Cheshire Applications Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Applications Developer role in IT contracts within the Cheshire 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 Applications Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Alderley Edge Avon Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Cleckheaton Corby County Antrim Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dundee Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	53	58
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	7	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	0.857 %	0.483 %
Daily rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum daily rate	£325	-
Average daily rate	£325	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£325	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£329
% change on same period last year	+2.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.59	£32.17
% change on same period last year	-8.00 %
Job Titles Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	817	828
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.078 %	0.825 %
Daily rates quoted	254	192
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£292
Average daily rate	£329	£307
% change on same period last year	+7.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£343	£323
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	97	61
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.20	£22.10
Average hourly rate	£24.24	£23.32
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.29	£24.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
Applications Developer North West

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 Applications Developer across the Cheshire 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 Applications Developer across the Cheshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Applications Developer across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 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 Applications Developer across the Cheshire region.

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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 Applications Developer within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Alderley Edge	-	2	£325	-
Nantwich	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 8 (50.00 %) .NET 1 8 (50.00 %) Oracle 2 7 (43.75 %) C# 3 5 (31.25 %) Java 3 5 (31.25 %) SQL 3 5 (31.25 %) XML 4 4 (25.00 %) PL/SQL 4 4 (25.00 %) ASP.NET 4 4 (25.00 %) .NET Framework 5 3 (18.75 %) GIS 5 3 (18.75 %) Oracle 9i 5 3 (18.75 %) VB.NET 5 3 (18.75 %) XSLT 5 3 (18.75 %) Windows 5 3 (18.75 %) UML

6 2 (12.50 %) OO 6 2 (12.50 %) Solaris 6 2 (12.50 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 2 (12.50 %) JSP 6 2 (12.50 %) N-Tier 6 2 (12.50 %) SOA 6 2 (12.50 %) HTML 6 2 (12.50 %) SAP 6 2 (12.50 %) WebLogic 6 2 (12.50 %) CODA 6 2 (12.50 %) NetWeaver 6 2 (12.50 %) Internet 6 2 (12.50 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 6 2 (12.50 %) WebLogic Workshop 6 2 (12.50 %) SAP R/3

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 8 (50.00 %) .NET 2 5 (31.25 %) XML 3 4 (25.00 %) ASP.NET 3 4 (25.00 %) .NET Framework 4 3 (18.75 %) XSLT 5 2 (12.50 %) JSP 5 2 (12.50 %) HTML 5 2 (12.50 %) Adobe Flex 5 2 (12.50 %) WinForms 6 1 (6.250 %) WebSphere 6 1 (6.250 %) LAMP 6 1 (6.250 %) Hibernate 6 1 (6.250 %) ADO.NET 6 1 (6.250 %) CSS 6 1 (6.250 %) J2EE 6 1 (6.250 %) Struts	Application Platforms 1 2 (12.50 %) WebLogic 1 2 (12.50 %) NetWeaver 1 2 (12.50 %) ArcIMS 2 1 (6.250 %) ArcGIS 2 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 9iAS 2 1 (6.250 %) Apache
Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) Adobe Illustrator 1 1 (6.250 %) Photoshop	Business Applications 1 2 (12.50 %) SAP R/3 2 1 (6.250 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 2 (12.50 %) Internet 2 1 (6.250 %) GPRS 2 1 (6.250 %) UMTS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (18.75 %) GIS 1 3 (18.75 %) Oracle 9i 2 2 (12.50 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 3 1 (6.250 %) MySQL 3 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 10g 3 1 (6.250 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 2 (12.50 %) WebLogic Workshop 2 1 (6.250 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (6.250 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 2 (12.50 %) Back Office 2 1 (6.250 %) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous 1 2 (12.50 %) N-Tier 1 2 (12.50 %) PDA 2 1 (6.250 %) Informatics 2 1 (6.250 %) Chemistry 2 1 (6.250 %) Computer Science 2 1 (6.250 %) NHS 2 1 (6.250 %) W3C	Operating Systems 1 3 (18.75 %) Windows 2 2 (12.50 %) Solaris 3 1 (6.250 %) Windows Mobile 3 1 (6.250 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (18.75 %) UML 2 2 (12.50 %) OO 2 2 (12.50 %) SOA 2 2 (12.50 %) Workflow 3 1 (6.250 %) Test Scripting 3 1 (6.250 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (6.250 %) Web Development 3 1 (6.250 %) Document Management 3 1 (6.250 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (6.250 %) Business Intelligence	Programming Languages 1 7 (43.75 %) C# 2 5 (31.25 %) Java 2 5 (31.25 %) SQL 3 4 (25.00 %) PL/SQL 4 3 (18.75 %) VB.NET 5 1 (6.250 %) PHP5 5 1 (6.250 %) JavaScript 5 1 (6.250 %) PHP
Systems Management 1 2 (12.50 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 8 (50.00 %) Oracle 2 2 (12.50 %) SAP 2 2 (12.50 %) CODA 3 1 (6.250 %) ESRI