South East Software Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT contracts within the South East 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 Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dumbarton East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Flintshire Gateshead Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hove Ipswich Isle of Man Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Petersfield Portsmouth Potters Bar Queensferry Reading Scotland Sheffield Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire Waterlooville West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	175	179
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	75	115
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.107 %	0.119 %
As % of the category below	0.698 %	0.754 %
Daily rates quoted	12	24
Average minimum daily rate	£277	£307
Average daily rate	£286	£322
% change on same period last year	-11.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£295	£337
UK excluding London average daily rate	£279	£311
% change on same period last year	-10.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.72	£37.85
Average hourly rate	£33.64	£39.50
% change on same period last year	-14.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.56	£41.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.90	£33.89
% change on same period last year	-11.76 %
Job Titles South East
Matching contract IT job ads	10740	15258
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	15.31 %	15.78 %
Daily rates quoted	2782	3822
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£337
Average daily rate	£355	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	1280	2048
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.95	£24.73
Average hourly rate	£24.44	£26.21
% change on same period last year	-6.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.94	£27.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.64	£25.03
% change on same period last year	-5.56 %
Software Developer 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 Developer across the South East 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 Developer across the South East region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Developer across the South East region over the 3 months to 15 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 Developer across the South East region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Developer across the South East region over the 3 months to 15 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 Developer within the South East region over the 3 months to 15 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
Hampshire	+24	22	£308	-6.36 %
Oxfordshire	-3	16	£208	-
Berkshire	+31	14	£450	+25.58 %
Buckinghamshire	+5	7	£185	-38.84 %
East Sussex	+11	4	-	-
Surrey	+12	3	£320	+17.43 %
Thames Valley	+9	2	-	-
M4 Corridor	+2	2	-	-
Middlesex	-12	2	-	-
West Sussex	+5	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Software Developer 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 Developer in their job title.

1 64 (39.75 %) C# 2 62 (38.51 %) .NET 3 50 (31.06 %) SQL Server 4 45 (27.95 %) C++ 5 43 (26.71 %) Windows 6 38 (23.60 %) C 7 36 (22.36 %) SQL 7 36 (22.36 %) ASP.NET 7 36 (22.36 %) Linux 8 35 (21.74 %) OO 9 29 (18.01 %) JavaScript 10 28 (17.39 %) XML 11 27 (16.77 %) UML 11 27 (16.77 %) Java 12 26 (16.15 %) Security Cleared

13 23 (14.29 %) HTML 14 20 (12.42 %) AJAX 15 19 (11.80 %) SC Cleared 15 19 (11.80 %) OOD 16 18 (11.18 %) Oracle 17 17 (10.56 %) ASP 17 17 (10.56 %) Microsoft 18 16 (9.938 %) VB.NET 19 15 (9.317 %) WebServices 20 14 (8.696 %) WinForms 20 14 (8.696 %) Unit Testing 21 13 (8.075 %) Telecoms 21 13 (8.075 %) Software Engineering 21 13 (8.075 %) Ada 21 13 (8.075 %) TCP/IP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Software Developer 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 Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 62 (38.51 %) .NET 2 36 (22.36 %) ASP.NET 3 28 (17.39 %) XML 4 23 (14.29 %) HTML 5 20 (12.42 %) AJAX 6 17 (10.56 %) ASP 7 15 (9.317 %) WebServices 8 14 (8.696 %) WinForms 9 12 (7.453 %) CSS 9 12 (7.453 %) J2EE 10 9 (5.590 %) XHTML 11 7 (4.348 %) .NET Framework 11 7 (4.348 %) SOAP 12 6 (3.727 %) CORBA 13 5 (3.106 %) POSIX 13 5 (3.106 %) MFC 14 3 (1.863 %) ADO.NET 14 3 (1.863 %) ATL 14 3 (1.863 %) STL 14 3 (1.863 %) WCF	Application Platforms 1 5 (3.106 %) CMS 2 4 (2.484 %) IIS 2 4 (2.484 %) Apache 3 1 (0.621 %) ArcGIS 3 1 (0.621 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (0.621 %) Sitecore CMS
