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The table below looks at the demand for the Systems Developer role in IT contracts within the City of London 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 Systems Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

 System Developer
Location
3 months to
21 Nov 2008
Same period last year
Rank160177
Rank change on same period last yearUp+17
Matching contract IT job ads189
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.028 %0.010 %
As % of the category below0.312 %0.153 %
Daily rates quoted38
Average minimum daily rate£180£575
Average daily rate£200£609
% change on same period last year-67.17 %
Average maximum daily rate£220£644
UK excluding London average daily rate£304£327
% change on same period last year-7.01 %
Hourly rates quoted00
Average minimum hourly rate--
Average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate--
UK excluding London average hourly rate£26.49£27.75
% change on same period last year-4.53 %
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
City of London
Matching contract IT job ads57705867
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled9.088 %6.287 %
Daily rates quoted30262493
Average minimum daily rate£400£451
Average daily rate£433£477
% change on same period last year-9.07 %
Average maximum daily rate£467£503
UK excluding London average daily rate£353£351
% change on same period last year+0.72 %
Hourly rates quoted267232
Average minimum hourly rate£22.85£22.62
Average hourly rate£24.72£23.87
% change on same period last year+3.56 %
Average maximum hourly rate£26.60£25.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.37£24.42
% change on same period last year-4.31 %
Systems Developer LondonSystems Developer
London

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.

Systems Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Systems Developer across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Systems Developer Demand Trend

Systems Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Systems Developer Daily Rate Trend

Systems Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Developer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

City of London Systems Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Systems Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Systems Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Systems 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 Systems Developer in their job title.

122 (55.00 %)Banking
122 (55.00 %).NET
221 (52.50 %)Investment Banking
320 (50.00 %)C#
417 (42.50 %)VB
516 (40.00 %)Oracle
615 (37.50 %)VBA
615 (37.50 %)WinForms
714 (35.00 %)Sybase
813 (32.50 %)RAD
813 (32.50 %)Client/Server
813 (32.50 %)Java
911 (27.50 %)MS Access
911 (27.50 %)Finance
911 (27.50 %)Degree
108 (20.00 %)SQL
108 (20.00 %)J2EE
117 (17.50 %)BEA
117 (17.50 %)AquaLogic
117 (17.50 %)Unit Testing
117 (17.50 %)Integration Testing
126 (15.00 %)Fixed Income
126 (15.00 %)Configuration Management
126 (15.00 %)WebServices
135 (12.50 %)Windows
135 (12.50 %)Risk Management
135 (12.50 %)Market Risk
144 (10.00 %)ASP.NET
144 (10.00 %)SQL Server
144 (10.00 %)Perl

Systems Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Systems 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 Systems Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
122 (55.00 %).NET
215 (37.50 %)WinForms
38 (20.00 %)J2EE
46 (15.00 %)WebServices
54 (10.00 %)ASP.NET
54 (10.00 %)HTML
63 (7.500 %)XML
63 (7.500 %)Middleware
63 (7.500 %).NET Framework
72 (5.000 %)WPF
72 (5.000 %)WF
72 (5.000 %)Spring
72 (5.000 %)Hibernate
72 (5.000 %)JMS
72 (5.000 %)EJB
72 (5.000 %)JAX-WS
72 (5.000 %)EJB 3.0
81 (2.500 %)ASP.NET 2.0
81 (2.500 %)ColdSpring
81 (2.500 %)Mach-II
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
13 (7.500 %)Tomcat
22 (5.000 %)CMS
22 (5.000 %)WebLogic
31 (2.500 %)IIS
31 (2.500 %)JBoss
31 (2.500 %)ColdFusion
31 (2.500 %)SharePoint
31 (2.500 %)Apache
31 (2.500 %)Oracle Workflow
31 (2.500 %)TIBCO EMS
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
13 (7.500 %)MS Excel
21 (2.500 %)InfoPath
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
11 (2.500 %)Internet
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
111 (27.50 %)MS Access
24 (10.00 %)SQL Server
31 (2.500 %)SQL Server 2000
31 (2.500 %)RDBMS
31 (2.500 %)SQL Server 2005
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
12 (5.000 %)Subversion
12 (5.000 %)Eclipse
12 (5.000 %)OpenDeploy
12 (5.000 %)JUnit
21 (2.500 %)VSS/SourceSafe
21 (2.500 %)Ant
21 (2.500 %)Oracle Forms
21 (2.500 %)Bugzilla
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
122 (55.00 %)Banking
221 (52.50 %)Investment Banking
311 (27.50 %)Finance
43 (7.500 %)Front Office
52 (5.000 %)Construction
52 (5.000 %)Law
61 (2.500 %)Financial Institution
61 (2.500 %)Auditing
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
113 (32.50 %)Client/Server
26 (15.00 %)Fixed Income
35 (12.50 %)Market Risk
43 (7.500 %)Derivative
52 (5.000 %)Credit Risk
52 (5.000 %)Fat Client
52 (5.000 %)DTV
52 (5.000 %)Equities
52 (5.000 %)Thin Client
61 (2.500 %)N-Tier
61 (2.500 %)Equity Derivative
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
15 (12.50 %)Windows
23 (7.500 %)Solaris
32 (5.000 %)UNIX
41 (2.500 %)Linux
41 (2.500 %)Windows 2000
41 (2.500 %)Windows Server 2003
41 (2.500 %)Windows XP
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
113 (32.50 %)RAD
27 (17.50 %)Unit Testing
27 (17.50 %)Integration Testing
36 (15.00 %)Configuration Management
45 (12.50 %)Risk Management
52 (5.000 %)Algorithmic Trading
52 (5.000 %)Content Management
52 (5.000 %)Workflow
61 (2.500 %)Electronic Trading
61 (2.500 %)ITIL
61 (2.500 %)PRINCE2
61 (2.500 %)UML
61 (2.500 %)OO
61 (2.500 %)OOD
61 (2.500 %)ERP
61 (2.500 %)E-Commerce
61 (2.500 %)Scrum
61 (2.500 %)Migration
61 (2.500 %)Service Management
61 (2.500 %)E-business
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
120 (50.00 %)C#
217 (42.50 %)VB
315 (37.50 %)VBA
413 (32.50 %)Java
58 (20.00 %)SQL
64 (10.00 %)Perl
73 (7.500 %)VBScript
73 (7.500 %)VB.NET
82 (5.000 %)VB6
82 (5.000 %)C++
91 (2.500 %)C
91 (2.500 %)Transact-SQL
91 (2.500 %)Shell Script
91 (2.500 %)XQuery
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
111 (27.50 %)Degree
22 (5.000 %)Sun Certification
31 (2.500 %)MCSD
31 (2.500 %)Microsoft Certification
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
17 (17.50 %)AquaLogic
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
11 (2.500 %)BMC PATROL
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
116 (40.00 %)Oracle
214 (35.00 %)Sybase
37 (17.50 %)BEA
43 (7.500 %)Microsoft
52 (5.000 %)Fidessa
61 (2.500 %)TIBCO
61 (2.500 %)BMC
61 (2.500 %)Sun
61 (2.500 %)Calypso
61 (2.500 %)Siebel