The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Home Counties 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 18 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 Home Counties 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Developer
Rank 1 5 2
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 10 4 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Home Counties 31.25% 11.43% 28.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 31.25% 11.76% 29.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Average daily rate £310 - -
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 £35.25
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.63%
All Job Titles
Home Counties
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
32 34 61
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Home Counties 100.00% 97.14% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 8
Average daily rate £400 £463 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.51% +54.16%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
Average hourly rate £22.50 - £28.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Developer
South East

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Home Counties 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 Home Counties region.

Home Counties Developer Daily Rate Trend

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Developer across the Home Counties region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Home Counties Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Home Counties Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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 4 (36.36%) COBOL
1 4 (36.36%) Mainframe
1 4 (36.36%) AS400
1 4 (36.36%) iSeries
2 3 (27.27%) Zend
2 3 (27.27%) MVC
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (27.27%) .NET
2 3 (27.27%) PHP
2 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
3 2 (18.18%) Business Objects
3 2 (18.18%) CSS
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) T-SQL
3 2 (18.18%) HTML
3 2 (18.18%) MySQL
3 2 (18.18%) Linux
3 2 (18.18%) E-Commerce
3 2 (18.18%) ETL
3 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (18.18%) Subversion
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (18.18%) Symfony
3 2 (18.18%) CakePHP
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (9.091%) AutoMapper
4 1 (9.091%) jQuery
4 1 (9.091%) Magento

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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 3 (27.27%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) CSS
2 2 (18.18%) CakePHP
2 2 (18.18%) Symfony
2 2 (18.18%) HTML
3 1 (9.091%) Zend Framework
3 1 (9.091%) jQuery
3 1 (9.091%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (9.091%) AutoMapper
3 1 (9.091%) SOAP
3 1 (9.091%) LAMP
3 1 (9.091%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) Magento
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (18.18%) MySQL
3 1 (9.091%) JasperReports
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Subversion
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 1 (9.091%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Mainframe
1 4 (36.36%) AS400
1 4 (36.36%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) MVC
1 3 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (18.18%) E-Commerce
2 2 (18.18%) ETL
2 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (9.091%) OOP
3 1 (9.091%) OO
3 1 (9.091%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) COBOL
2 3 (27.27%) PHP
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) T-SQL
4 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.091%) C#
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Zend
2 2 (18.18%) Business Objects