Applications 1 5 (3.106 %) MS Excel 2 3 (1.863 %) Photoshop 3 1 (0.621 %) MS Office 3 1 (0.621 %) ImageReady 3 1 (0.621 %) Fireworks 3 1 (0.621 %) MS PowerPoint	Communications & Networking 1 13 (8.075 %) TCP/IP 2 6 (3.727 %) 3G 3 5 (3.106 %) Internet 4 4 (2.484 %) HTTP 4 4 (2.484 %) GSM 4 4 (2.484 %) Wireless 5 3 (1.863 %) UMTS 5 3 (1.863 %) Bluetooth 5 3 (1.863 %) GPRS 6 2 (1.242 %) LDAP 6 2 (1.242 %) VoIP 6 2 (1.242 %) WLAN 6 2 (1.242 %) DHCP 6 2 (1.242 %) DNS 6 2 (1.242 %) Firewall 6 2 (1.242 %) TETRA 7 1 (0.621 %) C7 7 1 (0.621 %) ZigBee 7 1 (0.621 %) Wi-Fi 7 1 (0.621 %) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence 1 50 (31.06 %) SQL Server 2 9 (5.590 %) SQL Server 2005 3 5 (3.106 %) MySQL 4 4 (2.484 %) BusinessObjects 5 2 (1.242 %) SQL Server 2000 5 2 (1.242 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 1 (0.621 %) Oracle 9i 6 1 (0.621 %) DTS 6 1 (0.621 %) RDBMS 6 1 (0.621 %) GIS 6 1 (0.621 %) SQL Server Integration Services	Development Applications 1 12 (7.453 %) Visual Studio 2 5 (3.106 %) ARTiSAN 3 4 (2.484 %) NUnit 3 4 (2.484 %) Subversion 3 4 (2.484 %) ClearCase 4 3 (1.863 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 3 (1.863 %) JUnit 5 2 (1.242 %) Ant 5 2 (1.242 %) Flash 5 2 (1.242 %) Eclipse 5 2 (1.242 %) InstallShield 5 2 (1.242 %) ClearQuest 6 1 (0.621 %) MSI 6 1 (0.621 %) ProC 6 1 (0.621 %) Telelogic TAU 6 1 (0.621 %) Dreamweaver 6 1 (0.621 %) TestDirector 6 1 (0.621 %) Rational Rose
General 1 13 (8.075 %) Telecoms 2 12 (7.453 %) Government 3 11 (6.832 %) Finance 4 9 (5.590 %) Retail 5 8 (4.969 %) Avionics 6 7 (4.348 %) Military 6 7 (4.348 %) Back Office 7 5 (3.106 %) Education 8 4 (2.484 %) Publishing 9 2 (1.242 %) Insurance 9 2 (1.242 %) Electronics 10 1 (0.621 %) Aerospace 10 1 (0.621 %) Pharmaceutical 10 1 (0.621 %) Legal 10 1 (0.621 %) Marketing 10 1 (0.621 %) Online Betting 10 1 (0.621 %) Banking 10 1 (0.621 %) Multimedia	Miscellaneous 1 6 (3.727 %) Computer Science 2 4 (2.484 %) Life Science 2 4 (2.484 %) Handset 3 3 (1.863 %) Firmware 4 2 (1.242 %) Smartcard 4 2 (1.242 %) Device Driver 4 2 (1.242 %) PKI 5 1 (0.621 %) IPTV 5 1 (0.621 %) PDA 5 1 (0.621 %) Mathematics 5 1 (0.621 %) Client/Server 5 1 (0.621 %) N-Tier 5 1 (0.621 %) STB 5 1 (0.621 %) Multithreading
Operating Systems 1 43 (26.71 %) Windows 2 36 (22.36 %) Linux 3 12 (7.453 %) UNIX 4 5 (3.106 %) Windows Mobile 5 3 (1.863 %) Windows XP 6 2 (1.242 %) Embedded Linux 6 2 (1.242 %) Windows Server 2003 7 1 (0.621 %) Windows Vista 7 1 (0.621 %) Mac OS X 7 1 (0.621 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 35 (21.74 %) OO 2 27 (16.77 %) UML 3 26 (16.15 %) Security Cleared 4 19 (11.80 %) SC Cleared 4 19 (11.80 %) OOD 5 14 (8.696 %) Unit Testing 6 13 (8.075 %) Software Engineering 7 12 (7.453 %) Configuration Management 8 9 (5.590 %) Workflow 9 4 (2.484 %) Validation 9 4 (2.484 %) SSADM 9 4 (2.484 %) Agile Software Development 9 4 (2.484 %) Content Management 9 4 (2.484 %) Web Development 9 4 (2.484 %) CTC Cleared 10 3 (1.863 %) Risk Management 10 3 (1.863 %) Automated Testing 10 3 (1.863 %) Software Testing 10 3 (1.863 %) Requirements Analysis 10 3 (1.863 %) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages 1 64 (39.75 %) C# 2 45 (27.95 %) C++ 3 38 (23.60 %) C 4 36 (22.36 %) SQL 5 29 (18.01 %) JavaScript 6 27 (16.77 %) Java 7 16 (9.938 %) VB.NET 8 13 (8.075 %) Ada 9 11 (6.832 %) Transact-SQL 10 9 (5.590 %) VB 11 8 (4.969 %) Delphi 12 7 (4.348 %) Perl 12 7 (4.348 %) Embedded C 13 6 (3.727 %) PHP 14 5 (3.106 %) Shell Script 15 3 (1.863 %) VC++ 16 2 (1.242 %) VBA 16 2 (1.242 %) PL/SQL 16 2 (1.242 %) DHTML 16 2 (1.242 %) COBOL	Qualifications 1 8 (4.969 %) Degree 2 3 (1.863 %) Microsoft Certification 3 2 (1.242 %) HND 4 1 (0.621 %) MCSE 4 1 (0.621 %) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (1.863 %) QA 2 2 (1.242 %) ISO12207	Systems Management 1 1 (0.621 %) OpenView Configuration Management 1 1 (0.621 %) MIIS
Vendors 1 18 (11.18 %) Oracle 2 17 (10.56 %) Microsoft 3 4 (2.484 %) Business Objects 4 2 (1.242 %) CA 5 1 (0.621 %) MKS 5 1 (0.621 %) Telelogic 5 1 (0.621 %) VMware 5 1 (0.621 %) SIMUL8 5 1 (0.621 %) Lagan 5 1 (0.621 %) Sitecore 5 1 (0.621 %) IBM