Developer IT Contracts in Manchester
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 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 Manchester 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
Developer
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year
0 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 267 335 242
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 28.28% 25.77% 23.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 30.24% 28.10% 25.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 213 139
Average daily rate £294 £295 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.42% +7.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £225 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £383 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 10
Average hourly rate £21.00 £31.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% +26.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.56 £11.30 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £136.50 £34.66 £38.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
All Job Titles
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 883 1192 952
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 93.54% 91.69% 94.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 590 419
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £225 £130
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 75 77
Average hourly rate £16.84 £18.50 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.00% +15.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £9.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £82.50 £33.32 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Developer
North West

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Developer Daily Rate Trend

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Manchester Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Manchester Developer Hourly Rate Histogram

Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Manchester 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
Salford 0 9 £323 +2.38%
Stockport +3 8 £315 -3.07%
Oldham 0 8 £168 -52.14%
Bolton +4 2 £163 -
Wigan +3 2 £300 +9.09%
Altrincham -2 2 £250 -25.92%
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 - -
Cheadle - 1 £370 -
Developer
North West

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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.

1 207 (35.69%) .NET
2 196 (33.79%) JavaScript
3 189 (32.59%) SQL
4 184 (31.72%) CSS
5 169 (29.14%) C#
6 164 (28.28%) SQL Server
7 153 (26.38%) HTML
8 142 (24.48%) ASP.NET
9 133 (22.93%) Java
10 119 (20.52%) MVC
11 118 (20.34%) jQuery
12 108 (18.62%) XML
13 101 (17.41%) Web Services
14 88 (15.17%) PHP
15 78 (13.45%) SQL Server 2008
16 77 (13.28%) TDD
16 77 (13.28%) Ajax
17 68 (11.72%) Microsoft
18 62 (10.69%) HTML5
19 61 (10.52%) SharePoint
20 60 (10.34%) J2EE
21 56 (9.655%) MySQL
21 56 (9.655%) Oracle
22 54 (9.310%) T-SQL
22 54 (9.310%) OO
23 50 (8.621%) Business Intelligence
24 49 (8.448%) E-Commerce
24 49 (8.448%) SQL Server Reporting Services
25 48 (8.276%) Spring
26 45 (7.759%) Finance

