The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Kent 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 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 Kent 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
Developer
Rank 1 3 4
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 81 55 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 26.47% 20.75% 16.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 28.52% 22.73% 17.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 27 32
Average daily rate £300 £300 £300
90% offered a daily rate of more than £222 £231 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £415 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £10.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -8.57%
All Job Titles
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
284 242 309
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 92.81% 91.32% 96.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 118 174
Average daily rate £300 £300 £300
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £138 £169
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 24 23
Average hourly rate £16.00 £15.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% +3.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £13.50 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £74.25 £27.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Developer
South East

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent 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 Kent region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Kent 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
Maidstone 0 11 £295 +1.72%
Tunbridge Wells -2 4 £325 -
Faversham - 2 £463 -
Tonbridge -2 1 £475 +50.79%
Dartford - 1 £288 -
West Malling - 1 £350 -
Developer
South East

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 44 (31.88%) .NET
2 43 (31.16%) C#
2 43 (31.16%) JavaScript
3 38 (27.54%) SQL Server
4 37 (26.81%) SQL
5 26 (18.84%) CSS
5 26 (18.84%) SharePoint
6 21 (15.22%) ASP.NET
6 21 (15.22%) HTML
7 20 (14.49%) Java
7 20 (14.49%) Microsoft
7 20 (14.49%) Windows
7 20 (14.49%) SharePoint 2010
8 18 (13.04%) XML
9 17 (12.32%) Finance
10 16 (11.59%) Web Services
11 14 (10.14%) MVC
12 13 (9.420%) Oracle
12 13 (9.420%) Ruby
12 13 (9.420%) Web Development
13 12 (8.696%) Dynamics CRM
13 12 (8.696%) Ruby on Rails
13 12 (8.696%) Security Cleared
13 12 (8.696%) T-SQL
13 12 (8.696%) PHP
13 12 (8.696%) OO
13 12 (8.696%) CRM
14 11 (7.971%) jQuery
14 11 (7.971%) HTML5
14 11 (7.971%) Banking

