Leeds Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts within the Leeds region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Alderley Edge Aldershot Altrincham Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexhill-On-Sea Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Carlisle Carrickfergus Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleckheaton Colchester Conwy Corby County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Filton Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Greenhithe Greenwich Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Louth Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Rotherham Runcorn Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Strathclyde Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	1	1
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	308	286
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.411 %	0.289 %
As % of the category below	27.07 %	28.34 %
Daily rates quoted	71	33
Average minimum daily rate	£272	£314
Average daily rate	£288	£340
% change on same period last year	-15.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£304	£365
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£332
% change on same period last year	-0.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.88	£24.54
Average hourly rate	£29.47	£26.25
% change on same period last year	+12.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.06	£27.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.12	£33.31
% change on same period last year	-3.57 %
Job Titles Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	1138	1009
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.517 %	1.021 %
Daily rates quoted	292	194
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£312
Average daily rate	£344	£332
% change on same period last year	+3.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£352
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	54	74
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.29	£22.09
Average hourly rate	£24.13	£23.54
% change on same period last year	+2.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.97	£24.99
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Developer West Yorkshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Developer across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Developer across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Developer across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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.

1 313 (53.32 %) .NET 2 218 (37.14 %) C# 3 213 (36.29 %) SQL Server 4 196 (33.39 %) ASP.NET 5 152 (25.89 %) SQL 6 127 (21.64 %) XML 7 115 (19.59 %) Oracle 8 106 (18.06 %) SQL Server 2005 9 101 (17.21 %) Java 10 100 (17.04 %) HTML 11 90 (15.33 %) Finance 12 89 (15.16 %) CSS 13 75 (12.78 %) Microsoft 14 64 (10.90 %) WebServices 14 64 (10.90 %) JavaScript

15 61 (10.39 %) Windows 16 57 (9.710 %) VB.NET 17 52 (8.859 %) ASP.NET 2.0 18 51 (8.688 %) Visual Studio 18 51 (8.688 %) SharePoint 19 50 (8.518 %) J2EE 20 49 (8.348 %) VB 21 47 (8.007 %) Agile Software Development 22 46 (7.836 %) SQL Server 2000 23 37 (6.303 %) Health 23 37 (6.303 %) E-Commerce 24 36 (6.133 %) SQL Server Integration Services 24 36 (6.133 %) ASP 25 35 (5.963 %) Oracle 8/8i 26 34 (5.792 %) SQL Server 7

