The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Devon 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 Devon 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 1 3 1
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 61 52 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Devon 36.09% 28.42% 47.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 37.20% 29.89% 48.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 31 36
Average daily rate £325 £308 £326
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.69% -5.74%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £450 £423
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 6
Average hourly rate £40.00 £23.00 £30.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+73.91% -24.59%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
All Job Titles
Devon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
164 174 147
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Devon 97.04% 95.08% 96.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 86 66
Average daily rate £312 £325 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.00% +12.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £220 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £475 £423
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 29 20
Average hourly rate £19.39 £16.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.18% -41.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.92 £12.50 £8.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £31.50 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Developer
South West

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Devon 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 Devon region.

Devon Developer Daily Rate Trend

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Devon Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Devon Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Devon region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Exeter 0 36 £325 -1.51%
Plymouth +6 10 £363 +11.53%
Torquay +2 1 £300 +33.33%
Barnstaple - 1 £265 -
Developer
South West

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 65 (40.12%) .NET
2 55 (33.95%) C#
3 54 (33.33%) SQL
4 49 (30.25%) JavaScript
4 49 (30.25%) Oracle
5 45 (27.78%) XML
6 43 (26.54%) CSS
7 35 (21.60%) ASP.NET
7 35 (21.60%) HTML
7 35 (21.60%) Web Services
8 32 (19.75%) SOA
8 32 (19.75%) SQL Server
9 29 (17.90%) Java
10 28 (17.28%) Business Intelligence
11 27 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 26 (16.05%) jQuery
13 24 (14.81%) Finance
13 24 (14.81%) VB.NET
14 23 (14.20%) ETL
14 23 (14.20%) Agile Software Development
14 23 (14.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 22 (13.58%) Oracle 11g
15 22 (13.58%) Security Cleared
15 22 (13.58%) Data Warehouse
15 22 (13.58%) XQuery
16 21 (12.96%) SC Cleared
16 21 (12.96%) SQL Server 2008
16 21 (12.96%) XPath
17 20 (12.35%) J2EE
18 19 (11.73%) Git (software)

