The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Senior Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 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 Belfast 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Developer
Rank 23 22 17
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 2 3 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 1.250% 1.948% 7.586%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.575% 2.098% 8.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £363 £355
% change year-on-year
+0.68% +2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -17.64%
All Job Titles
Belfast
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
127 143 275
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 79.38% 92.86% 94.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 54 83
Average daily rate £325 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £130 £243 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 22
Average hourly rate £12.42 - £15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Senior Developer
County Antrim

Senior Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Belfast Senior Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Belfast Senior Developer Daily Rate Trend

Senior Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region that cited Senior 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 Senior Developer in their job title.

1 7 (70.00%) UNIX
2 5 (50.00%) Sybase
2 5 (50.00%) Web Services
3 4 (40.00%) Release Management
3 4 (40.00%) Java
3 4 (40.00%) Banking
3 4 (40.00%) Investment Banking
4 3 (30.00%) .NET
5 2 (20.00%) C#
5 2 (20.00%) C++
5 2 (20.00%) Linux
5 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
5 2 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
6 1 (10.00%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (10.00%) jQuery
6 1 (10.00%) C
6 1 (10.00%) MVC
6 1 (10.00%) Web Design
6 1 (10.00%) Spring
6 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
6 1 (10.00%) Ajax
6 1 (10.00%) Degree
6 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
6 1 (10.00%) QA
6 1 (10.00%) OO
6 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
6 1 (10.00%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (10.00%) Ant
6 1 (10.00%) JUnit

Senior Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region that cited Senior 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 Senior Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (50.00%) Web Services
2 3 (30.00%) .NET
3 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (10.00%) jQuery
4 1 (10.00%) Spring
4 1 (10.00%) Ajax
4 1 (10.00%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (10.00%) BizTalk Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (10.00%) Ant
2 1 (10.00%) JUnit
2 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (40.00%) Banking
1 4 (40.00%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) UNIX
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Release Management
2 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (10.00%) MVC
2 1 (10.00%) Web Design
2 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (10.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) C#
2 2 (20.00%) C++
3 1 (10.00%) C
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Sybase
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
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