The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire 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 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 Gloucestershire 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
Developer
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year
0 0
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 76 167 100
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 27.74% 24.96% 23.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 29.12% 27.15% 24.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 106 47
Average daily rate £400 £400 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +29.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £264 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 9
Average hourly rate £37.25 £25.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+46.07% +2.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.20 £21.90 £15.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £53.15 £29.10 £33.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
All Job Titles
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
261 615 401
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 95.26% 91.93% 93.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 358 159
Average daily rate £380 £400 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% +29.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £265 £170
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 36 66
Average hourly rate £16.50 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £23.34 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £37.00 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Developer
South West

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire Developer Daily Rate Trend

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Developer across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Gloucestershire Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Developer across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire 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
Gloucester +4 20 £400 +3.22%
Cheltenham -1 10 £338 -28.94%
Tewkesbury +8 1 - -
Filton - 1 £500 -
Developer
South West

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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.

1 106 (53.00%) Security Cleared
2 101 (50.50%) DV Cleared
3 98 (49.00%) Java
4 81 (40.50%) C
5 63 (31.50%) Oracle
6 60 (30.00%) SQL
7 57 (28.50%) .NET
8 47 (23.50%) JavaScript
9 46 (23.00%) C#
10 43 (21.50%) HTML
10 43 (21.50%) SQL Server
10 43 (21.50%) XML
11 39 (19.50%) Visual Studio
12 38 (19.00%) Web Services
12 38 (19.00%) JBoss
13 37 (18.50%) Linux
13 37 (18.50%) CSS
13 37 (18.50%) J2EE
14 34 (17.00%) Agile Software Development
15 30 (15.00%) Maven
15 30 (15.00%) VB.NET
15 30 (15.00%) UML
16 29 (14.50%) PL/SQL
17 28 (14.00%) SQL Server 2008
18 26 (13.00%) ASP.NET
18 26 (13.00%) Business Intelligence
19 24 (12.00%) jQuery
20 23 (11.50%) JPA
20 23 (11.50%) OO
21 22 (11.00%) Data Warehouse

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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.

