The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Southampton 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Developer
Rank 31 29 24
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 4 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 1.329% 1.695% 1.587%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.404% 1.794% 1.648%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Average daily rate £260 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -4.10%
All Job Titles
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
285 223 182
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 94.68% 94.49% 96.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 114 77
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £198
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 52 32
Average hourly rate £14.00 £17.50 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +12.90%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.00 £8.03
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £41.50 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Software Developer
Hampshire

Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton Software Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Software Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Software Developer across the Southampton region.

Southampton Software Developer Daily Rate Trend

Software Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Software Developer across the Southampton region.

Southampton Software Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
1 5 (83.33%) C#
2 4 (66.67%) HTML
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (66.67%) CSS
3 3 (50.00%) .NET
3 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (33.33%) Windows
4 2 (33.33%) Ajax
4 2 (33.33%) Multithreading
4 2 (33.33%) OOD
4 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (33.33%) Degree
5 1 (16.67%) Refactoring
5 1 (16.67%) FitNesse
5 1 (16.67%) TDD
5 1 (16.67%) Pair Programming
5 1 (16.67%) Spring
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
5 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
5 1 (16.67%) JPA
5 1 (16.67%) Windows Azure
5 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (16.67%) BDD
5 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 1 (16.67%) ATDD
5 1 (16.67%) Java EE

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 4 (66.67%) HTML
1 4 (66.67%) CSS
2 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (33.33%) Ajax
4 1 (16.67%) Spring
4 1 (16.67%) JPA
4 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 1 (16.67%) Java EE
4 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
4 1 (16.67%) JDBC
4 1 (16.67%) JSP
4 1 (16.67%) Servlets
4 1 (16.67%) SOAP
4 1 (16.67%) Web Services
4 1 (16.67%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
1 1 (16.67%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) FitNesse
1 1 (16.67%) JUnit
1 1 (16.67%) Log4j
General
1 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Multithreading
1 2 (33.33%) OOD
1 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (16.67%) Refactoring
2 1 (16.67%) TDD
2 1 (16.67%) Pair Programming
2 1 (16.67%) BDD
2 1 (16.67%) ATDD
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (16.67%) UML
2 1 (16.67%) MVC
2 1 (16.67%) Validation
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C#
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) C
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
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