Milton Keynes Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts within the Milton Keynes region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Alderley Edge Aldershot Altrincham Andover Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Carmarthenshire Carrickfergus Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleckheaton Colchester Conwy Corby Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenwich Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Louth Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Moreton-in-Marsh Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Ringwood Rochester Romford Rotherham Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans St Ives St Neots Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Strathclyde Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worksop Worthing Wymondham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	8	4
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	130	168
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.171 %	0.176 %
As % of the category below	14.05 %	19.93 %
Daily rates quoted	41	34
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£313
Average daily rate	£326	£323
% change on same period last year	+0.89 %
Average maximum daily rate	£337	£333
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£333
% change on same period last year	+0.13 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.78	£25.94
Average hourly rate	£36.03	£26.66
% change on same period last year	+35.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.28	£27.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.55	£33.22
% change on same period last year	-2.02 %
Job Titles Milton Keynes
Matching contract IT job ads	925	843
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.219 %	0.882 %
Daily rates quoted	296	171
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£294
Average daily rate	£338	£312
% change on same period last year	+8.32 %
Average maximum daily rate	£352	£329
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	121	100
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.10	£18.50
Average hourly rate	£20.99	£19.36
% change on same period last year	+8.39 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.87	£20.22
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.39	£25.89
% change on same period last year	-9.63 %
Developer Buckinghamshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Developer across the Milton Keynes region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Developer across the Milton Keynes region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Developer across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Developer across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 98 (35.38 %) .NET 2 96 (34.66 %) Finance 3 87 (31.41 %) SQL 4 81 (29.24 %) SQL Server 5 68 (24.55 %) HTML 6 62 (22.38 %) C# 7 60 (21.66 %) Windows 8 52 (18.77 %) XML 9 51 (18.41 %) Banking 10 40 (14.44 %) Oracle 10 40 (14.44 %) Security Cleared 11 39 (14.08 %) VB.NET 12 38 (13.72 %) JavaScript 12 38 (13.72 %) DB2 13 37 (13.36 %) VB

13 37 (13.36 %) ASP.NET 14 35 (12.64 %) Java 14 35 (12.64 %) COBOL 14 35 (12.64 %) SC Cleared 15 34 (12.27 %) Internet 16 33 (11.91 %) IBM 17 31 (11.19 %) Financial Institution 17 31 (11.19 %) Government 18 30 (10.83 %) .NET Framework 19 29 (10.47 %) ASP 20 26 (9.386 %) Unix 20 26 (9.386 %) Windows NT 21 25 (9.025 %) SQL Server 2005 22 23 (8.303 %) J2EE 22 23 (8.303 %) Migration

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 98 (35.38 %) .NET 2 68 (24.55 %) HTML 3 52 (18.77 %) XML 4 37 (13.36 %) ASP.NET 5 30 (10.83 %) .NET Framework 6 29 (10.47 %) ASP 7 23 (8.303 %) J2EE 8 22 (7.942 %) AJAX 9 16 (5.776 %) WinForms 10 13 (4.693 %) Middleware 10 13 (4.693 %) CSS 11 12 (4.332 %) XSLT 12 11 (3.971 %) JSP 13 9 (3.249 %) Spring 13 9 (3.249 %) WebSphere 13 9 (3.249 %) Hibernate 14 7 (2.527 %) EJB 15 5 (1.805 %) Struts 15 5 (1.805 %) WebServices 15 5 (1.805 %) WPF	Application Platforms 1 12 (4.332 %) SharePoint 2 9 (3.249 %) Tuxedo 2 9 (3.249 %) MQSeries 3 8 (2.888 %) CICS 4 6 (2.166 %) BizTalk Server 5 5 (1.805 %) CMS 5 5 (1.805 %) WebLogic 6 4 (1.444 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 2 (0.722 %) Oracle 10gAS 8 1 (0.361 %) Joomla! 8 1 (0.361 %) ArcSDE 8 1 (0.361 %) ArcGIS
