Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the East of England 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 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the East of England region.

 Developer
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank111
Rank change year-on-year
No change0No change0
Matching contract IT job ads355417956
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England21.35 %19.31 %21.79 %
As % of the Job Titles category23.57 %21.11 %23.19 %
Daily rates quoted159149309
Average daily rate£288£288£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
--17.85 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£184£190£235
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£380£413£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted364985
Average hourly rate£29.25£30.00£34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.500 %-11.76 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£17.13£19.90£22.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£36.50£41.00£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.50£27.50£32.50
% change year-on-year
--15.38 %
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
150619754122
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England90.56 %91.44 %93.96 %
Daily rates quoted5856061347
Average daily rate£300£320£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.250 %-8.570 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£85£175£190
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£450£485£475
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£338£350
% change year-on-year
-3.700 %-3.570 %
Hourly rates quoted299242562
Average hourly rate£23.75£22.50£22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.550 %+2.270 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.30£11.00£11.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£35.50£35.15£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.00£20.00£22.00
% change year-on-year
-10.00 %-9.090 %
Developer EnglandDeveloper
England

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.

Developer
Demand Trend

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

East of England Developer Demand Trend

Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England Developer Daily Rate Trend

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Developer across the East of England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

East of England Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Developer across the East of England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

East of England Developer Hourly Rate Histogram

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 East of England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
CambridgeshireNo change0107£269-10.41 %
HertfordshireUp+292£293-9.30 %
EssexUp+149£250-9.09 %
SuffolkUp+443£325+18.18 %
NorfolkUp+237£175-22.22 %
BedfordshireDown-313£373-9.69 %
East AngliaUp+512£300+29.72 %
Developer EnglandDeveloper
England

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

1274 (41.64 %).NET
2192 (29.18 %)C#
2192 (29.18 %)SQL
3187 (28.42 %)SQL Server
4153 (23.25 %)ASP.NET
5148 (22.49 %)JavaScript
6139 (21.12 %)HTML
6139 (21.12 %)CSS
7104 (15.81 %)Java
8102 (15.50 %)Oracle
989 (13.53 %)XML
1078 (11.85 %)SQL Server 2005
1175 (11.40 %)AJAX
1270 (10.64 %)Web Services
1369 (10.49 %)MySQL
1465 (9.878 %)XHTML
1564 (9.726 %)Microsoft
1662 (9.422 %)Finance
1761 (9.271 %)Windows
1860 (9.119 %)PHP
1952 (7.903 %)OO
2051 (7.751 %)C
2149 (7.447 %)VB.NET
2149 (7.447 %)Visual Studio
2149 (7.447 %)SharePoint
2246 (6.991 %)J2EE
2342 (6.383 %)MVC
2440 (6.079 %)Linux
2539 (5.927 %)E-Commerce
2638 (5.775 %)PL/SQL