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 65 (40.12%) .NET
2 45 (27.78%) XML
3 43 (26.54%) CSS
4 35 (21.60%) ASP.NET
4 35 (21.60%) HTML
4 35 (21.60%) Web Services
5 26 (16.05%) jQuery
6 20 (12.35%) J2EE
7 18 (11.11%) Dojo
8 16 (9.877%) WebSphere
9 15 (9.259%) Hibernate
9 15 (9.259%) Ajax
10 13 (8.025%) XSLT
10 13 (8.025%) Middleware
10 13 (8.025%) RESTful
11 12 (7.407%) XSD
11 12 (7.407%) SOAP
12 11 (6.790%) Silverlight
12 11 (6.790%) HTML5
13 10 (6.173%) JAXB
Application Platforms
1 13 (8.025%) Oracle Service Bus
2 12 (7.407%) SharePoint
3 10 (6.173%) ArcGIS
4 8 (4.938%) ArcSDE
4 8 (4.938%) WebSphere Message Broker
5 7 (4.321%) SharePoint 2010
5 7 (4.321%) AquaLogic
6 6 (3.704%) AquaLogic Service Bus
6 6 (3.704%) MQSeries
7 4 (2.469%) Oracle Application Server
8 3 (1.852%) Apache
9 2 (1.235%) GlassFish
9 2 (1.235%) Drupal
9 2 (1.235%) ArcIMS
9 2 (1.235%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.617%) IIS
10 1 (0.617%) CMS
10 1 (0.617%) WordPress
10 1 (0.617%) Joomla!
Applications
1 3 (1.852%) MS Excel
1 3 (1.852%) PowerPivot
1 3 (1.852%) InfoPath
2 2 (1.235%) ArcInfo
3 1 (0.617%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 11 (6.790%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (2.469%) Summit
3 1 (0.617%) Google Analytics
3 1 (0.617%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.852%) Intranet
2 2 (1.235%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (19.75%) SQL Server
2 27 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 23 (14.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 22 (13.58%) Oracle 11g
4 22 (13.58%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (12.96%) SQL Server 2008
6 15 (9.259%) GIS
6 15 (9.259%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 12 (7.407%) TOAD
8 11 (6.790%) Oracle 10g
9 10 (6.173%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (3.704%) DTS
11 5 (3.086%) MySQL
11 5 (3.086%) Oracle BI EE
11 5 (3.086%) Data Mart
12 3 (1.852%) PerformancePoint
12 3 (1.852%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 2 (1.235%) Star Schema
14 1 (0.617%) OLAP
14 1 (0.617%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 19 (11.73%) Git (software)
2 11 (6.790%) Visual Studio
3 4 (2.469%) Subversion
3 4 (2.469%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (1.852%) Maven
5 2 (1.235%) NUnit
5 2 (1.235%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.235%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.617%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.617%) JUnit
6 1 (0.617%) NetBeans
6 1 (0.617%) jMock
6 1 (0.617%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.617%) Mockito
6 1 (0.617%) Selenium
General
1 24 (14.81%) Finance
2 7 (4.321%) Back Office
3 6 (3.704%) Publishing
4 1 (0.617%) Electronics
4 1 (0.617%) Telecoms
4 1 (0.617%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.469%) N-Tier
2 2 (1.235%) iPad
2 2 (1.235%) iPhone
3 1 (0.617%) NHS
3 1 (0.617%) Firmware
3 1 (0.617%) VHDL
3 1 (0.617%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (0.617%) Open Source
3 1 (0.617%) Digital Media
3 1 (0.617%) Web 2.0
3 1 (0.617%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 1 (0.617%) CMDB
3 1 (0.617%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.407%) Linux
2 9 (5.556%) Windows
3 7 (4.321%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (3.704%) Windows 7
4 6 (3.704%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (3.086%) UNIX
5 5 (3.086%) HPUX
6 1 (0.617%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.617%) Android
6 1 (0.617%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (19.75%) SOA
2 28 (17.28%) Business Intelligence
3 23 (14.20%) ETL
3 23 (14.20%) Agile Software Development
4 16 (9.877%) Data Modelling
5 15 (9.259%) OO
6 14 (8.642%) Unit Testing
6 14 (8.642%) Kimball Methodology
7 10 (6.173%) Configuration Management
8 8 (4.938%) Data Analysis
8 8 (4.938%) Waterfall
8 8 (4.938%) B2B
9 7 (4.321%) B2C
9 7 (4.321%) MVC
9 7 (4.321%) Data Management
10 6 (3.704%) Information Management
10 6 (3.704%) Test Scripting
10 6 (3.704%) E-Commerce
10 6 (3.704%) ERP
11 5 (3.086%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (33.95%) C#
2 54 (33.33%) SQL
3 49 (30.25%) JavaScript
4 29 (17.90%) Java
5 24 (14.81%) VB.NET
6 22 (13.58%) XQuery
7 21 (12.96%) XPath
8 15 (9.259%) PL/SQL
9 14 (8.642%) T-SQL
10 11 (6.790%) Python
11 7 (4.321%) PHP
12 5 (3.086%) C
13 3 (1.852%) VB
14 2 (1.235%) ActionScript
15 1 (0.617%) VBScript
15 1 (0.617%) Perl
15 1 (0.617%) C++
15 1 (0.617%) Tcl
15 1 (0.617%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.617%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 22 (13.58%) Security Cleared
2 21 (12.96%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.259%) Degree
4 8 (4.938%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (4.938%) MCAD
4 8 (4.938%) MCSD
5 3 (1.852%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.469%) ISO 14001
1 4 (2.469%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.617%) TickIT
Vendors
1 49 (30.25%) Oracle
2 14 (8.642%) ESRI
2 14 (8.642%) IBM
3 11 (6.790%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.704%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.469%) HP
6 2 (1.235%) SAP
7 1 (0.617%) JBoss
7 1 (0.617%) Sun
7 1 (0.617%) BEA
7 1 (0.617%) BMC
7 1 (0.617%) Motorola
7 1 (0.617%) Remedy
7 1 (0.617%) Altera
7 1 (0.617%) Google
7 1 (0.617%) Xilinx
7 1 (0.617%) Green Hills
7 1 (0.617%) Zend
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