Dorset Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts within the Dorset region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Developer
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Alderley Edge Aldershot Altrincham Andover Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Carrickfergus Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleckheaton Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ellesmere Port Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kenilworth Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Louth Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Moreton-in-Marsh Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Newton Abbot Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Rotherham Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stanmore Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stowmarket Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worksop Worthing Wymondham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	9	7
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	41	66
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.054 %	0.070 %
As % of the category below	11.52 %	14.10 %
Daily rates quoted	12	23
Average minimum daily rate	£284	£347
Average daily rate	£312	£357
% change on same period last year	-12.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£341	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.36 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.64	£22.83
Average hourly rate	£27.65	£25.83
% change on same period last year	+7.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.65	£28.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.47	£33.20
% change on same period last year	-2.18 %
Job Titles Dorset
Matching contract IT job ads	356	468
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.469 %	0.496 %
Daily rates quoted	167	232
Average minimum daily rate	£328	£336
Average daily rate	£351	£352
% change on same period last year	-0.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£369
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	32	47
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.67	£23.57
Average hourly rate	£21.64	£25.50
% change on same period last year	-15.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.62	£27.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Developer South West

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Developer across the Dorset region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Developer across the Dorset region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Developer within the Dorset region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bournemouth	-1	10	£315	-33.77 %
Poole	-14	5	-	-

Developer South West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 46 (40.00 %) Oracle 2 45 (39.13 %) SQL 3 34 (29.57 %) .NET 4 29 (25.22 %) Business Intelligence 5 28 (24.35 %) OLAP 5 28 (24.35 %) Oracle OLAP 6 27 (23.48 %) C# 7 25 (21.74 %) Security Cleared 8 24 (20.87 %) PL/SQL 9 23 (20.00 %) Oracle OWB 10 22 (19.13 %) Oracle Discoverer 10 22 (19.13 %) SC Cleared 11 21 (18.26 %) ETL 12 20 (17.39 %) Datawarehouse 13 18 (15.65 %) C++

