The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical 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 Technical Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Developer
Rank 359 383 403
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Developer 18 27 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.083% 0.100% 0.101%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% 0.108% 0.109%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 18 20
Average daily rate £500 £543 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.83% +20.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £425 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £561 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £419 £340
% change year-on-year
-4.53% +23.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.86 - £29.00
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
19937 24898 29250
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.14% 92.45% 92.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 13430 16056 18793
Average daily rate £450 £440 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -7.36%
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 446 620 684
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Developer
England

Technical Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Technical Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Technical Developer Daily Rate Trend

Technical Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Technical Developer across the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

London Technical Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Technical Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Technical Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Developer within the London region over the 3 months to 23 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 +23 11 £575 +15.00%
Technical Developer
England

Technical Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Technical 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 Technical Developer in their job title.

1 21 (44.68%) Java
2 16 (34.04%) C#
3 10 (21.28%) Windows
4 9 (19.15%) Oracle
4 9 (19.15%) .NET
4 9 (19.15%) Multithreading
5 8 (17.02%) Web Services
5 8 (17.02%) Python
6 7 (14.89%) SQL Server
6 7 (14.89%) Scrum
6 7 (14.89%) UNIX
6 7 (14.89%) Electronic Trading
7 6 (12.77%) Market Risk
7 6 (12.77%) Finance
7 6 (12.77%) Retail
7 6 (12.77%) RAD
8 5 (10.64%) JMS
8 5 (10.64%) IBM
8 5 (10.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (10.64%) TIBCO
8 5 (10.64%) Rendezvous
8 5 (10.64%) SQL
8 5 (10.64%) OO
8 5 (10.64%) Agile Software Development
8 5 (10.64%) Front Office
8 5 (10.64%) 29West
8 5 (10.64%) TIBCO EMS
8 5 (10.64%) RESTful
8 5 (10.64%) SaaS
9 4 (8.511%) BDD

Technical Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Technical 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 Technical Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (19.15%) .NET
2 8 (17.02%) Web Services
3 5 (10.64%) JMS
3 5 (10.64%) RESTful
4 4 (8.511%) WinForms
5 3 (6.383%) HTML
5 3 (6.383%) SOAP
5 3 (6.383%) XML
5 3 (6.383%) Spring
5 3 (6.383%) Hibernate
6 2 (4.255%) REST
6 2 (4.255%) Cocoa Touch
6 2 (4.255%) UIKit
6 2 (4.255%) WPF
6 2 (4.255%) NHibernate
6 2 (4.255%) CSS
6 2 (4.255%) J2EE
6 2 (4.255%) WSH
7 1 (2.128%) XHTML
7 1 (2.128%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 5 (10.64%) Rendezvous
1 5 (10.64%) TIBCO EMS
2 4 (8.511%) ESB
3 1 (2.128%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.128%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.128%) CMS
3 1 (2.128%) Joomla!
3 1 (2.128%) Drupal
3 1 (2.128%) Apache Solr
3 1 (2.128%) Force.com
3 1 (2.128%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 1 (2.128%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.255%) Khalix
1 2 (4.255%) HFM
1 2 (4.255%) LongView
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.128%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.89%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.511%) DB2
3 2 (4.255%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (4.255%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (4.255%) Oracle OLAP
3 2 (4.255%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (4.255%) Essbase
3 2 (4.255%) OLAP
3 2 (4.255%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (4.255%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (4.255%) Oracle 9i
4 1 (2.128%) MySQL
4 1 (2.128%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.128%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.128%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.128%) QlikView
4 1 (2.128%) KDB
4 1 (2.128%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.128%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.128%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (8.511%) Selenium
1 4 (8.511%) Subversion
1 4 (8.511%) Maven
2 3 (6.383%) WebDriver
2 3 (6.383%) Cucumber
3 2 (4.255%) GDB
3 2 (4.255%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.255%) WATIR
3 2 (4.255%) CruiseControl
3 2 (4.255%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 2 (4.255%) JUnit
4 1 (2.128%) Eclipse
4 1 (2.128%) Ant
4 1 (2.128%) JIRA
4 1 (2.128%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (2.128%) TestNG
4 1 (2.128%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.128%) FishEye
General
1 6 (12.77%) Finance
1 6 (12.77%) Retail
2 5 (10.64%) Front Office
3 2 (4.255%) Banking
4 1 (2.128%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.128%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Market Risk
2 5 (10.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (10.64%) SaaS
3 4 (8.511%) Mainframe
3 4 (8.511%) EPoS
4 2 (4.255%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (4.255%) Derivative
5 1 (2.128%) Open Source
5 1 (2.128%) PaaS
5 1 (2.128%) iPad
5 1 (2.128%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.28%) Windows
2 7 (14.89%) UNIX
3 3 (6.383%) Linux
3 3 (6.383%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.128%) Android
4 1 (2.128%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (19.15%) Multithreading
2 7 (14.89%) Scrum
2 7 (14.89%) Electronic Trading
3 6 (12.77%) RAD
4 5 (10.64%) OO
4 5 (10.64%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (8.511%) BDD
5 4 (8.511%) PRINCE2
5 4 (8.511%) ETL
6 3 (6.383%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (4.255%) Change Control
7 2 (4.255%) MVVM
7 2 (4.255%) Investment Management
7 2 (4.255%) Business Analysis
7 2 (4.255%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (4.255%) Data Modelling
7 2 (4.255%) OOD
7 2 (4.255%) SOA
7 2 (4.255%) E-Commerce
8 1 (2.128%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 21 (44.68%) Java
2 16 (34.04%) C#
3 8 (17.02%) Python
4 5 (10.64%) SQL
5 4 (8.511%) Ruby
5 4 (8.511%) Perl
5 4 (8.511%) PL/SQL
6 3 (6.383%) C++
7 2 (4.255%) Objective-C
7 2 (4.255%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.255%) C
7 2 (4.255%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.128%) VB
8 1 (2.128%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.383%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.128%) Tivoli
1 1 (2.128%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 9 (19.15%) Oracle
2 5 (10.64%) IBM
2 5 (10.64%) TIBCO
2 5 (10.64%) 29West
3 4 (8.511%) webMethods
4 3 (6.383%) HP
4 3 (6.383%) OPNET
5 2 (4.255%) Cadis
5 2 (4.255%) DevExpress
5 2 (4.255%) Syncfusion
5 2 (4.255%) JBoss
5 2 (4.255%) Hyperion
6 1 (2.128%) Salesforce.com
6 1 (2.128%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.128%) Adobe
6 1 (2.128%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.128%) ATG
6 1 (2.128%) Perforce
6 1 (2.128%) Endeca