Software Developer Contracts in West Yorkshire
 
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 Software Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire 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 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 advertised for the West Yorkshire 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Developer
Rank 77 81 77
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 11 10 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.876% 0.639% 0.178%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.928% 0.676% 0.189%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 0
Average daily rate £280 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
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%
Search 15 Software Developer jobs in West Yorkshire
All Job Titles
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 1185 1480 1059
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 94.42% 94.57% 94.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 828 495
Average daily rate £313 £340 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.08% +4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £200 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 67 74
Average hourly rate £12.75 £15.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.00% +20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.53 £10.00 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £32.50 £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Software Developer
Yorkshire

Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Software Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Software Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Developer within the West Yorkshire region 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
Leeds -8 8 £275 -21.42%
Bradford - 1 £325 -
Software Developer
Yorkshire

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 10 (55.56%) .NET
2 9 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (50.00%) C#
3 8 (44.44%) ASP.NET
4 7 (38.89%) Web Services
4 7 (38.89%) SQL
5 5 (27.78%) OO
6 4 (22.22%) Python
6 4 (22.22%) VB.NET
6 4 (22.22%) C++
6 4 (22.22%) Ruby
6 4 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
6 4 (22.22%) Amazon AWS
6 4 (22.22%) Node.js
7 3 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (16.67%) Multithreading
7 3 (16.67%) jQuery
7 3 (16.67%) WinForms
7 3 (16.67%) Java
7 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
7 3 (16.67%) CSS
8 2 (11.11%) Windows
8 2 (11.11%) XHTML
8 2 (11.11%) VB
8 2 (11.11%) Visual Studio
8 2 (11.11%) PL/SQL
8 2 (11.11%) Oracle
8 2 (11.11%) CMS
8 2 (11.11%) Perforce
8 2 (11.11%) RUP

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 10 (55.56%) .NET
2 8 (44.44%) ASP.NET
3 7 (38.89%) Web Services
4 4 (22.22%) Node.js
5 3 (16.67%) jQuery
5 3 (16.67%) WinForms
5 3 (16.67%) CSS
6 2 (11.11%) XHTML
6 2 (11.11%) WCF
6 2 (11.11%) WPF
7 1 (5.556%) ASP.NET MVC 2
7 1 (5.556%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (5.556%) HTML5
7 1 (5.556%) .NET Framework
7 1 (5.556%) LAMP
7 1 (5.556%) ASP
7 1 (5.556%) POSIX
7 1 (5.556%) SOAP
7 1 (5.556%) XML
Application Platforms
1 4 (22.22%) Amazon AWS
2 2 (11.11%) CMS
3 1 (5.556%) nginx
3 1 (5.556%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.556%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.556%) Route 53
3 1 (5.556%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.556%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.556%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (5.556%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (5.556%) SimpleDB
3 1 (5.556%) Redis
3 1 (5.556%) Couchbase
3 1 (5.556%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.556%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.556%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.556%) MySQL
3 1 (5.556%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (11.11%) Visual Studio
2 2 (11.11%) JIRA
3 1 (5.556%) NUnit
3 1 (5.556%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 1 (5.556%) Telecoms
1 1 (5.556%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.556%) Computer Science
1 1 (5.556%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (5.556%) Open Source
1 1 (5.556%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (5.556%) Linux
2 1 (5.556%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) OO
2 3 (16.67%) Multithreading
3 2 (11.11%) RUP
3 2 (11.11%) Configuration Management
3 2 (11.11%) CMMI
3 2 (11.11%) MVC
3 2 (11.11%) TDD
3 2 (11.11%) Web Development
3 2 (11.11%) Content Management
4 1 (5.556%) Kanban
4 1 (5.556%) Test Automation
4 1 (5.556%) Security Testing
4 1 (5.556%) Unit Testing
4 1 (5.556%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (5.556%) Software Distribution
4 1 (5.556%) Network Design
4 1 (5.556%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (5.556%) Service Delivery
4 1 (5.556%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) C#
2 7 (38.89%) SQL
3 4 (22.22%) Python
3 4 (22.22%) VB.NET
3 4 (22.22%) C++
3 4 (22.22%) Ruby
4 3 (16.67%) Java
4 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (11.11%) VB
5 2 (11.11%) PL/SQL
6 1 (5.556%) Bash shell
6 1 (5.556%) VB6
6 1 (5.556%) VBA
6 1 (5.556%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.556%) Puppet
1 1 (5.556%) Tivoli
1 1 (5.556%) Tivoli Configuration Manager
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle
1 2 (11.11%) Perforce
2 1 (5.556%) LANDesk
2 1 (5.556%) IBM
2 1 (5.556%) HP
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