The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Norfolk 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 17 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 Norfolk 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
17 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 49 70 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norfolk 27.53% 27.67% 19.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 28.99% 29.29% 20.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 50 21
Average daily rate £300 £295 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.69% -3.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £248 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £425 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 2
Average hourly rate £38.75 - £28.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 - £26.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 - £29.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -8.57%
All Job Titles
Norfolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
169 239 251
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norfolk 94.94% 94.47% 93.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 110 78
Average daily rate £275 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £100 £233 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £455 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 17 28
Average hourly rate £23.50 £18.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+27.02% -2.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £14.00 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.25 £25.75 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Developer
East of England

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Norfolk 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 Norfolk region.

Norfolk 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 Norfolk region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Norfolk 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 Norfolk region.

Norfolk Developer Hourly Rate Trend

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 Norfolk region over the 3 months to 17 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
Norwich -6 19 £300 +4.34%
King's Lynn +1 3 £475 +18.75%
Developer
East of England

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 56 (54.37%) CSS
2 53 (51.46%) jQuery
3 52 (50.49%) JavaScript
4 47 (45.63%) Drupal
5 46 (44.66%) PHP
6 40 (38.83%) .NET
7 36 (34.95%) C#
7 36 (34.95%) HTML
8 30 (29.13%) ASP.NET
9 27 (26.21%) SQL Server
10 26 (25.24%) CSS3
11 25 (24.27%) HTML5
12 24 (23.30%) E-Commerce
13 23 (22.33%) XHTML
14 21 (20.39%) Publishing
15 18 (17.48%) Unit Testing
15 18 (17.48%) Photoshop
16 17 (16.50%) TDD
17 15 (14.56%) Code Coverage
18 14 (13.59%) Microsoft
18 14 (13.59%) SQL Server 2008
19 12 (11.65%) SharePoint
19 12 (11.65%) SQL
20 11 (10.68%) MVC
21 10 (9.709%) SQL Server 2005
22 9 (8.738%) Content Management
22 9 (8.738%) Web Development
22 9 (8.738%) XML
23 8 (7.767%) T-SQL
23 8 (7.767%) VB.NET

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 56 (54.37%) CSS
2 53 (51.46%) jQuery
3 40 (38.83%) .NET
4 36 (34.95%) HTML
5 30 (29.13%) ASP.NET
6 26 (25.24%) CSS3
7 25 (24.27%) HTML5
8 23 (22.33%) XHTML
9 9 (8.738%) XML
10 4 (3.883%) JMS
10 4 (3.883%) Struts
10 4 (3.883%) Web Services
10 4 (3.883%) J2EE
10 4 (3.883%) ASP
10 4 (3.883%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (3.883%) Hibernate
11 3 (2.913%) Spring
11 3 (2.913%) Ajax
11 3 (2.913%) REST
11 3 (2.913%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 47 (45.63%) Drupal
2 12 (11.65%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.854%) SharePoint 2010
4 3 (2.913%) Apache
5 2 (1.942%) IIS
5 2 (1.942%) nginx
6 1 (0.971%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.971%) CMS
6 1 (0.971%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.971%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (17.48%) Photoshop
2 8 (7.767%) MS Excel
3 1 (0.971%) XMetaL
Business Applications
1 4 (3.883%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.971%) Dynamics AX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (26.21%) SQL Server
2 14 (13.59%) SQL Server 2008
3 10 (9.709%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (3.883%) MySQL
5 1 (0.971%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.971%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.971%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 4 (3.883%) Git (software)
2 3 (2.913%) Selenium
3 2 (1.942%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.971%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.971%) JBehave
4 1 (0.971%) JUnit
4 1 (0.971%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.971%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
4 1 (0.971%) JDeveloper
4 1 (0.971%) Log4j
4 1 (0.971%) CruiseControl
4 1 (0.971%) Subversion
General
1 21 (20.39%) Publishing
2 6 (5.825%) Finance
3 2 (1.942%) Retail
4 1 (0.971%) Advertising
4 1 (0.971%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.767%) Open Source
1 8 (7.767%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (3.883%) Semantic Web
3 2 (1.942%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.971%) Ontologies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.942%) Debian
2 1 (0.971%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (23.30%) E-Commerce
2 18 (17.48%) Unit Testing
3 17 (16.50%) TDD
4 15 (14.56%) Code Coverage
5 11 (10.68%) MVC
6 9 (8.738%) Content Management
6 9 (8.738%) Web Development
7 8 (7.767%) OO
7 8 (7.767%) B2C
8 7 (6.796%) RDF
9 4 (3.883%) Waterfall
10 3 (2.913%) Agile Software Development
10 3 (2.913%) Workflow
11 2 (1.942%) Enterprise Architecture
12 1 (0.971%) Scalability Testing
12 1 (0.971%) Migration
12 1 (0.971%) Configuration Management
12 1 (0.971%) ERP
12 1 (0.971%) UML
12 1 (0.971%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 52 (50.49%) JavaScript
2 46 (44.66%) PHP
3 36 (34.95%) C#
4 12 (11.65%) SQL
5 8 (7.767%) T-SQL
5 8 (7.767%) VB.NET
6 5 (4.854%) Java
7 3 (2.913%) SPARQL
8 2 (1.942%) Python
9 1 (0.971%) PHP5
9 1 (0.971%) VBA
9 1 (0.971%) C++
9 1 (0.971%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.854%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.971%) Varnish
Vendors
1 14 (13.59%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.767%) Mercator
3 4 (3.883%) Sage
3 4 (3.883%) JBoss
4 1 (0.971%) Oracle
4 1 (0.971%) Salesforce.com
4 1 (0.971%) Coverity
4 1 (0.971%) Guidewire
Norfolk
Net Developer will need to have a strong background in C# development and have previously designed and developed large scale C# Applications ideally in a web environment using...
E-synergy Solutions
Rate: £200 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Norwich, East Anglia
My Norwich based client is currently seeking a SQL Server developer for an initial 3 month contract.
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013