The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf 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 4 2 7
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 116 116 140
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 30.13% 31.35% 28.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 32.77% 34.22% 29.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 74 111
Average daily rate £600 £538 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.62% -10.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £418 £418
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -8.57%
All Job Titles
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
354 339 470
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 91.95% 91.62% 94.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 212 366
Average daily rate £550 £550 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £375 £450
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 4
Average hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £40.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% -13.58%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Developer
London

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 97 (48.02%) SQL
2 81 (40.10%) Banking
3 71 (35.15%) C#
4 65 (32.18%) Finance
5 62 (30.69%) Java
6 53 (26.24%) Oracle
7 52 (25.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 50 (24.75%) C++
9 49 (24.26%) SQL Server
9 49 (24.26%) Investment Banking
10 43 (21.29%) JavaScript
11 41 (20.30%) Front Office
11 41 (20.30%) Multithreading
12 38 (18.81%) Degree
13 37 (18.32%) Derivative
14 36 (17.82%) OO
15 34 (16.83%) VBA
16 32 (15.84%) Agile Software Development
17 31 (15.35%) CSS
17 31 (15.35%) E-Commerce
18 30 (14.85%) XML
19 29 (14.36%) Credit Risk
20 28 (13.86%) Windows
20 28 (13.86%) Linux
21 27 (13.37%) jQuery
22 26 (12.87%) CSS3
22 26 (12.87%) Market Risk
23 25 (12.38%) Ajax
23 25 (12.38%) HTML5
24 24 (11.88%) HTML

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 31 (15.35%) CSS
2 30 (14.85%) XML
3 27 (13.37%) jQuery
4 26 (12.87%) CSS3
5 25 (12.38%) HTML5
5 25 (12.38%) Ajax
6 24 (11.88%) HTML
7 21 (10.40%) Web Services
8 20 (9.901%) .NET
9 19 (9.406%) XSLT
10 17 (8.416%) WCF
11 16 (7.921%) WPF
11 16 (7.921%) JMS
11 16 (7.921%) Spring
12 15 (7.426%) Java EE
13 14 (6.931%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 14 (6.931%) STL
14 9 (4.455%) .NET Framework
15 8 (3.960%) Hibernate
16 7 (3.465%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 7 (3.465%) Apache
1 7 (3.465%) Oracle Coherence
2 5 (2.475%) WebLogic
3 4 (1.980%) TIBCO EMS
4 3 (1.485%) CMS
4 3 (1.485%) IIS
4 3 (1.485%) MQSeries
5 2 (0.990%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.495%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.495%) SAS
6 1 (0.495%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (0.495%) Rendezvous
6 1 (0.495%) FileNet
6 1 (0.495%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.495%) GemFire
Applications
1 11 (5.446%) MS Excel
2 8 (3.960%) PowerPivot
3 1 (0.495%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.495%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.485%) Murex MxG2000
1 3 (1.485%) Global One
1 3 (1.485%) RMDS
2 1 (0.495%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.495%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 1 (0.495%) Google Analytics
2 1 (0.495%) SiteCatalyst
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.980%) Internet
2 3 (1.485%) HTTP
3 2 (0.990%) Firewall
4 1 (0.495%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.495%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (24.26%) SQL Server
2 20 (9.901%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 18 (8.911%) QlikView
4 14 (6.931%) SQL Server 2005
5 13 (6.436%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (5.446%) OLAP
7 10 (4.950%) TOAD
7 10 (4.950%) SQLPlus
8 8 (3.960%) Oracle OLAP
9 7 (3.465%) MS Access