Applications 1 20 (7.220 %) MS Office 2 6 (2.166 %) Photoshop 3 4 (1.444 %) ImageReady 4 3 (1.083 %) MS Excel 5 1 (0.361 %) MS PowerPoint 5 1 (0.361 %) InfoPath 5 1 (0.361 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 6 (2.166 %) Oracle Financials 2 1 (0.361 %) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking 1 34 (12.27 %) Internet 2 11 (3.971 %) Intranet 3 5 (1.805 %) SAN 4 2 (0.722 %) Extranet 5 1 (0.361 %) DNS 5 1 (0.361 %) GPRS 5 1 (0.361 %) FTP 5 1 (0.361 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 81 (29.24 %) SQL Server 2 38 (13.72 %) DB2 3 25 (9.025 %) SQL Server 2005 4 22 (7.942 %) PowerCenter 5 14 (5.054 %) SQL Server 2000 6 10 (3.610 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 9 (3.249 %) SQL Server 7 7 9 (3.249 %) Oracle Reports 8 6 (2.166 %) MySQL 8 6 (2.166 %) ETL 9 5 (1.805 %) DB2 UDB 9 5 (1.805 %) Oracle 10g 9 5 (1.805 %) DTS 9 5 (1.805 %) OLAP 10 4 (1.444 %) Datawarehouse 11 3 (1.083 %) SQLPlus 11 3 (1.083 %) BusinessObjects 11 3 (1.083 %) Data Cleansing 12 2 (0.722 %) BusinessObjects XI 12 2 (0.722 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 7 (2.527 %) Eclipse 2 5 (1.805 %) TestDirector 2 5 (1.805 %) Visual Studio 2 5 (1.805 %) Flash 3 4 (1.444 %) Oracle Forms 3 4 (1.444 %) PVCS 3 4 (1.444 %) ProC 4 3 (1.083 %) Rational Rose 4 3 (1.083 %) JUnit 5 2 (0.722 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 2 (0.722 %) Ant 5 2 (0.722 %) FrontPage 6 1 (0.361 %) Subversion 6 1 (0.361 %) JDeveloper	General 1 96 (34.66 %) Finance 2 51 (18.41 %) Banking 3 31 (11.19 %) Financial Institution 3 31 (11.19 %) Government 4 14 (5.054 %) Pensions 4 14 (5.054 %) Retail 5 8 (2.888 %) Retail Banking 5 8 (2.888 %) Investment Banking 6 6 (2.166 %) Insurance 7 5 (1.805 %) Games 8 4 (1.444 %) Education 9 2 (0.722 %) Online Games 9 2 (0.722 %) Electric 9 2 (0.722 %) Health 10 1 (0.361 %) Multimedia 10 1 (0.361 %) Manufacturing 10 1 (0.361 %) Electronics 10 1 (0.361 %) Telecoms 10 1 (0.361 %) Automotive
Miscellaneous 1 15 (5.415 %) Mainframe 1 15 (5.415 %) IBM Mainframe 2 7 (2.527 %) German Language 3 5 (1.805 %) Clustering 4 3 (1.083 %) N-Tier 5 2 (0.722 %) Spanish Language 5 2 (0.722 %) Management Information System 6 1 (0.361 %) Web 2.0 6 1 (0.361 %) PDA 6 1 (0.361 %) E-Learning 6 1 (0.361 %) AS400 6 1 (0.361 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 6 1 (0.361 %) Firmware 6 1 (0.361 %) Wiki	Operating Systems 1 60 (21.66 %) Windows 2 26 (9.386 %) Unix 2 26 (9.386 %) Windows NT 3 4 (1.444 %) MVS 4 2 (0.722 %) AIX 5 1 (0.361 %) Windows Mobile 5 1 (0.361 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 40 (14.44 %) Security Cleared 2 35 (12.64 %) SC Cleared 3 23 (8.303 %) Migration 4 17 (6.137 %) Agile Software Development 5 16 (5.776 %) SSADM 5 16 (5.776 %) Workflow 6 15 (5.415 %) OOD 7 13 (4.693 %) Requirements Analysis 8 11 (3.971 %) Project Management 9 10 (3.610 %) PRINCE2 9 10 (3.610 %) UML 9 10 (3.610 %) OO 9 10 (3.610 %) RAD 9 10 (3.610 %) DSDM 9 10 (3.610 %) Extreme Programming 10 9 (3.249 %) DV Cleared 11 7 (2.527 %) Systems Analysis 11 7 (2.527 %) Content Management 12 6 (2.166 %) Business Intelligence 12 6 (2.166 %) GAP Analysis	Programming Languages 1 87 (31.41 %) SQL 2 62 (22.38 %) C# 3 39 (14.08 %) VB.NET 4 38 (13.72 %) JavaScript 5 37 (13.36 %) VB 6 35 (12.64 %) Java 6 35 (12.64 %) COBOL 7 21 (7.581 %) PL/SQL 8 19 (6.859 %) Transact-SQL 8 19 (6.859 %) C++ 9 17 (6.137 %) VB6 10 14 (5.054 %) JCL 11 13 (4.693 %) PHP 12 4 (1.444 %) ActionScript 12 4 (1.444 %) C 12 4 (1.444 %) XAML 13 2 (0.722 %) VBScript 14 1 (0.361 %) Lingo 14 1 (0.361 %) RPG 14 1 (0.361 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 15 (5.415 %) Degree 2 5 (1.805 %) Microsoft Certification 2 5 (1.805 %) MCDBA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (0.722 %) Basel II
System Software 1 1 (0.361 %) AquaLogic 1 1 (0.361 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 4 (1.444 %) CONTROL-M
Vendors 1 40 (14.44 %) Oracle 2 33 (11.91 %) IBM 3 12 (4.332 %) Microsoft 4 8 (2.888 %) Adobe 5 6 (2.166 %) Informatica 5 6 (2.166 %) BEA 6 5 (1.805 %) FatWire 7 3 (1.083 %) Business Objects 8 2 (0.722 %) Dundas 8 2 (0.722 %) Tridion 9 1 (0.361 %) Fujitsu 9 1 (0.361 %) Endeca 9 1 (0.361 %) ESRI 9 1 (0.361 %) Sybase