Hampshire Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts within the Hampshire 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 Aldershot Altrincham Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexhill-On-Sea Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater 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 Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Filton Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Greenhithe Greenwich Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston 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 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 Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	2	1
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	386	674
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.515 %	0.682 %
As % of the category below	19.25 %	24.38 %
Daily rates quoted	69	166
Average minimum daily rate	£329	£291
Average daily rate	£349	£316
% change on same period last year	+10.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£368	£341
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£332
% change on same period last year	-0.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	64	98
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.68	£33.34
Average hourly rate	£34.31	£35.36
% change on same period last year	-2.97 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.94	£37.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.12	£33.31
% change on same period last year	-3.57 %
Job Titles Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	2005	2764
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.673 %	2.796 %
Daily rates quoted	461	703
Average minimum daily rate	£348	£339
Average daily rate	£370	£360
% change on same period last year	+2.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£382
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	380	529
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.90	£29.41
Average hourly rate	£26.56	£31.01
% change on same period last year	-14.35 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.21	£32.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Developer South East

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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire 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
Basingstoke	-3	56	£305	-15.65 %
Southampton	0	45	£289	-6.12 %
Portsmouth	+3	29	-	-
Gosport	-	21	£375	-
Farnborough	+4	11	£376	+2.02 %
Andover	+8	7	£225	-
Fareham	-4	4	£333	+7.83 %
Eastleigh	-2	4	-	-
Winchester	-8	2	£355	+10.01 %
Havant	-2	2	-	-
Aldershot	+3	1	-	-

Developer South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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.

1 339 (40.36 %) .NET 2 254 (30.24 %) C# 3 212 (25.24 %) SQL 4 187 (22.26 %) ASP.NET 5 186 (22.14 %) Java 6 179 (21.31 %) SQL Server 7 140 (16.67 %) Oracle 8 136 (16.19 %) XML 9 100 (11.90 %) WebServices 10 94 (11.19 %) SQL Server 2005 11 92 (10.95 %) Security Cleared 12 89 (10.60 %) Windows 13 87 (10.36 %) UNIX 14 85 (10.12 %) CSS 15 83 (9.881 %) J2EE

16 76 (9.048 %) C++ 17 75 (8.929 %) JavaScript 17 75 (8.929 %) HTML 18 74 (8.810 %) Linux 19 73 (8.690 %) OO 20 72 (8.571 %) VB.NET 21 67 (7.976 %) WebSphere 22 64 (7.619 %) UML 23 63 (7.500 %) VB 24 59 (7.024 %) MySQL 25 58 (6.905 %) XHTML 26 54 (6.429 %) Oracle Reports 27 53 (6.310 %) SC Cleared 28 51 (6.071 %) SAP 29 50 (5.952 %) C

