The first table below looks at the demand for the 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 Software Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineer
Rank 72 83 66
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 44 38 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 2.245% 1.593% 1.780%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.375% 1.680% 1.897%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 22 21
Average daily rate £310 £300 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% -4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £125 £280 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £350 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £313 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.00% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Average hourly rate - £37.00 £34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +8.82%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year
- +5.63%
All Job Titles
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1853 2262 1740
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 94.54% 94.84% 93.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 969 1198 857
Average daily rate £315 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.07% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £175 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £465
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 129 119
Average hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.30 £8.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £32.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Software Engineer
England

Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
West Yorkshire +3 40 £320 +6.66% 15
North Yorkshire - 2 - - 3
South Yorkshire - 1 - - 3
Software Engineer
England

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 37 (55.22%) Linux
2 31 (46.27%) PHP
3 29 (43.28%) C++
4 27 (40.30%) Python
5 26 (38.81%) MySQL
5 26 (38.81%) Web Services
5 26 (38.81%) Amazon AWS
6 25 (37.31%) Apache
7 23 (34.33%) TDD
8 22 (32.84%) Internet
8 22 (32.84%) Ruby
9 21 (31.34%) MongoDB
9 21 (31.34%) Continuous Integration
9 21 (31.34%) nginx
9 21 (31.34%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (31.34%) Amazon S3
9 21 (31.34%) Route 53
10 20 (29.85%) Configuration Management
10 20 (29.85%) Scrum
11 19 (28.36%) Node.js
11 19 (28.36%) Bash shell
12 18 (26.87%) NoSQL
12 18 (26.87%) Puppet
12 18 (26.87%) DNS
13 16 (23.88%) RDBMS
13 16 (23.88%) HTTP
13 16 (23.88%) POSIX
13 16 (23.88%) Redis
13 16 (23.88%) Couchbase
13 16 (23.88%) Amazon RDS

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 (38.81%) Web Services
2 19 (28.36%) Node.js
3 16 (23.88%) POSIX
4 13 (19.40%) LAMP
5 11 (16.42%) CSS
6 10 (14.93%) HTML5
7 9 (13.43%) Symfony
7 9 (13.43%) CSS3
8 7 (10.45%) HTML
9 6 (8.955%) .NET
10 5 (7.463%) jQuery
11 4 (5.970%) GStreamer
11 4 (5.970%) XML
11 4 (5.970%) XSLT
11 4 (5.970%) Middleware
12 3 (4.478%) WPF
12 3 (4.478%) Flash
13 2 (2.985%) ASP
13 2 (2.985%) ASP.NET
13 2 (2.985%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 26 (38.81%) Amazon AWS
2 25 (37.31%) Apache
3 21 (31.34%) nginx
3 21 (31.34%) Amazon EC2
3 21 (31.34%) Amazon S3
3 21 (31.34%) Route 53
4 5 (7.463%) Amazon ELB
4 5 (7.463%) Drupal
4 5 (7.463%) CloudFront
5 1 (1.493%) EPiServer CMS
5 1 (1.493%) ColdFusion
5 1 (1.493%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.985%) MS Office
2 1 (1.493%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.493%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 3 (4.478%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 22 (32.84%) Internet
2 18 (26.87%) DNS
3 16 (23.88%) HTTP
4 4 (5.970%) SSL
4 4 (5.970%) DVB
4 4 (5.970%) DHCP
5 3 (4.478%) SSH
6 2 (2.985%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (2.985%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.493%) 4G
7 1 (1.493%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (38.81%) MySQL
2 21 (31.34%) MongoDB
3 18 (26.87%) NoSQL
4 16 (23.88%) Redis
4 16 (23.88%) SimpleDB
4 16 (23.88%) Couchbase
4 16 (23.88%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (23.88%) RDBMS
5 3 (4.478%) Oracle OWB
5 3 (4.478%) Oracle BI EE
5 3 (4.478%) Hadoop
5 3 (4.478%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (4.478%) Oracle ODI
5 3 (4.478%) Apache Hive
5 3 (4.478%) Big Data
6 2 (2.985%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.493%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.493%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 5 (7.463%) Git (software)
2 4 (5.970%) PHPUnit
3 1 (1.493%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.493%) WebSpeed
3 1 (1.493%) NUnit
General
1 4 (5.970%) Electronics
2 3 (4.478%) Telecoms
3 2 (2.985%) Finance
3 2 (2.985%) Games
3 2 (2.985%) Retail
3 2 (2.985%) Online Betting
4 1 (1.493%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.493%) German Language
4 1 (1.493%) Japanese Language
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.93%) Open Source
2 5 (7.463%) Client/Server
2 5 (7.463%) MPEG
2 5 (7.463%) STB
3 4 (5.970%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.478%) Device Driver
4 3 (4.478%) Data Integration
5 2 (2.985%) Computer Science
5 2 (2.985%) IPTV
6 1 (1.493%) Mathematics
6 1 (1.493%) Pharmacovigilance
6 1 (1.493%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 37 (55.22%) Linux
2 5 (7.463%) Ubuntu
3 3 (4.478%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.493%) Android
4 1 (1.493%) Windows CE
4 1 (1.493%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (34.33%) TDD
2 21 (31.34%) Continuous Integration
3 20 (29.85%) Scrum
3 20 (29.85%) Configuration Management
4 16 (23.88%) Kanban
5 8 (11.94%) Multithreading
5 8 (11.94%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (8.955%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (7.463%) Web Development
7 5 (7.463%) Load Balancing
7 5 (7.463%) Project Management
7 5 (7.463%) OO
7 5 (7.463%) MVC
8 4 (5.970%) Software Testing
9 3 (4.478%) User Acceptance Testing
9 3 (4.478%) Signal Processing
9 3 (4.478%) Analytics
9 3 (4.478%) CRM
9 3 (4.478%) ERP
9 3 (4.478%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 31 (46.27%) PHP
2 29 (43.28%) C++
3 27 (40.30%) Python
4 22 (32.84%) Ruby
5 19 (28.36%) Bash shell
6 12 (17.91%) SQL
7 11 (16.42%) JavaScript
8 9 (13.43%) C
9 7 (10.45%) C#
9 7 (10.45%) Java
10 5 (7.463%) Embedded C
11 4 (5.970%) PL/SQL
11 4 (5.970%) Scala
12 3 (4.478%) Embedded C++
13 2 (2.985%) VB
14 1 (1.493%) VB.NET
14 1 (1.493%) VBA
14 1 (1.493%) VB6
14 1 (1.493%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (5.970%) Degree
2 1 (1.493%) HND
2 1 (1.493%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.985%) QA
2 1 (1.493%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 18 (26.87%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (10.45%) Oracle
2 5 (7.463%) Red Hat
2 5 (7.463%) Percona
3 4 (5.970%) JBoss
4 3 (4.478%) PeopleSoft
4 3 (4.478%) SAP
4 3 (4.478%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.478%) Informatica
4 3 (4.478%) Freescale
5 2 (2.985%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.493%) EPiServer
6 1 (1.493%) Progress
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