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 1 313 (53.32 %) .NET 2 196 (33.39 %) ASP.NET 3 127 (21.64 %) XML 4 100 (17.04 %) HTML 5 89 (15.16 %) CSS 6 64 (10.90 %) WebServices 7 52 (8.859 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 50 (8.518 %) J2EE 9 36 (6.133 %) ASP 10 32 (5.451 %) Hibernate 11 31 (5.281 %) XHTML 12 28 (4.770 %) .NET Framework 13 27 (4.600 %) Spring 13 27 (4.600 %) JSP 14 24 (4.089 %) WebSphere 15 21 (3.578 %) AJAX 15 21 (3.578 %) XSLT 16 20 (3.407 %) WinForms 17 15 (2.555 %) WCF 18 12 (2.044 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library	Application Platforms 1 51 (8.688 %) SharePoint 2 16 (2.726 %) CMS 3 15 (2.555 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 14 (2.385 %) IIS 5 11 (1.874 %) Apache 6 10 (1.704 %) ATG Dynamo 7 8 (1.363 %) Lotus Notes 8 6 (1.022 %) ColdFusion 8 6 (1.022 %) BizTalk Server 9 5 (0.852 %) Lotus Domino 9 5 (0.852 %) WebLogic 10 4 (0.681 %) Tomcat 11 3 (0.511 %) MS Exchange 11 3 (0.511 %) WebSphere MQ 12 2 (0.341 %) Commerce Server 12 2 (0.341 %) ArcIMS 12 2 (0.341 %) WebSphere Application Server 12 2 (0.341 %) ArcSDE 13 1 (0.170 %) Exchange Server 2000 13 1 (0.170 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 30 (5.111 %) MS Excel 2 19 (3.237 %) MS Office 3 14 (2.385 %) Photoshop 4 7 (1.193 %) MS Visio 5 6 (1.022 %) Fireworks 5 6 (1.022 %) InfoPath 6 3 (0.511 %) Spreadsheet 6 3 (0.511 %) Adobe Illustrator 7 1 (0.170 %) MS PowerPoint 7 1 (0.170 %) ImageReady 7 1 (0.170 %) Acrobat 7 1 (0.170 %) ArcView 7 1 (0.170 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 9 (1.533 %) Oracle Financial Analyzer 2 3 (0.511 %) SoftGrid 3 2 (0.341 %) Oracle Financials 4 1 (0.170 %) Microsoft CRM 4 1 (0.170 %) BusinessWorks 4 1 (0.170 %) Dynamics CRM 4 1 (0.170 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 4 1 (0.170 %) TIBCO iProcess
Communications & Networking 1 15 (2.555 %) Internet 2 9 (1.533 %) Extranet 3 7 (1.193 %) HTTP 4 5 (0.852 %) Intranet 5 4 (0.681 %) SSH 6 2 (0.341 %) CTI 7 1 (0.170 %) LDAP 7 1 (0.170 %) VoIP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 213 (36.29 %) SQL Server 2 106 (18.06 %) SQL Server 2005 3 46 (7.836 %) SQL Server 2000 4 36 (6.133 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 35 (5.963 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 34 (5.792 %) SQL Server 7 7 28 (4.770 %) Datawarehouse 8 19 (3.237 %) MS Access 9 18 (3.066 %) BusinessObjects 9 18 (3.066 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 10 12 (2.044 %) MySQL 11 10 (1.704 %) DTS 12 8 (1.363 %) Oracle 9i 13 7 (1.193 %) OLAP 13 7 (1.193 %) BusinessObjects XI 14 6 (1.022 %) TOAD 15 5 (0.852 %) Oracle 10g 16 4 (0.681 %) RDBMS 16 4 (0.681 %) Data Mining 17 3 (0.511 %) ETL
Development Applications 1 51 (8.688 %) Visual Studio 2 25 (4.259 %) Flash 3 21 (3.578 %) JUnit 4 13 (2.215 %) Ant 4 13 (2.215 %) Dreamweaver 5 11 (1.874 %) Oracle APEX 6 10 (1.704 %) Eclipse 7 9 (1.533 %) Visual Studio Team System 7 9 (1.533 %) NUnit 7 9 (1.533 %) Oracle Forms 8 2 (0.341 %) VSS/SourceSafe 8 2 (0.341 %) Subversion 9 1 (0.170 %) FrontPage 9 1 (0.170 %) StarTeam 9 1 (0.170 %) QuickTest Pro 9 1 (0.170 %) WebSpeed 9 1 (0.170 %) ClearCase 9 1 (0.170 %) PVCS	General 1 90 (15.33 %) Finance 2 37 (6.303 %) Health 3 20 (3.407 %) Telecoms 4 16 (2.726 %) Banking 5 14 (2.385 %) Government 6 13 (2.215 %) Retail 7 8 (1.363 %) Insurance 8 6 (1.022 %) Back Office 9 5 (0.852 %) Legal 9 5 (0.852 %) Pensions 10 4 (0.681 %) Marketing 11 3 (0.511 %) Advertising 11 3 (0.511 %) Publishing 11 3 (0.511 %) Multimedia 11 3 (0.511 %) Billing 11 3 (0.511 %) Law 11 3 (0.511 %) Education 12 2 (0.341 %) Financial Institution 12 2 (0.341 %) Investment Banking 13 1 (0.170 %) Games
