Berkshire Senior Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Senior Developer role in IT contracts within the Berkshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 28 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Senior Developer
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Louth Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Pudsey Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Strathclyde Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 28 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	104	135
Rank change on same period last year	+31
Matching contract IT job ads	31	29
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.029 %
As % of the category below	0.976 %	0.650 %
Daily rates quoted	16	14
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£337
Average daily rate	£353	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£376
% change on same period last year	+0.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£40.00
Average hourly rate	£47.50	£42.50
% change on same period last year	+11.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£55.00	£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£39.58	£38.05
% change on same period last year	+4.04 %
Job Titles Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	3176	4463
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.225 %	4.454 %
Daily rates quoted	802	1426
Average minimum daily rate	£346	£352
Average daily rate	£365	£369
% change on same period last year	-1.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£385	£387
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	228	442
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.11	£28.16
Average hourly rate	£24.73	£29.59
% change on same period last year	-16.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.36	£31.01
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.26 %
Senior Developer South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Senior Developer across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Developer across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 28 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Developer across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 28 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 28 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Reading	0	9	-	-
Newbury	-	2	-	-
Maidenhead	+11	1	£400	-
Slough	0	1	-	-

Senior Developer South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 28 (41.18 %) C# 2 23 (33.82 %) .NET 3 20 (29.41 %) XML 4 18 (26.47 %) Java 5 15 (22.06 %) SQL 5 15 (22.06 %) Visual Studio 6 14 (20.59 %) SQL Server 6 14 (20.59 %) Agile Software Development 7 13 (19.12 %) TDD 8 12 (17.65 %) J2EE 9 11 (16.18 %) Oracle 9 11 (16.18 %) Scrum 10 10 (14.71 %) MVC 10 10 (14.71 %) NUnit 10 10 (14.71 %) JavaScript

11 9 (13.24 %) PL/SQL 11 9 (13.24 %) ASP.NET 11 9 (13.24 %) WebServices 11 9 (13.24 %) Oracle 10g 11 9 (13.24 %) AJAX 12 8 (11.76 %) E-Commerce 12 8 (11.76 %) Linux 12 8 (11.76 %) CSS 12 8 (11.76 %) SOAP 12 8 (11.76 %) HTML 13 7 (10.29 %) JSP 13 7 (10.29 %) XHTML 13 7 (10.29 %) SQL Server 2005 14 6 (8.824 %) UNIX 14 6 (8.824 %) C++