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 44 (31.88%) .NET
2 26 (18.84%) CSS
3 21 (15.22%) HTML
3 21 (15.22%) ASP.NET
4 18 (13.04%) XML
5 16 (11.59%) Web Services
6 12 (8.696%) Ruby on Rails
7 11 (7.971%) jQuery
7 11 (7.971%) HTML5
8 9 (6.522%) WCF
9 7 (5.072%) Silverlight
9 7 (5.072%) Backbone.js
9 7 (5.072%) KnockoutJS
9 7 (5.072%) AngularJS
9 7 (5.072%) .NET Framework
9 7 (5.072%) JSON
10 6 (4.348%) XHTML
11 5 (3.623%) Spring
11 5 (3.623%) Ajax
12 4 (2.899%) Dojo
Application Platforms
1 26 (18.84%) SharePoint
2 20 (14.49%) SharePoint 2010
3 8 (5.797%) IIS
4 5 (3.623%) ArcGIS
4 5 (3.623%) ArcIMS
5 4 (2.899%) BizTalk Server
5 4 (2.899%) Windows Azure
6 2 (1.449%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.449%) CMS
6 2 (1.449%) Drupal
7 1 (0.725%) Confluence
7 1 (0.725%) CM System
7 1 (0.725%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 6 (4.348%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.449%) MS Office
2 2 (1.449%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.725%) PowerPivot
3 1 (0.725%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.725%) Fireworks
3 1 (0.725%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (8.696%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.725%) Front Arena
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.072%) Intranet
2 1 (0.725%) SMTP
2 1 (0.725%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (27.54%) SQL Server
2 10 (7.246%) SQL Server 2008
3 8 (5.797%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 8 (5.797%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 8 (5.797%) MySQL
4 6 (4.348%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.348%) Redis
4 6 (4.348%) Big Data
5 5 (3.623%) Oracle 11g
5 5 (3.623%) GIS
5 5 (3.623%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (3.623%) SQL Server 2005
6 3 (2.174%) Crystal Reports
6 3 (2.174%) DataStage
7 2 (1.449%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.725%) MS Access
8 1 (0.725%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.725%) JasperReports
8 1 (0.725%) SQL Server 2012
8 1 (0.725%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 10 (7.246%) Visual Studio
2 5 (3.623%) JUnit
3 4 (2.899%) Subversion
4 3 (2.174%) JIRA
4 3 (2.174%) Git (software)
5 2 (1.449%) Ant
6 1 (0.725%) JBehave
6 1 (0.725%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.725%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.725%) Mockito
6 1 (0.725%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.725%) Wise Package Studio
6 1 (0.725%) Hudson
6 1 (0.725%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.725%) Selenium
6 1 (0.725%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.725%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.725%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.725%) Dreamweaver
6 1 (0.725%) PowerBuilder
General
1 17 (12.32%) Finance
2 11 (7.971%) Banking
3 10 (7.246%) Games
4 8 (5.797%) Legal
5 7 (5.072%) Front Office
5 7 (5.072%) Investment Banking
6 5 (3.623%) Local Government
6 5 (3.623%) Publishing
7 2 (1.449%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.449%) Marketing
8 1 (0.725%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.072%) Management Information System
2 4 (2.899%) Mobile Games
2 4 (2.899%) Taxonomies
3 3 (2.174%) NHS
3 3 (2.174%) W3C
3 3 (2.174%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.174%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.725%) Blackberry
4 1 (0.725%) Informatics
4 1 (0.725%) Data Integration
4 1 (0.725%) Open Source
4 1 (0.725%) Replication
4 1 (0.725%) Clustering
4 1 (0.725%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.49%) Windows
2 5 (3.623%) UNIX
3 4 (2.899%) Android
3 4 (2.899%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (1.449%) Linux
4 2 (1.449%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.725%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (10.14%) MVC
2 13 (9.420%) Web Development
3 12 (8.696%) OO
3 12 (8.696%) CRM
4 10 (7.246%) Migration
4 10 (7.246%) Unit Testing
5 9 (6.522%) Service Delivery
5 9 (6.522%) ETL
6 7 (5.072%) Agile Software Development
6 7 (5.072%) Data Migration
7 6 (4.348%) Metaprogramming
7 6 (4.348%) Web Application Development
7 6 (4.348%) Workflow
7 6 (4.348%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (4.348%) Time Management
8 5 (3.623%) Systems Analysis
8 5 (3.623%) TDD
8 5 (3.623%) Scrum
9 4 (2.899%) OOP
10 3 (2.174%) UML
Programming Languages
1 43 (31.16%) C#
1 43 (31.16%) JavaScript
2 37 (26.81%) SQL
3 20 (14.49%) Java
4 13 (9.420%) Ruby
5 12 (8.696%) T-SQL
5 12 (8.696%) PHP
6 7 (5.072%) VB.NET
6 7 (5.072%) Python
7 6 (4.348%) Perl
8 3 (2.174%) VBA
9 2 (1.449%) VB
10 1 (0.725%) VBScript
10 1 (0.725%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.725%) XAML
10 1 (0.725%) IronPython
10 1 (0.725%) PHP5
10 1 (0.725%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.725%) Bourne shell
10 1 (0.725%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (8.696%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.797%) Degree
3 3 (2.174%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.449%) SCJA
4 2 (1.449%) SCJP
4 2 (1.449%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.725%) Sun Certification
5 1 (0.725%) MCP
5 1 (0.725%) MCSD
5 1 (0.725%) MCPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.522%) SLA
2 1 (0.725%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.725%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.725%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (14.49%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.420%) Oracle
3 4 (2.899%) ESRI
3 4 (2.899%) IBM
4 3 (2.174%) Zend
5 2 (1.449%) Adobe
6 1 (0.725%) Sun
6 1 (0.725%) webMethods
6 1 (0.725%) VMware
6 1 (0.725%) Google
6 1 (0.725%) Sybase
6 1 (0.725%) SAP
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