The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Applications Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 London 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Developer
Rank 284 352 312
Rank change year-on-year
+68 -40
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Developer 106 53 118
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.481% 0.196% 0.385%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.522% 0.212% 0.416%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 38 62
Average daily rate £375 £358 £373
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.89% -4.02%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £251 £286 £276
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £520 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £314 £306 £325
% change year-on-year
+2.36% -5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
Average hourly rate £45.00 - £34.25
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 - £33.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.50 - £34.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £39.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-15.38% -8.23%
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20317 24960 28380
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.22% 92.51% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13701 16102 18232
Average daily rate £450 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% -6.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 621 671
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Applications Developer
England

Applications Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Applications Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Applications Developer Daily Rate Trend

Applications Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Applications Developer across the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

London Applications Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Applications Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Applications Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Applications Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Developer within the London region over the 3 months to 21 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
City of London +32 34 £325 -35.00%
Canary Wharf - 6 £478 -
Docklands, London - 5 £240 -
Hounslow -4 1 £375 +13.63%
Chiswick - 1 £375 -
Applications Developer
England

Applications Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Applications 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 Applications Developer in their job title.

1 78 (41.49%) .NET
2 71 (37.77%) C#
3 64 (34.04%) Java
4 54 (28.72%) SQL
5 45 (23.94%) SQL Server
6 41 (21.81%) Android
7 40 (21.28%) Apple iOS
8 39 (20.74%) Mobile App
8 39 (20.74%) JavaScript
9 31 (16.49%) Finance
10 30 (15.96%) XML
10 30 (15.96%) Microsoft
11 29 (15.43%) HTML
11 29 (15.43%) ASP.NET
12 27 (14.36%) Visual Studio
13 25 (13.30%) Oracle
13 25 (13.30%) Windows
14 22 (11.70%) CSS
15 21 (11.17%) MS Excel
16 20 (10.64%) Banking
16 20 (10.64%) Continuous Integration
17 19 (10.11%) SQL Server 2008
17 19 (10.11%) OO
18 18 (9.574%) MVC
19 17 (9.043%) WCF
19 17 (9.043%) HTML5
20 16 (8.511%) .NET Framework
20 16 (8.511%) Agile Software Development
20 16 (8.511%) Apple
21 15 (7.979%) SAML

