The first table below looks at the demand for the Development Manager role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Development Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Development Manager
Rank 378 413 411
Rank change year-on-year
+35 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Development Manager 136 158 157
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.322% 0.291% 0.283%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.348% 0.315% 0.306%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 80 83
Average daily rate £475 £500 £440
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% +13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £353 £358
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £700 £643
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £380 £425
% change year-on-year
+11.84% -10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
Average hourly rate £37.63 £32.50 £50.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.76% -35.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.63 £32.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year
+15.76% -35.00%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
39040 50214 51349
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.49% 92.56% 92.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 22971 28392 28508
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £245 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2022 2460 2732
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.13 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Development Manager
UK

Development Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Development Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Development Manager
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Development Manager across the England region.

England Development Manager Daily Rate Trend

Development Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Development Manager across the England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

England Development Manager Daily Rate Histogram

Development Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Development Manager Hourly Rate Trend

Development Manager
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Development Manager within the England region over the 3 months to 22 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
London +20 64 £525 -12.50%
South East +8 26 £500 +11.11%
South West +31 11 £415 +9.21%
North West +10 10 £475 +40.74%
East of England +20 8 £425 +41.66%
Yorkshire -3 7 £325 -8.45%
West Midlands +3 5 £351 -25.62%
East Midlands 0 3 £400 +28.00%
Midlands +6 1 - -
South Coast +2 1 £475 -
Development Manager
UK

Development Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Development Manager 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 Development Manager in their job title.

1 90 (34.88%) Java
2 77 (29.84%) .NET
3 60 (23.26%) Project Management
4 56 (21.71%) C#
4 56 (21.71%) Finance
5 49 (18.99%) SQL
6 46 (17.83%) Scrum
7 42 (16.28%) ASP.NET
8 41 (15.89%) PRINCE2
8 41 (15.89%) Agile Software Development
9 32 (12.40%) Banking
10 30 (11.63%) Web Services
11 27 (10.47%) MS Excel
11 27 (10.47%) Oracle
11 27 (10.47%) JavaScript
12 26 (10.08%) E-Commerce
12 26 (10.08%) Microsoft
13 25 (9.690%) Stakeholder Management
14 24 (9.302%) SQL Server
15 23 (8.915%) Retail
15 23 (8.915%) QA
15 23 (8.915%) HTML5
16 22 (8.527%) Degree
16 22 (8.527%) C++
16 22 (8.527%) MS Office
16 22 (8.527%) UML
17 21 (8.140%) Web Development
18 20 (7.752%) Waterfall
19 18 (6.977%) SOA
20 17 (6.589%) Windows

