Surrey Software Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT contracts within the Surrey 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Avon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Cowes Crawley Derby Derbyshire Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hampshire Harrow Havant Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Hull Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Kidderminster Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Shields North West Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rugby Scotland Sevenoaks Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	56	84
Rank change on same period last year	+28
Matching contract IT job ads	39	27
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.053 %	0.027 %
As % of the category below	2.274 %	1.197 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£225	£150
Average daily rate	£300	£225
% change on same period last year	+33.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£318	£276
% change on same period last year	+15.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.27	£33.90
Average hourly rate	£38.23	£34.75
% change on same period last year	+10.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£42.20	£35.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.70	£35.10
% change on same period last year	+1.70 %
Job Titles Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	1715	2255
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.325 %	2.233 %
Daily rates quoted	461	639
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£331
Average daily rate	£335	£352
% change on same period last year	-4.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£355	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£356
% change on same period last year	-0.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	231	346
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.85	£18.40
Average hourly rate	£22.27	£19.68
% change on same period last year	+13.18 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.69	£20.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.78	£25.65
% change on same period last year	-7.28 %
Software Engineer South East

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 Engineer across the Surrey 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 Engineer across the Surrey region.

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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 Engineer across the Surrey region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 8 September 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 Engineer within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 8 September 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
Reigate	-	4	-	-
Staines	-	3	-	-
Redhill	+15	2	-	-
Woking	-	1	-	-
Guildford	+15	1	-	-

Software Engineer South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region that cited Software Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 32 (52.46 %) C 2 19 (31.15 %) Windows 3 18 (29.51 %) C++ 4 15 (24.59 %) SQL 5 14 (22.95 %) SQL Server 6 13 (21.31 %) OO 7 11 (18.03 %) Embedded C 8 10 (16.39 %) 802.11 8 10 (16.39 %) 802.15 8 10 (16.39 %) Wireless 8 10 (16.39 %) HTTP 8 10 (16.39 %) TCP/IP 8 10 (16.39 %) XML 8 10 (16.39 %) ZigBee 9 9 (14.75 %) UNIX

9 9 (14.75 %) C# 9 9 (14.75 %) Microsoft 10 8 (13.11 %) MFC 10 8 (13.11 %) UML 11 6 (9.836 %) Ada 11 6 (9.836 %) OOD 11 6 (9.836 %) VxWorks 11 6 (9.836 %) Security Cleared 12 5 (8.197 %) Windows Vista 12 5 (8.197 %) TickIT 12 5 (8.197 %) Electronics 12 5 (8.197 %) ISO9001 12 5 (8.197 %) ClearCase 12 5 (8.197 %) ITIL 12 5 (8.197 %) .NET

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region that cited Software Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 10 (16.39 %) XML 2 8 (13.11 %) MFC 3 5 (8.197 %) .NET 3 5 (8.197 %) WebServices 4 4 (6.557 %) COM 5 3 (4.918 %) WinForms 6 2 (3.279 %) ATL 7 1 (1.639 %) ADO.NET 7 1 (1.639 %) ActiveX 7 1 (1.639 %) X-Windows 7 1 (1.639 %) .NET Remoting 7 1 (1.639 %) .NET Framework 7 1 (1.639 %) WPF	Applications 1 1 (1.639 %) MS Excel 1 1 (1.639 %) MATLAB
Communications & Networking 1 10 (16.39 %) HTTP 1 10 (16.39 %) TCP/IP 1 10 (16.39 %) 802.11 1 10 (16.39 %) 802.15 1 10 (16.39 %) Wireless 1 10 (16.39 %) ZigBee 2 4 (6.557 %) FTP 3 3 (4.918 %) 3G 4 2 (3.279 %) Broadband 4 2 (3.279 %) CDMA 4 2 (3.279 %) VoIP 5 1 (1.639 %) WLAN 5 1 (1.639 %) WCDMA 5 1 (1.639 %) Ethernet 5 1 (1.639 %) GPRS 5 1 (1.639 %) GSM 5 1 (1.639 %) Internet 5 1 (1.639 %) Wi-Fi	Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (22.95 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.639 %) Crystal Reports 2 1 (1.639 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 5 (8.197 %) ClearCase 2 3 (4.918 %) NUnit 3 2 (3.279 %) Visual Studio 4 1 (1.639 %) ProC	General 1 5 (8.197 %) Electronics 2 4 (6.557 %) Telecoms 3 1 (1.639 %) Finance 3 1 (1.639 %) Automotive 3 1 (1.639 %) Education 3 1 (1.639 %) Retail 3 1 (1.639 %) Multimedia
Miscellaneous 1 3 (4.918 %) Device Driver 2 2 (3.279 %) Handset 2 2 (3.279 %) Computer Science 3 1 (1.639 %) Multithreading 3 1 (1.639 %) Client/Server 3 1 (1.639 %) Smartphone 3 1 (1.639 %) Pocket PC	Operating Systems 1 19 (31.15 %) Windows 2 9 (14.75 %) UNIX 3 6 (9.836 %) VxWorks 4 5 (8.197 %) Windows Vista 5 4 (6.557 %) Solaris 6 3 (4.918 %) Windows 2000 6 3 (4.918 %) Windows Mobile 7 1 (1.639 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (21.31 %) OO 2 8 (13.11 %) UML 3 6 (9.836 %) OOD 3 6 (9.836 %) Security Cleared 4 5 (8.197 %) ITIL 5 4 (6.557 %) Configuration Management 5 4 (6.557 %) Migration 6 3 (4.918 %) SC Cleared 7 2 (3.279 %) BC Cleared 7 2 (3.279 %) Software Engineering 7 2 (3.279 %) Requirements Analysis 7 2 (3.279 %) Unit Testing 7 2 (3.279 %) TDD 8 1 (1.639 %) Data Analysis 8 1 (1.639 %) Regression Testing 8 1 (1.639 %) Code Coverage 8 1 (1.639 %) System Testing	Programming Languages 1 32 (52.46 %) C 2 18 (29.51 %) C++ 3 15 (24.59 %) SQL 4 11 (18.03 %) Embedded C 5 9 (14.75 %) C# 6 6 (9.836 %) Ada 7 5 (8.197 %) PL/SQL 8 4 (6.557 %) Perl 8 4 (6.557 %) Korn 9 2 (3.279 %) VB 9 2 (3.279 %) VC++ 9 2 (3.279 %) Python 10 1 (1.639 %) VB.NET 10 1 (1.639 %) Embedded C++ 10 1 (1.639 %) VB6 10 1 (1.639 %) Transact-SQL 10 1 (1.639 %) Delphi 10 1 (1.639 %) Java
Qualifications 1 2 (3.279 %) Degree 2 1 (1.639 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (8.197 %) ISO9001 1 5 (8.197 %) TickIT
Vendors 1 9 (14.75 %) Microsoft 2 4 (6.557 %) HP 2 4 (6.557 %) Oracle 3 3 (4.918 %) Compaq 4 2 (3.279 %) Sybase 5 1 (1.639 %) GUPTA