Miscellaneous 1 28 (4.770 %) NHS 2 27 (4.600 %) Computer Science 3 14 (2.385 %) E-Learning 4 12 (2.044 %) Multithreading 5 11 (1.874 %) SCORM 6 9 (1.533 %) W3C 7 5 (0.852 %) N-Tier 7 5 (0.852 %) CMDB 8 4 (0.681 %) Web 2.0 9 2 (0.341 %) Informatics 9 2 (0.341 %) Client/Server 9 2 (0.341 %) Smartcard 10 1 (0.170 %) Mainframe 10 1 (0.170 %) AS400 10 1 (0.170 %) Replication 10 1 (0.170 %) Clustering 10 1 (0.170 %) Thin Client 10 1 (0.170 %) Mathematics 10 1 (0.170 %) IVR 10 1 (0.170 %) Fat Client	Operating Systems 1 61 (10.39 %) Windows 2 26 (4.429 %) UNIX 3 12 (2.044 %) Solaris 3 12 (2.044 %) Linux 4 10 (1.704 %) Windows 2000 5 7 (1.193 %) HPUX 6 3 (0.511 %) Windows Server 2003 7 2 (0.341 %) Ubuntu 7 2 (0.341 %) Windows Vista 8 1 (0.170 %) SUSE 8 1 (0.170 %) AIX 8 1 (0.170 %) Windows XP 8 1 (0.170 %) NetWare 8 1 (0.170 %) zOS
Processes & Methodologies 1 47 (8.007 %) Agile Software Development 2 37 (6.303 %) E-Commerce 3 30 (5.111 %) Unit Testing 4 28 (4.770 %) Migration 5 25 (4.259 %) UML 6 24 (4.089 %) Web Development 7 22 (3.748 %) OO 8 13 (2.215 %) Content Management 9 12 (2.044 %) SOA 10 11 (1.874 %) Configuration Management 11 10 (1.704 %) Business Intelligence 11 10 (1.704 %) Workflow 11 10 (1.704 %) Data Migration 12 7 (1.193 %) Security Cleared 12 7 (1.193 %) System Testing 13 6 (1.022 %) Time Management 13 6 (1.022 %) Performance Management 13 6 (1.022 %) Web Design 13 6 (1.022 %) Software Testing 13 6 (1.022 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 218 (37.14 %) C# 2 152 (25.89 %) SQL 3 101 (17.21 %) Java 4 64 (10.90 %) JavaScript 5 57 (9.710 %) VB.NET 6 49 (8.348 %) VB 7 32 (5.451 %) Transact-SQL 8 26 (4.429 %) VB6 9 24 (4.089 %) PL/SQL 10 21 (3.578 %) PHP 11 17 (2.896 %) VBScript 12 14 (2.385 %) C++ 13 12 (2.044 %) VBA 13 12 (2.044 %) Shell Script 14 10 (1.704 %) DHTML 15 9 (1.533 %) C 16 6 (1.022 %) LotusScript 17 5 (0.852 %) ActionScript 18 4 (0.681 %) Perl 19 2 (0.341 %) XPath
Qualifications 1 30 (5.111 %) Degree 2 7 (1.193 %) Sun Certification 3 5 (0.852 %) Microsoft Certification 4 3 (0.511 %) IBM Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (1.363 %) QA 2 2 (0.341 %) SLA 3 1 (0.170 %) HL7
System Software 1 15 (2.555 %) Active Directory 2 2 (0.341 %) ISA Server 3 1 (0.170 %) Novell eDirectory	Systems Management 1 7 (1.193 %) OpenView 1 7 (1.193 %) OVSD 1 7 (1.193 %) AssetCenter 2 1 (0.170 %) MAINVIEW
Vendors 1 115 (19.59 %) Oracle 2 75 (12.78 %) Microsoft 3 18 (3.066 %) Business Objects 4 12 (2.044 %) ATG 5 8 (1.363 %) IBM 5 8 (1.363 %) Lotus 6 7 (1.193 %) Sun 7 5 (0.852 %) Cognos 8 4 (0.681 %) HP 8 4 (0.681 %) Citrix 8 4 (0.681 %) BEA 8 4 (0.681 %) MicroStrategy 8 4 (0.681 %) Novell 8 4 (0.681 %) RedDot 9 3 (0.511 %) Perforce 9 3 (0.511 %) PeopleSoft 10 2 (0.341 %) Adobe 10 2 (0.341 %) Apple 10 2 (0.341 %) TIBCO 10 2 (0.341 %) webMethods