Senior Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 23 (33.82 %) .NET 2 20 (29.41 %) XML 3 12 (17.65 %) J2EE 4 10 (14.71 %) MVC 5 9 (13.24 %) AJAX 5 9 (13.24 %) WebServices 5 9 (13.24 %) ASP.NET 6 8 (11.76 %) CSS 6 8 (11.76 %) HTML 6 8 (11.76 %) SOAP 7 7 (10.29 %) JSP 7 7 (10.29 %) XHTML 8 5 (7.353 %) Hibernate 9 4 (5.882 %) Spring 9 4 (5.882 %) DOM 10 3 (4.412 %) XSLT 10 3 (4.412 %) JMS 10 3 (4.412 %) ADO.NET 11 2 (2.941 %) WinForms 11 2 (2.941 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.471 %) IIS 1 1 (1.471 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (1.471 %) ColdFusion 1 1 (1.471 %) CMS
Business Applications 1 1 (1.471 %) Dynamics CRM	Communications & Networking 1 4 (5.882 %) X.500 2 3 (4.412 %) Broadband 3 2 (2.941 %) HTTP 4 1 (1.471 %) CTI 4 1 (1.471 %) Internet 4 1 (1.471 %) SMTP 4 1 (1.471 %) NFC 4 1 (1.471 %) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (20.59 %) SQL Server 2 9 (13.24 %) Oracle 10g 3 7 (10.29 %) SQL Server 2005 4 3 (4.412 %) Oracle 9i 4 3 (4.412 %) DTS 5 2 (2.941 %) MySQL 5 2 (2.941 %) Oracle Reports 5 2 (2.941 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 1 (1.471 %) BusinessObjects 6 1 (1.471 %) SQLPlus 6 1 (1.471 %) Oracle OWB 6 1 (1.471 %) OLAP 6 1 (1.471 %) ETL 6 1 (1.471 %) TOAD 6 1 (1.471 %) MS Access 6 1 (1.471 %) Datawarehouse	Development Applications 1 15 (22.06 %) Visual Studio 2 10 (14.71 %) NUnit 3 6 (8.824 %) Eclipse 3 6 (8.824 %) MSI 4 2 (2.941 %) Oracle Forms 5 1 (1.471 %) Subversion 5 1 (1.471 %) InstallShield 5 1 (1.471 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 6 (8.824 %) Manufacturing 1 6 (8.824 %) Retail 2 5 (7.353 %) Automotive 3 4 (5.882 %) Telecoms 3 4 (5.882 %) Finance 4 3 (4.412 %) Electronics 5 2 (2.941 %) Education 5 2 (2.941 %) Insurance 5 2 (2.941 %) Marketing 6 1 (1.471 %) Banking 6 1 (1.471 %) Government	Miscellaneous 1 3 (4.412 %) N-Tier 1 3 (4.412 %) Handset 1 3 (4.412 %) STB 2 2 (2.941 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 8 (11.76 %) Linux 2 6 (8.824 %) UNIX 3 2 (2.941 %) Windows 4 1 (1.471 %) Solaris 4 1 (1.471 %) Red Hat Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (20.59 %) Agile Software Development 2 13 (19.12 %) TDD 3 11 (16.18 %) Scrum 4 8 (11.76 %) E-Commerce 5 5 (7.353 %) CRM 5 5 (7.353 %) Security Cleared 6 4 (5.882 %) Use Case 6 4 (5.882 %) OO 7 3 (4.412 %) UML 7 3 (4.412 %) Project Management 7 3 (4.412 %) Continuous Integration 8 2 (2.941 %) SC Cleared 8 2 (2.941 %) Migration 8 2 (2.941 %) CAD 8 2 (2.941 %) RAD 9 1 (1.471 %) RUP 9 1 (1.471 %) OOA/OOD 9 1 (1.471 %) SOA 9 1 (1.471 %) Business Intelligence 9 1 (1.471 %) B2C
Programming Languages 1 28 (41.18 %) C# 2 18 (26.47 %) Java 3 15 (22.06 %) SQL 4 10 (14.71 %) JavaScript 5 9 (13.24 %) PL/SQL 6 6 (8.824 %) C++ 7 5 (7.353 %) Transact-SQL 8 4 (5.882 %) Python 9 3 (4.412 %) C 10 2 (2.941 %) COBOL 11 1 (1.471 %) PHP 11 1 (1.471 %) VBScript 11 1 (1.471 %) VB 11 1 (1.471 %) VB.NET 11 1 (1.471 %) VB6 11 1 (1.471 %) PHP5	Qualifications 1 5 (7.353 %) Degree 2 1 (1.471 %) MCAD 2 1 (1.471 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (1.471 %) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (5.882 %) WCAG 2 1 (1.471 %) QA	System Software 1 1 (1.471 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 4 (5.882 %) MIIS	Vendors 1 11 (16.18 %) Oracle 2 4 (5.882 %) Siebel 3 3 (4.412 %) Trolltech 4 2 (2.941 %) Intergraph 5 1 (1.471 %) Dundas 5 1 (1.471 %) Business Objects 5 1 (1.471 %) Cognos 5 1 (1.471 %) IBM 5 1 (1.471 %) Microsoft 5 1 (1.471 %) Sun 5 1 (1.471 %) Citrix 5 1 (1.471 %) Red Hat