The first table below looks at the demand for Software Engineering skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Engineering over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Wales 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineering
Rank 40 - 58
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 4 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 0.855% - 0.559%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.242% - 0.877%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £500 - £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £335 £306
% change year-on-year
+0.74% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.75 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-18.12% +14.28%
All Processes & Methodologies
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
322 385 456
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 68.80% 63.53% 63.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 187 208
Average daily rate £338 £375 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% +3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £513
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 12 17
Average hourly rate £15.00 £13.35 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.35% -68.58%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Software Engineering
UK

Software Engineering
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Software Engineering across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Wales Software Engineering Jobs Demand Trend

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Software Engineering across the Wales region.

Wales Software Engineering Daily Rate Trend

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Software Engineering across the Wales region.

Wales Software Engineering Hourly Rate Trend

Software Engineering
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the Wales region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
South Wales - 2 - - 3
West Wales - - - -
North Wales - - - -
Software Engineering
UK

Software Engineering
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing Software Engineering also 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 that cited Software Engineering.

1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) J2EE
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 4 (100.00%) J2SE
1 4 (100.00%) IBM
1 4 (100.00%) Adobe
1 4 (100.00%) ILOG
1 4 (100.00%) FileNet
1 4 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) Subversion
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) JSF
1 4 (100.00%) Time Management
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (75.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) Maven
3 1 (25.00%) Java EE

Software Engineering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing Software Engineering also 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 that cited Software Engineering. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) J2EE
1 4 (100.00%) J2SE
1 4 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) JSF
1 4 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (25.00%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 4 (100.00%) FileNet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Subversion
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Maven
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Team Leader
1 4 (100.00%) Software Team Leader
2 3 (75.00%) Development Manager
2 3 (75.00%) Development Team Leader
3 1 (25.00%) Java Team Leader
3 1 (25.00%) J2EE Team Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Java
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) IBM
1 4 (100.00%) Adobe
1 4 (100.00%) ILOG