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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the 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 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 Essex region.

 Developer
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank345
Rank change year-on-year
Up+1Up+1
Matching contract IT job ads4976105
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex15.12 %16.74 %13.58 %
As % of the Job Titles category15.76 %19.24 %14.25 %
Daily rates quoted263338
Average daily rate£250£275£300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.090 %-8.330 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£200£188£190
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£325£453£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted0213
Average hourly rate-£22.50£29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
--23.72 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.50£27.50£32.50
% change year-on-year
--15.38 %
Essex IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
311395737
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex95.99 %87.00 %95.34 %
Daily rates quoted124157312
Average daily rate£200£275£280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.27 %-1.780 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£78£110£139
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£410£500£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£338£350
% change year-on-year
-3.700 %-3.570 %
Hourly rates quoted8845112
Average hourly rate£24.00£21.00£22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.28 %-6.660 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£11.00£17.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£35.00£35.00£43.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.00£20.00£22.00
% change year-on-year
-10.00 %-9.090 %
Developer East of EnglandDeveloper
East of 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 Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex Developer Hourly Rate Trend

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 Essex 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
BasildonNo change06£193-23.00 %
ChelmsfordNew entry-4£300-
ColchesterDown-42£223+27.14 %
WithamNew entry-1--
Developer East of EnglandDeveloper
East of England

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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.

149 (47.12 %).NET
248 (46.15 %)SQL Server
343 (41.35 %)SQL
430 (28.85 %)C#
528 (26.92 %)HTML
626 (25.00 %)SQL Server 2005
725 (24.04 %)ASP.NET
824 (23.08 %)CSS
922 (21.15 %)Web Services
922 (21.15 %)Finance
1021 (20.19 %)JavaScript
1118 (17.31 %)AJAX
1214 (13.46 %)jQuery
1214 (13.46 %)PHP
1313 (12.50 %)Oracle
1313 (12.50 %)XML
1412 (11.54 %)Delphi
1412 (11.54 %)Web Development
1511 (10.58 %)Migration
1610 (9.615 %)C
1610 (9.615 %)XHTML
1610 (9.615 %).NET Framework
1610 (9.615 %)SQL Server Integration Services
179 (8.654 %)UNIX
188 (7.692 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
188 (7.692 %)Government
188 (7.692 %)Visual Studio
188 (7.692 %)T-SQL
188 (7.692 %)Datawarehouse
188 (7.692 %)Linux

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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.

Essex IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
149 (47.12 %).NET
228 (26.92 %)HTML
325 (24.04 %)ASP.NET
424 (23.08 %)CSS
522 (21.15 %)Web Services
618 (17.31 %)AJAX
714 (13.46 %)jQuery
813 (12.50 %)XML
910 (9.615 %)XHTML
910 (9.615 %).NET Framework
107 (6.731 %)Flash
107 (6.731 %)JSON
116 (5.769 %)Visualforce
116 (5.769 %)DHTML
125 (4.808 %)JavaBeans
125 (4.808 %)ASP
134 (3.846 %)ASP.NET 2.0
142 (1.923 %)XSLT
142 (1.923 %)CGI
142 (1.923 %)ASP.NET MVC
Essex IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
17 (6.731 %)OpenROAD
23 (2.885 %)ColdFusion
32 (1.923 %)BizTalk Server
32 (1.923 %)Apache
41 (0.962 %)SugarCRM
41 (0.962 %)Oracle 10gAS
41 (0.962 %)SharePoint
41 (0.962 %)IIS
Essex IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
17 (6.731 %)MS Excel
17 (6.731 %)MS Office
23 (2.885 %)MS PowerPoint
23 (2.885 %)Photoshop
32 (1.923 %)Fireworks
Essex IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
12 (1.923 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
Essex IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
15 (4.808 %)FTP
Essex IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
148 (46.15 %)SQL Server
226 (25.00 %)SQL Server 2005
310 (9.615 %)SQL Server Integration Services
48 (7.692 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
48 (7.692 %)Datawarehouse
56 (5.769 %)SQL Server 2000
56 (5.769 %)Oracle Reports
56 (5.769 %)Ingres
56 (5.769 %)RDBMS
65 (4.808 %)Oracle Discoverer
65 (4.808 %)Oracle 10g
74 (3.846 %)SQL Server 2008
83 (2.885 %)ETL
92 (1.923 %)DB2
92 (1.923 %)MySQL
92 (1.923 %)MS Access
92 (1.923 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
92 (1.923 %)QlikView
101 (0.962 %)DTS
101 (0.962 %)BusinessObjects
Essex IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
18 (7.692 %)Visual Studio
25 (4.808 %)Oracle Forms
32 (1.923 %)Subversion
32 (1.923 %)Dreamweaver
32 (1.923 %)Team Foundation Server
Essex IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
122 (21.15 %)Finance
28 (7.692 %)Government
33 (2.885 %)Marketing
33 (2.885 %)Front Office
42 (1.923 %)Insurance
42 (1.923 %)Music
51 (0.962 %)Local Government
51 (0.962 %)Banking
51 (0.962 %)Retail
Essex IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
13 (2.885 %)W3C
22 (1.923 %)NHS
31 (0.962 %)Informatics
31 (0.962 %)French Language
31 (0.962 %)Data Extraction
31 (0.962 %)Open Source
31 (0.962 %)EPoS
Essex IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
19 (8.654 %)UNIX
28 (7.692 %)Linux
32 (1.923 %)Windows XP
32 (1.923 %)Windows
Essex IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
112 (11.54 %)Web Development
211 (10.58 %)Migration
37 (6.731 %)CRM
37 (6.731 %)Agile Software Development
46 (5.769 %)Project Management
46 (5.769 %)OOD
46 (5.769 %)SOA
55 (4.808 %)Business Intelligence
55 (4.808 %)Systems Analysis
64 (3.846 %)UML
64 (3.846 %)Business Analysis
73 (2.885 %)Reverse Engineering
73 (2.885 %)OO
73 (2.885 %)TDD
73 (2.885 %)MVC
82 (1.923 %)Validation
82 (1.923 %)Service Delivery
82 (1.923 %)OOA/OOD
82 (1.923 %)ERD
82 (1.923 %)Data Migration
Essex IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
143 (41.35 %)SQL
230 (28.85 %)C#
321 (20.19 %)JavaScript
414 (13.46 %)PHP
512 (11.54 %)Delphi
610 (9.615 %)C
78 (7.692 %)T-SQL
87 (6.731 %)Shell Script
96 (5.769 %)Apex Code
96 (5.769 %)PL/SQL
105 (4.808 %)Java
114 (3.846 %)VB.NET
114 (3.846 %)ActionScript
123 (2.885 %)Perl
132 (1.923 %)VBA
132 (1.923 %)VB
141 (0.962 %)PHP5
141 (0.962 %)PHP4
Essex IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
13 (2.885 %)Security Cleared
22 (1.923 %)SC Cleared
31 (0.962 %)Degree
Essex IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (0.962 %)SLA
Essex IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
113 (12.50 %)Oracle
26 (5.769 %)Microsoft
26 (5.769 %)Salesforce.com
33 (2.885 %)SAP
42 (1.923 %)Cognos
51 (0.962 %)Zend
51 (0.962 %)Sage
51 (0.962 %)Business Objects
51 (0.962 %)Adobe