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 1 339 (40.36 %) .NET 2 187 (22.26 %) ASP.NET 3 136 (16.19 %) XML 4 100 (11.90 %) WebServices 5 85 (10.12 %) CSS 6 83 (9.881 %) J2EE 7 75 (8.929 %) HTML 8 67 (7.976 %) WebSphere 9 58 (6.905 %) XHTML 10 49 (5.833 %) ASP 11 40 (4.762 %) .NET Framework 12 39 (4.643 %) JDBC 13 38 (4.524 %) JSP 14 35 (4.167 %) AJAX 15 26 (3.095 %) Swing 16 25 (2.976 %) Hibernate 16 25 (2.976 %) Struts 17 24 (2.857 %) XSLT 18 22 (2.619 %) LAMP 18 22 (2.619 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 34 (4.048 %) SharePoint 2 30 (3.571 %) Apache 3 25 (2.976 %) WebSphere MQ 4 21 (2.500 %) WebLogic 5 18 (2.143 %) WebSphere Message Broker 6 14 (1.667 %) CMS 7 13 (1.548 %) WebSphere Application Server 7 13 (1.548 %) ColdFusion 8 12 (1.429 %) IIS 8 12 (1.429 %) ArcGIS 8 12 (1.429 %) Oracle Spatial 8 12 (1.429 %) BizTalk Server 8 12 (1.429 %) SharePoint Server 2007 9 11 (1.310 %) SAS 10 8 (0.952 %) MQSeries 11 7 (0.833 %) ATG Dynamo 12 6 (0.714 %) ArcSDE 12 6 (0.714 %) Tomcat 13 5 (0.595 %) NetWeaver 13 5 (0.595 %) WPS
Applications 1 22 (2.619 %) MS Excel 2 14 (1.667 %) Photoshop 2 14 (1.667 %) MS Office 3 7 (0.833 %) MS PowerPoint 4 6 (0.714 %) Quicktime 5 5 (0.595 %) MS Project 6 4 (0.476 %) MS Visio 6 4 (0.476 %) 3ds Max 7 3 (0.357 %) Adobe Illustrator 7 3 (0.357 %) FrameMaker 7 3 (0.357 %) InfoPath 7 3 (0.357 %) FreeHand 7 3 (0.357 %) Fireworks 8 2 (0.238 %) Acrobat 9 1 (0.119 %) S-PLUS 9 1 (0.119 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 7 (0.833 %) SAP CRM 2 4 (0.476 %) GraphTalk 2 4 (0.476 %) SAP HR 3 2 (0.238 %) Oracle EBS 4 1 (0.119 %) Staffware 4 1 (0.119 %) SAP FI 4 1 (0.119 %) SAP ERP 4 1 (0.119 %) Siebel Analytics 4 1 (0.119 %) SAP FI/CO 4 1 (0.119 %) SAP CO
Communications & Networking 1 23 (2.738 %) Internet 2 18 (2.143 %) Firewall 3 10 (1.190 %) Intranet 4 7 (0.833 %) TCP/IP 4 7 (0.833 %) SMTP 5 5 (0.595 %) Extranet 6 4 (0.476 %) Network Security 7 3 (0.357 %) IMAP 8 2 (0.238 %) FTP 8 2 (0.238 %) HTTP 8 2 (0.238 %) LDAP 9 1 (0.119 %) DECT 9 1 (0.119 %) GSM 9 1 (0.119 %) LAN 9 1 (0.119 %) UMTS 9 1 (0.119 %) WAN 9 1 (0.119 %) TELNET 9 1 (0.119 %) TETRA	Database & Business Intelligence 1 179 (21.31 %) SQL Server 2 94 (11.19 %) SQL Server 2005 3 59 (7.024 %) MySQL 4 54 (6.429 %) Oracle Reports 5 41 (4.881 %) BusinessObjects 6 26 (3.095 %) GIS 7 21 (2.500 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 20 (2.381 %) Crystal Reports 9 19 (2.262 %) DB2 10 18 (2.143 %) SQL Server 2000 11 15 (1.786 %) Oracle 10g 12 14 (1.667 %) Datawarehouse 13 12 (1.429 %) ETL 14 8 (0.952 %) RDBMS 15 7 (0.833 %) OLAP 15 7 (0.833 %) Oracle 8/8i 15 7 (0.833 %) Base SAS 16 6 (0.714 %) SQL Server Integration Services 16 6 (0.714 %) Oracle 9i 17 5 (0.595 %) InterBase
Development Applications 1 42 (5.000 %) Visual Studio 2 24 (2.857 %) Flash 3 19 (2.262 %) Eclipse 4 16 (1.905 %) JUnit 5 15 (1.786 %) Ant 6 11 (1.310 %) Subversion 7 10 (1.190 %) ClearCase 8 8 (0.952 %) ARTiSAN 9 7 (0.833 %) Oracle Forms 9 7 (0.833 %) NUnit 10 6 (0.714 %) CruiseControl 10 6 (0.714 %) ClearQuest 11 4 (0.476 %) MSI 11 4 (0.476 %) Dreamweaver 12 3 (0.357 %) JDeveloper 12 3 (0.357 %) Rational Rose 12 3 (0.357 %) FrontPage 13 2 (0.238 %) JBuilder 13 2 (0.238 %) TestDirector 13 2 (0.238 %) PowerBuilder	General 1 48 (5.714 %) Government 2 43 (5.119 %) Finance 3 40 (4.762 %) Telecoms 4 38 (4.524 %) Pensions 5 27 (3.214 %) Military 6 26 (3.095 %) Insurance 7 20 (2.381 %) Marketing 8 16 (1.905 %) Retail 8 16 (1.905 %) Back