20.51%) .NET Framework
4 7 (17.95%) XML
4 7 (17.95%) J2EE
5 6 (15.38%) Web Services
5 6 (15.38%) RESTful
6 5 (12.82%) JSON
6 5 (12.82%) REST
6 5 (12.82%) JAX-RS
6 5 (12.82%) XSLT
6 5 (12.82%) HTML
7 4 (10.26%) WCF
7 4 (10.26%) WPF
8 3 (7.692%) WebSphere
8 3 (7.692%) ASP.NET
8 3 (7.692%) Hibernate
9 2 (5.128%) Ajax
9 2 (5.128%) Windows SharePoint Services
9 2 (5.128%) JNI
Application Platforms
1 3 (7.692%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.564%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (2.564%) Drupal
2 1 (2.564%) Mule
2 1 (2.564%) ESB
2 1 (2.564%) Apache
2 1 (2.564%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (15.38%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.564%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 2 (5.128%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.128%) Internet
2 2 (5.128%) Ethernet
3 1 (2.564%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.51%) SQL Server
2 7 (17.95%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (15.38%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (10.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (10.26%) SQL Server 2012
5 2 (5.128%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (5.128%) MarkLogic
5 2 (5.128%) Redis
5 2 (5.128%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.564%) MySQL
6 1 (2.564%) GIS
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Visual Studio
2 4 (10.26%) Subversion
3 3 (7.692%) Eclipse
3 3 (7.692%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 2 (5.128%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.564%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.564%) JIRA
5 1 (2.564%) JUnit
General
1 4 (10.26%) Electronics
2 3 (7.692%) Publishing
3 2 (5.128%) Finance
3 2 (5.128%) Games
4 1 (2.564%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.564%) Military
4 1 (2.564%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (7.692%) SCADA
2 3 (7.692%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 2 (5.128%) Streaming Video
3 2 (5.128%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.128%) Interactive TV
3 2 (5.128%) Firmware
3 2 (5.128%) Mathematics
3 2 (5.128%) CMDB
3 2 (5.128%) Semantic Web
3 2 (5.128%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.564%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.564%) Mobile Payment
4 1 (2.564%) RIA
4 1 (2.564%) Computer Science
4 1 (2.564%) DTV
4 1 (2.564%) STB
4 1 (2.564%) CCTV
4 1 (2.564%) Statistics
4 1 (2.564%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.51%) Linux
2 7 (17.95%) Windows
3 2 (5.128%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (5.128%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.564%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.564%) Android
4 1 (2.564%) VMS
4 1 (2.564%) OpenVMS
4 1 (2.564%) VxWorks
4 1 (2.564%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.77%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (20.51%) TDD
2 8 (20.51%) OO
3 6 (15.38%) Pair Programming
3 6 (15.38%) BDD
3 6 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (12.82%) Test Automation
4 5 (12.82%) RDF
5 4 (10.26%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (10.26%) Software Engineering
5 4 (10.26%) Benchmarking
6 3 (7.692%) Data Management
6 3 (7.692%) OOD
6 3 (7.692%) Configuration Management
6 3 (7.692%) Scrum
7 2 (5.128%) Migration
7 2 (5.128%) Change Management
7 2 (5.128%) Software Testing
7 2 (5.128%) Business Analysis
7 2 (5.128%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.90%) Java
2 12 (30.77%) C#
3 11 (28.21%) C
4 8 (20.51%) C++
5 6 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 6 (15.38%) SQL
6 5 (12.82%) XPath
7 4 (10.26%) Ruby
7 4 (10.26%) XQuery
7 4 (10.26%) Embedded C
8 3 (7.692%) PHP
9 2 (5.128%) Python
9 2 (5.128%) SPARQL
10 1 (2.564%) PowerShell
10 1 (2.564%) PowerHouse
10 1 (2.564%) Assembly Language
10 1 (2.564%) Pascal
10 1 (2.564%) PL/SQL
10 1 (2.564%) VB
10 1 (2.564%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) Degree
2 3 (7.692%) HND
3 1 (2.564%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.564%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.564%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.564%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.564%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.26%) IBM
3 3 (7.692%) Oracle
4 2 (5.128%) SAP
5 1 (2.564%) Xamarin
5 1 (2.564%) Renesas
5 1 (2.564%) Motorola
5 1 (2.564%) QNX
5 1 (2.564%) Perforce
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