The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Software Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Software Engineer
Rank 477 478 502
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 64 87 84
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.138% 0.149% 0.135%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.150% 0.161% 0.146%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 25 20
Average daily rate £400 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £300 £283
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £510 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £350 £400
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 23 25
Average hourly rate £37.50 £36.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.73% -2.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.20 £30.50 £34.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £43.70 £41.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+1.35% +7.24%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42697 54001 57544
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.14% 92.51% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24521 29759 31287
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 2095 2581 2973
Average hourly rate £18.25 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.35% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.88 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Senior Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Senior Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Senior Software Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Senior Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Software Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Senior Software Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Senior Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Senior Software Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Senior Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Software Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Senior Software Engineer Hourly Rate Histogram

Senior Software Engineer
Top 30 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 Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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 +28 62 £400 +14.28%
South East +8 23 £400 +14.28%
London +37 21 £400 +3.22%
East of England +15 10 £425 +6.91%
Cambridgeshire +19 9 £425 +6.91%
Kent - 7 - -
City of London +23 6 £400 -27.27%
Hampshire -11 6 £285 -18.57%
Oxfordshire - 4 - -
Oxford - 4 - -
Cambridge +11 3 £400 +0.62%
Surrey +9 3 £400 +14.28%
North West +6 3 £323 +3.03%
Manchester +6 2 £323 +3.03%
Yorkshire -1 2 £325 -
Southampton - 2 £285 -
West Midlands - 2 £325 -
South West +27 1 - -
Wiltshire +2 1 - -
West Yorkshire +1 1 £325 -
Hertfordshire 0 1 - -
Staines -1 1 £400 -
Leeds -6 1 £325 -
West Sussex - 1 - -
Warwickshire - 1 - -
South Yorkshire - 1 - -
Middlesex - 1 £400 -
Cheshire - 1 - -
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -
Salford - 1 £323 -

Senior Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer in their job title.

1 59 (43.07%) Multithreading
2 54 (39.42%) OO
3 49 (35.77%) Linux
4 45 (32.85%) C++
5 42 (30.66%) C
6 40 (29.20%) UML
7 37 (27.01%) Security Cleared
8 35 (25.55%) Requirements Analysis
9 33 (24.09%) TDD
10 32 (23.36%) C#
11 30 (21.90%) Embedded Linux
12 29 (21.17%) Agile Software Development
13 28 (20.44%) Java
13 28 (20.44%) .NET
14 24 (17.52%) Web Services
15 23 (16.79%) SC Cleared
16 19 (13.87%) Telecoms
17 18 (13.14%) CSS
17 18 (13.14%) JavaScript
17 18 (13.14%) Degree
18 17 (12.41%) Embedded C
19 16 (11.68%) Spring
19 16 (11.68%) Open Source
20 15 (10.95%) Software Engineering
20 15 (10.95%) LTE
20 15 (10.95%) Finance
20 15 (10.95%) Aerospace
20 15 (10.95%) HTML
21 14 (10.22%) CDMA
21 14 (10.22%) Embedded C++

