The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior 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 Senior Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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 East of England 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Developer
Rank 91 85 97
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 27 51 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 1.221% 1.689% 1.188%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.300% 1.801% 1.263%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 39 13
Average daily rate £390 £300 £383
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.00% -21.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £288 £301
10% offered a daily rate of more than £476 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £363 £355
% change year-on-year
+0.68% +2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Average hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -17.64%
All Job Titles
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2077 2832 2612
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 93.94% 93.77% 94.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1064 1329 1164
Average daily rate £338 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £188 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £468 £460 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 323 328
Average hourly rate £26.00 £22.88 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.66% +30.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £40.00 £37.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Senior Developer
England

Senior Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England Senior Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England Senior Developer Daily Rate Trend

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Developer across the East of England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

East of England Senior Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Senior Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England Senior Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Senior Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the East of England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cambridgeshire -3 8 £413 +27.90% 19
Hertfordshire +14 7 £450 +12.50% 4
Essex +2 6 £400 -20.00%
Bedfordshire +6 3 £365 +4.28% 5
Suffolk +11 2 £263 -8.69% 5
Norfolk - - - - 4
Senior Developer
England

Senior Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Senior 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 Senior Developer in their job title.

1 28 (47.46%) C#
2 26 (44.07%) TDD
3 23 (38.98%) .NET
4 22 (37.29%) JavaScript
4 22 (37.29%) CSS
5 20 (33.90%) SQL Server
5 20 (33.90%) SQL
6 19 (32.20%) OO
7 15 (25.42%) HTML
8 14 (23.73%) jQuery
9 11 (18.64%) Java
9 11 (18.64%) ASP.NET
9 11 (18.64%) Windows
10 10 (16.95%) Microsoft
10 10 (16.95%) Web Services
10 10 (16.95%) Agile Software Development
10 10 (16.95%) WCF
11 9 (15.25%) Unit Testing
11 9 (15.25%) Photoshop
11 9 (15.25%) PHP
12 8 (13.56%) Oracle
12 8 (13.56%) XML
12 8 (13.56%) Spring
12 8 (13.56%) Scrum
13 7 (11.86%) MVC
13 7 (11.86%) J2EE
13 7 (11.86%) E-Commerce
13 7 (11.86%) HTML5
13 7 (11.86%) BDD
14 6 (10.17%) CSS3

Senior Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Senior 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 Senior Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 23 (38.98%) .NET
2 22 (37.29%) CSS
3 15 (25.42%) HTML
4 14 (23.73%) jQuery
5 11 (18.64%) ASP.NET
6 10 (16.95%) Web Services
6 10 (16.95%) WCF
7 8 (13.56%) XML
7 8 (13.56%) Spring
8 7 (11.86%) J2EE
8 7 (11.86%) HTML5
9 6 (10.17%) CSS3
9 6 (10.17%) .NET Framework
9 6 (10.17%) XHTML
9 6 (10.17%) Hibernate
10 5 (8.475%) JSF
10 5 (8.475%) Ajax
10 5 (8.475%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 4 (6.780%) WPF
11 4 (6.780%) DHTML
Application Platforms
1 6 (10.17%) Apache
2 4 (6.780%) Liferay
3 3 (5.085%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (5.085%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (5.085%) IIS
4 2 (3.390%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.695%) CMS
5 1 (1.695%) WordPress
5 1 (1.695%) Joomla!
5 1 (1.695%) CubeCart
Applications
1 9 (15.25%) Photoshop
2 5 (8.475%) Fireworks
3 1 (1.695%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.695%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.695%) Intranet
1 1 (1.695%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (33.90%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.475%) GIS
2 5 (8.475%) MySQL
2 5 (8.475%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (6.780%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (6.780%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (5.085%) JasperReports
4 3 (5.085%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (5.085%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (3.390%) SQL Server 2012
5 2 (3.390%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.695%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.695%) Oracle 10g
6 1 (1.695%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.695%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (6.780%) Visual Studio
2 3 (5.085%) Maven
2 3 (5.085%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (3.390%) Jasmine
3 2 (3.390%) Axure RP
3 2 (3.390%) Subversion
4 1 (1.695%) NUnit
4 1 (1.695%) MSTest
4 1 (1.695%) Git (software)
4 1 (1.695%) Rhino Mocks
4 1 (1.695%) QUnit
General
1 5 (8.475%) Telecoms
1 5 (8.475%) Advertising
2 4 (6.780%) Marketing
3 3 (5.085%) Retail
3 3 (5.085%) Finance
4 2 (3.390%) Banking
5 1 (1.695%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.695%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.475%) Open Source
2 4 (6.780%) iPad
2 4 (6.780%) N-Tier
3 3 (5.085%) Blackberry
3 3 (5.085%) iPhone
3 3 (5.085%) New Media
4 2 (3.390%) NHS
5 1 (1.695%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.695%) Visualisation
5 1 (1.695%) Inversion of Control
5 1 (1.695%) SaaS
5 1 (1.695%) Animation
5 1 (1.695%) Informatics
5 1 (1.695%) Biology
5 1 (1.695%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.695%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (1.695%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.64%) Windows
2 6 (10.17%) Android
3 4 (6.780%) Linux
4 3 (5.085%) Apple iOS
4 3 (5.085%) Windows Phone
4 3 (5.085%) Windows Phone 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (44.07%) TDD
2 19 (32.20%) OO
3 10 (16.95%) Agile Software Development
4 9 (15.25%) Unit Testing
5 8 (13.56%) Scrum
6 7 (11.86%) MVC
6 7 (11.86%) E-Commerce
6 7 (11.86%) BDD
7 6 (10.17%) SOA
8 5 (8.475%) Migration
8 5 (8.475%) Web Development
8 5 (8.475%) Web Application Development
9 4 (6.780%) MVVM
9 4 (6.780%) UML
9 4 (6.780%) Web Design
9 4 (6.780%) Pair Programming
10 3 (5.085%) Workflow
10 3 (5.085%) RUP
10 3 (5.085%) Business Intelligence
10 3 (5.085%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 28 (47.46%) C#
2 22 (37.29%) JavaScript
3 20 (33.90%) SQL
4 11 (18.64%) Java
5 9 (15.25%) PHP
6 4 (6.780%) T-SQL
7 3 (5.085%) C++
8 2 (3.390%) PHP5
8 2 (3.390%) XPath
8 2 (3.390%) VB
9 1 (1.695%) VB6
9 1 (1.695%) Ruby
9 1 (1.695%) VC++
9 1 (1.695%) Python
9 1 (1.695%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.695%) VBA
9 1 (1.695%) C
9 1 (1.695%) Perl
9 1 (1.695%) CoffeeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (6.780%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.085%) SC Cleared
2 3 (5.085%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (1.695%) PhD
System Software
1 1 (1.695%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 10 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.56%) Oracle
3 5 (8.475%) Adobe
4 1 (1.695%) Telerik
4 1 (1.695%) Business Objects
4 1 (1.695%) AccuRev
4 1 (1.695%) Retalix
Suffolk
Key skills required: * Strong PHP5 skills * Extensive experience on MySQL and JavaScript * Strong XHTML and CSS skills You will need to be able to work under pressure to...
Reed Technology
Salary: £225 - £275 per day + negotiable
Posted: 14 June 2013
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