The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Harrogate 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 22 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 Harrogate 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Developer
Rank 1 7 11
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 9 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Harrogate 45.00% 9.091% 10.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 45.00% 9.524% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 5
Average daily rate - £231 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.82%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
All Job Titles
Harrogate
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20 21 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Harrogate 100.00% 95.45% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 26
Average daily rate £288 £425 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-32.35% +13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £213 £209
10% offered a daily rate of more than £338 £473 £434
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £23.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Developer
North Yorkshire

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Harrogate 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 Harrogate region.

Harrogate Developer Daily Rate Trend

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Harrogate Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Harrogate 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 7 (63.64%) SQL
2 5 (45.45%) .NET
2 5 (45.45%) ASP.NET
3 4 (36.36%) C#
3 4 (36.36%) .NET Framework
3 4 (36.36%) jQuery
4 3 (27.27%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 3 (27.27%) PL/SQL
4 3 (27.27%) Oracle 9i
4 3 (27.27%) Oracle 10g
4 3 (27.27%) Oracle
4 3 (27.27%) MVC
5 2 (18.18%) HTML
5 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 2 (18.18%) PHP
5 2 (18.18%) MySQL
5 2 (18.18%) CSS
5 2 (18.18%) Scrum
5 2 (18.18%) Content Management
5 2 (18.18%) WCF
6 1 (9.091%) WPF
6 1 (9.091%) Silverlight
6 1 (9.091%) Release Management
6 1 (9.091%) Digital Media
6 1 (9.091%) New Media
6 1 (9.091%) Mobile App
6 1 (9.091%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (9.091%) MooTools
6 1 (9.091%) WordPress
6 1 (9.091%) Test Automation

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Harrogate 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 5 (45.45%) .NET
1 5 (45.45%) ASP.NET
2 4 (36.36%) .NET Framework
2 4 (36.36%) jQuery
3 3 (27.27%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 2 (18.18%) HTML
4 2 (18.18%) CSS
4 2 (18.18%) WCF
5 1 (9.091%) WPF
5 1 (9.091%) Silverlight
5 1 (9.091%) MooTools
5 1 (9.091%) Ajax
5 1 (9.091%) XML
5 1 (9.091%) XSLT
5 1 (9.091%) DHTML
5 1 (9.091%) LAMP
5 1 (9.091%) Flash
5 1 (9.091%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) WordPress
1 1 (9.091%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle 9i
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (18.18%) MySQL
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1 (9.091%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Digital Media
1 1 (9.091%) New Media
1 1 (9.091%) Mobile App
1 1 (9.091%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.091%) Windows
1 1 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) MVC
2 2 (18.18%) Scrum
2 2 (18.18%) Content Management
3 1 (9.091%) Release Management
3 1 (9.091%) Test Automation
3 1 (9.091%) Waterfall
3 1 (9.091%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (9.091%) TDD
3 1 (9.091%) Extreme Programming
3 1 (9.091%) OO
3 1 (9.091%) SEO
3 1 (9.091%) Migration
3 1 (9.091%) Project Management
3 1 (9.091%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) C#
3 3 (27.27%) PL/SQL
4 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 2 (18.18%) PHP
5 1 (9.091%) VB.NET
5 1 (9.091%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle
2 1 (9.091%) Microsoft