Senior Software Developer Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Software Developer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Senior 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 currently tracked.

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
Senior Software Developer
Rank 496 569 542
Rank change year-on-year
+73 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 33 15 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.071% 0.026% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.077% 0.028% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 12 27
Average daily rate £450 £388 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.12% -13.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £376 £303 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £446 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £348 £250
% change year-on-year
+36.54% +39.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £41.25 - £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £41.25 - -
Search 64 Senior Software Developer jobs
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2112 2572 2930
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Senior Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Senior Software Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Software Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Senior Software Developer within the UK.

Senior Software Developer Daily Rate Trend

Senior Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Software Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Senior Software Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Senior Software Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Senior Software Developer within the UK.

Senior Software Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Senior Software Developer
Top 27 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 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
England +57 26 £420 +8.38%
London +47 16 £450 +16.12%
South East +16 4 £388 +10.71%
Scotland - 4 £475 -
Stirling - 4 £475 -
Stirlingshire - 4 £475 -
City of London +16 3 £600 +84.61%
Surrey - 3 £388 -
South West - 3 £400 -
Wales - 2 £288 -
East of England +17 1 - -
Berkshire +15 1 - -
West Wales - 1 £288 -
South Wales - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -
Wiltshire - 1 - -
Nottinghamshire - 1 - -
Hertfordshire - 1 - -
Gloucestershire - 1 £500 -
Devon - 1 £300 -
Carmarthenshire - 1 £288 -
Woking - 1 £400 -
Torquay - 1 £300 -
Swindon - 1 - -
Reading - 1 - -
Nottingham - 1 - -
Hounslow - 1 £500 -

Senior Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior Software Developer in their job title.

1 26 (50.00%) C#
2 21 (40.38%) Agile Software Development
2 21 (40.38%) TDD
3 20 (38.46%) .NET
4 19 (36.54%) Java
5 18 (34.62%) SQL Server
6 17 (32.69%) SQL
7 16 (30.77%) ASP.NET
7 16 (30.77%) Linux
8 15 (28.85%) Microsoft
8 15 (28.85%) XML
9 13 (25.00%) JavaScript
10 12 (23.08%) HTML
10 12 (23.08%) Web Services
10 12 (23.08%) OO
11 11 (21.15%) Oracle
12 10 (19.23%) MVC
12 10 (19.23%) ASP.NET MVC
13 9 (17.31%) Scrum
13 9 (17.31%) Visual Studio
14 8 (15.38%) IIS
14 8 (15.38%) Windows
14 8 (15.38%) Team Foundation Server
15 7 (13.46%) .NET Framework
15 7 (13.46%) Pair Programming
16 6 (11.54%) Ajax
16 6 (11.54%) VMware
16 6 (11.54%) Telecoms
16 6 (11.54%) SOAP
16 6 (11.54%) CSS