Development Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Development Manager 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 Development Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 77 (29.84%) .NET
2 42 (16.28%) ASP.NET
3 30 (11.63%) Web Services
4 23 (8.915%) HTML5
5 14 (5.426%) CSS
6 12 (4.651%) jQuery
7 10 (3.876%) J2EE
8 8 (3.101%) .NET Framework
8 8 (3.101%) HTML
8 8 (3.101%) JSP
9 7 (2.713%) REST
9 7 (2.713%) CSS3
10 6 (2.326%) ASP.NET MVC
10 6 (2.326%) RESTful
10 6 (2.326%) Spring
10 6 (2.326%) Hibernate
11 5 (1.938%) XHTML
11 5 (1.938%) XML
11 5 (1.938%) Middleware
11 5 (1.938%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Application Platforms
1 7 (2.713%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.550%) Confluence
2 4 (1.550%) ESB
3 3 (1.163%) CMS
3 3 (1.163%) IIS
3 3 (1.163%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.775%) Lotus Domino
4 2 (0.775%) Apache
5 1 (0.388%) FileNet
5 1 (0.388%) Plone
5 1 (0.388%) Documentum
5 1 (0.388%) MS Project Server
5 1 (0.388%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.388%) Windows Azure
5 1 (0.388%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.388%) Facebook Platform
Applications
1 27 (10.47%) MS Excel
2 22 (8.527%) MS Office
3 15 (5.814%) MS PowerPoint
4 7 (2.713%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.938%) MS Project
6 2 (0.775%) Fireworks
6 2 (0.775%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.163%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.388%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.388%) SAP HR
2 1 (0.388%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.713%) Internet
1 7 (2.713%) HTTP
2 5 (1.938%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.163%) DNS
4 1 (0.388%) ATM
4 1 (0.388%) SMS
4 1 (0.388%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.302%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.938%) Oracle BI EE
2 5 (1.938%) SQL Server 2012
3 4 (1.550%) SSDT
3 4 (1.550%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (1.550%) MS Access
3 4 (1.550%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (1.550%) Oracle OWB
4 2 (0.775%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.775%) OLAP
4 2 (0.775%) MySQL
4 2 (0.775%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (0.775%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (0.388%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.388%) DB2
5 1 (0.388%) DTS
5 1 (0.388%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (0.388%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.388%) OLTP
5 1 (0.388%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (5.426%) Visual Studio
2 12 (4.651%) Subversion
3 9 (3.488%) JIRA
4 6 (2.326%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (1.550%) Maven
6 3 (1.163%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.775%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.388%) NUnit
8 1 (0.388%) Ant
8 1 (0.388%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 1 (0.388%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.388%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.388%) PowerBuilder
8 1 (0.388%) Rhino Mocks
8 1 (0.388%) Moq
8 1 (0.388%) WinDbg
8 1 (0.388%) DbUnit
8 1 (0.388%) Git (software)
8 1 (0.388%) WiX
General
1 56 (21.71%) Finance
2 32 (12.40%) Banking
3 23 (8.915%) Retail
4 16 (6.202%) Marketing
5 15 (5.814%) Investment Banking
6 9 (3.488%) Front Office
7 6 (2.326%) Publishing
8 5 (1.938%) Legal
8 5 (1.938%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.550%) Back Office
10 3 (1.163%) Automotive
10 3 (1.163%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.775%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.775%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.388%) Law
12 1 (0.388%) Advertising
12 1 (0.388%) Online Betting
12 1 (0.388%) Arabic Language
12 1 (0.388%) French Language
12 1 (0.388%) Spanish Language
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.426%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 12 (4.651%) Mobile App
3 6 (2.326%) Digital Media
3 6 (2.326%) N-Tier
3 6 (2.326%) Derivative
4 5 (1.938%) PMI
4 5 (1.938%) NHS
4 5 (1.938%) Computer Science
4 5 (1.938%) iPhone
5 4 (1.550%) iPad
5 4 (1.550%) Smartphone
5 4 (1.550%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.163%) E-Learning
6 3 (1.163%) Statistics
6 3 (1.163%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.775%) Mobile Payment
7 2 (0.775%) Visualisation
7 2 (0.775%) Chemistry
7 2 (0.775%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.775%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.589%) Windows
1 17 (6.589%) Apple iOS
2 14 (5.426%) Android
3 9 (3.488%) Windows Mobile
4 8 (3.101%) Linux
5 3 (1.163%) UNIX
5 3 (1.163%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (1.163%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.775%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.775%) Solaris
7 1 (0.388%) CentOS
7 1 (0.388%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.388%) Windows Phone
7 1 (0.388%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (23.26%) Project Management
2 46 (17.83%) Scrum
3 41 (15.89%) PRINCE2
3 41 (15.89%) Agile Software Development
4 26 (10.08%) E-Commerce
5 25 (9.690%) Stakeholder Management
6 22 (8.527%) UML
7 21 (8.140%) Web Development
8 20 (7.752%) Waterfall
9 18 (6.977%) SOA
10 16 (6.202%) Continuous Integration
10 16 (6.202%) OO
10 16 (6.202%) TDD
10 16 (6.202%) Business Analysis
11 13 (5.039%) ITIL
12 12 (4.651%) Business Development
13 11 (4.264%) Configuration Management
13 11 (4.264%) Business Intelligence
14 10 (3.876%) Continuous Improvement
15 9 (3.488%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 90 (34.88%) Java
2 56 (21.71%) C#
3 49 (18.99%) SQL
4 27 (10.47%) JavaScript
5 22 (8.527%) C++
6 15 (5.814%) Objective-C
7 14 (5.426%) PL/SQL
8 13 (5.039%) T-SQL
9 8 (3.101%) PHP
9 8 (3.101%) C
10 5 (1.938%) Ruby
11 4 (1.550%) Python
12 2 (0.775%) Groovy
12 2 (0.775%) Scala
12 2 (0.775%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.775%) VBA
12 2 (0.775%) VB
12 2 (0.775%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.775%) VB6
13 1 (0.388%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 22 (8.527%) Degree
2 16 (6.202%) Security Cleared
3 13 (5.039%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.264%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 7 (2.713%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.938%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (0.775%) BC Cleared
7 2 (0.775%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.775%) PMP
7 2 (0.775%) MCSD
8 1 (0.388%) CIPD
8 1 (0.388%) ISEB Practitioner
8 1 (0.388%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.388%) MCSE
8 1 (0.388%) ISEB
8 1 (0.388%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.388%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.388%) APMP
8 1 (0.388%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.388%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.915%) QA
2 10 (3.876%) TickIT
3 9 (3.488%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.388%) ISO 9000
4 1 (0.388%) SLA
4 1 (0.388%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.388%) COBIT
4 1 (0.388%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.388%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.388%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (0.388%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 1 (0.388%) BladeLogic
1 1 (0.388%) Puppet
1 1 (0.388%) HP Operations Orchestration
1 1 (0.388%) Splunk
Vendors
1 27 (10.47%) Oracle
2 26 (10.08%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.101%) Sencha
3 8 (3.101%) TIBCO
4 4 (1.550%) SAP
5 3 (1.163%) InterSystems
5 3 (1.163%) TOWER Software
5 3 (1.163%) DataSynapse
5 3 (1.163%) Business Objects
5 3 (1.163%) IBM
5 3 (1.163%) Apple
5 3 (1.163%) Informatica
5 3 (1.163%) UC4
6 2 (0.775%) AccuRev
6 2 (0.775%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.775%) Lotus
6 2 (0.775%) VMware
7 1 (0.388%) Google
7 1 (0.388%) GoldenSource
7 1 (0.388%) JBoss
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