The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside 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 20 June 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 Merseyside 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Developer
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Developer 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £419 £321
% change year-on-year
-13.48% +30.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.86 - £29.00
All Job Titles
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
183 227 257
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 95.81% 93.42% 93.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 106 131
Average daily rate £340 £300 £323
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% -6.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £200 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £488 £465 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 37 43
Average hourly rate £11.50 £16.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.30% -19.51%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.00 £10.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £22.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Developer
North West

Technical Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside Technical Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Developer
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 5 (100.00%) PHP
1 5 (100.00%) MySQL
1 5 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 5 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 5 (100.00%) Retail
1 5 (100.00%) Zend
1 5 (100.00%) Zend Framework
1 5 (100.00%) PHP5
1 5 (100.00%) Magento

Technical Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 5 (100.00%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) Magento
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) MySQL
1 5 (100.00%) RDBMS
General
1 5 (100.00%) Retail
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PHP
1 5 (100.00%) PHP5
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Zend