The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Chester 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 24 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 Chester 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Developer
Rank 14 11 5
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 11 10 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 7.914% 8.547% 13.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.333% 8.929% 14.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 13
Average daily rate £313 £334 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.36% -5.98%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £269 £308
10% offered a daily rate of more than £345 £363 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
All Job Titles
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
132 112 151
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 94.96% 95.73% 92.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 39 50
Average daily rate £325 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £156 £238 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £451 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 6
Average hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £50.00 £10.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £50.00 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Developer
Cheshire

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 22 (59.46%) JavaScript
2 20 (54.05%) C#
3 18 (48.65%) .NET
4 17 (45.95%) CSS
4 17 (45.95%) HTML
5 16 (43.24%) SQL Server
5 16 (43.24%) ASP.NET
6 13 (35.14%) SQL
7 10 (27.03%) MVC
7 10 (27.03%) XML
7 10 (27.03%) SQL Server 2008
8 9 (24.32%) jQuery
9 8 (21.62%) WCF
9 8 (21.62%) Web Services
10 7 (18.92%) SQL Server 2005
11 5 (13.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (13.51%) WinForms
11 5 (13.51%) Java
11 5 (13.51%) J2EE
11 5 (13.51%) IIS
11 5 (13.51%) ASP.NET MVC
11 5 (13.51%) HTML5
11 5 (13.51%) .NET Framework
11 5 (13.51%) LINQ
11 5 (13.51%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 5 (13.51%) LINQ to SQL
12 4 (10.81%) Oracle
12 4 (10.81%) JUnit
12 4 (10.81%) Windows
12 4 (10.81%) E-Commerce

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 (48.65%) .NET
2 17 (45.95%) CSS
2 17 (45.95%) HTML
3 16 (43.24%) ASP.NET
4 10 (27.03%) XML
5 9 (24.32%) jQuery
6 8 (21.62%) WCF
6 8 (21.62%) Web Services
7 5 (13.51%) WinForms
7 5 (13.51%) J2EE
7 5 (13.51%) ASP.NET MVC
7 5 (13.51%) HTML5
7 5 (13.51%) .NET Framework
7 5 (13.51%) LINQ
7 5 (13.51%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 5 (13.51%) LINQ to SQL
8 4 (10.81%) Hibernate
8 4 (10.81%) Spring
9 3 (8.108%) Ajax
9 3 (8.108%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 5 (13.51%) IIS
2 4 (10.81%) CMS
3 3 (8.108%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (2.703%) Apache
4 1 (2.703%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (2.703%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.108%) TELNET
1 3 (8.108%) SNMP
1 3 (8.108%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (43.24%) SQL Server
2 10 (27.03%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (18.92%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (13.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (8.108%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (5.405%) VLDB
6 2 (5.405%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (5.405%) SQL Server 2012
6 2 (5.405%) MySQL
6 2 (5.405%) SQL Server 2000
7 1 (2.703%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.703%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) JUnit
2 3 (8.108%) Eclipse
2 3 (8.108%) Selenium
2 3 (8.108%) TestNG
3 2 (5.405%) MyEclipse
3 2 (5.405%) Mercurial
3 2 (5.405%) JIRA
3 2 (5.405%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (5.405%) Finance
2 1 (2.703%) Local Government
2 1 (2.703%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.108%) Client/Server
1 3 (8.108%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.405%) Replication
3 1 (2.703%) Blackberry
3 1 (2.703%) N-Tier
3 1 (2.703%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Windows
2 3 (8.108%) Apple iOS
2 3 (8.108%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.03%) MVC
2 4 (10.81%) E-Commerce
2 4 (10.81%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (8.108%) Scrum
3 3 (8.108%) Unit Testing
4 2 (5.405%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (5.405%) Data Modelling
4 2 (5.405%) Change Management
4 2 (5.405%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (2.703%) TDD
5 1 (2.703%) Software Engineering
5 1 (2.703%) CRM
5 1 (2.703%) B2B
5 1 (2.703%) B2C
5 1 (2.703%) Integration Testing
5 1 (2.703%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (2.703%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 22 (59.46%) JavaScript
2 20 (54.05%) C#
3 13 (35.14%) SQL
4 5 (13.51%) Java
5 2 (5.405%) T-SQL
5 2 (5.405%) PHP
6 1 (2.703%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.703%) C++
6 1 (2.703%) XPath
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) Oracle
2 3 (8.108%) Adobe
2 3 (8.108%) Sitecore
3 1 (2.703%) Lagan
3 1 (2.703%) Microsoft
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