The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Applications Developer 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 Berkshire 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
Application Developer
Rank 107 125 116
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -9
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Developer 14 13 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.583% 0.413% 0.628%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.641% 0.452% 0.696%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 4
Average daily rate £394 £298 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+32.35% -17.93%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £344 £269 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £391 £386
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
+4.16% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 12
Average hourly rate £33.50 - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £39.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-15.38% -8.23%
All Job Titles
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2185 2877 2728
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 91.00% 91.30% 90.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 902 1030 1038
Average daily rate £363 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 126 188
Average hourly rate £24.50 £19.00 £30.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.94% -37.46%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £11.50 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Applications Developer
South East

Applications Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Applications Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Applications Developer Daily Rate Trend

Applications Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Applications Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Applications Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Developer within the Berkshire 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
Slough -8 2 - -
Reading +12 1 - -
Applications Developer
South East

Applications Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Applications 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 Applications Developer in their job title.

1 23 (79.31%) .NET
2 14 (48.28%) C#
3 11 (37.93%) WCF
4 10 (34.48%) SC Cleared
4 10 (34.48%) Security Cleared
4 10 (34.48%) SQL
4 10 (34.48%) SQL Server
5 9 (31.03%) Windows
5 9 (31.03%) Workflow
6 7 (24.14%) WF
7 5 (17.24%) Visual Studio
7 5 (17.24%) T-SQL
7 5 (17.24%) VB
7 5 (17.24%) MVC
7 5 (17.24%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
8 4 (13.79%) C++
8 4 (13.79%) ASP
8 4 (13.79%) XML
9 3 (10.34%) Ajax
9 3 (10.34%) Finance
9 3 (10.34%) jQuery
9 3 (10.34%) Web Application Development
9 3 (10.34%) ASP.NET
9 3 (10.34%) CSS
9 3 (10.34%) Oracle
9 3 (10.34%) Java
9 3 (10.34%) OO
10 2 (6.897%) Flash
10 2 (6.897%) DSDM

Applications Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 23 (79.31%) .NET
2 11 (37.93%) WCF
3 7 (24.14%) WF
4 4 (13.79%) ASP
4 4 (13.79%) XML
5 3 (10.34%) Ajax
5 3 (10.34%) jQuery
5 3 (10.34%) ASP.NET
5 3 (10.34%) CSS
6 2 (6.897%) Flash
6 2 (6.897%) Web Services
6 2 (6.897%) HTML
6 2 (6.897%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 2 (6.897%) WebSphere
6 2 (6.897%) .NET Framework
7 1 (3.448%) HTML5
7 1 (3.448%) JSON
7 1 (3.448%) Spring
7 1 (3.448%) Struts2
7 1 (3.448%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 5 (17.24%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (6.897%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (6.897%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (3.448%) CMS
3 1 (3.448%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 1 (3.448%) MS Office
1 1 (3.448%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.448%) 3G
1 1 (3.448%) 2G
1 1 (3.448%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (34.48%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.897%) MS Access
2 2 (6.897%) DataStage
2 2 (6.897%) TOAD
2 2 (6.897%) DB2
3 1 (3.448%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (3.448%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (3.448%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (3.448%) GIS
3 1 (3.448%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Visual Studio
2 2 (6.897%) ERwin
3 1 (3.448%) Subversion
3 1 (3.448%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (3.448%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (3.448%) Eclipse
General
1 3 (10.34%) Finance
2 2 (6.897%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.448%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.897%) Mainframe
1 2 (6.897%) Flash Lite
1 2 (6.897%) iSeries
1 2 (6.897%) STB
1 2 (6.897%) PKI
2 1 (3.448%) Smartphone
2 1 (3.448%) Streaming Video
2 1 (3.448%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.448%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 9 (31.03%) Windows
2 2 (6.897%) UNIX
2 2 (6.897%) Linux
3 1 (3.448%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.448%) Android
3 1 (3.448%) Windows 8
3 1 (3.448%) Windows Phone 8
3 1 (3.448%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Workflow
2 5 (17.24%) MVC
3 3 (10.34%) Web Application Development
3 3 (10.34%) OO
4 2 (6.897%) DSDM
4 2 (6.897%) PRINCE
4 2 (6.897%) Project Management
4 2 (6.897%) Six Sigma
4 2 (6.897%) ITIL
4 2 (6.897%) PRINCE2
4 2 (6.897%) UML
4 2 (6.897%) Waterfall
4 2 (6.897%) Unit Testing
4 2 (6.897%) Problem Management
4 2 (6.897%) Lean Six Sigma
4 2 (6.897%) TOGAF
4 2 (6.897%) Automated Testing
5 1 (3.448%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (3.448%) Web Development
5 1 (3.448%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) C#
2 10 (34.48%) SQL
3 5 (17.24%) T-SQL
3 5 (17.24%) VB
4 4 (13.79%) C++
5 3 (10.34%) Java
6 2 (6.897%) Python
6 2 (6.897%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.897%) RPG
6 2 (6.897%) ActionScript
6 2 (6.897%) VBA
6 2 (6.897%) C
6 2 (6.897%) RPG IV
6 2 (6.897%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (3.448%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 10 (34.48%) SC Cleared
1 10 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.897%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (6.897%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle
3 2 (6.897%) SAP
3 2 (6.897%) IBM
3 2 (6.897%) Adobe
4 1 (3.448%) Cramer
4 1 (3.448%) Sencha
4 1 (3.448%) Nokia
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