Gloucestershire Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts within the Gloucestershire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Alderley Edge Altrincham Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Carlisle Carrickfergus Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleckheaton Colchester Conwy Corby County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Greenhithe Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Hornchurch Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Loughborough Louth Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Rotherham Runcorn Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Strathclyde Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	6	9
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	78	65
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.104 %	0.066 %
As % of the category below	15.20 %	11.69 %
Daily rates quoted	11	13
Average minimum daily rate	£252	£344
Average daily rate	£276	£364
% change on same period last year	-24.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£383
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£332
% change on same period last year	-0.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.00	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£33.14	£20.36
% change on same period last year	+62.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.29	£20.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.12	£33.31
% change on same period last year	-3.57 %
Job Titles Gloucestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	513	556
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.684 %	0.563 %
Daily rates quoted	168	158
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£348
Average daily rate	£351	£362
% change on same period last year	-2.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£365	£376
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	63	94
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.77	£21.00
Average hourly rate	£24.69	£21.85
% change on same period last year	+13.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.62	£22.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Developer South West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Developer across the Gloucestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Developer across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Developer across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section 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 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Gloucester	+4	21	£250	-54.54 %
Cheltenham	+8	16	£250	-21.87 %
Tewkesbury	-	1	£170	-
Cirencester	-	1	£160	-
Moreton-in-Marsh	-	1	-	-
Filton	-	1	-	-

Developer South West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 73 (44.79 %) .NET 2 56 (34.36 %) SQL Server 3 50 (30.67 %) SQL 4 48 (29.45 %) Security Cleared 5 42 (25.77 %) Java 6 40 (24.54 %) C# 7 36 (22.09 %) DV Cleared 8 34 (20.86 %) ASP.NET 9 32 (19.63 %) J2EE 10 30 (18.40 %) Oracle 10 30 (18.40 %) RUP 11 29 (17.79 %) XML 11 29 (17.79 %) Sun Certification 12 28 (17.18 %) Sun 13 27 (16.56 %) OO

14 23 (14.11 %) SQL Server 2005 15 19 (11.66 %) VB 15 19 (11.66 %) HTML 15 19 (11.66 %) ClearCase 15 19 (11.66 %) Configuration Management 15 19 (11.66 %) Unified Process 15 19 (11.66 %) Finance 16 16 (9.816 %) SQL Server 2000 17 15 (9.202 %) C 17 15 (9.202 %) JavaScript 17 15 (9.202 %) VB.NET 17 15 (9.202 %) EJB 18 14 (8.589 %) SC Cleared 19 13 (7.975 %) PL/SQL 20 12 (7.362 %) Microsoft