Office 9 14 (1.667 %) Multimedia 10 10 (1.190 %) Games 10 10 (1.190 %) Online Games 11 7 (0.833 %) Aerospace 12 6 (0.714 %) Billing 12 6 (0.714 %) Video Editing 13 5 (0.595 %) Banking 14 4 (0.476 %) Health 15 3 (0.357 %) Pharmaceutical 15 3 (0.357 %) Publishing 15 3 (0.357 %) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous 1 18 (2.143 %) Replication 1 18 (2.143 %) Clustering 2 9 (1.071 %) PDA 3 7 (0.833 %) Web 2.0 3 7 (0.833 %) E-Learning 4 6 (0.714 %) N-Tier 4 6 (0.714 %) MPEG 4 6 (0.714 %) Computer Science 5 5 (0.595 %) Data Integration 5 5 (0.595 %) W3C 6 4 (0.476 %) NHS 6 4 (0.476 %) Social Network 7 3 (0.357 %) French Language 7 3 (0.357 %) German Language 7 3 (0.357 %) Spanish Language 7 3 (0.357 %) Blog 7 3 (0.357 %) Management Information System 8 2 (0.238 %) Mainframe 8 2 (0.238 %) SCORM 8 2 (0.238 %) Pocket PC	Operating Systems 1 89 (10.60 %) Windows 2 87 (10.36 %) UNIX 3 74 (8.810 %) Linux 4 19 (2.262 %) Debian 5 18 (2.143 %) AIX 6 15 (1.786 %) Windows Mobile 7 14 (1.667 %) Mac OS X 8 12 (1.429 %) Solaris 9 10 (1.190 %) SUSE 10 6 (0.714 %) Windows XP 11 4 (0.476 %) Windows NT 12 2 (0.238 %) Windows CE 12 2 (0.238 %) Windows Server 2003 13 1 (0.119 %) Nucleus RTOS 13 1 (0.119 %) Windows 2000 13 1 (0.119 %) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies 1 92 (10.95 %) Security Cleared 2 73 (8.690 %) OO 3 64 (7.619 %) UML 4 53 (6.310 %) SC Cleared 5 43 (5.119 %) E-Commerce 6 30 (3.571 %) Unit Testing 7 28 (3.333 %) Web Development 8 27 (3.214 %) Migration 9 24 (2.857 %) Workflow 9 24 (2.857 %) OOD 10 22 (2.619 %) Configuration Management 11 18 (2.143 %) Business Intelligence 12 16 (1.905 %) Software Engineering 13 15 (1.786 %) SOA 13 15 (1.786 %) Quality Management 14 12 (1.429 %) Agile Software Development 14 12 (1.429 %) BC Cleared 15 11 (1.310 %) Content Management 15 11 (1.310 %) CRM 16 9 (1.071 %) QMS	Programming Languages 1 254 (30.24 %) C# 2 212 (25.24 %) SQL 3 186 (22.14 %) Java 4 76 (9.048 %) C++ 5 75 (8.929 %) JavaScript 6 72 (8.571 %) VB.NET 7 63 (7.500 %) VB 8 50 (5.952 %) C 9 43 (5.119 %) PHP 10 35 (4.167 %) VB6 11 32 (3.810 %) PL/SQL 12 25 (2.976 %) Shell Script 13 17 (2.024 %) VBScript 14 16 (1.905 %) Perl 15 13 (1.548 %) VC++ 15 13 (1.548 %) Ada 16 12 (1.429 %) ABAP 17 11 (1.310 %) ActionScript 17 11 (1.310 %) Delphi 18 10 (1.190 %) Transact-SQL
Qualifications 1 11 (1.310 %) Degree 2 3 (0.357 %) HNC 2 3 (0.357 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (0.357 %) SAP Certification 3 1 (0.119 %) Sun Certification 3 1 (0.119 %) CISM 3 1 (0.119 %) CIMA 3 1 (0.119 %) CISSP 3 1 (0.119 %) MCP 3 1 (0.119 %) MCAD 3 1 (0.119 %) MCSD	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (0.357 %) ISO27001 1 3 (0.357 %) WAI 1 3 (0.357 %) QA 2 2 (0.238 %) Basel II 2 2 (0.238 %) ISO9001 2 2 (0.238 %) SLA 3 1 (0.119 %) BS7799 3 1 (0.119 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 1 (0.119 %) TickIT
System Software 1 6 (0.714 %) Active Directory 2 1 (0.119 %) Samba 2 1 (0.119 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 9 (1.071 %) Tivoli
Vendors 1 140 (16.67 %) Oracle 2 51 (6.071 %) SAP 3 46 (5.476 %) Microsoft 4 41 (4.881 %) Business Objects 5 21 (2.500 %) IBM 6 12 (1.429 %) ESRI 7 9 (1.071 %) Adobe 8 8 (0.952 %) ATG 9 7 (0.833 %) Tridion 10 5 (0.595 %) Google 10 5 (0.595 %) Lotus 11 4 (0.476 %) Sun 11 4 (0.476 %) Cisco 12 3 (0.357 %) Siebel 12 3 (0.357 %) Intel 12 3 (0.357 %) Genesys 12 3 (0.357 %) MKS 12 3 (0.357 %) Yahoo! 13 2 (0.238 %) Cramer 13 2 (0.238 %) Red Hat