The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the High Wycombe 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 19 June 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 High Wycombe 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Developer
Rank 3 1 7
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 18 16 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in High Wycombe 38.30% 32.65% 5.660%
As % of the Job Titles category 40.91% 33.33% 6.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 2
Average daily rate £288 £313 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.00% -10.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £330
10% offered a daily rate of more than £321 £425 £370
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
High Wycombe
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
44 48 50
As % of all contract IT jobs located in High Wycombe 93.62% 97.96% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 20 19
Average daily rate £290 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £150 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £373 £425 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 17
Average hourly rate £11.50 £18.50 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-37.83% +37.03%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £11.40 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.95 £45.00 £59.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Developer
Buckinghamshire

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

High Wycombe 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 High Wycombe region.

High Wycombe 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 High Wycombe region.

High Wycombe Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the High Wycombe 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 17 (73.91%) .NET
1 17 (73.91%) jQuery
2 16 (69.57%) C#
2 16 (69.57%) HTML
3 14 (60.87%) ASP.NET
4 12 (52.17%) CSS
4 12 (52.17%) JavaScript
5 10 (43.48%) Web Services
6 8 (34.78%) LINQ
6 8 (34.78%) MVC
6 8 (34.78%) SQL Server
7 7 (30.43%) JSON
7 7 (30.43%) REST
8 6 (26.09%) .NET Framework
9 5 (21.74%) Web Development
10 3 (13.04%) Marketing
10 3 (13.04%) Degree
10 3 (13.04%) OO
10 3 (13.04%) PHP
10 3 (13.04%) XML
11 2 (8.696%) JSP
11 2 (8.696%) ActionScript
11 2 (8.696%) Linux
11 2 (8.696%) Java
11 2 (8.696%) Photoshop
11 2 (8.696%) MySQL
11 2 (8.696%) Flash
11 2 (8.696%) XHTML
11 2 (8.696%) E-Commerce
11 2 (8.696%) Dreamweaver

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the High Wycombe 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 17 (73.91%) .NET
1 17 (73.91%) jQuery
2 16 (69.57%) HTML
3 14 (60.87%) ASP.NET
4 12 (52.17%) CSS
5 10 (43.48%) Web Services
6 8 (34.78%) LINQ
7 7 (30.43%) JSON
7 7 (30.43%) REST
8 6 (26.09%) .NET Framework
9 3 (13.04%) XML
10 2 (8.696%) JSP
10 2 (8.696%) Flash
10 2 (8.696%) XHTML
10 2 (8.696%) CakePHP
10 2 (8.696%) JSTL
10 2 (8.696%) WPF
11 1 (4.348%) MooTools
11 1 (4.348%) Smarty
11 1 (4.348%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.348%) TYPO3
1 1 (4.348%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (8.696%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.696%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (8.696%) Dreamweaver
1 2 (8.696%) Git (software)
2 1 (4.348%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (4.348%) Subversion
General
1 3 (13.04%) Marketing
2 2 (8.696%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.696%) W3C
1 2 (8.696%) Web 2.0
2 1 (4.348%) iPhone
2 1 (4.348%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (4.348%) SaaS
2 1 (4.348%) Social Media
2 1 (4.348%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.696%) Linux
2 1 (4.348%) Android
2 1 (4.348%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.348%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) MVC
2 5 (21.74%) Web Development
3 3 (13.04%) OO
4 2 (8.696%) E-Commerce
4 2 (8.696%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (8.696%) Integration Testing
5 1 (4.348%) Manual Testing
5 1 (4.348%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (4.348%) Scrum
5 1 (4.348%) TDD
5 1 (4.348%) Automated Testing
5 1 (4.348%) Software Engineering
5 1 (4.348%) Software Testing
5 1 (4.348%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (69.57%) C#
2 12 (52.17%) JavaScript
3 3 (13.04%) PHP
4 2 (8.696%) ActionScript
4 2 (8.696%) Java
5 1 (4.348%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (8.696%) Zend
2 1 (4.348%) MKS
2 1 (4.348%) Oracle
2 1 (4.348%) Twitter
2 1 (4.348%) Xamarin