10 4 (1.980%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.485%) DataStage
11 3 (1.485%) MySQL
11 3 (1.485%) DB2
11 3 (1.485%) SQL Server 2008
11 3 (1.485%) UniData
12 2 (0.990%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.990%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.990%) SQL Server 2012
12 2 (0.990%) DTS
Development Applications
1 10 (4.950%) JIRA
2 7 (3.465%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (2.970%) Maven
3 6 (2.970%) Hudson
4 5 (2.475%) LLVM
5 4 (1.980%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.980%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
5 4 (1.980%) Eclipse
5 4 (1.980%) CruiseControl
6 3 (1.485%) Subversion
6 3 (1.485%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.990%) Xcode
7 2 (0.990%) NUnit
7 2 (0.990%) Ant
7 2 (0.990%) JUnit
7 2 (0.990%) Rhino Mocks
7 2 (0.990%) Moq
7 2 (0.990%) Build Forge
8 1 (0.495%) Expression Blend
8 1 (0.495%) ClearCase
General
1 81 (40.10%) Banking
2 65 (32.18%) Finance
3 49 (24.26%) Investment Banking
4 41 (20.30%) Front Office
5 3 (1.485%) Telecoms
5 3 (1.485%) Spanish Language
6 2 (0.990%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (0.495%) Marketing
7 1 (0.495%) Back Office
7 1 (0.495%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.495%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 52 (25.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 37 (18.32%) Derivative
3 29 (14.36%) Credit Risk
4 26 (12.87%) Market Risk
5 23 (11.39%) RIA
6 20 (9.901%) Computer Science
7 18 (8.911%) Mathematics
8 12 (5.941%) Physics
9 8 (3.960%) Credit Derivative
10 5 (2.475%) Equity Derivative
11 4 (1.980%) Grid Computing
12 3 (1.485%) Fixed Income
12 3 (1.485%) Mobile App
13 2 (0.990%) Data Integration
13 2 (0.990%) Economics
14 1 (0.495%) Management Information System
14 1 (0.495%) Visualisation
14 1 (0.495%) Open Source
14 1 (0.495%) Inversion of Control
14 1 (0.495%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 28 (13.86%) Windows
1 28 (13.86%) Linux
2 16 (7.921%) UNIX
3 2 (0.990%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (20.30%) Multithreading
2 36 (17.82%) OO
3 32 (15.84%) Agile Software Development
4 31 (15.35%) E-Commerce
5 23 (11.39%) Risk Management
6 21 (10.40%) Software Engineering
6 21 (10.40%) Web Development
7 18 (8.911%) RAD
8 17 (8.416%) Unit Testing
9 14 (6.931%) User Acceptance Testing
9 14 (6.931%) TDD
9 14 (6.931%) Scrum
10 13 (6.436%) OOP
11 12 (5.941%) Analytics
12 11 (5.446%) Enterprise Architecture
12 11 (5.446%) Data Modelling
13 10 (4.950%) MVC
14 8 (3.960%) UML
14 8 (3.960%) Business Intelligence
14 8 (3.960%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 97 (48.02%) SQL
2 71 (35.15%) C#
3 62 (30.69%) Java
4 50 (24.75%) C++
5 43 (21.29%) JavaScript
6 34 (16.83%) VBA
7 11 (5.446%) Perl
8 9 (4.455%) Python
9 8 (3.960%) VB
10 7 (3.465%) VBScript
10 7 (3.465%) VC++
10 7 (3.465%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.970%) C
11 6 (2.970%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.970%) VB6
12 5 (2.475%) Ruby
13 4 (1.980%) PowerShell
14 3 (1.485%) Bash shell
15 2 (0.990%) Objective-C
15 2 (0.990%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (18.81%) Degree
2 5 (2.475%) PhD
3 1 (0.495%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.495%) MCTS
3 1 (0.495%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.980%) Basel III
2 1 (0.495%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 53 (26.24%) Oracle
2 20 (9.901%) Microsoft
3 16 (7.921%) Sybase
4 9 (4.455%) Business Objects
5 8 (3.960%) DataSynapse
6 7 (3.465%) Reuters
7 6 (2.970%) Perforce
8 5 (2.475%) Bloomberg
8 5 (2.475%) Adobe
9 4 (1.980%) TIBCO
9 4 (1.980%) 29West
10 3 (1.485%) IBM
10 3 (1.485%) Murex
11 2 (0.990%) HP
11 2 (0.990%) SAP
11 2 (0.990%) Cognos
11 2 (0.990%) OPNET
11 2 (0.990%) Google
11 2 (0.990%) Trayport
12 1 (0.495%) Unica
Canary Wharf, London
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