14 17 (14.78 %) ASP.NET 14 17 (14.78 %) Insurance 15 16 (13.91 %) CSS 15 16 (13.91 %) JavaScript 15 16 (13.91 %) C 16 15 (13.04 %) SQL Server 17 14 (12.17 %) XML 18 13 (11.30 %) AJAX 19 12 (10.43 %) Oracle BI EE 19 12 (10.43 %) Finance 19 12 (10.43 %) Oracle 10g 19 12 (10.43 %) OLTP 19 12 (10.43 %) DSDM 19 12 (10.43 %) HTML 20 11 (9.565 %) SAS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 34 (29.57 %) .NET 2 17 (14.78 %) ASP.NET 3 16 (13.91 %) CSS 4 14 (12.17 %) XML 5 13 (11.30 %) AJAX 6 12 (10.43 %) HTML 7 7 (6.087 %) .NET Framework 8 6 (5.217 %) XHTML 9 5 (4.348 %) WebServices 10 4 (3.478 %) ASP 10 4 (3.478 %) LAMP 11 3 (2.609 %) XSLT 12 1 (0.870 %) ODBC 12 1 (0.870 %) J2ME 12 1 (0.870 %) ADSI 12 1 (0.870 %) WinForms 12 1 (0.870 %) ASP.NET 2.0 12 1 (0.870 %) MFC 12 1 (0.870 %) COM+	Application Platforms 1 11 (9.565 %) SAS 2 5 (4.348 %) Apache 3 2 (1.739 %) Lotus Notes 3 2 (1.739 %) Lotus Domino 4 1 (0.870 %) Tomcat 4 1 (0.870 %) CICS 4 1 (0.870 %) CMS 4 1 (0.870 %) QuickPlace
Applications 1 3 (2.609 %) MS Office 1 3 (2.609 %) MS Excel 2 1 (0.870 %) Fireworks 2 1 (0.870 %) Photoshop	Business Applications 1 6 (5.217 %) Siebel Analytics 2 1 (0.870 %) Summit
Communications & Networking 1 3 (2.609 %) LDAP 2 2 (1.739 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (1.739 %) Internet 3 1 (0.870 %) SS7 3 1 (0.870 %) X.500 3 1 (0.870 %) INAP 3 1 (0.870 %) Intranet 3 1 (0.870 %) GPRS 3 1 (0.870 %) VoIP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 28 (24.35 %) OLAP 1 28 (24.35 %) Oracle OLAP 2 23 (20.00 %) Oracle OWB 3 22 (19.13 %) Oracle Discoverer 4 21 (18.26 %) ETL 5 20 (17.39 %) Datawarehouse 6 15 (13.04 %) SQL Server 7 12 (10.43 %) OLTP 7 12 (10.43 %) Oracle 10g 7 12 (10.43 %) Oracle BI EE 8 9 (7.826 %) MySQL 9 6 (5.217 %) Base SAS 9 6 (5.217 %) SQL Server 2005 10 5 (4.348 %) Oracle 9i 11 3 (2.609 %) DTS 11 3 (2.609 %) Oracle Reports 11 3 (2.609 %) SQL Server 2000 12 2 (1.739 %) BusinessObjects 13 1 (0.870 %) RDBMS 13 1 (0.870 %) Star Schema
Development Applications 1 4 (3.478 %) Oracle APEX 2 1 (0.870 %) Ant 2 1 (0.870 %) Oracle Forms 2 1 (0.870 %) Eclipse	General 1 17 (14.78 %) Insurance 2 12 (10.43 %) Finance 3 5 (4.348 %) Aerospace 3 5 (4.348 %) Government 4 3 (2.609 %) Military 5 1 (0.870 %) Telecoms 5 1 (0.870 %) Health
Miscellaneous 1 5 (4.348 %) W3C 2 4 (3.478 %) Management Information System 3 2 (1.739 %) Mainframe 3 2 (1.739 %) Client/Server 4 1 (0.870 %) NHS 4 1 (0.870 %) Spanish Language 4 1 (0.870 %) Multithreading 4 1 (0.870 %) Data Conversion	Operating Systems 1 10 (8.696 %) Windows 2 5 (4.348 %) Linux 3 1 (0.870 %) Unix 3 1 (0.870 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 29 (25.22 %) Business Intelligence 2 25 (21.74 %) Security Cleared 3 22 (19.13 %) SC Cleared 4 12 (10.43 %) DSDM 5 9 (7.826 %) DV Cleared 6 7 (6.087 %) E-Commerce 7 6 (5.217 %) OOP 8 5 (4.348 %) OO 8 5 (4.348 %) Data Modelling 8 5 (4.348 %) UML 8 5 (4.348 %) Web Development 9 4 (3.478 %) RAD 10 3 (2.609 %) SEO 10 3 (2.609 %) Software Engineering 10 3 (2.609 %) System Testing 10 3 (2.609 %) Dimensional Modelling 10 3 (2.609 %) Data Mapping 11 2 (1.739 %) Business Analysis 11 2 (1.739 %) Unit Testing 11 2 (1.739 %) Web Design	Programming Languages 1 45 (39.13 %) SQL 2 27 (23.48 %) C# 3 24 (20.87 %) PL/SQL 4 18 (15.65 %) C++ 5 16 (13.91 %) C 5 16 (13.91 %) JavaScript 6 8 (6.957 %) PHP 7 7 (6.087 %) VB.NET 8 4 (3.478 %) Transact-SQL 8 4 (3.478 %) PHP5 9 3 (2.609 %) PHP4 9 3 (2.609 %) Embedded C 9 3 (2.609 %) Embedded C++ 9 3 (2.609 %) VB6 9 3 (2.609 %) VB 10 2 (1.739 %) VC++ 10 2 (1.739 %) RPG 10 2 (1.739 %) Java 10 2 (1.739 %) LotusScript 11 1 (0.870 %) COBOL
Qualifications 1 2 (1.739 %) MCP 1 2 (1.739 %) Microsoft Certification 1 2 (1.739 %) Degree 2 1 (0.870 %) MCSE	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.739 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 1 (0.870 %) Basel II
System Software 1 3 (2.609 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 46 (40.00 %) Oracle 2 6 (5.217 %) Siebel 3 2 (1.739 %) Business Objects 3 2 (1.739 %) Lotus 4 1 (0.870 %) Borland 4 1 (0.870 %) Cognos 4 1 (0.870 %) Progress 4 1 (0.870 %) Microsoft 4 1 (0.870 %) Informatica