The first table below looks at the demand for the GUI 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 GUI Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
GUI Developer
Rank 367 376 309
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -67
Contract jobs requiring a GUI Developer 14 26 127
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.065% 0.097% 0.414%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.105% 0.447%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 24 107
Average daily rate £575 £575 £575
90% offered a daily rate of more than £545 £483 £525
10% offered a daily rate of more than £605 £618 £635
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £355 £325
% change year-on-year
+12.67% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £56.50
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20013 24845 28392
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.25% 92.53% 92.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 13506 16024 18238
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 449 607 669
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.25 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
GUI Developer
England

GUI Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London GUI Developer Jobs Demand Trend

GUI Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

London GUI Developer Daily Rate Trend

GUI Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London GUI Developer Hourly Rate Trend

GUI Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GUI Developer within the London region over the 3 months to 20 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 +15 5 £550 -4.34%
GUI Developer
England

GUI Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited GUI 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 GUI Developer in their job title.

1 18 (85.71%) C#
2 16 (76.19%) WPF
3 12 (57.14%) Multithreading
3 12 (57.14%) Front Office
4 9 (42.86%) Java
4 9 (42.86%) .NET
5 7 (33.33%) Finance
6 6 (28.57%) Banking
6 6 (28.57%) MDX
6 6 (28.57%) SQL
6 6 (28.57%) Hedge funds
7 5 (23.81%) Risk Management
7 5 (23.81%) WinForms
8 4 (19.05%) N-Tier
8 4 (19.05%) Oracle
9 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
9 3 (14.29%) OLAP
9 3 (14.29%) CSS
9 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
9 3 (14.29%) Spring
9 3 (14.29%) WCF
9 3 (14.29%) Java SE
9 3 (14.29%) Derivative
9 3 (14.29%) Unit Testing
9 3 (14.29%) Silverlight
9 3 (14.29%) Syncfusion
9 3 (14.29%) Investment Management
9 3 (14.29%) DevExpress
9 3 (14.29%) HTML5
10 2 (9.524%) MVVM

GUI Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 16 (76.19%) WPF
2 9 (42.86%) .NET
3 6 (28.57%) MDX
4 5 (23.81%) WinForms
5 3 (14.29%) CSS
5 3 (14.29%) WCF
5 3 (14.29%) Silverlight
5 3 (14.29%) Spring
5 3 (14.29%) Java SE
5 3 (14.29%) HTML5
6 2 (9.524%) CSS3
6 2 (9.524%) Ext JS
6 2 (9.524%) JSON
6 2 (9.524%) Hibernate
7 1 (4.762%) HTML
7 1 (4.762%) Lucene
7 1 (4.762%) XML
7 1 (4.762%) XSLT
7 1 (4.762%) Swing
7 1 (4.762%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.762%) Apache
1 1 (4.762%) Rendezvous
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.762%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) OLAP
2 2 (9.524%) MySQL
2 2 (9.524%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.762%) KDB
Development Applications
1 2 (9.524%) Eclipse
1 2 (9.524%) Subversion
2 1 (4.762%) JProfiler
2 1 (4.762%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.762%) NUnit
2 1 (4.762%) JUnit
2 1 (4.762%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (57.14%) Front Office
2 7 (33.33%) Finance
3 6 (28.57%) Banking
4 1 (4.762%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.762%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Hedge funds
2 4 (19.05%) N-Tier
3 3 (14.29%) Derivative
4 2 (9.524%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (4.762%) Fixed Income
5 1 (4.762%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.524%) Windows
1 2 (9.524%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Multithreading
2 5 (23.81%) Risk Management
3 3 (14.29%) Unit Testing
3 3 (14.29%) Investment Management
4 2 (9.524%) Rapid Prototyping
4 2 (9.524%) MVVM
4 2 (9.524%) Analytics
4 2 (9.524%) Migration
4 2 (9.524%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (9.524%) OO
4 2 (9.524%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (4.762%) Code Coverage
5 1 (4.762%) Multidimensional Analysis
5 1 (4.762%) E-Commerce
5 1 (4.762%) Data Modelling
5 1 (4.762%) TDD
5 1 (4.762%) Web Development
5 1 (4.762%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (4.762%) Electronic Trading
5 1 (4.762%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 18 (85.71%) C#
2 9 (42.86%) Java
3 6 (28.57%) SQL
4 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.762%) Perl
5 1 (4.762%) C++
5 1 (4.762%) Groovy
5 1 (4.762%) C-shell
5 1 (4.762%) Bash shell
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) Syncfusion
2 3 (14.29%) DevExpress
3 1 (4.762%) Cognizant
3 1 (4.762%) TIBCO
3 1 (4.762%) Sybase
City of London
Qualification and Experience 2+ years industry experience using the .Net Framework (Windows Forms, WPF). WPF is strongly preferred (E)... 2+ years industry experience of using the .Net framework...
Rate: MarketRate
Posted: 3 May 2013
City of London
The successful candidate's main skills will be: * Knowledge of both Java and C# and very strong in one of them* Strong front end web development in HTML,...
Orgtel
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013