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1274 (41.64 %).NET
2153 (23.25 %)ASP.NET
3139 (21.12 %)HTML
3139 (21.12 %)CSS
489 (13.53 %)XML
575 (11.40 %)AJAX
670 (10.64 %)Web Services
765 (9.878 %)XHTML
846 (6.991 %)J2EE
937 (5.623 %)WCF
1033 (5.015 %).NET Framework
1033 (5.015 %)jQuery
1130 (4.559 %)Spring
1226 (3.951 %)JSP
1324 (3.647 %)Flash
1422 (3.343 %)Silverlight
1422 (3.343 %)WebSphere
1521 (3.191 %)WPF
1620 (3.040 %)Hibernate
1620 (3.040 %)XSLT
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
149 (7.447 %)SharePoint
227 (4.103 %)EPiServer
324 (3.647 %)SharePoint Server 2007
419 (2.888 %)Tomcat
518 (2.736 %)BizTalk Server
617 (2.584 %)Apache
716 (2.432 %)IIS
89 (1.368 %)Drupal
98 (1.216 %)WebSphere Process Server
107 (1.064 %)OpenROAD
107 (1.064 %)CMS
107 (1.064 %)WebLogic
107 (1.064 %)WebSphere Application Server
114 (0.608 %)Force.com
123 (0.456 %)ESB
123 (0.456 %)ColdFusion
132 (0.304 %)WebSphere MQ
132 (0.304 %)TeamSite
132 (0.304 %)Joomla!
132 (0.304 %)Oracle 10gAS
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
122 (3.343 %)MS Excel
215 (2.280 %)Photoshop
313 (1.976 %)MS Office
45 (0.760 %)Adobe Illustrator
54 (0.608 %)Fireworks
63 (0.456 %)MS PowerPoint
63 (0.456 %)MATLAB
63 (0.456 %)MS Project
71 (0.152 %)CorelDRAW
71 (0.152 %)Doxygen
71 (0.152 %)CINEMA 4D
71 (0.152 %)Adobe Captivate
71 (0.152 %)PageMaker
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
15 (0.760 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
22 (0.304 %)MFGPRO
31 (0.152 %)SAP EM
31 (0.152 %)Oracle EBS R12
31 (0.152 %)BASE24
31 (0.152 %)SAP CRM
31 (0.152 %)Summit
31 (0.152 %)Dynamics NAV
31 (0.152 %)Dynamics CRM
31 (0.152 %)Dynamics AX
31 (0.152 %)Axapta
31 (0.152 %)Navision
31 (0.152 %)SAP R/3
31 (0.152 %)Oracle 11i
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
126 (3.951 %)Internet
29 (1.368 %)Intranet
29 (1.368 %)Wireless
38 (1.216 %)HTTP
38 (1.216 %)Extranet
47 (1.064 %)TCP/IP
56 (0.912 %)VoIP
56 (0.912 %)FTP
56 (0.912 %)X.400
56 (0.912 %)SNMP
65 (0.760 %)MPLS
65 (0.760 %)Megaco
65 (0.760 %)SS7
74 (0.608 %)3GPP
74 (0.608 %)3G
74 (0.608 %)NAS
74 (0.608 %)LTE
83 (0.456 %)HSPA
83 (0.456 %)Wi-Fi
92 (0.304 %)LDAP
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1187 (28.42 %)SQL Server
278 (11.85 %)SQL Server 2005
369 (10.49 %)MySQL
431 (4.711 %)SQL Server Integration Services
431 (4.711 %)Oracle 10g
529 (4.407 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
628 (4.255 %)SQL Server 2000
723 (3.495 %)Datawarehouse
818 (2.736 %)RDBMS
917 (2.584 %)SQL Server 2008
917 (2.584 %)Oracle Reports
1013 (1.976 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1110 (1.520 %)MS Access
1110 (1.520 %)PerformancePoint
129 (1.368 %)DB2
138 (1.216 %)DTS
147 (1.064 %)Crystal Reports
147 (1.064 %)ETL
156 (0.912 %)Ingres
156 (0.912 %)Oracle 11g
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
149 (7.447 %)Visual Studio
216 (2.432 %)Eclipse
315 (2.280 %)Oracle Forms
413 (1.976 %)Maven
511 (1.672 %)Subversion
610 (1.520 %)Ant
79 (1.368 %)WebSphere Studio Application Developer
79 (1.368 %)Dreamweaver
88 (1.216 %)JBuilder
88 (1.216 %)JDeveloper
97 (1.064 %)Team Foundation Server
106 (0.912 %)ClearCase
106 (0.912 %)JUnit
114 (0.608 %)Expression Blend
123 (0.456 %)ProC
123 (0.456 %)IntelliJ
132 (0.304 %)VSS/SourceSafe
132 (0.304 %)NUnit
132 (0.304 %)WatiN
141 (0.152 %)Flex Builder
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
162 (9.422 %)Finance
218 (2.736 %)Telecoms
