The first table below looks at the demand for the Embedded Software Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Embedded Software Engineer 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Embedded Software Engineer
Rank 109 108 101
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -7
Contract jobs requiring an Embedded Software Engineer 3 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.161% 0.089% 0.108%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.171% 0.094% 0.115%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £288 £290
% change year-on-year
+7.82% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Average hourly rate - £42.50 £34.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +24.08%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -6.66%
All Job Titles
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1753 2126 1740
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 94.25% 94.62% 93.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 899 1137 820
Average daily rate £315 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.54% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £188 £201
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 114 122
Average hourly rate £12.75 £14.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.92% -20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.30 £7.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £30.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Embedded Software Engineer
England

Embedded Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire Embedded Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Embedded Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Embedded Software Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Embedded Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Embedded Software Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Embedded 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 Embedded Software Engineer within the Yorkshire 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
East Yorkshire - 3 £300 -
Embedded Software Engineer
England

Embedded Software Engineer
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region that cited Embedded 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 Embedded Software Engineer in their job title.

1 5 (100.00%) C
2 4 (80.00%) C++
3 3 (60.00%) Flash
3 3 (60.00%) Embedded C
3 3 (60.00%) Device Driver
3 3 (60.00%) Signal Processing
3 3 (60.00%) Freescale
4 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Open Source
4 2 (40.00%) GStreamer
4 2 (40.00%) STB
4 2 (40.00%) Electronics
4 2 (40.00%) Embedded C++
4 2 (40.00%) Middleware
4 2 (40.00%) DVB
4 2 (40.00%) MPEG
4 2 (40.00%) OO
5 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development

Embedded Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region that cited Embedded 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 Embedded Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (60.00%) Flash
2 2 (40.00%) GStreamer
2 2 (40.00%) Middleware
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DVB
General
1 2 (40.00%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Device Driver
2 2 (40.00%) Open Source
2 2 (40.00%) STB
2 2 (40.00%) MPEG
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Signal Processing
2 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (40.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C
2 4 (80.00%) C++
3 3 (60.00%) Embedded C
4 2 (40.00%) Embedded C++
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Freescale