Software Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT contracts across the UK 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 Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aylesbury Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Bracknell Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Crewe Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Inverness Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Wilmslow Winchester Wokingham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	304	272
Rank change on same period last year	-32
Matching contract IT job ads	333	544
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.444 %	0.550 %
As % of the category below	0.493 %	0.600 %
Daily rates quoted	59	126
Average minimum daily rate	£291	£336
Average daily rate	£319	£357
% change on same period last year	-10.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£347	£379
UK excluding London average daily rate	£312	£313
% change on same period last year	-0.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	62	60
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.09	£36.15
Average hourly rate	£32.68	£38.16
% change on same period last year	-14.35 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.27	£40.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.84	£37.99
% change on same period last year	-13.56 %
Job Titles UK
Matching contract IT job ads	67526	90610
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	90.01 %	91.67 %
Daily rates quoted	22121	26824
Average minimum daily rate	£378	£390
Average daily rate	£404	£415
% change on same period last year	-2.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£430	£440
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	5680	7267
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.08	£24.52
Average hourly rate	£23.72	£26.04
% change on same period last year	-8.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.36	£27.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %

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 the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Software Developer within the UK 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 Developer within the UK.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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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 Developer within the UK.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Top 30 Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 25 July 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
England	-25	307	£322	-10.44 %
South East	-26	75	£305	-7.34 %
London	+12	69	£341	-17.40 %
East of England	0	39	£336	+7.92 %
South West	-14	32	£313	+2.82 %
Yorkshire	+25	29	£355	+17.96 %
North West	-6	23	£250	-37.50 %
Hampshire	+15	22	£313	+18.76 %
Cambridgeshire	-3	20	£320	+15.16 %
East Midlands	+11	17	£313	+27.55 %
City of London	-11	15	£357	-15.18 %
South Yorkshire	+9	13	£362	+20.26 %
Scotland	+27	13	£221	-
Buckinghamshire	+8	13	£269	-
Cambridge	-1	13	£340	+22.36 %
Midlands	+11	12	£350	-
Berkshire	+3	11	£289	-10.22 %
Surrey	-18	10	£317	+5.69 %
Oxfordshire	0	9	-	-
Somerset	+4	9	-	-
South Wales	-16	9	£325	+4.00 %
Wales	-24	9	£325	+10.16 %
West Midlands	+2	9	£275	+10.00 %
North Yorkshire	+2	9	£321	-
Cheshire	-7	9	-	-
Bristol	-7	8	£313	+3.99 %
Cardiff	+4	7	£350	+7.69 %
York	-	7	£321	-
Newcastle Upon Tyne	+9	7	£316	+26.26 %
West Yorkshire	+3	7	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 340 (48.64 %) .NET 2 300 (42.92 %) C# 3 238 (34.05 %) SQL Server 4 202 (28.90 %) SQL 5 173 (24.75 %) C++ 6 154 (22.03 %) ASP.NET 7 153 (21.89 %) XML 8 135 (19.31 %) Java 9 118 (16.88 %) Windows 10 111 (15.88 %) Oracle 11 110 (15.74 %) C 12 101 (14.45 %) VB.NET 13 100 (14.31 %) HTML 14 99 (14.16 %) JavaScript 15 97 (13.88 %) OO

