The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Bradford 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 21 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 Bradford 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Developer
Rank 3 9 10
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 30 20 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 19.35% 12.35% 12.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 20.27% 12.74% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 9 12
Average daily rate £258 £155 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+66.12% -38.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £156 £150 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £230 £298
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £12.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
All Job Titles
Bradford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
148 157 114
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 95.48% 96.91% 97.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 43 29
Average daily rate £325 £275 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.18% +10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £186 £143 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £465 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 8
Average hourly rate £15.25 £12.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.00% -39.02%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £7.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £175.00 £32.50 £21.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Developer
West Yorkshire

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bradford 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 Bradford region.

Bradford 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 Bradford region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Bradford 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 Bradford region.

Bradford Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford 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 28 (49.12%) SQL
2 26 (45.61%) Oracle
3 20 (35.09%) ETL
4 19 (33.33%) Data Integration
5 18 (31.58%) .NET
6 16 (28.07%) PL/SQL
6 16 (28.07%) SQL Server
7 15 (26.32%) C#
7 15 (26.32%) Data Modelling
7 15 (26.32%) Oracle OWB
8 14 (24.56%) Oracle BI EE
8 14 (24.56%) Oracle 11g
9 12 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (21.05%) JavaScript
10 11 (19.30%) Oracle Reports
11 10 (17.54%) ASP.NET
11 10 (17.54%) CSS
11 10 (17.54%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (17.54%) Informatica
11 10 (17.54%) jQuery
12 9 (15.79%) User Acceptance Testing
13 8 (14.04%) Performance Testing
13 8 (14.04%) Oracle 8/8i
14 7 (12.28%) MVC
14 7 (12.28%) SQL Server 2008
15 6 (10.53%) Microsoft
15 6 (10.53%) SharePoint
15 6 (10.53%) HTML
16 5 (8.772%) T-SQL
16 5 (8.772%) Visual Studio

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford 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 18 (31.58%) .NET
2 10 (17.54%) ASP.NET
2 10 (17.54%) CSS
2 10 (17.54%) jQuery
3 6 (10.53%) HTML
4 5 (8.772%) .NET Framework
4 5 (8.772%) Grails
5 3 (5.263%) WCF
5 3 (5.263%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 2 (3.509%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 2 (3.509%) KnockoutJS
6 2 (3.509%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (3.509%) WinForms
6 2 (3.509%) Oracle ADF
6 2 (3.509%) XHTML
7 1 (1.754%) SOAP
7 1 (1.754%) Web Services
7 1 (1.754%) XML
7 1 (1.754%) LAMP
7 1 (1.754%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 6 (10.53%) SharePoint
2 5 (8.772%) CMS
3 3 (5.263%) SharePoint 2010
3 3 (5.263%) EPiServer CMS
4 2 (3.509%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.754%) Apache
5 1 (1.754%) Joomla!
5 1 (1.754%) Drupal
5 1 (1.754%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (7.018%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (3.509%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (3.509%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (3.509%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.754%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (28.07%) SQL Server
2 15 (26.32%) Oracle OWB
3 14 (24.56%) Oracle BI EE
3 14 (24.56%) Oracle 11g
4 12 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (19.30%) Oracle Reports
6 8 (14.04%) Oracle 8/8i
7 7 (12.28%) SQL Server 2008
8 5 (8.772%) DTS
9 3 (5.263%) SQL Server 2005
10 2 (3.509%) Oracle 9i
10 2 (3.509%) MySQL
10 2 (3.509%) DB2
11 1 (1.754%) OLAP
11 1 (1.754%) SQL Server 2000
11 1 (1.754%) OLTP
11 1 (1.754%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (1.754%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (1.754%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 5 (8.772%) Visual Studio
2 2 (3.509%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (3.509%) JDeveloper
2 2 (3.509%) Oracle Forms
General
1 5 (8.772%) Finance
2 3 (5.263%) Publishing
3 1 (1.754%) Banking
3 1 (1.754%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 19 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 2 (3.509%) iPhone
2 2 (3.509%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.509%) Android
1 2 (3.509%) UNIX
1 2 (3.509%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (35.09%) ETL
2 15 (26.32%) Data Modelling
3 10 (17.54%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (15.79%) User Acceptance Testing
5 8 (14.04%) Performance Testing
6 7 (12.28%) MVC
7 5 (8.772%) Data Transformation
8 4 (7.018%) Load Balancing
8 4 (7.018%) Unit Testing
8 4 (7.018%) Information Management
8 4 (7.018%) Agile Software Development
8 4 (7.018%) SOA
8 4 (7.018%) ERP
8 4 (7.018%) CRM
9 3 (5.263%) Test Scripting
9 3 (5.263%) Analytics
9 3 (5.263%) Test Strategy
10 2 (3.509%) Web Application Development
10 2 (3.509%) Kimball Methodology
10 2 (3.509%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (49.12%) SQL
2 16 (28.07%) PL/SQL
3 15 (26.32%) C#
4 12 (21.05%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.772%) T-SQL
5 5 (8.772%) Groovy
6 4 (7.018%) VBA
6 4 (7.018%) Java
7 3 (5.263%) VB.NET
8 2 (3.509%) COBOL
8 2 (3.509%) PHP
9 1 (1.754%) VB
9 1 (1.754%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (1.754%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 26 (45.61%) Oracle
2 10 (17.54%) Informatica
3 6 (10.53%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.018%) EPiServer
5 3 (5.263%) PeopleSoft
5 3 (5.263%) SAP
6 2 (3.509%) Perforce
6 2 (3.509%) IBM
7 1 (1.754%) Zend