The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title 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 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineer
Rank 56 53 49
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 39 42 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 2.816% 2.466% 2.129%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.982% 2.596% 2.275%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 27 18
Average daily rate £320 £300 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £125 £279 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £358 £316
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £310 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.83% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £37.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year
- +5.63%
All Job Titles
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1308 1618 1099
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 94.44% 95.01% 93.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 676 908 528
Average daily rate £315 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.07% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £181 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 68 85
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 £10.00 £10.30 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.15 £34.25 £28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Software Engineer
Yorkshire

Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire Software Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

West Yorkshire Software Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire Software Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Software Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the West Yorkshire 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
Leeds 0 37 £323 +7.50% 13
Bradford 0 1 - - 2
Dewsbury - - - -
Halifax - - - -
Huddersfield - - - -
Wakefield - - - - 1
Software Engineer
Yorkshire

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited 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 Software Engineer in their job title.

1 30 (57.69%) Linux
2 26 (50.00%) Python
2 26 (50.00%) Web Services
2 26 (50.00%) PHP
2 26 (50.00%) Amazon AWS
3 24 (46.15%) C++
4 23 (44.23%) TDD
5 22 (42.31%) Ruby
5 22 (42.31%) Internet
6 21 (40.38%) Apache
6 21 (40.38%) MySQL
6 21 (40.38%) Continuous Integration
6 21 (40.38%) Amazon EC2
6 21 (40.38%) Amazon S3
6 21 (40.38%) nginx
6 21 (40.38%) MongoDB
6 21 (40.38%) Route 53
7 20 (38.46%) Configuration Management
8 19 (36.54%) Scrum
8 19 (36.54%) Node.js
8 19 (36.54%) Bash shell
9 18 (34.62%) NoSQL
9 18 (34.62%) Puppet
9 18 (34.62%) DNS
10 16 (30.77%) HTTP
10 16 (30.77%) RDBMS
10 16 (30.77%) POSIX
10 16 (30.77%) Kanban
10 16 (30.77%) Couchbase
10 16 (30.77%) Amazon RDS

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited 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 Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 26 (50.00%) Web Services
2 19 (36.54%) Node.js
3 16 (30.77%) POSIX
4 9 (17.31%) LAMP
5 6 (11.54%) CSS
5 6 (11.54%) HTML5
6 5 (9.615%) Symfony
6 5 (9.615%) CSS3
6 5 (9.615%) .NET
7 2 (3.846%) ASP
7 2 (3.846%) ASP.NET
7 2 (3.846%) Middleware
7 2 (3.846%) MapReduce
7 2 (3.846%) GStreamer
7 2 (3.846%) WPF
8 1 (1.923%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.923%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (1.923%) Razor View Engine
8 1 (1.923%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 1 (1.923%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 26 (50.00%) Amazon AWS
2 21 (40.38%) Apache
2 21 (40.38%) nginx
2 21 (40.38%) Amazon EC2
2 21 (40.38%) Amazon S3
2 21 (40.38%) Route 53
3 5 (9.615%) Amazon ELB
3 5 (9.615%) Drupal
3 5 (9.615%) CloudFront
4 1 (1.923%) EPiServer CMS
4 1 (1.923%) ColdFusion
4 1 (1.923%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.923%) MS Project
1 1 (1.923%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.769%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 22 (42.31%) Internet
2 18 (34.62%) DNS
3 16 (30.77%) HTTP
4 4 (7.692%) SSL
4 4 (7.692%) DHCP
5 3 (5.769%) SSH
6 2 (3.846%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (3.846%) DVB
6 2 (3.846%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.923%) Wireless
7 1 (1.923%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (40.38%) MySQL
1 21 (40.38%) MongoDB
2 18 (34.62%) NoSQL
3 16 (30.77%) Redis
3 16 (30.77%) SimpleDB
3 16 (30.77%) Couchbase
3 16 (30.77%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (30.77%) RDBMS
4 3 (5.769%) Oracle OWB
4 3 (5.769%) Oracle BI EE
4 3 (5.769%) Hadoop
4 3 (5.769%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (5.769%) Oracle ODI
4 3 (5.769%) Apache Hive
4 3 (5.769%) Big Data
5 2 (3.846%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.923%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (9.615%) Git (software)
2 1 (1.923%) NUnit
General
1 3 (5.769%) Telecoms
2 2 (3.846%) Finance
2 2 (3.846%) Games
2 2 (3.846%) Retail
2 2 (3.846%) Online Betting
2 2 (3.846%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.38%) Open Source
2 5 (9.615%) Client/Server
3 4 (7.692%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.769%) Data Integration
4 3 (5.769%) MPEG
4 3 (5.769%) STB
5 1 (1.923%) IPTV
5 1 (1.923%) Mathematics
5 1 (1.923%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 30 (57.69%) Linux
2 5 (9.615%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (44.23%) TDD
2 21 (40.38%) Continuous Integration
3 20 (38.46%) Configuration Management
4 19 (36.54%) Scrum
5 16 (30.77%) Kanban
6 6 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (9.615%) Multithreading
7 5 (9.615%) Load Balancing
7 5 (9.615%) Project Management
8 3 (5.769%) OO
8 3 (5.769%) CRM
8 3 (5.769%) ERP
8 3 (5.769%) Data Modelling
8 3 (5.769%) ETL
8 3 (5.769%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (5.769%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (5.769%) Analytics
9 2 (3.846%) Data Transformation
9 2 (3.846%) Network Design
9 2 (3.846%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (50.00%) PHP
1 26 (50.00%) Python
2 24 (46.15%) C++
3 22 (42.31%) Ruby
4 19 (36.54%) Bash shell
5 10 (19.23%) SQL
6 7 (13.46%) Java
7 6 (11.54%) C#
8 5 (9.615%) JavaScript
9 4 (7.692%) Scala
10 3 (5.769%) C
10 3 (5.769%) PL/SQL
11 2 (3.846%) VB
12 1 (1.923%) VB.NET
12 1 (1.923%) VBA
12 1 (1.923%) Embedded C
12 1 (1.923%) VB6
12 1 (1.923%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (5.769%) Degree
2 1 (1.923%) HND
2 1 (1.923%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.846%) QA
2 1 (1.923%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 18 (34.62%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (11.54%) Oracle
2 5 (9.615%) Red Hat
2 5 (9.615%) Percona
3 4 (7.692%) JBoss
4 3 (5.769%) PeopleSoft
4 3 (5.769%) SAP
4 3 (5.769%) Informatica
5 2 (3.846%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.846%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.923%) EPiServer
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