16 96 (13.73 %) Microsoft 17 90 (12.88 %) Security Cleared 18 88 (12.59 %) WebServices 19 86 (12.30 %) VB 19 86 (12.30 %) UML 20 69 (9.871 %) Linux 21 68 (9.728 %) UNIX 21 68 (9.728 %) Visual Studio 21 68 (9.728 %) ASP 22 66 (9.442 %) SQL Server 2005 23 63 (9.013 %) AJAX 24 56 (8.011 %) .NET Framework 25 54 (7.725 %) Transact-SQL 26 49 (7.010 %) CSS 27 48 (6.867 %) J2EE

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 1 340 (48.64 %) .NET 2 154 (22.03 %) ASP.NET 3 153 (21.89 %) XML 4 100 (14.31 %) HTML 5 88 (12.59 %) WebServices 6 68 (9.728 %) ASP 7 63 (9.013 %) AJAX 8 56 (8.011 %) .NET Framework 9 49 (7.010 %) CSS 10 48 (6.867 %) J2EE 11 28 (4.006 %) SOAP 12 23 (3.290 %) WinForms 13 20 (2.861 %) Hibernate 14 19 (2.718 %) Spring 14 19 (2.718 %) XSLT 15 18 (2.575 %) Struts 15 18 (2.575 %) MFC 16 15 (2.146 %) XSL 17 14 (2.003 %) MVC 18 13 (1.860 %) WCF	Application Platforms 1 21 (3.004 %) IIS 2 16 (2.289 %) SharePoint 3 10 (1.431 %) CMS 4 9 (1.288 %) Tomcat 5 8 (1.144 %) ColdFusion 6 7 (1.001 %) Apache 7 6 (0.858 %) WebLogic 7 6 (0.858 %) BizTalk Server 7 6 (0.858 %) Oracle Spatial 8 4 (0.572 %) Content Management Server 8 4 (0.572 %) CICS 8 4 (0.572 %) JBoss 9 3 (0.429 %) SharePoint Server 2007 10 2 (0.286 %) Lotus Notes 10 2 (0.286 %) WebSphere Application Server 10 2 (0.286 %) SAS 10 2 (0.286 %) Oracle 9iAS 11 1 (0.143 %) SmartSockets 11 1 (0.143 %) Oracle Workflow 11 1 (0.143 %) WPS
Applications 1 21 (3.004 %) MS Excel 2 5 (0.715 %) Photoshop 2 5 (0.715 %) MS Office 3 4 (0.572 %) CATIA 4 3 (0.429 %) Adobe Illustrator 4 3 (0.429 %) Doxygen 5 2 (0.286 %) FrameMaker 6 1 (0.143 %) InfoPath 6 1 (0.143 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 4 (0.572 %) Teamcenter 2 1 (0.143 %) TIBCO iProcess 2 1 (0.143 %) Great Plains 2 1 (0.143 %) Staffware
Communications & Networking 1 26 (3.720 %) Internet 2 18 (2.575 %) TCP/IP 3 12 (1.717 %) LDAP 4 11 (1.574 %) 3G 5 10 (1.431 %) Wireless 6 9 (1.288 %) TETRA 7 8 (1.144 %) Intranet 7 8 (1.144 %) WLAN 8 7 (1.001 %) UMTS 8 7 (1.001 %) HTTP 8 7 (1.001 %) GPRS 8 7 (1.001 %) CTI 9 6 (0.858 %) GSM 9 6 (0.858 %) Bluetooth 9 6 (0.858 %) VoIP 9 6 (0.858 %) UWB 10 5 (0.715 %) 2G 10 5 (0.715 %) SSL 10 5 (0.715 %) Extranet 10 5 (0.715 %) SS7	Database & Business Intelligence 1 238 (34.05 %) SQL Server 2 66 (9.442 %) SQL Server 2005 3 42 (6.009 %) SQL Server 2000 4 25 (3.577 %) MySQL 5 18 (2.575 %) Oracle 10g 6 17 (2.432 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 16 (2.289 %) Oracle Reports 8 15 (2.146 %) RDBMS 9 12 (1.717 %) MS Access 9 12 (1.717 %) Crystal Reports 10 10 (1.431 %) SQL Server 7 11 8 (1.144 %) BusinessObjects 11 8 (1.144 %) Oracle 8/8i 12 7 (1.001 %) GIS 13 6 (0.858 %) SQL Server Integration Services 14 5 (0.715 %) OLTP 15 3 (0.429 %) DTS 15 3 (0.429 %) SQLBase 16 2 (0.286 %) Base SAS 16 2 (0.286 %) ETL
Development Applications 1 68 (9.728 %) Visual Studio 2 16 (2.289 %) JUnit 3 13 (1.860 %) ClearCase 3 13 (1.860 %) NUnit 4 12 (1.717 %) Subversion 5 10 (1.431 %) Ant 6 9 (1.288 %) Flash 6 9 (1.288 %) ARTiSAN 7 8 (1.144 %) Eclipse 7 8 (1.144 %) Oracle Forms 8 6 (0.858 %) Selenium 8 6 (0.858 %) Visual Studio Team System 9 4 (0.572 %) FitNesse 9 4 (0.572 %) HttpUnit 9 4 (0.572 %) QuickTest Pro 10 3 (0.429 %) ClearQuest 11 2 (0.286 %) Telelogic TAU 11 2 (0.286 %) IntelliJ 11 2 (0.286 %) Rational Rose 11 2 (0.286 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 42 (6.009 %) Government 2 36 (5.150 %) Finance 