The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Knutsford 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 Knutsford 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 17 12 22
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 5 4 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Knutsford 5.102% 5.405% 2.532%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.556% 6.452% 2.837%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 4
Average daily rate £160 £350 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-54.28% +18.64%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £30.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -8.57%
All Job Titles
Knutsford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
90 62 141
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Knutsford 91.84% 83.78% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 39 121
Average daily rate £375 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £275 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £30.00 - £87.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Developer
Cheshire

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Knutsford 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 Knutsford region.

Knutsford 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 Knutsford region.

Knutsford Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Knutsford 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 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) C#
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) .NET
2 4 (30.77%) Visual Studio
2 4 (30.77%) ASP.NET
3 3 (23.08%) Web Services
3 3 (23.08%) XML
3 3 (23.08%) C++
3 3 (23.08%) Windows
3 3 (23.08%) Unit Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (15.38%) Sculptor
4 2 (15.38%) XPath
4 2 (15.38%) JIRA
4 2 (15.38%) LINQ
4 2 (15.38%) jQuery
4 2 (15.38%) WebSpeed
4 2 (15.38%) Banking
4 2 (15.38%) JCL
4 2 (15.38%) Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Scrum
4 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 2 (15.38%) PVCS
4 2 (15.38%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 2 (15.38%) XSLT
4 2 (15.38%) CSS
4 2 (15.38%) OpenEdge
4 2 (15.38%) Progress 4GL
4 2 (15.38%) Progress

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Knutsford 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 4 (30.77%) .NET
1 4 (30.77%) ASP.NET
2 3 (23.08%) Web Services
2 3 (23.08%) XML
3 2 (15.38%) XSLT
3 2 (15.38%) CSS
3 2 (15.38%) LINQ
3 2 (15.38%) jQuery
4 1 (7.692%) ASP
4 1 (7.692%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) DB2
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Visual Studio
2 2 (15.38%) PVCS
2 2 (15.38%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 2 (15.38%) WebSpeed
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.692%) Blackberry
1 1 (7.692%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Unit Testing
2 2 (15.38%) Migration
2 2 (15.38%) Scrum
3 1 (7.692%) Web Development
3 1 (7.692%) ETL
3 1 (7.692%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
1 4 (30.77%) C#
2 3 (23.08%) C++
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) Progress 4GL
3 2 (15.38%) JCL
3 2 (15.38%) XPath
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Progress
1 2 (15.38%) Sculptor
2 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
Knutsford, Cheshire
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Posted: 14 May 2013