The first table below looks at the demand for the Junior Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Junior Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 City of London 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Junior Developer
Rank 189 202 232
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +30
Contract jobs requiring a Junior Developer 16 13 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.249% 0.163% 0.093%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.269% 0.178% 0.101%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 8
Average daily rate £273 £275 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.90% -26.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £143 £90 £330
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £330 £431
UK excluding London average daily rate £203 £150 £125
% change year-on-year
+35.00% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £15.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £12.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year
- -16.66%
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5944 7299 8873
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.46% 91.48% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4372 5246 6461
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £278 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 182 195
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.50 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Junior Developer
London

Junior Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Junior Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Junior Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Junior Developer across the City of London region.

City of London Junior Developer Daily Rate Trend

Junior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Junior Developer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

City of London Junior Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Junior Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Junior Developer across the City of London region.

City of London Junior Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Junior Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Junior 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 Junior Developer in their job title.

1 11 (39.29%) Banking
2 8 (28.57%) Finance
3 7 (25.00%) Java
3 7 (25.00%) .NET
3 7 (25.00%) Investment Banking
4 6 (21.43%) SQL Server
5 5 (17.86%) TCP/IP
5 5 (17.86%) CSS
5 5 (17.86%) OO
5 5 (17.86%) C#
5 5 (17.86%) HTML
5 5 (17.86%) Mathematics
5 5 (17.86%) Computer Science
5 5 (17.86%) Multithreading
6 4 (14.29%) PHP
6 4 (14.29%) SQL
7 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET
7 3 (10.71%) VB.NET
7 3 (10.71%) Web Services
7 3 (10.71%) E-Commerce
7 3 (10.71%) MVC
7 3 (10.71%) REST
7 3 (10.71%) Digital Media
7 3 (10.71%) Zend
7 3 (10.71%) Degree
7 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (10.71%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (7.143%) Spring
8 2 (7.143%) SQL Server 2005
8 2 (7.143%) SQL Server Reporting Services

Junior Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Junior 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 Junior Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (25.00%) .NET
2 5 (17.86%) CSS
2 5 (17.86%) HTML
3 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET
3 3 (10.71%) Web Services
3 3 (10.71%) REST
4 2 (7.143%) Spring
4 2 (7.143%) XML
4 2 (7.143%) J2EE
5 1 (3.571%) XSD
5 1 (3.571%) XSLT
5 1 (3.571%) HTML5
5 1 (3.571%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (3.571%) jQuery
5 1 (3.571%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (7.143%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.571%) WordPress
2 1 (3.571%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (3.571%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.571%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.571%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (7.143%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (7.143%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (7.143%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.571%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (3.571%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (3.571%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (3.571%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (7.143%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.571%) Subversion
General
1 11 (39.29%) Banking
2 8 (28.57%) Finance
3 7 (25.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (7.143%) Retail
5 1 (3.571%) Front Office
5 1 (3.571%) Legal
5 1 (3.571%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Mathematics
1 5 (17.86%) Computer Science
2 3 (10.71%) Digital Media
3 1 (3.571%) W3C
3 1 (3.571%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.571%) Data Conversion
3 1 (3.571%) Data Integration
3 1 (3.571%) iPhone
3 1 (3.571%) Kindle
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.86%) OO
1 5 (17.86%) Multithreading
2 3 (10.71%) E-Commerce
2 3 (10.71%) MVC
2 3 (10.71%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (7.143%) Risk Analysis
3 2 (7.143%) Unit Testing
3 2 (7.143%) System Testing
3 2 (7.143%) Asset Management
3 2 (7.143%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (3.571%) OOP
4 1 (3.571%) CRM
4 1 (3.571%) Data Management
4 1 (3.571%) Data Modelling
4 1 (3.571%) Validation
4 1 (3.571%) Dimensional Modelling
4 1 (3.571%) Master Data Management
4 1 (3.571%) Web Development
4 1 (3.571%) Data Analysis
4 1 (3.571%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) Java
2 5 (17.86%) C#
3 4 (14.29%) PHP
3 4 (14.29%) SQL
4 3 (10.71%) VB.NET
5 2 (7.143%) VBA
5 2 (7.143%) T-SQL
5 2 (7.143%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.571%) Perl
6 1 (3.571%) VBScript
6 1 (3.571%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.571%) ActionScript
6 1 (3.571%) Python
6 1 (3.571%) Objective-C
6 1 (3.571%) ActionScript 3.0
6 1 (3.571%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Degree
2 1 (3.571%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.571%) BC Cleared
2 1 (3.571%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.571%) ISO 9001
1 1 (3.571%) Basel III
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Zend
2 2 (7.143%) hybris
2 2 (7.143%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.571%) SAP
3 1 (3.571%) Oracle
3 1 (3.571%) Calypso