The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Bedford 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 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 Job Titles advertised for the Bedford 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
Developer
Rank 1 2 4
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 7 6 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedford 35.00% 31.58% 33.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 41.18% 33.33% 37.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 6
Average daily rate £300 £325 £183
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +78.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £325 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £325 £209
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -8.57%
All Job Titles
Bedford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
17 18 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedford 85.00% 94.74% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 14
Average daily rate £325 £130 £205
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+150.00% -36.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £130 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £409 £555 £290
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
Average hourly rate £19.39 £42.50 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-54.37% +286.36%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Developer
Bedfordshire

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedford 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 Bedford region.

Bedford 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 Bedford region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Bedford 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 Bedford region.

Bedford Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedford 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 4 (44.44%) SharePoint
1 4 (44.44%) CSS
2 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (33.33%) HTML
2 3 (33.33%) PHP
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) .NET
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (33.33%) QlikView
2 3 (33.33%) WordPress
2 3 (33.33%) concrete5
3 2 (22.22%) C#
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) CMS
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
4 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
4 1 (11.11%) Project Management
4 1 (11.11%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
4 1 (11.11%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
4 1 (11.11%) MySQL
4 1 (11.11%) Document Management
4 1 (11.11%) Data Security
4 1 (11.11%) MVC
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2012

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedford 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 4 (44.44%) CSS
2 3 (33.33%) HTML
2 3 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) SharePoint
2 3 (33.33%) WordPress
2 3 (33.33%) concrete5
3 2 (22.22%) CMS
4 1 (11.11%) DotNetNuke
4 1 (11.11%) Immediacy CMS
4 1 (11.11%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (11.11%) Kentico
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (33.33%) QlikView
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (11.11%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (11.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
1 1 (11.11%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
2 1 (11.11%) Project Management
2 1 (11.11%) Data Security
2 1 (11.11%) MVC
2 1 (11.11%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) PHP
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) C#
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft