The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey 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 19 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 Surrey 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Developer
Rank 63 74 89
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 15 24 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 1.230% 1.493% 0.701%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.300% 1.616% 0.745%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 7
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £240 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £395 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 4
Average hourly rate £45.00 £42.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.88% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -4.10%
All Job Titles
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1154 1485 1744
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 94.59% 92.41% 94.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 585 750 819
Average daily rate £370 £360 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.77% -4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £517 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 134 86
Average hourly rate £20.00 £19.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -7.31%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £10.55 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Software Developer
South East

Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey Software Developer Daily Rate Trend

Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Developer across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Surrey Software Developer Daily Rate Histogram

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 Surrey region.

Surrey Software Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Software Developer
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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 19 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
Camberley - 4 £300 -
Leatherhead - 3 £360 -
Woking -6 2 £340 -9.33% 4
Reigate - - - -
Staines - - - -
Thames Ditton - - - -
Walton-on-Thames - - - - 2
Weybridge - - - -
Dorking - - - -
Epsom - - - -
Farnham - - - -
Godalming - - - -
Guildford - - - - 4
Haslemere - - - -
Software Developer
South East

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 8 (50.00%) C#
2 7 (43.75%) SQL
3 5 (31.25%) Java
3 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
3 5 (31.25%) TDD
4 4 (25.00%) Spring
4 4 (25.00%) WPF
4 4 (25.00%) MVVM
4 4 (25.00%) Eclipse RCP
4 4 (25.00%) .NET
4 4 (25.00%) Eclipse
4 4 (25.00%) JDBC
5 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
5 3 (18.75%) Web Development
5 3 (18.75%) .NET Framework
5 3 (18.75%) Degree
6 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
6 2 (12.50%) SOA
6 2 (12.50%) Network Planning
6 2 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (12.50%) Scrum
6 2 (12.50%) OO
6 2 (12.50%) Oracle
6 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 2 (12.50%) C++
7 1 (6.250%) HTML
7 1 (6.250%) PHP
7 1 (6.250%) VB
7 1 (6.250%) VB.NET
7 1 (6.250%) VBA

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 (25.00%) Spring
1 4 (25.00%) WPF
1 4 (25.00%) .NET
1 4 (25.00%) JDBC
2 3 (18.75%) .NET Framework
3 1 (6.250%) HTML
3 1 (6.250%) ADO.NET
3 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET
3 1 (6.250%) CSS
3 1 (6.250%) Web Services
3 1 (6.250%) XML
3 1 (6.250%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (6.250%) LINQ
3 1 (6.250%) jQuery
3 1 (6.250%) Ajax
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.250%) FTP
1 1 (6.250%) SNMP
1 1 (6.250%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.250%) SQL Server
1 1 (6.250%) MySQL
1 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Eclipse RCP
1 4 (25.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (6.250%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (6.250%) CppUnit
2 1 (6.250%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (6.250%) Moq
2 1 (6.250%) ReSharper
General
1 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.250%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.250%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) TDD
2 4 (25.00%) MVVM
3 3 (18.75%) Web Development
4 2 (12.50%) SOA
4 2 (12.50%) Network Planning
4 2 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (12.50%) Scrum
4 2 (12.50%) OO
5 1 (6.250%) UML
5 1 (6.250%) Performance Management
5 1 (6.250%) Waterfall
5 1 (6.250%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) C#
2 7 (43.75%) SQL
3 5 (31.25%) Java
4 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
4 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (12.50%) C++
5 1 (6.250%) PHP
5 1 (6.250%) VB
5 1 (6.250%) VB.NET
5 1 (6.250%) VBA
5 1 (6.250%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 1 (6.250%) MCP
2 1 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.250%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.250%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle