The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Embedded Systems in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Embedded Systems over the 3 months to 18 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the South East 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Embedded Systems
Rank 215 228 224
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -4
Contract jobs citing Embedded Systems 10 14 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.124% 0.139% 0.284%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.593% 0.700% 1.533%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 7
Average daily rate £300 £219 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+37.14% -24.56%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £298 £290
% change year-on-year
-7.56% +2.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 11
Average hourly rate £35.00 £41.25 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.15% +3.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.80 £36.85 £27.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £44.75 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.25 £42.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year
-19.41% +13.33%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1687 1999 1957
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 20.87% 19.90% 18.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 793 813 825
Average daily rate £375 £340 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.29% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £220 £207
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £340 £330
% change year-on-year
+2.94% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 181 186
Average hourly rate £21.50 £30.00 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.33% +13.20%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.15 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £47.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -10.00%
Embedded Systems
England

Embedded Systems
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Embedded Systems across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

South East Embedded Systems Jobs Demand Trend

Embedded Systems
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Embedded Systems across the South East region.

South East Embedded Systems Daily Rate Trend

Embedded Systems
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Embedded Systems across the South East region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

South East Embedded Systems Daily Rate Histogram

Embedded Systems
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Embedded Systems across the South East region.

South East Embedded Systems Hourly Rate Trend

Embedded Systems
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Embedded Systems within the South East region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Surrey +13 4 £400 - 5
Middlesex +7 4 £300 - 1
Hampshire -9 1 - - 3
Berkshire - 1 £275 - 1
Buckinghamshire - - - - 1
East Sussex - - - -
Kent - - - - 3
Oxfordshire - - - - 3
West Sussex - - - - 2
Embedded Systems
England

Embedded Systems
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Embedded Systems also 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 that cited Embedded Systems.

1 27 (75.00%) C++
2 26 (72.22%) C
3 23 (63.89%) Linux
4 15 (41.67%) Device Driver
5 14 (38.89%) Embedded Linux
6 13 (36.11%) OpenGL
7 12 (33.33%) GLSL
8 10 (27.78%) Electronics
9 9 (25.00%) Telecoms
9 9 (25.00%) Smartphone
9 9 (25.00%) Degree
10 8 (22.22%) STB
10 8 (22.22%) QA
10 8 (22.22%) DTV
11 7 (19.44%) DVB
11 7 (19.44%) Computer Science
12 5 (13.89%) Embedded Software Development
12 5 (13.89%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
12 5 (13.89%) Software Testing
12 5 (13.89%) Agile Software Development
12 5 (13.89%) TCP/IP
12 5 (13.89%) Embedded C
13 4 (11.11%) HP
13 4 (11.11%) IBM
13 4 (11.11%) FTP
13 4 (11.11%) NFS
13 4 (11.11%) Data Mining
13 4 (11.11%) OO
13 4 (11.11%) Python
13 4 (11.11%) MS Excel