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 73 (44.79 %) .NET 2 34 (20.86 %) ASP.NET 3 32 (19.63 %) J2EE 4 29 (17.79 %) XML 5 19 (11.66 %) HTML 6 15 (9.202 %) EJB 7 11 (6.748 %) CSS 7 11 (6.748 %) ASP 8 10 (6.135 %) XHTML 8 10 (6.135 %) WebSphere 9 9 (5.521 %) WebServices 9 9 (5.521 %) Java EE 5 9 9 (5.521 %) JMS 9 9 (5.521 %) SOAP 10 8 (4.908 %) .NET Framework 11 7 (4.294 %) AJAX 12 6 (3.681 %) Java EE 12 6 (3.681 %) Silverlight 13 4 (2.454 %) XSLT 14 3 (1.840 %) WPF	Application Platforms 1 12 (7.362 %) WebLogic 2 11 (6.748 %) JBoss 3 9 (5.521 %) Oracle Application Server 3 9 (5.521 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 8 (4.908 %) BizTalk Server 5 7 (4.294 %) SharePoint 6 5 (3.067 %) Apache 7 2 (1.227 %) CMS 8 1 (0.613 %) Oracle Workflow 8 1 (0.613 %) ColdFusion 8 1 (0.613 %) Tomcat 8 1 (0.613 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 2 (1.227 %) MS Excel 1 2 (1.227 %) InfoPath 2 1 (0.613 %) Photoshop 2 1 (0.613 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 5 (3.067 %) Axapta 2 3 (1.840 %) Dynamics AX 3 1 (0.613 %) SAP QM
Communications & Networking 1 4 (2.454 %) Internet 2 2 (1.227 %) Intranet 3 1 (0.613 %) SMS 3 1 (0.613 %) SMTP 3 1 (0.613 %) FTP 3 1 (0.613 %) HTTP 3 1 (0.613 %) DNS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 56 (34.36 %) SQL Server 2 23 (14.11 %) SQL Server 2005 3 16 (9.816 %) SQL Server 2000 4 9 (5.521 %) Oracle 10g 5 8 (4.908 %) Oracle 9i 6 4 (2.454 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 3 (1.840 %) Crystal Reports 7 3 (1.840 %) MS Access 8 2 (1.227 %) ETL 8 2 (1.227 %) SQL Server 7 9 1 (0.613 %) SQLPlus 9 1 (0.613 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 1 (0.613 %) RDBMS 9 1 (0.613 %) Oracle Reports 9 1 (0.613 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 19 (11.66 %) ClearCase 2 5 (3.067 %) Visual Studio 3 3 (1.840 %) Flash 4 2 (1.227 %) Visual Studio Team System 5 1 (0.613 %) Oracle Forms 5 1 (0.613 %) Eclipse 5 1 (0.613 %) JDeveloper	General 1 19 (11.66 %) Finance 2 7 (4.294 %) Government 3 3 (1.840 %) Telecoms 3 3 (1.840 %) Marketing 4 2 (1.227 %) Construction 4 2 (1.227 %) Insurance 5 1 (0.613 %) Pensions 5 1 (0.613 %) Law 5 1 (0.613 %) Multimedia 5 1 (0.613 %) Billing
Miscellaneous 1 3 (1.840 %) Management Information System 2 2 (1.227 %) Client/Server 3 1 (0.613 %) N-Tier 3 1 (0.613 %) W3C 3 1 (0.613 %) Firmware 3 1 (0.613 %) Handset 3 1 (0.613 %) E-Learning 3 1 (0.613 %) Human Factors 3 1 (0.613 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 7 (4.294 %) Windows 2 2 (1.227 %) Linux 2 2 (1.227 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 48 (29.45 %) Security Cleared 2 36 (22.09 %) DV Cleared 3 30 (18.40 %) RUP 4 27 (16.56 %) OO 5 19 (11.66 %) Configuration Management 5 19 (11.66 %) Unified Process 6 14 (8.589 %) SC Cleared 7 12 (7.362 %) UML 8 7 (4.294 %) Workflow 9 5 (3.067 %) Migration 9 5 (3.067 %) ERP 10 4 (2.454 %) Risk Management 10 4 (2.454 %) Integration Testing 11 3 (1.840 %) SOA 11 3 (1.840 %) Change Management 11 3 (1.840 %) CRM 11 3 (1.840 %) Project Management 12 2 (1.227 %) Quality Management 12 2 (1.227 %) Service Delivery 12 2 (1.227 %) QMS	Programming Languages 1 50 (30.67 %) SQL 2 42 (25.77 %) Java 3 40 (24.54 %) C# 4 19 (11.66 %) VB 5 15 (9.202 %) VB.NET 5 15 (9.202 %) JavaScript 5 15 (9.202 %) C 6 13 (7.975 %) PL/SQL 7 11 (6.748 %) VB6 8 9 (5.521 %) PHP 9 7 (4.294 %) C++ 10 5 (3.067 %) X++ 11 4 (2.454 %) PHP5 11 4 (2.454 %) Delphi 11 4 (2.454 %) DHTML 12 3 (1.840 %) COBOL 12 3 (1.840 %) Transact-SQL 12 3 (1.840 %) VBA 13 2 (1.227 %) Shell Script 13 2 (1.227 %) PHP4
Qualifications 1 29 (17.79 %) Sun Certification 2 6 (3.681 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.227 %) QA
System Software 1 3 (1.840 %) Active Directory 2 2 (1.227 %) Oracle RAC	Vendors 1 30 (18.40 %) Oracle 2 28 (17.18 %) Sun 3 12 (7.362 %) Microsoft 4 11 (6.748 %) BEA 5 9 (5.521 %) IBM 6 3 (1.840 %) Northgate 6 3 (1.840 %) SAP 7 2 (1.227 %) JD Edwards 7 2 (1.227 %) Remedy 7 2 (1.227 %) Zend 8 1 (0.613 %) Avaya 8 1 (0.613 %) Primavera 8 1 (0.613 %) Cisco 8 1 (0.613 %) Adobe