North West Software Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT contracts within the North West 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 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Avon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Chorley City of London County Antrim Cowes Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Havant Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Kidderminster Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Marlow Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Shields North West Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rugby Scotland Sevenoaks Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West Southampton St Albans Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Wells Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	51	55
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	88	99
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.124 %	0.100 %
As % of the category below	2.637 %	2.443 %
Daily rates quoted	6	1
Average minimum daily rate	£328	£300
Average daily rate	£338	£313
% change on same period last year	+8.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£349	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£302	£273
% change on same period last year	+10.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	41	30
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.46	£33.23
Average hourly rate	£29.99	£34.30
% change on same period last year	-12.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.51	£35.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.84	£35.61
% change on same period last year	-2.18 %
Job Titles North West
Matching contract IT job ads	3337	4053
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.719 %	4.103 %
Daily rates quoted	775	824
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£320
Average daily rate	£341	£338
% change on same period last year	+0.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	472	453
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.58	£20.29
Average hourly rate	£23.36	£21.91
% change on same period last year	+6.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.14	£23.52
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.71	£25.14
% change on same period last year	-5.69 %
Software Engineer England

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 North West 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 North West region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The 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 13 October 2008.

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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 North West region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the North West region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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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 13 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Lancashire	+24	36	-	-
Manchester	-1	22	-	-
Cheshire	+5	18	£356	-
Merseyside	-9	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, 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 66 (52.80 %) C++ 2 54 (43.20 %) C 3 51 (40.80 %) Java 4 32 (25.60 %) XML 5 31 (24.80 %) Aerospace 6 25 (20.00 %) UNIX 7 23 (18.40 %) HTML 8 18 (14.40 %) Oracle 9 17 (13.60 %) VB 9 17 (13.60 %) SOAP 9 17 (13.60 %) WebServices 9 17 (13.60 %) Middleware 10 16 (12.80 %) VxWorks 10 16 (12.80 %) CSS 10 16 (12.80 %) Linux

10 16 (12.80 %) Security Cleared 11 15 (12.00 %) Swing 11 15 (12.00 %) Fortran 11 15 (12.00 %) JSP 12 13 (10.40 %) Hibernate 12 13 (10.40 %) Finance 12 13 (10.40 %) JAX-RPC 12 13 (10.40 %) WSDL 13 12 (9.600 %) C# 14 11 (8.800 %) Spring 14 11 (8.800 %) Embedded C++ 14 11 (8.800 %) .NET 14 11 (8.800 %) UML 15 10 (8.000 %) Windows 15 10 (8.000 %) Embedded C