Senior Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 28 (20.44%) .NET
2 24 (17.52%) Web Services
3 18 (13.14%) CSS
4 16 (11.68%) Spring
5 15 (10.95%) HTML
6 13 (9.489%) RESTful
7 12 (8.759%) XML
8 10 (7.299%) J2EE
9 8 (5.839%) XSLT
9 8 (5.839%) HTML5
10 7 (5.109%) REST
10 7 (5.109%) .NET Framework
11 6 (4.380%) JSON
11 6 (4.380%) WCF
11 6 (4.380%) WPF
12 4 (2.920%) Hibernate
12 4 (2.920%) Flash
12 4 (2.920%) SOAP
13 3 (2.190%) JAX-RS
13 3 (2.190%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 8 (5.839%) Tomcat
2 7 (5.109%) Apache
3 3 (2.190%) nginx
4 2 (1.460%) TIBCO EMS
4 2 (1.460%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (1.460%) SAS
4 2 (1.460%) Confluence
4 2 (1.460%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.730%) TeamSite
5 1 (0.730%) IIS
5 1 (0.730%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.730%) Jetty
5 1 (0.730%) Magento
Applications
1 1 (0.730%) Simulink
1 1 (0.730%) MS Project
1 1 (0.730%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.95%) LTE
2 14 (10.22%) CDMA
3 13 (9.489%) 3G
4 12 (8.759%) 3GPP
5 11 (8.029%) UMTS
5 11 (8.029%) Wireless
6 10 (7.299%) UTRAN
6 10 (7.299%) 4G
7 8 (5.839%) TCP/IP
8 6 (4.380%) GSM
8 6 (4.380%) Internet
9 5 (3.650%) GPRS
10 3 (2.190%) DVB
10 3 (2.190%) ISDN
11 2 (1.460%) HTTP
12 1 (0.730%) Intranet
12 1 (0.730%) Broadband
12 1 (0.730%) WCDMA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.029%) MySQL
2 9 (6.569%) NoSQL
3 7 (5.109%) MongoDB
3 7 (5.109%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.380%) CouchDB
4 6 (4.380%) Big Data
5 3 (2.190%) Redis
6 2 (1.460%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.460%) Oracle 11g
6 2 (1.460%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.460%) Oracle 10g
6 2 (1.460%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.460%) Apache Hive
6 2 (1.460%) MarkLogic
6 2 (1.460%) HBase
6 2 (1.460%) Mahout
7 1 (0.730%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (8.029%) Subversion
1 11 (8.029%) Visual Studio
2 9 (6.569%) Git (software)
3 7 (5.109%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.650%) GitHub
5 4 (2.920%) Maven
5 4 (2.920%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.190%) Hudson
6 3 (2.190%) JUnit
6 3 (2.190%) ClearCase
6 3 (2.190%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.460%) JIRA
7 2 (1.460%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 2 (1.460%) Ant
7 2 (1.460%) Bugzilla
8 1 (0.730%) GoogleTest
8 1 (0.730%) PyUnit
8 1 (0.730%) JProfiler
8 1 (0.730%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.730%) GCC
General
1 19 (13.87%) Telecoms
2 15 (10.95%) Finance
2 15 (10.95%) Aerospace
3 7 (5.109%) Publishing
4 6 (4.380%) Games
4 6 (4.380%) Electronics
5 4 (2.920%) Investment Banking
5 4 (2.920%) Banking
5 4 (2.920%) Retail
6 3 (2.190%) Advertising
7 2 (1.460%) Avionics
7 2 (1.460%) Marketing
7 2 (1.460%) Multimedia
7 2 (1.460%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.460%) Front Office
7 2 (1.460%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.730%) Automotive
8 1 (0.730%) Military
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.68%) Open Source
2 13 (9.489%) Embedded Systems
3 12 (8.759%) Computer Science
4 11 (8.029%) Device Driver
5 10 (7.299%) Handset
6 9 (6.569%) Mathematics
7 7 (5.109%) Mobile App
7 7 (5.109%) IPTV
8 6 (4.380%) Interactive TV
9 5 (3.650%) Blog
10 3 (2.190%) MPEG
10 3 (2.190%) Derivative
10 3 (2.190%) STB
10 3 (2.190%) MHEG
11 2 (1.460%) Data Integration
11 2 (1.460%) Semantic Web
11 2 (1.460%) Social Network
11 2 (1.460%) Credit Risk
11 2 (1.460%) Market Risk
11 2 (1.460%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 49 (35.77%) Linux
2 30 (21.90%) Embedded Linux
3 13 (9.489%) Windows
4 8 (5.839%) UNIX
5 5 (3.650%) Android
6 2 (1.460%) VxWorks
7 1 (0.730%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.730%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.730%) Windows CE
7 1 (0.730%) Solaris
7 1 (0.730%) Debian
7 1 (0.730%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (43.07%) Multithreading
2 54 (39.42%) OO
3 40 (29.20%) UML
4 35 (25.55%) Requirements Analysis
5 33 (24.09%) TDD
6 29 (21.17%) Agile Software Development
7 15 (10.95%) Software Engineering
8 14 (10.22%) Scrum
9 11 (8.029%) Unit Testing
9 11 (8.029%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (7.299%) OOD
10 10 (7.299%) BDD
11 7 (5.109%) Embedded Software Development
11 7 (5.109%) Pair Programming
11 7 (5.109%) Software Testing
11 7 (5.109%) Test Automation
12 6 (4.380%) OOP
12 6 (4.380%) Mobile Application Development
13 5 (3.650%) MVVM
13 5 (3.650%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 45 (32.85%) C++
2 42 (30.66%) C
3 32 (23.36%) C#
4 28 (20.44%) Java
5 18 (13.14%) JavaScript
6 17 (12.41%) Embedded C
7 14 (10.22%) Embedded C++
8 13 (9.489%) SQL
9 12 (8.759%) Perl
10 10 (7.299%) PHP
11 9 (6.569%) Ruby
12 5 (3.650%) Python
13 4 (2.920%) Groovy
13 4 (2.920%) Scala
13 4 (2.920%) ActionScript
13 4 (2.920%) ActionScript 3.0
13 4 (2.920%) ActionScript 2.0
14 3 (2.190%) Assembly Language
14 3 (2.190%) XQuery
14 3 (2.190%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (27.01%) Security Cleared
2 23 (16.79%) SC Cleared
3 18 (13.14%) Degree
4 2 (1.460%) HND
5 1 (0.730%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.650%) QA
2 2 (1.460%) DO-178B
3 1 (0.730%) TickIT
System Software
1 1 (0.730%) NDS
Vendors
1 12 (8.759%) Oracle
2 4 (2.920%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.190%) OpenTV
4 2 (1.460%) Agilent
4 2 (1.460%) SAP
4 2 (1.460%) Perforce
4 2 (1.460%) TIBCO
4 2 (1.460%) Salesforce.com
5 1 (0.730%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.730%) Cognizant
5 1 (0.730%) JBoss
5 1 (0.730%) Northgate
5 1 (0.730%) Green Hills
5 1 (0.730%) Wind River
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