The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Hounslow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Senior 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 Hounslow 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
Senior Developer
Rank 14 14 12
Rank change year-on-year
0 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 5 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 8.475% 2.500% 1.515%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.621% 2.667% 1.887%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
Average daily rate £450 £425 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.88% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £350 £351
% change year-on-year
+4.28% -0.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -17.64%
All Job Titles
Hounslow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
58 75 53
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 98.31% 93.75% 80.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 42 35
Average daily rate £450 £340 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+32.35% +4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £326 £150 £201
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £408
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
Average hourly rate £20.00 £10.50 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+90.47% -77.89%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior Developer
London

Senior Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hounslow Senior Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hounslow Senior Developer Daily Rate Trend

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Developer across the Hounslow region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Hounslow Senior Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Senior Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow region that cited Senior 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 Senior Developer in their job title.

1 7 (77.78%) TDD
2 6 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (55.56%) HTML5
3 5 (55.56%) Pair Programming
3 5 (55.56%) HTML
3 5 (55.56%) Java
3 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
3 5 (55.56%) CSS
4 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (44.44%) QA
5 3 (33.33%) Ruby
5 3 (33.33%) Release Management
5 3 (33.33%) Open Source
5 3 (33.33%) BDD
5 3 (33.33%) CSS3
5 3 (33.33%) Linux
5 3 (33.33%) OO
5 3 (33.33%) STB
5 3 (33.33%) Scrum
6 2 (22.22%) HTTPS
6 2 (22.22%) CMS
6 2 (22.22%) Games
6 2 (22.22%) Python
6 2 (22.22%) OOP
6 2 (22.22%) XML
6 2 (22.22%) DOM
6 2 (22.22%) Video on Demand
6 2 (22.22%) Mockito
6 2 (22.22%) jQuery
6 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting

Senior Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow region that cited Senior 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 Senior Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (55.56%) HTML5
1 5 (55.56%) HTML
1 5 (55.56%) CSS
2 3 (33.33%) CSS3
3 2 (22.22%) XML
3 2 (22.22%) DOM
3 2 (22.22%) jQuery
3 2 (22.22%) Ajax
3 2 (22.22%) Grails
3 2 (22.22%) Spring
4 1 (11.11%) Java EE
4 1 (11.11%) JSON
4 1 (11.11%) RESTful
4 1 (11.11%) FFmpeg
4 1 (11.11%) Spring Integration
4 1 (11.11%) XSLT
4 1 (11.11%) Web Services
4 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) CMS
2 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
2 1 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) HTTPS
2 1 (11.11%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Mockito
2 1 (11.11%) Maven
2 1 (11.11%) Gradle
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Ant
2 1 (11.11%) JUnit
General
1 2 (22.22%) Games
2 1 (11.11%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Open Source
1 3 (33.33%) STB
2 2 (22.22%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (11.11%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) TDD
2 6 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (55.56%) Pair Programming
4 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (33.33%) Release Management
5 3 (33.33%) BDD
5 3 (33.33%) OO
5 3 (33.33%) Scrum
6 2 (22.22%) OOP
6 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
6 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (22.22%) Product Management
6 2 (22.22%) Content Management
7 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
7 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
7 1 (11.11%) Multithreading
7 1 (11.11%) Kanban
7 1 (11.11%) Build Automation
7 1 (11.11%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Java
1 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 3 (33.33%) Ruby
3 2 (22.22%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) Groovy
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
1 1 (11.11%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) QA