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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
1 207 (35.69%) .NET
2 184 (31.72%) CSS
3 153 (26.38%) HTML
4 142 (24.48%) ASP.NET
5 118 (20.34%) jQuery
6 108 (18.62%) XML
7 101 (17.41%) Web Services
8 77 (13.28%) Ajax
9 62 (10.69%) HTML5
10 60 (10.34%) J2EE
11 48 (8.276%) Spring
12 45 (7.759%) ASP.NET MVC
13 44 (7.586%) CSS3
14 41 (7.069%) XHTML
14 41 (7.069%) WCF
15 37 (6.379%) JSON
16 36 (6.207%) .NET Framework
17 33 (5.690%) XSLT
18 29 (5.000%) JSP
18 29 (5.000%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 61 (10.52%) SharePoint
2 28 (4.828%) CMS
2 28 (4.828%) Apache
3 26 (4.483%) Drupal
4 15 (2.586%) SharePoint 2010
5 12 (2.069%) WordPress
5 12 (2.069%) ESB
6 11 (1.897%) SAS
7 10 (1.724%) Adobe CQ
7 10 (1.724%) WebSphere Application Server
8 8 (1.379%) MQSeries
9 7 (1.207%) Umbraco
10 6 (1.034%) BizTalk Server
11 5 (0.862%) IIS
12 4 (0.690%) Orchard CMS
12 4 (0.690%) Magento
12 4 (0.690%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.690%) Sitecore CMS
12 4 (0.690%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.690%) WebLogic
Applications
1 29 (5.000%) MS Excel
2 20 (3.448%) Photoshop
3 9 (1.552%) Fireworks
3 9 (1.552%) MS Office
4 8 (1.379%) InfoPath
5 7 (1.207%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.172%) Maya
6 1 (0.172%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.172%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.172%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 13 (2.241%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.379%) Tridion
3 6 (1.034%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.690%) Visualfiles
4 4 (0.690%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.690%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.517%) JDE OneWorld
6 2 (0.345%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.345%) Remedy AR System
6 2 (0.345%) assyst
6 2 (0.345%) Oracle 11i
6 2 (0.345%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.172%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.172%) Oracle General Ledger
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.276%) Internet
2 9 (1.552%) Intranet
3 8 (1.379%) HTTP
4 4 (0.690%) Unified Communications
5 2 (0.345%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.345%) DNS
5 2 (0.345%) LDAP
6 1 (0.172%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (28.28%) SQL Server
2 78 (13.45%) SQL Server 2008
3 56 (9.655%) MySQL
4 49 (8.448%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 44 (7.586%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 37 (6.379%) SQL Server 2005
7 30 (5.172%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (3.966%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 21 (3.621%) Oracle 11g
10 16 (2.759%) RDBMS
11 15 (2.586%) Oracle 10g
12 13 (2.241%) OLAP
13 12 (2.069%) Oracle BI EE
13 12 (2.069%) DB2
14 10 (1.724%) MS Access
15 9 (1.552%) Oracle 8/8i
15 9 (1.552%) RavenDB
16 8 (1.379%) QlikView
16 8 (1.379%) PerformancePoint
16 8 (1.379%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 34 (5.862%) Visual Studio
2 33 (5.690%) Subversion
3 23 (3.966%) Eclipse
4 17 (2.931%) Git (software)
5 13 (2.241%) JUnit
6 10 (1.724%) Ant
7 9 (1.552%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
8 8 (1.379%) Log4j
9 7 (1.207%) Dreamweaver
9 7 (1.207%) JIRA
10 6 (1.034%) PhoneGap
10 6 (1.034%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.862%) NetBeans
11 5 (0.862%) Oracle APEX
12 4 (0.690%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.690%) MSBuild
12 4 (0.690%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (0.517%) Xcode
13 3 (0.517%) Maven
13 3 (0.517%) MTASC
General
1 45 (7.759%) Finance
2 34 (5.862%) Retail
3 14 (2.414%) Games
4 9 (1.552%) Telecoms
4 9 (1.552%) Banking
5 8 (1.379%) Marketing
6 6 (1.034%) Advertising
7 4 (0.690%) Law
7 4 (0.690%) Legal
8 3 (0.517%) Automotive
8 3 (0.517%) Publishing
9 2 (0.345%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.345%) Music
9 2 (0.345%) Local Government
10 1 (0.172%) Back Office
10 1 (0.172%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.172%) Music Industry
10 1 (0.172%) German Language
10 1 (0.172%) General Ledger
Miscellaneous
1 36 (6.207%) Mobile App
2 24 (4.138%) NHS
3 19 (3.276%) iPhone
4 13 (2.241%) iPad
5 12 (2.069%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (1.897%) Data Integration
7 10 (1.724%) Computer Science
7 10 (1.724%) Web 2.0
8 7 (1.207%) W3C
9 6 (1.034%) Digital Media
9 6 (1.034%) Open Source
9 6 (1.034%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.862%) Grid Computing
10 5 (0.862%) N-Tier
10 5 (0.862%) CMDB
10 5 (0.862%) Mathematics
11 4 (0.690%) Statistics
11 4 (0.690%) Client/Server
11 4 (0.690%) BBC
12 3 (0.517%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 41 (7.069%) Linux
2 38 (6.552%) Apple iOS
3 33 (5.690%) Android
4 25 (4.310%) Windows
5 24 (4.138%) UNIX
6 11 (1.897%) Solaris
7 9 (1.552%) HPUX
8 7 (1.207%) AIX
9 5 (0.862%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.862%) Windows Server 2008
10 4 (0.690%) Windows Mobile
10 4 (0.690%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.345%) CentOS
12 1 (0.172%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.172%) Windows CE
12 1 (0.172%) Fedora
12 1 (0.172%) Windows XP
12 1 (0.172%) Windows Vista
12 1 (0.172%) Windows Phone
12 1 (0.172%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (20.52%) MVC
2 77 (13.28%) TDD
3 54 (9.310%) OO
4 50 (8.621%) Business Intelligence
5 49 (8.448%) E-Commerce
6 45 (7.759%) Agile Software Development
7 37 (6.379%) OOP
8 31 (5.345%) Scrum
9 23 (3.966%) ETL
9 23 (3.966%) Content Management
10 22 (3.793%) CRM
11 20 (3.448%) Continuous Integration
11 20 (3.448%) Web Development
12 17 (2.931%) BDD
13 16 (2.759%) RAD
13 16 (2.759%) UML
13 16 (2.759%) Workflow
14 15 (2.586%) Pair Programming
15 14 (2.414%) Data Modelling
16 13 (2.241%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 196 (33.79%) JavaScript
2 189 (32.59%) SQL
3 169 (29.14%) C#
4 133 (22.93%) Java
5 88 (15.17%) PHP
6 54 (9.310%) T-SQL
7 30 (5.172%) VB.NET
8 29 (5.000%) Objective-C
9 24 (4.138%) VBA
10 20 (3.448%) PL/SQL
11 18 (3.103%) XPath
12 16 (2.759%) Ruby
13 15 (2.586%) C++
13 15 (2.586%) Bash shell
14 12 (2.069%) Perl
14 12 (2.069%) VB
15 10 (1.724%) XQuery
16 9 (1.552%) Shell Script
17 8 (1.379%) PHP5
17 8 (1.379%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 18 (3.103%) Degree
2 13 (2.241%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (1.552%) Security Cleared
4 5 (0.862%) Sun Certification
5 1 (0.172%) MBA
5 1 (0.172%) ISEB
5 1 (0.172%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (0.690%) QA
2 3 (0.517%) ISO 9001
2 3 (0.517%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.345%) HL7
4 1 (0.172%) Basel II
4 1 (0.172%) TickIT
System Software
1 3 (0.517%) Oracle RAC
1 3 (0.517%) Postfix
2 2 (0.345%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.172%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 3 (0.517%) Data Guard
1 3 (0.517%) Oracle Identity Manager
2 1 (0.172%) Plesk
2 1 (0.172%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 68 (11.72%) Microsoft
2 56 (9.655%) Oracle
3 18 (3.103%) Adobe
4 15 (2.586%) Apple
5 14 (2.414%) Zend
6 12 (2.069%) IBM
7 11 (1.897%) Telerik
8 10 (1.724%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.552%) ATG
9 9 (1.552%) JBoss
9 9 (1.552%) Interwoven
9 9 (1.552%) Blue Martini
9 9 (1.552%) Sitecore
9 9 (1.552%) Twitter
10 8 (1.379%) Elastic Path
10 8 (1.379%) Informatica
11 7 (1.207%) Cognos
11 7 (1.207%) Orchard
12 6 (1.034%) EPiServer
12 6 (1.034%) Siebel
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