Application Development
1 57 (28.50%) .NET
2 43 (21.50%) HTML
2 43 (21.50%) XML
3 38 (19.00%) Web Services
4 37 (18.50%) CSS
4 37 (18.50%) J2EE
5 26 (13.00%) ASP.NET
6 24 (12.00%) jQuery
7 23 (11.50%) JPA
8 20 (10.00%) Hibernate
9 18 (9.000%) Swing
9 18 (9.000%) EJB
10 15 (7.500%) JSP
10 15 (7.500%) J2SE
11 11 (5.500%) JMS
11 11 (5.500%) EJB 3.0
11 11 (5.500%) RESTful
11 11 (5.500%) GWT
12 9 (4.500%) Silverlight
13 8 (4.000%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 16 (8.000%) SharePoint
2 11 (5.500%) Apache
2 11 (5.500%) SharePoint 2010
3 6 (3.000%) MS Project Server
4 5 (2.500%) SharePoint 2013
5 4 (2.000%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (2.000%) IIS
6 2 (1.000%) CMS
6 2 (1.000%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (1.000%) SAS
6 2 (1.000%) MS Exchange
6 2 (1.000%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.500%) ESB
7 1 (0.500%) Joomla!
7 1 (0.500%) Drupal
7 1 (0.500%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (4.500%) MS Excel
2 6 (3.000%) MS Project
3 2 (1.000%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (1.000%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.500%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.500%) INSURE/90
2 1 (0.500%) Movex
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.000%) Internet
2 2 (1.000%) ASN.1
3 1 (0.500%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (21.50%) SQL Server
2 28 (14.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 22 (11.00%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (9.500%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 17 (8.500%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 15 (7.500%) MySQL
7 14 (7.000%) TOAD
8 12 (6.000%) RDBMS
9 10 (5.000%) SQL Server 2005
10 9 (4.500%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 8 (4.000%) Oracle 11g
12 5 (2.500%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (2.500%) Crystal Reports
12 5 (2.500%) QlikView
13 4 (2.000%) Oracle BI EE
13 4 (2.000%) Oracle OLAP
13 4 (2.000%) Essbase
13 4 (2.000%) OLAP
14 2 (1.000%) Oracle 10g
14 2 (1.000%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 39 (19.50%) Visual Studio
2 30 (15.00%) Maven
3 10 (5.000%) Git (software)
4 8 (4.000%) Team Foundation Server
4 8 (4.000%) Dreamweaver
4 8 (4.000%) Ant
4 8 (4.000%) JUnit
4 8 (4.000%) Hudson
5 7 (3.500%) Eclipse
6 5 (2.500%) Eclipse RCP
6 5 (2.500%) JIRA
7 4 (2.000%) LabVIEW
8 2 (1.000%) GCC
9 1 (0.500%) ERwin
9 1 (0.500%) C++Builder
9 1 (0.500%) Subversion
9 1 (0.500%) Oracle APEX
General
1 22 (11.00%) Finance
2 7 (3.500%) Banking
3 4 (2.000%) Multimedia
4 3 (1.500%) Retail
5 2 (1.000%) Marketing
5 2 (1.000%) Electronics
6 1 (0.500%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.500%) Advertising
6 1 (0.500%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.500%) Avionics
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.500%) RIA
2 6 (3.000%) E-Learning
2 6 (3.000%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.500%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.000%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
5 3 (1.500%) AS400
5 3 (1.500%) Data Integration
6 2 (1.000%) Graphic Design
6 2 (1.000%) SCORM
7 1 (0.500%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.500%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.500%) Thin Client
7 1 (0.500%) Replication
7 1 (0.500%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.500%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 37 (18.50%) Linux
2 13 (6.500%) Windows
3 10 (5.000%) UNIX
4 3 (1.500%) Android
5 2 (1.000%) VxWorks
6 1 (0.500%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.500%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.500%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (17.00%) Agile Software Development
2 30 (15.00%) UML
3 26 (13.00%) Business Intelligence
4 23 (11.50%) OO
5 21 (10.50%) Scrum
6 16 (8.000%) Release Management
6 16 (8.000%) Root Cause Analysis
7 13 (6.500%) MVC
7 13 (6.500%) Dimensional Modelling
8 12 (6.000%) Web Development
8 12 (6.000%) OOP
8 12 (6.000%) Configuration Management
9 11 (5.500%) OOA/OOD
9 11 (5.500%) Software Engineering
9 11 (5.500%) Customer Engagement
10 10 (5.000%) TDD
10 10 (5.000%) Data Modelling
11 8 (4.000%) Systems Analysis
12 7 (3.500%) Requirements Analysis
13 6 (3.000%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 98 (49.00%) Java
2 81 (40.50%) C
3 60 (30.00%) SQL
4 47 (23.50%) JavaScript
5 46 (23.00%) C#
6 30 (15.00%) VB.NET
7 29 (14.50%) PL/SQL
8 15 (7.500%) C++
9 13 (6.500%) PHP
10 9 (4.500%) Python
10 9 (4.500%) VB
11 8 (4.000%) Shell Script
12 7 (3.500%) Bash shell
12 7 (3.500%) Perl
12 7 (3.500%) T-SQL
12 7 (3.500%) Scala
13 3 (1.500%) RPG
13 3 (1.500%) ActionScript
14 2 (1.000%) PowerShell
14 2 (1.000%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 106 (53.00%) Security Cleared
2 101 (50.50%) DV Cleared
3 12 (6.000%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (2.500%) MCP
4 5 (2.500%) Degree
5 4 (2.000%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.000%) MCAD
6 2 (1.000%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.000%) QA
2 7 (3.500%) Basel II
3 2 (1.000%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (1.000%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.500%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (1.000%) SCOM
2 1 (0.500%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 63 (31.50%) Oracle
2 38 (19.00%) JBoss
3 22 (11.00%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.500%) Business Objects
5 5 (2.500%) Perforce
6 4 (2.000%) Hyperion
7 3 (1.500%) Palantir
7 3 (1.500%) Adobe
8 2 (1.000%) DataFlux
8 2 (1.000%) Google
8 2 (1.000%) Green Hills
9 1 (0.500%) Embarcadero
9 1 (0.500%) Borland
9 1 (0.500%) Teradata
9 1 (0.500%) Serena
9 1 (0.500%) Zend
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