The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Applications Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Hertfordshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Developer
Rank 60 66 61
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -5
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Developer 3 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.467% 0.207% 0.576%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.489% 0.220% 0.604%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £314 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
+4.50% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.75 £39.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-18.58% -8.23%
All Job Titles
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
613 911 828
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 95.33% 94.11% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 401 346
Average daily rate £400 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £250 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 87 106
Average hourly rate £17.47 £31.00 £16.20
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-43.64% +91.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.05 £11.00 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £40.00 £37.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Applications Developer
East of England

Applications Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire Applications Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Applications Developer Daily Rate Trend

Applications Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Applications Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Applications Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Developer within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Rickmansworth - 1 - -
Applications Developer
East of England

Applications Developer
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Applications 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 Applications Developer in their job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Android
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) XML
1 2 (50.00%) JBoss
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
1 2 (50.00%) Streaming Video
1 2 (50.00%) IPTV
2 1 (25.00%) WCF
2 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (25.00%) Subversion
2 1 (25.00%) 3G
2 1 (25.00%) Symantec
2 1 (25.00%) VB
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (25.00%) MVC

Applications Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Applications 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 Applications Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) WCF
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) 3G
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Streaming Video
1 2 (50.00%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) MVC
1 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) VB
2 1 (25.00%) C#
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) JBoss
2 1 (25.00%) Symantec