The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 19 June 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 Reading 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineer
Rank 66 76 73
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 7 5 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.795% 0.434% 0.494%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.874% 0.472% 0.571%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 4
Average daily rate £450 £350 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.57% +9.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £340 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £490 £390 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £309 £300
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £44.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year
- +5.63%
All Job Titles
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
801 1060 876
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 91.02% 92.09% 86.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 370 393
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 51 39
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +48.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.38 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.50 £27.50 £22.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Software Engineer
Berkshire

Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Software Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 7 (58.33%) SQL Server
1 7 (58.33%) Games
2 6 (50.00%) C#
2 6 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 6 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (41.67%) Test Automation
3 5 (41.67%) Automated Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Web Services
4 4 (33.33%) Windows
4 4 (33.33%) C++
4 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 4 (33.33%) Windows Azure
4 4 (33.33%) Load Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Degree
4 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 4 (33.33%) WCF
4 4 (33.33%) REST
4 4 (33.33%) Test Strategy
4 4 (33.33%) IIS
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (25.00%) ISTQB
5 3 (25.00%) Java
6 2 (16.67%) C
6 2 (16.67%) Ant
6 2 (16.67%) MS Excel
6 2 (16.67%) E-Commerce
6 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
6 2 (16.67%) Hibernate
6 2 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (16.67%) TDD

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 4 (33.33%) Web Services
1 4 (33.33%) WCF
1 4 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (16.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (16.67%) Spring
3 1 (8.333%) WebSphere
3 1 (8.333%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) Windows Azure
1 4 (33.33%) IIS
2 1 (8.333%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MS Excel
1 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (16.67%) Ant
2 2 (16.67%) Maven
2 2 (16.67%) WATIR
2 2 (16.67%) Selenium
2 2 (16.67%) FitNesse
2 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
General
1 7 (58.33%) Games
2 1 (8.333%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (16.67%) Kinect
4 1 (8.333%) Mobile App
4 1 (8.333%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (8.333%) Windows 8
2 1 (8.333%) Windows Mobile
2 1 (8.333%) AIX
2 1 (8.333%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Test Automation
1 5 (41.67%) Automated Testing
2 4 (33.33%) Load Testing
2 4 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (16.67%) E-Commerce
4 2 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (16.67%) TDD
4 2 (16.67%) Code Coverage
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Game Development
4 2 (16.67%) Software Architecture
4 2 (16.67%) Process Architecture
4 2 (16.67%) BDD
4 2 (16.67%) Automation Testing
5 1 (8.333%) Multithreading
5 1 (8.333%) OOD
5 1 (8.333%) SOA
5 1 (8.333%) UML
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) C#
2 4 (33.33%) C++
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) Java
4 2 (16.67%) C
5 1 (8.333%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (25.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.333%) Micro Focus
2 1 (8.333%) Sun
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle