Developer IT Contracts in the Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Midlands 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 24 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 Midlands 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Developer
Rank 1 1 3
Rank change year-on-year
0 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 36 59 62
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 20.93% 22.18% 18.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 23.53% 25.65% 19.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 17
Average daily rate £396 £355 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.61% +1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £300 £267
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £480 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 7
Average hourly rate £37.50 - £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
All Job Titles
Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 153 230 316
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 88.95% 86.47% 92.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 73 61
Average daily rate £450 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £268
10% offered a daily rate of more than £555 £575 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 74
Average hourly rate £32.00 £34.50 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.24% +43.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.80 £21.00 £18.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £40.25 £33.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Developer
England

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands 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 Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 36 (38.71%) Java
2 22 (23.66%) HTML
2 22 (23.66%) CSS
3 19 (20.43%) SQL Server
4 17 (18.28%) JavaScript
4 17 (18.28%) Spring
5 16 (17.20%) JPA
6 15 (16.13%) SQL
6 15 (16.13%) .NET
7 14 (15.05%) J2EE
7 14 (15.05%) C#
7 14 (15.05%) JBoss
7 14 (15.05%) JSON
7 14 (15.05%) Hibernate
7 14 (15.05%) Drools
7 14 (15.05%) Ext JS
7 14 (15.05%) REST
8 13 (13.98%) Highcharts JS
8 13 (13.98%) Sencha
9 12 (12.90%) XML
10 11 (11.83%) Web Services
11 10 (10.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (9.677%) Oracle
12 9 (9.677%) Microsoft
13 8 (8.602%) Business Intelligence
13 8 (8.602%) SQL Server 2008
14 7 (7.527%) TTCN
14 7 (7.527%) .NET Framework
14 7 (7.527%) ESB
14 7 (7.527%) UMTS

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 22 (23.66%) HTML
1 22 (23.66%) CSS
2 17 (18.28%) Spring
3 16 (17.20%) JPA
4 15 (16.13%) .NET
5 14 (15.05%) J2EE
5 14 (15.05%) JSON
5 14 (15.05%) Hibernate
5 14 (15.05%) Drools
5 14 (15.05%) Ext JS
5 14 (15.05%) REST
6 13 (13.98%) Highcharts JS
7 12 (12.90%) XML
8 11 (11.83%) Web Services
9 7 (7.527%) .NET Framework
10 6 (6.452%) WebSphere
10 6 (6.452%) Silverlight
10 6 (6.452%) jQuery
11 5 (5.376%) ASP.NET
11 5 (5.376%) XML Schema
Application Platforms
1 7 (7.527%) ESB
2 5 (5.376%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 3 (3.226%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.226%) SAS
4 2 (2.151%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (2.151%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 5 (5.376%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.075%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.075%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.527%) UMTS
1 7 (7.527%) Wireless
2 5 (5.376%) HTTP
3 4 (4.301%) LTE
4 3 (3.226%) HSPA
4 3 (3.226%) GPRS
4 3 (3.226%) GSM
4 3 (3.226%) 3GPP
4 3 (3.226%) ASN.1
4 3 (3.226%) 3G
5 1 (1.075%) Modbus
5 1 (1.075%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (20.43%) SQL Server
2 10 (10.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 8 (8.602%) SQL Server 2008
4 6 (6.452%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (4.301%) Oracle 8/8i
5 4 (4.301%) SQL Server 2012
5 4 (4.301%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (3.226%) OLAP
7 2 (2.151%) InterSystems Cache
7 2 (2.151%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (2.151%) QlikView
7 2 (2.151%) Base SAS
8 1 (1.075%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (1.075%) Oracle 11g
8 1 (1.075%) Oracle 10g
8 1 (1.075%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.075%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.075%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (6.452%) Visual Studio
2 4 (4.301%) Expression Blend
3 2 (2.151%) Subversion
4 1 (1.075%) QUnit
4 1 (1.075%) GitHub
4 1 (1.075%) Git (software)
4 1 (1.075%) PHPUnit
4 1 (1.075%) Eclipse
General
1 3 (3.226%) Banking
2 2 (2.151%) Retail
2 2 (2.151%) Finance
2 2 (2.151%) Retail Banking
3 1 (1.075%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.226%) Handset
1 3 (3.226%) AS400
2 2 (2.151%) NHS
2 2 (2.151%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.075%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.075%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.075%) UNIX
1 1 (1.075%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (8.602%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (6.452%) Integration Testing
3 5 (5.376%) Unit Testing
4 4 (4.301%) Validation
4 4 (4.301%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (4.301%) MVVM
5 3 (3.226%) Migration
5 3 (3.226%) Scrum
5 3 (3.226%) MVC
6 2 (2.151%) Change Management
6 2 (2.151%) OO
6 2 (2.151%) SOA
7 1 (1.075%) BDD
7 1 (1.075%) Graceful Degradation
7 1 (1.075%) Analytics
7 1 (1.075%) Data Migration
7 1 (1.075%) WFM
7 1 (1.075%) B2B
7 1 (1.075%) B2C
7 1 (1.075%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 36 (38.71%) Java
2 17 (18.28%) JavaScript
3 15 (16.13%) SQL
4 14 (15.05%) C#
5 7 (7.527%) TTCN
5 7 (7.527%) C
6 3 (3.226%) C++
6 3 (3.226%) Perl
6 3 (3.226%) RPG
7 2 (2.151%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.151%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.075%) RPG IV
8 1 (1.075%) SAS Macro
8 1 (1.075%) Uniface
8 1 (1.075%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.075%) MUMPS
8 1 (1.075%) VBA
8 1 (1.075%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (1.075%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.075%) QA
Vendors
1 14 (15.05%) JBoss
2 13 (13.98%) Sencha
3 9 (9.677%) Oracle
3 9 (9.677%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.376%) SAP
4 5 (5.376%) IBM
5 4 (4.301%) Pega
6 2 (2.151%) TIBCO
6 2 (2.151%) InterSystems
6 2 (2.151%) Business Objects
7 1 (1.075%) Adobe
7 1 (1.075%) Hyperion
7 1 (1.075%) Informatica
7 1 (1.075%) Siemens
7 1 (1.075%) JD Edwards
7 1 (1.075%) Unisys
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