The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Bishop's Stortford 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 Bishop's Stortford 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 1 -
Rank change year-on-year
0 -
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 1 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bishop's Stortford 100.00% 100.00% -
As % of the Job Titles category 100.00% 100.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £40.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -8.57%
All Job Titles
Bishop's Stortford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bishop's Stortford 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £325 - £260
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £40.00 £11.07
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +261.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Developer
Hertfordshire

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bishop's Stortford 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 Bishop's Stortford region.

Bishop's Stortford Developer Daily Rate Trend

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bishop's Stortford Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Developer
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bishop's Stortford 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 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Ant
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) Struts
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) J2SE
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) JasperReports
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bishop's Stortford 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 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) Struts
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) J2SE
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) JasperReports
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Ant
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script