218 (2.736 %)Insurance
317 (2.584 %)Retail
317 (2.584 %)Government
47 (1.064 %)Marketing
56 (0.912 %)Electronics
65 (0.760 %)Education
65 (0.760 %)Back Office
65 (0.760 %)Health
74 (0.608 %)Manufacturing
74 (0.608 %)Local Government
83 (0.456 %)Animation
83 (0.456 %)Front Office
92 (0.304 %)3D Graphics
92 (0.304 %)Publishing
92 (0.304 %)Legal
92 (0.304 %)Electric
92 (0.304 %)Music
92 (0.304 %)Billing
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
117 (2.584 %)W3C
210 (1.520 %)N-Tier
37 (1.064 %)Multithreading
46 (0.912 %)NHS
46 (0.912 %)Open Source
55 (0.760 %)Computer Science
64 (0.608 %)Data Protection Act
64 (0.608 %)Windows Azure
73 (0.456 %)iPhone
73 (0.456 %)Data Extraction
73 (0.456 %)Social Network
73 (0.456 %)Handset
73 (0.456 %)Client/Server
82 (0.304 %)MPEG
82 (0.304 %)Device Driver
82 (0.304 %)Blackberry
82 (0.304 %)Mathematics
82 (0.304 %)French Language
82 (0.304 %)Web 2.0
82 (0.304 %)PDA
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
161 (9.271 %)Windows
240 (6.079 %)Linux
333 (5.015 %)UNIX
413 (1.976 %)Windows Mobile
413 (1.976 %)Solaris
58 (1.216 %)Windows CE
66 (0.912 %)Windows Server 2003
75 (0.760 %)Windows XP
83 (0.456 %)CentOS
92 (0.304 %)AIX
92 (0.304 %)Red Hat Linux
92 (0.304 %)Android
92 (0.304 %)Debian
101 (0.152 %)Windows 7
101 (0.152 %)Mac OS
101 (0.152 %)Windows Vista
101 (0.152 %)SUSE
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
152 (7.903 %)OO
242 (6.383 %)MVC
339 (5.927 %)E-Commerce
436 (5.471 %)Agile Software Development
529 (4.407 %)Web Development
625 (3.799 %)Business Intelligence
720 (3.040 %)Migration
817 (2.584 %)CRM
817 (2.584 %)SOA
914 (2.128 %)UML
1012 (1.824 %)TDD
1111 (1.672 %)RAD
1210 (1.520 %)OOD
1210 (1.520 %)Project Management
1210 (1.520 %)Unit Testing
139 (1.368 %)Content Management
139 (1.368 %)OOP
148 (1.216 %)OOA/OOD
157 (1.064 %)QMS
157 (1.064 %)Data Migration
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1192 (29.18 %)C#
1192 (29.18 %)SQL
2148 (22.49 %)JavaScript
3104 (15.81 %)Java
460 (9.119 %)PHP
551 (7.751 %)C
649 (7.447 %)VB.NET
738 (5.775 %)PL/SQL
738 (5.775 %)T-SQL
835 (5.319 %)C++
930 (4.559 %)Delphi
1028 (4.255 %)VB
1118 (2.736 %)ActionScript
1217 (2.584 %)PHP5
1315 (2.280 %)Perl
1414 (2.128 %)Python
1512 (1.824 %)Apex Code
1610 (1.520 %)VBA
1610 (1.520 %)Shell Script
1610 (1.520 %)ActionScript 3.0
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
125 (3.799 %)Degree
216 (2.432 %)Security Cleared
36 (0.912 %)SC Cleared
45 (0.760 %)CCNA
45 (0.760 %)Cisco Certification
53 (0.456 %)CTC Cleared
61 (0.152 %)BC Cleared
61 (0.152 %)RHCE
61 (0.152 %)Sun Certification
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
17 (1.064 %)QA
23 (0.456 %)PCI DSS
23 (0.456 %)GAMP
23 (0.456 %)ISO9001
23 (0.456 %)GxP
32 (0.304 %)WAI
41 (0.152 %)JTAG
41 (0.152 %)WCAG
41 (0.152 %)SLA
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
14 (0.608 %)Active Directory
22 (0.304 %)MSMQ
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (0.152 %)OpenView
11 (0.152 %)Nagios
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1102 (15.50 %)Oracle
264 (9.726 %)Microsoft
314 (2.128 %)Salesforce.com
410 (1.520 %)Cognos
59 (1.368 %)IBM
66 (0.912 %)SAP
75 (0.760 %)Adobe
75 (0.760 %)MetaSolv
75 (0.760 %)JBoss
84 (0.608 %)ATG
84 (0.608 %)Agresso
84 (0.608 %)Zend
84 (0.608 %)Visualfiles
93 (0.456 %)Google
93 (0.456 %)EMC
93 (0.456 %)BEA
93 (0.456 %)BT
93 (0.456 %)Business Objects
102 (0.304 %)InterSystems
102 (0.304 %)Peregrine