Senior Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior Software Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 20 (38.46%) .NET
2 16 (30.77%) ASP.NET
3 15 (28.85%) XML
4 12 (23.08%) HTML
4 12 (23.08%) Web Services
5 10 (19.23%) ASP.NET MVC
6 7 (13.46%) .NET Framework
7 6 (11.54%) Ajax
7 6 (11.54%) SOAP
7 6 (11.54%) CSS
7 6 (11.54%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 5 (9.615%) REST
8 5 (9.615%) Flash
8 5 (9.615%) Spring
8 5 (9.615%) Hibernate
9 4 (7.692%) JSP
9 4 (7.692%) HTML5
10 3 (5.769%) jQuery
10 3 (5.769%) WCF
10 3 (5.769%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 8 (15.38%) IIS
2 2 (3.846%) ESB
3 1 (1.923%) WordPress
3 1 (1.923%) Windows Azure
3 1 (1.923%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.923%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (5.769%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.923%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.923%) Hyperion Planning
1 1 (1.923%) Google Analytics
1 1 (1.923%) HFM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.846%) HTTP
2 1 (1.923%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.923%) ISDN
2 1 (1.923%) VoIP
2 1 (1.923%) FTP
2 1 (1.923%) RTP
2 1 (1.923%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (34.62%) SQL Server
2 6 (11.54%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (9.615%) MySQL
3 5 (9.615%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (7.692%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (5.769%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (3.846%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (3.846%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (3.846%) Firebird
6 2 (3.846%) InterBase
6 2 (3.846%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.923%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.923%) BusinessObjects XI
7 1 (1.923%) Essbase
Development Applications
1 9 (17.31%) Visual Studio
2 8 (15.38%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (9.615%) Subversion
4 4 (7.692%) JUnit
4 4 (7.692%) Selenium
5 2 (3.846%) MSBuild
6 1 (1.923%) MSTest
6 1 (1.923%) Mockito
6 1 (1.923%) FitNesse
6 1 (1.923%) ReSharper
6 1 (1.923%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.923%) Log4j
6 1 (1.923%) Maven
General
1 6 (11.54%) Telecoms
2 5 (9.615%) Interactive Media
2 5 (9.615%) Games
3 4 (7.692%) Back Office
4 3 (5.769%) Finance
5 2 (3.846%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.846%) Banking
5 2 (3.846%) Financial Institution
5 2 (3.846%) Front Office
6 1 (1.923%) German Language
6 1 (1.923%) Automotive
6 1 (1.923%) Legal
6 1 (1.923%) Retail
6 1 (1.923%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) Computer Science
2 5 (9.615%) Open Source
2 5 (9.615%) IPTV
2 5 (9.615%) Interactive TV
3 3 (5.769%) Client/Server
4 2 (3.846%) NHS
4 2 (3.846%) Wiki
5 1 (1.923%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.923%) Data Integration
5 1 (1.923%) iPhone
5 1 (1.923%) Telematics
5 1 (1.923%) Visualisation
5 1 (1.923%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (1.923%) iPad
5 1 (1.923%) Social Network
5 1 (1.923%) EPoS
5 1 (1.923%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.923%) Cryptography
Operating Systems
1 16 (30.77%) Linux
2 8 (15.38%) Windows
3 6 (11.54%) UNIX
4 2 (3.846%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (3.846%) Android
5 1 (1.923%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.923%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.923%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (40.38%) Agile Software Development
1 21 (40.38%) TDD
2 12 (23.08%) OO
3 10 (19.23%) MVC
4 9 (17.31%) Scrum
5 7 (13.46%) Pair Programming
6 6 (11.54%) UML
7 5 (9.615%) BDD
7 5 (9.615%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (9.615%) Web Application Development
7 5 (9.615%) Multithreading
7 5 (9.615%) Release Management
7 5 (9.615%) Software Engineering
8 4 (7.692%) Performance Management
9 2 (3.846%) Data Analysis
9 2 (3.846%) Workflow
9 2 (3.846%) Migration
9 2 (3.846%) Project Management
9 2 (3.846%) SOA
9 2 (3.846%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (50.00%) C#
2 19 (36.54%) Java
3 17 (32.69%) SQL
4 13 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (11.54%) PHP
5 6 (11.54%) T-SQL
6 5 (9.615%) ActionScript
6 5 (9.615%) Perl
6 5 (9.615%) C
7 4 (7.692%) C++
7 4 (7.692%) PL/SQL
8 3 (5.769%) Ruby
8 3 (5.769%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.846%) Delphi
9 2 (3.846%) Python
10 1 (1.923%) Groovy
10 1 (1.923%) Embedded C
10 1 (1.923%) Embedded C++
10 1 (1.923%) VC++
10 1 (1.923%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 6 (11.54%) Degree
2 2 (3.846%) PhD
2 2 (3.846%) DV Cleared
2 2 (3.846%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.923%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.615%) QA
2 1 (1.923%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.923%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 15 (28.85%) Microsoft
2 11 (21.15%) Oracle
3 6 (11.54%) VMware
4 5 (9.615%) Greenplum
5 4 (7.692%) JBoss
5 4 (7.692%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.846%) Huawei
6 2 (3.846%) Ericsson
6 2 (3.846%) Nokia Siemens Networks
7 1 (1.923%) Hyperion
7 1 (1.923%) Business Objects
7 1 (1.923%) Google
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