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, 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 32 (25.60 %) XML 2 23 (18.40 %) HTML 3 17 (13.60 %) SOAP 3 17 (13.60 %) WebServices 3 17 (13.60 %) Middleware 4 16 (12.80 %) CSS 5 15 (12.00 %) JSP 5 15 (12.00 %) Swing 6 13 (10.40 %) WSDL 6 13 (10.40 %) Hibernate 6 13 (10.40 %) JAX-RPC 7 11 (8.800 %) Spring 7 11 (8.800 %) .NET 8 7 (5.600 %) J2EE 9 5 (4.000 %) .NET Framework 9 5 (4.000 %) J2ME 10 4 (3.200 %) XSLT 10 4 (3.200 %) AJAX 10 4 (3.200 %) JDBC 11 3 (2.400 %) EJB	Application Platforms 1 8 (6.400 %) Tuxedo
Applications 1 7 (5.600 %) MATLAB 2 1 (0.800 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 2 (1.600 %) Teamcenter
Communications & Networking 1 7 (5.600 %) VoIP 1 7 (5.600 %) DVB 2 4 (3.200 %) HTTP 3 2 (1.600 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (0.800 %) CTI 4 1 (0.800 %) Ethernet 4 1 (0.800 %) SMPP 4 1 (0.800 %) Wireless 4 1 (0.800 %) TETRA 4 1 (0.800 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (4.800 %) SQL Server 2 3 (2.400 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (1.600 %) Adabas 3 2 (1.600 %) MySQL 3 2 (1.600 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (0.800 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 5 (4.000 %) Eclipse 1 5 (4.000 %) JIRA 2 4 (3.200 %) Visual Studio 3 3 (2.400 %) ClearQuest 4 2 (1.600 %) ClearCase 5 1 (0.800 %) NUnit 5 1 (0.800 %) JUnit	General 1 31 (24.80 %) Aerospace 2 13 (10.40 %) Finance 3 9 (7.200 %) Avionics 4 8 (6.400 %) Manufacturing 5 5 (4.000 %) Electronics 5 5 (4.000 %) Banking 6 4 (3.200 %) Multimedia 6 4 (3.200 %) Electric 7 3 (2.400 %) Military 7 3 (2.400 %) Telecoms 8 2 (1.600 %) Automotive
Miscellaneous 1 7 (5.600 %) STB 2 5 (4.000 %) Multithreading 3 4 (3.200 %) IPTV 3 4 (3.200 %) iDTV 3 4 (3.200 %) Device Driver 4 3 (2.400 %) SCADA 4 3 (2.400 %) Robotics 5 2 (1.600 %) Handset 5 2 (1.600 %) Client/Server 6 1 (0.800 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 25 (20.00 %) UNIX 2 16 (12.80 %) Linux 2 16 (12.80 %) VxWorks 3 10 (8.000 %) Windows 4 8 (6.400 %) VMS 5 2 (1.600 %) Windows CE 5 2 (1.600 %) AIX 6 1 (0.800 %) Windows NT 6 1 (0.800 %) Windows XP 6 1 (0.800 %) ThreadX 6 1 (0.800 %) pSOS 6 1 (0.800 %) Nucleus RTOS 6 1 (0.800 %) Embedded Linux 6 1 (0.800 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (12.80 %) Security Cleared 2 11 (8.800 %) UML 3 9 (7.200 %) SC Cleared 4 8 (6.400 %) Agile Software Development 5 5 (4.000 %) Integration Testing 6 3 (2.400 %) SOA 6 3 (2.400 %) Configuration Management 6 3 (2.400 %) Project Management 6 3 (2.400 %) Validation 7 2 (1.600 %) OO 7 2 (1.600 %) Requirements Analysis 7 2 (1.600 %) BC Cleared 8 1 (0.800 %) Project Planning 8 1 (0.800 %) Web Development 8 1 (0.800 %) System Testing 8 1 (0.800 %) TDD 8 1 (0.800 %) Software Engineering 8 1 (0.800 %) Systems Analysis 8 1 (0.800 %) E-Commerce 8 1 (0.800 %) OOD	Programming Languages 1 66 (52.80 %) C++ 2 54 (43.20 %) C 3 51 (40.80 %) Java 4 17 (13.60 %) VB 5 15 (12.00 %) Fortran 6 12 (9.600 %) C# 7 11 (8.800 %) Embedded C++ 8 10 (8.000 %) Embedded C 9 9 (7.200 %) SQL 10 8 (6.400 %) Assembly Language 11 7 (5.600 %) XPath 12 5 (4.000 %) Ada 12 5 (4.000 %) PL/SQL 13 4 (3.200 %) JavaScript 14 2 (1.600 %) PHP 14 2 (1.600 %) VB.NET 14 2 (1.600 %) VC++ 15 1 (0.800 %) Shell Script 15 1 (0.800 %) VB6
Qualifications 1 2 (1.600 %) HNC 1 2 (1.600 %) Degree	Systems Management 1 2 (1.600 %) CA SiteMinder
Vendors 1 18 (14.40 %) Oracle 2 6 (4.800 %) Microsoft 3 2 (1.600 %) Sun 3 2 (1.600 %) CA 3 2 (1.600 %) Symbian 4 1 (0.800 %) IBM 4 1 (0.800 %) Sybase 4 1 (0.800 %) ILOG 4 1 (0.800 %) QNX 4 1 (0.800 %) Perforce 4 1 (0.800 %) Wonderware 4 1 (0.800 %) Green Hills