The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Stirling 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 20 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 Stirling 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Developer
Rank - 15 -
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling - 1.852% -
As % of the Job Titles category - 2.041% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £138 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £316 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+5.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -4.10%
All Job Titles
Stirling
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
86 49 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling 90.53% 90.74% 91.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 26 61
Average daily rate £350 £325 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -23.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £138 £331
10% offered a daily rate of more than £453 £425 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
Average hourly rate £14.00 £24.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-41.66% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Software Developer
Scotland

Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stirling 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 Stirling region.

Stirling Software Developer Daily Rate Trend

Software Developer
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling 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 9 (100.00%) Linux
1 9 (100.00%) Scrum
1 9 (100.00%) Interactive TV
1 9 (100.00%) IPTV
1 9 (100.00%) Web Application Development
2 5 (55.56%) Games
2 5 (55.56%) Interactive Media
2 5 (55.56%) Web Services
2 5 (55.56%) Flash
2 5 (55.56%) Java
2 5 (55.56%) PHP
2 5 (55.56%) ActionScript
3 4 (44.44%) CSS
3 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 4 (44.44%) Broadband
3 4 (44.44%) Internet
3 4 (44.44%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (44.44%) Wireless
3 4 (44.44%) MVC
3 4 (44.44%) HTML
3 4 (44.44%) Git (software)
3 4 (44.44%) Video on Demand
3 4 (44.44%) HTML5
3 4 (44.44%) MongoDB
3 4 (44.44%) CSS3
3 4 (44.44%) Retail
3 4 (44.44%) Smartphone
3 4 (44.44%) Ruby
3 4 (44.44%) Ruby on Rails

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling 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 5 (55.56%) Web Services
1 5 (55.56%) Flash
2 4 (44.44%) CSS
2 4 (44.44%) HTML
2 4 (44.44%) HTML5
2 4 (44.44%) CSS3
2 4 (44.44%) Ruby on Rails
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Broadband
1 4 (44.44%) Internet
1 4 (44.44%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (44.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Git (software)
General
1 5 (55.56%) Games
1 5 (55.56%) Interactive Media
2 4 (44.44%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Interactive TV
1 9 (100.00%) IPTV
2 4 (44.44%) Video on Demand
2 4 (44.44%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Scrum
1 9 (100.00%) Web Application Development
2 4 (44.44%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Java
1 5 (55.56%) PHP
1 5 (55.56%) ActionScript
2 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
2 4 (44.44%) Ruby