The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Salford 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 17 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 Salford 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineer
Rank 9 11 -
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 4.000% 2.500% -
As % of the Job Titles category 4.000% 2.632% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £323 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.27% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £301 £300
% change year-on-year
+7.97% +0.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.25 £36.25
% change year-on-year
+0.67% +2.75%
All Job Titles
Salford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
25 38 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 100.00% 95.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 28 2
Average daily rate £325 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -13.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
Average hourly rate £15.50 £17.50 £10.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.42% +66.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Software Engineer
Manchester

Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Salford 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 Salford region.

Salford Software Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) OO
1 3 (100.00%) Benchmarking
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) RDF
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) RESTful
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) JAX-RS
2 2 (66.67%) MarkLogic
2 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Semantic Web
2 2 (66.67%) SPARQL
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) XPath
2 2 (66.67%) XQuery
2 2 (66.67%) Interactive TV
2 2 (66.67%) Content Management
2 2 (66.67%) Publishing
2 2 (66.67%) Streaming Video

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
1 3 (100.00%) RESTful
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) JAX-RS
2 2 (66.67%) XSLT
2 2 (66.67%) J2EE
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
1 2 (66.67%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
General
1 2 (66.67%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Streaming Video
1 2 (66.67%) Interactive TV
1 2 (66.67%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) OO
1 3 (100.00%) RDF
1 3 (100.00%) Benchmarking
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Content Management
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby
2 2 (66.67%) XPath
2 2 (66.67%) SPARQL
2 2 (66.67%) XQuery
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) SQL