The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon 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 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 Swindon 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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Developer
Rank 35 37 32
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 5 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 1.792% 0.554% 1.608%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.916% 0.593% 1.701%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
Average daily rate £563 £308 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+82.92% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.16% -
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
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
261 337 294
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 93.55% 93.35% 94.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 242 171
Average daily rate £413 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £238 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £470 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 21
Average hourly rate £13.50 £15.25 £23.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.47% -35.10%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.42 £12.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £22.50 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Software Developer
Wiltshire

Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon 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 Swindon region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon Software Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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%) C#
2 8 (88.89%) SQL Server
2 8 (88.89%) Client/Server
2 8 (88.89%) Visual Studio
2 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
3 7 (77.78%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (77.78%) Windows 7
3 7 (77.78%) MSTest
3 7 (77.78%) Moq
3 7 (77.78%) WCF
3 7 (77.78%) Silverlight
3 7 (77.78%) RIA
3 7 (77.78%) Unit Testing
3 7 (77.78%) DV Cleared
3 7 (77.78%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 7 (77.78%) Managed Extensibility Framework
3 7 (77.78%) .NET
3 7 (77.78%) IIS
3 7 (77.78%) Web Services
3 7 (77.78%) Windows
3 7 (77.78%) UML
3 7 (77.78%) ESRI
3 7 (77.78%) ArcGIS
4 6 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (55.56%) .NET Framework
6 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
7 2 (22.22%) WinForms
7 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
7 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
8 1 (11.11%) EPoS

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 7 (77.78%) .NET
1 7 (77.78%) Web Services
1 7 (77.78%) WCF
1 7 (77.78%) Silverlight
1 7 (77.78%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 7 (77.78%) Managed Extensibility Framework
2 5 (55.56%) .NET Framework
3 2 (22.22%) WinForms
3 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 7 (77.78%) IIS
1 7 (77.78%) ArcGIS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Intranet
1 1 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) SQL Server
2 7 (77.78%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Visual Studio
2 7 (77.78%) MSTest
2 7 (77.78%) Moq
3 6 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Client/Server
2 7 (77.78%) RIA
3 1 (11.11%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Windows
1 7 (77.78%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) UML
1 7 (77.78%) Unit Testing
2 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
2 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
2 1 (11.11%) OOP
2 1 (11.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 7 (77.78%) DV Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) ESRI
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft