The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical 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 Technical 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Developer
Rank 192 209 237
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Developer 11 9 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.172% 0.114% 0.082%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.187% 0.125% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 5
Average daily rate £575 £500 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.00% +17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £400 £343
10% offered a daily rate of more than £700 £635 £564
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £419 £340
% change year-on-year
-4.53% +23.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.86 - £29.00
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5894 7192 8993
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.40% 91.44% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4333 5169 6545
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £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 138 186 197
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 £133.00 £41.28 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Developer
London

Technical Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Technical Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Technical Developer Daily Rate Trend

Technical Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Technical Developer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Technical Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Technical Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Technical Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Technical 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 Technical Developer in their job title.

1 13 (50.00%) Java
2 11 (42.31%) C#
3 8 (30.77%) Multithreading
4 7 (26.92%) SQL Server
4 7 (26.92%) Python
5 6 (23.08%) RAD
5 6 (23.08%) Electronic Trading
5 6 (23.08%) Market Risk
6 5 (19.23%) 29West
6 5 (19.23%) TIBCO EMS
6 5 (19.23%) Front Office
6 5 (19.23%) TIBCO
6 5 (19.23%) Rendezvous
6 5 (19.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (19.23%) UNIX
6 5 (19.23%) Windows
6 5 (19.23%) JMS
6 5 (19.23%) SQL
6 5 (19.23%) .NET
7 4 (15.38%) OO
7 4 (15.38%) Scrum
7 4 (15.38%) WinForms
7 4 (15.38%) Finance
8 3 (11.54%) Perl
8 3 (11.54%) Apple iOS
9 2 (7.692%) GDB
9 2 (7.692%) Oracle 11g
9 2 (7.692%) Cocoa Touch
9 2 (7.692%) UIKit
9 2 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005

Technical Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Technical 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 Technical Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (19.23%) JMS
1 5 (19.23%) .NET
2 4 (15.38%) WinForms
3 2 (7.692%) Cocoa Touch
3 2 (7.692%) UIKit
3 2 (7.692%) NHibernate
3 2 (7.692%) WSH
4 1 (3.846%) Hibernate
4 1 (3.846%) XHTML
4 1 (3.846%) ADO.NET
4 1 (3.846%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.846%) CSS
4 1 (3.846%) SOAP
4 1 (3.846%) Struts
4 1 (3.846%) Web Services
4 1 (3.846%) XML
4 1 (3.846%) J2EE
4 1 (3.846%) RESTful
4 1 (3.846%) Struts2
4 1 (3.846%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 5 (19.23%) TIBCO EMS
1 5 (19.23%) Rendezvous
2 1 (3.846%) CMS
2 1 (3.846%) Drupal
2 1 (3.846%) Joomla!
2 1 (3.846%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 1 (3.846%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (7.692%) HFM
1 2 (7.692%) Khalix
1 2 (7.692%) LongView
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.692%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (7.692%) Oracle OLAP
2 2 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (7.692%) OLAP
2 2 (7.692%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (7.692%) Oracle 9i
2 2 (7.692%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (7.692%) Essbase
3 1 (3.846%) QlikView
3 1 (3.846%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.846%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (7.692%) GDB
1 2 (7.692%) Subversion
1 2 (7.692%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 5 (19.23%) Front Office
2 4 (15.38%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Market Risk
2 5 (19.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (7.692%) Derivative
4 1 (3.846%) Open Source
4 1 (3.846%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) UNIX
1 5 (19.23%) Windows
2 3 (11.54%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.846%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) Multithreading
2 6 (23.08%) RAD
2 6 (23.08%) Electronic Trading
3 4 (15.38%) OO
3 4 (15.38%) Scrum
4 2 (7.692%) Data Modelling
4 2 (7.692%) OOD
4 2 (7.692%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (3.846%) TDD
5 1 (3.846%) MVC
5 1 (3.846%) Workflow
5 1 (3.846%) SOA
5 1 (3.846%) MVVM
5 1 (3.846%) BDD
5 1 (3.846%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (3.846%) Mobile Application Development
5 1 (3.846%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) Java
2 11 (42.31%) C#
3 7 (26.92%) Python
4 5 (19.23%) SQL
5 3 (11.54%) Perl
6 2 (7.692%) PL/SQL
6 2 (7.692%) C
6 2 (7.692%) Objective-C
6 2 (7.692%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.846%) C++
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) 29West
1 5 (19.23%) TIBCO
2 2 (7.692%) Syncfusion
2 2 (7.692%) DevExpress
2 2 (7.692%) Oracle
2 2 (7.692%) HP
2 2 (7.692%) Hyperion
2 2 (7.692%) IBM
2 2 (7.692%) OPNET
3 1 (3.846%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.846%) Adobe