Embedded Systems
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Embedded Systems also 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 that cited Embedded Systems. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (36.11%) OpenGL
2 1 (2.778%) Middleware
2 1 (2.778%) JMX
2 1 (2.778%) Hibernate
2 1 (2.778%) Spring
2 1 (2.778%) Spring MVC
2 1 (2.778%) GWT
2 1 (2.778%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 1 (2.778%) OpenCL
2 1 (2.778%) DirectCompute
2 1 (2.778%) J2EE
2 1 (2.778%) STL
2 1 (2.778%) JMS
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) MS Excel
2 2 (5.556%) Simulink
3 1 (2.778%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 7 (19.44%) DVB
2 5 (13.89%) TCP/IP
3 4 (11.11%) UPnP
3 4 (11.11%) FTP
4 3 (8.333%) 3G
5 2 (5.556%) UTRAN
5 2 (5.556%) CDMA
5 2 (5.556%) 3GPP
5 2 (5.556%) UMTS
5 2 (5.556%) LTE
5 2 (5.556%) 4G
6 1 (2.778%) LAN
6 1 (2.778%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) ClearCase
1 4 (11.11%) ClearQuest
2 2 (5.556%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.778%) Ant
3 1 (2.778%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.778%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (2.778%) CruiseControl
3 1 (2.778%) Subversion
3 1 (2.778%) Selenium
3 1 (2.778%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (2.778%) GCC
General
1 10 (27.78%) Electronics
2 9 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (8.333%) Marketing
4 1 (2.778%) Finance
4 1 (2.778%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.778%) Automotive
4 1 (2.778%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 16 (44.44%) Software Engineer
2 4 (11.11%) Test Engineer
2 4 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (8.333%) C++ Software Engineer
4 2 (5.556%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (5.556%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 1 (2.778%) Programmer
5 1 (2.778%) Design Engineer
5 1 (2.778%) Developer
5 1 (2.778%) Technical Architect
5 1 (2.778%) Architect
5 1 (2.778%) Programme Manager
5 1 (2.778%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (2.778%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (2.778%) Embedded C Programmer
5 1 (2.778%) Java Technical Architect
5 1 (2.778%) Software Design Engineer
5 1 (2.778%) Embedded C Developer
5 1 (2.778%) C Developer
5 1 (2.778%) C Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (41.67%) Device Driver
2 9 (25.00%) Smartphone
3 8 (22.22%) STB
3 8 (22.22%) DTV
4 7 (19.44%) Computer Science
5 5 (13.89%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
6 4 (11.11%) Management Information System
6 4 (11.11%) Client/Server
6 4 (11.11%) 3D Graphics
6 4 (11.11%) Streaming Video
7 2 (5.556%) Handset
7 2 (5.556%) Mathematics
7 2 (5.556%) Open Source
8 1 (2.778%) CUDA
8 1 (2.778%) Semantic Web
8 1 (2.778%) Firmware
8 1 (2.778%) ASIC
Operating Systems
1 23 (63.89%) Linux
2 14 (38.89%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (5.556%) Android
4 1 (2.778%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.778%) Tizen
4 1 (2.778%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (13.89%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (13.89%) Software Testing
1 5 (13.89%) Embedded Software Development
2 4 (11.11%) Multithreading
2 4 (11.11%) Requirements Analysis
2 4 (11.11%) OO
3 3 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (5.556%) Configuration Management
5 1 (2.778%) Project Management
5 1 (2.778%) Quality Management
5 1 (2.778%) Change Management
5 1 (2.778%) MVC
5 1 (2.778%) Validation
5 1 (2.778%) RAD
5 1 (2.778%) Document Management
5 1 (2.778%) Software Engineering
5 1 (2.778%) UML
5 1 (2.778%) Requirements Management
5 1 (2.778%) Project Planning
5 1 (2.778%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 27 (75.00%) C++
2 26 (72.22%) C
3 12 (33.33%) GLSL
4 5 (13.89%) Embedded C
5 4 (11.11%) Bash shell
5 4 (11.11%) VB
5 4 (11.11%) Python
5 4 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 3 (8.333%) Perl
6 3 (8.333%) PHP
6 3 (8.333%) SQL
6 3 (8.333%) Embedded C++
7 2 (5.556%) MATLAB
7 2 (5.556%) Java
8 1 (2.778%) Assembly Language
8 1 (2.778%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (2.778%) JTAG
2 1 (2.778%) TickIT
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (11.11%) IBM
1 4 (11.11%) HP
2 1 (2.778%) Google
Staines, South East
Staines / Contract / Embedded Software / Rates Negotiable My client is currently looking for Embedded Linux engineers with android experience based in nearStaines... This is for one of the world...
Computer Futures
Posted: 17 June 2013
Surrey, South East
To be considered for this role candidates must have a proven track record, working in embedded software and system, preferably to safety standard MISRA.Experience with at least...
Computer Futures
Rate: £32 - £35 per hour
Posted: 5 June 2013
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