The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Wiltshire 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 23 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 Wiltshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Developer
Rank 43 50 46
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 9 4 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 2.009% 0.647% 1.429%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.158% 0.705% 1.493%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 2
Average daily rate £525 £315 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+66.66% -13.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £303 £333
10% offered a daily rate of more than £700 £383 £393
UK excluding London average daily rate £316 £300 £298
% change year-on-year
+5.41% +0.84%
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%
All Job Titles
Wiltshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
417 567 536
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 93.08% 91.75% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 340 282
Average daily rate £400 £355 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.67% -5.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £200 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 43 51
Average hourly rate £13.50 £22.50 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-40.00% -22.41%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.49 £14.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £41.50 £37.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Software Developer
South West

Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Swindon +1 5 £563 +82.92%
Corsham - 3 £600 -
Chippenham - 2 £325 -
Software Developer
South West

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 16 (55.17%) C#
2 15 (51.72%) Security Cleared
3 13 (44.83%) C++
4 12 (41.38%) EPoS
4 12 (41.38%) DV Cleared
4 12 (41.38%) Silverlight
4 12 (41.38%) WCF
5 11 (37.93%) Finance
5 11 (37.93%) APACS
5 11 (37.93%) EMV
5 11 (37.93%) C
5 11 (37.93%) SQL Server
5 11 (37.93%) Visual Studio
5 11 (37.93%) Client/Server
6 10 (34.48%) Windows
6 10 (34.48%) UML
6 10 (34.48%) MSTest
6 10 (34.48%) Moq
6 10 (34.48%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 10 (34.48%) Managed Extensibility Framework
7 9 (31.03%) Linux
7 9 (31.03%) .NET
8 8 (27.59%) IIS
8 8 (27.59%) Web Services
8 8 (27.59%) ESRI
8 8 (27.59%) ArcGIS
8 8 (27.59%) RIA
8 8 (27.59%) Unit Testing
8 8 (27.59%) Windows 7
8 8 (27.59%) SQL Server 2008

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 12 (41.38%) Silverlight
1 12 (41.38%) WCF
2 10 (34.48%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 10 (34.48%) Managed Extensibility Framework
3 9 (31.03%) .NET
4 8 (27.59%) Web Services
5 5 (17.24%) .NET Framework
6 4 (13.79%) WinForms
7 2 (6.897%) WPF
7 2 (6.897%) Qt
7 2 (6.897%) LINQ
7 2 (6.897%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 8 (27.59%) IIS
1 8 (27.59%) ArcGIS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.448%) Intranet
1 1 (3.448%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (37.93%) SQL Server
2 8 (27.59%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (3.448%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.448%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 11 (37.93%) Visual Studio
2 10 (34.48%) MSTest
2 10 (34.48%) Moq
3 7 (24.14%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 11 (37.93%) Finance
2 1 (3.448%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 12 (41.38%) EPoS
2 11 (37.93%) APACS
2 11 (37.93%) EMV
2 11 (37.93%) Client/Server
3 8 (27.59%) RIA
4 4 (13.79%) Chip and PIN
Operating Systems
1 10 (34.48%) Windows
2 9 (31.03%) Linux
3 8 (27.59%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) UML
2 8 (27.59%) Unit Testing
3 4 (13.79%) OOD
4 2 (6.897%) Kanban
4 2 (6.897%) OO
5 1 (3.448%) OOP
5 1 (3.448%) Migration
5 1 (3.448%) Data Migration
5 1 (3.448%) Integration Testing
5 1 (3.448%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 16 (55.17%) C#
2 13 (44.83%) C++
3 11 (37.93%) C
4 1 (3.448%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 15 (51.72%) Security Cleared
2 12 (41.38%) DV Cleared
3 6 (20.69%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) ESRI
1 8 (27.59%) VeriFone
2 3 (10.34%) Hyperion
3 2 (6.897%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.448%) Twitter