The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Aberdeen 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Developer
Rank 1 20 12
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 33 7 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 20.75% 3.665% 8.995%
As % of the Job Titles category 22.60% 4.023% 9.827%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 4 9
Average daily rate £350 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £230 £343
10% offered a daily rate of more than £439 £393 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £75.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
All Job Titles
Aberdeen
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
146 174 173
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 91.82% 91.10% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 72 66
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £150 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £455 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 17
Average hourly rate £15.77 £17.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.23% +13.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £14.30 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.60 £33.10 £31.01
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Developer
Scotland

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Aberdeen Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Developer across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen Developer Daily Rate Trend

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Developer across the Aberdeen region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Aberdeen Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Developer across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region that cited 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 Developer in their job title.

1 39 (70.91%) .NET
2 28 (50.91%) C#
3 24 (43.64%) SQL Server
4 23 (41.82%) SharePoint
4 23 (41.82%) SharePoint 2010
5 18 (32.73%) ASP.NET
6 15 (27.27%) jQuery
7 14 (25.45%) MVC
8 13 (23.64%) CSS
9 12 (21.82%) Web Services
9 12 (21.82%) OO
9 12 (21.82%) HTML
9 12 (21.82%) JavaScript
9 12 (21.82%) ASP.NET MVC
10 9 (16.36%) Document Management
10 9 (16.36%) OOP
10 9 (16.36%) XML
10 9 (16.36%) Intranet
11 8 (14.55%) Lotus
11 8 (14.55%) XSLT
11 8 (14.55%) Lotus Notes
11 8 (14.55%) CAML
11 8 (14.55%) SQL Server 2008
12 7 (12.73%) Kindle
12 7 (12.73%) .NET Framework
12 7 (12.73%) ISO 9001
12 7 (12.73%) Finance
13 6 (10.91%) SharePoint Server
13 6 (10.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (9.091%) Migration

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region that cited 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 Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 39 (70.91%) .NET
2 18 (32.73%) ASP.NET
3 15 (27.27%) jQuery
4 13 (23.64%) CSS
5 12 (21.82%) Web Services
5 12 (21.82%) HTML
5 12 (21.82%) ASP.NET MVC
6 9 (16.36%) XML
7 8 (14.55%) XSLT
7 8 (14.55%) CAML
8 7 (12.73%) .NET Framework
9 4 (7.273%) HTML5
10 3 (5.455%) WPF
10 3 (5.455%) WinForms
11 2 (3.636%) Web Dynpro
11 2 (3.636%) SAP Smart Forms
11 2 (3.636%) ASP.NET MVC 4
11 2 (3.636%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 1 (1.818%) Unity DI Container
12 1 (1.818%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 23 (41.82%) SharePoint
1 23 (41.82%) SharePoint 2010
2 8 (14.55%) Lotus Notes
3 6 (10.91%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.818%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (1.818%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.818%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 3 (5.455%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 1 (1.818%) Sentinel
1 1 (1.818%) SAP CO
1 1 (1.818%) SAP PM
1 1 (1.818%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (1.818%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (1.818%) SAP FI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.36%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (43.64%) SQL Server
2 8 (14.55%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (10.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (5.455%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (3.636%) MS Access
6 1 (1.818%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.818%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.818%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (1.818%) Oracle 9i
6 1 (1.818%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (1.818%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 7 (12.73%) Finance
2 1 (1.818%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.73%) Kindle
2 3 (5.455%) EPoS
3 2 (3.636%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.818%) Streaming Media
4 1 (1.818%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.818%) Data Conversion
4 1 (1.818%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.273%) Windows
2 2 (3.636%) Android
2 2 (3.636%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.818%) Linux
3 1 (1.818%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (25.45%) MVC
2 12 (21.82%) OO
3 9 (16.36%) Document Management
3 9 (16.36%) OOP
4 5 (9.091%) Migration
4 5 (9.091%) Workflow
5 3 (5.455%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (3.636%) TDD
7 1 (1.818%) Mobile Application Development
7 1 (1.818%) Dependency Injection
7 1 (1.818%) Web Development
7 1 (1.818%) Data Migration
7 1 (1.818%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 28 (50.91%) C#
2 12 (21.82%) JavaScript
3 5 (9.091%) SQL
4 4 (7.273%) VBA
5 2 (3.636%) SAPscript
5 2 (3.636%) VB
5 2 (3.636%) ABAP
5 2 (3.636%) PHP
5 2 (3.636%) Java
5 2 (3.636%) VB6
6 1 (1.818%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.818%) C++
6 1 (1.818%) Delphi
6 1 (1.818%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.818%) C
6 1 (1.818%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.818%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (3.636%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.73%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 8 (14.55%) Lotus
2 2 (3.636%) Adobe
2 2 (3.636%) SAP
2 2 (3.636%) Oracle
3 1 (1.818%) Microsoft
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