Applications Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Applications 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 Applications Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 78 (41.49%) .NET
2 30 (15.96%) XML
3 29 (15.43%) HTML
3 29 (15.43%) ASP.NET
4 22 (11.70%) CSS
5 17 (9.043%) WCF
5 17 (9.043%) HTML5
6 16 (8.511%) .NET Framework
7 15 (7.979%) SAML
7 15 (7.979%) Web Services
8 12 (6.383%) WPF
8 12 (6.383%) J2EE
8 12 (6.383%) jQuery
9 11 (5.851%) JSON
10 9 (4.787%) Spring
11 8 (4.255%) Ajax
12 7 (3.723%) iOS SDK
12 7 (3.723%) Dojo
13 6 (3.191%) WinForms
13 6 (3.191%) REST
Application Platforms
1 12 (6.383%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.255%) Apache
3 6 (3.191%) IIS
4 5 (2.660%) SharePoint 2010
5 4 (2.128%) CMS
6 3 (1.596%) SharePoint Server
6 3 (1.596%) FileNet
7 2 (1.064%) ColdFusion
7 2 (1.064%) WebSphere MQ
7 2 (1.064%) MQSeries
7 2 (1.064%) Documentum
8 1 (0.532%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.532%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.532%) Windows Azure
8 1 (0.532%) Amazon AWS
8 1 (0.532%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.532%) MSMQ
8 1 (0.532%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.532%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 21 (11.17%) MS Excel
2 7 (3.723%) MS Office
3 3 (1.596%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.532%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.532%) MS Project
4 1 (0.532%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.596%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.064%) WebTrends
2 2 (1.064%) Endur
2 2 (1.064%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.064%) ZaiNet
2 2 (1.064%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 2 (1.064%) Aligne
3 1 (0.532%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.532%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.532%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.383%) Internet
1 12 (6.383%) Kerberos
2 9 (4.787%) HTTP
3 7 (3.723%) DNS
3 7 (3.723%) VPN
4 3 (1.596%) Intranet
5 2 (1.064%) LDAP
6 1 (0.532%) NFC
6 1 (0.532%) SMS
6 1 (0.532%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (23.94%) SQL Server
2 19 (10.11%) SQL Server 2008
3 14 (7.447%) SQL Server 2005
4 9 (4.787%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (4.255%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (3.191%) Big Data
7 5 (2.660%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.128%) MySQL
8 4 (2.128%) OLAP
9 3 (1.596%) SQLite
10 2 (1.064%) TOAD
10 2 (1.064%) Oracle 10g
10 2 (1.064%) SAP BW
10 2 (1.064%) SQLPlus
10 2 (1.064%) MS Access
10 2 (1.064%) Oracle OLAP
10 2 (1.064%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
10 2 (1.064%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (1.064%) QlikView
11 1 (0.532%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 27 (14.36%) Visual Studio
2 15 (7.979%) CruiseControl
2 15 (7.979%) TeamCity
3 11 (5.851%) MSBuild
4 8 (4.255%) PhoneGap
5 5 (2.660%) Appcelerator Titanium
6 4 (2.128%) Ant
6 4 (2.128%) JUnit
6 4 (2.128%) Subversion
6 4 (2.128%) Xcode
6 4 (2.128%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (1.596%) Hudson
7 3 (1.596%) GitHub
7 3 (1.596%) Maven
7 3 (1.596%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.064%) Selenium
9 1 (0.532%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.532%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.532%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.532%) QUnit
General
1 31 (16.49%) Finance
2 20 (10.64%) Banking
3 11 (5.851%) Investment Banking
4 7 (3.723%) Music
5 4 (2.128%) Legal
5 4 (2.128%) Marketing
6 3 (1.596%) Publishing
6 3 (1.596%) Front Office
7 2 (1.064%) Back Office
8 1 (0.532%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.532%) Music Industry
8 1 (0.532%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (0.532%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.532%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.532%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.532%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.532%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.532%) Electronics
8 1 (0.532%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 39 (20.74%) Mobile App
2 15 (7.979%) Fixed Income
3 11 (5.851%) Handset
4 10 (5.319%) Derivative
5 9 (4.787%) Blackberry
6 6 (3.191%) Computer Science
7 5 (2.660%) iPhone
7 5 (2.660%) NHS
8 3 (1.596%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.596%) Open Source
8 3 (1.596%) Graphic Design
8 3 (1.596%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (1.064%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.064%) Credit Derivative
9 2 (1.064%) Market Risk
9 2 (1.064%) Data Integration
9 2 (1.064%) Social Media
9 2 (1.064%) iPad
10 1 (0.532%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.532%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 41 (21.81%) Android
2 40 (21.28%) Apple iOS
3 25 (13.30%) Windows
4 11 (5.851%) Linux
5 9 (4.787%) Windows Mobile
5 9 (4.787%) UNIX
6 3 (1.596%) Windows Phone
7 2 (1.064%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (1.064%) Windows 2000 Server
8 1 (0.532%) Windows Phone 7
8 1 (0.532%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.532%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.532%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (10.64%) Continuous Integration
2 19 (10.11%) OO
3 18 (9.574%) MVC
4 16 (8.511%) Agile Software Development
5 15 (7.979%) Multithreading
6 14 (7.447%) Penetration Testing
7 13 (6.915%) CRM
8 12 (6.383%) Software Engineering
8 12 (6.383%) TDD
8 12 (6.383%) OWASP
9 11 (5.851%) Security Testing
9 11 (5.851%) Data Protection
10 7 (3.723%) MVVM
10 7 (3.723%) Data Management
10 7 (3.723%) Risk Management
11 6 (3.191%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (3.191%) Technical Architecture
11 6 (3.191%) Automated Testing
11 6 (3.191%) BDD
12 5 (2.660%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 71 (37.77%) C#
2 64 (34.04%) Java
3 54 (28.72%) SQL
4 39 (20.74%) JavaScript
5 15 (7.979%) Objective-C
6 12 (6.383%) T-SQL
6 12 (6.383%) VB
7 9 (4.787%) VB6
7 9 (4.787%) VB.NET
7 9 (4.787%) VBA
8 7 (3.723%) C++
9 6 (3.191%) C
10 5 (2.660%) VBScript
11 4 (2.128%) PL/SQL
11 4 (2.128%) Perl
12 3 (1.596%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.596%) PHP
13 2 (1.064%) Python
14 1 (0.532%) Groovy
14 1 (0.532%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 13 (6.915%) Degree
2 9 (4.787%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.660%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.532%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.128%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (1.064%) QA
System Software
1 3 (1.596%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.064%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.532%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 13 (6.915%) CA SiteMinder
2 1 (0.532%) WMI
Vendors
1 30 (15.96%) Microsoft
2 25 (13.30%) Oracle
3 16 (8.511%) Apple
4 11 (5.851%) HP
4 11 (5.851%) CA
5 3 (1.596%) Facebook
5 3 (1.596%) Twitter
5 3 (1.596%) JBoss
5 3 (1.596%) SunGard
6 2 (1.064%) Adobe
6 2 (1.064%) OpenLink
6 2 (1.064%) Business Objects
6 2 (1.064%) SAP
6 2 (1.064%) VMware
6 2 (1.064%) Trayport
6 2 (1.064%) Tableau
6 2 (1.064%) Sencha
7 1 (0.532%) DevExpress
7 1 (0.532%) Zend
7 1 (0.532%) Red Hat
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