The first table below looks at the demand for Software Engineering skills 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 Engineering over the 3 months to 17 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineering
Rank 80 93 73
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -20
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 11 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.867% 0.062% 0.089%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.211% 0.084% 0.136%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £308 - £313
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £335 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.98% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.50 £33.63
% change year-on-year
+2.73% +8.55%
All Processes & Methodologies
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
908 1190 737
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 71.55% 73.55% 65.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 686 351
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £453 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 20 28
Average hourly rate £24.00 £20.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.07% +17.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.68 £12.00 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Software Engineering
Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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 +1 10 £308 -
Software Engineering
Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 18 (94.74%) Scrum
2 15 (78.95%) TDD
3 14 (73.68%) Web Services
4 13 (68.42%) Kanban
5 11 (57.89%) JavaScript
6 10 (52.63%) Agile Software Development
7 8 (42.11%) Telecoms
7 8 (42.11%) Automated Testing
7 8 (42.11%) BDD
8 7 (36.84%) MongoDB
8 7 (36.84%) Bash shell
8 7 (36.84%) HTML5
8 7 (36.84%) hybris
8 7 (36.84%) Node.js
8 7 (36.84%) REST
8 7 (36.84%) Redis
8 7 (36.84%) Percona
8 7 (36.84%) Adobe CQ
8 7 (36.84%) Route 53
8 7 (36.84%) Jenkins
8 7 (36.84%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (36.84%) CSS3
8 7 (36.84%) Ruby
8 7 (36.84%) .NET Framework
8 7 (36.84%) Spring
8 7 (36.84%) Maven
8 7 (36.84%) Hibernate
8 7 (36.84%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (36.84%) jQuery
8 7 (36.84%) Security Testing

Software Engineering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 14 (73.68%) Web Services
2 7 (36.84%) Hibernate
2 7 (36.84%) .NET
2 7 (36.84%) J2EE
2 7 (36.84%) ASP.NET
2 7 (36.84%) CSS
2 7 (36.84%) SOAP
2 7 (36.84%) Spring
2 7 (36.84%) .NET Framework
2 7 (36.84%) jQuery
2 7 (36.84%) HTML5
2 7 (36.84%) Node.js
2 7 (36.84%) REST
2 7 (36.84%) CSS3
3 4 (21.05%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 4 (21.05%) Cocoa Touch
3 4 (21.05%) ASP.NET MVC
3 4 (21.05%) Cocoa
4 3 (15.79%) XML
5 1 (5.263%) Castle Windsor
Application Platforms
1 7 (36.84%) nginx
1 7 (36.84%) Apache Solr
1 7 (36.84%) Amazon EC2
1 7 (36.84%) Amazon S3
1 7 (36.84%) Amazon AWS
1 7 (36.84%) Adobe CQ
1 7 (36.84%) Route 53
1 7 (36.84%) Apache
1 7 (36.84%) Tomcat
2 1 (5.263%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (36.84%) HTTP
1 7 (36.84%) DNS
1 7 (36.84%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) MySQL
1 7 (36.84%) MongoDB
1 7 (36.84%) Redis
1 7 (36.84%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (31.58%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.263%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Maven
1 7 (36.84%) Git (software)
1 7 (36.84%) Jenkins
2 4 (21.05%) Xcode
2 4 (21.05%) Subversion
General
1 8 (42.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (36.84%) Java Developer
3 4 (21.05%) iOS Developer
4 3 (15.79%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 3 (15.79%) C# .NET Developer
4 3 (15.79%) .NET Developer
4 3 (15.79%) C# Developer
4 3 (15.79%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Progress Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Client/Server
2 4 (21.05%) iPhone
2 4 (21.05%) iPad
2 4 (21.05%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Linux
2 4 (21.05%) Android
2 4 (21.05%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) Scrum
2 15 (78.95%) TDD
3 13 (68.42%) Kanban
4 10 (52.63%) Agile Software Development
5 8 (42.11%) Automated Testing
5 8 (42.11%) BDD
6 7 (36.84%) Test Automation
6 7 (36.84%) Security Testing
6 7 (36.84%) OO
6 7 (36.84%) SOA
7 5 (26.32%) Web Development
8 4 (21.05%) MVC
8 4 (21.05%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (21.05%) Multithreading
8 4 (21.05%) Mobile Application Development
8 4 (21.05%) Dependency Injection
8 4 (21.05%) Memory Management
8 4 (21.05%) OOA/OOD
9 3 (15.79%) Data Management
10 1 (5.263%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) JavaScript
2 7 (36.84%) Perl
2 7 (36.84%) PHP
2 7 (36.84%) Python
2 7 (36.84%) C#
2 7 (36.84%) C++
2 7 (36.84%) Java
2 7 (36.84%) Ruby
2 7 (36.84%) Bash shell
3 4 (21.05%) Objective-C
4 1 (5.263%) Progress 4GL
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Degree
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Oracle
1 7 (36.84%) Adobe
1 7 (36.84%) hybris
1 7 (36.84%) Percona
2 1 (5.263%) Progress
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