The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Applications Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Essex 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Developer
Rank 47 - 38
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Developer 2 0 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 0.476% - 2.551%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.522% - 2.674%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Average daily rate £213 - £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £314 £306 £325
% change year-on-year
+2.36% -5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £33.00 - £22.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £39.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-15.38% -8.23%
All Job Titles
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
383 384 374
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 91.19% 94.12% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 186 169
Average daily rate £313 £288 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.69% -4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £105 £78
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 58 75
Average hourly rate £30.00 £27.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -1.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.45 £13.00 £13.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.10 £41.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Applications Developer
East of England

Applications Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex Applications Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Essex Applications Developer Daily Rate Trend

Applications Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Essex Applications Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Applications Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Developer within the Essex region over the 3 months to 21 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
Brentwood - 2 £213 -
Applications Developer
East of England

Applications Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region that cited Applications 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 Applications Developer in their job title.

1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Ant
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) JSP
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) RAD
1 2 (100.00%) RUP
1 2 (100.00%) XHTML
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Automotive
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
1 2 (100.00%) FatWire
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Content Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ajax
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) FQL
1 2 (100.00%) WebCenter
1 2 (100.00%) Social Media
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (100.00%) Facebook

Applications Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region that cited Applications 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 Applications Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) JSP
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XHTML
1 2 (100.00%) Ajax
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (100.00%) WebCenter
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Ant
General
1 2 (100.00%) Automotive
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) RAD
1 2 (100.00%) RUP
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) FQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) FatWire
1 2 (100.00%) Facebook
1 2 (100.00%) Twitter