3 34 (4.864 %) Telecoms 4 21 (3.004 %) Banking 5 20 (2.861 %) Aerospace 6 19 (2.718 %) Health 7 16 (2.289 %) Back Office 8 15 (2.146 %) Investment Banking 9 14 (2.003 %) Marketing 10 12 (1.717 %) Retail 10 12 (1.717 %) Military 11 10 (1.431 %) Games 12 8 (1.144 %) Pensions 12 8 (1.144 %) Automotive 12 8 (1.144 %) Education 13 7 (1.001 %) Electronics 13 7 (1.001 %) Insurance 13 7 (1.001 %) 3D Graphics 14 6 (0.858 %) Billing 15 4 (0.572 %) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous 1 17 (2.432 %) Computer Science 2 13 (1.860 %) Client/Server 3 11 (1.574 %) Device Driver 4 10 (1.431 %) Handset 4 10 (1.431 %) E-Learning 5 9 (1.288 %) Multithreading 6 8 (1.144 %) Firmware 7 6 (0.858 %) PDA 7 6 (0.858 %) Mathematics 8 5 (0.715 %) SCORM 8 5 (0.715 %) Clustering 8 5 (0.715 %) NHS 9 4 (0.572 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 9 4 (0.572 %) STB 10 3 (0.429 %) Biology 10 3 (0.429 %) W3C 10 3 (0.429 %) N-Tier 10 3 (0.429 %) DTV 11 2 (0.286 %) Management Information System 11 2 (0.286 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 118 (16.88 %) Windows 2 69 (9.871 %) Linux 3 68 (9.728 %) UNIX 4 13 (1.860 %) Windows Mobile 5 10 (1.431 %) Solaris 6 8 (1.144 %) Windows XP 7 4 (0.572 %) Windows CE 8 2 (0.286 %) Windows 2000 8 2 (0.286 %) Windows NT 8 2 (0.286 %) Embedded Linux 8 2 (0.286 %) VxWorks 8 2 (0.286 %) VMS 8 2 (0.286 %) OpenVMS 8 2 (0.286 %) AIX 8 2 (0.286 %) Ubuntu 9 1 (0.143 %) Mac OS X 9 1 (0.143 %) Symbian OS 9 1 (0.143 %) Palm OS 9 1 (0.143 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 97 (13.88 %) OO 2 90 (12.88 %) Security Cleared 3 86 (12.30 %) UML 4 47 (6.724 %) OOD 5 42 (6.009 %) Software Engineering 6 40 (5.722 %) SC Cleared 7 30 (4.292 %) Unit Testing 8 29 (4.149 %) Agile Software Development 9 20 (2.861 %) Workflow 9 20 (2.861 %) Web Development 10 17 (2.432 %) Configuration Management 11 15 (2.146 %) TDD 12 11 (1.574 %) Migration 12 11 (1.574 %) DV Cleared 13 10 (1.431 %) Content Management 14 9 (1.288 %) CRM 14 9 (1.288 %) OOP 15 8 (1.144 %) RAD 15 8 (1.144 %) Project Management 15 8 (1.144 %) SOA	Programming Languages 1 300 (42.92 %) C# 2 202 (28.90 %) SQL 3 173 (24.75 %) C++ 4 135 (19.31 %) Java 5 110 (15.74 %) C 6 101 (14.45 %) VB.NET 7 99 (14.16 %) JavaScript 8 86 (12.30 %) VB 9 54 (7.725 %) Transact-SQL 10 34 (4.864 %) VB6 11 26 (3.720 %) Perl 12 22 (3.147 %) PL/SQL 13 21 (3.004 %) PHP 14 20 (2.861 %) VC++ 15 19 (2.718 %) Ada 16 17 (2.432 %) Embedded C 17 13 (1.860 %) Delphi 18 12 (1.717 %) VBScript 18 12 (1.717 %) Python 19 10 (1.431 %) DHTML
Qualifications 1 36 (5.150 %) Degree 2 7 (1.001 %) Microsoft Certification 3 6 (0.858 %) HND 4 5 (0.715 %) Oracle Certification 5 2 (0.286 %) Sun Certification 5 2 (0.286 %) Postgraduate 5 2 (0.286 %) HNC 6 1 (0.143 %) MCSD 6 1 (0.143 %) MCSE 6 1 (0.143 %) MCSA 6 1 (0.143 %) SCJD	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (1.144 %) QA 2 2 (0.286 %) PCI DSS 3 1 (0.143 %) JTAG 3 1 (0.143 %) HL7 3 1 (0.143 %) MiFID
System Software 1 5 (0.715 %) Active Directory 2 2 (0.286 %) MSMQ 3 1 (0.143 %) AquaLogic	Systems Management 1 1 (0.143 %) Tivoli 1 1 (0.143 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 1 (0.143 %) MIIS
Vendors 1 111 (15.88 %) Oracle 2 96 (13.73 %) Microsoft 3 11 (1.574 %) Sybase 3 11 (1.574 %) Murex 4 8 (1.144 %) Business Objects 5 7 (1.001 %) Adobe 6 6 (0.858 %) Symbian 6 6 (0.858 %) Infragistics 7 5 (0.715 %) Borland 7 5 (0.715 %) SAP 8 4 (0.572 %) Siebel 8 4 (0.572 %) Macromedia 8 4 (0.572 %) IBM 8 4 (0.572 %) BEA 8 4 (0.572 %) Baan 8 4 (0.572 %) telerik 9 3 (0.429 %) ATG 9 3 (0.429 %) Red Hat 9 3 (0.429 %) TIBCO 9 3 (0.429 %) Lotus